"I'm sorry, Senior Yushan, I just fell asleep and may not have answered the call."
"Have I disturbed your rest? Do you want to sleep a little longer?" asked Yushan Heren.
"No, no, I've rested enough." Domama shook her head.
"Then let's go out for dinner. I know a restaurant that serves delicious salads." Yushan Kazuto said with a smile.
"Salad? Sure!"
After taking a sip of silk stocking milk tea at noon, Tsuchiya Mai hasn't recovered yet and just wants to eat something refreshing. Salad is just what she wants.
"By the way, what did you mean by scumbag?" Yushan Heren suddenly asked as they walked out the door.
"No, nothing, it's a Kansai accent, a Kansai accent!"
……
Looking at the long and thin barbecue in front of her, somehow, Doma Mai always thought of the stockings in the milk tea and didn't dare to pick up her chopsticks.
"Senior Yushan, didn't you say you wanted a salad?"
"Barbecue with salad dressing, isn't it delicious?" asked Yushan Kazuto.
Thinking of the taste of salad dressing, Doma Mai couldn't help but associate it with the salty and fishy taste of milk tea, and suddenly felt nauseous.
"Senior Yushan, I just want to eat fruit and vegetable salad right now."
Yushan Kazuto looked at Doma Mai and felt like he had seen a ghost. Could it be that Doma Mai really liked to eat things like salad and soba noodles?
Looking at Doma Mai who was enjoying the fruit salad with a satisfied look on her face, Yushan Kazuto had to admit that he might have been wrong.
[How about going to a vegetarian restaurant with Umi Doma these days? 】
[Doma Ohira, it seems that I can't spend all the 20,000 yen you gave me. ]
……
on Tuesday.
"The junior school girl from the neighbor's house?" After listening to Yushan Kazuto's introduction, Kato Megumi turned her head and asked expressionlessly.
Yushan Heren suddenly felt a chill on his forehead, as if the word "death" was engraved on his forehead.
"Well, her brother is on a business trip this week and asked me to help take care of her. Actually, all I need to do is provide her with dinner." Yushan Heren said unhappily.
"Dinner?" Kato Hui turned her head and said, "Sure, how about cooking at home?"
"Cooking at home?"
To be honest, Yushan Kazuto was not very happy about it. Although cooking by himself was tastier and healthier, it was a waste of time! However, since Kato Megumi asked, Yushan Kazuto had to agree.
"Okay, can we go grocery shopping after school?"
"Okay, I'll just take you, Yushan, to visit the biggest mall nearby!"
……
Itono Supermarket.
Walking in the fresh produce area, Yushan Kazuto's shopping cart was filled with vegetables.
"Waruto, why did you buy all vegetables?" Kato Megumi said with some confusion as she looked at the ingredients in the shopping cart.
"Doma Ohira told me that his sister likes to eat vegetables, whole grains and other things."
"Really? Are you trying to control your figure?" Kato Hui looked up and said, "How about Yushan, you buy a carp and make sweet and sour carp again."
"Sweet and sour carp, okay."
When we got to the aquatic area, we found that the carp were sold out and the remaining fish were all sea fish, which were not suitable for making sweet and sour fish.
"Well, no more." Kato Megumi felt a little regretful. The sweet and sour carp made by Yushan Kazuto was still something she could not forget.
"Although there are no carp, I just found some good things." Yushan Heren pushed the shopping cart back.
"Green pepper?" Looking at the long and pointed pepper in Yushan Kazuto's hand, Kato Megumi couldn't help but frowned.
"This is a special variety of green pepper, not the round pepper we usually eat." Yushan Kazuto smiled and put it into the shopping cart.
"Is there any difference?" Kato Megumi asked puzzledly.
"This type of green pepper has a thinner skin and looks more like a hot pepper, but its spiciness is similar to that of an ordinary green pepper, and it doesn't have the fiery flavor of a hot pepper."
"Hmm." Kato Megumi shook her head, not quite understanding.
