8 Feelings...
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"Mafuyu-san?!"
The one who called both Shin and Kaho is Mafuyu Hoshikawa, one of the waiters at the Café Stile. Mafuyu has the appearance of short brown hair with a small body at 135 cm. If someone were to meet her for the first time, they would think that Mafuyu is a little kid that is still 9 or 10 years old, but in reality, she is a college student who is already 20 years old.
"So, why are the both of you standing here? The both of you are blocking the door, you know."
Mafuyu looked at them with a straight face while asking both Shin and Kaho.
'*Sigh* Why does everyone keep interrupting me every time I want to say something important today…' Shin looked at Mafuyu with his usual poker face, but behind the poker face, he could only feel irritated while sighing tiredly.
"Listen Mafuyu-san, We are going to go..."
Kaho with a carefree smile attitude said something to Mafuyu, but midway she stops and realizes that she almost told Mafuyu that she is going out with Shin, which makes her blush.
"Hoo… So both of you are going on a date."
Mafuyu only shows a smug smile on her face as she looks at both Shin and Kaho.
"It's-"
"We just happen to have the same thing to do on Sunday. That is why since it is more fun rather than going alone, we are going to pick the game together."
Before Kaho can say something, Shin said something to Mafuyu while showing a wry smile, to clarify that the reason they are going out together is not because they are dating each other, but because they are close friends.
At this point, Shin doesn't have any choice but to accept Kaho's request and if he were to prolong this discussion, this would lead to an unwanted result.
The unwanted result that he doesn't want to happen is:
First, Shin doesn't want her to be heartbroken due to him rejecting her feelings, that if she were to have feelings for him. If this were to happen, this will only lead to Kaho feeling sad and he doesn't want this to happen since he already considers Kaho as a great senpai and also a close friend to him. Though he also doesn't want Kaho to be depressed at work after his rejection.
Second, Shin also doesn't want to cause a misunderstanding between his co-worker. If Mafuyu perhaps were to believe that Kaho and his relationship is more than just a friend, this will be bad since it will cause many misunderstandings. After all, Satou will also work here in the future, and if Mafuyu perhaps were to learn the fact that he is dating Satou, this will cause an even bigger misunderstanding. This can lead his relationship with his co-worker to be more chaotic, and he is going to be labeled as a cheater.
Even though Polygamy is already publically accepted nowadays, many people still aren't used to it since usually only rich people do polygamy, and Shin knew that no one in the right mind would believe a high school student with the income of part-timer will have a polygamy marriage. In the end, he could always reveal the things that he hides, but that would be troublesome since the other income that he receives is through an illegal way which is a fake ID.
Of course, Shin could use his [Save and Load] skill to undo what's happening to avoid such many things. But he rather not grow dependent on using the same skill over and over again and rather use it for something useful: such as a method to earn money, resolving emergencies that he faces, saving someone close to him when in danger, and other stuff that he considers is fine to do.
"Is that so?" Mafuyu only looked at Shin with a suspicious look on her face. She then sighs as she reprimands both Shin and Kaho.
"Anyways, can both of you step aside? And also, Shin, change your clothes into a cafe uniform first."
""Yes.""
Shin could only be relieved that this situation is finally over but of course, on the outside, he still put on a brilliant poker face while replying to Mafuyu. But before he enters the break room, he can see Kaho is making a happy expression while passing by. He knows why Kaho herself is happy, but at the same time, he is also curious about what Kaho thinks about himself.
'Sorry Kaho-senpai, It seems my curiosity is getting the better of me…'
Shin uses his [Eyes of Affection] skill on Kaho, which results in a screen panel showing up in front of him.
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[Hinata Kaho]
84 (Fallen in Love with you)
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When Shin saw this, he was so surprised that he didn't expect to see a number that was higher than the number that he already saw during school in class. This caused his calm face to falter for a bit as he entered the break room. He knew that Kaho had feelings for him, but not to this extent.
The first time Shin met Kaho was when she tried to interview for the part-time job application for the cafe a year ago when the cafe was still working with only him and the manager. Though he was confused about why Kaho was trying to get closer to him the first time they met, he also enjoyed the time that he spent with Kaho as both of them became close friends and he has also learned many things from her, such as his obsession with games and many other things. But, right now, he doesn't know what kind of feelings he held toward Kaho after seeing the screen panel, which is why he needs to properly think through how to respond to Kaho's feelings.
But right now Shin has to focus on his job first and think this through later. As He walked past Kaho who was still showing a happy look on her face, he then put his bag into his locker and closed the door, which of course he doesn't forget to tell people outside that he is going to change his clothes first. When he closed the door, he changed the door sign to 'occupied' as he locked the door so the same accident wouldn't happen again.
