People in Zongman: My Dimensional Cuisine

"Hmm..."

"We're back! Huh? Why are you all back so early? I thought it would only be Sora and Yuno at most."

Lucifer paused for a moment and said, "Who gave you this misconception? Where have you two been? We haven't heard from you all day."

Kobayashi Rindou sat down next to Riven, picked up Riven's juice and took a sip. Riven didn't pay any attention and just looked at Kobayashi Rindou with a puzzled expression. She was also very curious about where the two of them went after the Spring Fruit Pavilion.

Kobayashi Rindou said with a smile, "We were bored this morning and didn't want to go shopping, so we went to the gym to find Bai Yu and the others and played with hula hoops all morning."

Zhengyi said with a smile, "Hula hoops are indeed quite fun. I plan to buy one in a couple of days so I can play with it at home when I have nothing to do. Hey, you guys can buy one too, it can help you slim your waist."

"Huh?!" xn

Women say they're not interested in their figure or appearance, but if you ask them if they want to be better, they'll definitely nod without hesitation. If you ask them if they could become less attractive if they didn't care, they'll definitely shake their heads 100%.

Rantabi nodded and said, "I know that, but I've never played with one. I have seen a big hula hoop, though, and it's quite heavy. I don't think I could spin it."

"Why don't you find a smaller one? I used to love playing with hula hoops when I was little, I had a small one, but then..."

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing much, I just went to the gym when I was in school, and I had to do homework when I got home at night. I spent my holidays playing, and I didn't have time in college either, so I probably don't know where I put it."

Lucifer thought for a moment and said, "Hula hoop...what is that...never mind, if you want to buy one, just get one for me."

"plus one!"

"Do you think I'm going to buy supplies?... Okay, okay, I get it. I feel like a medium-sized one would be fine. Anything too small wouldn't suit my height, and anything too big would be hard to put and quite heavy, and I wouldn't even have room to turn it around."

Medici asked in confusion, "And then? What did you do?"

"I went to Chun Guo Ting for dinner. The name sounded familiar to me. I was sure I had heard it before! But I just couldn't remember it. Someone must have mentioned it."

As soon as Ichihara Yuuko finished speaking, Nakiri Managi waved her hand and said, "It was the day we came back, when we went to Shunka-tei and various restaurants, and we were complaining about it when we got back."

Yuko Ichihara suddenly clapped her hands and said, "Oh! Right! That's it! I forgot who said it, I think it was Rantabi, right?"

Rantabi sighed and said, "It's me. Because Chun Guo Ting is a small shop, they dumped all the small shops on me..."

Rantabi's expression was incredibly resentful. Dekla said irritably, "Do you know how much work goes on in a big restaurant? Just looking at the overall design makes our eyes hurt! You can at least calculate how much work it takes."

"Um... let's talk about something else. I haven't tried the food at Chun Guo Ting yet, but it sounds pretty good. It's still Long Dan, your senior."

Kobayashi Rindou nodded and said, "Yeah, she's a year older than me and she already has her own shop, but my man has one."

Everyone rolled their eyes, clearly ignoring Kobayashi Rindou's words. Cerberus, while eating the fried chicken he'd bought on the way, asked in confusion, "And then? Where did it go?"

"Then...then we went to get our ears cleaned and had some tea while we were there."

"Ear cleaning?"

"Yeah, haven't you guys tried it?"

"No!"

Yuko Ichihara breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It really feels great... but Rindan just keeps yelling and screaming all the time."

"I have sensitive ears, that's perfectly normal! But I was the one who took you there!"

"That's true, but if you have sensitive ears, why would you get an ear cleaning?"

"No way, I'm not the kind of person with super sensitive ears. I'll take you to get your eyes cleaned sometime."

"Eye washing?!"

Kraki and the others were startled. Good heavens, what the heck was "eye washing"? Just hearing about it made their eyes hurt. Kobayashi Rindou chuckled and said, "Together?"

“Uh…”xn

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Chapter 237 Strange Tearjerker Moments, Interesting An (Please Subscribe~)

They clearly had never heard of ear cleaning or eye washing, not even the local Japanese like Yuno Gasai. If they were like this, how much more so would foreigners? And if foreigners were like this, how much more so would people from another world?

Cerberus asked in confusion, "Ear cleaning? Does ear cleaning mean stepping on the ears?"

"Pfft..." x2

Kobayashi Rindou looked at Cerberus, who was eating fried chicken with a blank expression, and said with a smile, "It's not stepping on the ear, it's just... (several thousand words omitted here) like this."

Everyone nodded in understanding. Riven thought for a moment and said, "Sounds pretty good, although I can't imagine what it will be like..."

"Hmm..." xn

Momoko Akane hugged Butch and whispered, "Ear cleaning, Momoko has seen the video, it looks pretty good. But Momoko is more curious about what eye washing is? Does it involve rinsing your eyes with water? It sounds scary, will it make you go blind?"

