Noticing her mother's displeasure, Yang Nai changed the subject.
“Sister, were you talking to Boss Xia on the phone? Where is he selling his dumplings now?”
“Brother Xia doesn't sell dumplings anymore. Now his two employees sell them.”
“Oh, no wonder Uncle Kazami bought some dumplings the other day that were a bit off. The new employees haven't mastered the heat control like Boss Xia.” Yang Nai said with a sigh. “So Boss Xia isn't running a stall anymore?”
“Yeah, Brother Xia is selling fried rice this week.”
“Fried rice, huh? It's a bit greasy, but Boss Xia's cooking won't disappoint. Have Uncle Kazami buy some tomorrow.”
“You won't get any!”
“How come? Isn't he in Tokyo? I'd even go out of my way to try something so delicious.”
Yang Nai was still very interested in Xia. He didn't want to offend him, and his skills were worth befriending.
“Brother Xia went to Fukushima Far East Tokyo to sell fried rice this week.”
Yukino's Mother: ???
Yukino: ???
“Where?”
For a moment, Mrs. Yukinoshita doubted if she had heard correctly or if her daughter was playing a joke on her.
Are the people above Fukushima not dead yet?
Who in their right mind would set up a stall there? It's a problem getting there.
“The country that was sealed off and became independent.”
“Impossible. Even if Boss Xia is crafty, the whole world has sealed that place off. He wouldn't be able to get through the strict ban.”
“If you encounter a mountain, you open a path. If you encounter water, you build a boat. Normal people can't sneak in, but what if they're not normal people?” Yukino took a deep breath and said seriously, “Mom, do you know that this world isn't an ordinary world?”
“??? ”
“This world has ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and even superpowers.”
“What are you talking about?”
Mrs. Yukinoshita was dumbfounded by her daughter's words.
Was her daughter possessed?
She was talking nonsense early in the morning.
Seeing her mother and sister's reactions, Yukinoshita sighed. Their family's rise was still too recent, at the stage of transitioning from business to politics. They didn't know about some of the top-level information.
Yukino organized her words and spoke seriously to the two women:
“Mom, I was captured by a ghoul human trafficker a few days ago. It was Xia-kun who saved me. Ghouls are a kind of man-eating sub-human... ”
Mrs. Yukinoshita's first reaction after hearing her daughter's words was that her daughter was truly possessed.
Her second reaction was, no, her daughter had been kidnapped, how could she not know.
Thinking about it, she glared sternly at her eldest daughter: “Yang Nai, what's going on?”
Yang Nai was looking her sister up and down, her body stiffened at the sound of her mother's voice.
“Mom, I only know that my sister briefly appeared in the dangerous area of the stable district. When I called her later, she said she was fine... ”
Yukino suddenly blushed, the call that night nearly revealed her secret. “No, sister, you located my phone.”
“Yukino, don't worry about the phone for now. Continue.”
Mrs. Yukinoshita had realized that things weren't simple. Since Yukino had appeared in the dangerous area, maybe she had really seen the so-called ghouls.
Her train of thought interrupted, Yukino momentarily forgot what she was going to say. She simply put her hand on the sofa and directly demonstrated the power of her Ice-Ice Fruit.
At first, Mrs. Yukinoshita was completely baffled, but the next second, the sofa turned into a frozen throne. She only glanced at it, and her entire body froze solid.
This... this... what in the world... her daughter had turned into a snow woman?
Is this what you call a ghost in the world? Did your daughter turn into a ghost after she died?
Mrs. Yukinoshita widened her eyes, her mind went blank as she stared blankly at her younger daughter.
Mrs. Yukinoshita, who managed a company worth billions, considered herself to have seen a lot of things, and had encountered all kinds of situations, but today her younger daughter had given her a lesson. She had never seen anything like this before.
For a while, Mrs. Yukinoshita couldn't even comprehend what she was seeing.
What exactly was she seeing?
Yang Nai was also dumbfounded.
She shivered and touched the icy sofa hesitantly.
Is it real?
In a flash, her sister had frozen such a large sofa.
