Saiki Kusuo had no idea what was happening and looked down.
Wasn't Kusuko being very good, cleaning his paws very carefully? What was Chrollo misunderstanding?
"What do cats like to eat? He's a part of you, he probably doesn't eat cat food, right?"
Chrollo didn't use his power either, closing his book and first pushing open the door. Saiki Kusuo hesitated looking at the stairs behind him, but he went back into the mall.
Even though he didn't know what was happening, the superpower Kusuko was probably working hard too, so he should accept this kindness.
"He has similar tastes to me," Saiki Kusuo said.
"Poison?"
"?"
"I ran into a lot of poisoned traps today, so that was the first thing I thought of. It was a skilled person, but they never really showed themselves to kill me, and their presence disappeared when I got to the mall. When I'm alone, my luck gets strangely bad."
It's the punishment for doing bad things.
At the same time, Kusuko heard Chrollo's inner review of his experience today and actually perked up his ears, feeling a little more happy.
Without guilt, even though he was the one who passed on the information.
"If it's not poison, I saw an ad before coming in. The store is over there, and it looks pretty quiet. Want to try it?"
Normally, people would recommend a popular place, right? Saiki Kusuo followed his gaze and found that it was a sukiyaki buffet.
He had just gone in to ask, and Kikyo knew about this store. The quality of the food inside was good, especially the dessert area. The owner knows about desserts.
Kusuko: Body, don't be fooled, he just wants to eat!
"Boss, do you want something sweet for lunch too?"
"They should have other soup bases inside. Don't you guys like sukiyaki?"
"But we already had red bean buns for breakfast."
"Then there's a barbecue restaurant right across the street. Let's split into two groups and eat. The views from both stores are good, so we can keep an eye out while we eat. If you see our partners, call them back and say we've found Mimi."
The parrot on Chrollo's shoulder groomed its feathers for a long time and finally regained some elegance, noticing the strange name in his partners' mouths.
"Who's Mimi? A new member?"
Mimi, the only one in the room who didn't know he had been renamed, asked a question.
"You."
"Who?"
"You, you've been renamed Mimi."
Chrollo tilted his head to smile and looked at the parrot on his shoulder, reached out his hand, and the parrot flapped its wings and landed in his palm, its feathers turning snow white.
The parrot took a deep breath, its small chest puffed out, and opened its mouth: "Not..." good!
Before it could finish speaking, Chrollo pinched its mouth with his finger.
"Many animals in the world are named Mimi by humans. It's a very common and beloved name. Although it lacks a lot of uniqueness and personality, it lets you leave your species and become an individual. Mimi, your biggest advantage is transformation, and the name Mimi is also the name of all things. Don't you think it's very appropriate? And cats meow Mimi, doesn't the last word of Chameleon Cat have the word 'cat' in it?"
Saiki Kusuo: Hey, Mimi is just Mimi, where did all these twisted explanations come from? Mimi is just a common name for stray cats. If they turned into dogs, they'd be called Lucky or Big Black, Big White, or Big Yellow, right? What do you mean, the name of all things?
The chameleon cat thought about it.
"My name is Mimi!" it shouted, flapping its wings and flying around, suddenly landing next to Kusuko, "My name is Mimi!"
Kusuko glanced at him and impolitely yawned, "Ha—!"
Scaring the chameleon cat into creating a biological response to crash into Chrollo's arms.
Chameleon Cat: Liar! Cats don't meow Mimi!!
Kusuko ignored it and walked between Saiki Kusuo and Chrollo, squeezing out some space.
"Aren't you treating us? I'm going to starve to death if you guys are slow."
Kusuko had eaten sukiyaki before, but Kusuko had never eaten sukiyaki with his main body.
His main body was the only one he acknowledged as his own kind. Besides that, he only acknowledged his family. Only living with people he acknowledged would make Kusuko look forward to things.
Kikyo, if there was some way to get one less person at the table right now, that would be great.
"Boss! I just heard the parrot call out. It really is our little Colorful!"
Where did this monkey come from?
"He's renamed Mimi, Nobunaga. We're about to go to lunch, want to come with us?"
"Sure, I just saw Uvogin, I'll call him over. Hey—Uvogin! Time for a group meal!"
Where did this ape come from? How did we get two more people?
