This Life, I Will Be the Protagonist-Chapter 528 - : Divine Game: Chaotic Restaurant 48

Rita quickly picks up the dish she had prepared for Rabbit 3 earlier and places it in front of them. "Eat up. I promise I'll finish cooking and leave within 5 minutes. One SSS-level skill, I'm even willing to feed it to you."

Rabbit 3 eyes her suspiciously. "If I choose to fulfill Rule 1, are you going to throw this dish on the floor and make me pick it up and eat it?"

Rita pauses, meeting Rabbit 3's gaze, and responds earnestly, "No, I wouldn't do that."

She's not crazy. Using the rules to provoke a god and personally humiliating one is a whole different matter. Even if she didn't know Rabbit 3 was a god, she wouldn't do something like that.

Trampling on the dignity of a living being isn't something she finds enjoyable.

Rabbit 3's brow loosens a bit. "Alright then."

It takes the dish and starts eating.

Rita: "You're not bad yourself."

Proud, but generous too!

Rabbit 3: ...

Why is it so nice to talk to the Spring Deity, but so prickly when speaking to itself?

Sea Pony flies over. "I'll feed you! As long as you give me a rabbit hair, I'll even chew it up and feed you myself."

Rabbit 3 shoves Sea Pony away. "Shut up! When you talk, I get a headache!"

Sea Pony: "So BS Rita makes you tremble with anger, but you're excited, huh?"

Rabbit 3: "…"

Rita: "So that's how it is!"

The rabbits from Restaurant 232 and 234 nod in agreement, "So that's how it is!"

Rabbit 3 closes its eyes in pain, unwilling to speak any further.

Meanwhile, Rita continues stirring the pot. She had been looking for a chance to leave Restaurant 233, just not this early. But if she doesn't leave, how can she use the second rabbit hair?

She doesn't know how long the effect of the skill icon will last, and she must use it before the restaurant closes to secure her advantage.

Though leaving the restaurant now means she risks not having one when it reopens, she's confident she can find another restaurant where she can compete for a position, just like Restaurant 233.

To be honest, wasn't she playing Divine Game to modify her skills in the first place?

Now she has a chance to do just that. If she doesn't take it, that would be a huge mistake.

Sea Pony, though reluctant, calls out, "You're really leaving?"

Rita: "Yeah."

Sea Pony: "If you leave, how am I supposed to find you to kill you?"

Rita: "Throw Winter Sea Frenzied Shark's head into the sky above the world battleground and explode it, and I'll answer your call."

Sea Pony: "... Sometimes when I talk to you, I feel inferior. Your shamelessness makes me want to hide."

Rita: "I'm the one!"

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Rita quickly prepares a dish—98 points, just average, not even a delicacy. She glances at the restaurant's data: Mischief Score 67.

Revenue: 763◆84◇.

She's not worried about the revenue; it will follow her. After the whole incident with [Is this your restaurant? Who gave you the permission to open it?], the teams were all shuffled and reorganized. Some players even lost their teams, but individual players still have rankings for revenue.

It's a bit of a pity she won't be sticking with Octopus Bucket anymore.

She divides the dish into several portions so that each one has an effect. This was the method she used when her teammates tasted dishes for buffs during the cooking competition.

The dish reduces cooldown time by 1 hour per portion, a small benefit but better than nothing. Rita packs each portion into her bag, then looks at Rabbit 3. Their dish is finished.

A 2-star delicacy, made in less than five minutes.

But Rita doesn't think this is Rabbit 3's limit. Whether it's hidden strength or constrained by the rules, the professional ability must be on par with hers.

At this point, the restriction at the restaurant entrance disappears, and the [Chef] cursor shifts to Rabbit 3's head.

Rita doesn't delay. She exchanges a few words with Marmang-Crab and Octopus Bucket and then flies out without looking back.

The rabbit from Restaurant 232 says something in a language the players from all three restaurants can't understand: "What a loss."

The rabbit from Restaurant 234 responds in the same language: "It's just a tantrum."

The rabbit from Restaurant 232: "You think Rabbit 3 actually likes BS Rita? Maybe it's just playing this game to get her attention and offering rewards to attract her."

Rabbit 3: "...If you're going to insult me, at least don't make it so dirty!"

The rabbit from Restaurant 234: "It's not us, it's the Spring Deity who said it."

Rabbit 3: "...They always like these weird things…"

...

After leaving Restaurant 233, Rita starts looking for a restaurant to rest in. After upgrading [Mysterious Power], she doesn't plan on rushing into a new restaurant. She wants to observe first and at least not join a new team recklessly.

She avoids those with forced consumption—those are a no-go. What if the menu requires skill payments? That would be terrible.

She also stays clear of places where players might get penalized for violating the rules multiple times.

In addition, while looking through restaurant rules, she checks if there are any top ten players in the ladder rankings behind Restaurant 233.

The chef competition ranked Restaurant 233 at 233rd, which means it's limited to carrying only 5 skill icons. The restaurants further down must have even fewer, meaning the skills there are carefully selected for maximum effectiveness.

Unlike before when she was causing chaos with time stop, now Rita realizes, while she checks every restaurant's rules, that although many event gift packs fell earlier, not every restaurant has rabbit customers.

The restaurants on the left side of the food street are top-ranked, and from Restaurant 1 down, almost every one has customers.

However, looking at the restaurants on her right, which are likely ranked towards the end of the street, she sees that almost all of them are ranked outside the top 5000. She has to pass about 100 restaurants before spotting a single rabbit customer.

The left-side restaurants are busy, with players occasionally peeking at her, while players on the right side are just sitting at their restaurant entrances, chatting leisurely.

These strange players are dressed in all kinds of bizarre, colorful outfits.

As Rita walks down the middle of the food street, she sometimes feels like she's at a zoo, sometimes like she's inspecting the countryside, and at other times like she's wandered into Hengdian...

When she passes a velociraptor eating ramen in front of a restaurant, she starts to question her own mental state.

While passing Restaurant 245, Rita spots Mistblade.

He's sitting behind the cashier counter, one hand propped up under his head. When he sees her, he raises an eyebrow in surprise and asks in Moon Fox language, "Just out shopping?"

Rita, no longer pretending not to understand, uses the help of B80234615 and responds in clumsy Moon Fox language, "...Yeah, are you working?"

Such a ridiculous conversation.

Clearly, Mistblade thinks the same.

They stare at each other for a few seconds, both awkwardly looking away.