[One Piece] I heard you can make donuts

On the second day Denat came to Wheat Island, the sky was clear and cloudless, which happened to be the negative portrayal of her mood.

After buttoning the top button of the chef's uniform, and meticulously tucking her long hair into the hat, Denat patted her cheek to cheer herself up.

Today is the day for her to recruit shop assistants, so she must cheer up and let everyone see a energetic and positive boss.Let the oolong incident yesterday pass, and it must not affect her dream of spreading SweetHome all over the world!

Taking a deep breath, Denat put on a smile she had practiced many times in front of the mirror, but when she opened the store door and saw a long queue outside, her smile froze on her face.

It's eight o'clock in the morning. Why are there so many people applying for the job?Is Wheat Island an island with such a low employment rate?No, the girl in the first row with a bright smile is the waiter named Annie in Dessert's Secret yesterday?Why is she here?

"This is Annie, who is here to interview for the position of manager, Miss Denat, can we start the interview now?"

Anne smiled very sweetly, but Denat, who was more than twice her height, somehow felt that she was a bit shorter than her.

"Ah, yes, please sit down." Recovering from her senses, Denat twitched the corners of her mouth stiffly, and after sitting down with the other party, she tried to recall the confident posture she had seen in the book.

What did the book say?Is the left leg stacked on top of the right leg or the right leg stacked on top of the left leg?

"Good morning, Miss Denat." When Denat was struggling, Anne had already introduced herself with a just right smile, "My name is Anne, and I have worked at Dessert's Secret for three years. I rank first in customer evaluation and performance for a long time, and I was promoted to manager at the beginning of this year. I have a good understanding of desserts and the preferences of the people in Wheat Island, so I think I can be very suitable in terms of experience and business level this position."

Denat: "..."

No, girl, she thinks that you are a bit inferior to be the manager, why don't you just become the store manager.

Resisting the urge to applaud Anne, Denat stared at the interview question secretly written in her palm for a few seconds, then sighed in frustration, put her feet folded in disorder, and clenched her hands under the table The chef looked at Annie seriously and asked, "Annie, I want to make SweetHome into a great route, no, it is the best dessert house in the world. I am looking forward to your joining, but are you sure your motivation is because You are optimistic about Sweet Home and not because of——anything else?" Denat swallowed back the words of your Katakuri-sama carefully, and changed to a more euphemistic term.

"Miss Denat, you opened the main store of SweetHome on Methurst Island in the East China Sea seven years ago. Two years later, you opened a second branch in Rogue Town. In the following five years, you opened the main store in various cities in the East China Sea. We have opened eight branches, and although the one with the worst turnover was closed a month ago, SweetHome, which has nine stores in total, is still the most well-known and most popular dessert house in Donghai." Annie's smile remained unchanged, and her speech speed Take it easy, "Please rest assured, although I came here to have more opportunities to meet Lord Katakuri, but I have done my homework beforehand, and I will never joke about my future."

Denat: "..."

But you still said it!You came to work with her to get in touch with your Katakuri-sama!She clearly explained it so seriously yesterday, why is it that no one believes her!

Denat's eyes went dark, and she felt as if she saw the sad scene where SweetHome became famous because of Katakuri, but because time proved that she had nothing to do with Katakuri, it went bankrupt and went bankrupt.

But she really has nothing to do!Yesterday Charlotte Katakuri left before she could check out and she was the only redheaded woman in the store so no matter how she explained over and over again she and Katakuri hadn't even seen each other before this However, the people in the store didn't believe it at all, but looked at her for a long time with complicated eyes that she couldn't understand at all and didn't want to understand.She finally got rid of them by rushing back to Sweet Home with the donuts in her arms and closing the store door.

She really didn't know why that scary dark metal man would leave his favorite dessert for her!She swears that she will never rob your Lord Katakuri!Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to spread SweetHome all over the world.

"Miss Denat?"

Anne's polite inquiry pulled Denat back from the brink of collapse. She looked at the many girls in the long queue behind her who seemed to want to kill her with their eyes, then looked at Anne who was smiling in front of her, stood up decisively, and put her Give her the place.

