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

"It's over..."

Duan Zilian's heart almost stopped. He had just turned his head when Xiao Huiye quickly pulled down her sun hat and pressed herself tightly against the back of Duan Zilian's pants leg, as if she wanted to crawl into his shadow.

"Hey? Duan, who's that little girl next to you?"

Fujiwara Chika tilted her head curiously, trying to see the petite figure through the shopping bag.

"Ah...this is my distant cousin's younger sister! Yes!" Duan Zilian broke out in a cold sweat, but lied without changing her expression, "Isn't it Golden Week? Her brother was busy, so he asked me to take her out for a stroll."

"Huh? It's Duan's younger sister?! Let Qianhua-neechan take a look!"

Fujiwara Chika excitedly reached out to grab the "little sister," but Kaguya nimbly dodged her with a sidestep.

"Huh...?"

Fujiwara Chika froze on the spot, the background turning grayish-white. The next second, she let out a mournful cry: "Waaaaah, I'm disliked! I'm actually disliked by an elementary school student! I'm so approachable..."

"Oh no! This child is very shy. She... cough, she doesn't like to talk to older girls who are too outgoing!"

Duan Zilian quickly tried to smooth things over, casually striking up a conversation to divert attention: "By the way, Secretary Fujiwara, what are you doing here all this way?"

"Hey! I'm here to buy 'that'!"

Fujiwara Chika instantly revived, pulled a box from her backpack, and looked at her with admiration.

Wow, her emotions changed so quickly.

"Look! It's the latest Ultraman Tiga figure! Super cool, right? I just snagged this limited edition!"

Duan Zilian was stunned. He stared at the lifelike depiction of "himself," his lips twitching violently.

What the heck?! They've already released all the toys?! That can't be right! Shouldn't these profiteers pay me royalties?!

Fujiwara Chika continued chattering about the happy things that had just happened, while Duanzi Rei smiled along and clapped occasionally, as if she were coaxing a child.

……

"Okay, have fun! We have to go now!"

"Bye-bye, Duan! And this shy little sister too!" Fujiwara Chika hummed a song and skipped away.

"What an energetic child..."

Only after completely getting rid of that pink "cancer of the earth" did Duan Zilian breathe a sigh of relief and look down at the sculpture beside her legs.

"Alright, the person's gone, no need to hide anymore. Or are you planning to keep clinging to my trouser leg like this for the rest of the journey?"

Kaguya suddenly looked up and met Duanzi Lian's teasing gaze. Her face instantly turned red, and she let go of his hand as if she had been electrocuted, instantly moving several meters away.

"Who...who tried to grab your pant leg! You scum with an insatiable sense of self! Pervert! Lolicon!"

She walked forward with small, quick steps, moving at full speed.

"Hey! Wait for me! I still have your clothes with me!"

Duan Zilian, carrying large and small bags, hurriedly followed.

……

Finally, under Kaguya's insistence, Duanzi Rei still managed to get a trendy summer T-shirt worth 20,000 yen.

In Kaguya's words, "This is just to maintain the balance of relationships within the Shinomiya family; there is absolutely no intention to thank you."

not bad.

Chapter 55 Kaguya Shinomiya Wants to Stay at a Coffee Shop

Under the sunlight, two figures, one tall and one short, walked back to the old town. Duan Zilian carried shopping bags of various sizes, looking like a competent bodyguard and butler.

"By the way, you've been fiddling with that flip phone since earlier, were you trying to send a distress signal home?"

Duan Zilian looked at the old-fashioned white flip phone in Kaguya's hand and couldn't help but ask.

Without turning her head, Kaguya's delicate fingers precisely pressed each button:

"I sent an email to ask for leave. I was supposed to go to the Shinomiya family's branch office today to sit in on the progress of the project to build an evacuation passage for the school, but this happened, so I can only say that I am not feeling well and have to cancel it."

“An evacuation route… okay, but…” Duan Zilian stared at the phone, hesitating to speak, “This model… is it a backup phone that the Shinomiya family prepared specifically to prevent eavesdropping? It looks quite old.”

Kaguya stopped and turned around, a serious expression appearing on her youthful face:

"This is my main computer, and I've been using it since elementary school."

