Chapter 15: The Soy Sauce Crowd (Three)

  Dean Howard's signature and seal soon appeared on the club application form in Eriol's hand. Recalling the scene at that time, Eriol, who was walking in the stairwell, couldn't help but choke back tears and bite her lip, punching the wall desperately.

  "What kind of ridiculous club name is this? And you actually had the nerve to fill in 'slacking off' under club activities?" Howard thundered, his long mustache quivering. "I won't approve it!!"

  "It seems I've seen a club called 'Lolita Fan Club' before, isn't it more ridiculous than mine? Don't pretend you don't know this club exists." Elisha said with disdain.

  "Howard said with a straight face, 'Others are also genuinely into little loli girls, why shouldn't I approve?'"

  "I'm also working hard, why don't you approve?"

  "No reason, just no!"

  "Ugh, can't I just have a little bit?!" Elisha raised her beautiful small face, her two white and smooth small hands clasped together in front of her chest, her innocent and pitiful shining big eyes welling up with tears as she gazed weakly at Howard at a 45-degree angle, asking in her sweet and cloying voice.

  "Uh, you're just being cute but it's useless."

  Don't look away while saying that, you old soul! And is the spider on the ceiling that's hibernating really that captivating to your eyes?! Your eye corners are twitching, hey!

  "Hmph, so it's true that as people get older, their skin gets thicker and they become more stubborn?"

  Alicia could only sigh and change to a tone of evil:

  "Well, in that case, I have no choice but to do this." She took out a small roll of film from her bracelet and waved it back and forth in front of Howard's gradually widening eyes, revealing a mischievous smile and cute little tiger teeth. "Maybe I should get it developed, make a few thousand copies, and post them all over the place, so that the brilliant light of wisdom shining out of your intelligent brain can illuminate the entire Hope Garden?"

  In Howard's eyes, the beautiful little girl in front of him, who was stroking her golden long hair and glancing over with a faint smile on her face, had a pair of black bat wings stretched out behind her back and a swaying triangular tail.

  "......Give me the application form and I'll sign and stamp it."

  "After Howard finished the approval procedures, he cautiously asked in a negotiating tone: "Ah, Miss Harris, is it possible to get the negatives...?"

  "Oh, okay." The little loli took out a roll of film with over ten sheets and put it on the table, "I've returned everything to you, so you shouldn't have any complaints now, right? I'm a good student after all."

  "Hmmph!" Howard gathered up the slides and grunted heavily, "If you're a good student then every B-class student is a top student! I really don't know how the Harris family could have produced such an oddball descendant like you."

  "Hehe, you're a big shot, so don't bother with me." Eriol said as she walked out of the room. As she was closing the door halfway, she stuck her head back in and added, "By the way, I developed those negatives last night and took a look, turns out that when I was taking the picture, although I did move aside the shrubs, there's still a leaf blocking the lens."

  "What? That's what you mean?" Howard's face suddenly became very colorful.

  "I didn't actually take any pictures." After saying that, the little loli immediately closed the door and ran away.

  "Alicia Harris!!" A roar that could intimidate a giant dragon echoed through the room, but unfortunately she was no longer there.

  Having finished reminiscing, Eliya deeply inhaled to calm herself down, then took large strides back to the student council room.

  In the midst of Anqi's shocked face and everyone's incredulous expressions, Erihito pulled out an application form, and thus the greatest student organization in the world was born. Its club activities had no purpose whatsoever, its members were a motley crew of idle and bored individuals, and it didn't even have any club funds subsidies. The sole purpose of this club's existence was to provide a dedicated space for its members who spent their free time doing absolutely nothing.

  The Soy Sauce Corps was formally established here. Flower scattering...

  I am a divider line

  The next afternoon after school, several students stood in front of the old building near the back mountain, which was Alisha and others.

  "I said, why did you come too?" Elisha asked Li Hua Yin with a bad tone while looking at him messing around and causing a commotion.

  "How could such a loving community be without me?" Li Hua's voice trailed off as she gazed into the distance with an entranced expression.

  "It's true that from the perspective of selling cuteness, a character like you is indispensable...” Eriol rubbed her temples, “I don't know why, but I always feel like this arrangement is somehow suspicious.”

