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Sakura nodded cautiously and moved to the side.
"No need to give way, the place is so big."
Lingya and Chiyo sat down casually beside them. Sitting on the big lawn, the garden in the distance was in full view. Above their heads was a huge cherry tree with an open umbrella that blocked the sunlight. From time to time, the breeze blew, which was very comfortable.
“This is a really nice place.”
"Well, I eat here every day at noon." Sakura said.
Because this area is the setting of a school and a park, it appears a lot in "Magical Girl Sakura" and can be regarded as a fixed shooting location for the crew. Weekly dramas are not like movies or TV shows that are broadcast once after the series is completed, where the plots of the same scene can be extracted separately, filmed in one go, and then moved to other places for filming. It is fixed to shoot one episode per week, and one scene is one scene.
So this lawn became Sakura's 'secret base'.
"Magical Girl Sakura is great, I've watched every episode."
"Yeah," Sakura nodded, thought for a moment and added, "Thank you."
She was obviously a little reserved, which was different from her cheerful personality in the story. She was the exact same person, in both appearance and voice.
"My name is Tomoyo Daidoji and this is my friend, Reiya Oshima."
"I'm Sakura Kinomoto."
Daidoji and Oshima, these two surnames Sakura also knew, they were the sponsors of the crew, no wonder the assistant was so attentive just now. But none of this had anything to do with Sakura, she considered herself a commoner and was instinctively a little afraid of the consortium. She just gave her name out of politeness, and was a little hesitant about whether she should end lunch early.
"But isn't Kinomoto Sakura the name in the story?"
"Well, that's my real name too. The director said that using my own name would help me fit in better with the role, so he changed the name of the protagonist in the script to my name." Sakura said. According to the script, the protagonist was supposed to be Madoka Kaname - the original name of the script was "Magical Girl Madoka Magica".
"Actually, Director Asago is a very nice person," Sakura added.
Is that so? Seeing the director's fierce look just now, Tomoyo and Ling really couldn't tell.
"Tomoyo, Reiya, here's your lunch." Sonomi came over with two boxes of lunches, which were for the crew.
"Thank you, Aunt Daidoji."
"Kid, just call me auntie. It will seem unfamiliar if you add my last name." Yuan Mei left the lunch box and turned away without disturbing them.
The crew's box lunch was pretty good, with mackerel, spare ribs, assorted grilled mountain vegetables, and finally fragrant pears as fruit.
They are all the same, there is no difference between the deluxe version and the civilian version.
At this time, Sakura had finished her lunch box, and she looked at Tomoyo and Reiya with some surprise.
"What's wrong? Aren't you full?" Zhishi said, "I can share some with you. I probably can't eat so much."
"No, I'm full. I'm just a little surprised. It turns out that children from big conglomerates also eat boxed lunches." In Sakura's understanding, the daughters of prominent families like Daidoji and Oshima Group, even when eating outdoors, should have a long picnic blanket spread out, with maids and waiters standing on both sides, and elegantly enjoy freshly-grilled steaks, cakes and the like.
Maybe there is someone playing the violin accompaniment nearby.
"Do you like this, Sakura?"
Sakura shook her head, "But that's how it's played on TV."
"That's not the case. It's so uncomfortable to eat with so many people watching. But..."
"but?"
"However, you have to finish the meal and don't leave any konjac!" Tomoyo said, pointing at the konjac among the assorted roasted wild vegetables that Sakura deliberately picked out in her lunch box.
"Ah, this." Sakura was a little flustered, but there are always things that people can eat and things that they can't eat.
"Can't you?"
"Well, only konjac is really not acceptable." Sakura whispered. It's hard to tell whether it's the texture or the taste, but konjac is always the food she can't accept. "Tomoyo, Reiya, don't you have any food you hate?"
"Yeah, I eat everything."
Before Tomoyo could finish his words, Ling picked out the green peppers from her roasted wild vegetables and pretended to stuff them into Tomoyo's lunch box.
"Ah! This won't do. Ling has bad intentions!" Tomoyo quickly dodged while holding her lunch box.
Lingye was just joking. She took back her fork and put the green pepper into her mouth, chewing it with a crunching sound. She also deliberately picked up the konjac and ate it.
