Anime Crossover: My Part-Time Job as a Giant of Light While Studying Abroad in Chiba

"Hello, here's your extra espresso, please enjoy!"

Duan Zilian put on an innocent smile, her eyes so sincere they seemed to melt the winter snow.

"Alright, you brat, stop pretending to be cute with me."

He was met with a mature female voice that was anything but polite.

Hiratsuka Shizuka took the coffee, tilted her head back, and drank it all in one gulp. The manner of doing so was more like drinking a somber drink in a pub than drinking coffee.

She let out a long, satisfied sigh and slumped back in her chair without any regard for her image.

"Phew... I'm alive again."

"Ms. Hiratsuka, you're supposed to be an educator, after all. Lying here like this, so unconcerned about your image, you're going to have a hard time finding a boyfriend—"

"Bang—!" Before Duan Zilian could finish speaking, a lightning-fast heavy punch landed right in her face.

"It hurts..." Duan Zilian protested, clutching her head.

"Disrespectful to elders and openly launching a mental attack on the homeroom teacher, I have decided to deduct 10,000 points from your impression score for this semester."

Hiratsuka Shizuka crossed her arms and gave a cold snort, but there was a smile in the corner of her eyes.

"As long as you can give our store a five-star review, I'll accept even if we lose 20,000 points."

Duan Zilian stopped acting and said with a grin, while Hibino Mirai, who was standing next to her, couldn't help but smile when she saw this.

Thanks to the excellent craftsmanship, this coffee shop has gained considerable popularity and a number of regular customers.

"Ah!! As expected, your restaurant's food is the most authentic!"

"I feel like my spirit has withered away while you've been closing your store these past few days."

At another table, several regular customers in suits were leisurely reminiscing.

"Absolutely, don't you know who's in charge here?"

A confident voice rang out, and Duan Zilian looked in the direction of the voice, only to see Hong Kai sitting down at the guest's table and chatting openly.

“This guy…” Duan Zilian’s forehead was covered in black lines.

Hiratsuka Shizuka followed his gaze and looked back, then smiled and commented.

"He's quite a handsome man, is he your relative?"

"He's... a distant cousin, I suppose," Duan Zilian made up.

"Speaking of which, what have you been doing these past few days? You just hung up a sign saying 'Closed for Business' on the door and disappeared."

The office workers behind him raised their questions again.

Hiratsuka Shizuya turned his head and stared meaningfully at Duan Zilian, as if he had asked what everyone was thinking.

"Ah... I went to Tokyo, and although I was unlucky enough to encounter a disaster, I came back safely overall."

Duan Zilian responded in a half-dead tone.

"You guys are lucky."

Seeing Duanzi Lian's negative service attitude, Hiratsuka Shizuka wasn't angry and leisurely crossed her legs.

"I came here specifically for two reasons. First, to see if you, my rascal, have lost any limbs in the disaster. Second, to ask how your preparatory work is going?"

"The school's renovation work is almost complete, and the school will fully reopen in four or five days."

Hiratsuka Shizuka looked at him with a half-smile.

"Ah... well..."

Upon hearing about preparing for lessons, Duan Zilian's eyes immediately darted around.

He scratched his cheek and slowly started counting on his fingers.

"Mathematics, world history, English, physics... I guess those should be passable?"

He recited all the subjects as if he were listing dishes, but deliberately avoided the most critical one.

"You bastard..." Hiratsuka Shizuka's eyes gradually turned dangerous as she raised her fist.

"No, no! Teacher, please don't be impulsive! Put your fist down!"

Seeing that things were going badly, Duan Zilian quickly waved her hand: "The subjects I mentioned earlier were just so-so, I haven't even talked about the most important ones yet!"

Upon hearing this, Hiratsuka Shizuka gave a satisfied snort and slowly lowered her fist.

"You're smart enough to talk now."

"He doesn't understand Mandarin at all! He's completely..."

"Bang----!!!"

The double strike of love landed precisely once again, this punch at least three times heavier than the previous one, slamming Duan Zilian face down on the table.

"What have you been doing all week? Did you go save the world? You're so busy every day!"

"Do you know that the final exams are coming up soon after classes resume? If you fail Chinese, I'll tie you to a pillar and dry you into a dried-up corpse, understand?!"

The loud sound drew chuckles from the customers in the shop.

Mirai and Hongkai also stopped what they were doing and looked at Danzi Rei, who was covering her head and frantically apologizing to Hiratsuka Shizuka.

The two exchanged a glance, couldn't help but chuckle, and then continued with their work.

【Duan Jun, ah…】

This kid...

[They really are doing a great job saving the world.]

Chapter 231 The Evil Egg Sleeping on the Earth (2)

Around noon, a large stadium construction site on the outskirts of Chiba City was shrouded in sweltering heat.

"Feng Jun, keep it up! Once we finish this last bit of foundation, we can call it a day and go have lunch."

