Travel through Kivotos and become Kamen Rider Saber

"Sensei, are you catching a cold? Stay closer to me to warm yourself up~"

Hoshino Kotori held Lin Qiusheng's broad hand tightly, her hair like willow branches swaying slightly, and she opened her arms and hugged Lin Qiusheng's arms.

"Well!!!"

The sudden softness on his arm made Lin Qiusheng exclaim in a somewhat cowardly way. He looked away awkwardly at Kotori Hoshino who was hugging his right arm tightly.

"Um, well, Hoshino, with this position, you'll get touched."

"...It's okay, sensei. It would be bad if you caught a cold." Hoshino Kotori spoke in a voice as soft as a mosquito, glancing around. Even his white ears were red as if blood was dripping from them.

What a far-fetched excuse! If you're shy, you shouldn't do such a bold thing.

"Huh? Why are there suddenly so many messages on sensei's momotalk?"

Just as Lin Qiusheng and Hoshino Kotori were being affectionate with each other and exuding a sour aura, Alona stopped where she was and looked at the dark blue screen in front of her with confusion.

The 99+ sign reappeared in the upper right corner of momotalk, which had been cleared to zero.

"Forget it, it's not an emergency anyway. The most important thing now is to buy strawberry milk!"

After a moment of puzzled contemplation, Alona showed an indifferent expression, waved her hand to adjust the MomoTalk message notification to silent mode, and hurried to the subway exit not far away.

"Strawberry milk ~ Strawberry cake ~ Strawberry chocolate ~"

She walked in front humming a song she composed. Seeing that Lin Qiusheng and Hoshino Kotori were still walking slowly behind, she quickly ran behind him, complaining.

"Sensei, hurry up, I don't want to say anything more about you being a pervert! But please do this kind of thing when there's no one around."

"The most important thing now is strawberry milk!!!"

Alona looked at Lin Qiusheng with a silly smile on his face and pouted in dissatisfaction. She put her hands on his back and pushed him forward on the road.

"Wooah! I know, stop pushing me, Alona."

According to Alona's navigation, after Lin Qiusheng and Kotori Hoshino left the subway entrance, they crossed the street ahead that was illuminated by street lights and continued walking to the left.

The bicycles and electric vehicles that originally lined up on both sides of the road gradually disappeared, turning into a snack street with a bustling atmosphere and crowds of people.

The vendors shouted loudly and tried their best to recommend their products to passers-by.

"Grilled eel! Octopus balls! Candy apples! Delicious, affordable, and great value!"

"Soy sauce ramen! Tonkotsu ramen! Japanese ramen! Lots of accessories, and only 700 Federation coins a bowl!"

The heated sauce, the stir-fried chopped green onions, and the squid pressed with iron felt made Lin Qiusheng's eyes sticky. He looked at Hoshino Kotori tentatively and asked:

"It looks delicious, Hoshino. How about we buy a few to eat on the way?"

"Well, although uncle can't eat anymore." Hoshino Takanashi touched her slightly bulging belly with both hands, turned her head to look at Lin Qiusheng, smiled and nodded.

"But since it's sensei's invitation, uncle should try harder!"

"Don't force yourself. It will be bad if you get a stomachache." Lin Qiusheng smiled slightly and took out the wallet from his shorts pocket.

There were less than 100,000 federal coins left in Shiting's Box's electronic account, so he might as well use the cash he had earned from his part-time job.

Alona, ​​who had originally left Lin Qiusheng and Kotori Hoshino behind and quickly walked forward and disappeared into the crowd, was teleported back to Lin Qiusheng because of the signal output distance of the Shiting Box.

Seeing them standing in front of the vendor and taking out their wallets, Alona quickly dived into Lin Qiusheng's arms, grabbing his collar with both hands and acting coquettishly.

"Ah! sensei, so cunning, I want this too!"

"...Hey, you, your personality has changed so quickly, hasn't it? You were so sharp-tongued and condescending on the subway before, threatening me."

"Hehe, sensei, please don't underestimate Alona's learning ability! I'm a high-performance one!"

"Oh, okay, okay, it doesn't matter if I buy one or two." Lin Qiusheng said helplessly, looking at the shop owner who had been waiting for a long time in front of him:

"Boss, give me three grilled squids."

"Okay! Little brother, I think you have a good eye. Even if you charge 300 federal coins for one, 1,000 yuan can buy three!"

"Ah... um."

Before Lin Qiusheng could come to his senses, the stall owner poured hot oil on the iron plate, and a half-meter-high fire snake shot straight into the night sky, and he began to skillfully make the grilled squid.

Why does it feel like something is wrong? But I just can't tell what's wrong.

