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We are still on the morning of 6th November (Sunday), and the first thing we do is update our Boat Skin to the "Thunderstorm", the latest that we've acquired after defeating the Mantis Shrimp. Truthfully, it looks slightly edgy and badass.

Next, we check up on our new Cooksta posts - the first is about the Trout Sea Grapes Ricebowl that we served last night, while the second is from Cobra telling everyone that Bancho Sushi is earthquake proof.

Our Ecowatcher has a new mission - "Investigate Regional Ecology 1" - which tasks Dave to catch 15 Glacial Passage fish.

Checking FarmNow, we realise that we have an Egg to "harvest" and our Wheat is still not done growing.

In 2 days time on 8th November, our Weather will be a Thick Fog. The first time we'll have this unusual weather.

We go into our Mini-Games app and fire up the GYAO! game. We have onscreen a gyao egg that has no needs at the moment, because it's still an egg. We'll have to wait for it to hatch.

Going into the Farm, we harvest an Egg from Penny, our White Chicken.

We immediately speak to MC Sammy about purchasing more Chickens for the Chicken Farm. We purchase for 3,370 gold, a Brown Chicken we name Henrietta, as well as a Free-Range (Black) Chicken we name Lenore.

We speak to Otto about the possibility of growing some Cucumber for the Cucumber Party in our Vegetable Garden plots. Otto, for the life of him, does not understand why we would want to grow Cucumber, out of all the vegetables we could grow. But he agrees to stock some Cucumber Seeds in Otto's Market.

We go into Otto's Market to purchase some Growth Fertiliser to accelerate plant growth, some fully-grown Cucumbers and 6 Cucumber Seeds. We promptly plant the seeds, water our crops and apply the fertilisers.

Next, we head by the Fish Farm where he have a ton of fish in the Fish Tanks to harvest...

Finally, we drop by Bancho Sushi to speak to Bancho about creating dishes for the Cucumber Party. Bancho also doesn't like eating Cucumbers, but he says he will work with any ingredient. We receive from him 3 new cucumber recipes automatically added to the Menu. Although there are 3 more additional cucumber recipes that we have to unlock under "Research".

The Cooksta posts from last night were about -

Curry Party, how the night went down at Bancho Sushi, a sushi bar unexpectedly serving good curry dishes.

The fantastic taste of Atlantic Bonito Curry being better than beef curry.

The strange-looking but tasty Humphead Parrotfish Curry.

MC Sammy posing with Vegetable Sushi and his album Hot Pepper Tuna.

(From top left to bottom right): Cardinal Fish Sushi by bayaba, Blue Tang Sushi by glenn, Yellow Tang Sushi by wuna_1010 and finally, Lagoon Triggerfish Sushi by HengTheYoshi, which they call "Reef Triggerfish Sushi" for some reason.

The game literally will not let me go for my morning dive until I've called Duff, so I head into my Contacts to do so. So Duff's shipment of his limited-edition Leahs-chan figurine got lost in delivery, and now he wants us to find it. It's contained in a Pink Delivery Box and should be located with the Sunken Transport Ship we saw in one of our earlier dives. But we're not currently in a hurry to get there yet, in fact...

Upon diving down into the water for Dive No. 24, we come across the Dolphin and Pink Dolphin being surrounded by 3 Pirates. Apparently, these were the Pirates that tried to trap and haul the Pink Dolphin 2 times before. They are not too happy with Dave interrupting their plans again and again, so they challenged Dave to a fight.

The fight was easy with the Red Sniper Rifle equipped, but still nerve-wrecking as the Pirates were constantly moving around. My hands were shaking badly by the end of it.

The dolphins did a happy heart-shaped dance and left Dave a Rusty Dolphin Necklace. We also received the achievement "New Undersea Friend" for rescuing the dolphins a third and final time.

With the Red Sniper Rifle equipped and refilled with Ammo, we were able to hunt and take down a Longnose Sawshark as well as a Whitetip Reefshark. On this dive, we also caught a new fish - Coral Trout.

The Rusty Dolphin Necklace was cleaned up when we surface, to become Dolphin Necklace - a Charm that increases Dash speed by 30%.

For the afternoon dive, Dive No. 25, we explore the Limestone Cave again, this time we go deeper in rather than just lingering at the entrance. We collect more White Spotted Jellyfish and SeaGrapes. And in the process of trying to net a jellyfish with the Small Net Gun, we accidentally capture 2 Atlantic Mackerel in the net as well.

