Event 22: An Expected Meeting
Having already agreed to help the volleyball team, Haruta and Asuna made a list of many ingredients for the training week.
Both young men were in the kitchen club room, sitting at a table facing each other, Asuna reviewed the list of ingredients to send to Master Shizuka.
Haruta on the other hand was organizing the itinerary for the kitchen adapting to the itinerary of the volleyball team.
"deer meat?" Asuna was somewhat curious to read the list of ingredients where the necessary meat was specified.
Haruta turned to look at Asuna "Yes, I am planning to cook something a little more special during the last day and the venison will be something really fantastic for the occasion," said Haruta
Asuna took her phone from her pocket and browsed the web and then showed the screen to Haruta "The value of venison is quite high, it will be impossible for the beautiful teacher Shizuka to find it and I doubt that the school allows it" the words of Asuna erased the illusion that Haruta had formed in his mind.
"You're right"
Asuna looked at Haruta's expression and how he began to make changes to his itinerary preparing everything differently.
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"Uaaaaaah ..." Haruta yawned as he walked towards the exit of the school, after spending the day in class and recesses preparing the list of ingredients, the day had passed almost completely staining the sky orange to indicate the beginning of the night.
While Haruta walked in front of him were his statistics on a light blue screen
"There were no changes in any of my statistics," Haruta said, moving his finger to make the screen be removed.
"Open knowledge shop," said Haruta, displaying a new screen now with many items and values. "Filter all items that cost less than 15 system points (SP)." The list in front of Haruta was quickly simplified by showing fewer products.
"Well, now filter all the knowledge and leave only dishes for cooking" with the order of Haruta only the recipes for the kitchen were shown, happy Haruta on the list looking for what to buy.
The list was endless only with values of 1SP to 10SP "even famous dishes cost less than 10SP" Haruta was surprised the more he watched the list more surprised was "The qualifications of each recipe varies, as well as the requirement as to the level of the 'kitchen' statistic but its values remain on average "
It took a few minutes for when Haruta finished shopping, the information flowed in his mind at full speed forcing him to sit on a rock to assimilate everything, sweat ran down his body.
[The transfer of information was successful]
It was the signal of the system that indicated to Haruta that there would be no more pain in his head "Ugh ..." Haruta complained holding his head "Thinking about it well I don't want the ability for sports, first I want something to withstand the pain ... "
With the last offal of his wallet, Haruta decided to walk to the store closest to his house where he bought everything necessary to prepare his dinner to end the day.
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Days later Yamamoto and Haruta were standing in a busy street outside a large building "I told you, your publication is almost guaranteed" Yamamoto was smiling while cheering for Haruta
"Sigh ...." Haruta sighed calmly as she entered the great building followed by Yamamoto.
Upon entering, both went to the nearest desk where the receptionist was "Hello, we have an scheduled meeting with the editor Miyako Shirakawa" Yamamoto was the first to speak since he was the one who organized everything for the publication of Haruta.
The receptionist made a quick check on her computer "here it is, you must go up to the third floor, Miss Shirakawa is waiting for you two," said the receptionist, bowing slightly while letting them both use the elevator.
They both walked through the corridors where there were several seats "These are used for publishers to have meetings with the authors, usually newbies come to this sector and so they don't feel uncomfortable all the tables have these thin walls around them, it really is same as an office "Yamamoto explained the situation.
"It seems that Shirakawa-san is waiting there," Haruta said as he continued on his way.
"Did you use honorifics ?!" Yamamoto exclaimed surprised
Haruta did not give it importance and continued walking forward while adjusting the tie of his uniform, it was not usual for Haruta to use all his uniform but following Yamamoto's instructions he agreed to follow a criterion of temporary formality.
"Shirakawa-san" called Yamamoto approaching the woman with brown hair and red eyes
Haruta stopped a moment a little surprised by the color of the young woman's eyes 'Now that I think so many people in this world have eyes of particular colors ..... perhaps it is a degenerative effect of some anomaly in the human being' Haruta said in his mind.
"You must be Ichijo-sensei, right?" Shirakawa took Haruta off guard causing him to be surprised for a moment but thanks to his title he maintained his composure.
Haruta scratched the back of his hair "Well I really still am not sure that the title of 'sensei' is my thing but indeed I am Ichijo Haruta or Haruta, it really does not matter" Haruta's words were quick for presentation while performing a small Tilt in front of Shirakawa.
After hearing the words of Haruta, Shirakawa was somewhat surprised but Yamamoto approached him "You must not worry, American customs made him change while studying there" Yamamoto used one of his excuses prepared for when Haruta will appear in front of the unknown
Shirakawa nodded to Yamamoto's words "Well, stay here to start the meeting"