Crossover Anime: Randomly Setting Up a Stall with Binchotan Charcoal

Uncle Fujiwara gave a helpless, bitter smile upon hearing this.

"With Natsume-san competing with us, do you think our steamed bun shop can keep going? Even if we sell at a loss, everyone will just go to Natsume-san's shop."

"Natsume-san, is this what you wanted to tell us? I'll sell this shop!"

"But I have two conditions: the shop sign cannot be changed, and then I'll let this kid be your apprentice."

Summer laughed indifferently when she heard this.

These are not problems. Nanatsuji-ya itself is not going to change its signboard. If you want to learn their skills, then learn them.

After exchanging money for the property and completing the formalities, the new owner, Xia Tian, ​​walked out the door carrying a freshly steamed bag of buns.

He activated his Observation Haki to its fullest extent and searched an area of ​​over ten kilometers.

"found it!"

"Natsume Reiko!"

..

Fifty years later, Natsume returned Takumi's name to the yokai.

From the memories of the yokai, Natsume saw Reiko's grandmother.

(Recently, I met a strange person. He's human, yet he wants to be my friend and always brings me delicious steamed buns from a shop called Nanatsuji-ya. They're really good! But the man is very long-winded, saying things like climbing trees is dangerous and I'm not allowed to go out at night.)

Chapter 128 First Meeting with Reiko, Staying at Her Home

"Hey girl... it's dangerous up in the tree, come down quickly."

The girl who was chatting with the white owl in the tree heard the gentle boy's voice and subconsciously looked down.

He was a handsome man wearing clothes with a childish Ultraman pattern, looking at me with bright eyes and a very kind smile.

"...Are you talking to me?"

Reiko looked at the man strangely. He was clearly human. Hadn't he heard the rumors about her? The cursed girl, the ominous girl, the strange girl.

Her classmates all avoided her like the plague, and she didn't have a single human friend.

"Get down, young lady, you're showing too much skin."

Summer teased, her eyes wide open. The girl in the JK school uniform, her fair legs slightly exposed beneath her short skirt, her long brown hair fluttering in the wind, looked beautiful and elegant.

Reiko Natsume blushed slightly, her delicate face turning red for once. She nimbly jumped down from the tree, glaring at Natsume and muttering "hentai" under her breath.

"You must be Natsume Reiko. I've heard the yokai around here talking about you." Natsume smiled.

???

Reiko Natsume momentarily lost her train of thought; the other person's single sentence contained far too much information.

"You can see monsters too? Did you see the black crows in the tree?"

Summer chuckled: "It's not a crow, it's a white owl with a ring on its paw. There's also a little old monster in the narration."

"You can really see!!!" Reiko looked at Summer in surprise.

Xia Tian chuckled and said teasingly, "The source of calamity! More terrifying than the Grim Reaper! Lady Lingzi, who commands countless great demons, hahaha, girl, you have quite a few nicknames."

"Aaaaaah! That wretched monster..."

Lingzi shook her head in frustration. No matter how carefree she was, being publicly executed was still very shameful.

"Haha, then, my esteemed Lady Lingzi, would you like to accept my humble offering of freshly made steamed buns?" Xia Tian said with a grin, opening the bag and handing over the hot steamed buns.

Lingzi rolled her eyes at Xia Tian. This man was so annoying. She angrily grabbed the bun and took a bite, as if she were biting into the bun as if it were Xia Tian.

"Ok?"

She took a bite of the sesame bun's filling, and the scalding hot texture and sweet taste made her unable to stop. She immediately took another big bite of the bun, filling her entire mouth.

"good to eat!"

Lingzi ate a bun in three bites, and looked at the bag in Xia Tian's hand with lingering satisfaction.

Xia Tian, ​​being very perceptive, handed over all the buns, saying, "If you eat my buns, we're friends. Hello, Lingzi, my name is Xia Tian."

Lingzi was taken aback. This person was strange, but there was no doubt that he was a good person. It was quite interesting to be with him. In just a few minutes, she hadn't felt so relaxed in a long time.

friend?

She has human friends now.

After a moment of silence, Reiko extended her small hand and shook hands with Natsume. "Reiko, my name is Natsume Reiko. Nice to meet you, Natsume-kun."

As she spoke, Reiko picked up another steamed bun and ate it, her eyes narrowing with delight. "Eh? This is a steamed bun from Nanatsujiya. My classmates said it was delicious, but I didn't expect it to be this, this delicious. I should have bought some earlier."

"I need your help! Reiko-chan, I just returned to Yahara today and I haven't found a place to stay yet. Do you have any spare rooms?"

“…”

Lingzi froze as she ate the steamed bun, instinctively wanting to spit it out, but Xia Tian reacted quickly and covered Lingzi's mouth.

"Woooooo~"

"I already said we're friends, you wouldn't want to see your friend sleeping on the streets, would you?"

“…”

"Look, you've already swallowed the steamed bun, so I'll take that as a yes."

Reiko rolled her eyes.

No, you want to move into a young girl's house as soon as you meet her? What are you planning to do?

This was the first time she had ever seen such a shameless person.

I thought he was a good person just now, but it was all an illusion! It was all an illusion!

"My house is in a rather bad condition, are you sure you want to stay there?"

"You're not trying to scare me with a monster, are you? Hehe."

