Chapter 169 – Takahashi Mito is really hard ……

Aoi Natsuki who was in the middle of chatting seemed to have sensed something, then she stopped talking and turned her head to look over, just in time to meet Takahashi Midu’s line of sight, then her mouth moved, and Hetty who was on the side of the room also looked her gaze over, and seeing that she had been noticed, naturally, it was not good for Takahashi Midu to reveal her true heart, so she could only slowly raise her right hand and awkwardly wave her hand in greeting.

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In the hot pot restaurant, in a small compartment.

“So that’s how it is! There are so many origins in it na, so now Yoshi-san is the one Aoi is adopting right?” Holding a can of carbonated beverage, Hetty kept asking about the interesting events that happened in the past, her eyes full of amazement.

“Yeah ……” Takahashi Midu echoed with a faint smile, the muscles at the corners of her mouth already beginning to twitch unnaturally as she turned to look at the steaming hot pot in front of her, figuring she wouldn’t be able to keep up that expression for much longer.

It turns out that Hetty’s absence just now was because she went to pick up the tickets for this hot pot restaurant and told Nia to stay and wait at the milk tea store on the first floor, but what she didn’t expect was that Nia was sitting on a high stool idly, when she saw Natsuki’s older brother outside through the glass window, she jumped right off the stool and walked out of the door to say hello, and that’s how this next thing came to be.

Takahashi Mito was frustrated, clearly, clearly he was so close to walking to that ramen store say!

Lowering his head, he sighed softly.

“Is …… not a fan of fondue?” Hetty asked with immediate concern, noticing her like this.

Takahashi Mito’s body shook, and she quickly raised her head, swinging her hands from side to side, “No, it’s fine, I was just thinking about something personal.”

Hearing her explanation, Hetty nodded, then narrowed her eyes and smiled, and began to use a clip to continuously put some meat and vegetables into the pot, looking at the bottom of the red oil pot, she involuntarily gulped, and next to her, Nia also followed in amazement, looking at the aroma of the hot pot, and let out an “oh”.

This hot pot restaurant allows pets to be brought in, so the two dogs were sitting on their backs under the table like they had just gotten tired of playing and were now taking a break.

“Arai, how old is your Yoshisauce? Isn’t it time you should be mated?” Hetty asked, holding up her chopsticks and looking at him with a wide smile.

“Well ……”

“I’m sorry, but Yoshi-san was the one I first came into contact with at the vet hospital back in the day, and she’s three years old this year.” Takahashi Mito interjected in a gentle tone.

“Three years old! That’s not the same age as my Pras! I think the two of them are very compatible oh Arai, do you think we should let them breed to have a litter of baby Akitas?” Hetty asked Aoi for his opinion.

When Aoi Natsuki heard this, she didn’t think it mattered much, as long as both dogs weren’t repulsive, having a litter of purebred baby Akitas didn’t seem too bad, and then the little puppies could be handed over to Lina to raise, so that she would have some responsibility for her pets as well, and save her from making excuses to run away without a trace whenever she bumped into a cleanup of the dog house.

Well, it sure is nice to think about it.

“Might be a good idea.” Natsuki Aoi grinned.

“Right~ Well, we’ll have to let them bond more often then~” Hetty leaned down and stroked the dog under the table with her hand, and two seconds later, Yoshi-sauce underneath actually made out and came straight up from the side, pouncing on Hetty’s thighs, her tongue licking her face one after the other, and Hetty was happy to accept that.

“Stop it~ It tickles, Yoshi-san, mo~ Why is this face of yours so fleshy! I want to pinch you like this more often~”

Looking at the scene in front of her, Takahashi Mito was inwardly shaken beyond belief, the matter of eating had long been left behind her, what the what? Isn’t Yoshizou my dog? Why did they just pair up? Why do you make it seem like you two are like in-laws, and, Yoshizou! Please know your place! I’m your master!

Takahashi Mito had both of her eyes glazed over, just staring at Jijou dead in the face, usually if she gave her a look over, Jijou would come over on her ass, and naturally, the same was true today!

Only to see the Yoshi Sauce in Hetty’s arms raise its head, and just as it was about to get up after noticing the sight of its master, Hetty was already waving a small piece of crispy meat in its hand in front of its eyes.

“Arai, can I feed it this?”

“Oh, it’s okay to eat a little.”

“Great.” Hetty then proceeded to hold the long strip of tiny crispy meat out in front of Jijang’s mouth, and he instantly ate it in two bites, his head going blank as he continued to lie down next to Hetty’s leg and eat.

