??Chapter 98: Chapter 86 Cake and New Task
Chapter 98: Chapter 86 Cake and New Task
Shell Street, the coffee shop owned by Boss Xiao Yu. Chen Xiao pushed open the door, and a sweet scent wafted towards him.
He was still recalling the situation in Mrs. Liu’s office.
“If even her authority can’t access this team’s information… it ans that four-eyed dwarf is at least an A-level field operative. But what’s he doing in the D-level area?… Is it because he’s never participated in the D-level elite competition and now wants to make up for this regret? Cut it out, that kid doesn’t seem like the type to do such aningless things.”
Chen Xiao took off his mask and sat at the bar.
“Save a spot?”
These words popped into Chen Xiao’s mind.
“An invitation? A piece of the puzzle? A chess piece?” Chen Xiao pondered, but of course, he couldn’t have the answers, just as the four-eyes had said— he still knew too little.
“Hehehe, you still owe
a ga,” Chen Xiao laughed unconsciously.
Then he slapped the table.
…
“Hello? Anyone there?” he shouted.
From the mont he sat down, there hadn’t been a soul in sight. Do they not do business anymore?
Soon… Boss Xiao Yu ca out from the kitchen, looking worried, then glanced back inside.
“Hey, don’t touch that!” he yelled.
Imdiately after, a clanging noise of pots and pans colliding echoed from the kitchen.
“Ahhh——————” a woman scread.
Xiao Yu massaged his head with a forlorn expression.
“What’ll you have?… Oh, cake, the sweetest one!” Xiao Yu answered his own question, since Chen Xiao hardly ate anything else anyway.
Sure enough, Chen Xiao nodded and asked, “What is she up to?”
This “she” naturally referred to Boss Xiao Yu’s cousin who had just scread.
“Don’t know what got into her, she wants to learn how to make cakes…” Xiao Yu dropped his head helplessly, then pointed at the bandaged right hand of Chen Xiao.
“Speaking of which… what happened to your hand?” he asked.
“Accident!” Chen Xiao’s reply was short. He certainly couldn’t say he’d fractured his wrist “fighting a giant flesh-bodied life form that had invaded from another world.”
“Accident? Yeah, right. You must have done sothing wicked; otherwise, why would God take away your most precious gift?” Xiao Yu teased.
“I’m not a couch potato; my right hand isn’t that precious to .” Chen Xiao said with a drooping face. He was already unlucky enough and not in the mood to start this battle of teasing: “Also, hurry up with the food already.”
“The early bird might not always catch the worm.” Xiao Yu said, giving a look that said “you’re dood.”
No sooner had he spoken than the curtain to the kitchen was lifted.
Just like when they first t, she had a very calm appearance, and of course, a personality that certainly wouldn’t stay calm. At the mont, her long hair was pulled back behind her ears and casually tied up, with a small sar of cream wiped on her face, and in her hands… she was holding a cake.
Chen Xiao was startled for a mont because it was the ugliest cake he had ever seen.
The cream was squiggled ssily on top, the cake itself was falling apart, and where the two t, the cream was lting. It was clearly a case of the cream being piped on before the cake had cooled down, like a half-solidified blob of paint haphazardly splashed onto a clod of dirt.
“Uh… you’re not thinking…” Chen Xiao had a very bad feeling in his gut.
Sure enough, the cousin placed that cake in front of Chen Xiao… with a look that said “you should feel privileged.”
“As a regular at the shop, we’ve decided to let you sample the inaugural creation of a future master cake maker,” Boss Xiao Yu declared with the pretentious tone of a dieval knight bestowing honors.
“Well said!” the cousin slapped Xiao Yu’s shoulder, suddenly rembered sothing, dashed back to the kitchen, and returned with a small red berry. With a “pfft,” she pressed it into the blob of cream.
Chen Xiao looked at the still-lting, dripping white liquid… his face lined with black streaks.
“Uh… I’m not eating!” Chen Xiao outright refused.
Afterward
…
He subconsciously shrugged his nose.
A special sweetness invaded his nostrils.
He knew it was the scent of cream, but it had a warmth to it, piping hot, mixed with the aroma of baked wheat to create an inexplicable reaction, tantalizing the deepest parts of Chen Xiao’s taste buds.
He paused for a mont. Although he could roughly simulate in his mind what fresh-out-of-the-oven cake with cream on top would feel like, he had never actually tried it. After all, any sane person would wait until the heat was no longer enough to lt the cream before squeezing it on, right?
Chen Xiao, as if possessed, picked up a fork.
“This really looks terrible.”
He muttered softly, scooping up a tiny bit of what could no longer be called a cake.
After that… he put it in his mouth.
…
…
Chen Xiao’s pupils dilated slightly.
It was a subtle sensation, as the soft sweetness lted bit by bit with the heat and evenly infiltrated the fluffy crevices of the cake… then blossod on the tip of his tongue.
For a mont, Chen Xiao wanted to close his eyes and enjoy it.
But luckily, he didn’t. Otherwise, a person who could laugh in the face of a bloodthirsty monarch of another world, yet show such an expression in front of a dessert, would be seen as rather pathetic.
So Chen Xiao didn’t make any particular statent, he just… ate the rest of it…
The owner, Xiao Yu, watched this scene, his face frozen.
“You see… I told you I am very talented!” his cousin patted Xiao Yu’s shoulder again, bragging a bit.
“Oh… yes,” Xiao Yu said with a pained tone, but his actual thought was, “Only a weirdo like Chen Xiao could enjoy such a ssed-up cake like that.”
After that, he cleared away the empty plate.
At that mont, the cousin ca over excitedly.
“It was delicious, wasn’t it?”
“Uh, if you disregard the visual pollution it inflicts upon people, it’s not bad…” Chen Xiao gave a fair assessnt,
She laughed happily, probably because her brain automatically blocked out everything except the last two words.
…
…
Suddenly, the phone vibrated.
Chen Xiao pulled out his phone…
“Hm? A task?” He was taken aback for a mont because this task seed to have arrived quicker than usual.
Of course, true to Chen Xiao’s nature, which found it hard to live without causing a stir, he imdiately accepted it.
“Heh heh heh…” He chuckled, then turned and walked out.
The cousin watched this strange man, who always suddenly checked his phone and then hurriedly left…
“Hey, what’s your na?” she asked.
Chen Xiao may or may not have heard her, but in any case, he did not answer.
He simply pushed open the door and vanished into the crowd outside on the street.
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