"Huh? A... a console?!" Duan Zilian almost dropped the packaging bag. "You mean, the young lady of the prestigious Shinomiya family is still using this kind of ancient relic without even a touch screen?"

"It's just a personal habit; I'm used to using it."

Kaguya puffed out her chest, then looked at Duan Zilian with a deep gaze: "So, this phone really can't use Line."

"Finally, I want to ask you, when I told you this morning 'I don't have Line,' the way you ran away in such a panic... what exactly did you misunderstand me to mean?"

"Uh...uh..." Duan Zilian instantly broke out in a cold sweat, as if countless Ultraman Tigas were fighting in her brain.

"Um... the weather is really nice today. Look at those clouds, they look just like my shrunken bicycle..." He changed the subject, seemingly trying to hide his embarrassment.

Kaguya snorted coldly, seemingly already guessing the impolite thoughts in his mind.

She arrogantly tossed her long black hair and walked ahead with light, quick steps like a victorious general. Duan Zilian wiped her sweat and quickly followed.

……

Meanwhile, on a stone bridge in downtown Chiba.

Dahe Wang sat alone by the railing, his entire body turned grayish-white, with black lines appearing on his skin.

The rumbling in his stomach sounded like a grand chorus inside him, and the breeze brushed his cheeks, making him look like a melancholy Leo Tolstoy.

"Ah... I'm really doomed. I've looked for all the moving jobs around here, and not a single one will take me in. Am I really going to have to compete with stray cats for canned food?"

"Hey, Taiga, have some backbone." Zero said in his mind. "I don't want to starve to death with you; that would be too tarnishing for the Warrior of Light's reputation."

"Shut up! Fame can't buy you a feast!"

Dahe Wang lowered his head in despair. Just as he was about to be swallowed by the hallucination of hunger, a beam of brilliant sunlight shone obliquely from the other end of the stone bridge, enveloping a figure walking onto the bridge in golden light.

"Eh, you are... Mr. Taiga?"

Upon hearing the familiar voice, Taiga Nozomi raised his eyelids.

Backlit, a blond boy in a black school uniform stood in front of him.

Sunlight shone on the boy's hair, outlining a halo of holiness, and even his originally fierce eyes seemed to be filled with compassion at this moment.

"Mr. Taiga Nozomi? It really is you."

Shirogane Miyuki looked at his down-on-his-luck savior with some surprise.

Taihe Wang stared blankly at him, unconsciously murmuring:

"Heavens...angels..."

"Huh?" Shirogane Miyuki was stunned.

“I saw an angel… an angel smelling of barbecue…” Taiga Nozomi said, then swayed and almost fell off the railing.

……

Twenty minutes later, inside a self-service barbecue restaurant.

"Sizzle—!" The succulent beef brisket sizzled on the grill, releasing its aroma.

At this moment, Taihe Wang had completely abandoned his "dignity." Holding chopsticks, he moved like a blur as he frantically stuffed beef brisket into his mouth, his face beaming with a blissful, heavenly smile.

"Mmm! Mmm! So delicious! It's amazing! This seasoning is simply a miracle!"

Shirogane Miyuki sat opposite him, carefully turning the meat over for him, his eyes full of sympathy and worry: "Ah... um, Mr. Taiga, eat slowly. If you're not full, I'll order more. The doctor said that overeating is bad for your health."

"It's nothing! I'm perfectly fine!" Taiga swallowed a large mouthful of meat, finally catching his breath. "Shirogane, you're practically my second father! You have no idea what I've been through these past two days..."

While eating, Taihe Wang poured out his bitter past, with tears streaming down his face, about being fired from his company, losing his savings, having nowhere to live, and even being rejected for being too handsome during a job interview.

"That bastard Zero is still nagging me about wanting expensive chocolate every day. Where am I supposed to get the money?" Taiga said angrily.

"Zero?"

Shirogane Miyuki has spotted a strange name.

"Oh, it's nothing, just a rather noisy... pet dog of mine," Taiga Nozomi replied dismissively.

[Hey, Dahe, what do you mean by this?!]

[Shut up! You freeloader!]

