It would be nice if pets were allowed.
If we bring in a cow, we can pass the level smoothly in minutes. The blood is fine, and of course the freshly squeezed milk can also be used as food... Unfortunately, Fujiwara-san can't do it.
As he was speaking, a ghost girl with black hair covering her face and a school uniform covered with blood stains walked over.
"Stand back, stand back."
Chika hurriedly grabbed the corner of Natsuki's clothes and pulled him aside.
The vengeful girl's target was not Natsuki and the other two. She lowered her head and walked to the food window. She stretched out her right hand, handed out a white bone coin, and took a plate of pork chop rice with unknown ingredients from the window. She turned around and left in silence, and sat down in a corner.
The body of the vengeful girl seemed to be quite hard. She picked up the chopsticks with clumsy movements and picked up a piece of unknown meat steak. Before she could bring it to her mouth, it fell to the ground with a plop.
As Natsuki stared, a line of words suddenly appeared above the ghost girl's head:
[Danger, danger, danger! Luckily the chef didn't see it, or else I would have been dragged to the kitchen to be used as an ingredient.]
"Should she tie her hair up before eating?" Chika couldn't help but complain in a low voice, "I really want to help her tie her hair up."
Natsuki saw this and suddenly had a bold idea.
'You can buy food using the currency circulating in the Ghost School, and humans are fine. The player has no money. But these evil spirits in the cafeteria must be rich. In that case, why not just take the money from them?'
"There's not much time left," Kaguya reminded in a calm tone, "I don't have the energy to care about others now."
"Even if you say so, Kaguya..." Chika's face was sad and pitiful, "They only gave us a stone bowl. This is not a blood donation at all. They are asking us to bleed!"
"I have an idea that I would like to test."
Natsuki pondered and spoke, then walked towards the vengeful spirit girl.
"Eh?" Chika was startled, "What is Amamiya going to do?"
Natsuki waved his hand, "You will know in a moment."
Walking up to the ghost girl, Natsuki sat down beside her, stretched out his right hand, and said straight to the point:
"Please give me hush money."
"Huh?"
The vengeful spirit girl who was eating clumsily raised her head blankly and looked at Amamiya Natsuki in confusion.
What is this human saying?
Hush money?
Who gave him the courage?
"You just dropped food on the ground and kicked it away instead of picking it up," Natsuki's expression was serious. "How dare you waste food in the cafeteria? Hurry up and pay me hush money, or I'll call the chef over."
"..."
The ghost girl lifted her hair with both hands, revealing a pair of dark eye sockets. Her face was pale and bloodless, and her voice was hoarse: "Foolish human, unless you know the chef's name, the chef will ignore you."
"I see," Amamiya Natsuki nodded, "Thank you for your advice."
The ghost girl showed an evil smile on her face and slowly approached: "Foolish human, become my food!"
Amamiya Natsuki shouted out a name without changing his expression:
"Oink."
"..."
The smile on the ghost girl's face suddenly froze, and she opened her mouth in disbelief.
Amamiya Natsuki continued:
"Someone is wasting..."
Before she finished speaking, the ghost girl trembled and quickly put her hands together: "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, please forgive me."
The head chef usually doesn't come out of the canteen kitchen, but every time he comes out, he brings terror. He hates people who waste food the most. Once he finds someone wasting food, he will catch them and take them to the kitchen to reserve ingredients.
So the vengeful girl in front of him decisively backed down.
Even if I am a vengeful spirit now, I don't want to be treated as a reserve food.
"Hush money, give me money."
Natsuki extended his right hand without hesitation.
Is it illegal to bully evil spirits?
Of course it's not illegal.
"..."
The vengeful girl's black hair shook, and she took out a bone coin with reluctance and presented it with both hands.
Natsuki took the coin and felt it was icy cold. It was obviously made of bone, but it felt delicate and smooth, like jade.
"Is this your hush money?"
Natsuki held the coin in dissatisfaction.
Just give me one cent, who are you looking down on?
"I'm sorry," the ghost girl felt even more wronged and almost cried, "This is all the money I have."
He only had money for his last meal, which made anyone sad and cry.
After seeing the words "There's really not a drop left" appear above the head of the vengeful spirit girl, Natsuki put away the coins, stood up and left.
"That..." Chika, who was eavesdropping nearby, covered her chest and whispered, "It feels like a bad boy extorting pocket money from elementary school students."
Such a big vengeful spirit can't be an elementary school student at all.
