Chapter 121
Siegfried, who was about to teach K422 how to use chopsticks, suddenly froze.
"Mmm, this is delicious!"
With each chew, the meat juices burst forth, filling the mouth with a rich, sweet flavor like an explosion.
Every bite is bursting with meaty goodness and juicy flavor.
Even though K422 can eat delicious food every day at the Schicksal Headquarters, he is still captivated by Chinese cuisine.
"Since Kiana likes it, then eat more and stay a few more days to fully savor the local delicacies of Sky City," said the smiling manager of the Asian Branch.
"It seems I should stay in the Asian Branch a little longer."
K422 replied with a businesslike smile.
"Kiana, it's not just Sky City that has delicious food. Cities like Canghai City and XX City also have their own specialties. You could say that Shenzhou is a kingdom of food."
The Asian Branch manager noticed that K422 liked food, so he naturally chose to cater to her interests and recommended local delicacies to her.
Hainan Wenchang chicken, roast suckling pig, Dongpo pork, candied potatoes, Beijing roast duck, Mapo tofu, donkey meat sandwich, glutinous rice with braised pork, sweet and sour pork, tiger claw (a type of fried dough), donkey roll (a type of glutinous rice roll), shumai (steamed dumplings) with glutinous rice and chicken, beef balls with juicy tendons, fried dough cakes, braised pork ribs, golden fried rice, four-happiness meatballs, stinky tofu, duck blood vermicelli soup, crossing-the-bridge rice noodles, jianbing guozi (Chinese crepes), etc...
The most famous Chinese dishes, such as the Manchu Han Imperial Feast and Buddha Jumps Over the Wall, are also well worth trying.
"..."
Siegfried's face grew even uglier.
He suddenly realized that even if he received a year's salary in advance, he probably wouldn't be able to take his second daughter to try all the Chinese cuisine.
After all, the true charm of Chinese cuisine lies not only in grand hotels, which offer banquet dishes, but also in snack shops, which offer their own unique snacks.
Of course, it would be endless to introduce them all.
Then, each dish will be described in detail in terms of color, aroma, taste, and completeness, ensuring she won't have time to attend to important matters and might even become a little chubby.
Even so, K422 couldn't help but drool upon hearing it.
"It seems I really need to stay a little longer. Everyone, don't stay stiff, try it out."
As she spoke, she smiled back at the Asian Branch manager and told Lewis's team and the Propaganda Department staff not to be too reserved.
The Propaganda Department staff filming the food on the table left their seats to talk to their superiors about creating a special program called "Schicksal on the Tip of the Tongue," which would focus on the Acting Grand Bishop's culinary adventures.
Of course, the food itself isn't the key; it's the adorable appearance of their Acting Grand Bishop and his cute eating habits that naturally attract fans.
K422 is unaware that the Schicksal Propaganda Department is planning to transform her into a 'mukbang' streamer, and previously even intended for her to dance with Theresa in a very short skirt.
As a result, she quickly became the Acting Grand Bishop of Schicksal, and the Propaganda Department minister naturally dared not mention dancing again.
The intelligence unit members who had already received K422's instructions left the banquet venue under various pretexts, such as going to the toilet or getting equipment.
After the Valkyrie from the intelligence unit passed by the lobby manager, her face transformed into the lobby manager's. Her hairstyle and body shape were also adjusted to resemble a middle-aged man with a receding hairline, and even her clothes changed accordingly.
After completing her transformation, the Valkyrie walked confidently into the monitoring room.
The Valkyrie, hiding in the toilet, changed into camouflage clothing matching the hotel's exterior color, climbed out of the toilet window, and used a mechanical grappling hook to quickly descend from the thirtieth floor.
The two Valkyrie, who were using the excuse of getting equipment, did not notice the surveillance. So after leaving the hotel, they walked a little further and then suddenly turned into a container truck parked on the side of the street.
He then drove away from the scene in the container truck that had been waiting there for the intelligence unit.
The container of the transport vehicle was divided into a camouflaged area, and the space where the advanced communication equipment was placed could only be accessed through the passage under the driver's seat.
One Valkyrie was driving a container truck, while another Valkyrie had already entered the communication space inside the container to begin contacting the intelligence forces that had launched the operation.
Since they had received the order to investigate from the Acting Grand Bishop, they wouldn't care who the investigation was about.
The Acting Grand Bishop wanted to investigate the situation in the Asian Branch, so they naturally investigated every detail thoroughly.
While enjoying the banquet, K422 glanced at the Propaganda Department staff and noticed that some intelligence unit members had already left the party and were still interacting with the Asian Branch managers with business smiles.