"Wow, that's amazing!" Sakura exclaimed from the bottom of her heart.
"As expected of an Ultraman, he has no natural enemies." - Tomoyo thought to herself.
I don't know when it started, but the atmosphere among the three of them became much more harmonious.
"By the way, let's take a picture. Sakura, do you mind if we take a picture together?" Tomoyo took out the camera that she always carried with her. Since the last time a super beast appeared in the photo, she didn't take a camera, but the camera itself also has the function of taking pictures.
Sakura shook her head to indicate that she didn't mind.
"Can the 'flower protector' over there take a picture for us?" Tomoyo shouted to the cherry tree.
After a moment of silence, a little boy walked out from behind the cherry tree, blushing and a little embarrassed. It was the "Little Wolf".
"Is Syaoran your real name too?" Tomoyo asked Sakura softly.
Xiaoying nodded, "Yes, it's Li Xiaolang, the director invited him from Hong Kong."
Hong Kong, Ling was also a little touched, but at that time Hong Kong was still a British colony, and it was not even certain whether people could speak Chinese.
"I, I'm just passing by."
"Yeah," Chiyo nodded, not exposing the irrationality of taking ten minutes to pass by the cherry blossom trees, "So, would you mind taking a picture for us?"
Syaoran looked at Sakura tentatively, and seeing that she was not unwilling, he nodded and took the camera from Tomoyo.
“Will this work?”
"Yes, I have one at home." Little Wolf said, adjusting the camera mode and pointing the camera at the three people. "Say 'eggplant'... No, say 'cheese'!"
He said 'eggplant' in Chinese, and of course the pronunciation was wrong in Japanese, so he changed it.
All three of them made the classic V sign with their fingers, "cheese!" The photo was frozen in the camera.
"Thank you!" Tomoyo walked forward, took the camera, and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Don't worry, we won't bully Sakura."
The little wolf uttered "ah" twice in embarrassment, wanted to say something but didn't know what to say, and then ran away without looking back.
It was already evening when I returned home in Jianye's car.
When Lingye was playing with Tomoyo during the day, Jianye's butler went to pick up the new car. The last time the Bentley was crushed by the super beast, it weighed tens of thousands of tons, so the repair process was skipped. Given the environment in Tokyo, it is inevitable that the super beasts will attack on a daily basis, and Lingye did not let Jianye buy another luxury car. Although it is nothing to the Oshima family, it is not necessary.
So this time, Jianye picked up a Mercedes-Benz, which seemed a lot more low-key. It is not as good as top brands like Bentley and McLaren, but as a slightly high-end civilian car, the comfort is actually not bad.
When the car returned to the villa in Chiba Prefecture, Jianye was about to park the car, but Ke Yue hurried over.
"Miss, just this afternoon, someone called you several times."
"Looking for me?"
Ling was also a little puzzled. Usually, the person who called her the most was Tomoyo, but she was with Tomoyo in the afternoon, so who else would call her?
"Did you say who it was?"
"It's a girl named Nan Xizi, who claims to be from the TAC team. She may call again later."
"Sister Xizi? Okay, I understand. Thank you, Granny Keyue."
"Hey, hey, I don't deserve the thanks from the young lady." Ke Yue waved her hand and went back to the house to busy herself with making dinner.
She did leave her home phone number for Nan Xizi and Beidou, so they could contact her in case of emergency. Mobile phones were not yet popular in this era, and although teams like TAC already had such communication technology, it had not been converted to civilian use, which was indeed a bit inconvenient. What could happen to Nan Xizi?
Although Lingye didn't have Nan Xizi's phone number, the TAC team's phone number was open to the public. She went back to the house, looked it up, and dialed. After only one ring, the call was connected.
"Hello, this is the TAC team!"
A female voice came from the receiver.
"Is that Sister Yuko? I'm Lingye."
"Ah, Lingye, you finally called me back. Sorry to bother you!" Nan Xizi's voice was a little anxious. "It's like this, it's about Beidou-kun—"
This morning, TAC's third radar station located in the suburbs southwest of Tokyo was attacked by a super beast code-named Unitango. Although Yoshimura and Yamanaka were patrolling nearby on the Airo and rushed to the scene as soon as possible, they were still too late to stop it and the base's main control system was paralyzed.