Natsuki looked over expressionlessly: "Fujiwara-san, it's time to donate fat."
"I'm sorry. I was wrong."
Chika quickly apologized, saying that a man who knows how to act is a wise man.
"It's actually possible to do this," Shinomiya pursed her lips and thought quickly, "The old player said before that each game scene has hidden rules for passing the level. The hidden rule of the cafeteria is to trade with the vengeful students?"
"There was no deal from the beginning to the end," Chika couldn't help but complain, "It was clearly only Amamiya who was bullying the vengeful spirits, and that girl even started crying! All villains."
"That vengeful classmate was too poor and could only borrow one dollar." Natsuki sighed.
"You just mentioned hush money!"
Chika couldn't help but complain in a low voice.
"Time is running out, don't waste it on trivial matters," Natsuki remained calm, "We still need to continue borrowing money."
"It's better to borrow more," Kaguya crossed her left arm across her chest, supported her chin with her right hand, and analyzed calmly, "Since this school has 'currency', it should be able to be used in other places besides the cafeteria..."
"It would be best if we could borrow from everyone in the cafeteria," Kaguya lowered her eyes and pursed her pink lips. The tone of the night reverberated in her voice, which seemed to be more frightening than the ghost. "I've heard a saying that money makes the world go round... As long as you become someone who controls capital, you can control everything."
"Kaguya is so scary!"
Chika folded her arms across her chest.
Natsuki nodded in agreement: "How terrifying."
Chika continued: "Even the ghosts are being exploited, evil capitalists!"
Natsuki: "Evil capitalist."
I was only thinking about borrowing money to get by, but you, on the other hand, have already planned to blackmail the entire cafeteria. You are indeed an evil capitalist!
"We will split up," Natsuki said quickly, "Fujiwara-san and Shinomiya-san will go together, and I will act alone."
It's not illegal to blackmail evil spirits, so there's no reason to refuse.
Natsuki agrees with the saying that money makes the world go round. As long as he has enough money, he might be able to walk all over the campus of ghosts.
Even if it doesn't work, you can use the 'coin scattering' skill at the critical moment to create an opportunity to escape.
All in all, the more the better.
"Kaguya-chan, do we really want to blackmail others?" Chika asked in a low voice.
"It's hush money," Kaguya corrected.
"It's obviously the same idea," Chika complained quietly, "We are going to become the campus villains."
"..."
Natsuki ignored the two girls' muttering and walked up to another vengeful student in the corner.
This vengeful spirit was a boy with bloodshot eyes and a face covered with criss-crossing wounds. He had only one arm, and something like black mist was flowing from the wounds. It looked quite scary.
"Hush money, give me money."
Natsuki sat down next to the boy, his expression calm, and stretched out his right hand.
If it was before yesterday, I would definitely not be able to remain so calm, but after seeing countless evil spirits, I got used to it without realizing it.
Although the vengeful boy in front of him was scary, at least he still maintained his human form. Many of those twisted things in reality didn't even have a human form. Compared with the huge vengeful baby in the morning, the vengeful boy in front of him even had some handsome features.
"..."
The vengeful boy didn't say anything. His head suddenly bent 90 degrees. He looked over coldly with cold and scarlet eyes. His mouth opened, revealing his ferocious, jagged teeth.
"What are you looking at?"
Natsuki pointed under the table and said, "Is that the food you threw away?"
"How dare you throw food around in the cafeteria? Have you forgotten the chef's rules?"
Hearing the chef's words, the ghost boy moved, with a hint of hesitation evident on his face.
However, this boy's ghost was obviously harder to fool. After a brief hesitation, the cold aura on his body suddenly became stronger, and his voice was so cold that it seemed to be able to freeze people:
"You're lying to me. It's impossible for a human to know the chef's name..."
Natsuki interrupted directly.
"Oin..."
The ghost boy stopped moving in panic.
How can it be?
This outsider actually knew the chef's real name?
Danger danger danger.
If he really calls the chef out of the kitchen, he will definitely be dragged in to be used as reserve ingredients!
"I'm sorry. Please forgive me."
The ghost boy's expression changed and he quickly bowed his head to apologize.
When you live under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.
The same is true for vengeful spirits.
Apologizing will only make you lose face, but not apologizing will turn you into a reserve ingredient.
"Hush money, give me money."
Amamiya Natsuki stretched out his right hand.
"..."
The ghost boy silently took out three bone coins from his pocket and handed them over.