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Mashu is the best candidate for a wife. She is virtuous, beautiful, intelligent, and has a quiet and peaceful personality. She can be said to be a model of a good wife and mother.
"So, Nero can only be a running buddy at best, and the marshmallow on Mash's chest is my eternal home."
Kyosuke said this while he was drinking privately with Gao Wen and others, taking advantage of the drunkenness.
The result was that he shamelessly earned the four middle fingers from Gawain and Bedivere.
But that was just a joke at the table, and that happened not long after he entered Camelot. At that time, Kyosuke never dreamed that his words of becoming a sex partner with Nero would really become a reality. As for the second half of the sentence - Kyosuke really thought about it at the time, but as time went by, Kyosuke gradually stopped thinking about it. It's not that Kyosuke lowered the standard of the partner who would spend his life with him, but Kyosuke found that he had no autonomy in this matter a long time ago, and those tigresses would permanently control all his matters related to the opposite sex.
In this case, even if Mashu had expressed relevant intentions, in front of the "earth-sucking team" headed by Lily and the nanny, Kyosuke felt that responding to Mashu was pushing her into the fire pit. So after giving up the love between men and women, Kyosuke has changed a lot when facing Mashu compared to the beginning. The most direct manifestation of this change is that Kyosuke lost his desire for Mashu and turned to love.
But now Mashu's actions have completely destroyed the already fragile relationship between the two of them, which makes Kyosuke a little overwhelmed.
Just when Kyosuke was thinking about life (?), Keibu-hime came to the bar to find him.
"Store manager."
"Ah."
"Store manager!"
"Um……"
"shop……"
"Okay, I can hear you."
Kyosuke's forehead flickered when he heard the girl calling him constantly. This girl suddenly appeared and interrupted his thinking process, which made Kyosuke, who didn't know what to do, even more confused.
If you can't figure it out, don't think about it.
Kyosuke didn't know who taught him this sentence, but he felt that he should follow the meaning of this sentence and put Mashu aside for the time being.
"Really? If you look at the ceiling like that, who knows if you heard anything or not."
Princess Keibu touched her forehead and pouted at Kyosuke.
"You... just tell me what you want to say."
"CM is coming."
Princess Keibu looked at Kyosuke with excitement.
"and then?"
Kyosuke probably knew what this young lady wanted to do. Based on her nickname "Otaku Girl", she was most likely going to attend the exhibition with her notebook.
Xingbu Ji raised a hand like a curious little baby and said, "I want to take a leave to draw a fanfiction book. Can I use the staff lounge in the backstage as a studio? Diqi and I need to finish the book in the next few days."
"can."
Kyosuke agreed to Keibu-hime's request without even thinking about it.
"That's annoying, manager. Don't reject me so quickly. I can actually switch shifts... Hmm? Agree?"
Princess Keibu originally wanted to explain something more, but she realized halfway through her words that Kyosuke had already agreed.
No way, I haven’t used any of the words I prepared. Manager, why are you agreeing so readily?
The feeling of punching cotton made Xingbu Ji's breasts hurt a little.
Where's the plot where you were moved by my passion for otaku? Why did you fall down before I even tried?!
"Nonsense, am I that inhumane?"
But no matter what, at least agreeing to her request was a good thing. However, before Keibu-ji could cheer, Kyosuke poured cold water on her.
"But I have one condition."
"Tsk, there really is no such thing as a free lunch. I knew that you, the store manager, are not so kind. Tell me, how do you want me to sell my body? Let's just make it clear that there is no need for a physical transaction. At most, I can only use my hands - ah, it hurts."
Before Keibu Ji could finish her words, Kyosuke snapped her finger on the forehead again.
"Stop thinking nonsense here. I'm not that dirty." Kyosuke looked at Keibu-ji unhappily, "Let me ask you, since you are going to publish a book, you should have a booth, right?"
"That's what you're talking about. Unfortunately, I was unlucky and didn't win this year, so I went to Blackbeard to try for one. What's wrong?"
"Do you have extra staff positions?"
CM is a holy war day held twice a year, and it is usually crowded every year. With this amount of traffic, if you want to buy the works of popular comic groups or artists, you have to queue up from the early morning, and it is not impossible to even queue up all night.
Kyosuke, who had participated in several holy wars, knew very well that people were forced to do this. Basically, only when the Chinese real estate market was launched would people queue up all night like CM.
However, neither the Apple fans nor the property market are as exaggerated as CM. It is not an exaggeration to say that the open space next to the exhibition becomes a camping site at this time every year.
Kyosuke planned to bring Kirino along for the holy war this time. But his delicate sister would definitely not queue up all night. If she followed her schedule, the only things left at the exhibition would probably be those fan books with the style of One Punch Man. It would be nice if Kyosuke could draw a book for her in his spare time.
Fortunately, there is always a way out. In addition to queuing up all night, there is another way to buy the fan book you want, which is to enter the venue early with a staff member's quota.
In the past, it was not so bad, because the management was not strict and basically anyone who knew a stall owner could get a staff quota. However, it has become more and more strict in the past two years. The organizers have also found that every year someone enters the venue in advance to buy goods in the name of staff, so the staff quota has been restricted more and more strictly in recent years.
If it was just about the places for Kyosuke and Kirino, it wouldn't be a big problem. The Conqueror King rents a large booth every year to promote the game "Grand Strategy", so borrowing two places from him wouldn't be a problem.
But this time Kyosuke wants to bring more people. In addition to Kirino, he also wants to invite Saori and Kuroneko, the two who helped Eriri.
Eriri's family was going to participate, so her small booth was limited to three people, an assistant (Mashu) and a pet (Mordred). If it weren't for her name [Kashiwagi Eriri], she would probably have only been able to get a small booth for two people.