For this dive, we catch a new record of 26 fish!

After surfacing, we also get the Dispatch Results of the previous day - Liu came back with 1 Salt as expected, while Davina acquired 2 quantities of Salt.

Dave hops into the EcoWatcher app to turn in a mission to collect Agar and Kajime that nets him 30 points.

The next morning of 8th October (Saturday), we get new posts on Cooksta talking about the new sushis we put on the Menu yesterday - the Red Lionfish Sushi and the Titan Triggerfish Sushi. Of course, there was also a post on the special dish item of the day, the Boiled Yellowback Fusilier. Bancho also got to posting an ad for Bancho Sushi on Cooksta, though his photo was out of focus.

Booting up our Management app, we realise our Net Revenue is 994 gold and our Top 3 Sellers are: 1. Whole-Roasted Shark Head, 2. Boiled Yellowback Fusilier and 3. Whitetip Reefshark Sushi.

We also took note of our To-Do List - Cobra needs our help to gather back the material parts of the Drone he is going to build to get the delivery supplies for the Bomb going. We need to find a Computer Chip, Motor and Camera Lens where the currents flow.

We rank up to Silver Rank on Cooksta, which triggers an official visit from the Cooksta critics team to assess our restaurant. We also get new recipes and unlocks.

We also have a look at our Management app, which states that we have Sales of 853 gold for a Net Revenue of 793 gold. Our Best Selling dishes are: 1. Whole-Roasted Shark Head, 2. Whitetip Reefshark Sushi and 3. Redtoothed Triggerfish Sushi.

We go ahead to research and put on Tonight's Menu - Boiled Yellowback Fusilier. The Yellowback Fusilier is a shallow-water fish we recently caught just yesterday afternoon. The dish would be sold at 50g for 5 portions.

We buy the Oriental Lantern and Sushi Knives for 250g to complete our Asian aesthetic.

Bancho makes a post about getting a silver trophy from the Cooksta critics.

Immediately on our 8th Dive on 5th Oct (Wednesday), the grey dolphin approaches Dave again and leads him to where the pink dolphin is trapped in a net. This time the pink dolphin is hanging from a pirate boat that shoots bullets into the water at Dave, who tries to rescue the pink dolphin by severing the rope which connects the net to the boat. The battle was intense and required quick reflexes so I did not have time to capture a picture of the battle scene, but after we freed the pink dolphin, the two dolphins were very grateful to Dave again, swimming a heart-shaped word of thanks and dropping a Large Gold Bar for Dave.

The afternoon's dive, which is also Dive No. 9, sees us trying to complete "A Scolding from Yoshie" Quest by going after the Whitetip Reefshark that lives at the right-most end of The Blue Hole. It was a fierce battle, with Dave getting mauled by the shark once, but he bounced back with an ammo refill, well-timed shots and avoiding the sharks subsequent lunged attacks. After whittling down the shark's HP by about 90, it finally died, and Dave with dwindling air supply, quickly swam to the shark's carcass and harvested its Head and some Meat.

We finally have the ingredients to make the Whole-Roasted Shark Head dish that Bancho needs to impress Yoshie! - the Whitetip Reefshark Head and Olive Oil...

Bancho Sushi opens up for the evening and our first and most important customer to serve is Yoshie. Let's see how she likes the Whole-Roasted Shark Head...

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Yoshie is over-the-moon about the Shark Head dish, pronouncing it as "Quite Lovely" and complimenting Bancho's gastronomical skills. Then she gets down to business: she's here to help the restaurant hire more employees to help out. With her as our Recruitment Specialist, this opens up an Employee Menu where we start hiring by posting Flyer Ads, the results of which will be made known to us the next evening.

After an intense evening's service, we scored 3.9 and gained 10 followers on Cooksta, with Whole-Roasted Shark Head being our Top Seller at 75 gold per dish (even though we also had Salt-grilled Redtoothed Triggerfish at 48 gold per dish on the menu). Our total Net Profit for the night was 511 gold.

The next day, which is the 6th of Oct (Thursday), Ellie comes back and demands that we find 3 Blue Shells and 3 Brown Shells for her on our dives.

Meanwhile, we get Cooksta posts about the new recipe dishes we put out yesterday - Salt-grilled Redtooth Triggerfish by jy_0202 and Whole-Roasted Shark Head by Yoshie.

Dave stops by Bancho Sushi in the morning to check on the Hiring Progress of the Flyer Ads, but apparently it's only ready in the evening.