  "Never mind, never mind, it's just a small matter, don't bother about it." Sophia waved her hand and then pulled out a rough paper the size of a poster that could make Brother Mop proud. "This is the signboard that Michelle, Yuege and I rushed to make last night, my lovely Minister, take a look at how it is?"

  A yellowed piece of cowhide paper, as if it had just been fished out of a swamp, with a vague black mist on the front that obscured where the words should be, and something sticky seemed to be dripping down from inside.

  "Hey, why would a normal department sign have a code on it? Are you guys using some kind of alien blood to write with or something?! That drop on the ground is corroding the stone slab!!"

  "Hmm, such sharp remarks. It seems this sign hasn't passed?"

  "If this thing is posted on the door, who would dare come in!!"

  The first item in the book that was censored only appeared for less than three minutes before being burned by a loli and turned into a convenience store.

  "I've had enough of you guys." Elisha led the way up the creaky wooden stairs and stopped in front of an empty room door, "Later, let's clean this place up and make a sign together."

  The door opened, and unexpectedly, although it was very clean inside, there were a lot of miscellaneous items piled up, and someone was picking things up. It looked like they knew the room had an owner, so they casually piled up their belongings before cleaning up.

  Alicia looked at the four people in front of her, who were absolutely familiar despite it being their first meeting, and her slender eyebrows jumped up and down.

  Akane Akiyama, Ritsu Tainaka, Kyotaro Suga and... Yui Hirasawa is biting into a tortilla chip.

  "Hey, you're the legendary Light Music Club, right?" Ritsu raised her hand in greeting. "I'm Ritsu Tainaka, the president of the Light Music Club downstairs. Nice to meet you."

  Eriol didn't respond because she had already petrified.

  "That's right, we're the 'Soy Sauce Squad' department." Sophia hastily said as she saw it was about to get awkward, "And this little girl who is the smallest of all is our department head."

  After finishing speaking, she quietly poked little loli's back.

  "Wait a minute!!" Eriol shouted, pointing at the four people in front of her and turning around. "The previous pranks and pinches were nothing, but what's this now!? This is the real deal, the Magic World! And yet you're wearing a Zone 11 sailor fuku uniform (Kyotaro: Am I being ignored?) Don't you find it strange at all?!"

  "Nothing strange at all?"

  At this time, Rockley's voice sounded in Eriol's mind: "Of course it won't be strange, because I specially added divine techniques to these characters who were originally from the second dimension. Everyone, including themselves, will not notice the special differences with others. Of course, this divine technique is only effective for people in this world - that is to say, these characters are specially prepared for you crossers."

  By the way, I have prepared many anime-related characters in various places around this world. As long as you can find them, I will exchange a considerable reward for each one you find. Next time you get excited, please don't shout loudly, be more reserved."

  Shut up! By the way, that setting about exchanging rewards with discovered anime characters must have been something the author just thought of and added in casually, right!? You should filter your writing through your brain before typing it out, got it?!

  "Uh, hello. I'm Eriol Harris, the minister of this laid-back club." Seeing everyone staring at her in confusion, Eriol tried to act nonchalant and said, "You guys are using this place as a storage room or something?"

  "Yes, the mahjong department next door is the same. Sorry about that, we'll clean up right away." Lv grabbed his head and turned to Ling, "Lian is preparing afternoon tea, where did Wei and Azhuo run off to?"

  "Who knows, maybe we'll run into some more trouble on the way?"

  "Uh, yeah that's true. Like helping an old lady cross the street or rescuing a kitten stuck in a tree and so on."

  Listening to this soft and gentle conversation on the spot, Eriol didn't know whether she should feel moved or record it.

  Just then the door was opened and Azusa appeared at the entrance, saying "Minister, Akizuki-senpai, afternoon tea is ready. You..."

  Next to him, Li Hua suddenly jumped up: "Wow!!! Meng Wang!!!"

  Then she was slapped down from mid-air by Eriol: "Don't interrupt me!"

  After the commotion subsided, Kyotaro stood up with a smile and said: "Hello everyone, I'm from the Mahjong Club... Wow!"

  Kyotaro couldn't finish speaking, as nearby Kataoka Yuuki suddenly jumped onto his back and tightly hugged his head. Then this orange-haired little girl said in a voice identical to Eri's: "I'm Kataoka Yuuki, the vanguard of the Mahjong Club! Hey, Department Head over there, do you like tacos?"

