Guild Boss's Ambition

Then, she bent her mouth in annoyance, leaned on me, and said coquettishly, "But, my dear Xiaolan, I have been thinking for a long time, but I can't think of what to give to Senior! Xiaolan, Xiaolan, what kind of gift do you think Senior would like? Is she practical or gorgeous?"

I thought for a moment and answered, "As for Annie, I think she is more practical, right? For example, her room is very simply decorated. Although there are some flowers and plants as decorations, overall there are not many things that are only pretty but not practical. I feel that she is a perfectionist who pursues both functionality and beauty."

"Indeed, when the senior mixes drinks, she even spends a lot of time studying how to place a coin in a cocktail──"

Gu Shan nodded in agreement.

At this time, Berlane, who had been concentrating on painting, suddenly joined our conversation and said a lot of words at once: "Sister Anne's preferences and tastes are not much different from mine, but I prefer to create, and she tends to appreciate. If you plan to give her a gift, you can try to think in this general direction."

Recalling Annie's character information, I said thoughtfully, "Sister Annie is quite elegant. Her taste is like a mixture of human and half-elf. If you really want to give her a gift, Gu Shan, you might want to try to combine the dual characteristics of nature and humanity, and at the same time, make it both practical and beautiful."

"Nature and humanity? Practicality and beauty?"

Gu Shan's face suddenly turned bitter: "Hey, hey, hey, Xiao Lan, you also know that my brain is not very useful, right? You throw this kind of problem in front of me, and in the end I can only throw the problem back to you, right?"

Her complaints left me speechless.

"Indeed, it was my mistake to let Gu Shan think about this kind of question." I reflected deeply.

"Hehe! I am very confident that I am stupid!" said Gushan Loli with her chest puffed out.

"Well, since you are so self-aware, I will offer you some advice."

I stroked Gu Shan Loli's hair with satisfaction and analyzed, "As for gifts between friends, the easiest gifts to gain favor are homemade gifts, such as scarves and woolen coats for winter, or cookies and cupcakes that can be eaten. These things are good things that can show your personal characteristics."

As soon as I finished speaking, Berlane made a far-sighted addition.

“Please don’t make food too personal.”

I reflected on it for a moment, and a chill ran down my spine. I immediately warned Gu Shan seriously, "Please don't let food become your weapon. Although love is a battle, you can't hurt your enemy in this way."

Gu Shan complained aggrievedly, "Oh my God, Xiao Lan, do you think I'm stupid enough to want to study dark cuisine? I just want to use the leaves of the evergreen tree to make a coat for Senior Annie. It's not as scary as you think."

Hearing this, I was speechless and covered my face, looking up and sighing: "Alas - in many ways, your imagination is really useless except for the occasional entertaining effect. Fortunately! Fortunately, you knew to come to discuss with us tonight, otherwise, I really don’t know what terrible things you would come up with to give to Annie..."

"Maybe it's the comfortable bear skin toilet seat?" She then expressed her subjective thoughts.

"I say, do you really want to pursue Sister Annie?" I couldn't help but be surprised.

She said seriously, "Isn't a toilet seat good? It would be great to have a warm toilet seat in the winter! Just think about it, if you don't have to touch the toilet seat that wakes you up every morning, how happy it would be? Ah~~ Actually, I've already seen one across the street, but I just don't have the spare money to buy it!"

"..."

Looking at this innocent little girl who was inexplicably scary, I pressed her shoulders solemnly and said with a heavy burden, "My dear friend Gu Shan, regarding the gift for Annie, you only need to follow my instructions. Don't try to do anything else. And you must complete all the steps of the gift making process within my sight. Do you understand?"

"So, after all, what should I give to Senior Annie?" she asked stupidly.

In response to her question, I looked towards Berlane.

Sensing my gaze, the iceberg girl, who had also been feeling uneasy, immediately uttered a word.

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75. DIY gift tutorial for poster girl (Little Blue)

(Ulu-Lannon)

Love is a disease that makes girls, already troublesome creatures, even more troublesome.

The next night when I got off work, the girl with twin ponytails was already waiting at the door of my room for me.

It was like a jaguar spotting a bell goat. As soon as she saw me, she pounced on me immediately.

"Xiao Lan, let's get started right away, shall we?"

"At least let me take a shower first, okay?"

"Okay, okay, I'll do whatever you say, I'll do whatever you say!"

With a wry smile, I brought the girl back to the room, took a quick shower, and changed into comfortable pajamas.

"Xiaolan's room has its own bathroom, that's great~~"

I wiped the water droplets from my long hair, and Gu Shan sighed with admiration. Her voice was sweet, without any impurities or jealousy. She just expressed her desire to me. Should I blame her 12-year-old innocence? Or did her parents teach her the best virtues before they died?

I privately believe that Gu Shan is in no way inferior to the wife of the previous president.

