Food saved the world.
"It's you?" Issou looked at Charles, who was in front of him.
There was a hint of surprise on his face before he smiled.
"I didn't expect to see you again."
Hearing this, Charles glanced at Issou.
The black-haired girl in the snow-white chef's robe smiled so sweetly that he couldn't help but smile. "I heard from one of my students that your cooking skills are very good, so I came here to support you."
"Student?" After Issou asked Charles to sit down, he asked, "Are you a teacher at Empire State University?"
After all, there was only one school nearby.
Charles said, "No, my student's name is Jean Grey."
Hearing Charles's words,
Issou's hand that was pouring tea for him almost trembled.
Student's name is Jean Grey?
So he's a teacher at Academy X?
Issou blinked. "So you're Jean's teacher?"
"To be precise, I'm a teacher and principal." Charles's gentle blue eyes looked at Issou with a smile.
"My name is Charles Xavier."
"Wow, principal?"
Issou glanced at the young Charles and didn't have time to react.
He heard his name.
Issou: "…!!?"
Wait a minute!
What did you say your name was!?
Although Issou himself had also broken the Dimension Wall and knew very well that the world he was in now was different from the world he was in before, even so,
He still felt a little dizzy every time he suddenly encountered a plot character.
He glanced at Charles. From his thick hair to his healthy legs, the black-haired girl was a little confused.
Wasn't Professor X bald and in a wheelchair?
Of course, Charles had no way of knowing what Issou was thinking when he didn't use his superpowers.
Seeing her like this,
He only thought that she was surprised that he was the principal.
After all, compared to Charles Xavier, outsiders were more familiar with Professor X, right?
Charles looked at Issou and asked with a smile, "What's wrong? Don't I look like one? "
In order to confirm whether Issou was a mutant or not, Charles deliberately went to look for her. However, his plan was not to contact her directly. He did not expect her to almost fall.
Charles, who had been paying close attention to Issou, could not remain indifferent, which was why they had a brief encounter.
This time, although Charles also approached Issou with a purpose, he did not want to and did not intend to deceive her.
Of course.
Not lying didn't mean being completely honest.
Charles, who was thinking about this, didn't know that when he took the initiative to say his name, he had fallen off the horse.
"No." Issou came back to her senses when she heard this. She shook her head and said, "It's just that you look too young."
However, despite his young age, Charles's elegant and gentle temperament was very persuasive. People were only surprised that he was already the principal of a university, but no one doubted the authenticity of his words.
"Hiahia, I'll take that as a compliment." Although Charles was already a role model, he still had a cute and lively smile. He smiled and said, "You know, in order to maintain my image in front of the students, I started to wonder if there's a generation gap between me and my peers."
At this point, he put his hands on the table and raised his head slightly to look at Issou. He looked like a well-behaved child and said, "Emmm, there shouldn't be a generation gap between us, right? Issou. "
The Professor X in front of her was a far cry from the Professor X in Issou's imagination. At least, she never thought that the Professor X in the comics or animations, who always faced the world with a soft heart no matter how many hardships he went through, would be so young and childish.
If Issou didn't know in advance, she probably wouldn't have connected him to the mutated human leader. After all, Charles looked too harmless.
His red lips and white teeth gave him a scholarly look, which made him look harmless. Especially his pair of blue, almost transparent eyes, with the slightly drooping corners of his eyes, made him look like he was constantly firing Puppy.
The attack of his eyes was so sincere and kind that it made people worry that they would hurt him.
A person like this, with his not so broad shoulders, was holding up the sky for so many mutated humans.
It was unbelievable just thinking about it.
"Hmm." Issou blinked and pretended to be serious. "I admit that you're very young, but three years is a generation gap, I think between us …"
The black-haired girl pretended to count with her fingers. "There's at least a generation gap of two, right?"
When he heard Issou's words, Charles's eyes widened slightly, as if he couldn't believe that she would say such "hurtful" words. He said, "Issou, I thought you would be friendlier to me."
The black-haired girl looked at the "hurt" Charles and couldn't help but smile. "Please believe me, I also want to be friendlier to you, but you have to know that if I'm friendlier to you, then I'll be too unfriendly to myself."
Charles looked like he was twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, and Issou was only twenty-one years old. Logically speaking, no matter how good-looking he was, she couldn't possibly agree to let herself grow a few years older for no reason.