Jijiang ！！！！

Takahashi Mito roared inwardly at its incompetence.

Has a mere piece of crispy meat betrayed your master!

She was disheartened, and her right hand, which was holding up the chopsticks, dropped feebly below the tabletop.

This ups and downs of the inner activities, Aoi Natsuki naturally do not know, he only know that Hetty recommended this hot pot restaurant is really good, occasionally eat some numb and spicy especially appetizing, at the same time he is also very surprised, looks very delicate Nia actually also like to eat spicy, eat spicy when her fair skin only stained with a touch of red, the whole hot pot to eat, in addition to Takahashi Meidu, the rest of the people, including the dog, ate very happy.

After finishing his meal and coming out from the hot pot restaurant, Aoi Natsuki secretly thought in his mind that he would bring Rina for a meal next time.

“Thanks for the treat, I was supposed to be the one to get this meal.” Hetty stepped forward and bowed politely and slightly, while Nia, still holding the leash with a dumbfounded look on her face, moved half a second slower before bowing in thanks two seconds later.

“It’s nothing, after all, Sakurajima’s side caused you so much trouble, consider it my treat for Sakurajima.” Aoi Natsuki subconsciously said.

This statement not only caught Hetty’s attention, but also caused the disoriented Midu Takahashi to cast a glance.

“Oh~” Hetty said with a raised eyebrow, and then with both hands in fists, with only her thumbs extended and her knuckles curved at the same time, “You guys are really LOVELOVE then~”

Mito Takahashi’s face tightened.

Aoi Natsuki hurriedly explained, “You’re overthinking it, it’s just out of a friend’s perspective, just a friend.”

“Ho ho ho, right?” Hetty covered her mouth with her right hand in a fake smile, and just when Natsuki Aoi thought she was going to go deeper again, she suddenly got serious, “But a treat is still a treat no matter what, so I’ll tell you what, next time I make a date for you, how about we have something else to eat, and talk about mating two dogs on the side?”

“Well, that’s certainly no problem.” Aoi Natsuki nodded in agreement.

This is something that has been agonizing even Takahashi Mai for three months, and Hetty said it in just ten seconds? Just that simple?

Takahashi Midu’s entire body was like a lightning strike, standing in place, and further on what these two said, she didn’t listen to a single word, until she felt a voice calling her name, she then snapped out of her engrossed state, and looked around, Hetty and Nia had long since disappeared from her side.

“Are they, already …… gone?”

“Well, just left, what’s wrong with you? Seeing that you’ve been in a bad state since the hot pot restaurant, it can’t be, you really don’t like hot pot, right?” Aoi Natsuki asked curiously.

Somehow, Takahashi Midu inside holding a nameless fire rubbing upward, but she is also very clear that once the outbreak, may be with Aoi relationship between the deterioration of another, but she does not say words, the heart feels particularly aggrieved, the two strands of emotions at the moment intertwined in the heart, not after a few seconds, Aoi Natsuki shocked to see Takahashi Midu is already red in the eyes, this this, this how suddenly cried? I obviously didn’t do anything today ah?

This is the second time after he cried once on the day of Takahashi’s mistaken confession last time, the way Takahashi Midu cries would have a stubborn flavor in it, one side is aggrieved and the other side is furious, the combination of the two together really has a kind of magical magic in it, and he really kinda wants to comfort her.

But Takahashi Midu didn’t give him a chance at all, turning his head and heading off into the distance without a word.

Watching her wipe her eyes with her cuffs and faintly hearing the sound of sniffling and sniffling, Natsuki Arai stood still with her dog on a leash, looking a little odd.

After two seconds of silence, he decided to follow anyway.

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Idiot! Arai the idiot!

Takahashi Meidu tears can not stop flowing down, the heart suffocated feelings once it began to erupt, just like a flood beast, an outbreak of uncontrollable, tears are blinded her vision, had to walk slower, sideways want to take out the Kleenex from the bag to wipe a little bit, but do not want to open it to find that the Kleenex is still left behind in the hot pot restaurant, think about it to feel even more aggravated.

“Takahashi, are you okay?” Aoi Natsuki finally ran up, a pack of tissues still cupped in her hand, and pulled out two and handed them over.

Takahashi Mito’s movements became sluggish, thinking to gamble on not picking it up, but her body instinctively picked it up anyway, turning sideways and wiping the tears from her eyes.

“You, what are you doing over here?” Takahashi Mito said with a sobbing voice.

