Good news: Having power while also having some morals. Bad news: Not much morality.
After Hayashi had Tohru pay the money directly, he just led them and teleported inside.
With so many people, queuing was impossible.
Besides, he wasn't really cutting in line, right?
He wasn't affecting anyone else either.
Inside the zoo.
Hayashi took out three cups of milk tea - one each for him, Tohru, and Kanna, drinking as they walked.
The nearest bird garden.
The three first went to see avian animals.
Mainly various parrots and peacocks - colorful bird species.
Some parrots were even housed together.
In a large aviary covering dozens of square meters and three stories high, many bird species were housed together.
Hayashi and Tohru chatted while observing carefully.
Kanna pressed against the cage, making eye contact with a grey parrot.
That grey parrot climbed up to the top of the birdcage with its claws.
Looking at Kanna at almost zero distance.
Hayashi was worried Kanna might eat it in one bite.
He could only remind her first: "Kanna, you can't eat any animals in the zoo, okay?"
"Mm." Kanna nodded, indicating she understood.
Kanna stared at the grey parrot.
Both sides looked at each other for a while.
The grey parrot suddenly opened its mouth: "Baka!"
Kanna: ?
Kanna was stunned and turned to look at Hayashi.
Hayashi almost couldn't keep his composure.
Who taught it swear words?
Kanna turned back and replied: "Stupid bird."
Grey parrot: "Baka!"
Kanna: "Stupid bird!"
The two cursed at each other for a while.
Kanna glared, and the grey parrot was immediately scared and ran away squawking.
"Hahaha~"
Hayashi and Tohru were holding back laughter nearby.
After seeing enough.
Hayashi went over to help scold it.
"That parrot is too bad. Someone bad must have taught it that."
Kanna nodded: "Parrot, bad!"
After scolding the parrot.
The three continued walking inside to see the peacocks.
Before they arrived.
The peacocks weren't displaying their feathers, just walking around.
When Hayashi, Tohru, and Kanna arrived.
The peacocks suddenly displayed their feathers for them.
And not just one.
All three peacocks displayed for them, even for Hayashi.
The key point was that peacocks that display are male.
Seeing this, Tohru covered her mouth and laughed: "It seems Hayashi-san's charm works across species."
"What do you mean 'charm'? Watch your word choice."
Hayashi watched for a while.
Then led them to change locations again.
Next they went to the famous shoebill stork area.
This kind of bird looked like a super-sized grey parrot.
It had a very large beak, husky-like eyes, and looked like a ground chicken - the kind that looked very stupid.
The sign nearby read:
The shoebill stork is an endangered animal.
Tohru looked at the shoebill stork's size: "Why is this animal endangered?"
At this time.
The keeper started feeding the shoebill stork.
The keeper put a fish in the shoebill stork's mouth for it to hold.
This shoebill stork had a very large mouth.
It held the fish, moving it back and forth.
The fish was horizontal and couldn't enter its mouth vertically.
It even dropped it with a plop.
The shoebill stork lowered its head to pick it up but couldn't.
Seeing this, the keeper sighed, picked it up again and put it in its mouth, continuing the training.
Tourists seeing this all started laughing.
Seeing this, Hayashi answered definitively: "It's probably too stupid and about to go extinct."
Kanna's eyes lit up after seeing this, pointing at the shoebill stork and saying:
"Even more stupid than that stupid bird from before!"
The three watched for a while.
Confirming it wasn't an act.
It was really stupid!
Not only slow, but couldn't learn either. Faced with fish, it might as well just open its mouth and wait for them to jump in.
Finally, having no choice, the keeper fed it that fish.
Then switched to a smaller one for training.
The tourists were all laughing.
When the three had seen enough.
"Let's go, switch to another one."
The three went to other areas.
They saw monkeys, then camels, and elephants.
Going round and round, they also saw bears and giraffes.
After seeing most of them.
The three sat on a bench to rest.
Kanna sat on the bench, her little legs swinging back and forth.
Suddenly, she saw other children asking their parents for ice cream.
A family with twins were both pulling their parents' hands: "Daddy, Mommy, I want ice cream!"
Hearing the children's calls.
And noticing Kanna's gaze.
"I remember there's still extra ice cream in the system."
Hayashi mentally checked his system space.
"There really is."
There was still quite a bit of ice cream he'd made before stored away.
Seeing this.
He turned to look at Tohru and Kanna, smiling:
"Close your eyes, there's a surprise."
As soon as he said this.
Kanna and Tohru both obediently closed their eyes at the same time.
The next moment.
Hayashi snapped his fingers.
They felt cool air coming from in front of them.
"Okay, open your eyes."
With Hayashi's voice.
The two opened their eyes and saw two large bowl-sized ice creams floating in front of them, with wooden spoons stuck in them.
One strawberry flavor, one watermelon flavor.
"Wow~~~!"
Kanna hurriedly grabbed hers, making a delighted sound.
Tohru also grabbed hers, quickly scooped a spoonful into her mouth, then scooped another spoonful for Hayashi.
"Hayashi-san, you eat too!"
"I have my own."
"Try a bite of mine~"
"Alright."
Hayashi ate a bite of Tohru's.
Seeing this, Kanna also scooped a spoonful of hers for Hayashi.
"And mine too."
"Okay."
Hayashi tasted the strawberry and watermelon flavors.
Then ate his own mango flavor.
The three sat on the bench eating and drinking, watching people come and go with laughter and joy.
Kanna sat on the bench, her feet couldn't touch the ground.
So she swung them back and forth, humming a song.
"Hm hm hm~~~"
At 3 PM.
The three had rested enough.
Then an announcement came over the loudspeaker:
"The Panda Exhibit will close at 5 PM. Panda Xiangxiang needs to get off work and rest. Visitors wishing to view please queue quickly, as the queue entrance will close early."
Pandas also had civil servant lives, even better ones.
It was now 3 PM.
But they were asking people to queue early.
"Queue early?" Tohru looked at the time, confused: "Two hours early? Why is that?"
Hayashi took a bite of ice cream: "Same as those days when we were there."
Tohru immediately understood: "Oh, so you have to queue for 2 hours. Pandas are so popular!"
Hearing this, Kanna immediately jumped down from the bench.
"Kanna wants to see, let's hurry and go."
"Then let's go." Hayashi stood up, holding his ice cream: "We'll eat as we walk."
The three took their ice cream and headed to the panda exhibit.
Upon reaching the entrance.
No, before even reaching the entrance.
They saw a long, long queue.
And many people had cameras or phones ready, chatting while waiting to film.
"So popular." Tohru sighed.
"Let's go." Hayashi went directly around from the side.
Queuing was impossible.
But he wasn't cutting in line either - as long as he didn't disturb others, it was fine.
He led Tohru and Kanna, floating directly above everyone's heads to watch!
See, no need to cut in line or queue at all.
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