Chapter 59, Zorro

Black paper bag with light red bow and thin rope handle.

This is a very common and simple external packaging.

Inside is a brown stuffed bear with big, cute chestnut-like eyes. It is adorable, but in its left hand there is a rapier sewn together with the stuffed bear's round little ball hand.

Zero's former name was not Zero. Her original name was Renata, Renata Yevgenia Chicherina. She was born in an ordinary Russian family, not a descendant of the Romanov family.

Zero was sold by his parents when he was young in exchange for money and a doctorate degree, and was raised as a test subject in Black Swan Port in northern Siberia for many years.

She once had a stuffed bear, which was a birthday present bought from Moscow by the first mate of an icebreaker.

In Black Swan Port, it is a luxury to receive gifts from outside, as the icebreaker only goes to that port once a year.

Renata cherished the little bear very much and named it 'Zorro'.

Zorro was a very popular masked knight in that era, and all the bad guys would tremble in fear when they heard his name.

Renata hopes that the stuffed bear 'Zorro' can also protect her. She will hug 'Zorro' when she goes to sleep at night, so that if monsters appear in the dark and want to hurt her, Zorro will kill them.

after that,
Renata doesn't need Zorro...

She changed her name.
Become strong, no longer rely on others, and be stubborn enough not to frown even when facing death.

It is a very, very, very bad thing to be away from others when they need you the most, and then to play the emotional card when others become better.

Zhuo knew this very well.

He had never thought about it that way. It could be said that until now, Zhuo had never thought about any further development with Ling in the future.

He was just strolling alone in the fireworks display full of lights and feasting. While others were in groups, holding hands and looking up at the fireworks, Zhuo was standing in the aisle made up of carts and saw this strange stuffed bear at a stall.

There's nothing cute about a stuffed bear holding a rapier.

He suddenly remembered Zero, so he bought it and planned to give it to her as a gift.

That's it.

Originally, it was nothing, just a souvenir, so I just gave it to him. He didn't have any other intentions anyway.

But when he saw how much importance Zero attached to the gift in the classroom, he suddenly felt... it was not appropriate.

Maybe he's just too self-aware.

It’s better to have a surplus than to create unnecessary misunderstandings.

Zhuo loosened his hand, and the stuffed bear fell back into the paper bag and disappeared.

He leaned back on the sofa, looked up at the ceiling, and let out a long breath.

"I must be crazy to buy this."

...

...

As a result, the next day, during lunch break, Zhuo and his good friend Kiritani Ren were eating lunch in a restaurant.

The two sat across the table from each other.

"Zhuo." Ren called him.

"what."

"Have you been losing weight recently?"

"No."

"Oh, that must be because he's eaten too much meat and fish and feels sick of it, so he wants to try something lighter to change his taste!"

"Sorry, I'd rather die of boredom from all the delicious food."

"Then why..." Ren stopped eating noodles and pointed the chopsticks in his hand at the lunch box in front of him: "...why is it like this?"

Without even raising his head, Zhuo picked up another piece of cabbage from his lunch box.

There was not only cabbage in the box, but also raw onions, lettuce, broccoli, boiled corn, sweet potato cubes, and the carrots he hated the most...that was all, all vegetarian dishes, which was very different from the turtle, shrimp, abalone, and high-quality Wagyu beef that had been served before.

Zero is a very simple person.

This kind of simplicity does not mean the simplicity of knowing nothing, but the simplicity of knowing everything but having one's own persistence and not taking anything to heart.

Well, what he meant was that Zero’s revenge wouldn’t wait overnight.

That night she delivered the lunch box for the next day, which was full of bland vegetarian dishes... He obviously liked eating meat very much, and Ling must have noticed this every time he cleaned up the mess... After the meat was cooked, he tasted the vegetables.

"Oh~ Then I understand." Seeing Zhuo silent, Ren had already figured out everything in his mind.

"What do you understand?" Zhuo glanced at him.

"You're going to be abandoned." Ren tapped the edge of the bowl with his chopsticks, emphasizing each word. Zhuo: "..."

In the days before summer vacation, Zhuo had a rich lunch every day. When Ren asked why, he used the excuse of being a "rich woman on the list". Although Ren didn't believe it...

After the summer vacation, the food quality dropped sharply, which was a far cry from the previous treatment.

This is a breakup!

This is probably what Ren thought.

"…Even if it's not right, it's not far off." Zhuo said.

This really made Zero unhappy, so he "specially" sent these bento boxes to "torture" himself.

But on the other hand, since she sent these bento boxes as revenge on him, maybe Zero wasn't really angry.

He was not sure about this matter.

After all…even if she has facial paralysis, Zero is still a girl.

The difference in thinking between boys and girls is even greater than the difference between humans and chimpanzees.

"You're just being stubborn." Ren said.

...

...

Since Zhuo's daily lunchbox has become a vegetarian lunchbox,

His lunch box remains vegetarian.
It lasted for about a month.

During this period, Ling still arrived on time every day and handed over exquisite food boxes; at night, Ling would also sit for a while and leave only after Zhuo had finished cleaning up the dishes.

From this perspective, the relationship between Zhuo and Ling does not seem to have deteriorated, which means that Ling is not really angry.

But if you think this way, then there is no way to explain the completely vegetarian bento that has continued to this day.

Zhuo found it very difficult to eat vegetarian food all day long.

He also tried to ask Ling indirectly, but she just responded indifferently. Zhuo didn't get any clear clues, so the matter ended there.

Fortunately, he also knew that he was in the wrong, so he obediently accepted Zero's retaliatory feeding and did not sneak outside to eat.

Just eat vegetarian food.

According to this logic, the experimental cooking classes in the last two "family classes" every Friday should have been the only days when Zhuo had the opportunity to eat meat.

Because there are basically meat dishes in cooking classes, this is the teacher's requirement, and the food made by students must be eaten to avoid wasting ingredients...

But Zhuo would always refuse impassionedly, loudly stating that he had recently started to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures, and would never touch any meat! Never!!!

It was so loud that even the classroom next door could hear it.

...I don't know why Zero didn't hear it.

Her seat in the cooking class was clearly behind him.

Although Zhuo didn't look back, when he was "passionate", he felt a familiar gaze from behind. It was definitely Ling looking at him.

Hey~
Anyway, he had to continue his daily vegetarian diet, so Zhuo had no choice but to accept his fate.

　Thanks to brothers Kitahara Fangxin Feiwei Shenyong Xiangsui for their monthly tickets.

　　Thanks to brother Jiumiao Qingjingxianjun for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to the brother Lonely Man and Widow for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to brothers 佡技佡浪 for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to Brother Yuzhe from Raoyuan for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to brother Wanqiansuiyue for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to brother Qu Weizhong for the two monthly tickets.

　　Thanks to the two monthly tickets from the genuine tool brother.

　　Thanks to brother Yefengsheng for the two monthly tickets.

　　thank.

　　Thanks to brother Jianlu for the 100-point reward.

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(End of this chapter)