Food saved the world.
"Student?" 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 almost trembled as he poured tea for him.
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. Before he could react, he heard his name.
Issou: "…!!?"
Wait!
What did you say your name was!?
Although Issou himself had broken the Dimension Wall,
He knew very well that the world he was in now was different from the world he used to be in. But even so,
Every time she suddenly encountered a plot character,
She still felt a little dizzy.
She glanced at Charles, from his thick hair to his healthy legs.
The black-haired girl was a little conflicted.
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 just thought she was surprised that he was the principal.
After all, compared to Charles Xavier, outsiders were more familiar with Professor X, weren't they?
Charles looked at Issou.
He smiled and asked, "What? Don't I look like one? "
In order to confirm whether Issou was a mutant, Charles deliberately went to find her. However, his plan at that time was not to contact her directly.
He just didn't expect her to almost fall.
Charles, who had been paying attention to Issou, naturally couldn't be indifferent.
That was why they had that brief contact.
This time, Charles approached Issou with a purpose.
But he didn't want to, nor did he intend to, lie to her.
Of course.
Not deceiving didn't mean being completely honest.
Charles, who was thinking this, did not know that when he took the initiative to say his name, he had fallen off the horse.
"No." Issou came back to his senses and shook his head. "It's just that you look too young."
However, despite his young age, Charles's elegant and refined temperament was very convincing. People were only surprised that he was already the head of a school, and no one doubted the authenticity of his words.
"Hiahia, I'll take that as a compliment." Although Charles was already a role model, his smile was still cute and lively. 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 manga/anime, 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 associated him with the mutant 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, which set off the slightly drooping corners of his eyes, seemed to be constantly firing Puppy 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 able to hold up the sky for so many mutants.
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 two generation gaps?"
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, there was no way she would allow herself to be 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."
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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 clean and efficient 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 snakehead fish that was originally intact 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 this, she suddenly heard a sizzling sound, and a burst of incense instantly assaulted her nose. She couldn't help but swallow silently as she stood by the window.
Before applying for the job, Clarice only thought that before her identity as a mutated human was exposed, she would be able to earn enough money to cover her future living expenses at "My Chinese Restaurant" for a period of time. It would be good enough for her to continue her wandering life and not be so poor.
But now, she had 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 food was provided.
Issou didn't know what Clarice was thinking. When she saw that the water was boiling, she put the fish slices into the pot 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. She reached out and patted him on the 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 in addition to the freshness in his mouth, there was also a crispness in his mouth.
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 not dry. After the spiciness, there was a slight numbness, but not bitter.
The two flavors of freshness and spiciness were perfectly intertwined in his mouth. Although it was numb, the spiciness was also very satisfying.
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, opened his stomach, and stimulated his appetite.
Now, Charles finally understood why Issou recommended him the boiled fish after asking him if anything had happened recently that made him unhappy. After eating it, the depression, powerlessness, and unhappiness that he had accumulated because of his meeting with Eric and then parted on bad terms were all shattered at once.
Charles only felt that all the gloominess in his chest was swept away in an instant. The combination of the tender and fragrant fish fillet, the spicy and fragrant chili, and the crispy and delicious soybean sprouts in his mouth made him feel refreshed. Together with the sweet white rice, it was simply satisfying to the point that all his worries disappeared.
Seeing that Charles couldn't stop eating, Issou curled his lips and asked, "How is it? I didn't make a mistake, did I? "
Hearing this, Charles nodded. He picked up a tissue and wiped the sweat on his forehead and the tip of his nose. He smiled at Issou and said, "It's great, Issou."
He gave her a thumbs up and said, "It's simply delicious."
Issou was naturally very happy that his food was liked by others, so when he saw that Charles was curious about why the boiled fish he ate here was different from other Chinese restaurants, he patiently explained to him.
"Let's not talk about other things. Let's talk about the choice of fish. Most Chinese restaurants will choose to use basa, but because it's not a live fish, its meat isn't tight, it's hard to slice thin, and it's also easy to cook. Of course, there are also Chinese restaurants that choose to use fresh catfish, but it's not as delicious as grass carp or snakehead fish. "
In fact, most Chinese restaurants choose basa because it's common and cheap in the United States, and Americans don't like to pick out the bones when eating fish, so basa without bones is very suitable for them.
Charles asked curiously, "So, did I eat grass carp or snakehead fish today?"
"Snakehead fish." Issou said, "Snakehead fish have relatively few bones among freshwater fish, and the middle part is very suitable for making fillets. In addition, the meat of snakehead fish is very tight and tender, easy to slice thin, and it melts in the mouth."
"It does melt in the mouth," Charles smiled at Issou, "but after eating it, I'm a little worried."
"Hmm?" Hearing this, Issou looked at Charles in confusion and heard him say in a worried tone, "I'm worried that after tasting your food today, other food will become tasteless."
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