Collapse, the Ordinary Daily Life of the Valkyries

"Yes, as long as you can afford the price."

Gao Su confirmed with Ji Zi again. Seeing that he was sincere, Ji Zi also became serious:

"So, what's the price?"

In response, Gao Su just smiled mysteriously and said.

Volume 2: Traveling in the Galaxy: Chapter 14: Mei and Bronya's Playfulness in the Kitchen

"It's simple. One life for another. The principle of equivalent exchange."

There were no extra conditions, only a simple sentence that made Ji Zi unable to believe her ears:

"It's that simple?"

"Yes, it's that simple."

Gao Su nodded, rummaged through his pockets, and pulled out a piece of parchment, showing it to everyone:

“Once you sign it, you’ll know what to do.”

"Mei, are you frying food so early? The taste will be bad if it gets damp."

Looking at Mei, who was wearing a chef's uniform and preparing dessert over there with a huge fire, Bronya spoke up to remind her.

Since it takes a long time to prepare various dishes, if you cook and fry foods first, they will get damp over time and the taste will not be as crisp.

"That's not necessary. I've prepared two portions in advance, Bronya. Trust me, Kiana will come and steal some food later. It was the same thing in Sky City."

As she spoke, Mei walked to the refrigerator and took out the onions, potatoes, and meat that she had bought on the street.

Pour the milk into the breadcrumbs and set aside. Then, peel the onion and cut into small pieces.

"I always take her to eat at a small street stall. Where is the place to cook in that small basement?"

"We don't have much money, but we're lucky to have a place to stay. Kiana sleeps on the bed, and I sleep on the sofa..."

Hearing Bronya's sighing and slightly complaining tone, Mei, who was frying onions, stopped with the spatula and laughed with her limbs shaking.

Relying on her understanding of Kiana, Mei recreated the scene in Bronya's words in her mind. It turns out that she also had such an embarrassing moment?

"What's so funny? Isn't this normal? If there's no one to clean up, I can't cook. It would be great if I could take you guys out for a meal."

Bronya smashed the Yin rice in the stainless steel basin in front of her with the Cunxin Fist, then put it on the steamer and lit it.

After a few seconds, the rice filling was steamed. Mei raised her eyebrows and watched Bronya grab the steaming white mass with her ruthless iron hands and put it into a mold.

"Cooking is about expressing your feelings. You can't express your feelings to the diners in a restaurant."

Mei put the fried transparent onions into liquid nitrogen to cool them down slightly, and then poured them into the minced meat.

Add a whole egg, a spoonful of salt, a little pepper, and cardamom powder, and finally start making the filling.

"Heat the pan and pour in the oil!"

Mei clapped her left and right hands together to remove the air from the meat filling, then bumped her hips against Bronya, who was heating a mixture of agar powder, water and sugar.

"Didn't you already have a pot of oil burning over there? Why are you adding more oil? It's not very healthy to keep the oil burning over there~"

Although she said this, Bronya did not stop her actions. She picked up the vegetable oil and poured some into the frying pan in front of Mei.

"Thank you for teaching me how to cook, Su-chan~"

Mei smiled kindly, stretched out her finger and lifted the tip of the oil bottle, stopping Bronya from pouring oil.

At the same time, she couldn't help but increase the strength of kneading the meat filling in her hands, making a "smacking" sound.

"........."

Bronya silently put the oil bottle back to where it belonged, and then took care of the yokan in her hand called "Cloud Peak".

Use a little butterfly pea flower to color the yokan water sky blue, then wrap it with edible film and put it into liquid nitrogen.

Leaning on the edge of the table, he watched Mei put the hamburger patties into the pan one by one, and then pressed them into depressions one by one with her hands.

"Is it good or bad for Kiana to get that End Sublimator? In other words, how can I become the End?"

Mei turned the hamburger over and, having always been thinking about Kiana, finally took the opportunity to ask Bronya this question while she was alone.

“You’re here again…”

After turning off the alarm clock, Bronya shook her head, sighed deeply, and took out the yokan from the liquid nitrogen.

Then pour warm water into the mold and use a plastic spatula to gently remove the yokan from the mold.

"We've been supporting each other all along, but in the end, it ended up hurting each other. Mei, do you and Kiana have to be on opposite sides?"

Taking out kitchen paper and absorbing the water from the yokan, Bronya condensed an ice knife and then gently cut the slender yokan.

"But she is like a ghost, after all..."

Mei sighed and took out the hamburger meat, divided it into two portions, one on a plate and the other in an insulated lunch box.

"She won't become the end. I promise you, in the name of the master of the Imaginary Number Tree, I will always be by her side, okay, Mei-chan?"

Bronya also arranged the yokan into the shape of a heart and placed it in the narrow space in the lunch box partition, so that the heat of the hamburger meat and the low temperature of the yokan were well staggered.

"Then who became the Herrscher of the End?"

"God said: It cannot be said~"

Bronya put her finger in front of her lips, made a hushing gesture to Mei, and with a smirk on her face, she rubbed her hand covered with gelatin powder on Mei's face.

"You are such a bad person!"

Mei reached out and slapped the hand that was causing trouble on her lips, and her sweat mixed with the gelatin powder.

Under the influence of the kitchen air conditioner, it quickly condensed into a transparent film. Bronya reached out and gently peeled it off, and a cherry-colored lip mold appeared in front of Mei:

"If you give this to Kiana, she'll be very happy, right? After all, this is your original copy, Mei~"

"Give that to me! You can't let Kiana know!"