Although she is clumsy, reckless and imaginative, she is such a lovely girl──

"Based on your current performance, as long as you don't slack off and get caught, or make any serious mistakes, and live peacefully for another year or so, President Ehard will naturally arrange a larger and better room for you. At that time, you only need to redecorate the room, and you can simply bring your brothers and sisters to live in the stone house permanently. You no longer have to take a long-distance carriage home every week to visit your family."

When the girl heard the blank check written by me, a small shareholder, she immediately smiled with joy.

"Eh? Really? Really? Then Xiaolan, remember to help me speak well of you in front of the president!"

"You're only twelve years old, so don't try to learn how to use the backdoor, okay?"

I laughed and scolded her, then took out an empty kettle from under the bed and said, "Well, in fact, what Berlane suggested is not difficult to accomplish. To make a good finished product, first we need a container to hold the various materials, and then follow the instructions on this recipe book, add the appropriate amounts in sequence, and add a little special skills, and we can get the results we want."

Gu Shan, who had a keen intuition, frowned and said, "Xiao Lan, why do I always feel like you are making fun of me?"

"Are you kidding? You actually said that I, the Great Alchemist Xiaolan, was joking?"

I shook my finger arrogantly and took out my alchemy manual on the spot. I flipped open the page that I had already marked with a sticky note and said, "I will only do the following steps once. I won't do it again a second time. You have to read it carefully. If you miss it, you'll have to figure it out on your own later!"

"Yes, Master Xiaolan!" the girl with twin ponytails shouted with full of fighting spirit.

Enjoying the audience's appreciative response, I adjusted my mood, put on a serious face, and tried to suppress my laughter. I began to add the ingredients listed in the instructions into the kettle in a serious manner: "Three grams of angelica, six slices of American ginseng, seventy wolfberries, five large pieces of ordinary stone, a bowl of beef noodles, an E-level fire crystal, and of course, a bunch of our dear Mr. Weed."

"Xiao Lan, are you sure there is nothing wrong with this formula?"

It turns out that even Gushan has logic.

However, there is really nothing wrong with this recipe.

I patted my chest and said, "Gushan, I have done the most difficult part for you. All you have to do now is recite the spell written on the instruction manual, and we will get the result we want."

"Really?" She questioned, her eyebrows twitching.

"Really? If you believe it, you can try it." I answered confidently.

So, I saw the scene I wanted to see.

Our twin-tailed loli cleared her throat, put on a very embarrassing pose, pointed at the kettle on the ground, and shouted: "Heaven and earth, please help! Fairy Kira, hurry up and command──"

So stupid...

I looked so stupid back then...

Looking at Gu Shan who was speaking the shameful lines in a serious manner, I fell into deep despair.

After chanting the spell, Gu Shan asked me expectantly, "Did it work, Xiao Lan?"

I symbolically glanced at the hole in the kettle: "Uh - it's still a hellish sea inside. It seems that you don't have the talent to become a magical girl, Gu Shan. Forget it, I'll do it this time."

Sighing sadly, I picked up the kettle on the ground, walked into the bathroom, chanted the spell quietly, and then came out with the finished product.

I handed the kettle to her with a complicated expression: "Okay, it's ready, you can smell it──"

She sniffed the kettle with a complicated expression: "It smells good, but doesn't this mean that it has become the finished product that you, Xiaolan, prepared?"

"Don't worry, because I never thought that you could succeed, so I have prepared a second method a long time ago."

In fact, last night, Blanny's proposal was nothing but perfumes that ladies like. Making your own perfume is a difficult skill to master, but considering that I had worked in a cosmetics company for a few months on Earth and was then fired, during that happy time, I discussed and experimented with some DIY perfume methods with a gossipy female colleague.

Of course, I seriously suspect that the reason I was fired was because I was too close to that female colleague when I was just starting out. At the same time, I also had a male boss who had a strong sense of crisis. It was not a very pleasant experience, but at least it made me realize that humans and baboons are actually not that different. Both have a strong fighting consciousness in their genes to defend their reproductive rights.

Fortunately, in our stone house, all kinds of interpersonal relationships are still relatively simple and easy to handle.

After putting away the perfume made by alchemy, I found another set of tools from under the bed and explained, "Making perfume is a delicate job that is difficult to learn and master. It is not difficult to make something, but it takes a little experience to get the ideal smell. However, if it is you, Gu Shan, as long as the finished product does not smell too bad, then Sister Annie will surely accept your gift with pleasure."

Curiously looking at the beakers and test tubes I took out one by one, Gu Shan asked, "Where did you get these? They look so professional!"

"I borrowed all of them from your sister Bai Ye."

After the equipment, I found the materials for making perfume in the space ring, including vodka, ylang-ylang, cedar, benzoin, lemon, geranium, and other strange plants and non-plants: "Okay, there are only so many materials for now, and there are only a few kinds of scents that can be made. Let's practice today, and we will study the scents as gifts another day."

"Yeah, okay, thank you, Xiaolan!"