Meanwhile, in Russia...
Some of the Propaganda Department staff who did not go to the Asian Branch with K422 began packing up their filming equipment and taking the newly recovered Dawn Glory with them after editing the video footage they had shot, before preparing to leave Russia.
Meanwhile, some staff members had a hidden bag on their person containing a mobile storage device with all the intelligence they had gathered in Russia.
K422's departure does not mean she had no intention of investigating Russia.
"Mr. Siegfried, don't you have an appetite?"
Seeing that Siegfried seemed distracted, K422 stopped her half-hearted conversation with the Asian Branch manager and turned to ask Siegfried a question.
"No, no, Chinese food is indeed delicious."
Siegfried, after saying this, suddenly started eating the fish in large bites, and with a "plop," the fish head was gone, just like that of a certain senior student who turned her head around. The scene left people with a psychological trauma for a time.
"???"
However, K422 still could not understand Siegfried's behavior.
"Cough cough cough..."
Siegfried ate so fast that he naturally suffered, and K422 could only watch expressionlessly as he tried to lick his throat.
The fish head may have been swallowed, but the fish bone may be stuck in his esophagus.
"Sister Liv, please."
"Yes, Kiana... Mr. Siegfried, this way please."
"I'm sorry, my father may not have ever eaten Chinese food."
There's nothing wrong with Siegfried's current identity being made public. Not many people know that he joined the Anti-Entropy organization as an executor, so the Schicksal just assumes that he's been hiding outside for the past few years.
After K422 took over, she withdrew the arrest warrant for Siegfried, so it's not surprising that Siegfried immediately appeared by her side.
However, because Otto became K422's guardian and thus her grandfather, Siegfried directly became Otto's son.
Of course, Otto definitely wouldn't want this son.
Neither the Kaslana Family nor the Schariac Family had any intention of contacting Siegfried, who was arguably the biggest stain on the history of the Schicksal ...
Maria Schariac, who is being groomed to be the next head of the Schariac family, said that if that bastard dared to step into the Schariac family mansion, she would shoot him in the head on the spot.
Incidentally, Maria, who was shouting so loudly, still had her hands and feet in casts.
After all, it had been less than a month since the Honkai Beast escape incident. As the saying goes, it takes a hundred days to recover from a broken bone, not to mention that Maria was almost on the verge of suffering multiple fractures.
Of course, she said that holding the gun in her mouth would also work, and it's unclear whether she was influenced by some Far Eastern comic.
K422's rapid rise from Schicksal Saintess to Acting Grand Bishop left Maria with no opportunity for revenge. Even in her madness, she lacked the courage to openly seduce the Acting Grand Bishop of Schicksal, though she could still hurl some insults.
However, after learning that Siegfried's arrest warrant had been lifted.
Her oft-repeated "Damn Kiana!" has turned into "Damn Siegfried!", and she feels uneasy if she doesn't shout it out a couple of times every day.
After Liv left with Siegfried, K422 continued to cultivate relationships with the Asian Branch managers.
She herself didn't like to doubt others, and besides, the Asian Branch was located in Shenzhou. K422 naturally had a good impression of the Asian Branch, whose members were mostly of Asian descent. But Otto's reminder was still fresh in her mind.
However, while indulging in superficial pleasantries with the Asian Branch managers, even the most delicious food loses its appeal.
So, that bastard bishop is really annoying.
Even if she runs away, she should be left with some psychological trauma, which makes her afraid to let her guard down now.
"Kiana's manners are truly excellent. Did you receive special training?"
"Yes, although I lost some memories due to an experimental accident, I can remember some things after learning them just once." K422 answered the question with a smile.
However, she had no real memories.
In fact, learning all sorts of dining etiquette back then was incredibly difficult for her.
As a large family, Apocalypse places great importance on etiquette, although its main members are only Otto, Theresa, and her clone.
She didn't learn this much at first, but it's unclear when it started, but once Otto began planning to train her to become Kiana Apocalypse, her learning expanded significantly...
Whether it's the way they walk or stand, even the way they tilt their heads when they smile has a fixed angle.
131. Sometimes you really don't need to think too much.
Raised like a princess, knowledge and etiquette are naturally essential courses for the heir.
K422 continued to have half-hearted exchanges with the Asian Branch managers.
Meanwhile, the intelligence unit hidden in the Propaganda Department began to investigate, and the investigation revealed many strange things.
