21st Century Necromancer

Chapter 184 "Can you teach me?

Daimon Michiko's celebration took place at a rather nice seafood restaurant.

The restaurant specialized in shrimp and crab, with Ise-Sealord and King Crab, two of Japan's most famous seafood products, being incredibly delicious whether served as sashimi or grilled. Especially clever was the restaurant's large pool, which allowed guests to sit high and fish for lobsters, adding an extra bit of fun to the dining experience. Your next read awaits at empire

For Chen Yu, it was his first time trying crab sashimi, and he couldn't help but find it novel.

Though the celebration was supposed to be for Chen Yu and Hiromi Jounouchi, it was Daimon Michiko who ended up eating the most. On the side, the host, Kanbara Alira, was an unexpectedly big eater as well, not eating any less than the boisterously eating Michiko; it's just he did so in a low-key way that one could easily overlook.

"I didn't expect Uncle Jing to appear to barely move his chopsticks, but he ate no less than Daimon-san!" On their way home, Chen Yu couldn't help discussing the meal with Hiromi Jounouchi, "As for you, Hiromi, you seem to really like crab, don't you? You ate almost a third of the two King Crabs, right?"

"What, are you complaining that I ate too much, worried you won't be able to provide for me?" Jounouchi Hiromi looked at Chen Yu coquettishly, but took the initiative to hook his arm. "It's too late to have regrets now! You've already proposed and said you'll marry me. If you say now you can't afford it and want to back out, I won't accept it!"

Jounouchi Hiromi's playful sulking made Chen Yu smile, and he chuckled, "I do have an entire island, after all! If you like eating it, we can just farm some in the sea. Then you can eat it every day and still afford it. Besides, with my income, King Crabs are nothing, I can certainly afford them. I was just surprised you liked eating crabs so much."

Hearing Chen Yu say this, Jounouchi Hiromi felt a bit embarrassed, and she shyly bit her finger, "It's not that I particularly like eating crab! I just like eating in general. I really like various delicious foods, not just limited to crabs. I like tasty vegetables and such, too."

Chen Yu nodded in understanding upon hearing Hiromi say this. Thanks to the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives' so-called "premium strategy," Japanese agricultural products were often cultivated to absurd levels of perfection. For example, the well-known Kawanakajima White Peaches; only those peaches of standard size could pass the agricultural standard to be sold.

Too big or too small wouldn't do; out of the hundreds of fruits on a peach tree, only the dozen or so that met the criteria could be branded as Kawanakajima White Peaches and sold on the market.

Thus, thanks to such policies, Japanese agricultural products were generally expensive, but they were also very hygienic, safe to eat after just a simple wash. However, this also led to the appearance of exorbitantly priced fruits like strawberries for 5,000 yen each, melons for 100,000 yen each, and watermelons for 500,000 yen each.

So it wasn't hard to understand why Jounouchi Hiromi said she liked vegetables; after all, this was a country that could grow cabbages with the sugar content of fruit.

"You used to eat like that without any worry, but after the Fukushima incident, it's better to eat less of those things. I really don't want to perform surgery on you one day." Although it might dampen the mood, Chen Yu still reminded Hiromi Jounouchi.

The effects of the Fukushima incident weren't just limited to radioactive dust and nuclear wastewater; the mutations in plants caused by radiation also had a severe effect on agricultural products, although those mutated crops would never be allowed by the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives to appear on the market anyway.

"Shouldn't be the case, right? Aren't Japan's agricultural products all about striving for perfection? The crops contaminated by mutations wouldn't be sold at all!" Jounouchi Hiromi obviously wasn't taking Chen Yu's warning to heart, instead she had a firm and deep trust in the domestic agricultural products.

"If someone dared to sell contaminated produce, then people would stop buying their stuff in the future."

Chen Yu looked at Jounouchi Hiromi with a wry smile on his face, helplessly saying, "Of course most of the farm products sold in the market are safe, but the sampling rate for the agricultural cooperative's testing standards is too low. Moreover, this testing mechanism only targets products that are normally on the market.

While there haven't been any incidents discovered of people illegally bypassing market regulation to sell contaminated goods, it's not impossible. Plus, with things like wild vegetables, mountain herbs, and wild mushrooms, you need to be even more cautious.

Not to mention, radiation monitoring is only one aspect; the real horror is the mutations that occur in plants after being contaminated by radiation. Outward growth deformities are just the tip of the iceberg; deeper mutations are unpredictable.

You might eat something and be fine, or maybe just get a stomach ache at the time, but it could also increase the risk of cancer over the years, so it doesn't hurt to be extra careful."

Despite feeling that it was a mood killer, Jounouchi Hiromi thought about her boyfriend... no, now she should say her fiancé. He was expressing his concern for her, so she squeezed out a smile and nodded in agreement, saying, "Alright, alright! I get it!"

Chen Yu also felt that perhaps he was being a bit too harsh, and seeing that Jounouchi Hiromi seemed a bit unhappy, he quickly apologized, "Sorry, Hiromi, for making you feel uncomfortable."

"It's okay! I know Mr. Chen Yu, you care about me. It's just that it's a bit of a buzzkill to bring it up all of a sudden," said Hiromi Jounouchi as she hastily smiled and brushed it off, since Chen Yu had already apologized. After all, was she supposed to keep minding it and make them both unhappy? She didn't think she could do such a thing.

Moving past the topic, Jounouchi Hiromi naturally steered their conversation towards other matters. She was very curious about the other side of Chen Yu, being a Necromancer, and naturally led the topic in that direction, "Speaking of which, Mr. Chen Yu, how did you become a Necromancer?

Is it like in the novels, where one day you just find a book that fell from the sky, casually flip through it, and you became a Necromancer? You do have a very strange book indeed!"

"How could I possibly become a Necromancer just by flipping through a book!" Hearing Hiromi say this so lightly, Chen Yu couldn't help but laugh, "I had to exert even more effort than I did getting into the University of Tokyo to learn necromancy and become a Necromancer!"

"Can you teach me then?" Jounouchi Hiromi looked at her fiancé with sparkling eyes.