Keep attacking girls and try not to be killed by them

"You're right, meow... Our shop has been having a bit of a hard time lately..."

Shiiki Ruri lowered her head in embarrassment. She felt so ashamed that the customer pointed out her predicament in front of her.

"Then why not make changes?" asked the Frost Knight.

"It's not that I haven't made any changes, meow, but even after making the changes, it still doesn't help, meow."

When asked this question by the Frost Armor Knight, Shiiki Ruri immediately opened up, just like a drunk in a tavern being asked about his sad story by the bartender.

At this point, Shiiki Ruri was no longer afraid of being laughed at by Lord Frost Armor Knight. She told Lord Frost Armor Knight that the problems with the Cat Girl Cooking Pavilion had actually been going on for two or three years, and that attempts to change them had only been made in the last two years.

During these two years, they extended their business hours, expanding their business from just lunch and dinner to also serving breakfast and late-night snacks.

They found better quality food suppliers and raised the already high quality dishes to another level.

them……

Shiiki Ruri was a little carried away as she told him all the hardships she had gone through in the past two years, but just as she finished, the Frost Armor Knight hit her in another sore spot.

"Boss, you've said so much and done so much, but among all the proposed changes, why haven't you tried to change the style of the dishes? Even if it's just to introduce some experimental new dishes?"

When Shiiki Ruri heard the Frost Armor Knight ask this question, she really wanted to sigh deeply if she wasn't afraid of being impolite.

She also wanted to change the style of cuisine, but Aunt Magee had already made it clear that everything in the cat food kiosk could be changed, except for the style of the "home cooking" dishes.

Therefore, Shiiki Ruri could only smile wryly and say to the Frost Armor Knight: "Home-cooked meals are the specialty of our Cat Food Kiosk, meow. If we change it, it won't be called the Cat Food Kiosk anymore, meow."

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Shiiki Ruri thought that as long as she said this, the Frost Armor Knight would be tactful and stop asking about this topic.

But what she didn't expect was that even after she answered like this, Lord Frost Armor Knight still refused to give in and looked like he was determined to get to the bottom of the matter.

"If we don't change, and the losses become unbearable and the cat food kiosk closes down, won't that mean there's no cat food kiosk anymore?"

This question from the Frost Armor Knight really broke Shiiki Ruri's heart.

If the previous conversation was just like a needle piercing Shiiki Ruri's heart, then this question was like a dagger piercing Shiiki Ruri straight through.

If the cat food kiosk continues to make losses, it will go bankrupt. How could Shiiki Ruri not understand such a simple truth?

However, now that Aunt Magee has passed away, Shiiki Ruri will never do anything against her wishes.

Frankly speaking, in Shiiki Ruri's heart, she never considered herself the second owner of the cat food stall. In her opinion, she has always been just an agent of the boss.

Shiiki Ruri has only one wish for the cat food kiosk, which is to let it maintain its original appearance and continue to operate for a long time. Only in this way can she be worthy of Aunt Magee.

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Magpie-winged woman Magai, this woman is the most important person in Shiki Ruri's life.

She is not only Shiiki Ruri's master, but also a mother-like person to her.

Magai saved Shiiki Ruri's life, raised her, and nurtured her. It can be said that if Shiiki Ruri had not met Magai on the way to escape the Great Migration, she would probably be dead now.

About fourteen years ago, the five-year-old Liuli followed the refugee group in the Great Migration and wandered all the way to the east.

In this team, the thin and young girl could only survive by picking up things that others didn't want at first, and could only hope to find leftovers from others' food in the garbage to barely fill her stomach.

Fortunately, as her wandering experience continued to increase, the clever little Liuli gradually mastered the methods of survival in the wild. Slowly, she could find some wild fruits to eat or catch some small animals by her own strength.

However, a child is just a child after all, and her lack of experience will always cause her fatal problems at some point.

In this life of hunger and cold, Xiao Liuli's body senses became very dull, so dull that even if her body had some poisoning reactions, she herself was unaware.

9.187 - Shiiki Ruri's Past

When her internal organs hurt, Xiao Liuli thought it was because she never ate enough;

When her bones hurt, Xiao Liuli thought it was because the stone floor she slept on was too hard.

When she felt dizzy and nauseous, Xiao Liuli thought it was caused by overwork in recent days;

Then, one day, when Xiao Liuli accidentally discovered that her hands were shaking so much that she couldn't pick wild fruits properly, she finally realized that her body seemed to be on the verge of breaking down.

If it were a child in a normal environment, they would definitely look for their parents first when they feel unwell, but in the environment where Xiao Liuli lives, let alone parents, there is not even an adult who is willing to care about her.

During the long journey, Xiao Liuli witnessed several children of the same age as herself dying on the way, and also witnessed how the refugees around her turned a blind eye to "death".

So, when death came to her, little Liuli neither wanted to seek help from adults nor showed any will to survive. She just accepted it calmly, as if the impending death was not a big deal.