We spent the entire evening completely devoted to making perfume. Since we didn't have the usual industrial alcohol and other handy tools, our first few attempts ended in failure. We succeeded twice occasionally, but the scent of the perfume was either too light or too strong, or it didn't last long enough and disappeared within a few minutes.

However, failure did not dampen Gushan's enthusiasm.

"I now understand a little bit how Anne-senpai feels when she studies cocktails."

When she failed once, the girl said this.

I teased her, "You, you keep calling her Annie-senior, Annie-senior all the time, do you really like her that much?"

She pouted her lips, her face showing both anger and laughter. "Of course! Otherwise, why am I working so hard to make perfume? I'm telling you, Xiao Lan, how long are you going to doubt my love for you? Are you reluctant to let me leave you alone and successfully break away from being single? Don't worry! Even if I have a senior, I will not forget my friendship for the sake of beauty. I will definitely remember you as my friend!"

I immediately gave her a gentle smile and said, "If you keep talking nonsense, I won't help you make perfume."

The girl performed shameless squatting stunts on the spot.

"I am ignorant, Master Xiaolan, please forgive me, okay?"

As I added the solution to the beaker, I said, "This level of apology is completely insincere."

"Do I really have to expose my breasts when I apologize?" the girl said thoughtfully.

"If you want me to see your breasts, you might as well accept your apology unconditionally." I said sneerly.

Hearing this, the girl with twin ponytails diluted the perfume under my guidance while complaining unwillingly, "Hey, hey, hey! Is it necessary to attack my weakness like this? And isn't your size exactly the same as mine?"

"As for breasts, I actually hope they are as small as possible. It's not convenient to move around with two lumps of fat on my body, and there is a possibility that they will sag when I get older. It's scary to think about it." As a mysterious elf with a male heart and a female body, Gu Shan's attacks have no effect on me. To be honest, the most important thing about breasts is not the size, but the shape of the breasts that complement the body shape!

"Alas, why do young people nowadays lack dreams?..."

Hearing my casual words, Gu Shan touched his round little chin and sighed in a stern manner.

In order to avoid being dragged into the topic of breasts by Gu Shan, I stirred the bath gel that had been added with all the ingredients, pretending to be nonchalant and asked the girl a question that she must be very interested in: "Oh, you just said that you can understand a little bit of how Sister Annie feels when she mixes drinks. What kind of feeling is that?"

As expected, as soon as Sister Annie was mentioned, this human loli who was completely fascinated by the half-elf immediately perked up, with admiration in her eyes──

“That is a feeling full of love. Because she loves every guest of Stone House, Senior Annie always makes every cocktail taste meticulous. Only with a loving attitude can we not have any perfunctory attitude when creating, and do our best to take care of every detail of the work.”

"Maybe, love can really make a person grow..."

Looking at the ancient mountain with its face filled with spring breeze, I sighed silently in my heart and a knowing smile appeared on my lips.

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76. My Fight (Annie)

(Anne Princeton)

The world is changing bit by bit in time, and the melody of life occasionally has some unpredictable variations. After more than two years of calm and patience, my anthropophobia has finally reached a warning line on the verge of overflowing. Because of the stimulation of Gu Shan, I began to face my fear, and my fear also began to face my resistance.

It started to intensify on me.

"Miss Anne, please give me a cup of Morning Star and a strawberry smoothie."

A young human girl came to me with a smile on her face. She was an adventurer from our stone house and a frequent visitor here. Her name seemed to be Ifen. She was an excellent silver-level shooter. The feather military cap she wore on her head all year round and the cute freckles on her face were her unique symbols. She liked to drink my wine, and I also liked to make cocktails for her.

I used to be able to receive her normally.

But now, even though the relationship between us is just that of waiter and customer, my hands can't help shaking.

Yifen is an archer with sharp eyes: "Miss Anne, is your hand okay?"

I accepted her concern with a smile and pretended to be relaxed: "It's okay, it's just that I was a little sleepy last night and now I have a little anemia. I think I will be fine as long as I go home and rest for a while after get off work. Thank you for your concern."

"In order to continue to drink your wine in the future, you must take good care of yourself!"

As an outsider and a guest, Yifen did not ask any further questions. After I gave her the morning star and smoothie, she took them to the storyteller to listen to stories. Such plots have appeared at least a hundred times in this night filled with the human breath, and it made it impossible for me to relax.

If I hadn't been trying to suppress it with my reason, I would have screamed long ago.

This is my fight.

And the contact with the guests was just a warm-up before close combat with the real strong enemies.

"Gushan..."

In the past few days, this lively girl has not come to chat with me, nor has she hidden in a corner of the store to peek at me working. Could it be that my unusual behavior a while ago scared her? However, it doesn't matter if she is scared. At least if she doesn't get close to me, she won't be hurt by me, and I don't have to feel so guilty.

However, after a day's work, the girl with twin ponytails was unexpectedly waiting in the locker room.

She knew everyone who worked the night shift, but anyone with a discerning eye could tell that she was waiting for me.