In Zongman, the evil spirits are eliminated physically.

"This is not okay."

Qinzi said seriously: "You will have to take on the responsibility of raising the snow girl in the future."

"Yes!"

"My dear Princess, I am not a child anymore. I can support her."

Only one year after getting married, Takahashi Yukino is no longer on the side of Kotoko, the head of the family.

"You unlucky child, I'm talking to you, why are you still ruining my show?"

"Yes, I'm sorry, Princess."

Takahashi Satoru brought Kotoko and Ouyang Jun upstairs. Takahashi Satoru and Takahashi Yukino both lived in the apartment manager's room not far away. The second floor of this ramen restaurant is now used as a warehouse, but there are also tables and chairs for rest, as well as some tea and senbei for people to eat during breaks.

Ouyang Jun and Kotoko sat on the chairs, Takahashi Yukino stood nervously on the side, and Takahashi Satoru took a deep breath, then knelt down in front of Kotoko, and fell to the ground like a tiger, leaving Kotoko stunned.

Takahashi, who was kneeling on the ground, shouted, "Princess! Please give her to me! I will treat her well forever! I want to form a lifelong family with her!"

"You are a person whose mind is full of thoughts about yourself—Hey! Ouyang, why did you hit me?"

Qinzi covered her head and stared at Ouyang Xuan with her beautiful eyes wide open. The blow from Ouyang Xuan just now was very heavy. The crisp sound of knocking on the head echoed continuously in the second floor. The beret on Qinzi's head, which seemed to be a fixed and indestructible object, was dented.

"Stop playing tricks, she's almost crying."

"He kidnapped my Snow Girl so easily. How can I not scare him?"

"I'm talking about the Snow Girl who's about to cry."

"Cough cough."

Kotoko cleared her throat. "The union of monsters and humans is no longer considered a taboo in modern society. Why don't you just tell your family about this? Why are you eloping?"

"me……"

Takahashi Satoru's face showed pain, and after struggling for a long time, he decided to tell the reason.

"Princess, although my grandfather looks like an ordinary man who runs an apartment in Sapporo, he is actually an Onmyoji who exorcises demons."

"Yo ho."

Kotoko looked at Takahashi Yukino with a strange look on her face. From her expression, it could be seen that Takahashi Yukino knew about this matter.

"Could it be that Mr. Takahashi's grandfather killed many people in your village?"

"It was...his grandfather. It happened eighty years ago."

Takahashi Yukino said tremblingly, "The snow woman who wreaked havoc on the mountains and forests in Hokkaido legend eighty years ago, killing countless hunters and woodcutters, was from our village, and she was killed by Takahashi's grandfather."

For humans, eighty years is a very long time, but for monsters, it is just a few blinks of an eye. One foot, people from their own village are killed by the Yin-Yang master, and the next foot, the younger generation in the village is about to marry the grandson of the enemy. Who can stand this?

"Romeo and Juliet."

Qinzi thought to herself, "Even so, you fell in love at first sight."

"Hmm~"

Takahashi Yukino lowered her head shyly. "When I first saw him, I felt my heart tremble violently. At just one glance, I knew that the man in front of me was the one I loved the most, my husband."

"Perhaps Princess, you don't know this feeling, but this feeling is absolutely real. It's the throbbing I feel in my heart!"

"No, I understand, I understand."

Qinzi was deeply moved and took Takahashi Yukino's hand. "When Ouyang and I met for the first time, I knew that I had to win this boy. I fell in love with Ouyang at first sight. Just one glance and I knew I was the love of my life. I understand, I really understand."

"Princess~"

"Yukino~~"

Kotoko and Takahashi Yukino hugged each other excitedly. Although their names were both Yukino, their nutritional components were completely different. Takahashi Yukino's front armor was much stronger than Yukinoshita's. If one was a Gundam, then the other could only be an iron ball.

"Princess, do you agree to our marriage?"

Takahashi Satoru also got up from the ground.

