Chapter 27: Café lady

"I see, seems like we are also at fault for not letting you have your breakfast," said the head of JSDF head Yamamoto and took out a card from his pocket.

"Here," he tossed the card towards Xin and asked him to eat whatever he wanted from the army cafeteria.

Xin was hesitant in the beginning since he knew that the army cafeteria doesn't serve good food. But when Yamamoto mentioned he can have officer level food using that card, Xin didn't hesitate any longer and directly asked him the direction of the cafeteria.

"Go straight from here, then turn left, walk ten meters, then turn right. You will see the cafeteria there."

"Thanks, see you after some time." With that, Xin headed towards the army cafeteria as directed by Yamamoto.

While he was walking towards the army cafeteria, he was reminiscing about his time in the special squad army camp of his previous life. Though he had many bad memories related to the special squad army camp, he had some good memories too.

On his way there he felt somewhat emotional and decided to eat something sweet to cheer up his mood.

The cafeteria was as big as a conference hall and had many vacant seats laid here and there. Xin had a look around that place and found out the place where they were serving food.

In the far corner of the hall one lady was serving soup, bread, natto and fried eggs to everyone. Some were taking bread and nattos, while the others were taking bread, natto and eggs.

Xin waited for some time and marched near that place when the crowd around there dispersed.

The lady on serving duty observed Xin coming near the counter and thought he must be one of the new recruits.

"Hey young man, are you new here?" asked the lady in charge of the cafeteria.

"Hmm…" Xin turned around, looked behind his back, and asked, "Miss, are you asking me?"

The lady got delighted on hearing the word, "Miss" and asked Xin to come near the counter.

"Yes, kid you. I am talking to you. Since it's your first day here, and I am feeling generous today, I will give you an extra egg for your breakfast."

"Hehehe," Xin laughed in confusion and didn't reply anything to her. According to Yamamoto, he could have an officer-level delicious lunch by using that card. But here the lady was telling that she would give an extra egg and the same bread-soup for breakfast, like the other cadets.

"Young man, show me your card first. I have to mention it on the records too."

"Card?! Oh yes," Xin took out the card given to him by Yamamoto and handed it over to the cafeteria lady.

"Woah woah woah!!" she exclaimed in astonishment and looked towards Xin again. A long slender body built, with black hairs and black eyes. Judging from his age, she could tell Xin was not more than 20. 'Then how come this kiddo has an officer level food pass?' thought the café lady.

Xin understood what the lady was thinking and showed his MVIP guest ID card to her.

"Oh~~!! So you are a special guest, it seems?" asked the café lady.

"Yes, it's my first time here. And since I was hungry Mr, Yamamoto gave me this card and asked me to eat whatever I want."

"I see, lucky you are. This is an officer level food pass. Let me fetch that menu card for you."

The café lady went to the room behind the counter table and brought out the menu card specially made for high ranked officers.

Xin took the menu and had a look at its contents. Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Indian. All these types of dishes were present in that menu card. Xin licked his lips and started to choose the things that he wanted to order.

The lady thought Xin must be overwhelmed by the variety of dishes written on the menu and must have been experiencing difficulty to choose one amongst them. But little did she know at that time that Xin was having difficulty but not in choosing dishes, rather he was facing difficulty in limiting the dishes that he wanted to eat.

He wanted to try the Indian super spicy chicken curry, some Chinese Sichuan pork, Peking roasted ducks, steamed vermicelli rolls and some dumplings. From Italian, he wanted to try some Lasagna, Ribollita and some Polenta.

For dessert he wanted to eat some Japanese dango and amanatto.

Observing Xin was taking time and had been contemplating about it for the last four minutes, the lady thought she should help him and tell him the best dishes from the menu. So that Xin won't have much difficulty choosing one from them.

She was about to recommend him the best dishes, when Xin broke the silence and said, "Decided!!"

"Oh, which one?" asked the lady. She was a little disappointed as she wanted to recommend Xin her favourite and the best dishes from the menu, but before that Xin had already decided something for him.

"Ah, I want this Indian super spicy chicken curry."

"Oh!! Only a curry, right?!" asked the lady and was going to the backside of the café to take out his order when Xin stopped him and asked her to write down some more dishes for the order.

The café lady thought Xin must have chosen one or two more dishes to go along with the curry. But little did she know at that time Xin wouldn't limit himself and would order all the things that he wanted to try from the cafeteria.

"With the curry bring one plate of Chinese Sichuan pork, Peking roasted ducks, steamed vermicelli rolls and one plate dumpling."

Café lady "…"

Xin didn't stop at that and continued to order the food items, "From Italian please bring Lasagna, Ribollita and Polenta one plate each. Ah, for dessert some Japanese dango and amanatto will do the work."

Café lady "…"