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This is Misaka Mikoto's charm among the same sex.
There’s no point in asking.
Tokiwadai is the name of a place in Itabashi, Tokyo. Of course, there is no such high school here. Here, this set of clothes is custom-made.
Ling didn't care about these looks. As long as there was no questioning from the Parent-Teacher Committee, it felt great to be able to go shopping alone.
She even met a teacher from the Parent-Teacher Committee who was wearing an armband, but they just passed by each other, haha.
Now she can do whatever she wants. She always feels that she can indulge herself and do whatever she wants!
As an adult, I take my rights for granted, but only realized the constraints after losing them.
I bought a cup of milk tea on the street and drank it while walking. I passed by a fish shop where a housewife meeting was being held. The afternoon was the leisure time for full-time housewives.
Oden? This is not to be missed.
She bought a few skewers, not to fill her stomach, but just to satisfy her appetite. Then she heard a dong dong sound.
On the shopping street, someone is making rice cakes. It looks like a husband-and-wife shop.
The husband held the pestle up and down, and every time it fell and rose, his wife would go to level the glutinous rice in the wooden barrel. They worked together very smoothly.
Rice cake is an indispensable item for the New Year in the island country, just like the New Year’s Eve dinner in the countries on the other side of the strait.
Whether you eat rice, glutinous rice balls or dumplings, there will always be a New Year's Eve dinner.
Ling also likes rice cakes, but the way they are cooked is a little different from that in the island countries. The rice cakes here are cooked with red beans and other things to make them into a sweet soup.
The rice cakes in Lingye's memory can be coated with egg liquid and fried into sugar rice cakes, or they can be sliced and cooked with vegetables and meat, or put directly into the hot pot.
It tastes good no matter how you cook it.
So she bought some at the shopping street. They said it was made of Niigata glutinous rice, and it looked really good.
It’s so lively, 1974 is about to pass.
In this lively and joyous festival atmosphere, Ling also suddenly felt a little sad. Zoda was dead, and although Taro was still on his way back to Earth, Ling also knew that the experience given to him by the Kingdom of Light had ended.
Taro could leave at any time, just like Ace did more than a year ago.
The word "parting" means that no matter who the other person is, once you have met and become familiar with them, you will feel empty if they leave suddenly.
Really, just like the flower language of the red spider lily that blooms in front of the grave. Fate comes and goes, it's just disillusionment.
There is nothing eternal in the world; the only thing eternal is final extinction.
Ling also realized that her thoughts were not right, she was too pessimistic, probably because the streets were too busy, which made her feel lonely.
It’s all because of the source of destruction.
Regardless of whether it was Him or not, it’s not wrong to blame Him.
Forget it, let’s go to the movies.
Even though she thought so, Ling was unable to watch the movie because a monster came.
It just flew past overhead.
Because it was so natural, most people on the street just watched stupidly, and no one thought of seeking shelter.
Then it wandered off again.
This is a strange creature that cannot fly. It rides on a flying vehicle shaped like a hot air balloon and wanders around in the sky above Tokyo.
It has no awareness of being a guest on Earth at all. It looks relaxed and contented, as if Earth is its home.
Sometimes Zha Zha would roar loudly, and sometimes he would laugh, as if he was afraid that people wouldn't know him.
But maybe it really is not from outer space, because after the ZAT team went out, they did not find any alien material on it.
Its dandruff tissue is composed of components that exist on earth.
"What the hell is that guy doing? Are there any casualties reported?"
Araki needs to determine the next countermeasure based on what it does.
This is the first time that ZAT has encountered such a monster.
"There are no casualties yet, but it attacked quite a few workshops, jumped off the airship, stole a lot of rice cakes, then jumped back and flew away to rob the next one."
"What did you steal? Rice cakes?"
"Yes, it is the rice cake made of glutinous rice for the New Year. The New Year is in two days. It has eaten so many rice cakes that it is almost impossible to buy them on the market."
Even some workshops have to work overtime, but they are afraid of being attacked by monsters again.
That guy doesn't know how to restrain himself and is still circling in the sky.
"Deputy Captain, what should we do? Should we attack the aircraft and shoot it down?"
"Wait a minute!"
It is easy to shoot down a flying vehicle, but it will be troublesome if a monster comes down and causes destruction everywhere.
The monster is round and strong, and doesn't look easy to deal with. If you can avoid angering it, it's better not to do so for the time being. After all, it didn't hurt anyone, and the rice cakes weren't a big loss.
"We can't do it in Tokyo. We have to fly it to a deserted area and shoot it down there!"