"Kotoko has never been against intermarriage between humans and monsters. It's just that your elopement caused chaos in the Snow Girl Village, so they found Kotoko."

"I'm extremely sorry to have caused you any trouble, my lord."

"Don't think that everything will be fine just because Kotoko agrees."

Ouyang Falcon poured a glass of cold water on Takahashi Satoru, "Although Kotoko is the god of wisdom among the monsters and the head of the family, marriage is a big deal and must be approved by the real head of the family."

"So—we need a story, a story that will allow everyone in the Snow Girl Village to accept that she married the descendant of her enemy."

Takahashi Yukino fell silent, and Takahashi Satoru sat cross-legged on the ground with a distressed look on his face. The two of them just couldn't think of a story that could convince the Snow Girl Village, so they chose to elope. If possible, Takahashi Satoru also wanted to give Takahashi Yukino a complete wedding witnessed by her family.

"Why don't we just not tell the villagers and just treat her as if she's dead?"

Ouyang Xuan came up with the idea.

"That's fine, but it doesn't completely solve the problem. If anyone from the Snow Girl Village comes out and runs into her, wouldn't that be very embarrassing?"

What is this? Resurrection or reincarnation?

During this period, several people started brainstorming on the second floor, and all kinds of ideas were being conceived frantically. Kotoko's brain was also fully mobilized, and she came up with various methods, but they were all rejected due to various problems. Everyone brainstormed until nightfall and still couldn't come up with an idea. In the end, it was Erina who interrupted everyone's thinking. It was dinner time, and there were too many people in the store. Erina was too busy to ask Takahashi to go downstairs.

No one could think of a solution at the moment, so everyone could only put the matter aside for the time being. Now that things had come to this, let's eat first.

Kotoko ordered a bowl of pork bone chashu ramen, a typical Japanese-style ramen with a thick and sticky soup base and a lot of lard added to it. Just one sip of it could restore energy to the body after a day's work. Paired with the chashu on top, which Ouyang Sun didn't even admit was chashu, it was simply perfect.

Ouyang Jun was not used to eating such greasy noodles, so he ordered a 0.5 version of ramen, which looked very light, chicken soup ramen. There was a little bit of oil floating on the clear noodle soup, and some green chopped green onions sprinkled on it. Takahashi Yukino used some magical powers when cutting it, so the chopped green onions would not change color no matter how long they were left.

"Hey, if Manager Takahashi wasn't human, it would be much easier for me to make up stories~"

Kotoko sighed as she ate the noodles cooked by Erina. They were super delicious, but they seemed a little too salty.

52

Chapter 52 Reliable little big sister.

Erina has been used like a tool by her father since she was a child. Compared to Erina as a person, what Erina's father values is only Erina's divine tongue.

In Erina's memory, what she had to do every day was to eat delicious food, point out the shortcomings, and then throw the flawed food into the trash can under her father's supervision.

Under the tremendous pressure and destructive education from her father, Erina suffered from anorexia. Any food that entered Erina's mouth would only leave flaws and expand infinitely, making the food in her mouth more like garbage than food.

The head of the Nakiri family, known as the Food Demon King, finally discovered the situation of his granddaughter and drove Erina's father out of Totsuki Academy and the Nakiri family, and took care of his granddaughter himself.

Everything should have been getting better slowly, but Erina, who couldn't eat anything because she could only magnify the shortcomings of food, recovered little by little through her grandfather's perfect cooking, until three months ago, when she lost her sense of taste.

For a chef, losing the sense of taste is like losing the rifling of a gun. Can it fire a bullet and kill someone? Of course it can, but whether it is accurate is purely up to chance. Thanks to her family's strong culinary education, Erina can still make good dishes even if she has lost her sense of taste, but it is only limited to being generally delicious and no longer reaches the top level.

For Erina's sake, Nakiri Senzaemon visited many famous doctors and Onmyojis, trying to cure Erina's tongue, but it was completely ineffective. Erina became much more depressed over the past three months, and even Hisako Arato, who served as her attendant, was temporarily sent away.