"Annie, you're hired! Your job today is to help me hire a cashier, two waiters, and a pastry chef, and I'm required to write them all here. I know this is a bit sudden, and I will pay you three times the salary to do it Compensation. Uh, I, I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

Throwing the notebook in Anne's hands, Denat rushed upstairs to the kitchen as if fleeing, determined not to come out until the scary team downstairs was gone!

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Fortunately, although Denat is unreliable, Anne, who was promoted to the manager of Dessert's Secret in just three years, is a skilled worker.Although she was assigned a task the second she was hired, she frowned, but she still finished the interview with the queue that was almost going to the next street before noon, successfully recruited people, and let the people hiding upstairs opened the curtains Denat, who was sneaking a peek, was relieved.

"Thank you. I made donuts and black tea. Do you want to try some Anne?" Denat put the tray in his hand on the largest table on the first floor, and sat down and looked at her hard. The freshly baked employees gave a friendly smile, but unfortunately the effect was minimal.

"Annie, are you sure we want to leave Dessert's Secret and follow her?" Marie, the cashier lady who looked at her with fire in her eyes yesterday and today, took a sip of her black tea, her words revealing disgust, "The gap between New World and East China Sea is like heaven and earth. Are you sure the desserts she made can be sold here?"

Will the desserts she made fail to sell? !

After hearing this, Denat felt that a string in her heart was broken with a bang, and the manuscript that she had recited many times to persuade people with profit and reason was instantly thrown out of the sky by her.

She leaned forward to pick up the silver knife in the tray, and under the horrified eyes of the people around her, she neatly divided the huge donut in the middle of the tray into five equal portions.

"Miss Mary, before criticizing my craftsmanship, please taste the donuts I made first." Denat put the donuts on a small plate in front of the five people present with a blank expression. Her new shop assistants were taken aback by the anger in those bright black eyes.

If you look closely, Denat's facial features are delicate and harmless, with a small melon-shaped face, lips like cherries, a high and straight nose, and big eyes like a clear spring, sweet to your heart.But because she is too tall, these parts are naturally weakened. Everyone who sees her pays little attention to what she looks like, and simply defines her as a tall woman.

But now that they took a closer look at the woman sitting next to them, they found that their boss seemed to be - very cute?

Especially now, the bulging appearance, like a squirrel that has been robbed of nuts, staring at them with puffed cheeks and watery eyes, is unexpectedly cute.

In the end, it was Annie who reacted first.

She picked up the donut with the paper on the side, and glanced at the beautiful white chocolate sauce on the surface, the dense and small air bubbles on the cut surface, and stayed for a moment on the yellow and pink sugar needles sprinkled on it, and then lightly Take a bite.

"Did you add something to the sugar needle?" Swallowing the donut in her mouth, savoring the sweet and sour taste on the tip of her tongue carefully, the corners of Annie's mouth slightly raised, knowing that she had made the right bet.

"Well, you've eaten it~" Seeing Annie's satisfied smile after eating the donut, Denat immediately put aside the unhappiness just now, bent her eyebrows and smiled, "I made the sugar needle into a lemon , two flavors of strawberry, which balance the overly sweet taste of the donut. I also made coffee-flavored sugar needles, but I thought it would not look good to have only one color of sugar needles sprinkled on it, so I didn’t take it down.”

Speaking of desserts, Denat's usual restrained appearance disappeared, her big black grape-like eyes twinkled, full of confidence and pride, making people want to pat her head and praise her.

"In such a short period of time, I can control the temperature of Wheat Island to let the dough ferment to a perfect state. At the same time, I can use the new fryer to fry a donut of such a large size, and create new ideas on the sugar needles. I have worked at Dessert's Secret for so many years, and I have never seen a better pastry chef than her." Pastry Chef Barry swallowed the donut in his hand three times, and finally looked at the empty plate .

"As expected of the chef I have followed for five years on the Top Dessert column, little girl, your craftsmanship has never stopped improving, and I am looking forward to your future development!" Although Barry is a head shorter than Denat, his body Almost twice her size.He smiled openly with his big beer belly, which immediately increased Denat's favorability for him by dozens of percentage points.

"Thank you, thank you, I will try my best." There are still people who have read her recipes on top desserts!The Great Route is indeed a good place!In this place full of all kinds of people, no one will be surprised by her height, she can finally be regarded as ordinary!