After locking the door, Shin goes to his locker and looks inside, while picking something up. The thing that he just grasped is a butler uniform that he uses for work. But, unlike the other male staff, his uniform is a bit different since his job is a bit special, though there are only 2 male workers other than him, which also includes the manager.
Shin's job is to serve as a waiter in the café that mainly focuses on handling female customers that enter the cafe. But, when the manager is not available at the store, he is supposed to go help out in the kitchen since the only kitchen staff is the manager himself and one other worker, though sometimes if the kitchen is not that busy, the manager himself would serve the customer.
Mainly Shin's job at first is not a waiter, but due to a popular demand from female customers that want him as a waiter, he soon become a waiter and a kitchen staff at the same time much to the manager demise since the manager of the cafe dream is to build of a cafe that full of beautiful anime girl but since the change make the business more successful, he soon let go of the dream that he makes which is quite sad.
Unlike a normal cafe, a stile is a cafe that is based on the characteristics of the waitress. Examples of such characteristics are Kaho who roleplays as a Tsundere waitress, and Mafuyu who roleplays as a Little sister waitress. And as for Shin himself, since he also became a waiter of the cafe, he also roleplayed as the role Cold Prince, which he has to be emotionless yet welcoming among the female customers and because of that somehow many female customers visit the cafe due to him.
Now back to the part where Shin is changing clothes, after he changes his clothes into a butler uniform, he soon leaves the break room and goes to the kitchen since it's already the time where his shift starts. When he enters the kitchen he soon sees another person in the kitchen and the person itself has the appearance of a young man of average height with green hair.
"Good Afternoon, Akizuki-san."
The person that Shin just called is Koyo Akizuki, one of the workers still working as kitchen staff.
"Afternoon Shin."
"Work seems to be hard when Dino-san isn't here huh?"
"*sigh* Even if the manager was here, he is still going to be slacking off."
"Well, at least he returned from Italy today."
"*sigh*He better be or else I would suffer being a kitchen staff at the time when you don't have your shift."
Shin could only laugh wryly while listening to Koyo complaining about their manager called Dino. The reason why Koyo complains is not only because he has to handle the kitchen alone when Shin isn't around, but it's because Dino leaves the cafe to Koyo and because of that he has to open the cafe every morning earlier than the others.
Suddenly Kaho shows up at the counter while looking at Koyo and Shin. But when she looked at Shin, she fluttered a bit before saying something.
"Akizuki-san, S-shin, there are some orders!"
""Yes.""
Both Koyo and Shin said 'yes' at the same time, though Shin who looked at Kaho showed a bit of a wry smile on his face before changing his expression back to normal.
All of the staff in the cafe including Shin then start to work. Due to how tired Koyo has been handling the kitchen alone since morning, Shin has been mainly helping him in the kitchen. Other than that, Mafuyu and Kaho handle all the customers as waitresses. While he is also cooking he also gets another skill from the system.
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[You have acquired the skill Cooking:1]
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When Shin looks at the skill, he is curious about the number that appears beside his skill even though he has a hunch of what the number might represent but, this hunch is not a fact. Though it seems his worries are for nothing as an appraisal suddenly explains all the things he wants to know.
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[Cooking: 1]: Skills to handle Cooking. The numbers represent proficiency, with the highest value of 99.
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This proves Shin hunch was right as the number is similar to level, and he also knows for the fact that every skill starts from the proficiency of 1 even if he already knows how to cook, but he also thinks that his guess may be incorrect since his cooking skill that he learns in the past few years might be considered proficiency 1 by the system.
And so time passed as Shin and Koyo were still in the kitchen while trying to prepare the food for the customers. But suddenly they can hear a commotion outside the kitchen. They can hear a loud voice from a man that is so loud that they hear clearly.
"What's happening outside?!"
Right now Koyo is showing a confused but also worried look on his face as he looks at Shin. Shin also didn't know what just happened as he got a bad feeling about it, but by deducting by the voice he guessed that it's probably a customer that is rude to the waitress, but even so he also worried.
"Akizuki-san, I will check the situation outside, it's probably a rude customer so it's better if you continue to prepare the food for the customers."
Koyo is also curious about what happened outside, but it's his job as a chef to prepare the food for the customer, that is why he entrusts this matter to Shin since every time he does something he never fails on handling it.
"Alright, but if somehow the situation went bad, I will go there."
Shin with a serious look nods at Koyo's words and then leaves the kitchen.
