Head chef

When Jilan opened her eyes, she turned her head and saw a strand of green hair.

"Good morning, Jilan." Ibara Shiozaki sat up in bed while rubbing her eyes, seemingly unaffected by what happened yesterday.

She was wearing a nightgown. After waking up, she immediately stood up and put the potted plant that was on the TV cabinet back on the balcony.

"Shiozaki, good morning." Jilan rubbed his eyes, sat cross-legged on the bed, and smiled bitterly to himself as he looked at the huge gap in the middle of the bed.

Last night, Ibara Shiozaki discovered that the only double bed in the room could be split in the middle. She asked Jilan about this, asking if he wanted the bed split. She added that she wouldn't mind sleeping with Jilan if he wanted to Jilan...

Although she said that, she actually thickened her hair and made it covered in needles.

The threat was obvious; what choice did Jilan have?

In short, nothing happened last night.

During breakfast, Jilan encountered Kaminari and Mineta at the buffet. The two seemed to be waiting for Jilan. Although they appeared to be looking straight ahead, they were actually gesturing with their fingers, as if they wanted Jilan to call them over.

Jilan was initially confused, but when she saw the chef with strong biceps staring at them in the shop window, she immediately understood.

"Ahem, waiter, could you come here for a moment?" Jilan coughed helplessly.

"Sir, it's my pleasure to serve you!"

The two seemed to have been waiting for Jilan to say those words, and immediately ran over.

"Jilan, you really got us into trouble yesterday!" Kaminari complained as soon as he opened his mouth. "You fell down yesterday, and Grape and I immediately tried to get a rescue rope to save you, but Grape accidentally spilled beer on the chef on the way, and got scolded for ages..."

Minoru Mineta complained, "Back then, it was clearly that big guy who wasn't watching where he was going, so why do you have to blame me? Do you really think I'm small and easy to bully?"

Jilan glanced at Mineta's small frame, then compared it to the head chef's physique, and agreed, "He does look quite easy to bully."

"Wow, class monitor, how dare you say such sarcastic things! You told me yesterday to never touch girls, and look what happened!" Minoru Mineta pointed at Ibara Shiozaki was quietly eating, and demanded, "But now you're all lovey-dovey with such a pretty girl, and yesterday you were also arguing with several girls! This is just too enviable!"

"Are you calling me?" Ibara Shiozaki looked up at Minoru Mineta and asked in confusion.

Minoru Mineta, unable to meet the girl's gaze, instantly hid behind Kaminari, blushing and trembling as he muttered to himself, "A girl actually spoke to me first..."

Kaminari shook his head helplessly at Minoru Mineta's lack of motivation. After glancing at Ibara Shiozaki a few times, he sensed something and said hesitantly, "You wouldn't happen to be that Vines girl from Class B, would you?"

Ibara Shiozaki's hair has now returned to the fine strands of a normal person's hair, which makes Kaminari somewhat uncertain.

Mineta poked his head out, glanced at her, and exclaimed in surprise, "Really? I saw her at the Sports Festival!"

"Ah, she is Ibara Shiozaki." Jilan readily admitted it; for someone familiar with her, this level of disguise was of little use.

After Kaminari, Kaminari smiled politely at Ibara Shiozaki, then instantly hooked his arm around Jilan's neck and whispered, "Jilan, you actually managed to snag a girl from Class B without making a sound! That's so enviable!"

Jilan replied speechlessly, "She and I are just friends. We only went together this time because we were going to the Island Expo together."

"I-Island I, that's certainly a good reason." Kaminari nodded, stroking his chin seriously, then immediately hooked his arm around Jilan's neck and growled in a low voice, "But do you think I'd believe that! You two slept in the same room, I don't believe you didn't do anything!"

I'm innocent... Although Jilan wanted to explain, she thought that Kaminari's stubborn and idiotic personality meant he would only say he believed her, but secretly he would consider her and Ibara Shiozaki to be in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship.

