~In front of Aaron’s apartment~

"Ding dong——"

After the doorbell rang, not long after, the door was opened with a deep male voice saying "Here we come."

Sakurai Hoshi showed a gentle smile: "Excuse me, Mr. Aaron, I came here to..."

Her words suddenly stopped.

Mr. Aaron who opened the door was wearing a black suit and the familiar puppy apron. However, at this moment, the cute puppy apron was covered with large suspicious blood-red stains.

No...that's not a blood-red stain, it's just real blood...!

Sakurai Hoshi's smile froze.

"Um?"

Seeing that she didn't speak, Aaron glanced down under his sunglasses and looked down at her condescendingly.

The question sound coming from his throat was extremely low, and the kitchen knife in his hand was still dripping with red liquid.

...Dad! Who is your best friend, Dad!!

Sakurai Hoshi maintained a stiff smile: "...Are you busy?"

Did she accidentally walk into some crime scene?!

"Oh?" Aaron followed her gaze and looked at the kitchen knife in his hand, "Ah, no, I just tried something new and chopped something."

Sakurai Hoshi: "..."

She endured tremendous pressure and stood firm.

The man playing with the bloody knife looked down at her and spoke again: "So, what's the matter, Xing?"

"..."

Calm down, just take out the leaflet and hand it to the other person naturally! This is a person who can make bear cookies...!

"Actually, I want to give this to Mr. Aaron."

Hoshi Sakurai opened his schoolbag, took out a half-price flyer, and handed it to the other party calmly.

"My classmate's sushi restaurant has new products recently. My classmate gave me a discount. If I take this flyer and go to the store, I can enjoy a half-price discount..."

I thought it would be great if the other party accepted it, but I didn't expect that just in the middle of her words, the tough guy covered in blood let out a rather uneasy exclamation.

"This, this is -!" Mr. Aaron came closer in shock and stared at the sushi photos on the flyer, "Half-price discount on bamboo sushi! Do you want to give it to me?!"

He was so excited that he unconsciously raised the knife in his hand.

Sakurai Xing tactically leaned back, looking at the gleaming bloody knife in front of him, a little cold sweat broke out on his forehead: "Yes, yes! Please accept it!"

Aaron looked solemn: "Such a good product...are you going to give it to me?"

goods……?

She seems to be getting used to the other person's words... Maybe this is a little habit of Mr. Aaron.

"Yes... the biscuits in the morning were delicious," Hoshi Sakurai slowly calmed down, and was even able to smile at the man holding the knife without changing his expression, "Thank you."

[Conversation is successful, 30 points of proficiency are obtained (50 points are needed before skill upgrade), 10xp experience]

[Aaron’s favorability towards you: 55 ([Aaron] thinks you are a good neighbor’s daughter.)]

Sakurai Hoshi:?

The man who kept silent and increased his favorability looked at her in silence. For a moment, he raised a scary smile.

"I understand... just wait a moment."

Aaron took the flyer in her hand, turned around and walked into the room. After a while, he came out with another square piece of paper.

"Here, the prize you got after collecting the commercial street seals today seems to be usable in any store over there... you can take it."

Sakurai Hoshi took it doubtfully, looked down and his eyes widened immediately.

"Oh, oh oh——!"

[[Lottery Ticket]: Can be drawn once from the prize pool.]

Isn’t this just——!

The lucky draw prop that she misses so much!!

Now she became the one who was not calm.

"Really, can you really give me this?!"

Sakurai Hoshi was very excited.

"Huh~? You know your stuff. That's right, I successfully got the vacuum cleaner in my 9th challenge today. This one is yours!"

Aaron seemed very happy too, and the smile on his face became more and more terrifying, "Enjoy it, newcomer."

"Okay! I will definitely cherish it and use it, thank you very much!"

[Aaron’s favorability towards you: 65 ([Aaron] thinks you are very wise and a confidant.)]

After saying goodbye to his neighbors, Hoshi Sakurai was still in a very excited mood.

Mr. Aaron is so powerful that he deserves to be a professional househusband! He spends generously and gives out favorability points generously. He can even get rare items like raffle tickets!

Completely unaware that human-to-human transmission had occurred, the player happily opened the door to his home.

"I'm back--"

"Welcome home~"

Mom poked her head out of the kitchen holding a spatula, "Dad won't be home for a while. Are you hungry now? You can eat the snacks in the cabinet first."

"It's okay with me. Let's have dinner together when dad comes home." Sakurai Hoshi put down his schoolbag, washed his hands and went into the kitchen, "Mom, do you need my help?"

"Hey~" Sakurai's mother happily held her face with her hands, "Hoshi-chan has really grown up, mom is so happy~ Then can you please help mom cut some strawberries, please?"

"OK."

Just cut a few strawberries, how could it stump the player?

Sakurai Hoshi confidently took out a box of strawberries from the refrigerator, and was about to take them out one by one and put them into the water filter basket, when he suddenly felt that his body was a little stiff and slow, making it difficult to control.

In this awkward feeling, she uncontrollably poured all the strawberries into the water filter basket!

Huh? Huh?? What’s going on?

[You worked hard to explore the world, acquired the skill [Cooking], and gained 50xp experience]

[level up! Your current level is lv3, and you have obtained assignable attribute points x 5]

A new skill for cooking? Yay!

Uh, but something seems wrong...?

She walked to the pool with a basket full of strawberries, and opened the faucet to the maximum with a click. The water sprayed on the strawberries, making water splash everywhere!

"Ahhh - water! The water is boiling too much!"

System, system! What's going on?!

She had no intention of using so much strength just now!

[System prompt: Your current skill level: Cooking lv1 (Rogue Train)]

That’s ridiculous! What kind of terrifying adjective is “Rampage Train”?! Is there really anyone who can cook like this?!

The system uses the player's involuntary actions to tell her: Yes, and this person is herself.

Sakurai Hoshi, who had water sprayed on his face, reluctantly washed the strawberries and turned off the faucet.

Sakurai's mother, who was cooking soup nearby and watching the whole process, smiled like a spring breeze: "Ara~ Hoshi-chan is such an energetic child, so cute~"

Mom, are you serious...?

Sakurai Hoshi fell into silence, a bad premonition welling up in his heart.

Cold, calm down, most of the work has been completed. Next, just carefully put the strawberries on the cutting board...

She held the basket and walked to the chopping board. With a trembling hand, she slammed the water filter basket onto the chopping board.

The strawberry corpses all fell on the chopping board.

"..."

All in all, it went pretty well! Then just cut it with a knife a few times and it's done!

She picked up the kitchen knife bravely, and the next second, her body involuntarily raised the gleaming blade high, and swung it down hard.

With a "crack" sound, the knife slashed hard into Strawberry's body.

That’s not good——!

She reflexively raised the kitchen knife high above her head and slashed hard again.

"No, no, no, no." For a moment, the only sound that could be heard in the hell of the kitchen was the numbing sound of metal chopping.
To be continued...