Chapter 62 Leisure
Street in Roppongi, Tokyo.
As Ji Minghuan approached the phone booth, he asked Ke Qirui, "So, why did you two come to Tokyo?"
Ke Qirui smiled at him and said, "I just happened to be coming to Tokyo for work, so I brought Mai Mai with me."
As she explained, she stretched out her right hand and gently knocked on the glass door of the telephone booth.
Hearing the knock on the door, Su Zimai, who was hiding inside, turned around tremblingly. Seeing that only Gu Wenyu was left outside the phone booth, she breathed a sigh of relief, slowly put down the red phone clipped to her ear, and walked out of the phone booth pretending to be calm.
She looked at Ji Minghuan expressionlessly and was silent for two seconds: "Thank you."
"What's the reward for helping you out?" Ji Minghuan put his hands in his pockets and asked straight to the point.
"I'll treat you to a sushi buffet. My group and I..." Su Zimai paused at this point.
"group?"
"Teacher." Su Zimai changed the subject and said, "My teacher and I are going to eat sushi. You can come with us. She'll pay."
"Don't make it sound like I'm some rich woman who keeps an underage girl." Ke Qirui took out a pipe from her pocket, put it between her lips, and nonchalantly defended herself, "I'm just a 19-year-old girl, not much older than you."
"Pipe?" Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows. "Oh... it's a rare thing, especially for a 19-year-old girl to carry a pipe. It's even rarer."
Ke Qirui didn't know how to respond for a moment, so she just said innocently, like a child who was caught hiding a toy, "Ah... I was accidentally exposed."
She turned to Su Zimai and asked, "What should I do, Maimai? Your brother won't criticize me for being a chain smoker and then take you home without asking for permission, right?"
The tone sounded like she was acting coquettishly.
If Ji Minghuan had not just had a serious chat with this woman at the Roppongi Theater, he would have almost been fooled by her pretending. She was simply a woman as cunning as a fox.
“She was smoking an e-cigarette.”
Su Zimai's eye twitched, and he covered for Ke Qirui dryly, thinking that this troupe leader had been acting as an innocent teenager for a long time, but in the end he still exposed the fact that he was a chain smoker.
"I almost believed you were using a cigarette holder to smoke an e-cigarette." Ji Minghuan said, "But I'm not my eldest brother, so I don't care. Whether you smoke cigarettes or fly leaves, it's best to leave my sister to you. That way, no one will snatch the TV from me at home, and the drinks and ice cream in the refrigerator."
"You deserve a beating for saying that." Su Zimai frowned.
Ji Minghuan ignored her and continued to ask Ke Qirui: "Teacher Ke, you should still be in college, right?"
"Internship." Ke Qirui said calmly, "My job is quite special: I usually take photos for those wealthy people, such as their heroic figures spending lavishly at auctions, and beautiful photos that need to be posted on social media accounts when they travel... I happened to follow that rich man to Japan these few days, so I brought Mai Mai here with me."
She raised her hand and poked Su Zimai's wrinkled nose, "Right?"
"Yes, yes, yes." Su Zimai said, moving her fingertips away from his face.
"Oh, this job sounds really promising." Ji Minghuan tilted his head, not wanting to embarrass Ke Qirui any more, "So which sushi restaurant are you going to eat at?"
Su Zimai glanced at his phone and said, "It's a branch of Sukiyabashi Jiro. I heard it's run by the second son of the sushi god. The address is 6-12-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku. You'll see it when you turn to the next street. This store is very popular on Xiaohongshu. I brought my teacher here to check in. We ate all the delicious food in Tokyo these few days. You're lucky. You got to eat it for free."
"No wonder you ran away from home, it's so good to be kept by a rich woman..." Ji Minghuan put his hands in his pockets and said sarcastically, "I brought you to Japan to play, and let you eat and drink for free. If it were me, I would run away from home too. Whoever likes it can stay at home and suffer with two grown men."
“I’m not a rich woman.”
"You are the one being kept."
Ke Qirui and Su Zimai looked at Ji Minghuan and spoke almost at the same time, their tone of indifference being exactly the same.
"Surrender." Ji Minghuan took out his hands from his pocket and raised them up. "Lesbians are really hard to mess with."
He now understood why Su Zimai's temperament was so neutral; it turned out that he learned it from his "teacher".
"Now I know why Mai Mai always says that her brother is a bad-mouthed person."
Ke Qirui said with a smile, putting the pipe back into his pocket.