"Think what you want."

Jilan gave up on explaining, slowly finished the last sip of her coffee, and handed the cup to Kaminari: "Waiter, please refill my coffee."

"Are you trying to get rid of me on purpose? Tell me more gossip!" Kaminari said in a fit of frustration.

Jilan asked curiously, "Aren't you a waiter now? Why can't I order you around, or rather, ask you to serve me?"

You even used the word "order"!

Jilan shrugged. "But this is your job, isn't it?"

Kaminari wanted to continue arguing, but then he heard a roar suddenly come from behind him.

"Hey, what are you two doing standing around in front of the guests? Get back to work!"

Mineta and Kaminari turned around and immediately cowered. The head chef, who had been hiding behind the display window, had somehow emerged from the small room and was striding towards them with an angry expression on his face!

"Chef, we are..." Kaminari was about to say that they had been summoned by Jilan when the chef rudely interrupted him with a roar.

"It's just ordering food, and you two good-for-nothings have taken so long! Don't you two newly arrived waiters have any professional ethics? This is the Voyager, a luxury cruise ship; we don't keep freeloaders here!"

Minoru Mineta and Kaminari obediently endured his spittle, without even considering arguing back.

Jilan frowned upon hearing his words, stood up, and said in a deep voice, "Are you the head chef of the buffet restaurant? I'm the one who called these two people over to inquire about something. Is there a problem?"

The head chef's expression instantly changed, and he said to Jilan with a forced smile, "Hello sir, I don't know what your question is. These two are both incompetent new hires with absolutely no experience. I'll find someone else to serve you."

In the head chef's eyes, Kaminari and Mineta were clearly clumsy, which was why they had been stammering and unable to give a clear answer even after being questioned for so long. Now, as long as he smeared the two of them and made the customers dissatisfied with them, he could openly take them to the manager and make them reflect on their actions, or even fire them, to avenge the incident where Minoru Mineta splashed wine on his clothes yesterday!

What he didn't expect was that this guest knew Kaminari.

Jilan asserted, "No, I feel they provided excellent service, so let them stay."

Jilan realized that the head chef was deliberately seeking revenge. After all, Kaminari and Minoru Mineta were classmates, and it was because of her that they had offended this person. Now she had to speak up and help.

"This... isn't quite right," the head chef said, feigning difficulty. "Those two have wasted your time, sir. I think they should be dealt with, but you shouldn't concern yourself with this."

"Time? You're wasting my time right now." Jilan took out a handkerchief, wiped her hands, and threw it at the chef's face, saying impatiently, "Hey, waiter, didn't I tell you to refill my coffee? Hurry up and do it, what, are you upset that I didn't tip you?"

"No, no, how could a guest be? I'll call him right away." He said this ingratiatingly to Jilan, then immediately turned to Kaminari sternly, "Didn't you hear me? Hurry up and go!"

Although the head chef was insulted by Jilan's act of throwing a handkerchief in his face, he still smiled and dared not refute her. He knew that there were many distinguished guests on the ship, and anyone who dared to do such a thing could easily get rid of him as head chef!

Kaminari paused for a moment, then immediately ran to pour coffee for Jilan. He understood that Jilan wanted to extricate him from the situation of being blamed, and he gave Jilan a grateful look as he ran.

Jilan frowned as she looked at the head chef in front of her and said coldly, "And you, you're blocking my view."

"Yes, yes, I'll leave now." The head chef bowed to Jilan as he stepped back, turning and leaving when he was about five meters away from her.

Minoru Mineta had expected to be reprimanded this time, but to his surprise, Jilan defeated the head chef with just a few words. Overwhelmed with emotion, he rushed towards Jilan with tears in his eyes.

"Squad leader, thank you so much this time!" Minoru Mineta shouted.

The head chef stopped in his tracks. This person was actually the head of those two waiters?

"Oh no..." Jilan thought to herself as she looked at the chef who was frozen in place.

Teammates are really unreliable...