“Sorry, I’m the one who’s slow ……”

“Eh?” Takahashi Mito didn’t expect Aoi to say that out of the blue and looked at him with crying red eyes.

Natsuki Aoi pursed her lips and sighed through her nose, “You must be pretty incapable of eating spicy food, right?”

“……”

“……”

Once again, both sides were left speechless.

Hearing this, Takahashi Midu’s head that had just been raised fell back down at this moment, without saying a word, she crumpled the tissue in her right hand that was almost wet with tears into a ball, and then threw it at him, the tissue smashed into Aoi Natsuki’s chest, not feeling it at all, but the image looked slightly comical, he looked at the tissue that fell to the ground, thinking about what he should say, suddenly, Takahashi Midu took a step closer to him, and along with her head, there was also the rising middle finger of her right hand.

“Knock yourself out!”

With that, he turned and huffed and left again.

This time Aoi Natsuki didn’t chase after him, he was thoroughly shocked to no end by the knock-your-socks-off that he had just said.

Ha ……

Aoi Natsuki frowned slightly, doesn’t it seem like that’s the reason too ……

It’s true, a woman’s heart is like a needle in the bottom of the sea.

……

Takahashi Ayano nervously cupped the freshly purchased jp manga issue in her hand, and slowly opened it a little bit under the eyes of left and right Hayakawa and Aoi, until she flipped from back to front, and turned to the popularity poll ranking made up of a series of numbers, and the three of them all became very focused, looking down one by one, until they saw the sixteenth place, “The Fighting Card Trio Nymphets” a few words, and then a burst of ecstasy went through the three of them.

“Too good! Sixteenth place! Sixteenth place!” Like a madman, Ayano Takahashi jumped up from the carpet with the manga issue in her hand and circled around the low wooden table in front of her, even forgetting to put on her shoes.

Keiko Hayakawa was equally emotional, watching the effort pay off, which for her life was all but unbelievable.

“Kind of a good start, the first issue, and sure enough the response was great.” Aoi Natsuki had read the previous issue, and for the first issue of “Fighting Card Trio Nymphets”, which had just begun a long serialization, he felt that it was well above the passing line, and as expected, the readers seemed to enjoy it quite a bit.

“Uh-huh! Great!” Hayakawa clenched his fists, his excitement slow to settle.

This scene was also seen by Sakurajima Apricot who came out from the kitchen with a large bottle of paper milk, she was directly opening a slit on the top of the milk carton and pouring it directly into her mouth.

“Well? What’s the ranking?”

“Sixteen, it’s sixteenth place oh!” Ayano Takahashi had now stood on top of the backrest of the sofa and was slowly moving forward just like walking a balance beam.

“Hmm, so in total how many long serialized works would such a manga issue have?” From Sakurajima’s field of vision, the jp manga issue she was talking about was rather thick, probably only a little thinner than an English dictionary.

“Uh …… should that be, twenty-three?” Ayano Takahashi cocked her head.

“Is ranking sixteen out of twenty-three considered a good result?” Sakurajima turned to Aoi at the low table.

Aoi Natsuki nodded and answered, “As the first issue, being able to rank sixteen is considered very good, basically the top ten are all dominated by veteran manga artists, ten to fifteen are some of the newer boutique manga, as for the sixteen to twenty-one is the realm of the newbie authors, to be able to rank sixteen is already the best result that can be expected, and the twenty-second and twenty-third are the bottom works. Twenty-three is the bottom of the works, often a few issues after the bottom, after the editorial meeting, it is likely to brush down, long serial is very cruel, once the popularity of the decline, you may be from a well-known long serial cartoonist to the bottom again, so each cartoonist is for their own works wholeheartedly devoted to everything, which is why the jp society can always give birth to a number of explosive manga works, all by comparison.”

“Ooooh, sounds like a lot of work.”

“Not as if, but really hard.” Natsuki Aoi corrected.

Sakurajima looked at him with a serious look on his face, then bared her teeth and laughed out loud, pointing the index finger of her right hand with disposable nails glued to it at him, “Kawaii (so cute).”

“Yeah, I did pay quite a bit for this opportunity.” Ayano held the manga issue above her head and couldn’t help but feel a surge of pride as she looked at the pages and pages of manga in the book, drawn by her own hand.

There was a gleam in his eyes.

Aoi Natsuki looked at her like this, naturally can little appreciate the mood, when he first completed the design of the commercial draft, the mood at that time is also particularly proud, this is everyone will go through a process, which is the great value of the dream.