"I'm afraid we don't have much choice but to ask the vengeful spirits for directions," Amamiya Natsuki said calmly. "This is a school for evil spirits, after all. We have to adapt to our surroundings."
Fujiwara Chika looked hesitant, the black bow on her temples swaying gently. "But... aren't vengeful spirits dangerous? What if they try to attack us?"
Kaguya spoke up, her expression still neutral. "We have no other option. We need to find our way through this school. Engaging the vengeful spirits may be the only way."
Natsuki nodded. "We'll have to be cautious, but we should try to ask them for help. They may be our best source of information in this place."
The three of them approached the nearest vengeful spirit, who stared at them with its lifeless eyes. Natsuki bowed politely. "Excuse me, could you please tell us how to get to the principal's office?"
The vengeful spirit let out a hollow, eerie groan, but then gestured towards the back of the cafeteria. The students' faces were gaunt and pale, but they seemed willing to assist the living visitors.
Chika let out a sigh of relief. "I'm glad they're willing to help. This place really is quite unsettling, but we have to keep going."
Kaguya simply nodded, her expression betraying no emotion. The trio followed the vengeful spirit's direction, entering the dimly lit depths of the cafeteria.
[So scary, so scary, so scary.]
At the same time, A cold and hoarse voice sounded in the minds of the three people.
[You have entered the scene: Ghost Canteen]
[Game rules: Good students must eat on time, please finish the last dinner and give a five-star rating]
[Canteen dining rules: each meal should not be less than 200 grams]
"You can pass the level by eating. It feels much easier than being a wooden man." Fujiwara Chika's eyes lit up.
"Simple?" A cold laugh sounded, "I hope you won't cry later."
Natsuki looked in the direction of the voice and found that it was a player wearing a hood. No one knew what he had been through. His face was pale and his forehead was covered with cold sweat. In front of him was a bowl of soup, and in it... there was actually mist condensed into a black skull that was floating up quietly.
"What kind of food is that?" The smile on Chika's face gradually froze. "It feels like a deadly dish."
Natsuki's eyes twitched slightly, and he took a deep breath and said, "Anyway, let's go to the cafeteria window and take a look first."
The three of them walked up to the cafeteria window. The dull sound of chopping meat stopped, and then a figure walked out from the darkness. It turned out to be a pig-headed man who was nearly two meters tall and had a burly physique.
He was holding a kitchen knife that was dripping with blood, and his apron was splattered with blood, and the original color could no longer be recognized. With the appearance of the Pig-Headed Butcher, the resentful students in the cafeteria lowered their heads one after another, and the deterrent power was fully utilized.
"Good evening, what would you three like to eat?" A deep and hoarse voice came out from the pig-headed butcher, pointing to a sign: "This is today's menu, please choose your own."
Natsuki looked at the sign and saw that there was only one dish on it.
[Today's limited dish: Borscht with unknown ingredients. Please don't be surprised no matter what comes out of it.]
[Today's limited dish: steak rice bowl with unknown ingredients, please do not ask where the meat comes from]
Natsuki looked down and saw that they were all food from the underworld. There was no normal human food at all.
"Is it really okay to eat this kind of food?" Chika couldn't help but complain quietly.
The three of them soon discovered that whether or not they would get an upset stomach was one thing, but whether they could eat it was another.
"There are thirty minutes left before the cafeteria break. Please eat within the allotted time."
The pig-headed butcher said in a low voice, "If you don't finish your food or don't eat during the meal time, you will be left in the cafeteria."
"Well, thank you for your reminder..." Chika blinked and tried to run away, but soon she cried out, "Hey, the door is gone?"
Upon hearing this, Natsuki looked behind him and saw that the cafeteria door had disappeared, leaving only a black and red mist. It was impossible to leave easily. He retracted his gaze and looked at the pig-headed butcher, and a line of words slowly emerged.
[Real name: Oink]
[The most annoying thing is wasting food]
"In this case, the only option is to eat." Miss Kaguya folded her right hands across her chest, her expression as calm and composed as ever.
Then the problem arises.
"The three guests please pay the bill first," the pig-headed butcher said in a low voice.
"Hey, you still need money?"
Fujiwara Chika opened her eyes wide when she heard that.
The pig-headed butcher silently held the bloody kitchen knife and said, "You guys want to eat a free meal?"
"Please don't misunderstand," Kaguya pulled Fujiwara behind her with a serious expression. "We hate people who eat and drink for free the most."
"Let me try," Natsuki suddenly thought of a possibility, quickly took out her wallet from her pocket, pulled out a note from Hideyo Noguchi, and then the worst situation occurred.
"The cafeteria only accepts currency in circulation within the school. Money from the human world cannot be used," the pig-headed butcher said in a low voice.
Totally understandable. This is a school for evil spirits, so it's normal that we can't use money from the human world.
"I can't even use the money..." Chika said pitifully, "Then how can I buy food?"
"You can choose to exchange goods for goods," the pig-headed butcher began to wipe the table. "For two hundred grams of food, you only need to pay two hundred grams of body tissue. It's an equal exchange, no one is cheated."
"Will clothes be okay?"
"No, you must have body tissue that has the potential to become food."
Your canteen is actually a she-devil's bun shop! You serve buns to customers in the front, and then they faint after eating the buns, and you drag them back to the kitchen to make buns. It's endless!
Natsuki Amamiya finally understood why the hooded player was gloating when he first came in.
"Two hundred grams of body tissue is not fatal to you humans," the pig-headed butcher said in a low voice. "Blood, muscles, bones, and useless fat tissue can all be used for equivalent exchange."
"Useless fat tissue..."
Natsuki's heart moved, and he couldn't help but look at Fujiwara Chika.
Kaguya also looked over with her lips pursed.
The useless fat is right there, and it's more than enough to satisfy three people.
"What are you two looking at?" Fujiwara Chika quickly covered her chest and couldn't help shouting, "No breasts!"
There is no free lunch in the world, and there is nothing wrong with equal exchange.
Sacrificing fat in exchange for heavy foods is simply good news for countless weight loss enthusiasts.
Unfortunately, Chika didn't want to.
"One hundred percent rejection!"
The pink-haired girl covered her chest tightly with her hands and couldn't help but complain: "It's not useless fat. When you get married and have a baby, the baby will be hungry without fat, right?"
You are thinking too far ahead. Let's get through this hurdle first!
"Fujiwara-san, calm down. Being nervous and panicking will only affect your judgment," Kaguya said calmly, with no emotion on her pretty face. "We can't buy food, we can only exchange it. At present, the cheapest way to exchange is to exchange blood for food..."
After Kaguya finished speaking, she looked at the hooded man who was gloating not far away and said, "If I'm not mistaken, that person is like that."
Chika blinked, looking hesitant: "Like voluntary blood donation?"
"That's right."
"Then we can give it a try..." Chika hesitated, "I donated blood once before, it was super painful, and I cried at that time. Has Kaguya-chan ever donated blood?"
"..."
Natsuki silently looked at the top of Miss Kaguya's head.
A line of text appeared quietly.
[I'm sorry, I've never experienced it before. I'm afraid of needles... I'm super scared when I see needles. I hate injections the most!]
He speaks super rationally, his expression is as cold as the ice and snow on the top of a mountain, but his emotions change so much, is this the legendary saying of "saying one thing but doing another but being upright"?
Wrong.
It should be said that the character collapsed.
Natsuki suddenly came up with a new idea.