My Kinks Are Perfectly Normal

Gu Xin couldn't make heads or tails of it, so he cursed under his breath as he drove Wang Quan out.

What the hell did he mean by "even if your tastes aren't human"? Gu Xin felt that Wang Quan might have left the house without his brain today.

He, Gu Xin, a person who respected and loved humanity the most—how could his tastes possibly not be human?

What a joke. He could swear that he absolutely liked pretty, beautiful, adorable girls. He did not have any strange fetishes.

"Damn it, has that guy lost his mind?"

After driving Wang Quan out, Gu Xin still couldn't help cursing inwardly.

Mostly because Toyokawa Shoko's strange look from nearby made Gu Xin feel prickly all over.

"Ahem, Shoko, don't listen to that guy's nonsense. He might have taken the wrong medicine today."

"Mhm, mhm, mhm. I believe you, Boss."

Toyokawa Shoko replied with a gentle, angelic smile.

"Good girl. Go read your book."

Gu Xin nodded in satisfaction and had Shoko continue reading her magic book.

Toyokawa Shoko kept smiling as she turned around, but the instant she did, the girl's expression collapsed.

The boss... didn't actually like normal human girls?!

Shoko felt as though the sky had fallen in an instant. How could this be? She had been looking forward so much to a future with the boss, even to the point that she had...

But now, everything was different.

No wonder. Shoko felt that she was quite pretty, and her figure was not bad either. Yet whenever she spent time with the boss—

She had noticed that the boss's gaze never lingered on her for long. It couldn't be that the boss was incapable, could it?

So that was it.

The boss was only eighteen. How had he become like this? Could it be because he dealt with the corpses of magical beasts and monsters every day?

Toyokawa Shoko returned to the front desk and lightly bit her soft pink lips.

To save the boss, who might become one of those "deviant types" in the future!

"A person's aesthetic preferences and fetishes can be changed..."

Shoko pulled out her phone and searched it up. Looking at a post on the forum, she fell into thought.

She glanced at the ordinary casual clothes she was wearing, then at the vividly described personal experience in the forum post. Her delicate brows furrowed slightly, and a blush gradually rose on her pretty face.

"Boss."

"What is it, Shoko?"

"You..." In the end, the thin-skinned blue-haired girl could not bring herself to ask. She changed the subject instead.

"Could you lend me some money? You can deduct it from my salary."

"Sure. Are you buying something?" Gu Xin was taken aback and rather curious.

"Yes, I want to buy some clothes..."

"Oh, I'll transfer it to you later. Use it first, and tell me if it isn't enough."

Gu Xin understood and did not find it strange. Girls liked pretty clothes—perfectly normal.

But Gu Xin did not see that the girl behind the counter was practically turning into a steam engine.

He was sorting through the rare materials he had obtained from the last secret realm.

"I forgot to ask Old Wang about that black glove."

Gu Xin couldn't help but feel a headache coming on. Even now, he still did not know what the black glove he had obtained from the King's Treasury was.

Last time, Wang Quan had taken a picture and said he would ask around, but there was still no news.

Gu Xin felt that the guy had probably forgotten. It was not strange for Old Wang to drop the ball on unimportant matters.

"And this..."

Gu Xin took out a spatial scroll and fell into thought.

The Lost Princess's Soul!

In truth, this material was very precious to Gu Xin. It was a real soul! And the soul of a princess at that.

Back in the secret realm, Gu Xin had collected the princess's soul because he planned to find the princess's body later and figure out a way to put the soul back into it.

But the Silver Demon later told him that it had long since eaten the princess, and that it had deliberately left behind the princess's soul as bait to lure adventurers.

"How pitiful. Even her consciousness was erased."

Gu Xin sighed. Demons guilty of such monstrous crimes should be refined away, leaving nothing behind.

But this pure Lost Princess's Soul...

"Don't worry. I've already avenged you. In the future, I'll make good use of you! I'll let you 'be reborn'!"

Gu Xin carefully put away the [Princess's Soul]. He would definitely make good use of this material.

He had already killed the culprit, the Silver Demon, and avenged the princess and the king. They could now rest in peace.

"The Loess Giant is also excellent material. If I can obtain suitable additional materials next, I should be able to make that card."

Gu Xin had certain expectations for the Loess Giant as well.

He lay around for about half an hour.

"Shoko, I'm heading out to buy some drinks. Is there anything you want?"

"Um, if possible, Boss, could you buy some more coffee beans?"

"You're only sixteen and already like coffee this much, Shoko? That's not good."

"...It helps wake me up in the morning."

Toyokawa Shoko blinked and spoke in a coquettish tone.

"Alright, alright."

Gu Xin went to the backyard. Though his little shop was indeed small, the backyard was not.

He got on his electric scooter and rode toward Aunt Huang's shop.

Squeak, squeak, squeak.

Several little creatures rapidly scurried across in front of Gu Xin.

"Rats?"

Gu Xin watched several little rats dart past the corner and crawl into the sewers, stopping his scooter in surprise.

There were quite a few ordinary animals in this world as well, but the vast majority were raised by humans.

That was because ordinary animals could barely survive in the wild. Compared to magical beasts, they were simply far too weak.

So they either mutated or went extinct.

Rats were considered relatively resilient. They reproduced quickly and adapted well, but even so, this weak species had nearly been wiped out in the wild by now.

At least as far as Gu Xin knew, he had not seen a wild rat in Yin City for at least ten years.

"Where did they come from again?" Gu Xin could not figure it out, though perhaps rats had always existed in Yin City's sewers and had only now crawled into his area.

When he arrived at Aunt Huang's shop, it was indeed already open.

"Auntie, three cases of cola."

"Sure. Come help carry them."

"Where's Brother Xiaoming?"

"You know Brother Xiaoming. He's watching some internet celebrity's livestream."

Aunt Huang did not treat Gu Xin like an outsider and rolled her eyes.

Well, whenever Huang Xiaoming came back, Aunt Huang was only happy in the morning. By afternoon, she would start complaining about him.

"By the way, Auntie, do you know what I saw on the way here just now? Three huge rats. They suddenly darted right past me."

"You saw them too, Gu Xin?"

Aunt Huang froze upon hearing that.

"I saw one too when I was washing vegetables downstairs this morning. A big black rat crawled out of the storm drain—good heavens!"

Still shaken, Aunt Huang gestured at its size, then patted her chest.

"You didn't see it, Gu Xin. That big black rat was standing there, staring straight at me, just like a person. It scared me half to death."

Gu Xin raised his brows. Auntie, are you sure you saw a black rat and not some Great Immortal?