I will never give in to Miss Death

According to Su Yunjin, the land near the commercial street in Minaminagi District has begun to build a 580 billion project under the control of the Kamihama City Government. Many investors have been attracted here, including some bosses and shareholders of big brands. As long as the surrounding land prices increase and houses are built, various projects can be carried out.

This is because the Nannagi District itself is an unpopular location, and investing in building houses in an unpopular location is extremely risky. Even if the developer invests in the project and builds it, but others are not optimistic, the stock price will still not rise. However, if there is a very popular location or project in this section of the road, such as the "Shangjing Cat Cafe", it can drive up the surrounding popularity and have excellent online publicity effects, which can attract a large number of tourists and maintain the popularity, and it will be easy for the stock prices of these new companies and new projects around to rise.

In this environment, the revenue of the coffee shop itself is indeed not that important. As long as Ouyang Xue can convince the people above her that "the coffee shop and the commercial street will both prosper", it will be easy to apply for various early grants.

To put it simply, the big guys in the coffee shop play with finance and stocks, and people like us... little maids, small salted fish, just focus on the revenue of the coffee shop, how much salary we can get every month, and build up the brand value.

"Full amount? That's fine. When I read your book before, I felt that giving a reward was a waste of money. If it's full amount, I'll give it."

After my explanation and that girl's, Tongtong took out his cell phone and tapped the QR code on the desktop.

After a while, a prompt and notice popped up on the screen in the center of the hall -

"Thanks to user Tongtong Tuilulu for rewarding maid Nuoer with 1000 fire coupons!"

"Hey!"

After hearing this announcement, Maple at the back couldn't sit still: "This name is too weird!"

"Haha, I can definitely change my name anyway. It's possible that I can't change my name, right?"

Tongtong laughed like a boy and clicked a few times on his phone: "Wow, the first name change is free, and the second time is ten yuan. The people who made this system are really geniuses."

"Ah..."

As Tongtong finished speaking, Ouyang Xue, who seemed to be still recovering from her illness, came over and asked, "What's wrong? Are you playing... Cosplay?"

“They are my book friends.”

I quickly explained: "I'm in the reader group."

"Oh……"

Ouyang Xue nodded to show her understanding: "So early."

"Noer is so cute, of course I have to come early."

Tongtong grabbed Maple next to her and said, "If I didn't already have Lulu, I might have already attacked Nuoer by now."

"What words!"

Maple in the back put down her shield: "If you keep joking, I won't pay attention to you!"

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Lulu, don't be angry, I'll give you some... some..."

Tongtong took out his phone: "Order your favorite egg tart, a Portuguese egg tart, and a whole... two xiaolongbao, and a big bowl of this nourishing chicken soup."

I quickly wrote down the dishes on paper: "Anything else?"

"besides……"

The girl in front of me glanced at the cat living area not far away and said, "Is it really free to pet the cats here? Then can I pet the cats while eating here?"

"Yes, but doing so will easily get you covered in cat hair. If you take the cat over, you will need to use services such as a hair remover and a cat teaser, which will cost you between one and ten yuan per time."

I gestured to her phone: "There's a list of services on it."

The girl was overjoyed: "Can you really bring the cat over?"

"Well...as long as the cat is willing."

I thought for a moment and said, "If you want to hold a cat, I suggest you choose the lazy and friendly ones. Feed it and pet it at the same time. Otherwise, the cat will easily get impatient. If the cat gets impatient, don't force it to stay. It may get hurt."

Although all the cats in our store have vaccination records, I feel it is better to make things like this as clear as possible and avoid them as much as possible.

"Then I want two... No, just one will do. An obedient and clingy one that you can touch and hug at will. It would be best if it has more fur. Lulu likes cats very much, but her family doesn't have one. She came here today just to pet a cat as much as she wants."

Tongtong acted like a big boss: "I can give you as many snacks as you want, as long as you behave well... Is there a cat like that?"

A clingy cat that you can touch and cuddle at will? And a long-haired cat?

I pulled down the microphone of the headset: "Xiaomo, bring Ding Man over here."

After a while, Yin Xiamo came over holding Ding Man, who looked confused. "Are there any customers?"

"Well, they are my book friends in the group."

I took Ding Man from Yin Xiamo's arms and handed him to Maple: "You can hug and touch this one as you like, and it has a lot of fur. If you don't like this color, you can choose the white one, but that one won't be as obedient as this one."

"Such a big cat?!"

It was obvious that Maple had never interacted with cats before, so she carefully held Timon in her arms: "What kind of cat is this?"

