“Aishii! That Xinya!”
How could Zhong Siji still not understand?
The bento had been swapped by Zhong Xinya.
No wonder she had rushed out the door first thing in the morning.
She had been afraid he would discover it and swap it back.
“Classmate Yan Yan, look quick. The cucumber even turned into fried shrimp. How amazing.”
In the face of this enormous mental shock, Xu Runhui even temporarily set aside the matter of Yan Yanyan sarcastically dunking on her big chest.
Right now she was staring blankly while picking up a piece of fried shrimp from the bento, as if she had taken a huge blow.
Xu Runhui’s appearance made Zhong Siji feel a little unable to bear it.
But then he thought again.
Was it necessary to take such a blow just because the bento he made had been swapped?
When it came to taste, his little sister’s cooking was better no matter how you looked at it, right?
He didn’t get it.
But the more mature Classmate Yan Yan shouldn’t be like this, right…
“Mm, that’s right, Classmate Runhui. Look, the omelet even rolled itself up and turned into an egg roll. How did it do that?”
Yan Yanyan was likewise staring blankly at the side dishes in the bento box, as if she were truly pondering how an omelet had turned into a roll.
Watching the two of them look as if they had lost all will to live, Zhong Siji finally couldn’t hold it in.
“It should be that my little sister took the wrong one. Sorry. But it’s not that big a problem, right? My little sister’s cooking is way better than mine…”
He hadn’t even finished speaking when the two girls with vacant eyes turned their gazes toward him in that eerie way robots twist their necks.
What… what did he do?
Zhong Siji felt his hair standing on end under their stares.
He swore that since the world had changed, and even since he had been born, this was the time he had felt the greatest pressure from females.
All he could do was ask in a trembling voice, “Um, Classmate Yan Yan, Classmate Runhui, say something, will you?”
“No… it really should be no big problem, right.” Xu Runhui said with zero emotion. “Classmate Siji, can you understand? It’s like when you’re bored out of your mind browsing sites looking for a video that catches your eye. You finally find one with an explosive title and a good-looking cover. Then you click in and the male lead’s chest is all puffed out. What does that feel like?”
What did that feel like?
Classmate Runhui didn’t like pecs?
That wasn’t right.
After the world changed, men’s chest muscles couldn’t get big no matter how they trained.
Could it be the same as with men?
Did women also have some kind of “muscle pain gland” or whatever?
Although he didn’t think it was anything major, looking at Xu Runhui’s expression he still swallowed.
“And also…” Yan Yanyan put on the same vacant expression.
“This is just like looking at a leaked cover and looking forward to a movie for months, then excitedly downloading it to watch only to find out it’s complete cover fraud!”
Yours is even more outrageous, isn’t it?
This isn’t even about the bento anymore, is it?
And you already downloaded it to watch.
You didn’t even spend money on a movie ticket.
Is it necessary to feel this bad?
He completely couldn’t understand why Yan Yanyan and Xu Runhui were reacting so strongly.
Although it was true that he had asked them for help and made them look forward to it for nothing, was it necessary to take such a blow?
Either way it was just a bento, right?
If they couldn’t eat it today they could eat it tomorrow, right?
But he really couldn’t stand the two of them looking as if they had seen through the void and lost all will to live.
“I get it! I get it! I’ll compensate you! Please just let me off for today!”
“Compensate!?”
“What kind!?”
Yan Yanyan and Xu Runhui recovered their spirits in the blink of an eye.
The speed was so fast that Zhong Siji even suspected the two people in front of him were not the same ones from just now.
“Uh, as long as the request isn’t too excessive, and it’s about the same as this bento, it should be fine, right?”
Not getting to eat the promised bento wasn’t that big a deal, right?
It was probably just treating them to a meal or something like that…
Looking down on adolescent girls like this will make you suffer dearly, you know, Classmate Siji?
What!
Something on the same level as eating Classmate Siji’s virgin bento!?
Xu Runhui could hardly believe her ears.
To think!
To think!
It was compensation of such high specifications!
Then there were so many things she could ask for!
Xu Runhui couldn’t help shouting in her heart.
A lap pillow or his chest muscles, no no no no no!
She couldn’t!
If she made a request like that, Classmate Siji would definitely treat her as an incompetent high school girl in the middle of adolescence, full of unsatisfied desires and with nothing but dirty yellow trash in her head.
But besides that, what else could she ask for?
Was there a request that would let her eat multiple meals without making Classmate Siji disgusted?
Suddenly, a very familiar little person hopped out of the void.
Xu Runhui looked closely.
Wasn’t this her little sister Xu Runmin?
Little Xu Runmin flapped those little wings that looked exceptionally evil and said to Xu Runhui with a toothy grin, “Idiot big sister, did you forget what I told you yesterday?”
“Propose that you all make bento! Learn from each other! Then go to his house or our house every week to exchange! That way you can see him in his casual clothes, right!”
Xu Runhui instantly received sudden enlightenment like being smashed with a sesame flatbread.
Thank you, Tai—ah!
Wrong!
Runmin!
But you should go back to school first for now!
Pa!
The little demon Xu Runmin was discarded after use by Xu Runhui just like that and sent back to the void.
“Wait, Classmate Siji! We need to discuss it a bit! Classmate Yan Yan, come here!”
Yan Yanyan did not refuse.
As they say, horniness is a woman’s primary motivation for action.
She herself didn’t have that many thoughts about Classmate Siji in that regard, so if they really wanted to make the most of this compensation, it seemed she really had to look to her.
“We’ll do it like this first…”
“Oh oh oh…”
“Then like this…”
“That’s a bit interesting…”
“And finally like this!”
“I have to say, you’re really a genius when it comes to this.”
Watching the two of them whispering back and forth, Zhong Siji for some reason had an ominous premonition.
Before long, Yan Yanyan and Xu Runhui stood in front of Zhong Siji once again.
“The compensation we want is…”
Zhong Siji looked at the two of them being so solemn and couldn’t help swallowing.
It wouldn’t be making him help them with classroom duty or something, would it?
“We also want Classmate Siji to eat our bento!”
Zhong Siji: “Ah?”
Just that?
He had thought it would be something like helping with classroom duty.
Eating bento counted as a request?
And the way they phrased it sounded kind of weird.
“Just that?”
“Of course not. Actually we were thinking, if Classmate Siji does it by himself, he’ll improve too slowly. Classmate Siji also wants his little sister to be able to eat the bento he makes a step sooner, right?”
Zhong Siji nodded.
Although she should be eating it right now.
“So, we’ll learn together and exchange bento every day to share our insights. That way Classmate Siji will improve even faster, right?”
Zhong Siji rubbed his chin.
That made sense.
“But wouldn’t that be too much trouble for you two? And this is called compensation, but isn’t it still just helping me?”
Yan Yanyan waved a large hand.
“Eh, this little thing, compensation or not compensation! When we help as friends of course we have to help all the way!”
Xu Runhui continued.
“When the time comes we can also go to Classmate Siji’s house together on weekends for practical training. If we keep this up, Classmate Siji’s cooking skills will definitely advance by leaps and bounds!”
What else could Zhong Siji say?
He could only sigh sorrowfully.
“With friends like these, what more could one ask for.”
Yan Yanyan and Xu Runhui suddenly felt a slight sense of guilt.
Of course, only a slight one.