After an unknown amount of time.
Yang Nai's gaze finally shifted from the icy sofa, and she hesitantly raised her head to look at her sister in front of her, wanting to speak, but for a long time she didn't know what to say.
“Yukino, what is this?” It was finally her mother who spoke.
“The power of the Ice-Ice Fruit. Xia-kun has some things called Devil Fruits. After eating one, you gain various unbelievable abilities. I ate the Ice-Ice Fruit, and I can freeze an entire sea in an instant, or do this... ”
Before she could finish, Yukino turned her right hand into an ice blade and stabbed it into her chest.
“Yukino!”
Mrs. Yukinoshita rushed to Yukino's side, anxiously looking at her chest.
“Mom, look, I'm fine.”
Under Mrs. Yukinoshita's shocked gaze, the large hole in Yukino's chest quickly healed, without a single drop of blood on the ground.
“The power of the fruit allows me to elementalize, making me immune to all physical harm.”
Mrs. Yukinoshita didn't say anything, she let go of her daughter weakly.
Is this still the world I know??
At this moment.
She fell into unparalleled bewilderment.
The house was silent.
After a long time, Mrs. Yukinoshita took a deep breath with great difficulty, straightened her posture, and tried to regain her stern motherly demeanor.
She knew that those who could live in the Tenshu閣 villa were not ordinary people, but they couldn't be so extraordinary. Eating a fruit and gaining superpowers is simply absurd.
Looking at her younger daughter again, this time she seemed to notice something different in her brows. Had her daughter grown up?
“Yukino, tell me, what's the real reason you came back this time?”
Facing her mother's strange gaze, Yukino was still a little apprehensive when it came to revealing everything.
“Mom, I'm Xia-kun's person now. I came back this time to get your support... ”
“What?” Yang Nai was dumbfounded. How did her sister grow up so quickly? She hasn't even…
Mrs. Yukinoshita was prepared for this scenario. She had even imagined this situation before.
“Someone like that, what can we help you with?”
Yukino shook her head and said softly, “Mom, Xia-kun is very lazy. He doesn't usually need help from others. This time, the situation is like this... So I'm giving you a heads-up. If something similar happens in the future, I hope you'll support me.”
After hearing Yukino's explanation, Mrs. Yukinoshita tapped her younger daughter's head disapprovingly. “You're foolish. We, the Yukinoshita family, could handle this incident with a little effort, but you're unnecessarily making a big enemy for ourselves.”
“Mom, actually, it's good this way. Xia-kun is very powerful. I can't deal with him.” Yukino mumbled, her voice getting quieter and quieter.
“You, you!”
Mrs. Yukinoshita was speechless. Then she looked at her eldest daughter's bun and then her younger daughter's unremarkable appearance, sighing. It's not easy being her younger daughter.
“With such a foolish daughter, I doubt you're even my own. Let's arrange a meeting with Xia-kun.”
As a mother, she needed to know Xia's attitude towards her daughter. As the actual controller of the family, she didn't want to miss this opportunity.
With those superpowers, the family's power could potentially reach new heights.
This younger daughter was truly a big surprise.
#@#@
On the other side,
Rentaro was eating egg fried rice and curiously asked Chizuru.
“Chizuru, where did all the original organisms in the forest go? Did you kill them?”
“Not me, it was Little You-nee,” Chizuru pointed to Little You, who was helping to tidy up the stall, and explained to the two; “Little You-nee is very powerful. She killed all these original organisms in one go. Otherwise, I might have died here.”
“Is there such a big cursed child?” Rentaro looked at Little You, with an expression of disbelief on his face.
As everyone knows, the original organisms appeared 10 years ago. The biggest cursed child is only 10 years old. Looking at Little You's size, you're telling me she's 10 years old?
However, these people shouldn't be bad people. They killed the monsters and saved Chizuru.
“I remember, did you pass by the abandoned building? There's still some leftover fried rice...”
“Kansuke-nii, the boss said he encountered Kansuke-nii, is he okay?” Chizuru suddenly became excited.
Rentaro was silent.