"You'll know after I finish cooking." Yushan Heren laughed.
The dish he was going to cook was a traditional Sichuan dish - tiger skin green peppers!
"I didn't expect that they even have bean paste and Lao Gan Ma here." After another round of shopping, Yushan Heren found two more treasures. "It's worthy of being the largest shopping mall around here."
"Hey, they don't look very healthy." Kato Megumi said, tilting her head.
……
"Ding dong."
The doorbell rang at home, and Tujian frowned:
[It will take a few days for my brother to come home. I don’t want to eat coarse grains and vegetables every day! ]
On Sunday, Doma Mei had a poor appetite and just wanted to eat something light. Unexpectedly, Yushan Kazuto misunderstood her and thought that she only liked vegetables. He even took her to a vegetarian restaurant on Monday!
Tsuchima Mai reluctantly turned off the game console, straightened her clothes, calmed down her emotions, and then opened the door: "Senior Yushan, eat..."
A girl with short hair stood at the door: "Junior Doma, Kazuto asked me to come and call you for dinner."
[Another girl I've never seen before! What a lousy scumbag senior! ]
"Oh, oh, okay, what's your name, senior?"
"Kato Megumi."
"Okay, Senior Kato, would you like to have dinner at Senior Yuyama's house today?" asked Mai Doma obediently.
"Yes, it's really exciting to see Kazuto cooking personally." Kato Megumi nodded, but Doma Mai remembered the cookie that almost broke her front teeth.
[The scumbag senior cooks for me personally, should I make an appointment with the dentist in advance? 】
"Let's go together." Kato Megumi looked at Tsuchima Mai and inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity.
Chapter 155: You'll regret it if you don't eat it, but you'll regret it even more if you eat it
"By the way, Junior-chan Doma, have we met somewhere before?" Kato Megumi suddenly said as they reached the door.
"No, right? Senior Kato." Domama Mai looked at Kato Megumi and really couldn't remember when she had seen Kato Megumi.
"I seem to have seen you in Odaiba about half a month ago." Kato Megumi calmly took off her shoes and walked in.
"Maybe, maybe you remembered it wrongly, Kato-senpai." Although she said this, Domama's heart started beating fast.
[Odaiba, was it the NervGear launch? I remember the scumbag senior brought four girls with him, was Kato-senpai also there? ]
No matter how hard Tsuchima Mai tried to recall, she had no memories of Kato Megumi.
[No, even if Kato-senpai was there, how did she recognize me? I was a UMR at the time!]
"Did you remember it wrong? Probably." Kato Megumi just mentioned it casually without thinking deeply about it. She helped Tsuchima get a pair of slippers and walked into the kitchen.
Tsuchiya breathed a sigh of relief, walked in, and looked around.
[It’s much bigger than my brother’s apartment. ]
Although they are all one-bedroom apartments, there are differences between them.
The layout design of Shinmachi Apartment is a 1+3 structure. Each staircase is a large house with three small houses. The area of the large house is only slightly smaller than the area of the three small houses combined.
It’s not that it was designed like this intentionally. The reason is that when it was originally an office building, the plan of a large work area with small offices has been continued.
This is also an important reason why few people are interested in Shinmachi Apartments despite their affordable prices. So far, there are only two residents on the floor of Hayama Kazuto and Hayama Kazuto and the Doma siblings.
Although they had been neighbors for a week, this was the first time that Yui Doma stepped into Kazuto Hayama's home.
[85-inch Sony TV! How cool it would be to play games while lying on the lazy sofa! ]
[How much Coke can be stored in a 600-liter four-door Mitsubishi refrigerator! ]
[Hey, IBM's floor-standing air conditioner, the breathing light is so cool! But what does the scumbag senior need two refrigerators for? Wait! When did IBM make refrigerators? ]
[Two NervGears, thrown in the corner like decorations! Wait, there's a computer with a 3090sli graphics card in the corner! ]
"Meow~"
Xiaoxue walked over and looked at Domama, the new human who had entered her territory, with some curiosity.
