It's just a grocery store.

The few days of relaxation in Yayuan passed quickly, but despite the deliberate efforts of midnight, I still encountered a few monsters with no attack power.

Two of them initially tried to play pranks, but were then doubled back by Lingshi, who found this experience particularly amusing.

It seemed like they were the ones Natsume knew. After all, when Zero Shi scared them by covering his face with long hair, they screamed in fear.

This led Natsume here, and then at midnight, they were seen running towards Natsume with tears in their eyes.

He kept shouting "Natsume-sama" and looked at their funny appearance. Only then did he feel satisfied and decided to let them go.

Natsume looked at Zero Time, and Zero Time looked back at him. After a moment, Zero Time took off the prop "Sadako's wig", revealing his true face.

If these two little monsters hadn't discovered that he could see them and wanted to scare him, Ling Shi would not have remembered the props he had exchanged before.

System: But it has never been used before, right?

Midnight: That was a truly enjoyable shopping experience!

system:……

Natsume felt relieved when he found out that it was Midnight in front of him. After all, when he looked over just now, Midnight looked really scary, and he even got goosebumps.

Natsume greeted Zero with a smile, and the two monsters squatting behind him also poked their heads out when they heard that, only to find that the previous "Sadako" was actually Zero's costume.

The two intermediate monsters stomped their feet in anger, but they still restrained themselves in front of Natsume. After all, they did remember that they were the ones who scared Zero Hour.

But Lingshi thought that they failed to scare the enemy and were actually scared by him, so he gave the two men two pots of wine as compensation.

Niutou: "Really, is it really possible?"

One-Eye: "Wow, you're indeed Natsume-sama's friend, you're so generous!"

The Bull Head was still a little hesitant, but the One-Eye man tactfully covered his mouth, then accepted the gift while praising Reitoki and Natsume.

The one-eyed man was not stupid. He could see that he meant to make peace. He nodded in agreement, and the wine he gave was not given in vain.

System: The host’s people-pleasing personality has appeared.

Midnight: Shut up.

Ling Shi doesn't deny that he is always subconsciously nice to them. After all, he could only watch them in front of the screen at the time and he really liked them.

Death and the arrival of the system did make Zero Hour's blood boil at first, but he cooled down again after thinking about something.

That’s why the team initially gave up, but no one knew why they agreed to it in the end except Lingshi.

The two intermediate monsters were quite greedy and opened a pot of wine on the spot. The aroma of wine filled the air and attracted the attention of many monsters.

Even Natsume, who had never drunk alcohol before, was attracted by it. The reason was that the wine was so fragrant that he felt a little drunk just by smelling it.

One-Eye immediately closed the lid to avoid attracting more, but the cat teacher beside him refused to do so.

Teacher Cat: "Why cover it? Come and drink!"

Natsume had no choice but to pick it up from the ground to stop it from running over.

Unable to withstand the cat teacher's struggle, Natsume could only punch it, and it wilted.

One-Eye: "This wine is too fragrant and too expensive."

Lingshi: "If you like it, take it. I'm not a drinker, so it would be a waste for me to leave it to you."

One-Eye: "Well, well, thank you very much for your kindness, Master Lingshi."

Ah, is he so easy to bribe? It’s just two pots of wine, but the system reminds me.

System: "Host, that's the famous wine of the Flower Growers. They definitely haven't tasted it before, and it's of very good quality..."

The system said that its host was really a spendthrift, but even a spendthrift had the capital to do so. Lingshi said that we still had this little money.

One-Eye patted his chest and promised that he would take out a pot to share with everyone at the next banquet. He mainly talked about this with Madara and also invited Lingshi to join in the fun.

Hearing this, the cat teacher in Natsume's arms became energetic again, and kept muttering about wine, as if he had already drunk it.

Zero Hour: A bit like Kogoro Mori, pure malice.

System: Drunkard x2?

Zero Hour: Yeah.