If it was Merlin or Jill who was asked, it would not be impossible to ask for a few more places, but Kyosuke did not want to trouble them.
On the one hand, Kyosuke already owed Jill a big favor at the amusement park. Even if he won the trip to the amusement park, it was someone else's money after all, and Kyosuke didn't want to trouble her again this time.
As for Merlin, Kyosuke didn't know if she would eat him after that unsuccessful date. You know, even if it was Fufu's cherry hair, no, it was a conspiracy. But it was an indisputable fact that Kyosuke ran off to date Mashu in the middle of playing with Meili.
So even though that opportunity allowed Merlin to temporarily avoid the fate of being sold (Mashu's stocks rose), Kyosuke still didn't want to see him.
"Even if you say so, manager..." Xingbu Ji held up a finger, "There is only one."
"Only one? I remember your stall was quite big, wasn't it?"
"Unfortunately, we are using Brother Di Qi's booth this time, and there are only three spots available."
"Excuse me... Do you know who else is participating? I mean in the name of the group."
Kyosuke has a headache.
"Why? Not enough? I thought Mr. Alexander should have a quota, right?"
"He has two, you have one, and you still need one."
Kyosuke exhaled towards the ceiling. There must be other Heroic Spirits who will attend the exhibition, and there must be extra quotas. But those people are not familiar with Kyosuke, and they may not give him a quota if he borrows it for no reason. If he really can't find one, Kyosuke plans to give up his quota and let Saori and Kuroneko, the two old hands, take Kirino to the exhibition.
"Let me think about it..."
Seeing Kyosuke's depressed look made Keibu-ji feel a little sympathetic. After thinking for a long time, she finally made up her mind and put forward her suggestion.
"I know there's someone who has a lot of quotas. But I don't think you, the store manager, will like it."
"Who?"
Xingbu Ji did not answer directly, she made a gesture to answer the phone.
Kyosuke's eyelids twitched when he saw this gesture, and he suddenly had a bad feeling.
Chapter 91 Daisuke: I must have the dignity of being the head of the family
"Eh? What did you say? Saori actually went to that golden retriever's house to help? - Ouch~"
The next evening, at the dinner table of the Kousaka family, Kirino looked at Kyosuke in surprise, and then Kanano flicked her forehead.
"Don't talk so loudly while eating. Also," Kanono reminded Kirino, "Eri is your sister. Even if you are very close to her, you can't just call her by a nickname."
In other words, do you also think that Eriri is a golden retriever?
Kyosuke drank miso soup and looked at Kanono calmly. He found that Kanono did not deny calling Kirino that, but just thought it was inappropriate.
"Well...I was wrong."
Although Kirino's status in the family is in the ruling class, there is still a gap between her and Kanao who is at the top, so she doesn't dare to rebel against her mother at the dinner table.
"Erriri's manga is about to be completed, but because she took too long to make up for her previous work, she hasn't finished a lot of her work. Saori and Kuroneko happened to be free, so I asked them to help out."
"By the way, who are you talking about? I don't think I've ever heard of these two names before. And is there really someone named Black Cat?"
This was the first time Jianai had heard these two names. She thought she knew everything about her children, but she felt a little confused.
"Well...how should I put it?"
Kirino was stunned for a moment, because Kyosuke's direct mention of this matter made her subconsciously forget that Saori and Kuroneko were her friends and her parents shouldn't know about it. Thinking of this, she broke out in a cold sweat and stuttered as she was afraid that her parents would notice something was wrong.
Silly girl, aren't you telling them that you have something to hide?
Kyosuke feels that Kirino's psychological quality is really not up to par.
I'm not asking you to remain calm and cheerful, but at least don't give away your true colors.
It can only be said that Kirino's thoughts are too easy to guess, or her expression of "I'm hiding something from you" is just like Wang Er who stole money and confessed himself. In order to prevent Daisuke from getting really angry, Kyosuke decisively took on the task of covering up.
"They are Kirino's online friends. Kuroneko is just her screen name."
"Hey!!"
Before Kanano and Daisuke could say anything, Kirino was furious. If they hadn't been sitting diagonally opposite each other, she would have kicked Kyosuke in the calf. Kirino thought Kyosuke was going to confront his parents directly, which was unforgivable in her eyes, almost like a traitor.
Seeing his sister's panicking behavior, Kyosuke didn't care about being discovered as a heretic by Daisuke and could only give Kirino a look to calm her down.
"Netizen?"
Daisuke, who had not interrupted, put down his chopsticks and looked at Kirino with a stern look: "There are many scammers on the Internet nowadays, so you should be careful when making friends online. It looks like you have already met her? That's really reckless."
"I..."
Although she was scolded by Daisuke, Kirino was relieved because Daisuke's teaching was not about the part she was most worried about.
"So I was the one who accompanied Kirino to that offline meeting. So I also knew those two girls, otherwise how could I introduce them to Eriri, right?"
Kyosuke saw what Daisuke wanted to say and quickly stopped him, "Kirino is looking for me instead of you because she's afraid that you'll restrict her. If you knew, you would definitely ask her to take you with her. In that case, how can she have fun with her online friends? They're all teenage girls, wouldn't it be too awkward for a middle-aged man like you to join in?"
As he said this, Kyosuke deliberately winked and made a face at Kirino and Kaneo.
It seemed that her tense nerves relaxed, and Kirino looked at Kyosuke's strange expression and laughed.
"enough!"
Daisuke realized that Kyosuke was teasing him, and in order to maintain his dignity as the head of the family, he decisively suppressed Kyosuke's provocative behavior.