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"Not bad, but it's already starting to get cooler in places a little further north. Hmm, it might be much earlier this year than in previous years."
"Really? Then... how's the weather outside?"
Hayakawa: "..."
So many people are actually paying attention to the weather outside? Don't force yourself to find something to talk about.
"that…"
Aoba Yuzuki had clearly sensed the awkwardness at the dinner table, but as the temple's abbess, she was expected to remain silent and maintain the status quo. Not knowing what to say, she coughed lightly and tried to make conversation, turning to Kaigetsu beside her: "Kaigetsu, how's the weather today? If it's nice, we could go out for a stroll together, buy some things, like your favorite chocolate parfaits..."
Aoba Kaigetsu: "...Sis, you've already asked me twice."
"I'm done eating."
At this moment, Sister Xixi suddenly put down her chopsticks, wiped her mouth, stood up, glanced at her watch in a pretentious manner, and said in a flustered manner, "Oh dear, I suddenly remembered that I have something very important to me, a beautiful young woman in my twenties, and I have to go there right now. You guys eat here, I'm going out first."
"Huh? Sister Xixi?"
Aoba Yuzuki was stunned. In this situation, you, as an adult, are actually trying to run away.
"Jugetsu,"
He left the tense and indignant space as if he were escaping with a playful air, leaving everything to his disciple, and not forgetting to say, "Take good care of Hayakawa-kun."
With that, she turned and vanished without a trace, leaving without a trace. Meanwhile, Cang Ye Jieyue stood there blankly, reaching out her hand as if she still wanted to hold onto her unscrupulous master's departing figure.
Hayakawa: "..."
A young and beautiful woman in her twenties?
So this is what the abbot, Xixi, is really like...?
Your words sound so frivolous…
Hayakawa pondered her words, lost in thought. He had always thought that Hiihi belonged to the kind of serious and solemn temple abbot he liked the most, but now it seemed that she was the kind of unreliable elder he hated the most.
Uh... how should I put it, it feels like I've been tricked.
Hayakawa was lost in thought, unaware that the colors of the sky and earth on the table had changed drastically, becoming strangely turbulent and unpredictable.
Xixi's sudden departure was devastating. Originally, she used her dual identity as an adult and the abbess of the temple to restrain the girls present. Even if some conflicts were obvious, they could not be brought to the surface. After all, in front of Xixi, they still had to maintain a superficial harmony. However, now that she had suddenly left, it was as if the shackles binding them had been broken, and everything became intense.
"Ugh, I can't take it anymore!"
At this moment, Mei Ya, who had the most vehement stance, suddenly stood up, crossed her arms, and looked down at everyone present with a cold gaze: "If none of you dare to speak, then let me be the villain and I will say it."
"you,"
Miya suddenly turned her head, flicked her twin ponytails, and her emotionless eyes fell on Hayakawa. Her pink lips parted slightly as she uttered a single word: "Your name is Hayakawa, right?"
"Ok?"
Hayakawa looked up, her eyes slightly open, and before she could react, she said, "Yes, hello, Ms. Mia."
Hayakawa's reaction startled Mia, but she then said calmly, "I am Mia, that's true, but whether I'm good or not is another matter."
"Um…"
As Hayakawa looked at the petite, adorable girl in front of him with a full cleavage, another girl with a similar figure slowly appeared in his mind.
The hairstyle is a bit different, and he doesn't wear glasses.
Hayakawa was lost in thought, his face showing a moment of blankness. When Mia saw Hayakawa staring at her body like a pervert, her disgust intensified. She slammed her hand on the table and said, "Can't you even have basic manners like staring at people?!"
"Cough cough!"
Aoba Yuzuki turned pale with fright and quickly reached out her hand: "Mia-chan, wait a minute, calm down, calm down."
"What do you mean?"
Hayakawa snapped out of his reverie, his brow furrowing at the repeated attacks directed at him. His expression turned cold as he said, "Haven't you been staring at me ever since we started eating?"
"what?"