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Little Liuli, dragging her sick body, had nowhere to go.

She knew she wouldn't live long, but the inertia of survival prevented her from sitting there and waiting to die.

So, she continued to follow the great migration as usual, and when she could no longer walk, that place would become her grave.

However, what Xiao Liuli did not expect was that her life journey did not come to an end quickly because of her giving up. In a small town in the Kingdom of West, this little cat-girl ushered in a turning point in her life.

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At that time, Mel Town was not called Mel Town. It was just an unknown and nameless small town. Local residents casually called it Lin Town, meaning a small town composed of refugees and which could be disbanded at any time.

The large group of the Great Migration quickly passed through the neighboring town because this poor town was simply unable to accept or help them.

The frail little Liuli followed far behind the main group, along with other elderly, weak and sick people who were also participating in the migration.

This group of people is called a team, but in fact, only the healthy people walking in the front look like a team, while those following behind, especially the one at the back where Xiao Liuli is, are so scattered that they don't even look like a group.

When Xiao Liuli entered Linzhen, she could no longer see the people who belonged to the great migration team, but it didn't matter. She had been moving forward in a general direction all along, so it didn't matter whether there was anyone with her or not.

The residents of the nearby town were no longer surprised by the refugees passing through the town. Since the beginning of the Great Migration, similar scenes could be seen everywhere behind the lands of the Human Alliance.

All these residents who are unable to take care of themselves can do is watch coldly. It is not that they have no conscience, but that they really do not have the ability to help others.

As the saying goes, when you are rich, you should help the world; when you are poor, you should take care of yourself. Helping others is never a duty, but a favor. In this Prison Star world where moral kidnapping is not prevalent, the people in Linzhen will not have too much mental burden even if they see Xiao Liuli die in front of them.

However, Xiao Liuli was lucky, because the day she entered Lin Town happened to be the day after the magpie-winged man Magai founded the Cat Girl Cooking Pavilion.

Aunt Magai was a smart person. Although she was in urgent need of manpower, she did not extend an olive branch to the core team of the Great Migration.

Among the core team members there are a large number of strong young men. Although they look haggard due to long-distance fatigue, as long as they have a good rest for two days, they will definitely become excellent laborers.

However, Aunt Magai did not consider them. It was not because Aunt Magai deliberately wanted to help the elderly, the weak and the disabled, but because there were too many people in the core team. If Aunt Magai wanted to recruit three or five of them, it would definitely end up in a tragedy of refugees fighting each other.

In order to avoid such a man-made disaster, Aunt Magai deliberately let the large group escape, and then waited until only a few refugees were left before showing up.

However, this was the first time Aunt Magai did such a thing, so she got the timing wrong and only met Xiao Liuli, several other children, and the elderly... and they were all sick.

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No matter how kind Aunt Magee is, these few people obviously do not have the ability to help the Cat Girl Kitchen.

However, Aunt Magai did not give up on everyone. She gathered the last less than ten refugees from the great migration together and provided them with all the help she could.

It was at this time that Xiao Liuli met Aunt Magai. She had already lost the will to live and just followed Aunt Magai's orders. She took medicine when she was told to and slept when she was told to, like a puppet without her own will.

But what is incredible is that although Xiao Liuli had clearly given up the desire to live, she actually recovered her health in the end. Instead, the other refugees who received treatment and help with her failed to survive and passed away one after another.

Xiao Liuli, who has regained a healthy body and a new life, finds it difficult to accept this drastic change in life all of a sudden. However, it does not matter, because she has become a member of the Cat Girl Cooking Pavilion under the cultivation of Aunt Magee. No matter how gloomy her past life was, her new life in the future will be colorful and bright.

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"Boss? ...Boss, are you listening to me?"

Shiiki Ruri didn't know how long she had been lost in her memories. She only knew that when she heard the voice of the Frost Armor Knight, she felt a great deal of regret in her heart.

"Oh, yeah, I'm sorry, meow. I remembered some things from the past and got caught up in them all of a sudden, meow."

Shiiki Ruri quickly stood up and apologized. It was only then that she noticed that the Frost Armor Knight had already finished all seven dishes on the table!

——(Oh my god, with such a big appetite, can one person eat enough food for ten people?)

"Hehe, it's okay. I just said hello because I'm done eating and ready to leave."

"Ah, are you leaving now, meow? No more chatting, meow?"

Hearing that Lord Frost Armor Knight was leaving, Shiiki Ruri suddenly felt a little reluctant, because she could vaguely feel that if she could chat with Lord Frost Armor Knight for a while longer, maybe she could find an idea to rescue the Cat Girl Restaurant!

"Why, what else do you want to talk about?"

The Frost Armor Knight didn't seem to be in a hurry to leave. After hearing Shiiki Ruri's words of persuasion, he slowly sat down again.

Shiiki Ruri was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately asked a barrage of questions.

