The Pastry Chef Just Wants an Ordinary Life

Shui and Qianhui are outstanding employees of the Space-Time Maintenance Bureau.

Just as they were about to arrive at a world where they could retire, worlds began merging. Forced to work overtime again, Shui and Qianhui nearly turned the System into a dessert and ate it in the System space.

After some "friendly" communication between one person and one System,

Qianhui, just eleven years old, opened a dessert shop on a street next to Yokohama's Five Towers. She nearly got kidnapped by a disheveled doctor carrying a little blonde girl, who cupped her face.

Then she met a bandage-wasting contraption who wanted her to make a painless-death dessert.

After enduring the probing of a high-IQ, script-writing type who was exhausting to deal with, Qianhui decided that little detectives were better. They genuinely loved desserts, and a cheap snack was all it took for them to mind their own business. The only problem was that their parents, who had the imposing air of lone wolves, kept a very close eye on them.

Then one night, just as she was about to close up, a white-haired man in sunglasses slipped into the dessert shop and witnessed Shui and Qianhui's professional technique for cooking Cursed Spirits.

Curious Gojo: "Oh my~ These Kikufuku look so delicious! They were made from Cursed Spirits!? I have to try one!"

Shui and Qianhui: "We're closed, sir. This is private time. Please come back tomorrow."

And just like that, the happy [slacking off] hours of ordinary daily life were gone for good.

System: Host, someone with a brain made of flowers is plotting to kill the mission target.

Holding a cake base, Qianhui whipped out the finest cookware for preparing brains: a yin-yang hot pot!!

The chase was on!

When she passed two people playing an endless game of "I know what you know I know what you know," she didn't even need the System to scream. She had already kicked Knife-kun's lunchbox aside and picked up an employee along the way.

System: The mission target has no will to live, Qianhui!

Oda Sakunosuke would never forget the miracle of that day. She said:

"A soul that has died cannot be brought back, but if you believe wholeheartedly in the greatness of desserts, a miracle might happen."

Oda looked at the six children of various ages around him. "Dazai, that limited-edition dark chocolate cake was for Ranpo."

Dazai, who had already eaten several bites, picked up the cake and ran.

The Infinity Castle, hidden in a rift in time and serving as the site of a final battle, came into view of Qianhui in her complete divine form. The man-eating demons inside the castle stuffed themselves until their bellies burst, their whole bodies turning to sugar. The Sound Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps accidentally fell into Tokyo Jujutsu High, where he met the utterly unflashy "Lord Tengen."

Shui and Qianhui, working overtime again: Thanks to the me from a parallel world for giving me more overtime :)

Coming soon: The Thunderclap Tribulation Doctor at Jujutsu High

Synopsis: Rong Banxia had reached an unparalleled level of survival skills. In the cruel world of cultivation, she kept her head down until even the peerless geniuses of her generation had ascended, only then daring to refine the Gold-Patterned Nine-Turn Spirit Pill needed for ascension.

But no amount of caution could help her survive the merciless heavenly lightning.

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself with a System that seemed to have been struck by lightning too, and only a few puppet-like things that were still in decent condition.

The puppets were powerful and well suited to surviving in an unfamiliar world.

Puppet No. 1 was once a revered Sword Immortal. Banxia had read the story of the immortal and his rumored boyfriend at the Dao Yue Teahouse.

Puppet No. 2 was the master of the Heavenly Secrets Tower, a woman who could calculate everything without error. She had long wanted to see what his face looked like beneath the mask.

The first two were a good fit for a cultivation world, but the puppets after them were taking things a little too far.

Banxia: No need to panic. I'll make up a cultivation world where a hundred flowers bloom!

Banxia, an alchemist by trade, talked her cheap big brother into becoming a body cultivator, then put on a little backpack and headed to Jujutsu High.

A strange legend began spreading across the martial world:

Puppet No. 1, the immortal, cleaved the sea with one sword strike. Puppet No. 2, the tower master, exposed a thousand-year-old conspiracy with a single sentence. The rest of her secret identities stirred up trouble among the various factions, quietly keeping watch, handing out knives, and fanning the flames.

Meanwhile, her true self, smiling sweetly, held a delicious-smelling white-haired junior in her arms. She lifted her eyes, and the clouds darkened, lightning flashed, and an overwhelming divine pressure filled the sky.

The black-haired beauty parted her red lips. "Do you want to challenge the Thunderclap Tribulation? He's mine."

The students of a certain hot-blooded teacher: "Whoa, Master is awesome!"

5t5: Someone stole my home, but I can't bring myself to get mad.

Notes for reading the second story

1. The timeline is all over the place, so don't nitpick.

2. Kicking knives and lunchboxes away. A happy, healing everyday-life story.

3. The heroine isn't a naive sweetheart, but she loves ordinary, peaceful days. Her ability is to cook anything into a dessert, basically a cheat-level power.

4. Some out-of-character moments are inevitable. If you don't like it, move on. Let's part on good terms.

5. The CP is Dazai.

Theme: As long as you keep trying, you can always achieve a happy ending.