Meiya's face flushed red with anger: "Who? Who just looked at you?!"
"never mind,"
Hayakawa, being an emperor, was too lazy to argue with a little girl on the street and went straight to the point: "Just say whatever you want to say here, whether it's your opinion or something."
He remained calm, as if he had anticipated this scene. After all, it's understandable that the members of a temple that has been converted into a nunnery would have some objections if a boy suddenly joined. If they were all adults, there would be no problem, but since it was a young woman, conflicts were inevitable.
Hayakawa had already guessed that trouble would come, but he didn't expect it to be so intense. On his very first meal at the temple, someone actually confronted him.
Chapter 297 The Crescent Moon Treaty
"That's pretty straightforward, that's good."
Seeing Hayakawa speak so bluntly, Mia was taken aback for a moment, then a cold smile appeared on her bright red lips as she crossed her arms and looked up: "Then I'll be frank. Regarding your joining the temple, although Abbess Kiss and Yuzuki have agreed, the rest of us in the temple haven't approved yet."
"I have no objection~"
Kagura, standing nearby, raised her hand and smiled broadly.
Cangye Haiyue nodded and said, "I agree."
"Well……"
Suddenly exposed, Miya's face darkened, and she couldn't maintain her arrogant and aloof demeanor. She silently glanced back at the two women who seemed completely unfazed, then turned to Hayakawa and said expressionlessly, "After all, as members of the temple, we have the right to decide on the new members. Our Mikazuki Temple used to be a nunnery, and everyone living there except you was female. Since you're a boy, there are many inconveniences that need to be explained beforehand. You can understand that, right?"
Hayakawa remained noncommittal: "You continue."
"How about we make a few requests?"
Mei Ya replied without hesitation.
Hayakawa frowned.
"rest assured,"
Seeing this, Mei Ya said, "These are all reasonable requests, for the sake of the stability of the entire temple."
Hayakawa paused for a moment, then said, "Go ahead."
Upon hearing this, Miya glanced at Aoba Tsukiyo beside her. Aoba Tsukiyo nodded encouragingly. Then, without further hesitation, Miya pulled out a large poster that looked like a notice and showed it to Hayakawa: "This is Mikazukiji's rule for you."
Hayakawa stared intently, his gaze suddenly shifting.
Before you could even finish reading, Meiya eagerly began to explain: "First, the time to shower every day is fixed at 7 PM. Otherwise, you can't just enter the bathroom at will, to prevent any accidental mishaps."
Aoba Yuzuki, who had been hesitant to speak, suddenly brightened up after seeing this message and fell silent.
That seems quite reasonable.
"The second point,"
Meiya pointed to the second line on the poster and continued, "I already know where your room is. It's on the far left of the dormitory floor. The rooms for the girls are located a little to the right, so you can't come to the girls' area without their permission."
After saying that, Meiya added, "By the way, the classroom meeting area and the tatami reception room on the first floor are the girls' area. We often drink tea there, so you can't just go in there."
Hayakawa took the poster from Mia and looked at its contents without saying a word.
"Meiya, isn't that going a bit too far?"
Aoba Yuzuki couldn't help but say from the side.
As a member of a temple, it's one thing to restrict access to private places like bathrooms, but how can the rooms and corridors be restricted? This is clearly disrespectful.
"It's nothing serious, is it?"
Without hesitation, Meiya said, "Anyway, the temple is so big, and there's plenty of space to move around. What difference does it make if one corridor and two rooms are missing? Does he have some unknown reason for insisting on going in?"
"But…"
Aoba Yuzuki wanted to refute, but he was not good at thinking and was not good with words, so he didn't know how to refute for a while.
"that…"
At this moment, Hayakawa suddenly spoke up: "Besides the two points above, there's nothing written after 3 and 4. Are there any other requirements?"
"Three and four...we haven't decided yet, we'll bring it up later if we want them."
Upon hearing this, Meiya's face flushed red. After stammering for a moment, she said matter-of-factly, "Do you have any objections? Or do you think these two points are too many? If you think they're unacceptable, then there's nothing we can do but ask Xixi..."