"Maine Coon cats are considered the largest domestic cats. This Maine Coon cat is called Timon, a male cat. You can touch its entire body."

Having said that, I felt something was not right and added: "Except for the balls."

"Ding Dong! Welcome!"

"Wait a moment, you can interact with the cat first, I'll go and greet the new customers."

I put the written note on the table, put away the carbon paper, and walked towards the door: "Welcome! Please come this way."

The new customers were two young men dressed like college students. These days, the customers of the coffee shop were basically college students and nearby fishermen, with a few small groups of families. But in general, college students still made up the vast majority, and the ratio of men to women was very balanced. The men tended to look at the maids and eat more, while the girls tended to play with cats and take pictures more.

"Wow! I saw the real person."

The two boys who came in were very excited to see me. The boy on the left said, “When I saw the promotional video on the website, I didn’t believe it. I bet with my roommate that there couldn’t be such a perfect girl in reality. As a result… cough cough cough, sorry, I got excited.”

"She feels even cuter than in the video. The video has a filter on it, so it doesn't look real."

Another boy chimed in: “Isn’t this really child labor?”

"Thank you, I am an adult now."

I gave them a professional smile and prepared to guide them to a double seat not far away.

"Kirito! Maple!"

When walking towards the table, the two college students noticed Tongtong and Maple petting a cat on the other side, and immediately asked curiously, "Is this a signature dish of your restaurant?"

"No."

I shook my head: "They are just ordinary customers, and their clothes were also worn by customers."

"You mean Cosplay is not prohibited here?"

I was a little surprised: "It's not forbidden."

"Tsk tsk, if that's the case, then I have to be unbridled as well."

The boy on the left seemed to remember something and pulled another boy over: "Come on, let's go back and get the uniforms, the Kamen Rider Saber one. You should also go and bring the one we just bought."

"Sorry, little maid sister, we need to go back and change our clothes. We'll come back later!"

"Eh?"

Looking at the two people's backs as they walked away, I was a little dumbfounded.

"Ding Dong! Welcome!"

At this time, another customer came in.

"Are you guys holding a comic convention here?"

As soon as the boy walked in, he walked straight towards me and asked, "You can wear anything?"

"Uh……"

I was a little stumped by the question, and after organizing my thoughts for a long time, I finally said, "Any clothes that can be worn on the subway... are fine."

"I feel relieved when you say that. Last time during the Labor Day holiday, I had to work overtime at that crappy company and couldn't go to the comic convention. The clothes I bought were wasted. Now there are girls doing Cosplay here. I have to go back and change clothes to help out."

After saying that, the boy pushed the door open and walked out: "Remember to save a seat for me."

What are they doing?

"Noer, I feel like the wind direction in the coffee shop is going to change today."

While I was wondering, Ouyang Xue came over, opened the forwarded message in the QQ group on her mobile phone, held it in front of me, and gestured to Tongtong and Maple by the window.

"A few tourists passing by seemed to have uploaded their photos to the Internet. Several ACG groups I joined received news that we were holding a small comic exhibition here. Many Cosplayers who missed the May Day comic exhibition at the Convention and Exhibition Center believed it."

"It seems...too late to dispel the rumor now."

"..."

……

No. 119 Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions

More than ten minutes later, when I was cleaning cat hair in the lobby on the first floor, I saw the two boys who had just gone out came back.

They had already changed into some strange uniforms at this time, and I don't know which "Kamen Rider" uniform they were from, but they looked very cool.

I don't know much about Kamen Rider, and I seldom watch special effects films. The only things I remember are some well-known memes, such as "My body has become pineapple" and "He said, it's time to get on", as well as the ones that were posted in QQ groups for a while, such as "Women, beaches, famous scenes: I like to see this expression of yours, the expression of jealousy of me" and "Why the hell?"

Similarly, I don’t have a deep understanding of Ultraman. I have only seen pictures such as “Ace, you poor guy”, “Thank you, Taro”, and “I’m just a scientist” on various QQ groups and Tieba forums. If you ask me to tell which Kamen Rider is who, who is Jack, Zoffy, and the first generation in Ultraman, I probably can’t tell them.

Therefore, when I saw these two boys enter the store, my first impression of them was - they actually entered the restaurant wearing Kamen Rider Cosplay costumes, how are you going to eat then?

"I suddenly realized that this place seems to be a very ideal Cosplay holy land. There is no entrance fee, and the scenery outside is so beautiful, with mountains and water. There is also a commercial street not far away, and there is a river below. There are many places to play and take pictures."