Lingzi was speechless. Because of various rumors, people would occasionally stick talismans on her door and splash dog blood on her.

She was all alone at home again, and she felt powerless to even yell at anyone.

Things would probably be better if a guy actually moved in.

However... it might get worse, like a teenage girl living together before marriage or something.

"Come on, if you want to stay at my place, the rent won't be cheap."

At a crossroads, a skull-shaped monster stood alone, its gaze sweeping over the passersby, but no one could see it. The skull-shaped monster seemed very lonely.

"I remember this monster was called Zhuo," Xia Tian murmured to himself.

Lingzi was also stunned when she saw the monster. The monster reminded her of herself. She was alone, without any kind of person or friends, wandering alone in the bustling street.

"Xia Jun, wait here for me for a moment, don't come over."

After giving her instructions, Natsume Reiko walked straight towards the yokai. The moment their eyes met, the yokai was clearly taken aback.

Under Natsume's gaze, Reiko chatted with the yokai. After only ten sentences, Reiko suddenly raised her club high. The 'spiked club' that existed in Natsume's memory hit the yokai accurately with one blow.

Soon, the monster, clutching the large bump on its head, gave in and obediently revealed its name.

They witnessed a monster appear in their friend's notebook, but to everyone else, Reiko only seemed to have gone mad again. First, she talked to herself in the air, then she waved a baseball bat to scare people.

"Hey, look, Natsume Reiko is having another episode."

"Hurry up, hurry up! I've heard that getting close to her will bring misfortune."

"Oh my god, this is terrifying."

Even those who kept their distance couldn't help but point and whisper about Lingzi behind her back.

The girl was used to the suspicious, regretful, hateful, and disgusted looks from everyone. She turned and left casually, putting away the note with her name on it, a sunny smile on her face.

Only summer saw the loneliness, solitude, and emptiness hidden beneath the girl's smile.

"Stop right there, you fox-eyed bastard!"

"I've heard that getting close to you will bring a curse. Go ahead and curse me."

"Haha, that's really scary..."

A mocking voice came from ahead, and two boys blocked Lingzi's path, looking at her with grins.

Lingzi tilted her head and glanced at them calmly, ignoring them, and turned to walk away from the roadside.

"Hey, you ugly fox-eyed freak, I told you to stop, didn't you hear me?" Seeing this, the boy on the left felt slighted and, annoyed, reached out to grab Lingzi's shoulder.

"..." Reiko gracefully sidestepped, effortlessly dodging the attack.

"Alright, alright, you're no good, you softie."

Hearing his companion's mockery, the boy became enraged and threw his backpack at Lingzi, yelling, "You idiot, you ugly monster, how dare you ignore me!"

"Peng!"

This attack was unexpected for Reiko. She narrowly avoided most of the injuries, but the metal charm on her backpack grazed her forehead, and drops of bright red blood instantly flowed down her cheek.

"Ah... no... no, you deserve it! Serves you right for ignoring me." Looking at the injured Lingzi, the boy's panic lasted only a second before he tried to grab his schoolbag again.

"Oh my god, is the blood from a fox's eyes red too? I thought monsters didn't bleed..." the boy's companion shouted excitedly, taking off his schoolbag and eager to try it out.

The crowd on the street watched everything with indifference, and no one offered to help. The ugliness of human nature was on full display at this moment.

"Want to play? I'm all in. No one's allowed to cry, okay?" Lingzi casually tossed down her schoolbag and pulled out her demon-slaying stick again.

"Waaaaah, the monster is going to kill us!"

"Run."

The two boys turned and ran away; they weren't stupid, even though they were bullies who preyed on the weak.

"Cut~"

Lingzi looked at them indifferently, silently picked up her schoolbag and put it on her back. To her surprise, the two who had run away suddenly stopped.

"Sinai, monster!"

The two who stopped picked up fist-sized stones and smashed them directly at Ling's head.

Lingzi was startled, her heart skipped a beat, and Yan watched as the large rock grew bigger and bigger in her pupils, but it was too late to dodge.

"It's over!"

The next moment, several thunderclaps suddenly rang out in the sky, miraculously shattering the flying stones and hitting the two boys. With a scream, the boy who fell to the ground instantly convulsed.

"Holy crap! Reiko really knows how to curse?!" Among the crowd, Reiko's classmates were all stunned.

"Baka! What curse? My son!" Suddenly, an older woman rushed over, hugged the fallen boy, and wailed, "Damn monster! Just let my son beat him up! Why did you have to hurt my son?"

Another thunderclap responded to her, and the mother and son lay neatly together.

"..."

"Run!"

Someone shouted, and the crowd on the street instantly dispersed, as if afraid of being struck by lightning if they were too slow. No one paid any attention to the three people who had fallen to the ground.

On the street, only a bewildered Lingzi stared blankly at Xia Tian.

"Run! Do you still want to stay and take responsibility?"

After walking in, Xia Tian took Lingzi's hand, turned around, and followed the crowd away.

Chapter 129 Dinner at Reiko's House

"Wait, wait, did you do that?"

"Are you a monster?"

After being dragged a long way, Lingzi slowly realized that it felt quite nice to have someone come to her aid.

"What kind of monster? Have you ever seen a monster as handsome as me?"

"I've met you before," Reiko nodded.

"...Impossible." Xia Tian choked for a moment. "How could a monster be more handsome than me? I'm human!"