If the supermarket were to be divided into various difficulty levels, then the fresh food section, especially the aquatic products and fine meat sections, would be called a terrifying area of hell difficulty.
Here, you not only need to be proficient in the professional knowledge of cutting various poultry and animals, but you also need abundant physical strength and endurance, and of course, the most indispensable speed.
Every piece of meat in the fresh food section, the position of every chop, requires extremely precise consideration and thought. Otherwise, what awaits you may be accusations and various groundless abuses.
Every employee who can stand firm in the fresh food section is a genius who has fought their way out of the daily household goods area, the stationery area, and even the checkout area.
And in such a terrifying area, at this moment, the one guarding here is, wearing an apron, holding a kitchen knife, and with a stiff face, Riko Amanai!
She never thought that she would be assigned to this place by Toji Fushiguro. To be honest, her current height is actually just barely above the counter, and what makes Riko even more embarrassed is that not far from where she is standing, there is a row of pig heads.
To be honest, if she were to stand among that pile of pig heads, perhaps not many people would be able to find her.
But in fact, Riko being assigned here was not Toji's problem. It was actually because Yuki Tsukumo did not hear what he was saying clearly.
In fact, the original words that Toji said to Yuki at that time were:
"That girl Riko Amanai is too short. Remember not to let her go to the fresh food section. Let her and Miss Kuroi go to the daily necessities section to get familiar with it first, and then let...
Hey! Finally got through. You bastard, why is there stinking pork in the goods you sent over?! Do you want to have your head shaved and then be soaked in salt water for a bath?!
Hello? Hello?! Damn it, that bastard hung up on me!
Where was I?"
Because Yuki had been focusing on Zenin Kiyoshi's side, she hadn't listened to Toji seriously in the first place. In addition, he had suddenly gone out to answer a phone call, so she answered even more casually:
"About Riko going to the fresh food section."
"Well, it seems you remembered everything I said to you just now. After Miss Kuroi has finished tidying up those things in the daily necessities section, you have to tell her..."
Yuki did not remember the rest clearly either. Anyway, she only remembered what she had said.
Thus, the arrangement of Riko in the fresh food section, Kuroi in the daily necessities section, and herself in the logistics and also in the fresh food section appeared.
And when Riko was arranged in the cold and bloody fresh food section, her whole person was a little dazed.
She looked at the unknown fish that was jumping around in front of her, and the piece of meat that had just been cut and was still dripping with blood. Riko was at a loss for a moment.
Customers asked her to slice, debone, and skin large pieces of meat with bones and blood. In the whole process, she was already so tired that her hands were trembling just by randomly chopping a few times with the knife.
A girl in her early teens, you ask her to chop meat for you?
She can't even reach the height of the chopping board now!
Yuki Tsukumo, who was carrying a fifty-kilogram bag of rice, looked at Riko's predicament, and her dissatisfaction with Toji reached its peak again.
That bastard is really not a human. Sure enough, only that kind of guy with a human face and a Cursed Spirit's heart could make such a cruel arrangement!
Looking at Riko, whose face was red and who couldn't even cut the meat into two pieces after trying for a long time, Yuki slammed down the bag of rice in her hand and then walked towards Riko.
And at this moment, the middle-aged man who had asked Riko to help him cut the meat was already getting a little impatient. He didn't care whether Riko had the ability to do it or not, and just shouted at her:
"You guy! What are you doing?! I just asked you to chop this piece of meat and pack it. Why are you still doing the same thing? There are so many cuts on the surface of the meat, it will look terrible after it's cooked. Don't you know that?"
To the man's blame in front of her, Riko was about to cry. Her trembling arm, under the man's angry reprimand, was raised once again, preparing to chop down fiercely again.
However, at this moment, Riko found that her arm was directly held by someone. With a gentle and familiar voice, Riko only felt that she had been saved by an angel at this moment.
"Riko, I'll take it from here. I don't know what that bastard Toji was thinking, to actually assign you to this kind of place. Alas, it's really been hard on you. I should have noticed earlier.
You go to the logistics. I've finished moving the heavier things there. You can go there and move some lighter things."
With that, Yuki even smiled and posed for Riko.
Riko handed the kitchen knife in her hand to Yuki and said sincerely and gratefully:
"Thank you, big sister Yuki Tsukumo!"
"It's okay, go and have a good rest~"
And the middle-aged uncle at this moment was a little unromantic. He looked at Yuki Tsukumo, who had taken over the kitchen knife, with a dissatisfied and suspicious look on his face, and said to her with a not-so-good-looking face:
"Are there no male employees in this store? Why do you let these weak female employees do this kind of work?! It's so troublesome! Hey, if you're still going to leave marks on the surface of this meat, I'm going to complain to your store manager about you..."
The next moment, with the cold light of the knife falling, before the middle-aged uncle could finish his words, the surroundings fell into a dead silence.
With a "crack" sound, the uncle's gaze was now completely dazed.
The reason was none other than that Yuki's chop just now had actually directly split the piece of pork along with the twenty-centimeter-thick wooden chopping board underneath.
Wood chips and blood splashed everywhere at this moment, not only covering Yuki's apron, but also covering the uncle's face.
And at this moment, Yuki had a dazed expression. Did she just subconsciously use [Imaginary Mass]?
"I... I'm sorry! It's my fault! I shouldn't have said those words about complaining about you! It's my fault!"
With that, the uncle turned his head and ran, without even taking the piece of pork he had already paid for.
And seeing this, Yuki naturally couldn't let him go like this.
In a hurry, she held the pork in one hand and the still-dripping kitchen knife in the other, and chased after the uncle.
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