The Ghost Servant Restaurant was very quiet; the only sound was the occasional clinking of a spoon against the cutlery while eating.
Each of the female servants was unusually quiet, not daring to utter a single word. After finishing their meal, they hurriedly left the servant restaurant and headed towards their respective lodgings.
When Kenji Yamamoto entered, he almost bumped into this ghost maid. However, she stepped aside first, her body elongating gracefully and strangely to avoid him, and then quickly bounced back and left the restaurant.
Ignoring the little incident, Kenji Yamamoto quickly served himself a bowl of rice.
He only had less than half an hour to eat.
The ghost servants in the restaurant were used to seeing their colleagues being late. Occasionally, some of the more emotional ghost servants noticed that Yamamoto Kenji was a new face. Although their eyes showed a little sympathy, they didn't take the risk of reminding him, or even leave a note. This made Yamamoto Kenji suspect that the person who left the note earlier had probably been dealt with by the palace steward.
The rules of the Oeyama Royal Palace can be summarized to some extent as: keep your mouth shut and your legs still.
Don't wander around. It's best to go between work and home every day. Don't talk to your colleagues. No matter what news you know, it's best to keep it to yourself and don't remind other new colleagues.
Despite having so many ghost servants, each of them has become an isolated island.
It must be said that Shuten-dōji's rules are indeed very useful in differentiating demons, making these beautiful female demons timid and submissive, almost indistinguishable from humans.
The same class rule, the same cautiousness in speech and action.
The only difference might be that the world of a hundred demons doesn't have the culture of the Sakura Kingdom, but only a simple class system. The royal palace stewards are naturally a grade above the demons, while the demon servants are all equal regardless of who arrived first.
This is very unlike Japan.
For a moment, Kenji Yamamoto didn't even know if the Demon Realm was any better than the current situation in the Sakura Kingdom, and inexplicably thought of another chosen one of the Sakura Kingdom—the suicide of Rikuto Matsubara.
When he was chosen as the chosen one, many people on the forums of the Sakura Kingdom appeared who called themselves "Matsuhara Rikuto".
According to these people, Matsubara Rikuto was very smart in his studies, but a foolish idealist in his dealings with others. He opposed senior culture and condemned the upperclassmen for bullying the younger students because of their age. He once led his younger classmates to fight with the upperclassmen.
Of course, the consequence was that he was severely criticized by the school and his parents.
His parents went to the school to apologize, saying that their son had caused trouble for everyone. In the end, the whole family transferred schools and moved away, and the matter was finally put to rest.
Although on the surface he took all the blame, the other classmates who followed him in the commotion were still bullied and ostracized in class, and inevitably complained about him for instigating them and getting them into trouble in the dead of night.
Could it be that he committed suicide because he felt that being a ghost here was happier than returning to Earth?
Kenji Yamamoto's sarcasm flashed by, and he couldn't help but wonder about this guy who "committed suicide shortly after entering the dungeon." He was still young and had too low a mental capacity. And Hirano San was just a high school girl. She was just a little bit cold-hearted and had such a big grudge against Japan. But didn't everyone go through that?
Unlike China, Japan has a very small land area, so despite being in the same Confucian cultural sphere, it has developed a very different culture.
We all live on a small island, and we see each other all the time. If things get out of hand, we can't avoid each other in our daily lives. If we offend everyone, we'll only end up dead. But if we can't stay in Kyoto, we can go to Shanghai. If there are too few job opportunities in Haicheng, we can seek development in other cities. The world is so big, there's nowhere we can't go.
Similarly, how can you survive if you offend upperclassmen at school?
Don't let Kenji Yamamoto's girlish appearance fool you; he's actually over forty years old on Earth. He's used to being respectful to his seniors in school and fawning over his superiors at work.
After quickly finishing what was in his bowl, Kenji Yamamoto began to observe his surroundings again.
The advisory team had just sent a lot of information, which he had mostly digested during his meal. Naturally, it also mentioned how Yin Zhu exploited loopholes in the rules of the Great Jiangshan Royal Palace to evade the pursuit of the palace stewards after violating them.
Although Yin Zhu used his golden talent to mislead the rules by delaying the actual time of the count and reinterpreting the time of "one second," other chosen ones could not completely replicate this method. However, the principle is that once you understand one thing, you can apply it to many others. The loophole that Yin Zhu could use, other chosen ones could achieve the same effect through similar means.
Among the clues that Yamamoto Kenji received was a method that another chosen one from the Maple Leaf Country had conceived and successfully tested.
He walked to the clock in the restaurant, and following the instructions, he tampered with the clock slightly. After making sure that the other ghost servants were not paying attention to him, he left the Ghost Servant Restaurant as if nothing had happened.
Based on Yin Zhu's behavior, the chosen one realized that although he could not directly change the rules, he could "physically modify" them.
So she easily changed the restaurant's clock, setting it a minute later.
The following afternoon, she also encountered a difficult work assignment, so that evening, with two and a half minutes left, she hid in the toilet.
In the eyes of the other ghost servants who wanted to take the toilet, this "colleague" had to come out within two minutes, or he would die in the toilet. However, in reality, the restaurant was only one and a half minutes away from closing time, so in the end, only one ghost servant outside the door managed to escape the restaurant door in time, while the others were eaten by some kind of monster in the restaurant.
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