Mei was teased by Bronya like this, and she got angry and released electric light from her hands. However, Bronya quickly put a layer of rubber on herself:

"What a shame, Mei, you can't get the electric shock."

"Okay, stop making trouble. You don't want Kiana to go into the kitchen, do you? If you do, don't let the meal be ready and the kitchen explode, delaying the process."

Mei rolled her eyes at Bronya, who, upon seeing this, stopped making a fuss and threw the lip-shaped pink gelatin sheet into the trash can.

"What a shame, what a shame."

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Volume 2: Traveling in the Galaxy: Chapter 15: The White-Haired Girl Leaving Mei and Bronya

"Hmm~~"

The white-haired girl who should have been in the kitchen with Mei and Bronya was now strolling under the blooming kapok tree.

If it weren't for the fact that I had been playing around with the captain before, this wouldn't have happened, and I wouldn't have suffered so much because of it.

"Ah wu~~"

From the first line of her appearance, she suddenly exuded an atmosphere of sadness.

"Ugh……"

The girl sighed heavily, a terrifying expression clearly appearing on her face.

“Why is this happening to only me…”

She had a gloomy expression on her face, and her face was as blue as an eggplant; the degree of blueness would surprise even a cat-shaped robot from the future.

The girl's name is Kiana. She is a somewhat inconspicuous college girl whose academic performance, appearance and athletic ability are all slightly below average.

"But if I leave it alone, I...it will be hell no matter what...haha."

The girl laughed dryly, looking up at the sky with empty eyes. Tears welled up in her eyes. Kiana was currently suffering from a horrible disease.

That sinister attack site cannot heal naturally; it can be said to be humanity's eternal enemy, a messenger from hell, the embodiment of nightmares.

The name of that nemesis was "Caries". Perhaps it was because the captain had let her experience the aftereffects of being a human being before.

This "cavity" seemed to have become stronger after she returned to the state of the Herrscher of the End.

"Hey, dentist~ Meiyi... your Kiana has a toothache, please come and treat her..."

She wasn't afraid of the dentist, absolutely not. She was just a little bothered by the grinding sound of teeth being ground down, and the accompanying "oo ...

Kiana deceived herself in her heart and took heavy steps.

"it hurts……"

While Kiana was hesitating, the tooth decay seemed to be getting more and more painful.

"Hmm~~Cavities~~zhuˋyaˊ"

Kiana was in so much pain that she couldn't help but use common pinyin to express the feeling, which made her already inferior appearance distorted like a hippopotamus.

Even if the kapok tree with its light-colored flowers can heal the soul, it cannot heal the pain in the teeth.

"What should I do? It's probably okay if I don't even need to see a doctor, right?"

She even started to speak the words eventually. But the pain only got worse.

She was caught between pain and terror, and her mind couldn't function properly.

In the end, she was looking at the kapok trees blooming beautifully in the sun and muttering, "I'm in so much pain, but the world is shining so brightly. What a mess." This is nonsense.

Kiana, who had been dragging her feet like a cow, finally stopped. But it wasn't because she was afraid or terrified—it wasn't that.

"What is that...a bottle?"

The reason why Kiana stopped was right in front of her sight.

There fell an old vase that looked totally out of place with the beautiful kapok tree.

The bottle was not only old but also enormous: perhaps over a meter tall. A terrifying demonic figure was carved into it, and thorns and other meaningless decorations surrounded it. Its deep brown color, as if baked directly from clay, gave it a sense of heaviness, emanating an indescribable aura of danger.

"Why would a bottle fall in a place like this?"

Kiana wondered. Why would such a strange bottle be placed in a place like this? She tilted her head to peer at the bottle, her gaze meeting that of the demon carved into it.

Kiana groaned and took a few steps back.

I don't know how to put it, but that bottle has an incredible power. It's as if it's about to say, "What are you looking at? Do you want me to make you cry? Ahhh?" If a child saw this bottle in the dark, they would definitely cry; some would even pee in fear.

However, Kiana's interest in the bottle lasted only a few seconds. The sharp pain reminded her of her purpose. There was no time to pause and consider this bottle, which made her teeth ache even more painful just by looking at it.

Kiana stepped to the right to avoid the bottle and move forward.

Gulp, gulp, gulp——

The bottle suddenly started to spin, blocking Kiana's path.

"What is this for?"

Kiana was confused by this sudden action, so she tried to dodge to the left this time.

Gulp, gulp, gulp——

The bottle blocked her path again. After a moment's contemplation, Kiana tried to dodge to the right again.

Gulp, gulp, gulp——

This time, try taking a step to the left.

Gulp, gulp, gulp——

Kiana tried the same move several times, but each time the bottle turned and blocked her way. Kiana felt angry and repeated the same action again, but the result was the same.

"Damn it, what the hell is this old bottle?"

Kiana gasped for air and stared at the bottle; then her eyes met again with the evil spirit lying on the bottle.

"I, I'm not saying anything bad about you... Um, what was I saying to the bottle?"

Kiana felt a little frustrated at her own weakness, but then she cheered herself up and started running with big moves.

She had to get through the row of kapok trees and get to the dentist as quickly as possible. The pain was getting more intense, almost bringing tears to her eyes. She couldn't afford to be at a loss in a place like this. She murmured, feeling cold and self-righteous, "I won't forgive anyone who gets in my way."

"Hey, hey, let me show you my long jump ability. I'm ranked twelfth among my classmates in the middle of the year."