Chapter 81: Easily Defeated Makima, Reze at the New Coffee Shop?

Lazy afternoon.

In the vast large flat of the new home.

On the sofa, in the bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, in front of floor-to-ceiling windows... every position left light traces.

Romantic and pleasant.

Hayashi thought Makima was like ice - cold, emotionless, without reactions.

Actually, he was wrong.

Makima was like an aloof cat - outwardly indeed cold, rational, and logical, but she would also have reactions.

And Makima's body was the same as a normal human's.

Whatever should happen, happened.

There wouldn't be a situation like eternal ice that remained cold no matter how much you warmed it.

Who knows how much time passed.

Anyway, when Hayashi came to his senses.

He had already showered and was ready to go back to open for business.

Looking at the time.

5 PM.

He gently asked in Makima's ear:

"I'm heading back first. Are you still coming to the group dinner this afternoon?"

Makima was still breathing lightly.

Finally nodded: "Mm."

Hayashi's stamina seemed inexhaustible.

Anyone who encountered him would eventually be easily defeated.

While Hayashi was still in full health condition.

His body wasn't tired, and his spirit was greatly satisfied.

Because he could not only devour - he had just devoured the Eternity Devil, and the Eternity Devil was a perpetual motion machine!

But Makima couldn't do any of this.

No matter what, her flesh was still human.

Seeing Makima hum in response.

He didn't know if she was saying she'd go, or just acknowledging.

But it didn't matter.

Hayashi waved and turned to leave.

"Rest well."

Going downstairs, taking a car home.

His body was cleaned very thoroughly - the Tremor-Tremor Fruit's ultrasonic waves vibrated on his body surface, and all tiny particles fell off. Extremely useful.

Just like ultrasonic cleaning for glasses.

Hayashi took a taxi directly to the city center.

After paying and getting out.

He prepared to cross to the opposite street via the overpass.

While going up the stairs.

He saw two groups of four CCG undercover members total, disguised as public safety targets, chatting and buying water nearby.

When he continued up, at the center of the overpass, he was stopped.

But it wasn't just him being stopped - everyone was stopped.

"Sir, please go through security check."

Hayashi turned to look.

In the middle of the overpass, there were 24 subway-like scanning devices.

Placed here, completely invisible from other locations. Only when you went up the overpass wanting to cross to the opposite street would you discover this checkpoint upon arriving.

Just like catching drunk drivers in his previous life.

Hayashi smiled quite happily: "Good design."

The public safety officer on the other side smiled apologetically: "Sorry to trouble you."

"No trouble at all."

Of course Hayashi was an honest person, a law-abiding citizen.

He passed through the security gate.

The security gate didn't give any alerts either.

Then he could leave like any normal person.

Everyone else had to pass through here.

"I remember these gates weren't supposed to appear until much later, but they've already been developed now."

This gate was a detection gate developed by the CCG.

Like security screening, but it could only scan whether someone was a ghoul.

The method of detection was scanning the RC cell content in the body.

Once it exceeded the threshold, they were definitely a ghoul.

So after establishing this checkpoint.

Everyone who came up had to accept inspection - no one could escape.

If someone saw this and tried to run.

Then the 4 CCG members at the stair corners were specifically waiting for you.

What a perfect drunk driving checkpoint setup.

"Why should I!"

"Why should I be checked!"

"Get out of the way, all of you get lost!"

Hayashi had just passed the checkpoint and hadn't had time to go down the overpass.

When he heard intense cursing and resistance from behind.

He turned around.

And saw a man with red eyes, having broken down and finished cursing, refusing to go through security, turning to run!

The public safety officers saw this and quickly shouted to the CCG behind them.

"Catch him! Might be a ghoul!"

Seeing that ghoul's condition and strength.

Of the 4 CCG members, only two came out.

Two quinque cases opened, two weapons were drawn, and they said to the fleeing person:

"Surrender. If you're not a ghoul, we'll let you leave."

"Are you kidding me!" the fleeing man shouted angrily.

Seeing they were CCG members.

He stopped pretending, directly transformed into a ghoul, opened his black-red eyes, and prepared to fight.

"It's a ghoul!"

"Run quickly!"

The surrounding humans saw this and immediately started fleeing.

Public safety officers waved their hands: "Come over here! Quickly!"

The crowd ran.

Hayashi leaned against the railing eating melons.

He wasn't watching the ordinary people - he was watching the battle over there.

That ghoul was a bikaku type.

A thin, small kagune extended from his back.

The CCG on the side assessed the strength.

And decisively analyzed: "C-rank or B-rank, the other team doesn't need to join."

Then they started fighting.

Coordination between CCG members was all practiced.

Even the quinque in their hands were partially matched for cooperation.

