I Opened a Restaurant in Honkai

"Ah!"

She fled backward, the knife-wielding person glaring hungrily behind her. This was another straight road, with nowhere to run.

That person was like the Grim Reaper.

Zhao Bai walked soundlessly, sheathed his blade in silence, then stepped before Seele and gently stroked her hair.

The death she had expected did not come.

Seele cautiously opened her eyes and found that person smiling. The wind blew from the opposite direction, and Seele's back felt an icy chill that filled her with despair. Yet the man standing before her had a smile like the warm spring sun, making trust rise within her for no reason at all.

"Who are you?"

Zhao Bai looked thoughtful.

It was an extremely complicated question. What Seele longed for was kindness from the world. If the person who saved her carried any symbolically meaningful identity, then this operation would have failed. In that instant, Zhao Bai thought of many things, but what slipped from his mouth was not anyone's name.

"I'm just... an ordinary passerby."

That was right. He was not Zhao Bai, the A-rank combatant of Schicksal; nor Zhao Bai, the chef who lingered around St. Freya Academy; nor Zhao Bai, Anti-Entropy's strongest executor. The one reaching out to Seele in this lost orphanage was merely an ordinary passerby.

Just an ordinary person.

Seele was clearly somewhat puzzled. She had never heard such a strange title before.

"Then should I call you... Mister Ordinary Person?"

"Indeed."

P.S.: Even ordinary strangers would lend a helping hand. That was what Zhao Bai wanted to teach her—the kindness of the world.

Probably something very wonderful.

Silent Protection

"I came to help you."

Seele racked her brains but could not find any memory of this [Mister Ordinary Person]. Confusion filled her eyes as she instinctively asked:

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