Late at night, Touma and Sa, no, Elquet's voices broke the silence in the shop.
"Haruki, the dishes are done—ah, you're daydreaming again."
"Don't disturb him, he's not daydreaming."
Another voice was heard, coming from the third person in the store, or more precisely, a spirit, who came from Fuyuki City out of concern for Shinji's real lover, Yustisa.
Shinji and Elquet both changed their names and disguised themselves. Yustisa was no exception. She placed her body directly into the small world created by Elquet and stayed with Shinji as a spirit. When no one was in the store, she would show up to help clean up and sometimes even watch the store for Shinji. She also disguised herself and changed her name.
That's right, she is the last member of the "Bai Xue Trio", Kitahara Haruki's real lover - Ogiso Setsuna.
Shinji is planning to carry out "White Studies" to the end... Of course it's impossible, Yustisa and Elquet are both immortals, and their views on love are different from humans.
During the Chinese New Year, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Four Kingdoms War were performed at home every day. Yustisa always watched quietly, never got involved, and even gently comforted the losers.
Elquet even publicly made a harem declaration in the harem ending of the Hierer line in "Tsuki-hime": I don't mind whether you have other lovers, just love me.
Here, there is no Tousan, no Sprite, and Touma and Setsuna get along very well.
"What are you doing?" asked Dong Ma.
"Listening to the music of the soul." replied Setsuna.
"I don't understand." Dong Ma shook his head.
"I am perfecting the third method." Xue Cai changed her words.
"I see." Dong Ma pointed to the door curtain, "But there is a guest outside..."
"At this time?" Xue Cai wrinkled her tall nose, then reacted and dispersed the entity as quickly as possible, "Say it earlier next time."
"Well, you didn't ask." Touma muttered softly, "Hey, hey, Haruki, we have a guest."
"Ah? At this time?" Kitahara Haruki, forget it, Shinji Matou's expression is exactly the same as Yustisa's.
It's understandable that he would be surprised. The restaurant industry has time periods. Even a late-night restaurant that doesn't serve three meals a day has peaks and troughs. Peak time is usually half an hour after the store opens until one in the morning. After that, it's a relatively quiet trough period until five in the morning. Sometimes there won't be a single customer in the store for an hour. Yustisa usually watches the store during this time period, while Shinji and Elquet go to play the dungeon in the fictional world.
Arquette was initially against Shinji opening a shop because it was boring and it seriously squeezed the time for the two to explore the fictional world. But she endured it because Shinji said it would help perfect the third magic. It must be said that the princess is becoming more and more sensible, perhaps influenced by Sakura and Fujino, both of whom are girls who can't be better.
Yustisa entered the spirit state, and Shinji wiped the counter and sat there waiting. This mode of simply ordering and eating without having to greet customers was also an important reason why he chose the late-night restaurant, which saved him trouble and effort.
"This is the 'Complaint Pavilion' that those hooligans mentioned; ah, it's not that great." The voice outside the door curtain sounded like that of an adult woman, probably not very old, with energy and enthusiasm that didn't match the quiet street at night.
From what she said just now, it was not difficult to tell that this was a new customer who came here because of its reputation. Late-night restaurants would not appear in any media, but only rely on recommendations from acquaintances. The person who recommended this new customer seemed to be a member of a gang. Could she be a woman who was involved in the Yakuza
Shinji made irresponsible speculations while looking at the last few bottles of liquor under the counter. Most of the small bottles of cheap Erguotou and vodka that he bought when he went shopping went into the stomachs of these hooligans. It was unclear whether they really liked this kind of strong liquor or were just showing off.
I hope this woman can drink enough so that I can clear out the stock and buy new wine. What should I buy this time? Cheap wine mixed with sugar water? The store's homemade rice wine seems good too, how about buying some of both
While I was thinking, the door curtain was lifted and a woman who matched the impression given by the voice walked in.
Shinji glanced at the woman casually, his hands on the counter suddenly trembled, and the rag in his hands slipped quietly.