Listening to these trivial yet real-life pressures that made him want to cry, Shirogane Miyuki sighed deeply.

"So Mr. Taiga also had such a hard time."

Miyuki Shirogane poured a glass of iced cola for Nozomi Taiga: "Actually... I'm the same way. I work hard every day to make a living and get credits. If I don't keep running, I'll be left behind by life."

"Right! That's it!" Taiga Nozomi exclaimed, as if he had found a kindred spirit, raising his can of cola. "Cheers to life!"

Shirogane Miyuki smiled and raised his glass to clink glasses with hers.

"Since Mr. Taiga has nowhere to stay and has lost his job...why don't you come to my house for dinner tonight?"

Shirogane Miyuki suggested, "Although my house is cramped, my father and sister are very kind, and we can make room for you to stay for a few days."

"Go to your house?" Dahe Wangsai Rou paused in his movements.

"Hmm." Shirogane Miyuki gave a slightly shy but firm smile. "Since it's a 'promise between men,' I can't just watch my savior sleep under a bridge, can I?"

……

At this moment, in the coffee shop—

"Hey, Future, are you really planning to let that little girl live in the shop?"

“Oh dear, Kaisan, that’s no ordinary little girl.” Hibino Mirai explained gently while carefully wiping the coffee machine. “Although her appearance has changed, she’s still the young lady of the Shinomiya family. Besides, she didn’t say she had to stay here, did she?”

"Based on the wanderer's intuition, the success rate is 100%."

Hong Kai held up a finger and shook it, his tone certain: "Think about it, given that child's background, if the people around her saw her like this, it would definitely cause a huge riot, right? If the Shinomiya Group blocks the streets, things will get even worse."

"Furthermore, those Dada aliens will definitely not let this go. Besides this shop where three Ultra Warriors are sitting, where in Chiba is safer than here?"

“That makes sense…” Future stopped what she was doing and nodded thoughtfully.

"So here's the question, where does she live?" Hong Kai pointed to the ceiling, then to the floor. "It's fine for the two of us to stay in the basement lounge, but we can't expect the girl to sleep in the basement too, can we?"

"Why don't we just stay in Duan-kun's room?" Future suggested innocently.

"Huh?!" Hong Kai sat up abruptly as if he had heard some terrifying rumor. "Future, aren't you underestimating the weight of the word 'puberty'? Although the body has shrunk, there is still a real girl's soul inside!"

"Aren't you afraid something strange might happen if a man and a woman are alone in a room together? That kid may look like a lazy bum, but he's still a hot-blooded high school student!"

"No, no, no, Kaisan, you're overthinking it." Future blushed and waved her hands repeatedly. "Duan Jun is definitely not that kind of person. I believe in his character."

"Tch, men understand men best..."

Ring—ring—!

Just as the two were having a heated discussion, the door to the coffee shop was pushed open.

"We're back!!"

"Sorry to bother you."

Hong Kai and Wei Lai were both dumbfounded when they saw the mountain of packaging bags in front of them and the delicate little girl beside them.

"...Duan Sang, did you go and loot the entire mall?"

"This gentleman... he buys too much." Duan Zilian laboriously unloaded the huge pile of things onto the empty table, then slumped into her chair, feeling like her soul was about to leave her body.

Kaguya bowed respectfully to the two of them before slowly entering and sitting down next to Duan Zilian.

Duan Zilian took a short rest and suddenly looked at the two people in front of her with a little shyness.

"Uh... Kaisan, Mirai-san, I'm a little embarrassed, but we discussed it on the way back."

He glanced at Kaguya, who was sitting next to him looking a little embarrassed.

"Shinomiya's situation is indeed quite special right now. She can't go home, and she can't meet with those people, so... could we let her stay at the coffee shop for a few days? We'll talk about it again once we get back the Dada aliens' ray gun and turn her back."

Kaguya looked up, her face flushed, and said, "I'm sorry for troubling you all earlier. Regarding the cost of staying here, the Shinomiya family will pay a very generous amount, please be sure to..."

Seeing this scene, Hong Kai looked at the petite figure who was clearly uneasy but still trying to maintain the image of a chaebol, and a smile slowly rose on his lips.