Kobayashi Rindou waved his hand and said, "No, no, it's just using silver beads or other tools to stimulate the tear ducts and scrape out some dirt. Afterwards, we'll cover the eyes with special wet wipes. After washing, the eyes will be itchy, but things will be much clearer."

Gurefia hesitated for a moment before saying, "Won't the silver beads really hurt my eyes?"

"No, no, but it will feel very uncomfortable. It will be fine after washing. Generally speaking, the eyes are quite dirty. Washing them can make the eyes brighter and relieve eye strain."

Pandemonica hesitated for a moment before saying, "If it's uncomfortable, then why do we need to wash...? How uncomfortable is it?"

Kobayashi Rindou thought for a moment and said, "It's probably a tingling, itchy feeling, like there are little bugs crawling in your eyes, so the process is quite interesting, I mean really interesting for the onlookers."

"Um...why?"

Yuko Ichihara chuckled and said, "We saw one today. It kept its fist clenched the whole time, just twisting and turning like a little bug. It was quite amusing to watch."

Kasugano Sora's lips twitched slightly as she said, "It really is..."

Lucifer coughed lightly and said, "So, what you two were saying just now is what you think and what I think."

"Oh! That? I was telling Yuko, if you wash your eyes, will the reaction be more intense? Maybe you'll burst into tears."

"And then?"

Rindou Kobayashi chuckled and said, "Then Yuko told me that she didn't know how intense the reaction would be, because she hadn't washed before, but she would definitely cry a lot, because she's a woman who cries very easily..."

Lucifer and the others nodded in realization. Albedo said doubtfully, "I really find it hard to believe that Yuko is so easily moved to tears. She seems carefree and can say so many useless but reasonable things. She should be very easily moved to tears."

"Hmm!" xn

Yuko Ichihara's lips twitched. What the hell? What exactly was her evaluation? What did she mean by being heartless and carefree? What did she mean by saying she could say some useless but reasonable things? She was practically saying that there is only inevitability and no coincidence.

So what if she's a little lazy and a little clingy? It can't be that bad! Even so, Ichihara Yuuko still coughed lightly and said, "No, I am indeed a woman who is very easily moved to tears, and I only realized that recently."

"Huh? What's wrong with you?"

"When I went back to my hometown, I cried as soon as I got home."

Lucifer and the others were stunned for a moment. Their hometown? Wasn't their hometown the other world? Lucifer said softly, "It was expected. I'm just too easily moved to tears."

Hearing this, everyone nodded, completely unprepared for Lucifer's tears. But before Lucifer could even feel smug, he saw Medis whisper, "Boss... you've cried several times, especially at the end..."

Lucifer blushed and quickly shouted, "That doesn't count!"

Yuuko Ichihara and the others seemed to know what was going on, giving Lucifer strange looks. Lucifer snapped, annoyed, "You guys have never cried! How does this relate to being a tearjerker?!"

"We didn't say anything either..."

"Humph!"

Nakiri Managi glanced at An and smiled. An instinctively felt something was wrong and asked suspiciously, "Lady Managi, is there something you need?"

"An, I remember you're nearsighted, right...?"

"Huh?!" xn

Everyone looked surprised. In front of outsiders, Ann was a typical quiet and artistic girl, and she didn't wear glasses. Klaqi said with a smile, "Ann is indeed nearsighted, but after becoming a formal executive officer, Dekla and I modified her."

"Renovation?"

Dekkera, propping her chin on her hand, said with a smile, "That's right. Back then, there were only two of us first-class executives in WGO. When An came to report for duty, she was just an intern executive. She dressed very plainly, had braids, wore glasses, and didn't know how to do makeup. You guys know that, right? I remember telling you about it."

"Hmm!" xn

"Then, we forcibly changed Anhao's fashion sense and aesthetic sense in all aspects, but she still kept wearing glasses. Later, we switched her to contact lenses. It's funny to think about it now..."

"What's wrong?"

Hearing this, An quickly shouted, "Shut up! Don't say anymore!"

Kobayashi Rindou glanced at Medici, then at Cerberus, and the two of them immediately pinned Ann down. Dekkera said with a smile, "At first, Ann was afraid to wear contact lenses."

Klaqi said with a smile, "Yes, yes, I remember it vividly. Ann was holding her contact lenses but was too scared to use them. She was agonizing over it all morning. When we called her to lunch, we saw that she still hadn't used them, so we gave her a firm order: she had to get them done by tonight."

Nami glanced at Ann, who had given up resisting, and said with a smile, "And then? Did she use it?"

"No, I ended up fixing it for her. Dekker was the one who held her down; she was almost crying with her eyes closed, afraid she'd go blind. But after using the treatment, it turned out she was fine..."

"Do not cry?"

"She's crying even harder! She's saying it was too scary, that she's too ashamed to face anyone, and stuff like that... Pfft... That's quite interesting, An."