Her long black hair was down to her waist, swaying slightly as she walked. She was carrying a brown suitcase, and it seemed that she had just returned from a business trip. However, these were not the reasons why Shinji almost lost his composure. What really shook him was the woman's face, a face that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
The familiarity comes from Aozaki Orange, the woman's outline, eyebrows, and nose are very similar to oranges. The strangeness comes from the woman's eyes, which are a pair of blue eyes, as clear and bright as the sky washed by rain.
It's her!!!
Shinji has a secret in his heart, the secret of "Rukutetsu".
The name "Lao Suo Ting" was not his original idea, but came from a fan comic he read in his previous life, which was also called "Lao Suo Ting".
The four rules of the store also come from comics. I couldn't remember them clearly at first, but somehow, when I decided to name it "Complaint Pavilion", the vague memory became clear inexplicably. Maybe this is fate.
To be fair, the comic with only one chapter was not very well drawn, and the plot was not particularly outstanding. However, even though it was definitely not an outstanding comic with just one chapter, it has never been forgotten by Shinji because of the author's wish placed in the comic.
The story told in the comic is very simple. The sisters of the Aozaki family, Toko and Aoko, accidentally met in the "Complaint Pavilion". Under the deliberate guidance of the shop owner, they ridiculed and complained to each other and almost had a fight. In the end, they reconciled.
Like the author who wrote under the pen name "Werewolf", Shinji also hoped that the two sisters, who were equally outstanding and equally favored by God, could reconcile. Because he knew very well that the relationship between the two sisters was not as bad as they described, and they had always missed each other. What they lacked was an opportunity, an opportunity for the two equally proud, equally unyielding, and unwilling women to open their hearts to each other.
Shinji wanted to create such an opportunity, so when he decided to open the late-night restaurant, he couldn't help but think of the name "Koumoku-tei". He hoped that as described in the fan comic, one day the two sisters would meet unexpectedly, be able to talk openly, and restore the intimacy of their girlhood.
Because they are sisters, biological sisters from the same father and mother. Although too many accidents and twists and turns have led to this point, there is no need for things to be like this between them.
Orange has said more than once that watching Shinji getting along with Sakura reminds her of her past self before she left the Aozaki family.
Shinji had thought more than once about letting her take back her former self, even if only for a moment.
So, even though he knew it would offend old customers, even though he knew it might affect business, even though he knew he couldn't go look for Aozaki Aoko, he still took this name.
Missing someone is power, and emotion creates miracles—perhaps this wish can really create a miracle.
Now, the door called miracle seems to have opened a crack.
PS: "Tsukihime" was released in 2000, which is earlier than .asxs. Mushroom - you still know how to play it.
PS2: I see someone has misunderstood again. First of all, in terms of strength alone, Beast is definitely above the crown, there is no doubt about that. The newly released FGOM4 fully illustrates how terrible Beast is. Gay, not to mention other abilities, a single servant's attack is ineffective, and he completely beats all servants. The reason why he won in the end was that the doctor blew himself up. No matter how many servants came, it would be useless. Tima, Tima, because of her maternal instinct, loves her children all the time and gives herself all kinds of blood loss and debuffs that force blood loss. Without this Shining, she may not be able to kill him even if she is fully activated. As for how she won? I can only say that human evil is human love, so it is destined to be defeated from the moment of birth. Translated to the plot - Tima, Shining, Merlin and this bunch of ceiling cooperation. Gay, Solomon sacrificed himself to fundamentally erase Gay's existence. At that time, Gay was left with only remnants. In the end, he was overworked and was strengthened by Guda with the Command Spell until he died - I know that many people killed Gay directly, but if you waste time with him, he will eventually die. So the joke about Gudako tearing up Gay with his bare hands is fine, but it's ridiculous to take it seriously. As for the usual plot, there's no doubt about Mashu's strength, after all, she's Galahad's shield, and currently the best defense. Moreover, 1.5.3 seems to have a new setting, that the ones that Gudako brings with him are spirit-based shadows, and they're not completely powerless - of course, when he fought against Gay, all his servants were gone, so the spirit-based shadows were just a joke.