Calm the Nerves

URBANLIFE Group

Most people preferred to call it "Urban Life."

It was a real estate developer with a certain level of fame worldwide.

It had a presence in China, the United States, South Korea, and Japan.

Its architectural design capabilities were also considered world-class.

It had designed many iconic buildings that surpassed five-star standards.

At the moment, Xu Yue was sitting in the general manager’s office at Urban Life’s Japanese headquarters.

The second son of Urban Life’s chairman.

That was Xu Yue’s initial identity upon entering this Punishment mission!

He already possessed +3 Comprehensive Reputation, and after slaughtering his way through Naruto, his initial Comprehensive Reputation had now reached +6.

With those bonuses, he had started out with a fairly decent identity boost.

Although he was a playboy bearing the title of general manager, neither his father nor his elder brother thought much of him. The resources he could mobilize were limited, and real estate had next to no influence on food.

Still, this identity gave him a far greater head start than most others.

Once some basic information related to his identity entered his mind,

Xu Yue also understood several characteristics of this background.

His "father" had placed all his hopes on his "elder brother" as the successor. Both were workaholics, and their focus lay in other countries.

The Japanese branch had been established purely to give Xu Yue something to do.

The sort of thing where they casually gave him a few hundred million to practice with…

And Xu Yue himself had not wasted the money-making talents of the "father" and "elder brother" he barely ever saw.

Every day, he indulged in pleasure and drank his life away.

The branch’s operations relied entirely on several senior executives.

With sufficient funding, maintaining a slight profit was easy enough.

"I have a certain status, but I can’t mobilize too many resources. That must be the nature of the bonus brought by Comprehensive Reputation. After all, this is a food-focused space, so a real estate boss has relatively little room to exert influence."

Sitting in the executive chair with his feet propped on the desk, Xu Yue stretched lazily.

He would probably have to lie low for quite a while. He could just treat this as a chance to refine Chakra…

After asking the space a few questions, Xu Yue found the restrictions here rather speechless.

He could use his own power freely, but the moment it affected someone else, all kinds of monetary penalties would immediately kick in.

According to the space, as long as he handed over his S-Rank Plot Points, he could do whatever he wanted in this space. Even getting every woman in the world pregnant would not be a problem.

It sounded just like those pleasure spaces, except the fees were multiplied countless times over.

A normal mission not only gave him no rewards, but wanted to charge him money?

This space was completely ridiculous…

Although the anime Shokugeki no Soma was a food series, it also incorporated hot-blooded elements.

It mainly told the story of the protagonist, Yukihira Soma, entering a super culinary school—Totsuki Culinary Academy, also known simply as Totsuki Academy—for further study.

In this world, wagers could be settled through cooking competitions called "Food Wars!"

And according to the space’s introduction, Food Wars! seemed to have been enhanced here.

The protagonist, Yukihira Soma, had begun learning cooking at the age of three. After twelve years of training, when he graduated middle school at fifteen, his father—who stood at the pinnacle of the culinary world—kicked him straight into Totsuki Academy.

It could be said that this series’ protagonist had started at a pretty good level.

The key mission required to obtain the clearance reward was for Xu Yue to become one of Totsuki Academy’s ten strongest chefs—the Elite Ten Council, its highest decision-making body.

For someone like him, who knew absolutely nothing about cooking, starting from zero and challenging all those culinary geniuses and monsters would be quite the challenge.

Every one of them possessed not only exceptional culinary talent, but more importantly, most had already undergone a long period of culinary training.

Meanwhile, he could not even pass Totsuki Academy’s entrance exam right now.

This top culinary institution had a graduation rate below ten percent. It was said that ninety-nine percent of its students existed to sharpen the remaining one percent.

Even the regular entrance examination was outrageously difficult. Especially for those who had not attended Totsuki Middle School and wanted to transfer into high school—within the story, only the protagonist, Yukihira Soma, had passed that exam.

Xu Yue really did not think instant noodles could impress the examiner.

On one side was this absurdly high difficulty; on the other, the space tempted him with benefits similar to those of a pleasure space. This space really had an ugly appetite…

As for using the money from his current identity to solve the problem directly, Xu Yue quickly dismissed that idea as well. This space was special. Money could indeed provide fairly effective assistance, but it seemed insufficient if he wanted to do whatever he pleased.

When the protagonist had just entered the academy, there had been a scene specifically meant to highlight Totsuki Academy’s lofty status: some filthy rich man had cried and begged,

"Whether it’s ten million or twenty million, just let my child continue studying there!"

Yet even so, he had been ruthlessly refused.

It might seem unrealistic in the real world, but in this special Mission Space, anything was naturally possible…

Knock, knock~

A light knock sounded at the door.

It pulled Xu Yue out of his thoughts.

Going by the space’s usual style, this should be a small initial mission meant to help him enter the plot.

"Come in."

As Xu Yue spoke, a seductive and alluring figure walked in.

Her office attire barely contained her curves. Her shoulder-length black hair curled slightly, while the top button at her chest had been undone, revealing contours that the white shirt beneath could not contain.

Minezaki Yaeko. Her name was included in the simple relationship information.

She was his assistant as general manager.

A top graduate from a prestigious university, she had the figure, looks, and talent.

"Manager Yue, the design plans for the Garden Apartments on the commercial street have been completed. We’ve reached agreements with most of the residents, but one small restaurant has kept refusing. Should we use some special measures?"

Walking in with catlike steps, Minezaki Yaeko looked at Xu Yue with seductive eyes that seemed ready to drip water. One finger rested against her red lips as her tongue lightly licked it, making the nature of their relationship quite obvious.

She had definitely reached the level of a secretary he could sleep with.

He had only just entered the mission, and the space already wanted to corrupt him?

Xu Yue could not help staring helplessly at the ceiling.

Still, by every measure, this assistant was excellent. Since she had offered herself up for free, it was not as if he would lose out.

She was clearly a "test product" prepared for him by the space.

He would not feel the slightest burden from enjoying a test product, and her words had also triggered the relevant memories.

Minezaki Yaeko should be the woman who appeared in the first episode of Shokugeki no Soma. After being refused when trying to acquire the protagonist Yukihira Soma’s family restaurant, she had someone ruin the restaurant’s ingredients, then entered as a customer and demanded meat.

Medicine King Yukihira Soma had directly shattered her taste buds with Imitation Crispy Roast Meat made from bacon-wrapped potatoes.

To get another bite, she had no choice but to promise never to acquire small shops again.

So this was making him the villain right from the start.

So he had set his sights on the protagonist’s family restaurant…

"Manager~, he rejected me outright yesterday and even burned my business card. He was so mean~ Let’s use some special measures~"

Minezaki Yaeko came to the side of Xu Yue’s chair and pressed half her full, supple body against him, speaking in a coquettish voice.

"All right. I’ll go with you when the time comes…"

Having formed a rough plan, Xu Yue made his decision.

But there was still some time before they set off. First, he would enjoy the space’s "test product" to calm his nerves…

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