Because of this incident, when Ling Shi left, apart from Natsume and Nishimura who came to see him off, the intermediate monsters could be seen in the woods in the distance.

Zero Hour: These guys, really.

System: The customs and people here are so nice, I don’t even want to leave, host.

Midnight: You are just greedy for the steamed buns from Qiqianwu.

System: Ying.

In fact, apart from the initial encounter, Lingshi and Nishimura had no further contact, except that he went to his house with Natsume to deliver steamed buns later.

But the young man was very enthusiastic. He took a day off to bring his good friends to look for Lingshi. Then the few of them took Lingshi around to see the good places in their town.

Lingshi likes people with this kind of personality very much. Young people who are sunny, cheerful and love to laugh will never have bad luck.

Lingshi walked forward and ruffled Nishimura's hair, and then ruffled Natsume and Tanuma's hair. The other one's hair didn't feel good, so Lingshi changed to patting his shoulder.

Kitamoto escaped and mocked the other two people rudely. Nishimura complained and then told the truth.

"Zero-kun probably doesn't touch Kitamoto's hair because it's prickly!"

Lingshi's guilty look was more like a tacit agreement, which made Kitamoto amused and angry, and he started to quarrel with Nishimura.

Natsume and Tanuma exchanged a glance, smiled, and didn't move forward to join in. Reitoki walked over, patted him on the shoulder, and then placed something in his hand. Natsume wanted to look, but Reitoki stopped him.

Natsume could only put it in his pocket and said goodbye with a smile.

"Bye, keep in touch?"

"Yeah, keep in touch."

Natsume replied, and Nishimura and Kitamoto stopped fighting and said goodbye to Reitoki properly.

Lingshi turned around and waved goodbye to the forest of intermediate monsters, which made them excited and waved back.

"I'm leaving now. Goodbye!"

Nishimura and Kitamoto looked puzzled. It seemed that only Natsume and Tanuma understood who Reitoki was saying goodbye to. Reitoki turned around and explained to the two puzzled guys,

"I'm saying goodbye to this town. Maybe next time you come, you won't remember me."

Nishimura: "Zero-brother, you actually have such a childlike side."

Kitamoto: "I won't forget. Remember to look for us when you come back."

Lingshi smiled faintly without saying a word, shook his head, waved his hand and stepped onto the bus that had just arrived at the station.

Tanuma: "You're still such a cool person."

Natsume: "Is it like a knight?"

Nishimura suddenly broke into the topic,

"What are you talking about? We want to participate too!"

A few teenagers were playing and fighting at the station. Looking out of the window at midnight, I couldn't help but feel warm in my heart.

Zero Hour: That’s great…

System: Yes, host.

Zero Hour: Why not just retire here?

System: It’s too early for you.

Zero Hour: Oh no...

After Natsume returned home, he took out the thing that Zero had secretly given him from his pocket, only to find that it was a bracelet.

It was woven very finely and was a style he had never seen before, but the cat teacher beside him urged him to put it on.

Cat teacher: "Oh, this thing, it's good, Natsume, put it on quickly."

Natsume: "Teacher, what is this?"

Teacher Cat: "I don't know, but I've seen it before. It's a kind of amulet from the flower-growing family. I think it's called a peace rope."

Teacher Cat said again:

"Also, I can sense the spiritual energy in that jade. It will be beneficial to you, not harmful. Lingshi is really generous in his actions."

After saying that, Natsume licked the cat's paw and sighed, feeling that it was a waste of time. In the end, he put on the peace rope. The jade on it was warm and comfortable against his arm.

Natsume sent a text message to Reitoki to express his gratitude, and Reitoki replied with an emoticon of a "kitten wearing sunglasses". You can imagine Reitoki's expression, it was quite fitting.

When Natsume was thinking about giving Rei Shi some gift in return when he had time, Rei Shi had already arrived at the airport and was ready to leave.