"Is this the Xiaoxue that Senior Yushan mentioned?" Doma Mai squatted down and looked at Xiaoxue with a smile.
"Yes. Xiaoxue, lie down!" Kato Megumi also squatted down.
Xiaoxue stretched out her four legs, lay straight on the ground, and stretched.
"Why is a tabby cat called Xiaoxue?" asked Domama Mai curiously.
Before Kato Megumi could explain, Yushan Kazuto had already cooked the dishes: "It's time to eat."
Looking at the colorful vegetables on the table, Doma's expression was very complicated and uncertain.
The only consolation was a plate of squid tempura, which was bought only after Kato Megumi insisted.
"I'm gonna start now!"
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"Try this." While eating, no one except Yushan Heren had touched the tiger-skin green peppers on the table. Yushan Heren pointed and said.
"Green peppers?" Domama showed a look of disgust. If she could barely stomach other dishes, then she absolutely could not accept green peppers.
"Sorry, Senior Yushan, I, I'm afraid of spicy food."
Yushan Kazuto looked at her with some suspicion. It seemed that you were not afraid of spicy food when you ate curry that day. But he didn't say anything. He turned to look at Kato Hui and said, "Hui, tiger skin green pepper, try it."
"Tiger-skin peppers?" Kato Megumi took a closer look and saw that the fried peppers were covered with black spots, but it seemed a bit far-fetched to say that they were the black stripes on a tiger.
"I think it's more like seal pepper!" Kato Megumi picked up a piece and took a careful bite. The pepper entangled her tongue, and in just a moment, she was conquered by the taste of tiger pepper.
[Sure enough, if you don’t force Yushan, you won’t know how many good things he has hidden. ]
The improved green pepper has the advantages of thin and tender flesh of sharp pepper, and also inherits the sweetness and subtle spiciness of ordinary green pepper. When stir-fried, the bitterness of the green pepper is completely hidden, leaving only the perfect sweetness and spiciness. It makes your lips and teeth water as soon as you put it in your mouth, and you can't stop eating!
As they ate, they barely touched the other dishes on the table, but almost finished the big bowl of tiger skin green peppers.
[Is it really that delicious? ]
While eating squid tempura and looking at Hayama Kazuto and Kato Megumi, Doma Mai suddenly had the idea of trying some tiger peppers.
[No, no, that won't work. Green peppers are bitter and astringent, and can only supplement vitamins! ]
Tsuchiya Mai quickly shook her head to drive the thought out of her mind.
"Tsuchima-san, this is the last green pepper. Please try it."
Kato Megumi put down her chopsticks, and there was only one small piece of tiger-skin green pepper left in the full bowl.
"It's okay, Kato-senpai, I, I'm afraid of spicy food." Domama shook her head.
"It's not too spicy, just a little spicier than Thai curry." Kato Megumi said, "If you don't eat it, you may regret it for a long time!"
Tsuchiya blinked and said, "Then I'll try it."
The taste of green pepper is completely different from boiled green pepper.
It exploded in the earth, causing her to cover her cheeks and shout in enjoyment: "Mmm~"
After noticing the strange look from Yushan Kazuto, Doma Mai quickly resumed her good schoolgirl demeanor and said, "Senior Yushan, is this really a green pepper? Why does it taste completely different from the green peppers I usually eat?"
"No, this is made of tiger skin, but it's made to look like a green pepper."
There was some resentment in Domama's eyes. Yushan Kazuto was treating her as a fool.
[This happened more than once! You scumbag senior! Last time, you even tricked me into thinking that NervGear is a bicycle helmet! You lied all the time, you are a scum indeed. ]
After finishing a green pepper quickly, Domama seemed to lose the taste of other dishes. "If I eat them, I will regret it for a long time."
……
"Isn't Kato-senpai going home yet?" After walking out the door, Doma Mami turned around and looked at Kato Megumi who was packing her slippers behind her.