For example, the Asian Branch has received numerous reports of Honkai Beast being discovered, but when they dispatched Valkyrie, they failed to find Honkai Beast at their destinations.
Thinking the local residents had made a mistake, the Valkyrie criticized the resident who made the report, but the members of the intelligence unit would not easily ignore such a clue.
She sent the intelligence she had gathered to the team members in the communications center inside the container, and immediately took out a map of Sky City.
The locations where Honkai Beast were discovered through the tip-off calls were mostly in the suburbs of Sky City.
"There's a problem in Sky City. All team members, please be aware and shift your collection focus towards Sky City."
The Valkyrie at the container communication center immediately issued orders to the Valkyrie carrying out the mission.
"Report: Intelligence Team One is preparing to proceed to Sky City to meet with the Acting Grand Bishop. Please issue new instructions."
"First, hand over the collected intelligence to the intelligence analysis center. The Acting Grand Bishop paying unusual attention to the Russian region, so please make sure to provide effective intelligence."
"Received. Team One will immediately upload the intelligence to the intelligence analysis center."
As soon as communication was interrupted, the Valkyrie, holding her large earpiece, began communicating with the next Valkyrie had infiltrated the area.
The Valkyrie, disguised as the lobby manager, used a special drug to knock out all the security personnel in the monitoring room before starting to investigate the surveillance footage.
"Report: We have discovered records of Valkyrie belonging to the Asian Branch contacting the head of Shencheng Medicine in East Asia."
Although the surveillance footage only showed that the Valkyrie and the person in charge just happened to meet in the elevator, and they were quite far apart in the elevator.
However, the Valkyrie, who passed the rigorous tests to become a member of the intelligence unit, discovered records of communication between the two, especially during the only time they had physical contact in the elevator, when the head of Shencheng Medicine secretly passed something to the Valkyrie.
"Received. Please erase your traces immediately and return. Team three will begin investigating Shencheng Medicine."
The communications center inside the container continuously gathers intelligence collected by various squads of the intelligence unit.
In addition to the intelligence unit members hiding in the Propaganda Department, even the main intelligence unit, whose members were hiding in the Asian region, began to take action.
Half an hour later, the team members who had left returned as if nothing had happened.
The person who went to the toilet naturally looked like they had just finished, and the staff member with the equipment carefully adjusted the shooting tools and even took a picture of K422 eating a crab leg.
The head of the Propaganda Department immediately decided to print an additional thousand copies, believing that the Schicksal Headquarters and branches in various regions had plenty of Mom fan who wanted to buy them.
In fact, even he wanted to keep one.
"I'm so satisfied."
Although I really wanted to emphasize that I was losing my appetite because I was being insincere with the Asian Branch manager, the Asian Branch manager was a mature and beautiful older sister, and seemed to be a very experienced married woman, so the maternal instincts she exuded were just right.
I would send K422 a face wash every now and then, and I had figured out her taste preferences by observing the dishes she focused on at the banquet, so I actively served her food.
The other party was so hospitable, and the Chinese food was especially delicious. Since the Schicksal Headquarters was located in Europe, K422's staple food was mostly bread and beef.
Because of Otto's pampering, K422's meals were prepared by chefs carefully selected from various places. For example, when she wanted to eat fried eggs at the Cocolia Orphanage, one of the chefs responsible for making breakfast for K422 made her a special breakfast fried egg that could sell for $1,000 in the hotel.
Don't be fooled by her extravagant spending on breakfast. One person's extravagance is nothing compared to the countless research institutes under the Schicksal. The annual funding for each institute's projects is enough for a family to live a life of luxury.
It can be said that K422, who already had a preference for food, became even more picky about food under Otto's careful nurturing.
But she still found Chinese food delicious.
She felt she had to retract her earlier statement; delicious food wouldn't become less delicious just because she was distracted. Food that became less delicious simply wasn't particularly tasty to begin with.
Of course, it's also possible that K422's only thought along the way was 'eating'.
"Your Acting Grand Bishop may eat whatever you wish tonight."
"No, no, I can't let my older sister spend money. Besides, this is the second lunch. I won't have an appetite by evening. I just want to go back and get some rest."
K422 declined verbally, but her gaze lingered on the unfinished banquet table.
He seemed to be playing hard to get.
"I will have the hotel prepare a dinner for His Acting Grand Bishop."
"Then I'll have to trouble you, big sister. I really love Chinese food."
K422 patted its belly and licked its lips with lingering satisfaction.
Although she had just eaten the equivalent of several adults' portions, her physical structure was already beyond that of a normal person, and she consumed more energy every day than a normal person.