Crossover Anime: I'm at Shuchiin Academy, and my surname is Uchiha.

Chapter 330 The Giant Pudding and Little Flower's Gift

"Hey! Brother Ling, where's my pudding?!"

Along the way, Shirasaki Hana clung tightly to Uchiha Ryo's clothes, as if afraid that her pudding would run away.

"Of course I'm all ready, but the pudding I made is a bit too big to bring into school. You can eat it at our place."

The location was a gymnasium rented by the Shinomiya family. The equipment for making pudding was just moved in last night, so Uchiha Ryo could only start work this morning and make the pudding by noon.

"I heard it's true that you can eat pudding for free?! Thank you for your hospitality, Brother Ling!"

Following behind Shirasaki Hana were Hoshino Hinata and Himesaka Noa. Of course, Hana wouldn't be left out, since Uchiha Ryo had prepared more than one serving of pudding.

However, it wasn't just Xiaohua's friends who were invited to eat pudding. Shuchiin's friends were also invited by Uchiha Ryo. Except for those who had things to do on the weekend, almost all of them had arrived at the Shinomiya family's private pudding factory.

As expected of someone whose name also contains the character for flower, Fujiwara Chika displayed an appetite just as strong as Shirasaki Hana's! Upon hearing that Uchiha Ryo was going to treat everyone to pudding, she immediately abandoned her weekend study session and rushed over.

Not only that, there's also Shirogane Miyuki with increasingly dark circles under his eyes, and Ishigami Yu looking extremely haggard.

"You two shouldn't die from overwork... There's a limit to studying."

Miyuki Shirogane is aiming to surpass Ryo Uchiha and take first place, while Yu Ishigami is striving to get into the top 50 of his grade. They've both been really working hard lately.

Ishigami forced a smile. "So I'm here to relax, aren't I? By the way, what exactly is this 'secret pudding' that Uchiha-senpai mentioned?"

Miyuki Shirogane yawned. "These past few days, I haven't just been studying, I've also been thinking about moving..."

"Moving?" Uchiha Ryo looked over curiously.

"Yeah, it was Dad who suggested it... We'll talk about it later. I'm just here to mooch some pudding today. Can I get some to go? I'll take some back for Xiao Gui."

Upon entering the stadium, one sees a cluster of precision instruments typically found only in factories in a corner, while in the center are four plates, each containing a piece of milk pudding.

"There are only four pieces, everyone take your time eating." Uchiha Ryo smirked.

Everyone except Uchiha Rin stared in astonishment, their mouths agape. Shirasaki Hana almost lunged forward, but was quickly pulled back by Yukinoshita.

There are indeed only four puddings, but they are enormous, measuring two meters in height and requiring three people to hug them!

"Then everyone try to finish eating!" Uchiha Ryo clapped his hands and pointed to the four puddings, each weighing an estimated 100 pounds.

"There's no way we can finish all that food," Shirogane Miyuki retorted. "We only have this many people..."

There were only three boys present, and the girls, apart from Yukinoshita, Chitanda, and Fujiwara Chika, were all children.

Uchiha Ryo waved his hand, "Don't worry, it won't be wasted. We only need to eat one piece today."

Uchiha Ryo had already planned out the fate of the four puddings. One could be eaten now, enough for the nine people. One could be sent to the Starlight Bar for the End Band to handle, and one could be sent to Shuchiin Academy for the principal and teachers.

The last piece is for Natsume. Anyway, there are a lot of yokai around Natsume, and Nyanko-sensei and Enun-chan will help deal with them.

If you can't finish it, give it all to Jingming; his appetite is simply bottomless...

Because the pudding was so soft, everyone simply used small plastic cake knives and spoons to enjoy the giant pudding.

"Brother Ling, how was this size made? Was it easy to make?"

Shirasaki Hana clearly had no resistance to this giant pudding. If Yukino hadn't been holding her back, she would have stuck her body into the pudding to eat it several times.

"Well... it's quite a bit of work, but it's not too bad, it only takes half a day."