"No,"
Hayakawa looked down at the big-character poster and said, "I think these two demands are very reasonable."
"Eh?"
Meiya was stunned.
"I have no objections at all."
Hayakawa looked at Mia and said.
"..."
Miya's previously confident and sharp-tongued face froze, staring blankly, while Hayakawa remained calm, her heart unmoved.
Honestly, Hayakawa thought they'd have some demanding requirements coming in so aggressively, but this is all they did.
Isn't this all in my own best interest?
To be honest, if Miya and her group had made a request like not being allowed to get within ten meters of a girl, Hayakawa would have had to protest and argue his case, since it might affect his training. But the two requests they made now were exactly what he wanted.
Having fixed bathroom hours is a good thing. Hayakawa regards so-called lucky time as a venomous snake, so this requirement saves him a lot of trouble. Even if they don't mention it, he will take the initiative to remind them. As for the no-girls area, that's even better. If he could just casually enter those places, it would affect his Dao heart. He had long been fed up with Furuhashi and Ogata influencing him before.
It's all good; there are absolutely no restrictions.
As for Mia's arrogant and infuriating attitude, Hayakawa was resentful but managed to remain calm. After all, enduring humiliation was commonplace for him; he could even tolerate the shame of repeatedly failing in the school's monthly exams.
Hayakawa is a so-called realist. As long as it doesn't affect his interests, he doesn't care about attitude issues at all. After all, it would be beneath him, an invincible emperor, to argue endlessly with a mere twin-tailed giant-breasted brat in a temple.
Hayakawa understood this point of gain and loss.
and so…
"I accept everything. I won't interfere with your showers, nor will I appear in your girls' area, but in return,"
Hayakawa said seriously, "My room at the very end of the corridor is my territory. No one else can enter without my permission. I have no other requirements."
"Who wants to come into your room?"
Meiya said subconsciously, then her eyes lit up. She never expected it to go so smoothly. She thought that the pervert in front of her, whom Yueye had mentioned, would definitely pester her and stare at her black stockings and twin tails with disgusting, licking eyes. But it turned out to be so easy.
"That's good, since that's the case, this agreement is thus established by the agreement of everyone in the temple."
Miya wanted to make it a fait accompli as soon as possible, so she extended her palm to Hayakawa and said, "Let's make a vow with a high five."
"it is good."
Hayakawa was also very satisfied with the current situation; to him, it was a complete victory. So he reached out and gently patted Mia's hand, which was still in mid-air.
The moment their hands touched, Meiya's face flushed red for a split second. She quickly withdrew her hand, trying to cover it up, and said, "Then it's settled..."
"That's good, then everything's fine."
Seeing this, Yuzuki, who had been barely noticeable for a while, quickly said, "Let's eat quickly, it's getting cold."
Chapter 298 Pickled Grapes
"all in all,"
Seeing that everyone had finished discussing, Aoba Yuzuki hesitated before stepping forward and saying, "In short, let's eat first, everyone. I put a lot of effort into making breakfast this time."
Seeing the worried expressions on the faces of Hayakawa and the others, Aoba Yuzuki always considered herself the most important person in the temple besides Hiki, and it was her responsibility to maintain a harmonious and friendly atmosphere in the temple.
"Um…"
Hayakawa nodded and lowered his head to eat, while Mia and the others also silently lowered their heads to eat.
The temple breakfast was very simple: plain white porridge as the main dish, miso soup made with tofu and kelp, topped with a few green scallions for seasoning and coloring, fried vegetable tempura, and a plate of dark purple pickled vegetables of unknown ingredients.
Hayakawa was quite satisfied with the breakfast. He never cared about the taste, but the simple setting perfectly matched his impression of temple vegetarian meals.
"I'm gonna start now."
Hayakawa muttered to himself, then tasted the bowl of porridge with a spoon, and as expected, it had no flavor at all.
Very good.
But what is this...?
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