In order to make Erina feel better and to get her away from the Tokyo culinary world temporarily, Nakiri Senzaemon asked Totsuki Gakuen to find a restaurant for Erina far away from Tokyo so that she could take a break. In order to prevent Erina from feeling like a useless person, a restaurant was specially chosen to allow her to get in touch with cooking and management.

Since losing her sense of taste, Erina has also tried to cook for her family and familiar people. Even if these people find flaws in Erina's cooking, they will not point it out directly, for fear of hurting Erina again. Erina also knows this, but everyone keeps a tacit understanding and does not say it out. When they came to Sapporo, when no one knew Erina's true identity, naturally there would be no complaints about a bowl of 800-1200 yen ramen being a little salty or the meat taste a little mixed.

Until now, this false bubble protective shell was easily punctured by Ouyang Xuan.

Erina's body was shaking violently. She was holding the bowl with all her strength, but suddenly she lost all her strength and the bowl slipped from her hands. Fortunately, Ouyang Xuan was quick to catch it, preventing the bowl from falling to the ground.

"I... am not... me."

Erina was trembling and couldn't utter a word. She added a can of salt to her noodles, but she couldn't taste it at all.

Qinzi reached out, took a sip of the noodle soup and put it in her mouth. The next second, her facial features were squeezed together in pain. It was not just salty, it was so salty that it was bitter, as if she was eating bitter essence. The taste lingered in her mind for three days and three days.

"Pah, pah, pah, I feel like my tongue is going to break after taking a bite."

"I already told you I added a can of salt, and you still tried it."

"Seeing Ms. Nakiri eating it with such a blank expression, I thought it would just be a little salty."

"Have some tea to relieve yourself."

The conversation between Ouyang Jun and Kotoko was like a thunder that woke Erina from her shock and confusion. Her eyes were full of tears, and she tried her best to absorb them into her eye sockets. Her nose felt sore as if she had eaten something sour. In the end, Erina's rationality could not hold on anymore, and she fell to the ground, hugged her knees, and began to cry loudly. This was the first time Erina had cried in three months.

"I'm so sorry, everyone. Our chef had a problem, so we're closed tonight. Customers who haven't finished their meals don't have to pay. We're so sorry to have disturbed everyone's dinner. Next time you come to our restaurant, you can enjoy a 50% discount."

Although Takahashi Satoru didn't know what he could do for Erina, he knew what he should do. He bowed 90 degrees to the customers in the store and shouted red bean paste. The customers who were originally dissatisfied became reasonable after hearing that it was free this time and 50% off next time. They left the ramen shop with a smile, and those who had not finished their meals quickly finished them in two bites.

After all the guests left, Takahashi Satoru immediately closed the door, and then looked worriedly at Erina who was squatting on the ground crying. The pain and sadness that she had been holding back for three months was completely lured out by Ouyang Jun and Kotoko. This also had its advantages, as at least Erina would not be suddenly overwhelmed and had an outlet to vent.

Yukino Takahashi also stopped working and wanted to go over to comfort Erina, but she didn't know how to do it. She could only stand by in a panic, and in the end she could only look at her husband and princess for help.

Erina's crying lasted for fifteen minutes, which was fifteen minutes of non-stop crying, just like the blue-haired girl crying in despair and pain in the rain. Erina's situation was better than hers. Erina did not have teammates who were still exerting pressure on her at this time, but only seniors who were gently waiting for Erina to finish venting.

When he raised his red eyes, the first thing that caught his eye was a handkerchief that Kotoko handed to him.

"Okay, you'll feel better after crying, right? If you keep all this stuff bottled up inside, you'll get sick."

"Thank you...thank you."

Erina's voice was a little hoarse.

"Your family is really going too far to let a child bear such great pressure alone."

"No, that's not the case. Grandfather cares about me very much. After I lost my sense of taste, not only did he not abandon me, he also took me to see various doctors and powerful people. Grandfather cares about me very much."