The factory commissioned a giant pudding mold and borrowed an idle production line from a mayonnaise factory to make the pudding mixture.

However, the pudding is a simple caramel milk pudding, made with just sugar, milk and eggs, and flavored with vanilla extract after mixing.

However, giant puddings all have one problem: weight! Generally speaking, puddings are too soft to support anything too heavy, so the bottom of the pudding will collapse and the whole pudding will fall apart.

Therefore, Uchiha Ryo used gelatin and agar, utilizing agar fibers to increase the strength of the pudding.

This also results in the pudding's firmness actually decreasing from bottom to top, because the proportion of whipped cream is higher at the top.

However, this ratio is extremely difficult to control, because if the ratio is misjudged, the giant pudding will collapse! Therefore, Uchiha Ryo used the Mangekyou Sharingan's ability to alter reality.

He forcibly created a giant pudding that was almost impossible to make using the ability to rewrite reality! So even if others got the recipe, they couldn't make this pudding, because they would find that the last step would always fail.

Hehe... You probably don't know what it means to use the power of the Mangekyou Sharingan to make sweets. We usually only use four words to describe this kind of person: a hermit! Or... someone who's just bored out of their mind!

Back then, Itachi Uchiha could use the precision of his Mangekyou Sharingan to fry an egg, so it wouldn't be a problem for me, Ryo Uchiha, to use that power to make pudding!

"So this pudding is my masterpiece! Mmm! It's perfect!"

"Wow...that's awesome!"

Although Shirasaki Hana can't cook, she could tell from the large pile of equipment in the corner that this pudding was something special.

Ling-gege has always been the one making her snacks, and she even lives at his house. Although her mother sends her money ostensibly for spending money, it's actually child support. But...

"Hinata, Noa, I want to give my brother a present. What do you think I should give him?" Hana ran up to her friends and asked.

Hinata Hoshino thought seriously. "Just like I gave Nyanauchi (Miyazaki-nee) a clay model, how about giving Hana one too?"

"I'm clumsy at handicrafts, so I'd better give up," Shirasaki Hana said, well aware of her own limitations.

Himesaka Noa swung her legs. "Gifts? Just give them something they like, isn't that enough?"

"Something I like?" Xiaohua pondered.

Naiai jokingly said, "I even saw a way to give gifts in a comic book, where you just say, 'The gift is me,' or something like that."

"Hey! This... I'm not a gift."

Why would she send herself away? Shirasaki Hana pondered deeply, then looked at her three older sisters beside her. Yukino-neechan should know, right? And Eru-neechan too…

"Why don't we just ask him directly? Ling-nii is very kind, he'll definitely tell you," Hoshino Hinata said calmly while eating her pudding.

"But tell me, if I give him another gift, there won't be any surprise left, right?"

Naiai gave a knowing look and said, "It's not the gift that matters! It's the thought that counts! I saw that line in a manga too."

I see! Then I'll go try it myself!

Just then, Uchiha Ryo had instructed his employees to send away the remaining three puddings and was about to pick up a plate to serve some more when he noticed Shirasaki Hana running over again.

"What does my brother like?!"

Why are you suddenly asking me this? Uchiha Ryo was taken aback for a moment, and was about to answer when he noticed Shirasaki Hana's serious expression!

No! This question is definitely not simple, because Xiaohua looks very serious. But why is she suddenly asking me this? Could it be...?

Thinking back to when I left elementary school, I asked myself, "If I and Pudding fell into the water, who would I save?" Could it be that Xiaohua heard me say that pudding was my masterpiece, and is now worried that I'll become so engrossed in making pudding that I'll neglect her?

In other words, this is a different way of asking "Pudding or me?" Hmph! Uchiha Ryo has already seen through it!

"Of course I like Hana!" Uchiha Ryo replied confidently!

"I...I like it!"

The phrase "I am the gift" suddenly played on repeat in Shirasaki Hana's mind!

"No...no! Brother Ling will be taken away by the police!!!"

Uchiha Ryo: "Huh???"