"Hmm, meow... let me think about it, meow. I... I'd like to hear it from you, Lord Frost Armor Knight. If you were to give me advice, how would you help the Cat Girl Restaurant out of its financial difficulties? Oh, and the premise is that you don't change the style of the home-cooked dishes, meow. That's the bottom line, meow."

9.188 - A unique solution

"After going through so much trouble, you still insist on not changing your style, boss."

As soon as Frost Armor Knight Stan heard Shiiki Ruri's question, he immediately fell back on the back of his chair.

Although Shiiki Ruri didn't hear it with her own ears, she could tell from the other party's helpless actions that the Frost Armor Knight must have sighed into his helmet.

"Yes, Aunt Magee... the previous owner of the Cat Girl Restaurant, told me not to change the style of the dishes, and I didn't want to go against her wishes."

Shiiki Ruri apologized to Lord Frost Armor Knight again. It was wrong to be so willful and give guests problems. However, Shiiki Ruri felt that it would be difficult to meet a capable person like Lord Frost Armor Knight again if she missed him, so she shamelessly came to ask for advice.

Such a combination of praise and weakness, coming from the mouth of a cute and charming cat-girl like Shiiki Ruri, is truly powerful.

What is even more rare is that Shiiki Ruri did not say this out of scheming. She simply believed this from the bottom of her heart and said such words.

This time, the Frost Armor Knight sighed clearly. Shiiki Ruri seemed to be able to sense the other party's bitter smile in his helmet, but to Shiiki Ruri's surprise, after the bitter smile, the Frost Armor Knight actually agreed to her request.

"Well, I'll think about it for a while."

"Really? Well, thank you so much, meow!"

Shiiki Ruri was so excited that she stood up and was about to shake the hand of the Frost Armor Knight, but she immediately realized that such behavior was too disrespectful to the guest, so she quickly stopped and bowed slightly to express her gratitude to the Frost Armor Knight.

"Haha, no need to be so polite. Boss, go ahead and do your work. I'll just sit here and think for a while."

Lord Frost Armor Knight waved to Shiiki Ruri. Shiiki Ruri understood what he meant and knew that Lord Frost Armor Knight was the type who didn't want to be disturbed when he was thinking, so she nodded and retreated back to the counter.

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After returning to the counter, Shiiki Ruri actually had nothing to do.

The only customer left in the store at this moment was Lord Frost Armor Knight.

Seeing that the boss had finished talking to the customer, the waitress was about to go forward and take back the empty plates on the table. Shiiki Ruri saw this and hurriedly stopped her and told others not to disturb the Frost Armor Knight.

At the counter, Shiiki Ruri looked at the seven empty plates on the table, and her heart was touched again.

As a victim of the Great Migration, Shiiki Ruri once felt the horror of hunger deeply.

For most people, hunger is not a big deal, it is just a little uncomfortable. But in Shiiki Ruri's view, such hunger cannot be considered hunger, because real hunger will bring death.

Even though Shiiki Ruri has lived a life of plenty with no worries about food and drink today, she has not forgotten the pain of starvation during the great migration.

Therefore, whenever Shiiki Ruri sees that customers have leftover food, she will ask the store staff to sort and collect the remaining food, and then feed it to the animals, so as not to waste any food.

And tonight, when Shiiki Ruri saw Lord Frost Armor Knight ordering all the dishes in the restaurant, she was actually very disgusted.

In Shiiki Ruri's eyes, the Frost Armor Knight's actions were the same as those so-called "gourmets".

Those gourmets come to the restaurant and order every dish, but they never plan to finish it from the beginning. They just take a few bites of each dish and consider it "finished."

Such extravagant and wasteful behavior really made Shiiki Ruri angry. If she was not in the boss's position and could not do whatever she wanted, she would definitely teach those so-called "gourmets" a lesson.

And precisely because of this experience, Shiiki Ruri had a preconceived notion that the Frost Armor Knight was also a type of person similar to gourmets. However, when she saw that the Frost Armor Knight actually ate all the dishes cleanly, not only did her previous aversion disappear, but she also developed a lot of favorable impression of him.

——(Sir Frostmail Knight, so you really are here to eat.)

——(I apologize again for my preconceived misjudgment of you.)

Shiiki Ruri stood silently at the counter and looked at the Frost Armor Knight from afar. She now understood why this lord had attracted so much attention and discussion in Mel Town.

The reputation of outstanding people will indeed spread naturally.

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After a while, the Frost Armor Knight, who was concentrating on thinking, finally moved, then stretched out his hand to signal Shiiki Ruri, telling her that he had an idea.

Upon seeing this, Shiiki Ruri immediately rushed to the table of Lord Frost Armor Knight and sat down swiftly, like a good student waiting for his teacher to start class.

The Frost Armor Knight smiled awkwardly, put on his armor first and told Shiiki Ruri not to have any expectations. He was just offering some ideas as an outsider to see if they could inspire Shiiki Ruri.

"You don't have to be so polite, sir. With your knowledge and experience, I believe you will definitely come up with a good idea that I can't think of."