Hearing this, Charles immediately reacted. He smiled and gave Issou an apologetic look, then said, "Well, I almost forgot that the person standing in front of me is a young and beautiful lady."
To be honest, this Professor X's mouth was much sweeter than hers.
When Issou heard this, his lips curled up. He handed a menu to Charles and said, "As compensation, there will be a young and beautiful lady to serve you."
Charles smiled and said, "It's my pleasure."
#
In the kitchen, Issou scooped up a snakehead fish from the water and began to butcher it. Clarice, who was standing by the window, saw her delicate little boss butchering the fish in such a straightforward manner. The contrast was so great that she was a little confused.
But soon, Clarice was attracted by Issou's exquisite knife skills. With a flash of the knife, the originally intact snakehead fish was sliced into pieces in the blink of an eye.
Looking at the fish bones that were cleanly sliced by Issou's knife, Clarice felt that even if she ate slowly, she wouldn't be able to finish it so cleanly.
Just as she was thinking about it, she suddenly heard a sizzling sound, and a fragrant smell of fried food suddenly assaulted her nose. She couldn't help but swallow silently.
Before applying for the job, Clarice only wanted to earn enough money to cover her living expenses for a period of time at "My Chinese Restaurant" before her identity as a mutated human was exposed. That way, she would be able to continue living a homeless life and not be so poor.
But now, she changed her mind — —
It would be best if Issou never found out about her identity as a mutated human and let her be a waitress at "My Chinese Restaurant" for the rest of her life.
It didn't matter if she didn't get a raise, as long as her meals were covered.
Issou didn't know what Clarice was thinking. When she saw that the water was boiling, she blanched the fish slices one by one. Because the fish slices were fragile, she didn't move much.
After the fish fillets were cooked, they were poured into a pot with soaked soybean sprouts. Then, they were sprinkled with minced garlic and chopped Sichuan pepper. Finally, they were poured into another pot of hot oil and fried dried red chili over the fish fillets. After that, they were ready to serve the dish.
When Charles looked at the Spicy Boiled Fish on the table, the steaming hot steam with a spicy aroma hit him in the face. However, the bright red chilies made him a little flinch.
Charles said, "I think this boiled fish is a bit like the poisonous apple in the queen's hand."
It was delicious and tempting, but poisonous.
Hearing this, Issou looked at Charles with a smile, "So, are you Snow White?"
Charles, "…"
Seeing that Charles couldn't help but twitch his mouth, Issou's smile deepened. He reached out and patted Charles's shoulder, "Trust me, you'll enjoy it very much."
Hearing this, Charles remembered that he was the one who volunteered to be recommended by Izu, so he didn't want to run away. He picked up his chopsticks and took a bite. After putting it into his mouth, the stars in his blue eyes suddenly lit up.
The fish slices that just entered his mouth were firm and smooth, as if they would melt in his mouth without chewing. The soybean sprouts were crispy and delicious. When he chewed together with the fish slices, Charles felt that other than the freshness in his mouth, there was also a crisp texture.
Originally, Charles had asked Clarice to prepare a glass of ice water for him, but he didn't realize that this glass of ice water was useless. When he ate the boiled fish, it was spicy, but it wasn't dry. After the spiciness, there was a slight numbness, but it wasn't bitter.
The two flavors of freshness and spiciness were perfectly intertwined in the mouth. Although it was numbing, it was also very spicy.
Just like Charles now, even if he gasped softly due to the spiciness, he couldn't bear to put down the chopsticks in his hand. The spiciness entered his chest through swallowing, opening up his stomach and stimulating his appetite.
Now, Charles finally understood why Issou recommended the boiled fish to him after asking if anything had happened recently that made him unhappy. After eating it, the depression, helplessness, and unhappiness that he had accumulated due to his meeting with Eric, which ended on bad terms, were all shattered at this moment.
Charles only felt that the depression in his chest was swept away in an instant. The tender fish slices, spicy fried chili, and crispy soybean sprouts were intertwined in his mouth. The combination of deliciousness gave him a jolt of energy. Coupled with the sweet white rice, it was so satisfying that all his worries disappeared.
Seeing that Charles couldn't stop eating, Issou pursed his lips, "How is it? I didn't recommend it wrong, did I? "
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