TAC has three radar bases throughout Tokyo. The first radar base is located near the Fuji Five Lakes of the TAC headquarters, and the second and third bases are located in the east and west suburbs respectively.
These three bases are the eyes of the TAC team. They can not only monitor the sky, but also detect any dimensional fluctuations or the intention of the Yabo people to release super beasts. Their role is extremely important.
In order to repair it as soon as possible, Beidou and Nan Xizi were ordered to escort the converter SPD to the third base, but they encountered a strange thing. The tunnel that should have been intact was under construction halfway, and when they changed the route, they met a team of college girls' bicycles who were riding by themselves. The vehicle hit one of the girls and even seriously injured her.
Because of this accident, the converter SPD fell to the ground and broke when braking.
"Hokuto-kun suspected that it was a conspiracy of the Yawa people, because when the Ultra Beasts attacked the Third Base during the day, Team Yoshimura and Team Yamanaka also encountered the cycling team that called themselves 'Daito Women's University'. Although it may indeed be a coincidence, Hokuto-kun still decided to investigate."
"Then what? Is Brother Beidou missing?" Ling also guessed.
"No, he's not missing, but when we contacted Bokuto-kun again, he wasn't in the right state. He insisted on staying and playing with the female students. He also said that he had enough and wanted to leave the TAC team."
Ace is leaving the TAC team?
Chapter 23: Lonely Differences
Not to mention Nan Xizi, anyone would find something wrong with Beidou claiming that he had had enough and wanted to leave the TAC team.
Everyone who knows Hokuto Seiji knows that he is an enthusiastic and brave TAC member. He does not have the bad habits of Yamanaka's arrogance, Konno's recklessness, or Yoshimura's recklessness. If there is anything to be criticized, it is that he always rushes to the front when encountering a super beast. Many times, he drives the black panther directly at the feet of the super beast, regardless of his own safety.
He always looks dirty and dusty, but still smiles nonchalantly, making it impossible for anyone to do anything about him.
Would such a person leave the TAC team because he was 'fed up'?
"They all said in the mountains that Beidou was too tired, and it would be good for him to go play in the wild with those female students and have a day off. Even Captain Long said that Beidou was too nervous, so he should be given a day off."
Yamanaka said that Minami Yuko was making a fuss because Beidou was playing with other girls, so she was unhappy.
"Team member Yuko, you don't know that men sometimes need a little space. Don't watch them too closely."
At that time, Yamanaka patted Minami Yuko on the shoulder and said this to her. Konno and Yoshimura also laughed strangely beside her. Minami Yuko didn't understand, what does that have to do with her? She was just worried about Beidou. Beidou has never been a person who doesn't know the importance of things.
"Beidou-kun is camping with those female students at East Lake. The captain won't let us investigate. It's already evening and he hasn't come back yet. Even the communication has been deliberately cut off by him. I'm very worried that something has happened to him, so Lingye, you're the only one I can ask for help."
The team members didn't take it seriously, including the captain, who didn't think there was anything wrong. He respected the team members' desire to rest occasionally. Only Yuko stayed in the command room, waiting for Beidou's reply. Time passed by, a whole day, but the connection was still disconnected.
She couldn't tell her teammates and the captain the reason for her worry - Beidou was the incarnation of Ace. Others would be willful and ignore their duties to relax, but Beidou would not. At this moment, he would only fight!
Therefore, Minami Yuko searched for someone she could ask for help, but there was only one person she could ask for help. Oshima Reiya, a 9-year-old girl, was also the one chosen by Hikari.
"I understand. I'll go to Donghu Lake and find Brother Beidou to ask him in person if anything really happened. I'll call you back then."
"Thank you, thank you so much, Lingye, please."
After hanging up the phone, Ling was a little hesitant.
It's not strange for others to do this. They are too tired and want to rest. The TAC team members are also human beings. It's completely understandable that they need a day off. So Yamanaka, Konno, and Captain Long didn't take it to heart.