"I knew it was you guys when I heard you calling Uvogin. It's too selfish of you to eat without calling us, Nobunaga?"
Where did this height difference duo come from?
"Who knew you two were still here? Oh yeah, Phinks, Feitan, we found Mimi!" Nobunaga held the parrot up high.
"Hey hey, congrats. Don't leave Nobunaga's chest again."
How did we get two more people?
"We're all eating a group meal, let's have sukiyaki too," Machi said on behalf of the three women.
How did we get three more people?
"Sukiyaki, the boss's favorite, how long has it been?"
"So the boss likes to eat this?"
...
Why did it turn into a huge group of eight people?
Kusuko wanted to take his main body to eat next door. Should he take over Chrollo's body and kick all the Troupe members into the barbecue restaurant, and use Chrollo's money to buy two sukiyaki seats...
Amidst the bustle, Chrollo looked at Saiki Kusuo and Kusuko. One was spacing out, the other was sweeping his tail close to the ground.
"No, we're eating barbecue today, at the one across the street," Chrollo said, telling everyone to go grab seats first.
After everyone left, Chrollo reached out his hand in front of Saiki Kusuo and snapped his fingers, a pudding snack appearing in his hand to bring his attention back.
"It's too noisy, right? I'll pay for it, can you two go eat sukiyaki?"
The best outcome.
Seeing that both the person and the cat expressed satisfaction, Chrollo put the pudding in Saiki Kusuo's hand and went to find the front desk of the sukiyaki restaurant.
Saiki Kusuo tore open the pudding packaging.
It was just a caramel egg pudding, soft and chewy.
He kind of missed coffee jelly, even though Zoldyck's dessert chef had already learned how to make it.
Kusuko tilted his ears.
He heard it, he'd go kidnap one from the Dark Continent someday.
The two of them ate hot pot much faster than eight people drinking alcohol and eating barbecue. Saiki Kusuo finished eating and went downstairs with Kusuko. This time it was very smooth, and he finally started his work as a mascot costume actor.
"For mascot costumes, since it's the afternoon, there are only two left."
The staff introduced the job to Saiki Kusuo, while opening the cabinet. Two mascot costumes, one black and one white, appeared before him.
"This white mascot on the left is chubby, with pink blushes on its cheeks, and two very cute cat ears on top of its head. Let's call it God Saiki! From 'The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.'!"
It sounded familiar.
"This black mascot on the right with bandages wrapped around its head is from..."
Who would wrap bandages around their head? Reject this kind of crazy setting.
Saiki Kusuo resolutely pointed to the white one.
"Are you sure you want the white one? The white one is a god, so people might come to you to complain? Compared to that, nobody likes the black one..."
The black one was so pitiful.
But he still wanted the white one. It would be no problem to just listen to other people's complaints.
"But both of these shows are old, kids these days prefer 'Happy Lambs' and stuff like that. Overall, they're not very popular with kids!"
Not to mention the other one, had that God Saiki really become an old show? Was time progressing that fast?
Well, it was good if it wasn't popular.
"That road is your route. Basically, you walk around the mall three times and hand out all the balloons in your hand, and then you've completed the mission."
Even though it was a part-time job, the way to complete it was still like a game mission.
Saiki Kusuo, having changed into the mascot costume, looked at himself in the mirror and turned into an awkward existence, every move being like a creature from another dimension.
It was his first time doing something like this, both the job and wearing the mascot costume.
Although he had lived for more than 30 years, he had always been taken care of by other people's work. In the original world, he was always a high school student. Even in Zoldyck, when he had a job, he was only responsible for inventions, handling things on the computer. What would happen with this kind of hard work that real ordinary people do?
Maybe it would just be ordinary. In the telepathy he used to have, the most common feelings conveyed by working adults were boredom and exhaustion.
Saiki Kusuo took the 20 helium balloons required for the task and proceeded according to the route.
This route was a true "line" route. The mall had created a special path for the mascots to walk. The distance traveled outside the line would not be included in the mission. Well, it was just a small detail, it wouldn't affect him.
He could only see the outside through the net mouth of the mascot. Saiki Kusuo awkwardly lowered his head and looked at the arrows below to move forward.
