Girls, let’s have some fun playing games!

Perhaps Kim Erise didn’t even imagine that the small entertainment room would descend into a state of hysterical frenzy over the next few hours.

“Knead the flour into a dough, and then brush a layer of oil on it. Hurry and send it to the oven.

If we do that, we should still have time—damn it, why is the oven broken again? Quick, grab the repair tools to fix it.

Where are the tools? Who took the repair tools? Hurry and return them when you’re done. The stove’s broken again!”

The red-haired girl, who usually loved playing strategy games, hadn’t actually played this casual puzzle game much.

However, relying on the instinct and hand speed she had built up from a year of playing games, she could quickly get started. But, she was still a bit caught off guard when she encountered sudden situations.

“Quick, quick, the customers want scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and the time limit is about to run out—Hey, Xiaoyu, don’t get more vegetables! We already have five servings.

If we get more, they’ll rot, ah ah ah—Chief! Chief! My dearest Chief!

Forget about that loaf of bread and come quickly help me stir-fry the eggs. I must hurry up and get the tomatoes!”

Anjete, who was munching on potato chips, was the one who screamed the loudest, glaring with her round eyes and wishing she could stick her body in front of the display screen. The way she mashed the buttons on her Xbox severely shortened its lifespan—it might not even last until tonight.

“First, quickly repair the exhaust fan in front of me… Eh eh eh, why isn’t my character obeying me? You fix it quickly! Don’t disappoint Xiaoyu’s hard work here!

Eh wait, damn it, I pressed the wrong key! I should’ve pressed A, not B! Quickly press A!

Ah, finally fixed it, then… Eh eh it’s on fire! It’s on fire! The pot’s on fire!

Quickly get the fire extinguisher—Hey, hey, don’t run in the opposite direction, ah ah ah!”

Xiaoyu, who was constantly wailing, was still trying to maintain her proper posture of kneeling and sitting on the cushion.

However, she had already begun to sway left and right due to excessive involvement.

The poor girl, who had never played an Xbox before, couldn’t even remember the basic button positions, and often pressed the wrong keys, causing her character to spin around like a headless fly.

“Cut tomatoes, pour oil, put eggs, serve dishes, brush plates, put out the fire, replenish the fire extinguisher, put out the fire, get the spaghetti, get the meat, get the plates, cut the meat, put out the fire, replenish the fire extinguisher…”

Mo, sitting in the corner, was also muttering to herself, but it was basically repeating her own actions.

Her silver Xbox was being pressed so fast, it sounded like a typewriter, and the speed was comparable to a StarCraft player.

Several large bags of potato chips, Pocky, lollipops, and cola were scattered around the four girls, making the originally clean and tidy floor messy.

However, no one had the time to pay attention to those details now.

“Ah ah ah—”

Anjete, throwing the Xbox aside, roared and hammered the floor, making dull thuds. She also accidentally knocked over the cola cup next to her.

“So close, so close to passing the level, ah ah ah—Xiaoyu! You’re always there transporting vegetables for nothing! It’s so much that it’s about to run out of space, and you’re still stuffing them in there!

Chief, you too, don’t always deal with that loaf of bread that doesn’t have many points, there aren’t even scrambled eggs with tomatoes!

And Mo, can you stop fiddling with that fire extinguisher all the time? Are you into it or what, carrying it around all day long…”

“I’m so sorry, so sorry, Sister Si, Xiaoyu isn’t skilled enough and has dragged everyone down, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”

First, she bowed three times in the direction of Kim Erise, apologizing with a wail, and then the pink-haired girl picked up a chocolate bar nearby and took a bite, and started firing at the brown-haired loli with full force.

“But I’m not going to take the blame for everything!

The customer’s order clearly has the most boiled vegetables, and it’s only natural to transport more vegetables, so is it not the same for you, who is always fixated on that plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and for Mo, who is fixated on the fire extinguisher?

There are only two plates of scrambled eggs with tomatoes, it’s not worth it!”