  "Sorry, no interest." Facing the orthodox Nagisa role, as a knockoff Eriol, I couldn't help but sweat profusely and say "Duck Liver Mountain is big".

  "Is that so, what a shame. Mexican food is really delicious!" Yuuki was finally brought down to the ground by Kyotaro, but her attention now seemed to be focused on Erihiya, "So, do you have any favorite foods? Tell me about it."

  "Actually, there's really nothing I particularly like..."

  "Hmm, if you don't like Mexican bread, then what kind of food do you like?" Yuuki asked, ticking off on her fingers. "Is it cocoa cream puffs? Or soy products and dairy products? Maybe it's pineapple buns? Or peach buns? Or perhaps the new electronic game that just came out?"

  "Don't you think something very subtle has been mixed in?"

  I am a divider line

  After seeing off the intruders and their belongings, Eriol began to survey the room.

  The floor has been cleaned by everyone and is very clean; there are a few places on the wall that need to be repainted, but it's no big deal; the magic lamp is old but still works normally; the ceiling is rarely cracked. Everything looks so satisfying, except...

  "Why is there not even a single chair in this room!!" Elisha yelled out, staring at the empty and furniture-less room.

  "Haha, it seems that An Qi sometimes teases people too." Sophia said with her hand covering her mouth.

  Eriol shook her head: "No, it should be that this room has been unused for a long time, so the furniture was borrowed by other clubs."

  "What do we do now? It seems like we don't have any club funds, huh." Li Hua scratched his head and said, "Xiao Aili, didn't you give up the club funds when you reached an agreement with the principal to establish this weird club?"

  "It seems that for now, we can only pool our money to buy a table and some chairs." Elisha looked at her members - Sofia, Michelle, Cecilia, Kashi, Li Hua Yin, and the high elf Moon Song who had come for unknown reasons - and suddenly discovered a very serious problem. "There are no boys among us, and in the future there may be other physically demanding tasks, so I have decided to recruit male members."

  "Ah~~~~~~~~~~~~~!?" Li Hua was the first to shout, she jumped up high and almost hit the ceiling. "How can that be?! I strongly object to letting those perverts enter this pure garden!"

  "If it's for this reason, I should have fired you first."

  Li Hua's whole person turned gray and white, squatting in the corner of the wall drawing circles.

  "It's really like that, I didn't notice it at all." Sophia looked around and nodded in agreement, "But if we're going to accept boys, it must be voted on by all the girls, and more than 80% of them have to agree. What do you think?"

  "Alright, let's do it then." Elisha turned to Li Hua Yin, who was still drawing circles on one side, "Hey, stop drawing, be careful not to scratch the floor with your wolf claws. Tomorrow in class, you go ask Ilya if he has joined the club, and if not, bring him over. Ilya should be able to pass unanimously."

  "Then, Cecilia." The little loli turned around and slapped a soulless girl who was clearly attracted by the dessert smell from downstairs on the ear, "Come back to life!! Tomorrow you also go try to bring Fabianola over, bring him to the club room for everyone to meet. Then vote again to decide whether he can join or not."

  "Alright, Sophia I remember you said you're free this afternoon, right? Later on, come with me to the market outside the college to pick out some furniture. That's all for everyone else today, dismissed."

  "No way!!" Sophia said with a gloomy face.

  Under Eriol's arrangement, the "Soy Sauce Gang" is expanding their club room in an orderly manner. The tables and chairs were bought with pooled money, as Sofia's furniture store owner even gave a discount, and Eriol even used the saved money to buy a second-hand sofa; the paint on the wall was also repainted by Cecilia's reading companions, of course, the stingy Lori only paid for the paint and nothing else; the sign at the entrance was also put up, this time it was made by Lori herself, no need to code; Ilya successfully joined the soy sauce team, but Fabiano, who is serious and hardworking, couldn't be pulled in because he joined a study group after school.

  By the way, after these two, Bartle and Joy also came to the door with a thick face thicker than the city wall, asking to join, and were electrocuted by Eriol in ten seconds.

  So "Passing Soy Sauce Crowd" department became Ilya's exclusive palace (big fog).