That's true, but the monster only hovered over Tokyo and didn't go anywhere else.
"We have to find a way to attract it. Rice cake... rice cake... Oh, where is the best place to produce Japanese rice cake?"
"Of course it's Niigata!" Nanyuan continued. Everyone knew about this.
Niigata's rice and glutinous rice are the best in the entire island nation.
"That's it!"
Araki took the map.
"Look, to get to Niigata from Tokyo, you have to go all the way north, through Tochigi Prefecture and Niigata Prefecture. There is the Fuji Mountains, and it's all uninhabited mountainous area. If we can shoot down its aircraft halfway, then it will be easy!"
Indeed it is.
But how can we let the monster know that there are delicious rice cakes in Niigata and attract it over?
You can't put up advertisements, because the monsters can't understand advertisements.
The ZAT team thinks so. But in fact, this monster can understand advertisements and even recognize the characters on Earth.
After flying around in the sky for a long time, it ate up all the workshops. The remaining ones were so scared when they learned about the situation that they closed their doors.
After walking around for a while, it found that it could no longer find any place to eat the rice cake.
"What a shabby place. With only this little rice cake, can it be considered Tokyo?" Mo Qilong muttered to himself.
Mochiron is the name it gave itself because it particularly likes rice cakes, so it is named after rice cakes (もち/mochi).
I came here because I heard that Tokyo is the most prosperous place and I thought it would be full of rice cakes.
But obviously, prosperity has nothing to do with how many rice cakes there are. Tokyo is not the birthplace of glutinous rice.
"Forget it. Sister Yuko told me that the best rice cakes in Japan are in Niigata. Let's go to Niigata to eat rice cakes!"
It's a rare trip from the moon to the earth, so of course it has to eat enough. Sister Xizi always talks about the prosperity of the earth in front of it. It doesn't care about other things, it just wants rice cakes.
Chapter 473: Moon Realm
The ZAT team was thinking about how to lure the monster towards Niigata, but they didn't expect that it was also trying to go to Niigata.
Mo Qilong was not quite sure where to go in Niigata, he just heard Nan Xizi mention this place name.
After all, the moon is too lonely, and Nan Xizi always likes to find someone to chat with.
She talks about a lot of things.
Mo Qilong didn't care about anything else, but since Nan Xizi mentioned glutinous rice and rice cakes, it had to care.
She said that it was the end of the year again and people would offer rice cakes as tribute in the New Year.
She said a lot at that time, as if she had a lot on her mind.
There used to be rabbits and osmanthus trees on the moon, but now they are gone. Only this medicine pounding jar is with her.
Mo Qilong didn't know what Beidou was, and he couldn't understand these, but he could understand rice cakes. Delicious rice cakes, that was the most delicious thing he had ever eaten.
So it came to Earth by itself.
Moqilong didn't think he was doing anything bad, he walked around with a swagger because humans often offered rice cakes to the moon during the New Year, and Nan Xizi would leave them for him.
Anyway, these are things given to it, and now it just comes to get them.
"Niigata, Niigata" Mochilong looked around blankly and felt that he should ask for directions.
There have been planes buzzing nearby since a while ago, and I don't know what they are doing. These earthlings who fly planes should know where Niigata is, right?
But it didn't ask because it smelled a good smell.
Rice cake, yes, it must be delicious rice cake!
It smells so good, I can't handle it. Who made this? I'll use this shop as my rice cake for offering to the moon!
Without saying anything, it controlled the hydrogen balloon airship and flew towards the direction of the smell.
"Deputy Captain, look, the monster is flying towards the mountainous area of Tochigi Prefecture!"
"Okay! Wait until it flies into the mountains, where there's no one, and then shoot that aircraft down!"
Although I don’t know why the monster flew into the mountains on its own initiative, this is certainly a good thing.
Tochigi Prefecture is a vast mountainous area. In thirty or forty years, many scenic spots will be developed here, but now, most of the mountainous areas are sparsely populated.
Nasu-dake
There is good vegetation on the top of the mountain, and in an open space, there are indeed people pounding rice cakes.
They are two young girls.
A girl about fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a school uniform from an unknown school.
The other one was older, but only about twenty years old, and for some reason his face was a little unclear.
It's a place where there's no village in front and no shop behind, and the nearest inhabited village is dozens of miles away by mountain road.
If it were Sun Wukong, he would first suspect that the two girls were transformed by the White Bone Demon in order to eat his master.
Then he took a look with his eagle eyes and said, "Oh, it's okay, let's watch the show."