Chapter 282: My Precious ATM!
Toyosu Market consists of four main functional areas—
The Wholesale Seafood Mediation Area, the Wholesale Seafood Trading Area, the Fruit and Vegetable Trading Area, and the Comprehensive Service Area.
Led by Yurine, Ryohei Tanaka and the others arrived at the Comprehensive Service Area. There were 40 restaurants gathered here, with multilingual guidance facilities everywhere along the way.
Since it was lunchtime, business was excellent in every restaurant. The group walked past more than twenty shops and waited for a while before finally getting to eat sushi.
Ryohei Tanaka ordered himself an 'Omakase' set—a menu decided by the chef based on the day's freshest ingredients. Although more expensive, it offered the best flavor experience.
Overall, Ryohei Tanaka enjoyed his meal.
When it was time to get up and pay—
"Holy crap! Just how much did you eat!?"
Ryohei Tanaka stared wide-eyed in shock at Jashin-chan's stomach, which looked like she was ten months pregnant.
"I ate five 'Omakase' sets!"
The greedy Jashin-chan grinned and proudly listed off her feast:
"I also added two pieces of Akami (lean tuna), Chutoro (medium-fat tuna), and Otoro (fatty tuna), one piece each of Sea Urchin, Sweet Shrimp, and Surf Clam sushi, two pieces of Wagyu Beef sushi, one piece of Seared Salmon sushi, and two servings of Hokkaido Sea Urchin + Salmon Roe Donburi sushi..."
As she was speaking enthusiastically, Jashin-chan suddenly covered her mouth, her whole face scrunching up instantly, and squeezed out a sentence to Medusa with difficulty:
"Medusa, quick! Go buy me some digestive medicine! I overate..."
"Buy your ass!"
Ryohei Tanaka retorted grumpily at Jashin-chan, then turned to Medusa and instructed:
"Medusa, ignore her. Just let her suffer!"
"You really deserve it! ( ≖_≖) !"
Yurine looked at Jashin-chan speechlessly. Sometimes she really couldn't understand her thought process.
Even if someone had water in their brain, they wouldn't do something like this, right?
"Serves you right!"
Persephone II stood aside with her hands behind her back, adding insult to injury and kicking the dog while it was down.
Minos put one hand on her hip, squinted her eyes at Jashin-chan, speechless and puzzled:
"If you can't eat anymore, then don't eat. Why torture yourself?"
She wasn't a child anymore!
Stuffing herself like this was simply ridiculous!
"She's literally full to bursting... Pfft—!"
As soon as Yurine finished speaking, she amused herself first, covering her mouth as her shoulders shook uncontrollably with laughter.
"That is indeed the case."
Persephone II was amused hearing this, her smile becoming even brighter.
"So, taking more than you need isn't always a good thing!" Lucoa raised a slender white finger and said meaningfully.
"..." Yurine looked at her ( ﹁ ﹁ ), feeling like there was a hidden meaning in her words!
Was it an illusion?
"Mmh."
At this moment, Medusa hesitated and gave a hum of acknowledgment to Ryohei Tanaka.
Jashin-chan asked for her help, and she wanted to help.
However, since coming to the human world, she had been staying at Ryohei Tanaka's place at night and was well taken care of by him.
Now that Ryohei Tanaka had spoken, Medusa naturally had to give him face.
On the other hand—
Medusa also felt that Jashin-chan deserved it. She had tried to persuade her earlier, but Jashin-chan ignored her.
Letting her suffer a bit and learn a lesson seemed like a good idea...
"Medusa, you've changed!"
Jashin-chan completely ignored everyone else's opinions, her attention focused solely on Medusa.
Seeing Medusa obey Ryohei Tanaka and ignore her, she was instantly devastated and saddened... but mostly angry!
"Medusa, you actually betrayed me! (ꐦ°᷄д°᷅)!"
"Eh? I didn't!"
Being labeled a traitor out of the blue, Medusa was startled and hurriedly waved her hands.
"You still say you didn't!"
The scummy snake was furious. Just as she was about to continue, Yurine couldn't stand it anymore and slapped the back of her head:
"Stop bullying Medusa all the time!"
"I didn't bully her!" Jashin-chan stumbled from the slap, clutching her stomach, and rambled on with a pained expression:
"As friends, shouldn't you be willing to take a knife in the ribs for each other? I didn't even ask her to stab herself twice, just to help me buy some digestive medicine, and she actually listened to the vassal's instigation and refused to buy it for me! What kind of friend is that!"
"...Does 'taking a knife in the ribs for a friend' mean stabbing yourself twice?"
Ryohei Tanaka, who had collected everyone's bills and was paying, tried to hold back but couldn't help retorting.
"That's not important!" Jashin-chan waved her hand dismissively.
"..." Medusa was truly hurt now. She didn't expect Jashin-chan to think she wasn't a good enough friend just because of this.
She felt wronged to death in her heart, looking at Jashin-chan with teary eyes, revealing an expression as if she was about to cry.
"..." Seeing her reaction, the scummy snake felt a pang of guilt. Her mouth twitched, but in the end, she turned her head away to look elsewhere.
She wasn't good at apologizing sincerely to people—!
"You really are scum!"
Yurine looked at Medusa and couldn't help scolding Jashin-chan.
Ryohei Tanaka finished paying the bill, put away his wallet, looked at Jashin-chan with the gaze reserved for kitchen waste, and said with disgust:
"It's your blessing that Medusa is willing to be your friend! What you said just now was too much; you'd better apologize to her."
"That's right!" Persephone II agreed strongly, and Minos felt the same.
However, the scummy snake couldn't bring herself to do it. She huffed and didn't apologize.
"..."
"I'm going back to the Demon World!"
As the group left the sushi restaurant, Medusa suddenly dropped a low sentence, then rushed out quickly without looking back.
"Look at what you've done!" Minos glared unhappily at Jashin-chan, who was frozen in place, watching the direction where Medusa disappeared.
"Just keep acting up!"
Yurine gave Jashin-chan a side-eye.
"Burp—!"
Jashin-chan suddenly covered her mouth, her cheeks bulging, and then lowered her head and vomited violently.
"Eek—!"
Persephone II shrieked and subconsciously jumped away. Ryohei Tanaka and the others also took a step back in unison to distance themselves.
"Blegh! Ret—! Waah—!"
The scummy snake bent over, vomiting several times, then raised her head with tears and snot running down her face, looking in the direction Medusa left, and sobbed:
"Medusa..."
"I said something terrible! My most important... ATM!"
"..."
The air suddenly went quiet!
The expressions on everyone's faces—whether disgust, displeasure, or helplessness—froze at this moment, finally turning into an unparalleled speechlessness triggered by Jashin-chan's bone-deep "scumminess"!
Even Petra's face showed a hint of speechlessness!
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