"Ann, this is very interesting~"

"do not talk!"

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Chapter 238 The Hardworking Top Student, Competition Time and Holiday Time (Please Subscribe~)

An was completely devastated. When she first graduated from university, she was a complete country bumpkin. She wore pigtails or braids, didn't know how to do makeup, had no sense of style, and was moderately nearsighted. She always carried books with her, afraid of making a mistake.

An feels ashamed whenever she thinks about that time. How could she have been so spineless? But that's not the point. The point is that quite a few people know about her situation. Although no one talks about it, everyone knows about it when it's mentioned.

Rantab asked with some confusion, "Kraqi, why did you choose Sister An from so many interns?"

Everyone was also curious about this question. All the executives at the time had better clothes and image than An, and most importantly, they were not nervous, or at least not this nervous. So why was An chosen?

Klaqi tilted her head and said, "Hmm? Because so many people are all the same. They're either bragging about their achievements or exaggerating the facts. They all look so proud. If you throw a brick at them, you'll find that all ten out of ten are like that."

Dekkera nodded and said, "That's right. At the time, we all felt like we were meeting not future CEOs, but elite entrepreneurs. In reality, they were just recent college or graduate students, or just rich kids. It was really annoying."

Lucifer nodded and said, "While it's not wrong for them to boast like that, it's acceptable for someone in your profession to be so arrogant, but for interns, it's going too far."

"Yeah, not modest at all. At the time, we both felt there was no one we could train, and then we saw An. I remember him vividly!"

"How to say?"

Klachi thought for a moment and said, "Back then, it was just a group of people in suits discussing and bragging to each other. You know, they wanted to use their exaggerated achievements to make their competitors nervous, thereby increasing their chances of success."

Everyone nodded. Although this was despicable and low-level, it was undeniably very useful. Many insecure people and those who had previously boasted too little would regret it and become very nervous because they didn't know if what the other person said was true.

At this point, Klaqi laughed and said, "Then we saw Ann. Ann was holding some of the executive officer's regulations. She didn't boast or try to curry favor. She just stood there. She was nervous even without being intimidated by others. She was different from others."

"So, you've become a special case, haven't you?"

“Yes, we deliberately left An until the end. An only relaxed a little after everyone else had been interviewed. We both answered the theoretical questions very well. They were also very sincere, or rather, too honest. They answered every question directly and didn’t exaggerate at all.”

Dekkera smiled and shook her head, saying, "At the time, we both felt that we should train her properly, at least so that she would become a second-class executive officer. But we didn't expect that this girl, Anne, would become the third first-class executive officer of WGO in the shortest amount of time, just like a workaholic."

"Yes, yes, yes, back then An didn't know how to dress herself up, but she's much better now because after joining the company there was special etiquette training and work uniforms, but usually no one wore them because they were too ugly. An wore them every day, I have to admire her. Then there were the special makeup and skincare classes for female executives."

"Even so, it's still not good enough. She's still a bit rustic. Once she becomes a first-class executive officer, you'll see how much effort we put into transforming her. Otherwise, she'd probably still look the same as before."

Rantab swallowed hard and said, "Sister An, you're amazing! You became a First-Class Executive Officer in such a short time! How did you do that?! I want a promotion too!"

"You? If you want to be like Ann, you just need to memorize all the books for executive officers, exceed performance targets, and get full marks on all assessments! Note! Full marks! If you can do that, the two of us will personally apply for it for you!"

Rantabi's lips twitched as he said, "Um... I'm still better off as a second-class executive officer..."

Just kidding, a perfect score? She gets a headache every time there's an exam, let alone a perfect score. Just kill her. But everyone also knows that this usually quiet An is actually a top student, a pure top student, not because of talent, but purely because of hard work.

When everyone started talking about studying, Zhengyi suddenly remembered something and asked in confusion, "Hey, Sora, Yuno, do you two know when your final exams are?"

Kasugano Sora shook her head and said, "I already said, it's around the end of June or the beginning of July, I'm not really sure. What about Yuno?"

Yuno Gasai thought for a moment and said, "I know, I asked Chabashira-sensei, it seems to be around the beginning of July."

"Oh... as expected of Shuchiin..."

Lucifer asked in confusion, "Huh? Why are your exam times different?"

"It would be strange if they were the same, since the test papers are all different. But they are basically all around the end of June or the beginning of July, and then the summer vacation is from the end of August to the beginning of September. It also varies from school to school. I don't know if we can make it to the national competition."

Yuuko Ichihara paused for a moment, then asked in confusion, "Huh? The National Tournament? When?"

Kobayashi Rindou calculated for a moment and said, "The National Tournament is usually in August, the Kanto Tournament is in July, the opening ceremony and matches of the Metropolitan Tournament are in June, and the preliminary rounds are in May."

Lucifer paused for a moment, then asked in confusion, "Huh? What are we fighting now?"