Su Zimai sighed: "Don't waste time talking to this guy. He usually either stays in his room and doesn't talk, or he makes a big splash. No, he makes people angry to death."
Ji Minghuan didn't take it seriously, as if he didn't hear anything. He put his hands behind his head leisurely, thinking to himself: Who was the first to secretly investigate the background of my Unit 2, and then threatened me with words like "my companions are nearby"? I have to make things difficult for her when I get the chance. This is called reciprocity, okay?
Su Zimai walked in front to lead the way, and soon the three of them arrived at the sushi restaurant she mentioned.
This sushi restaurant is hidden in a gray building complex in the back alley of Roppongi Hills. A 30-centimeter-wide cypress vertical plaque hangs above the stone steps, engraved with the ink-colored lacquer characters "すきやばし次郎".
The cypress sliding door was pulled with a "clang clang" sound, and it slid half a meter to the right, and three people entered the store.
As the waiters all shouted "Iracha Imaise (Welcome)" in unison, they sat down at the cypress wood counter that could seat ten people. Su Zimai took the menu from the waiter and was responsible for ordering the dishes, while the other two were not picky eaters so they were responsible for eating, with a clear division of labor.
Ji Minghuan put his phone down on the bar, propped his chin with one hand, and looked around the sushi restaurant with boredom.
He alternately looked at the chef slicing the raw fish with exquisite knife skills, and then at the TV above his head.
I picked up the remote control from the bar and turned to the news channel. At this time, the host of Tokyo News was talking in Japanese about the recent incidents of supernatural criminals in cities such as France and China.
The host talked about a series of events that happened in Lijing recently, and first mentioned a more concerned event: "Blue Arc arrested the international thieves 'Da Zhonghou' and 'Flying Ant'. At present, the Lijing Superpower Chapter has found the antique treasures in the Tokyo Museum and will return them to Japan in the near future."
Because of this incident, the Japanese people's love for "Blue Arc" has greatly increased. The Internet was full of praise for it for a while, and the news station also played some thank-you videos shot by Japanese people and even museum staff.
Su Zimai closed the menu and looked up at the TV screen: "I didn't expect this big blue electric rat to be useful."
Ji Minghuan said nonchalantly: "If you post this on the Internet, you will be scolded by extreme fans of Blue Arc."
"I just can't stand this. One of my female classmates said in class that she didn't like Blue Arc, and she was isolated by other girls as a result." Su Zimai paused, "...bored to death."
Ke Qirui took a sip of tea and said slowly, "In fact, it is difficult for idols to control the behavior of their fans. After all, the fan base is so large, how can Blue Arc control everyone? Moreover, he is a hero who defends his country. I am afraid that in the eyes of many people, insulting him is almost the same as insulting the people's hero, so the public opinion environment seems so extreme."
"Oh, if he is not responsible, then who is responsible for the isolated girl?" Su Zimai asked.
"School is like a miniature version of society. It is very important to learn how to read the atmosphere and judge the situation in school. Otherwise, you will suffer more in society. Just take it as a lesson."
At this point, Ke Qirui curled her lips at Su Zimai, "And wasn't that girl very lucky? She met you. I remember you overturned the desks of those girls who bullied her. In order not to worry the two brothers, you also asked me to pretend to be your sister and go to your school to meet the dean."
Su Zimai looked away: "I just can't stand Blue Arc's fans, I don't want to help her."
She leaned close to Ke Qirui's ear and whispered, "And afterwards you released the 'Movie Demon', scaring the parents of those girls so much that they didn't dare to come to school the next day. Only then did the principal let it go. Captain, you are the worst person, okay?"
"I can't help it... I don't like kids who bully others." Ke Qirui whispered, "Don't mention the devil. What if your brother hears it?"
As she spoke, she turned her head and glanced at Ji Minghuan out of the corner of her eye.
Ji Minghuan was seen drinking soda while looking up at the TV with an indifferent expression. He probably didn't hear the two people's whisper.
Su Zimai and Ke Qirui distanced themselves from each other, sighed, shook their heads, and returned to their normal speaking tone.
She said, "Oh, it's all Blue Arc's fault."
"I've already told you, it has nothing to do with Blue Arc." Ke Qirui said calmly.
Listening to the conversation between the two, Ji Minghuan shrugged his shoulders, and was very curious about what Su Zimai would think if he found out one day that the Lan Hu he scolded every day was actually Gu Qinye.
(End of this chapter)
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