What would you do if a ghost falls in you?

And so the young man returned to the kitchen of the ghost restaurant.
Victor froze, the kitchen manager was looking out the window, but this was a distraction for the manager, in fact, the hands of the kitchen mistress spoke. Ancient Japanese can also be transmitted with fingers. Each finger can be one or more Japanese characters. The Japanese woman passed a message to V with her fingers: "Don't agree, he wants to get rid of you"
The manager, Mr. Houtu, was away. When Victor entered the restaurant through the charcoal-painted door, deputy manager Hook did not want to take the young man to work. He was sure that the mistress of the kitchen would support him, but Ohaguro-Battari surprised Victor, she said that she needed an assistant like air. Hook, that was the name of the deputy manager, remembered Victor as a boy. Then, with the arrival of the boy, chaos reigned in the restaurant, and Hook valued his place and did not want to lose it. If the mistress of the kitchen had refused, then Hook with a pure heart would have ordered Victor to return to where he came from, but everything happened differently.
And now, Hook wanted to send V on a business trip. The kitchen needed ingredients that can only be obtained in China. A grand celebration was expected on the occasion of the anniversary of the owner of the restaurant - Huangdi. Huangdi was either 500 or 1000 years old.
In fact, the owner’s birthday was last year, but, firstly, because of the closed borders, it was impossible to get the ingredients for the main dish, and secondly, the Chinese always had a birthday box with a double bottom. A birthday could be considered accomplished from the moment of conception, or, from the moment of birth. In general, we needed ingredients that were on the shelves of Chinese cities, but it was impossible to get them in Vladivostok.
Ohaguro-Battari was fascinated by the man who entered her kitchen. Yes, she hated him when he was a boy, but she adored him now that he was grown up. It happens! She chose a place for a long time before putting the seal of a slave on the snow-white forehead of a man. The Japanese woman was afraid to hurt her white master's forehead. Victor, of course, did not know about the passions raging in the heart of the mistress of the kitchen, he was trusting and friendly, and took Ohaguro-Battari's attitude towards him for granted. And now the mistress of the kitchen handed him a message with her fingers: “Don’t agree!”
Yes, Victor became a slave to the kitchen, but not a slave to the manager. About this Ohaguro-Bettari and arrogantly informed the manager. Hook only took over as manager in January 2023, and then only because Howth had to leave urgently. The steward had some problems in China with the male line descendants of the Houtu branch. The problem could not be solved remotely, so Howth had to shake the old days and go to his homeland. Hook did not yet feel confident in the manager's position. To be precise, he was simply afraid of Ohaguro-Bettari. There were other restaurant workers in front of whom he was shy, but he was especially afraid of the Japanese woman. However, the ingredients were needed like air, and this could not be changed.
- What do we do? - the hostess of the kitchen propped her forehead with her palm, - nothing can replace the grass root for the dish.
“Mistress,” Victor knelt down in front of the beautiful cook, “there is a way out and it is very simple, I need to order the root on the Internet. In a week it will be on your table.
Ohaguro-Battari did not know what the Internet was, and she did not need this knowledge, she believed unconditionally in her slave. Having removed the seal of the slave, the hostess of the kitchen let Victor go home for several hours. In the kitchen, Victor's friend, the Ghost in the baseball cap, remained to help.