Denat sniffed, suppressing the hot tears in her eyes.

She couldn't remember the last time she received such a sincere compliment.It is estimated that she is not tall yet, and she is very young and has a bad memory of her childhood.Because after that, no matter how well she made desserts, other people would always look at her with more regret than admiration.It's a pity that she is too tall, no matter how good the desserts are, she is still a different kind...

Denat, who was immersed in the memories of the past, pouted the corners of her mouth, and the atmosphere around her was instantly gloomy, which made her new shop assistants look confused. Look at me and look at you, and they don't understand what's wrong with their new boss .

"jingle--"

The white wind chime on the main entrance rang crisply, and Denat turned her head in surprise.Because although she didn't lock the door, she had a "CLOSED" sign on the outside, and she also closed the iron rolling door. If she didn't walk to the glass door, she couldn't see what was going on inside. How could someone push the door in?

"It's Katakuri-sama!" Marie screamed in a low voice, and then everyone glanced at Denat with the deep meaning that you said everything, making her want to cry show innocence.

"Sorry, this shop is not open yet, can you come back tomorrow?" Denat stood up with the table on her shoulders, and let her eyes fall on Katakuri's fluffy white scarf that looked the least offensive , trying to put on a polite smile.

Although she didn't have the slightest sympathy for this horrible man who tricked her into buying three huge donuts that didn't taste good at all, but she had to bow her head under the eaves, and she still wanted to use this as a base to develop her future. If the dessert business of the great route offends the island owner, it will be bad.

"I just dropped by to pay for the donuts," Katakuri's deep voice came out through the scarf, a little more hoarse, and it sounded extraordinarily magnetic, "Yesterday they misunderstood me, they didn't The money is on my account."

Katakuri's explanation was very concise, Denat blinked, and combined with the rumors about this person he heard today, he felt that he seemed to understand what he meant.

So this legendary man who used that color and could see the future foresaw the future when she said bad things about those donuts yesterday, so he stopped buying those donuts?Wait, so why leave it to her?Could he still know her psychological activities, and know that she wanted to buy donuts back and study countermeasures?

But it seems that that color has the function of seeing people's hearts... It's just like cheating, it's really scary.

"What are you doing? Katakuri-sama is leaving!" Denat, who was thinking about it, was suddenly bumped by someone from the side. After finally finding her balance and standing still, she hurriedly looked up, and sure enough, she saw the Katakuri, who lost a stack of Baileys at the cashier, has already reached the door, and his hand has already touched the doorknob.

"Wait... please wait a moment!" After subconsciously saying the words to hold back, Denat's mind went blank for a moment, and when she met Katakuri's eagle-like gaze, she suddenly came back to her senses, and then did Something happened that made a huge change in her life from now on.

"I... that, please wait a little longer." She pulled the chair away with a bang, climbed up the stairs and ran to the kitchen door, and wrapped the remaining sweets in the kraft paper bag beside her. Donuts rush down.

"This... is my improved donut." After running to a distance of Katakuri, Denat didn't care to catch her breath, bowed her head, and put her hands in hers leather bag, "If you don't mind, that..."

what is she doing !How could a big man like the other party pick up food from strangers casually?And did she just take down the undecorated donut sprinkled with coffee sugar needles?What should I do, what should I say?Or take the things back—huh?

Denat, who was in a tangle, suddenly felt light in her hand, looked up and found that Katakuri had already taken the bag in her hand, nodded to her, and pushed the door to leave.

The wind chimes of jingle bells sounded again, and then the small shop returned to tranquility.

"It's an illusion." Denat murmured to herself, staring at his back through the glass door in a daze, not even noticing that Annie next to her poked her arm.

Why did she feel that when he nodded to her just now, his eyes shone like a child who got candy, excited and eager to wait?

The author has something to say:

Denat's action of handing donuts to Kaji can refer to Sakura's early action of handing gifts to Snow Rabbit

What happened to four meters!I will not give up the setting of soft cute pastry chef × Ka Er!

Happy New Year, little angels, happy and healthy in the new year~

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读者“流星”,灌溉营养液+302018-02-1323:40:05