“If it weren’t for you two messing around with the oil pot, the oven, the dishwasher, and the exhaust fan repeatedly catching fire, I wouldn’t have to keep staring at the fire extinguisher all the time,” Mo, emptying the remaining potato chip crumbs into her mouth, stared at the two little lolis with a mournful expression.

“You don’t try to find a way to solve the problem yourselves and just shout and randomly press buttons.

You can’t even do a QTE properly, and every time you fail miserably, I have to clean up the mess for you?

Otherwise, if they burn down later, you won’t be able to use them, and you’ll have to spend more time repairing them, wasting even more time, and then the score will be even lower!”

“This is a team game! So you have to ask for help when you encounter problems!

Otherwise, what’s the difference between playing with yourself?

Humph, just pressing a few QTEs incorrectly, it’s not a big deal, I’ll definitely get them all right next time!”

“Xiaoyu will memorize all the button positions, so you won’t be able to say that I’m dragging everyone down—I’ll definitely not be a waste anymore!

I must let Sister Si look at me with admiration and become a capable assistant—but you also can’t mess around there and drag Sister Si down!”

“Team games focus on cooperation, and you two are causing trouble recklessly.

You’re not even good at cleaning up the mess for you two—it’s better for me to be the main force, and for you two to carry the fire extinguisher to clean up the mess for me.”

“No!” The two lolis rejected in unison, choking Mo, who was munching on potato chips, making her cough a little awkwardly.

This became a very rare moment of Mo’s loss of control—or, in other words, a black history.

“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha—”

The red-haired girl, on the other hand, rolled on the spot and laughed wildly, and accidentally bumped into a large bag of open french fries nearby, scattering them all over her face.

“The three of you are really too cute!” Wiping away the tears of laughter on her face, Kim Erise opened her mouth and stretched her tongue to roll all the french fries stuck on her face into her mouth, and crunched them.

“Come on, come on, let’s strive to pass the first stage of this game tonight and unlock a small trophy!”

“Let’s go, let’s go!” Anjete, full of enthusiasm, picked up the Xbox and was eager to try.

“This time, we must reduce the number of failures!” Xiaoyu, encouraging herself, swallowed the remaining chocolate bar, her eyes extremely resolute.

“Ready.” Mo wiped the food residue from her lips with a napkin, staring intently at the big screen.

And so, another round of the chaotic cooking game began.

“Come on, the tomatoes you want, the beef you want. I’ll go make the dough.”

“Leave the cutting to me! You go pour the oil, and I’ll bring the ingredients to you later!”

“Perfect QTE! Finally didn’t let the oil pot catch fire. Wait for the ingredients while you prepare the plates and fire extinguishers!”

“Fire extinguisher filled, repair tools ready, plates already served, come on, give!”

As the game was repeatedly tried and continuously advanced, the four people, while constantly bickering, also began to have some cooperation. Although the disputes were still the main theme, it was no longer all of it.

“The last level! Three stars passed! Perfect! Oh yeah! NICE!”

Looking at the achievements unlocked on the screen, Anjete jumped up in excitement, and as a result, she slipped and fell flat on her face; Xiaoyu excitedly clenched her fists, and then couldn’t help but twist on the cushion she was kneeling on;

Mo sat peacefully in the cushion in the corner, but the hands that were constantly clapping softly betrayed her inner emotions;

Kim Erise, on the other hand, happily high-fived everyone in the room several times, repeatedly praising the team’s strength, making the whole room full of cheerful and happy atmosphere.

Sure enough, games are the best medicine to heal the heart and release the self.

With them like this, whether it was Anjete who had successfully integrated, Meng Zhaoyu who had regained her confidence, or Mo who had started socializing, they all seemed more beautiful, more lovely, and also made her feel more gratified.

Of course, to build a harmonious, perfect, and strong bond between the team, games alone were not enough, this was just the beginning.

However, it was also a good start, wasn’t it?

Looking at the sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window, which had already turned fish-belly white, the red-haired girl thought so.

However, it also brought her thoughts back to a very beautiful time in the past:

At this moment, the atmosphere in the entertainment room was so similar to the Warrior Division of Bellow Middle School, which was only in her memories and no longer existed!