So this ghoul couldn't even last 3 minutes.

Didn't even have a chance to run.

He was caught by the CCG.

Now pressed to the ground, the ghoul's kagune had been cut off.

His face was pressed to the ground by the CCG member's knee.

Glaring with black-red pupils, knowing he'd either spend his whole life in prison or die, tears poured out.

While still cursing loudly.

"I just wanted to be human, what did I do wrong!"

"I've been hungry for half a month, going to work and working overtime every day, even survival is a problem!"

"And you still want to catch me, I don't want to die!"

The CCG glanced down, pressed harder with his foot, and said coldly:

"A ghoul is a ghoul, what nonsense are you talking."

Everyone watched coldly.

Hayashi was still watching the show - he didn't plan to intervene.

There were actually more than just this one ghoul around, and quite a few people were even filming videos.

Even fellow ghouls wouldn't save him.

Hayashi had no reason to interfere with these matters either.

Setting aside the hero complex, this world was just a mess, rotten through and through.

"Hayashi-san?"

At this time, Tohru's voice came to Hayashi's ear.

He turned to look.

Tohru was holding a bag of fruit, looking at Hayashi curiously: "What are you watching here?"

"Nothing much, watching a show."

Hayashi shook his head, stood up and prepared to leave.

"Are you out buying fruit? Where's Kanna?"

"Mm, buying fruit, Kanna also wanted to eat some." Tohru nodded, stepped forward to link arms with Hayashi and said: "Kanna is at home watching TV with Pochita."

TV...

Speaking of which, the projector still hadn't been bought.

He'd go buy it tomorrow or the day after.

"Let's go back."

"Mm."

Taking a final look at the scene.

Hayashi left with Tohru.

They walked toward the alley leading to their home.

Tohru told Hayashi about what she bought at the market that afternoon, what she did, what Kanna did, what she discovered.

Hayashi also chatted about the Eternity Devil incident that afternoon.

Hearing this, Tohru immediately pouted: "Hayashi-san, that was a bit dangerous. You should have called me."

"Don't worry." Hayashi rubbed Tohru's head: "I only did it because I was confident. I wouldn't do dangerous things."

Hearing this, Tohru felt relieved.

The two walked to the alley entrance.

But then discovered someone at the alley entrance holding up a sign for shop promotion.

Sign promotion was very common in Japan.

Most were shop employees and temporary workers.

The sign simply read: "New Shop Opening, Coffee Discount."

Hayashi looked up and saw that a new coffee shop had opened at the alley entrance.

"Haha, someone's here to compete with Anteiku's business."

Seemed like Anteiku's business was too good.

Others thought it looked promising and opened shops too.

But Anteiku really had the skills.

The coffee brewed by Yoshimura and Irimi was truly good.

And they didn't aim for too much profit, willing to use better coffee beans.

But none of this was important.

What was important was.

The person doing the promotion.

She was a girl with purple short hair, blue-green pupils, and a purple silk choker around her neck.

She had many similarities to Kirishima Touka, but was more lively.

Seeing that Hayashi seemed interested in the shop.

She stepped forward to promote:

"New shop opening, coffee discount. Want to try some?"

Tohru looked at Hayashi.

Hayashi thought about it and nodded: "Please give us three cups."

Just helping Anteiku taste-test whether the competition had any real skills.

"Okay~!"

Hearing the order.

She immediately went happily into the shop and told the people inside they needed three cups of coffee.

Then she came back out saying it would be ready in a moment.

Hayashi glanced at her, then turned back to chat with Tohru.

And this girl - he knew exactly who she was.

Wasn't this the devil hunter Makima had mentioned?

After a while.

The coffee was packaged and delivered to Hayashi's hands.

And she also said some pleasant words.

"Your coffee is ready, handsome customer. I'm called Reze. May I ask your name?"

Hayashi took the coffee: "Hayashi."

"See you later~"

"See you."

Hayashi paid and went back with Tohru.

Reze watched Hayashi's back as he turned the corner into the alley.

Then turned back to continue promoting with the sign on the street.

After returning to the shop.

Tohru took the peaches she bought to the kitchen to wash.

Hayashi placed the coffee on the table for Tohru and Kanna to drink.

Then took a cup himself and went to the yard to check on the sunflowers.

After a day and a half of growth.

The sunflower leaves had grown larger.

The flower buds on top had also grown from ping-pong ball size to apple size.

"They're almost reaching maturity." Hayashi sighed.

If they continued growing like this, they'd be basketball-sized.

By then they'd be mature and could start producing sunflower seeds.

"So fast." Hayashi estimated: "No wonder the description said they produce seeds every three days. At this speed, they also take three days to grow up, then another three days to produce seeds."

Growing up in three days - if they weren't monsters, this would be impossible.

