Chapter 1058.
1「 Isn’t that obvious? If they’re making this much variety of pastries every day, then they would hire part-time staff for that 」
Mariko said.
「 Work hours start at 9 in the morning and ends at 9 in the evening. They’re open for 12 hours a day from morning to night, and they’re constantly making, baking, replenishing new bread at that time, right? That means they have to take turns in shifts to make it in time 」
Mariko opens her smartphone while she says that.
「 Oh, there it is. The owner of this place is a 38-year-old person trained in a foreign bakery. His hobby is reading, and when there’s a popular book, he’ll be sure to buy it 」
Mariko seems to have found the website of this bakery.
「 Get it? For that hobby to be viable, there’s no way the owner is going around making bread from morning until evening 」
Yeah, that’s true.
You still need to work at night for the pastry the next day.
If the owner’s always in front of the oven then he has no time to rest.
「 So what about it? What do you want to happen after knowing that? The owner only needs to check the taste of his products, right? The pastries here look good, looks delicious, and they have a good reputation 」
Kana-senpai looks at her phone too.
It seems that she found discussions over the internet.
「 You see, we’re entering the third-best bakery in Tokyo category 」
Yeah, Katsuko-nee did tell Ai and me to see it.
I think that the shop has a high popularity.
「 But, all I see is an inelegant and a sham of a shop 」
Mariko smiled wryly.
「 Well, you may know about the genuine European bakeries but we’re in Japan. I think that this is good enough 」
Kana-senpai insists.
「 You two are too loud 」
Yomi warned them.
Oh, the employees and the other customers are looking at us curiously.
Well, students wearing uniforms are arguing on a bakery in an upscale residential area where they don’t fit in.
Even so, seeing that they’re not giving us a warning.
That’s all thanks to Mariko’s uniform, I believe.
It’s a shop intended for rich people so Mariko’s uniform works on them.
「 Oh, sorry 」
Mariko apologized to the people around with an elegant gesture.
「 Hurry up now and pick three, I’ll buy them 」
「 Oooh, w-wait 」
Ai picks pastries in a hurry.
Haiji, Yomi, seen to have made their picks while Mariko and Kana-senpai are arguing.
The bread that took my interest is loaf bread, so I took one.
I want Katsuko-nee to give it a taste too.
「 Are you sure about this Nobu? Do you have money? 」
Kana-senpai asks worriedly.
「 Yeah, this shop should be able to receive cards 」
I take out the card Minaho-neesan gave me since we’re at this kind of place.
「 Wow, isn’t that a black card? 」
Kana-senpai’s surprised.
「 This card belongs to this man. I guarantee you that 」
Mariko told the employee with a smile
「 O-Okay 」
The employee looks at the back of the shop with a confused look.
Oh, the person Mariko was looking at her smartphone, the owner appeared.
It’s gotten noisy in the shop so he came to check it out.
Then.
Haiji spoke to the owner in German.
I don’t know anything about the German language but she speaks with a dignified and elegant tone.
Then, the owner goes back inside the store in a hurry, then…
「 Thank you for your purchase 」
He told Mariko with a smile.
「 Hurry up and pack it 」
「 Ah, yes! 」
With that said, we managed to purchase the pastries.
Haiji and I received the paper bags with the name of the bakery printed on it.
「 I’m very sorry for the fuss, everyone 」
Mariko greets off the people in the store and we left.
「 What did you tell them? 」
Kana-senpai asks Haiji as soon as we left the shop.
「 Nothing much. I just told the man “This is a young lady of a respectable family with a long history. Show no discourtesy” 」
「 Huh, that’s all? 」
Kana-senpai seems surprised.
「 It’s because Haiji spoke in fluent German. You know, in the Japanese language, there’s an inelegant way of speaking and a polite way. That owner is studying German so when Haiji spoke words that the upper class uses, then he trusted us 」
I said.
Agnes is also a half-foreign with blonde hair and blue eyes, but…
Haiji has black hair, and you won’t find the European blood unless you take a good look. She’s still young after all.
「 Haiji’s indoctrinated at the academy with the etiquette and language required to serve noblemen in Europe 」
Mariko speaks proudly.
「 That’s one of the reasons, but.. 」
Haiji speaks.
「 I just considered what Edie-oneesama would do if she were here 」
Edie?
「 If I am lost, I run a simulation of how would a trustworthy and reliable sister would get through it, and so that’s what happened 」
「 Oh, I guess that’s what happened. If you think of what would this person do, you can find your answer right away 」
Kana-senpai said.
「 Edie-oneesama’s amazing. She’s an erudite, a fast thinker, and she also has courage. I keep learning from her 」
I see. She’s become good friends with Edie in just one week.
「 That’s right, Edie-oneesama’s thoughts are too fast that I sometimes can’t even read it 」
Yomi said.
「 Tsukiko-oneesama seems to have read through it all however 」
As expected of the next Takakura shrine maiden, she can keep up with Edie’s speed.
I wonder how Luna and Koyomi-chan fares.
I should look it up later.
If it goes poorly, it could be a way to counter the Miko power.
「 Yomi, that’s enough on that topic 」
I said.
Kudou-papa’s looking this way from the driver’s seat.
「 Kudou-san can do lip-reading 」
I hid my lips with my hand and said.
「 Ah, okay 」
「 Huh, Nobu. Isn’t he Michi-san’s father 」
Kana-senpai asks curiously.
「 Yes, he’s not an enemy right now. But, he’s a free man 」
Depending on the events, he could become our enemy.
「 Besides, that guy never lets such opportunities pass him. Besides, I don’t like the value to go down 」
「 S-Sensei, I’m sorry 」
Yomi bowed her head.
This time, Yomi speaks hiding her mouth.
「 Figure out how you can keep up with Edie’s thoughts 」
I ordered.
「 Maybe, it’s just Yomi who can’t keep up. It might not be a problem with the other girls. If that’s the case, Yomi will become our weakness 」
If an enemy brings a combatant that can think at the same speed as Edie, then…
She will die before she could read their thoughts.
「 Tsukiko-oneesama probably know the secret to it 」
Haiji’s also hiding her mouth.
「 It would be great if she could tell us the trick 」
「 I think so too. Tsukiko’s four years older than Yomi, her experience in reading minds is much longer than Yomi 」
Furthermore, Tsukiko hid the fact that she also has the Miko power while the Yakuza’s monitoring her.
「 Come to think of it, I never had an in-depth conversation with Tsukiko-oneesama on such topics 」
The Takakura sisters know that they have the same power but that doesn’t mean that they talk about the details of it.
That’s probably because the Miko power is essentially the evil power that drove the sisters’ parents to their deaths.
「 Then, since this is a good chance, talk to her. I’ll tell her the same 」
I said.
「 Oh, welcome back 」
Returning to the car… Kudou-papa greeted us.
「 This is quite a shitty town, isn’t it? It’s making my ass itch 」
「 Yes, let’s leave this place 」
What’s the point of opening the bread in a car parked when the store you bought it is in front of you?
「 Yeah, let’s leave 」
Kudou-papa starts driving.
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「 Hmm, well, if you ask me, this is delicious 」
Kudou-papa said.
We moved to the big street and parked the car in a civilian parking lot.
Everyone take out several pastries we bought and take a bite.
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