"What's wrong? Sensei."

Looking at Alona who was lying on the side excitedly watching the grilled squid making process, and Hoshino Kotori who was looking at him with his head tilted in confusion, he finally did not express his doubts.

"No, nothing. I was just thinking about whether the chicken or the egg came first in this world."

"Ci la la la la!"

As the sauce was reduced over a high fire, the shop owner stuffed the palm-sized, half-arm-long grilled squid into a plastic bag and handed it to Lin Qiusheng.

"Okay, scan this code. It's one thousand federal coins."

Lin Qiusheng slowly took the squid handed to him. Only then did he realize that three hundred for one, shouldn’t three be nine hundred federal coins?

Why does it want one thousand federal coins from itself?

After a brief contemplation, Lin Qiusheng quickly made a decision. He took Kotori Hoshino's hand with a playful smile, took out nine coins from his pocket with his left hand and slammed them on the table on the left side of the stall.

"boom!!!"

"I'll give you a Dio!"

"Three hundred and you want me to pay one thousand? Just wait to be caught by the thousand-year-old disciplinary committee!"

Before the stall owner could come to his senses, Lin Qiusheng and Kotori Yu Xingye disappeared into the night, and Alona instantly turned into a blue light and dissipated in the air.

"Stop! Stop! Stop! It's strange that it's Wu??〦Nine-thread pulling"

"Another one ran away! I won't do this anymore!"

In this noisy night market, the angry shouts of the grilled squid stall owner and the sounds of smashing tables and chairs echoed under the starry sky and did not dissipate for a long time.

Lin Qiusheng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the angry stall owner did not chase after him, and looked at the bird You Xingye who was swaying on his shoulders in front of him.

"Ugh~ Why, why did something like this happen when I was just buying food?"

"Who knows." Lin Qiusheng shrugged helplessly, distributed the food in his hand to Hoshino Takanashi and Alona, ​​and bit the squid that was still emitting heat fiercely.

"...Although the owner isn't very kind, the food he makes is surprisingly delicious."

Lin Qiusheng and Xiao Niao were traveling in Xingye, while Alona was tasting the food in her hand and continued to move towards her destination.

When you are about to reach the T-junction in the middle of the snack street, the snack street and the commercial street are naturally integrated together, forming a vibrant scene with the pedestrians coming and going.

Lin Qiusheng and Xiao Niaoyou Xingye waited for the traffic light at the lower left corner of the intersection for about half a minute. The clock on top of the pedestrian traffic light next to them made a "tick, tick" sound like a countdown, urging everyone to move forward.

"Ah! Sensei, over here, we're almost at our destination!"

Alona took Lin Qiusheng's hand, and her white canvas shoes floated on the street made of white tiles. She took quick steps forward, and in front of them appeared a set of steps like terraced fields.

Unlike the noisy streets outside with a mixture of food smells, the brightly lit shopping mall at the end of the stairs looks like an extremely magnificent palace.

Looking at the brightly lit plaque of "Saint Nephthys Trade Mall" hanging in the middle of the mall, Lin Qiusheng felt like an old minister about to go to court.

He turned his head and saw Alona running excitedly in the front, while Hoshino Takanashi was half a step behind him and smiling gently. It seemed that they did not seem to have the same strange feeling as he did.

"I always feel like I don't even have the qualifications to enter this mall."

Lin Qiusheng grinned and looked at the dozens of floors of gorgeously decorated buildings in front of him with disdain. He unconfidently reached for the wallet in his shorts pocket with his left hand to confirm whether it was still there.

Xiao Niaoyou Xingye noticed Lin Qiusheng's embarrassment, blinked his golden-blue eyes slightly, and said soothingly:

"It's okay, sensei. Nomiya-san brought us here to buy some things before. The prices here are very affordable."

"Also, there are often discounts and interesting activities."

"Is that so? That's good." Lin Qiusheng breathed a sigh of relief, looking relaxed, and muttered to himself helplessly.

"Although I went to work somewhere else without Yuka's knowledge and earned some extra money, the amount of money in my slush fund is ultimately limited."

"Plus, I ordered a bunch of new toys before, so I hope my wallet can handle the expenses this time."

"..."

When Lin Qiusheng closed his eyes, clasped his hands together, and prayed silently to the non-existent god, Hoshino Takanashi saw this and silently took out an extremely old wallet from her pleated skirt.

She opened the folded wallet, looked at the dozen or so banknotes and bank cards in the compartment, smiled slightly, raised her hand and patted Lin Qiusheng's shoulder generously.

"Okay, sensei, I still have some savings here. As a reward for your previous help, you can use this money as you like."