Hayashi encouraged them: "Keep it up, children. When you need magic water, remember to wave your leaves."

Hearing Hayashi's encouragement.

The sunflowers indeed swayed their bodies, indicating they understood.

"Good, good."

Hayashi nodded with satisfaction.

At this time, Tohru came out with a cup of coffee. She took a sip, then frowned beautifully and asked Hayashi:

"Hayashi-san, what do you think of the taste?"

Hayashi looked down and took a sip of the new shop's coffee.

As soon as the coffee entered his mouth, Hayashi could taste its level and cost-effectiveness.

"Out of 100 points, with 60 being passing, this coffee is at most 70 points, cost-effectiveness maybe 75 points."

It looked decent and could normally stay in business.

Tohru asked further: "What about Anteiku?"

"Anteiku's coffee gets 85 points, cost-effectiveness around 80 points."

Calculated this way, it was almost a crushing victory.

Whether coffee tastes good or not, coffee beans account for 70% of the reason.

The remaining 30% are human-controllable factors like machines and techniques.

So the final conclusion.

This new shop might survive, but wouldn't make much money. Compared to Anteiku, it was far too uncompetitive.

Not only were the techniques poor and coffee beans inferior.

Even the cost-effectiveness wasn't good.

Hayashi quickly finished the coffee without wasting it, then threw it in the trash.

Seeing Hayashi finish the coffee before throwing it away.

Tohru was a bit confused: "If it didn't taste good, why did Hayashi-san finish it?"

Previously Tohru had watched videos about chefs.

The chefs in them were all very proud, throwing food they thought didn't taste good directly into the trash without touching a bite.

But Hayashi shook his head and answered casually:

"No matter what food it is, even if it doesn't taste good, before I decide to try it, however it is doesn't matter - wasting it or throwing it away is fine, it's not my business."

"But food I decide to try, even if it tastes bad, I have to finish it."

"Unless it's poisonous or harmful."

Simply put, food he hadn't eaten - however it was wasted by anyone didn't matter to him.

But food he decided to eat, even if it tasted bad, had to be finished.

This was a matter of attitude.

His own choice couldn't be wasted.

Tohru said "Oh~" indicating she understood.

"Hayashi-san is very responsible."

"You can think of it that way."

Hayashi returned to the restaurant and began preparing ingredients for opening.

Looking at the time.

It was already 5:30 PM.

At this time, chatting voices came from the alley entrance.

Tohru came back from the door saying: "Hayashi-san, many customers have come. The previous Public Safety Division squad is all here."

"Also Tooka and Rikka."

Today's customers came in groups.

Hayashi nodded: "Then it'll be busy. Get ready."

"Mm!"

As the customers arrived.

Power was the first to rush in, heading straight for the kitchen.

"Hayashi! I want meat!!"

Hayashi had anticipated this. With a wave of his hand, the kitchen door was automatically sealed with thin strings - you could see but not pass through.

Power clung to the strings, looking in, muttering:

"I almost died! That devil couldn't be killed at all. Good thing you and Makima saved us. Wuu wuu wuu, I'm so hungry, lost so much blood, waaa~~~!"

Power wailed but no tears were seen.

Hayashi was helpless and took out a box of cookies to hand over.

"Here, here, here. Fill your stomach and get lost."

"Okay~"

Seeing food in hand, Power squeezed out two tears, wiped them, and left with the cookies.

But Power's reminder made Hayashi suddenly remember.

He had just eaten the Eternity Devil's core heart and Gun Devil flesh fragments.

How did the Eternity Devil's abilities work again?

It seemed like after defining a space.

He could control time and space within that area. Could he control time?

"Seems like yes, time inside the building seemed to stop."

The Eternity Devil's specific requirement was definitely within a defined space.

The smaller the space, the easier to control.

The larger the space, like going outside, the harder to control.

So Hayashi first covered the entire kitchen.

"Let's try space first."

Hayashi held a knife in his right hand and threw it toward the right wall.

Whoosh.

The moment the knife touched the wall, it went directly through without any obstruction.

At the same time, Hayashi extended his left hand and gripped the air.

That knife shot out from the left wall and was caught by his left hand in mid-air by the handle.

Right hand threw the knife, left hand caught it.

If a battle happened in this room, any attack Hayashi made could potentially come at the opponent from various angles.

From below, above, behind, between the legs cough cough.

"Not bad." Hayashi looked at the knife: "I've played this game before. Isn't this Portal?"

With his Portal speedrun skills, couldn't he easily master this spatial ability?

See, he knew playing games was useful!

Look at you not playing games properly as a child, only knowing how to study.

After testing the spatial ability.

Hayashi prepared to cook: "Now let's see how the time ability works."

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