An octopus employee with no hair on his head, wearing a staff hat, a big nose, and a brown T-shirt without pants, was holding a simple menu in one hand and a pen in the other, looking bored, as if he was writing something down.

Ah, it’s Squidward. It seems like he’s still in a bad mood today.

Taylor, who was standing at the back, tilted his head to glance at Squidward, then retracted his gaze and stood obediently at the back.

The customer in front, who had brown scales on his face and was wearing a green shirt and blue plaid pants, was ordering food. He looked at the menu above his head with a dazed look on his face.

“Um…I want…uh…”

Seeing the customer hesitating, Squidward simply put the notebook in his hand back to its original place, supported his face with one tentacle, held a pencil with the other tentacle, and said helplessly.

"Sir, I hope you can hurry up, the customers behind are still waiting."

It's a terrible place to work in.

An octopus artist who believes that he is a man of unappreciated talent, or perhaps he really is, but his style does not conform to the "mainstream" aesthetic, thinks so in his heart.

"Seaweed fries... er, Krabby Patties! Yes! Krabby Patties!"

After hesitating for about three minutes, the customer finally decided to order a delicious crab roe burger for his lunch. The customers queuing behind him did not show any impatience, as if they were already used to such scenes.

"Ah~~~~ a very creative choice."

Squidward sighed expressionlessly for a while, then muttered to himself that only fools would eat such food, turned around, tore off the menu in his hand and hung it in the back kitchen.

Is there really anyone who wants to eat this? After that customer left, the following customers ordered the same food one after another, but the time it took was different.

It can be seen that the Krabby Patty, as the most famous signature dish of the Krusty Krab restaurant in Bikini Bottom, has a very high popularity in the entire Bikini Bottom.

Not long after, it was Tyler's turn. When Squidward saw Tyler, he thought that this fish with a small hat on his head was a little strange, but he couldn't tell what was strange about it.

It’s like…

Alive.

No, no, no, how is that possible.

The fish are alive.

All of them are……

Squidward saw Taylor suddenly fall into a trance, and then an extremely fine golden electric current flashed through Squidward's eyes. Then, Squidward returned to his usual lazy and unmotivated behavior, holding the order menu and a pencil, glanced at Taylor, and asked weakly.

"I don't know what you would like to order, sir?"

"I, Crab Roe... uh, let me think..."

As soon as he stood here, Taylor instinctively wanted to order a delicious crab burger to try. He suddenly felt that he should change his food. For example, the butterfly fries felt very good, and it would taste very good with seaweed juice.

"One serving of butterfly fries and a glass of seaweed juice."

Uh-huh?

Squidward, who was about to write the delicious crab patty on the order menu, suddenly paused. He subconsciously exerted force and broke the pencil. The other half of the pencil, as if by coincidence, turned into a beautiful arc and flew into the frying pan at the back.

"La la la la... I love the Krabby Patty and the Krabby Patty loves me too~~~~"

On an old-fashioned frying pan, the yellow square kid frying meat patties was happily singing his delicious crab burger song. Suddenly, half a pencil fell from the front onto his frying pan, splashing oil. The pencil was also fried half black and half red by the high-concentration boiling oil.

"Oh my god, what is this... a, half a pencil?"

SpongeBob was working when he saw a pencil fly onto his frying pan. He carefully picked up the spatula and scooped up the pencil that was fried half red and half black. He carefully picked it up with his yellow fingers and placed it on the table where vegetables were placed at the back.

"I'm so touched..."

When SpongeBob found this half pencil, it was like he had discovered a new continent. His eyes were filled with tears. He held the shovel in one hand and took off his employee hat with the other hand. He took out a piece of white paper from his pocket and covered the fried half black and half red half pencil.

"I don't know who is so cruel to throw you on my frying pan. You are so pitiful, you are half a pencil. But don't worry, under SpongeBob's healing, you will be reborn."

With a healing smile on his face, SpongeBob quickly wrapped the pencil into a mummy with white tissue. Then he leaned next to a broccoli and looked at the broccoli and pencil relying on each other with a happy look on his face.

"They are so loving......"

Squidward, who was standing at the front desk, stared at Taylor with a surprised look on his face. After a while, he used the remaining half of a pencil to write "butterfly fries and seaweed juice" on the menu, then tore it off and hung it on the backstage.

Ding ding ding……

After pressing the order bell several times, Squidward still couldn't hear SpongeBob's devilish laughter and strange movements. Out of curiosity, he turned around and stuck his head into the back, and saw SpongeBob looking at a white paper roll and a cauliflower with a happy face.

Seeing this, Squidward was furious. What had this idiotic little yellow cube done to him? "Hey, SpongeBob, I just placed an order. A customer wants to eat. What are you doing now?"

Squidward's voice seemed to wake up SpongeBob from his loving state. He quickly got into work mode, with an anxious look on his face. He hurriedly turned his legs into two wheels and ran back and forth in the kitchen, even though there was only a nut machine and some bread slices, vegetable slices and frozen meat slices in the kitchen.

SpongeBob fried the butterfly fries at an extremely fast speed, and got a cup of seaweed juice from somewhere and put it on a plate and presented it to Squidward.

"ha…………"

Squidward chuckled and reached out to take the tray. However, as soon as he stretched out his octopus tentacles, the tray in front of him was taken back by SpongeBob.

"SpongeBob.....what are you doing?!"

SpongeBob's actions made Squidward's eyes turn red and white smoke came out of his ears. He looked at SpongeBob with an innocent face, hoping to get an explanation and an answer.

"Squidward, there's half a pencil on my frying pan. Did you drop it?"

After subconsciously taking a look at the other half of the pencil in his hand, Squidward nodded with a cold face.

After hearing this, SpongeBob seemed to get something exciting and nodded excitedly.

"Then can you give me that half pencil?"

Frowning, Squidward nodded impatiently.

"real?"

"real."

"Is it really true?"

“It’s really true…”

"Is it really true?"

“…………”

Taylor, who was still waiting for his lunch, stretched his head and took a look at the front desk and kitchen staff who were arguing, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

Mr. SpongeBob and Squidward have a really good relationship.

(End of this chapter)