Tokyo Wingman King

"Ah Shui, Ah Shui~~~Are you asleep~~~?"

"If you are asleep, who will answer your call now?"

She had been studying for the whole day and just came back from the live show in Roppongi at 10 o'clock, but the energy on the other end of the phone was very similar to those of fresh graduates who [got up after a good night's sleep for the first time in several years and found that it was already holiday and they didn't have to go to school, and most importantly, they still had a lot of money in their pockets].

The only thing that could limit how long they can be high in a day might be [there are only 24 hours in a day].

My parents' worries were in vain.

"Oh~~~ Maybe it's my guardian spirit Shui? Moshimoshi~ Moshimoshi~ Guardian spirit Shui~ How about taking a picture of Shui farting while sleeping?"

"There are no colored farts, unless they are poop like a whale or glandular fluid like a skunk."

"When the temperature is very low, farts are visible. In addition, a strong fart can blow a thin blanket away! For example, although we can't see the wind, we can know the shape of the wind by looking at the flags! How to say it in an idiom? A halo around the moon means wind, and a bulging blanket means farts~ Ah Shui, do you understand?"

Pochi used the tone of an adult who was educating a slow-witted child and talked about all sorts of things to Asana.

It seems that she never feels inferior because she has read few books, and every new thing she learns every day makes her feel proud.

After all, who would blow a thin blanket away?

Asana put on his headphones, put down his phone, spun his pen around twice, and began to mark Pochi's first test paper.

"So, you're calling me now to tell me this bullshit?"

"Hehe~ Uncle Pochi~ As long as I talk to Shui on the phone, I am very happy even if we are just chatting nonsense~ We can talk from 4 am to 12 pm~"

It didn't sound like a joke, because there was unquestionable seriousness and a hint of loneliness in Pochi's smile.

This is also the reason why Asana has been chatting nonsense with her all the time, but if you talk too much nonsense, you will become stupid.

"That's impossible. You have to set aside six hours to do your homework."

"Hmm~ Isn't that still 12 hours? If you do this every day, I won't think you're bothering me~"

"You're overthinking it. I have to set aside 18 hours a day for classes, reading, and homework. You should also plan your extra 12 hours well. Don't think you can just sit back and relax after taking two weeks off from your parents."

"Ashui, if you keep studying like this, your brain will definitely be damaged, right? I heard from Xiao Lishi and the others that you seem to be under a lot of pressure recently. Could it be that you still have unfinished homework?"

"I'm working on it. Also, I haven't graded your three papers yet. I'm quite busy today. Please wait a moment. I'll grade them for you in 20 minutes."

"Then do your homework first. I can find time to correct my test paper tomorrow. Yeah, I'm in Tokyo now. You don't have to explain it to me on weekdays. It's okay to explain the big questions to me on the weekend."

"Okay, then go to bed early."

"Don't hang up! I haven't finished talking yet! Ah Shui, is your new school far from our apartment?"

"Not really, why are you asking?"

"How far is that?"

"Outsiders can't get in, and people inside can't get out. It's about this far."

"Oh, I was also going to say, if you're under too much pressure, I'll come over and keep you company—

After all, I am your sister now [Asama Pochi]~
By the way, the new school is so strict that even family members are not allowed to visit? "

After hearing the first half of the sentence, I wanted to say, "You'll only add to my stress," but after hearing the second half, Asana kept his mouth shut.

"Unfortunately, even pets like ants are not allowed to be brought in. It's a very old-fashioned closed-door teaching."

"Ah Shui, you didn't join some pyramid scheme, did you?"

"If I really joined a pyramid scheme, how did I get out a few days ago?"

"Maybe Ah Shui, you have already made it to the management level?"

"Don't talk nonsense to me. I can't go out here, and others can't come in. Besides, I've already used up my only chance to go out this semester today."

"Eh? Why?"

"I gave a consultation to Yinghe's classmates."

"Girls?"

“Why is the focus here?”

"It's a girl indeed!"

Pochi yelled.

"Yanaimi Ayano, it's not like you don't know her. You saw her a few days ago, the girl in the leather jacket who I met at GINZA SIX."

"That's like a date, isn't it? Ah Shui, you're secretly in contact with your fans, what are you planning? Be careful or I'll tell Xiao Li Ze and Xiao Yue Hai!"

But this threat has no effect on Asama, because sincerity is the ultimate weapon.

"They know about today's consultation. If you want to file an overdue report, go ahead."

"Damn it, isn't that me, the only one who's been kept in the dark?"

