A gentle breeze blew.
The sun was bright, and the clouds drifted lazily across the sky.
After they finished breakfast, Akashiya Moka took it upon herself to wash the dishes.
Lin and Tohru had made the meal.
Since she hadn't done anything to help, she felt a little embarrassed.
Since Akashiya Moka insisted, Lin didn't refuse. He took Tohru with him to go tidy up the empty rooms.
Before leaving, he asked Akashiya Moka:
"Moka, which room do you want?"
"Huh...?"
Hearing this, Akashiya Moka looked toward Tohru. "Tohru, are you sleepy?"
"I haven't chosen yet."
Tohru shook her head slightly.
Akashiya Moka said with a gentle smile, "Then you can choose first, Tohru."
Tohru's eyes flickered upon hearing this.
Looking at the kind and modest Akashiya Moka, a smile appeared on her face:
"It's fine, you go first."
Akashiya Moka: "No, you go first. I don't mind either way."
"..."
Seeing them being so polite with each other, Lin couldn't help but shake his head and chuckle.
So he made the final decision:
"Alright, I'll decide. You'll both stay on the third floor."
There was one bedroom on the first floor.
Besides the master bedroom, the second floor only had one other bedroom.
Only the third floor had four bedrooms.
"Okay..."
Hearing Lin's decision, Tohru and Akashiya Moka looked at each other, both smiling and nodding in agreement.
"Let's go."
Lin looked at Tohru.
The human and dragon duo headed to the third floor.
Akashiya Moka withdrew her gaze, a smile on her lips as she began to wash the dishes.
After arriving on the third floor,
they chose two adjacent rooms. Tohru and Lin tidied them up together, first sweeping away the small amount of dust.
Then, Lin took out new, unopened four-piece bedding sets from the closet.
He and Tohru made the beds together.
They then moved to the other room and repeated the process.
As the saying goes, when a man and a woman work together, the work isn't tiring.
And indeed, Lin and Tohru weren't tired.
Of course, even without the man-woman dynamic, neither of them would have felt tired anyway.
After tidying the rooms, Lin brought Tohru to his own room.
He exited the game World Tree and began teaching Tohru how to use the computer.
Tohru was a very fast learner.
By the time Akashiya Moka finished washing the dishes and came to the room, she had already mastered the basics of computer use.
"Oh, right, Moka."
Lin turned his head to look at Akashiya Moka, who had just entered.
"What is it?"
Akashiya Moka blinked curiously.
Lin smiled slightly. "Tohru doesn't know much about the common sense of this world. Could you teach her?"
"Of course!"
Akashiya Moka's eyes lit up, and she nodded with a smile.
Tohru looked at Lin.
Then looked at Akashiya Moka and said with a smile, "I'll be in your care, then."
"It's no trouble at all."
Akashiya Moka smiled kindly.
As fellow retainers of Lin and family members who would be living together in the future, she was also eager to get along well with Tohru.
So, they sat on a bench that Lin had created with a barrier and began their lesson on world common sense using the computer.
Watching Tohru and Akashiya Moka's relationship grow closer, a happy smile appeared on Lin's face.
With harmony in the harem, We are greatly pleased.
Day turned to night, and it was Monday morning.
Last night, Akashiya Moka had returned to her own place in Arai Ward.
It was closer to her school.
At the same time, Akashiya Moka had decided to transfer schools next semester.
She was going to transfer to Private United High School.
To be at the same school as Lin.
The reason she wasn't transferring now was that Private United High School was not currently accepting transfer students.
If she wanted to transfer, she would have to wait until the end of the current semester.
Nerima Ward, at the entrance of his residence.
"Tohru, I'm heading out."
Dressed and ready, Lin put the bento Tohru had made into his school bag, patting her on the head as he spoke with a smile.
"Okay! Be careful on your way."
Tohru nodded happily, her delicate, slightly chubby-cheeked face beaming with a vibrant smile.
8:10 AM, Private United High School.
Lin arrived at Class 1-C and greeted his classmates.
After chatting for a bit with Yumiko Miura's group of three, he walked toward his seat.
He sat down.
While putting away his bag, he greeted Megumi Katō at the desk in front of him:
"Morning, Katō."
Megumi Katō, who was passing the time by reading a textbook, heard Lin's voice, and her bright eyes shifted slightly.
The corners of her lips seemed to curve up faintly.
A fleeting hint of a smile.
She turned around with a calm expression to face Lin, her voice soft as she said, "Good morning."
Although they hadn't interacted much last week, just greeting each other in the morning and after school each day,
their relationship was gradually progressing.
In her heart, Lin was faintly showing signs of becoming a special existence.
Because to her, Lin was indeed a bit special now.
He could always notice her.
And he clearly remembered her name.
She didn't know why, but as soon as she stopped talking, the people around her would subconsciously ignore her presence.
Even her parents were like that sometimes.
Because of this, even after more than half a month since starting high school, she had always been alone, without any friends.
If it weren't for Lin,
she would still be alone now.
But things were different now; perhaps she had a new friend.
Thinking of this,
a subtle, almost imperceptible change occurred in the way Megumi Katō looked at Lin.
At the same time,
Lin received a notification from the Codex of All Things that a new entry had been illuminated.
After exchanging greetings, Megumi Katō turned back around as usual and continued to read her book quietly.
Lin summoned the Codex of All Things.
Nickname: Megumi Katō
Level: Green
Description: Saint Megumi~~~
Reward: Liu Maoxing's Cooking Template
...
"Hm?!"
Looking at Megumi Katō's codex entry, Lin's eyes narrowed slightly as a flash of vigilance and doubt crossed them.
Her level was Green.
He thought it would be White.
What was the reason her codex entry could reach the Green level?
Furthermore, the reward from Megumi Katō's codex also surprised him a little.
It was a character template.
A different type from before.
Previous rewards had been either a specific ability or an item; this time, it was a character's ability template.
It seemed the variety of rewards from the Codex of All Things was quite rich.
Lin rested his head on his desk.
He closed his eyes and began to merge with the template.
Liu Maoxing, from Chūka Ichiban!.
He possessed immense talent in cooking.
As the character's cooking template began to merge, all the culinary skills and talents Liu Maoxing had mastered became Lin's own.
It was a vast amount of culinary experience.
Sourced from Liu Maoxing at his peak.
There was also the talent-ability: Hyper-Tasting.
Hyper-Tasting allowed one to quickly analyze the ingredients used in any food eaten.
It also came with taste memory; once a flavor was tasted, it would be remembered with perfect clarity, no matter how much time passed.
There was also taste-image deduction.
This allowed him to mentally simulate and combine flavors he had tasted, thereby determining if a new, creative dish would be viable.
Besides the culinary skills and Hyper-Tasting,
there was also Liu Maoxing's boundless imagination for cooking, which allowed him to create new dishes.
Three minutes later.
Ding, dong, ding, dong~~~
The school bell echoed throughout the campus.
Lin slowly opened his eyes.
The corner of his mouth curved into a slight smile.
Now that he possessed the abilities of Liu Maoxing at his peak, he could also make food that glowed.
'It's fluorescent powder, I added fluorescent powder.'
To think this was a superpower!
As the bell faded, the homeroom teacher and world history instructor, Mafuyu Kirisu, walked into the Class 1-C classroom as usual.
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