"Money, money, money! Why do I have to earn money to make a living when I get to another continent! And the medical system here is completely different! What a joke, I graduated with a medical degree, but I can't even do the most basic job of getting medicine! Damn it, damn it!"
What an exaggerated performance, even pounding the ground in the middle of the road... Wasn't that Leorio?! So he got on the ship too.
He didn't expect to see an acquaintance while working. Luckily, he was in a mascot costume, so he'd wait in place for him to leave.
One minute, Leorio pounded the ground and wept.
Five minutes, Leorio lay on the ground.
Ten minutes, Leorio's face was ashen and his stomach made very loud gurgling noises.
Kusuko, go buy him something to eat.
A red bean bun was thrown in front of Leorio.
Leorio looked up and saw the great god from "The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.", with holy light shining behind him...
Kusuko: That's a fluorescent light, idiot.
Just when Saiki Kusuo thought Leorio could leave and he could continue moving forward.
"Mr. God Saiki, I want to confess."
Confessing to a mascot? Saiki Kusuo estimated Leorio's location and wanted to get around him from the empty space.
He couldn't get around! Leorio was too long. With a height of 1.93 meters, no matter how he folded himself, he was enough to fill the entire road that was only 1 meter wide!
"I, for a long time, I really thought, I must get into medical school, to fulfill my promise to my dead childhood friend..."
A super heavy topic right off the bat.
"My childhood friend was named Pietro, he had tuberculosis at a young age. Modern tuberculosis is different now, it's clearly a curable disease, but..."
Hey, don't just start talking on your own.
However, facing Leorio like this, Saiki Kusuo couldn't really kick him aside and continue moving forward.
Wearing a mascot costume meant he was a mascot person, he had to have some responsibility for the character he was playing, even though he didn't know what this God Saiki thing was!
Saiki Kusuo stood in place and listened.
During the Hunter Exam, he had seen Leorio let go of Pietro in the illusion, but regret was still regret. Friends who grew up together, one got sick in a certain year and died because he didn't have money for surgery, the other became interested in medicine, but couldn't save people at that age. After later learning about the treatment methods in such great detail, the feeling of regret was not easily dispelled.
"I actually know my personality, I'm proud, I love to take responsibility, sometimes I can't even afford food but I still donate money. Even if people hurt me, I have to save them even if they lie down and play dead! I just can't convince myself not to save people! I'm a doctor!"
No, you're too kind, you're already a Buddha.
"The people around me now are all Nen users! Curing Nen users is Healing-type Nen. I only realized when I was rejected just now, but I actually knew it a long time ago, I'm an Emitter-type. I can't be of use at all!"
Well, where can't he be of use? There were a lot of job opportunities here, did he have to be a doctor in the Dark Continent too?
"I thought that after graduating and having some internship skills, I could naturally call myself a doctor, but I haven't even reached the threshold. I've only learned to use modern medicine to save people, using various medicines, using Emission-type Nen to imitate ultrasound to examine patients' bodies, using Emission-type Nen to accurately crush blood clots or tumors inside patients' bodies through the skin. That's all I can do!"
No, you're already pretty good in the back! You've only been learning Nen and medicine for two years, right? What are you even sad about?!
Although I didn't go through any training and I could use clairvoyance to accurately see the condition of people's bodies in any situation, and if there were blood clots or tumors to be resolved, I could come up with at least 180 solutions, or even restore people to the state they were in 7 years before they got sick, but for ordinary people, you've already done very well!
"I'm too ordinary! God Saiki!"
Being ordinary isn't a problem, it's better to be ordinary. This person came to show off!
After a while.
Leorio stood up and shook the hand of the God Saiki mascot, filled with energy.
"Thank you, thank you, God Saiki."
Saiki Kusuo, who was just standing there listening, was speechless: What did I do to deserve thanks? Wasn't it that you just wanted to figure it out yourself? If you just wanted to talk, you could just find a tree to talk to.
Forget it, continue the mission, oh yeah, before that.
Saiki Kusuo put a balloon in Leorio's hand.
"Huh? Mr. God Saiki, I'm not a kid anymore."
You talked so much nonsense, just take it. If you don't even take this, then all the nonsense I listened to was for nothing!
Leorio felt some kind of terrible aura and shut his mouth, accepting the balloon.
Saiki Kusuo continued to move forward on the track.