Lin Qiusheng looked at the old gray wallet with frayed edges and broken threads that was handed to him. He quickly raised his hand to refuse and pushed it back into Hoshino Takanashi's hands.

"Um... Although I said before that I would find students to support me and live a miserable life, I'm not such a scumbag as to use your money."

Lin Qiusheng looked at the dark blue whale patch on the worn grey wallet, patted Kotori Yu Xingye's head with satisfaction, and said confidently:

"It's okay. Even if Hua Chao is there, it doesn't matter. At most, Yuuka will nag you for a few words. Let's go."

Before Hoshino Takanashi could answer, Alona took their hands and quickly ran into the mall.

"Ah! It's so big, I guess there's a lot of strawberry milk here!"

Following Alona's exclamation, Lin Qiusheng stepped into the lobby on the first floor of the shopping mall and was able to see the interior clearly.

The entire shopping mall extends upward like a spiral of DNA, with escalators connecting each floor.

Since it was evening and school was over, the entire mall was bustling with activity. Students from Millennium Institute of Technology gathered in groups of three or four, carrying the items they had just purchased and entering the next shop.

There were also students from Trinity College wearing pure white uniforms with golden crosses printed on their shoulder cuffs, or students from the hostile Gehenna College.

Lin Qiusheng looked up, and although he could see the roof, the floors passing by in his sight made him grin.

"That's too high, Alona. We're going to a large supermarket that sells food. Can you guys check which floor it is on?"

"It's been thoroughly investigated! It's on the underground floor!!!"

"The speed of this investigation is too fast..." Lin Qiusheng complained speechlessly.

Alona, ​​who was extremely excited, had her processing power increased several times. She immediately figured out the answer and ran towards the elevator in the basement, calling Lin Qiusheng and Kotori Hoshino.

After a short wait, Lin Qiusheng, Kotori Yu Hoshino and Alona took the elevator to the basement floor of the mall, in front of a large supermarket.

Alona looked at the entrance in front of her where the staff were waiting, and ran excitedly to the place where the carts were piled up.

As soon as he reached out to grab the handle of the cart, he passed through like a ghost.

"Alona, ​​don't be impatient. Tell me what you want to buy, and then I'll put it in the shopping cart."

"Ah, okay! sensei." Alona raised her arms happily to show that she understood, and then she leaped into the air like a floating spirit and sat in the shopping cart.

"Alright! Sensei, let's go! Let's go to the snack area first!!!"

"Okay, okay, okay, I got it." Lin Qiusheng shook his head helplessly and walked into the supermarket with Hoshino Takanashi.

Following the sign hanging above their heads and the instructions given by the staff, Lin Qiusheng and Hoshino Kotori moved forward.

"Sensei, although I forgot to ask you before, what are you planning to buy?"

"Well, first of all, I have to fulfill my promise to Alona and buy some snacks and cakes for food storage. Then I'll buy some drinking water, toilet paper, and other daily necessities."

"But, Xingye, don't worry, the Finance Office of the Federal Student Union will reimburse you for these things, so just throw everything you want into the shopping cart!"

"Ahahaha, this really fits Sensei's style." Hoshino Takanashi smiled awkwardly, put his hands on the armrest of the shopping cart, and pushed it towards the snack area with him.

Millennium Technology Academy: Chapter 106: Shopping

"Ah! It's the super limited edition strawberry milk. It looks delicious!"

"This one is pretty good too. Never mind, take them all!"

Arona, who entered the snack area, was like a fish entering the ocean. She kept moving among the shelves and kept asking Lin Qiusheng to pour the snacks in front of him into the shopping cart.

Lin Qiusheng looked at the shopping cart that was filled to the brim with items, as if it was about to overflow. He held his forehead with his hands in frustration, and silently mourned for his wallet.

After handing the shopping cart to a nearby staff member and asking them to take it to the cashier at the exit for temporary storage, Lin Qiusheng continued to move forward pushing the empty shopping cart.

After unknowingly rotating several shopping carts, Lin Qiusheng, Kotori Hoshino, and Alona walked to the end of the snack area.

Alona excitedly dove into the nearby shelves, while Lin Qiusheng and Hoshino Takanashi were attracted by the cake-making shop next to them.

The one-meter-tall, chubby bird-like beastman waved to them with a smile, and called out in a voice as gentle as the spring breeze:

"Ah, sir, your girlfriend is so cute. How about trying some of our pancakes? It's okay if you don't want to buy them, we're having a tasting right now."

"These are fresh out of the pan. The soft pancakes are paired with seasonal fruits, sweet honey and cream. They are delicious!"

"Girlfriend!?" Lin Qiusheng froze in surprise, and mechanically looked at the girl beside him.