  I am a divider line

  It's been a week since school started, and everyone has gradually adapted to college life. The clubs are also thriving - every afternoon, these boring guys gather at the light music club in the teaching building to have tea, read books, sleep, or simply stare blankly into space... those who want to indulge in yuri (girls' love) get kicked out...

  Vakiris occasionally also asks Eriol for advice on some learning issues, as long as Ilya is five meters away from her, she can be considered a normal girl. As for the club Vakiris joined, Eriol also asked specifically, and the answer was - if she hadn't joined, the cooking club with only three people would have been disbanded at the beginning of school, the reason being that there were no boys inside...

  The two clubs on the upper and lower floors also got along very happily - except for Li Hua, who would always rush up to the beautiful women only to be slapped down by Eri every time. Everyone else had a great chat. The three clubs' people often visited each other's places. Of course, one day when Eri wasn't paying attention, Li Hua snuck into the Mahjong Club and caused a huge commotion before being beaten out by Takei. The next day, the Mahjong Club posted a note on their door that read: "Li Hua and Xiaoqiang are prohibited from entering, violators will be responsible for their own consequences."

  It's worth mentioning that Li Hua had once sneaked into the Mahjong Department, and from that day on, a strange rumor spread throughout the school: "There is a mummy covered in cockroaches wandering around in the old building..."

  On that afternoon when everyone was leisurely killing time, the door of the activity department's room was pushed open, and An Qi stood outside with a file folder in her arms.

  "It looks like you've done a pretty good job." Angie walked in, looking around, "Except for that speechless club activity, everything else looks great. Yeah, I can give it an 'excellent'."

  "An Qi xue jie, what's this?" asked Eriol who was occupying the sofa and yawning.

  "Club Survey Form." An Qi waved the folder in her hand, "At the beginning of each month, a comprehensive survey will be conducted on all clubs. Ghost clubs with no participants and disorganized ones will be eliminated."

  "So that's how it is. The student council really does work hard." Eriol pulled out a chair and gestured, "How about a cup of red tea to take a break?"

  Anqi glanced at the clock, nodded and sat down: "It's still early, so I'll bother you for a while."

  "By the way, have you found any temporary work to earn money these past two days?" Eriol handed a cup of red tea in front of Anqi and asked, "Has the 1,000 gold coin treatment fee been settled?"

  Anqi's face fell, and she shook her head. "No way, although I'm a third-level warrior now, because of the time spent on studying, my mercenary level and points are not high, so I can't get any good tasks. Moreover, mercenary tasks usually take up a lot of time, and I don't have the energy to complete them."

  "Don't worry, we'll think of a way out for you too. The ship will straighten itself when it reaches the bridgehead."

  After sending Anqi away, Eriol shook awake Cecilia who was fighting with desserts in her dream: "Hey, Cecilia, do you have 1,000 gold coins?"

  "What? That's half a year's worth of pocket money for me, where am I supposed to get that much from? And what do you need so many gold coins for? Are you planning on opening a store?" Cecilia was shocked by the lion's open mouth and the little loli's big demand.

  Although I know you're a noble lady, your words can really infuriate many people.

  Others too were drawn or awakened by Cecilia's loud voice and turned around.

  Elisha then explained to everyone that Angie was trying to raise money for her seriously ill family member (of course, the fact that she assisted Donason in kidnapping Michelle was kept secret), and told them that they still needed 1,000 gold coins for the treatment.

  "We must help!" Ilya stood up and said, Elisha could clearly see the raging flames behind him, "Even if it's to venture into a dragon's lair!"

  On the other side, Li Hua's sound was also burning - dare you say out loud the purpose that sets you on fire?

  "Don't be so exaggerated." Eriol smiled and said, "Ilya, you just need to defeat a few high-ranking warriors and mages, then go rob the treasury of Reiz City."

  "That's right, and with the extra money, we can also improve the decoration of our department." Sophia also smiled.

  Xia Xi wiped the sweat from his forehead and pulled Cecilia, who was also sweating profusely, back a little.

  "Elisya, Sofia, the dark energy behind you is very thick."

  The evil spirit was defeated in front of the pseudo-three, but the natural fool rose up at this time.

  All I saw was Michelle tilting her head and asking seriously: "But isn't robbing a bank a crime?"

  This time it's completely cold.