"If you were willing to look at the work log of the Love Consultation Department group, you wouldn't be barking here."

"Didn't you say I was the department's pet? It's weird for a department's pet to read the work log, right? Isn't studying the most important thing right now?"

How did you go back to the Pochi of a few months ago? You don't want to be a human anymore. Isn't it the most normal reality to be kept in the dark?

At this moment, Asana had already graded half of the test paper. Just like before, Pochi got all the multiple-choice questions and fill-in-the-blank questions right, so he didn't know what to say.

It seems that human growth is always one-sided, and doing exercises will not make a person mature.

Speaking of which, how much have I grown?
It's just that between the unbearable and the impossible to change, I'm spinning in place like a top.

During the summer vacation at Omuroyama, I vowed to myself that I could handle the relationship with them well, and now I am just putting the problem aside.

To be honest, my growth is not as good as Pochi's.

We can only think on the bright side, maybe the base is large, so the growth rate is relatively slow? For example, the GDP of some countries?

Qianjian waved away his distracting thoughts, tapped the test paper with his pen, and said to the phone lying next to the test paper,

"It's really late. I'm still doing my homework. If there's nothing else urgent, just hang up now."

"Ah Shui, haven't you been writing since just now? You can listen to three or four videos and take notes at once. Is it not challenging for you to write and chat at the same time?"

It was clearly written very lightly, but this dog's ears are too sensitive, aren't they?
"It's a good idea to combine work and rest. Isn't it nice to have a beautiful girl to chat with you while you're doing your homework late at night?"

Big sister and girl are antonyms to Asama.

"When you finish your homework, I can continue to tell you stories to put you to sleep~" Asana took a deep breath,

".Go to bed early. You'll have to wake me up early tomorrow."

Pochi heard the ceremony that was unique to her and him, and he also laughed.

"Okay, tomorrow, no, today I'll wake you up at 4:~ Ah Shui, don't stay up too late. You can't work day and night. You have to know that all this oil comes from your own body."

"I heard the sound of you clicking the screen just now. Can you please not force yourself to look up some idioms to talk to me?"

"Eh? Ah Shui, do you have dog ears!?"

"Bye."

"Oh, yeah, there's one more thing I want to tell you!"

"You said."

"I suspect our house is haunted! I found a pile of DVDs at the door today. They were all cartoons that only geeks watch. I threw them into the trash can on the first floor, but when I came back in the evening, the pile of DVDs appeared at the door again. Could it be that a geek died in this house before?"

It was most likely done by the twin guards.

"Why don't we just ask the property management to check the surveillance video?"

"That won't do. If it's really a supernatural event, I've seen the video footage and it will target you! Let's wait until Ah Shui comes back on Friday."

"it is good."

Pochi went on and on about all sorts of things - it was time to replace the towels and toothbrushes in the bathroom, which items in the refrigerator were expired and could be thrown away, whether she could keep the various extra aromatherapy products, because of the DVD incident she invited Futami and Mashima to live with her, and so on.

Only after Asama finished grading three papers and one Mathematical Olympiad test paper did Bochi hang up the phone.

Asana picked up his phone again and opened LINE.

In the middle of chatting with Pochi, Fujiwara Ai made two phone calls, but Asama didn't answer either.

She posted a lot of stuff on LINE, complaining about things like the scissors in the flower arrangement class were not easy to use, why didn't they provide an electric saw? She got to try a lot of tea in the tea ceremony class but was not allowed to go to the toilet. All the bridal training in Japan was a commercial scam. It was disgusting to do acupoint massage on a mannequin. The girls in the training class who knew her identity were as annoying as flies. She was suffering all this because of you, and so on.

In fact, he received a message from the former minister in the afternoon.

"Super cute-chan: Asama Asama! I discovered a secret in the tea ceremony class. Water has no color, right? It's normal for ordinary people to pee yellow when they drink colorless water, right? What does this mean? This means that humans are a giant tea bag that can be used for 100 years!"

So who is using these tea bags? The earth gods?
But the minister's kindness was not over after all, and Asana maintained a minimum of politeness and responded to her sentiments.

He edited the message "No matter what, anyone who endures hardship without suffering is a fool", but did not send it.

I guess it's another call now, and he's harassing me about not answering his previous call and not reading it.

Let’s talk about it after finishing the lesson plan.

Asana took out a book from his bag, James Scott's Weapons of the Weak, and made a lesson plan for the fifth lesson based on the content inside.

[Lying down, slacking off, procrastinating, not doing one's job, there are various hidden forms of resistance to "hegemony" in this world.