After entering the store, the two boys' voices trembled as they spoke: "The most important thing is that this place is far away from the city, so there is no need to worry about social death!"

Uh... With you guys dressed like this, no one will be able to recognize who is inside the suit, right?

"welcome!"

Although I was somewhat amused by the blunder that happened on the first day of the coffee shop's opening, I still went to greet the two people based on the principle that everyone who comes is a guest: "Would you like to have a meal or... or some other service?"

"No need to eat yet, I want to go see the cat."

The boy on the left wearing a red Kamen Rider costume looked smug: "Bring over here... ahem, the most ferocious and grumpiest cats you have. We don't want the ones that aren't ferocious."

Don’t want the one that’s not fierce?

You two are taking advantage of the fact that you are wearing suits to do whatever you want, right?

Hearing this, the first thing that came to my mind was the rural cat known as the "ancestor of the Anti-Cat Alliance": Building No. 3.

Building No. 3 is a rural cat with a mixed color of orange, black and white. It is a female cat and is currently the most ferocious cat in the coffee shop.

However... although the cats in Building No. 3 are indeed fierce, most of them are pretending to be fierce. After all, the cats that can come to the coffee shop have basically received certain training or have lived with humans for more than several years. There won’t be the kind of wild cats that bite and scratch people when they see them, and bite them with their ears full of blood.

Building No. 3 is a rural cat with a wild personality. It likes freedom. If it is forcefully stroked, it will be unhappy and will slap you with its two paws and then slap you. However, it will not extend its claws even to hit people. It will just slap you with its paw pads to scare you and serve as a warning.

Even if the customer is really naughty and doesn't listen after the cat has warned, and continues to touch and hug the customer, and bites the customer with its mouth, the force will be controlled to the level where it hurts but does not break the skin.

Take a bite, leaving a tooth mark on your hand and then let go.

Ouyang Xue said that the reason why wilder cats like the one in Building No. 3 were allowed in was mainly to highlight the "well-behaved" nature of the signature cats in the store and to prevent "argumentative people".

According to Ouyang Xue's investigation, if all the cats in a cat cafe are well-behaved and obedient, allowing to be petted, hugged, touched and kissed, then it is easy for someone to use this as a black spot in the promotion, declaring that we treat the kittens roughly and make the cats live in dire straits every day. They would then add an "undercover" video, claiming that after their own investigation, all the cats in the store are "listless" and "have no fear of humans", and must have been abused, etc. It would then be difficult to dispel the rumor.

Ouyang Xue talked to us about something similar. When she was raising a kitten, she filmed a video and posted it on the website. Because the light in the room was very dim, the cat's pupils were dilated and looked particularly round. Many haters slandered her, saying that the video owner had given the cat medicine to make the cat's eyes look so big. This forced Ouyang Xue to film another video, holding the cat under the sun to shrink the cat's pupils into a thin line - "Are the haters satisfied now? The light in the room is dim, and the cat's eyes are round!"

The coffee shop keeps a ferocious cat like No. 3 Building to prevent similar situations in the future when the coffee shop becomes famous. This is because the strong curiosity of cats usually declines rapidly after the age of two. Domestic cats aged four or five are basically inactive, eating and sleeping all day long. In addition, cats that have worked in coffee shops are very affectionate. After eating, they have no desires and will naturally become lazy and don't want to move when they are stroked.

Adding active cats that are not very friendly to humans to a group of pet cats can enhance the vitality of the entire "cat group" and prevent someone from making a big fuss about cat abuse in the future.

Anyway, one more cat means more cat food.

What I didn’t expect was that these “ferocious cats” that were supposed to be useful only in the future were actually useful at this time.

"You can go to the cat area."

After staring at the "luxury uniforms" of the two people in front of me for a while, I originally planned to let Yin Xiamo carry them out of Building No. 3, but I finally gave up the idea: "But I may need to remind you two gentlemen that there will be a lot of cat hair over there, and some cats may also be curious about your clothes and may scratch them."

"It doesn't matter. My brother Long... is fearless."

The man who was speaking waved to his companions: "The cat area is over there, right? Let's go!"

After saying that, the two of them walked past me and headed straight for the cat living area.

"..."

As I watched their backs as they left, the image of that "battle suit" covered with scratches and cat hair half an hour later already appeared in my mind.

"Xiao Mo, two strange customers are coming to your place. Please help open the door and remind them not to get too close to the fierce cat."

In the middle of the living room, I pulled down the microphone: "If possible, check which other cats have not had their nails trimmed. That outfit looks very expensive."

Yin Xiamo quickly replied: "Got it, I just checked the cat's nails and they are all cut short."