"You are his family. How could he abandon you just because you lost your sense of taste? What are you afraid of, silly girl?"

"I... that is..."

Realizing that she was being tricked, Erina subconsciously covered her mouth tightly.

Under her father's abnormal education, Erina was afraid that she would lose what she thought was her only value and be abandoned. For a child who lacks love, there is nothing more terrifying than being abandoned in this world. Even if Erina believed that her grandfather would never abandon her, her brain would still keep thinking and doubting, and her small body was under tremendous physical and psychological pressure.

"Children should play happily. Worrying is the exclusive domain of adults."

"But, Miss, you don't look much older than me~"

"Ok?"

A terrifying smile appeared on Kotoko's face.

This is because Kotoko is petite and Erina is tall. Erina in the first grade of junior high school is a little bit taller than Kotoko in the second grade of college. It is not noticeable when Erina is squatting, but it becomes obvious after Kotoko holds her up.

Kotoko is very cute when she smiles. After all, she is a top-notch beautiful girl. She is even cuter when she smiles. Very cute. But the movements of Kotoko's hands at this time are not very cute. Kotoko just stretched out her hands with a smile, pinched Erina's soft cheeks, and pulled and kneaded them like dough.

"Nakiri-san, please remember this: I am Kotoko Iwanaga, a sophomore at the University of Tokyo. You shouldn't be so disrespectful to your seniors."

"I'm sorry~ Chiba~ wuwuwu~"

Erina's face was rubbed by Kotoko and her speech was unclear.

Erina's lost mood was pulled out and crushed in Kotoko's hands, venting the pressure that had been squeezed out for the past few days, and her somewhat empty heart was filled with something new. Erina didn't know what it was, maybe happiness.

"Could it be that he's sick? If he suddenly lost his sense of taste."

"No, my grandfather took me to many hospitals, both domestic and foreign, and they couldn't find any problems."

Erina looked at Kotoko and Ouyang Falcon sitting across from me for a moment, then continued, "My grandfather took me to various shrines, saying there were powerful people there who could heal my tongue."

"And it had absolutely no effect?"

"Um……"

"So, it's not that Grandfather doesn't care about me. It's just that Grandfather is powerless to do anything about what happened to me. Asking those powerful people for help would cost a lot of money, but Grandfather doesn't feel sorry for me at all. Grandfather really loves me."

Erina still remembers what Kotoko said about her grandfather.

"Those powerful people really have real abilities. They're not like those in the movies. They're just like in the movies, but they're real. Grandfather is not a fool who was fooled."

In the eyes of Erina, who didn't know the identities of Ouyang Xuan and Kotoko in the other world, they just cared about their predecessors. According to the rules of the other world, she couldn't tell them about the things in the other world. But she didn't want Ouyang Xuan and the others to misunderstand her grandfather, so she started thinking about how to explain it in her little head.

Because of excitement, Erina's originally very smart little brain was a little choppy, and even with her mouth open, you could see her tongue jumping inside.

"The doctor didn't find anything wrong, and the priests and Yin Yang masters at the shrine didn't see anything wrong either. Yeah, it started three months ago. What a coincidence."

Kotoko pondered.

Three months ago, the monsters were making a lot of trouble, and the ghosts from the west kept running to the east. Unlike the monsters, the abilities of those ghosts were mostly chaotic and without any system.

"Ouyang, do you think it could be due to psychological reasons? Didn't Shinobu also say that before? Changes in mental state can directly affect the human body and cause some abnormalities in the body."

"It's not that troublesome."

"Oh, you look so confident. It seems that Ouyang has found the reason why Erina lost her sense of taste."

"Eh?"

Erina was stunned. What was this Kotoko-senpai talking about?

Takahashi Yukino saw that Erina was confused and whispered to her the identities of Ouyang Shun and Kotoko. Hearing this, a glimmer of hope ignited in Erina's eyes.