When this unnoticed form of resistance grows in size and even autonomously unites all the resisters, it will generate the power to destroy the large superstructure.

The desertion of white people in the southern mountainous areas of the United States had a major impact on the outcome of the American Civil War. The foreign soldiers who had no desire to fight during the Battle of Feishui led by Fu Jian also dealt a fatal blow to this wise ruler.

Many examples show that in the confrontation between hegemonies, sporadic and low-intensity non-cooperation within one side can be as dangerous as a violent internal revolution.

Of course, fierce resistance can make a person the new master of power, while low-intensity resistance can at most just change one's master.

Because low-intensity resistance is only a weapon for the weak.]
Asama finished sorting out the extended content, which is also the source of the book's title - the gains and losses of Gandhi's non-violent non-cooperation movement before 1:20 a.m., and planned to read "After Virtue" before going to bed.

The book by MacIntyre given by Counselor Scott was also translated as "After Virtue".

Virtue Arete is something that Aristotle and his school have always emphasized. Last week, Asama emphasized this concept in his class. I don't know if this gift is a coincidence, or if Counselor Scott made the choice within 2-3 hours based on the information given by his daughter.

Just by reading the preface, Asama knew the value of this book - a contemporary moral philosophy work that declared war on Western-defined modernity. The discussion of how the capitalist system distorts the true purpose of human practice alone even made Asama see the shadow of Marx.

Asama consciously shortened his planned sleep time to 2 hours.

After being woken up by Pochi at 4:6, Asama and Komaba briefly compared information, and then ran in the hotel gym until :.

According to Asama's own estimation, if he runs at a speed of 7 with a restrained effort (running at full speed will trigger skills such as [Phase Rush] and [Displacement Magic]), he can finish the battle in about an hour.

If the marathon track was a circular track, this speed would allow Asama to completely lap the current world marathon record holder.

I just don't know how many minutes it would take to run a lap of the Nürburgring at full speed, pushing the agility limit to its limits. It should be faster than the Porsche 919 and 911 GT3 RS.

Maybe I forgot to adjust my charm, or maybe running for two hours at a pace of less than 3 and a half minutes was a bit scary.

Asama was surrounded by men and women in the gym throughout the whole process, and an almost tragic pace competition was triggered in the running area.

The two foreign strong men who were in the deadlift area sandwiched Asama in the middle like left and right guards, and ran for more than half an hour at a 3-minute pace, then resigned themselves to their fate and slowed down. The others were even beaten by Asama in marathon racing mode early on, so when Asama stopped, everyone in the running area breathed a sigh of relief.

Some people even waited for Asana to finish his exercise, asked for his contact information, and invited him to be their running coach.

It seems that in the next two days, I can only run farther and exercise somewhere where I can't see anyone.

Although the hotel did emphasize its huge and free gym facilities in its publicity, Asama really didn't expect that there would be more than 20 people working out in the hotel gym during this time period.

Not everyone gets up early to exercise.

There are several financial practitioners who come to Tokyo on business trips. They just stay up until the U.S. stock market closes, go off work, and then go back to the hotel to exercise before going to bed.

In Singapore, South Korea, and Hong Kong, financial men and women who work on US time and sweat profusely in the gym at 4-5 a.m. have become a hidden identity label in the East Asian financial circle, giving many people the false impression that financial elites like to exercise in the early morning, which leads to the stupid theory that "others earn millions a year because they are self-disciplined and motivated."

In Asama's eyes, half of the people working in the financial industry are salesmen, and the other half are no different from the servants and maids of the Nijo family.

In the financial industry, even if there is a grand ambition to "make business easier for the world", due to greed and corruption, it will gradually change from water that nourishes weak individuals to a sea that drowns them.

The only things that can truly stand above sea level are the towering mountains, which enjoy everything above sea level.

Marx once used the word "Moloch", a god in the Carthaginian religion that required large numbers of human sacrifices and symbolized cruelty and all-devouring violence, to describe the core component of the financial industry - "interest-bearing capital".

Now that I have a net worth of at least $2 million, I have become an out-and-out rentier.

F Sang's ideal is still too far away from reality.

To eliminate all the interest-bearing capitalists, industrial capitalists, business owners, employees, prostitutes, vagrants and drug addicts in the world from the root is as difficult as exterminating mosquitoes and rats on the earth.

On the early morning subway to KKIS, while listening to the audio commentary of "After Virtue", Asama Shizumizu slapped to death with one hand the small mosquito that kept biting her left arm but could not break the skin, and sighed.

He plans to swim around KKIS today. (End of this chapter)