"Yes, Senior Gonta."

Morikawa Kaede wiped the sweat from his face and responded somewhat shyly.

In this construction site full of rough men, the introverted Morikawa Kaede was clearly an anomaly.

The foreman at the construction site didn't like him either, and always dumped the dirtiest and most tiring jobs on him.

But Morikawa Kaede had no complaints. He didn't want to cause trouble or bother others, so he chose to remain silent.

I wonder if Xiaolan has been behaving well at kindergarten... Mr. Taiga went to the next city to look for a new job early this morning, and I definitely can't hold everyone back.

With this grounded mindset, Morikawa Kaede once again shoveled the shovel hard into the soil.

A dull thud came from underground, and he felt as if he had shoveled up something hard.

"Huh?"

He put down the shovel with a puzzled look, squatted down, and dug away the surrounding soil with his bare hands. Gradually, a large, hard, white, unidentified object was revealed beneath the soil.

"What is this?" Morikawa Kaede asked, somewhat puzzled.

Hearing the noise, Gangtai came over and kicked the hard surface with his toe.

"It's probably just a big rock. Don't worry about it. We'll call an excavator to pry it out this afternoon."

"It shouldn't be an ordinary stone, right? Look, there are seashells on it, Gonta-senpai."

Morikawa Kaede reached out and touched the white seashell.

"Seashells? Maybe they're ancient treasures that washed ashore from the sea a long time ago."

Gangtai's eyes lit up, and he quickly picked up his shovel and started digging around.

“Feng Jun, come on, let’s dig it out for him.”

Seeing this, Morikawa Kaede nodded and started digging along with him.

As time went by, the full picture of the object was finally revealed to the two of them.

……

"Tch... What a joke, it really is just a big rock, we didn't even dig out a single gold coin."

Looking at the large rock that they had painstakingly moved, Gangtai pouted and tapped it heavily twice with his shovel in dissatisfaction.

“But this stone looks… strange.” Morikawa Kaede looked the stone up and down.

The rock is about a meter long, shaped like a peanut, and covered with shells and barnacles. It looks very strange.

"No matter how strange it is, it's just a rock; there's no treasure inside!"

Gonta nonchalantly grabbed Morikawa Kaede and pulled him up with his arm around his shoulder.

"Let's go, let's go. It's a waste of your energy. Uncle will treat you to ramen. Leave this stuff for the tunneling machine this afternoon."

"Okay, okay..."

Morikawa Kaede glanced back at the peanut they had moved to the ground, but ultimately suppressed her doubts and left with Gonta.

It would have been better if I hadn't eaten that ramen; trouble came knocking as soon as I got back.

"Gonta-senpai..."

Morikawa Kaede returned to the area he was originally in charge of, looked at the stone, and his tone became somewhat strange.

"You know... this rock, has it gotten bigger?"

"Huh? It got bigger? I didn't notice."

Gangtai, single-minded as ever, glanced at it casually while picking his teeth, not paying any attention, picked up his helmet, and prepared to continue working.

Morikawa Kaede continued digging the foundation, but as he dug, the strange feeling in his heart became more and more obvious.

About half an hour later, he looked back and saw that the rock behind him had become twice the size.

"No! Senior Gangta, this rock is really getting bigger on its own!!!"

……

Ten minutes later.

"It's just ahead, supervisor. That strange rock is just ahead."

Morikawa Kaede, pulling along the impatient-looking contractor, quickly arrived at the scene of the crime.

"Morikawa, you should know, how could a stone possibly grow bigger?"

The foreman had a cigarette between his fingers, his eyes filled with disdain and suspicion.

"This rock has indeed gotten bigger. It wasn't this big when I dug it out at noon."

Morikawa Kaede pointed eagerly to the pit opposite, which was clearly smaller.

Looking at the strange-looking rock, the contractor had some doubts, but he still didn't believe what Feng said.

"Humph."

The foreman snatched the shovel from Gangtai's hand and banged it against the rock several times, but apart from chipping off a piece of seashell, there was no other reaction.

"It's obvious that this is just an ordinary piece of limestone. Are you trying to make fun of me on purpose, you little rascal?"

"No, supervisor! This stone is really different from this morning! I can see it too, it has definitely expanded!"

Gangtai, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but step forward to testify. Even though he was usually oblivious, he could now sense the strangeness of this thing.

"Gonta, I didn't ask you, so stop interrupting."

The contractor felt embarrassed when his subordinate publicly contradicted him.

"Hey you two, you didn't team up to put on this show for me because you wanted to slack off this afternoon, did you?"

"How could that be?! We're not those kinds of people!" Morikawa Kaede exclaimed anxiously.

"Supervisor, this is very unusual. Please contact the Victory Team! Ask them to bring specialized equipment to handle this, just in case..."

"Contact the Victory Team? Go away!"

Upon hearing this, the contractor instantly became somewhat impatient.

"Morikawa, don't try to outsmart me."