Opening a Restaurant in Honkai

"Perhaps because it's too weak."

Zhao Bai answered with certainty.

As soon as he finished speaking, Kiana kicked him in the rear. Zhao Bai, understanding her intent, sprinted forward. A flash of ice-blue blade light severed the vines. Just a few steps out, a thunderous roar erupted from behind him. The vine whipped down, a dark green phantom streaking through the air, leaving an incredibly deep gash in the ground.

"Kiana?"

"I'm fine!"

Kiana responded loudly, her swinging vine whipping up dust and obscuring their vision. Zhao Bai heard gunshots and the constant flashing of pulse lights.

In an instant, the entire school came alive.

The net parted, and countless vines swung before his eyes. Zhao Bai dodged them in a flurry, his peripheral vision catching a glimpse of Kiana. His sight was blocked by the dust and smoke, and he couldn't see her clearly. He figured Kiana was in the same predicament.

Kiana wouldn't notice the abnormality here.

Zhao Bai stopped abruptly. Facing the vines attempting to swallow him, he didn't dodge. Instead, he softly chanted something.

"Vines... plants... green vegetables... you're also an ingredient!"

Zhao Bai's eyes suddenly changed. He quickly loosened his grip on his blade and pulled out a set of kitchenware from subspace.

The blade was long and slender, with tangled red and black as its primary colors, making it look like a blood-stained evil weapon. Its name was the Anti-Field Katana, and its skill was to gather enemies and cut them. In Zhao Bai's hands, it was a natural juicer.

The full arsenal of weapons in Zhao Bai's hands could only be used as kitchenware, but this time was different.

What he could cut depended on what Zhao Bai considered an ingredient. After all, being a chef was a grand profession that included the act of slaughter.

After a full two years of training, Zhao Bai could now treat some non-human things as ingredients. Vines like these were imagined as some kind of moving melons and vegetables. However, this mode of behavior required strong self-hypnosis abilities, which Zhao Bai had not yet mastered.

"Kitchen Knife Style Twelve: Wash and Chop."

He loudly shouted the embarrassing move name and swung his blade with all his might. A dark red black hole appeared at the tip of the blade, and the vines were uncontrollably drawn together.

Amidst the chaos, he sheathed his blade, took a breath, and quietly picked up the Particle Cutter from the ground, acting as if nothing had happened.

"What just happened?"

The vines were torn and cut by the black hole, squeezed into a light green juice. When it was all over, Kiana rushed to him, holding her dual pistols, looking around as if very concerned about Zhao Bai's safety.

"Nothing, just a sword technique I realized while cutting vegetables."

Zhao Bai replied calmly, carefully observing Kiana's reaction. According to Theresa's instructions, as long as he handled it carefully, Kiana would believe even the most outrageous things. But this reason was too ridiculous; even he himself felt like laughing.

But strangely, Kiana looked at the mess on the ground, with the greenish-blue juice flowing everywhere. After thinking carefully, she actually showed a look of sudden realization.

"So that's how it is?" she said, calmly returning her guns to her waist. "I think I understand."

No, you understand nothing.

Kiana is really... adorably clueless. She's clearly still confused, yet she's acting so tsundere as if she knows. In the foreseeable future, this confusion will remain buried deep within her. No wonder Theresa is so at ease with Kiana; the Director understands her perfectly.

"A sword technique realized while cutting vegetables... Can you explain it?"

After a while, Kiana suddenly turned around and asked, her cheeks slightly flushed. Clearly, her confusion had overcome her tsundere pride, but the young lady's heart still felt too embarrassed to ask.