1986, Create a Miss Tokyo Ichiban

Chapter 111 The gap is too big~ah!
Okura Ayako is a person with a very clear purpose. When she goes out to the streets, it is not just for fun.

She asked to stay here for one day just for the milk tea in Shimono.

As a future female painter, Okura Ayako's obsessive-compulsive disorder is very serious.

Although there are many milk tea shops on the streets of Shimono, she would rather wait in a long queue to drink a cup of authentic milk tea made by a young lady.

After waiting for more than 40 minutes and being apologized three times by Zhang Yu's clerk, Okura Ayako finally got her beloved milk tea.

It is the standard ending for a teenage girl who drinks milk tea for the first time to burst into tears.

Although Ayako Okura was still young and had no memories of her first love, she still happily recalled the scene of her outing with her parents.

This girl with a strong literary and artistic flair cried a lot.

Not surprised, Haruko Mat immediately led Okura Ayako to sit down in the store and handed her a tissue.

It's too shameful to let a little guest cry at the door.

Unexpectedly, Okura Ayako stopped crying immediately after entering the store, and even the lady's milk tea in her hand no longer tasted good.

All she could see was the paintings hanging in the store.

One painting is a snowy street, another is a forest after rain, and another is a realistic street scene of a milk tea shop.

When she saw these paintings, Okura Ayako stood up instantly.

She stared blankly at the lines, layout, meaning and color combinations in the painting.

The emotion of surprise filled Okura Ayako's heart.

I didn’t expect to see paintings of this level in a milk tea shop in Shimono!
Okura Ayako came from a well-known family, and she had appreciated many world-famous paintings with her teacher, so her appreciation ability was naturally very high.

People with high ability to appreciate paintings can often quickly identify the meaning that the painter wants to express when they see a good painting.

Okura Ayako has naturally appreciated the charm of these paintings and is even more addicted to them.

Okura Ayako's teacher is a famous domestic painter, but she is still a hair away from being a world-class painter.

But Okura Ayako was surprised to find that the artist's skills in this painting had reached the threshold of world class.

"What a new painting. Which master passed by this place?"

After being obsessed for a long time, she didn't even notice that the milk tea in her hand had become cold. Okura Ayako looked at the signature of one of the paintings with excitement and reverence.

So this is a world-class master. Who is Kotone-chan?

Zhang Yu Nobumasa's Japanese writing is mediocre, but the proud father still fully expresses his pride in his daughter through this line of writing.

"Ten-year-old Kotone-chan's practice work - Father doesn't let you go out on a snowy day";
"11-year-old Kotone-chan's practice work - It's raining today and my father forgot to pick me up";
"11-year-old Kotone-chan's practice work - Father is upstairs".

Like all customers who saw these paintings for the first time, Okura Ayako subconsciously thought of a line in her mind: What a shameless father!

Okura Ayako also noticed the time when the painting was created, and she immediately knew that it was the work of a girl of her own age.

This is impossible!

An 11-year-old world-class painter, who is kidding me?

"Hey, does the little girl like these paintings too?"

Freelance writer Akao Joichiro is a regular customer of the store, so he often occupies the window table in the store to write on the spot.

At this moment, he was idly recalling his first love - drinking milk tea.

Every time he drinks milk tea and experiences such emotions, he feels that the words he writes have more life and emotion.

Today he noticed Ayako Okura, who was staring at the painting with an expression of shock and disbelief.

"Ah, sorry!"

Okura Ayako thought her expression had affected other guests, so she apologized hastily. "No need to apologize, but it seems that the little girl also sees the extraordinaryness of these paintings of Kotone-chan?"

Okura Ayako's mouth suddenly went dry when she heard Akao Joichiro's words.

"Excuse me, is this really done by a little girl my age?"

"I mean alone!"

Akao Joichiro curled his lips: "Of course, two of the paintings were painted in the shop in front of the customers, and I was there."

"What a pity. Nobumasa, a maniac about women and a murderous cartoonist, actually destroyed these paintings!"

Okura Ayako still couldn't believe Akao Joichiro's words.

How could this painting be drawn by a girl of the same age as myself?
Just then, a policeman in police uniform rushed in, covering his ears.

This is Kuwano Kazuki, the son of store manager Haruko. He has been a trainee inspector for three months. He put his hand in front of the air conditioner to dry it for a while, and then looked strangely at Ayako Okura, who looked not very good-looking.

"Mr. Akao, what's wrong with this girl? Is she lost?"

Akao glared at Kuwano angrily.

"Mr. Trainee Inspector, don't always think that you can just pick up the credit, okay? This is one of your mother's little guests, but he was shocked by Kotone-chan's paintings."

Kuwano Kazuki was a little frustrated when he heard that he was not a lost child.Aspiring to be the inspection chief, he just wants to pass his probationary period quickly.

"Police officer!"

Okura Ayako suddenly bowed to Kuwano Kazuki cautiously.

"Oh, are there any difficulties?"

"Are these three paintings really the work of that Qin Yin?"

Kuwano Kazuki rubbed his head: "Of course, I drew this store painting while watching Kotone-chan. It's a pretty good painting, right?"

"Hey, don't be sad, little girl. It's better for ordinary people like us not to compare ourselves with little monsters like Qinyin!"

Some guests also loudly echoed Kuwano Kazuki's words.

"That's a little guy who can get perfect scores in the county's joint entrance examination even while sleeping in class! I told my grandson that if he could be even a quarter as powerful as Kotone-chan, I would become a monk and worship Buddha!"

"Speaking of which, Qin Yin is even better at painting than Mr. Zhang Yu. How long did it take her to paint this rainy painting?"

"It can last more than an hour. I remember that when the rain stopped and the sun came out, Kotone-chan just stopped painting."

The customers' comments made Okura Ayako feel bad.

What does "us ordinary people" mean?
She has always been the one that others say is the exception, okay?
Okura Ayako's whole body was floating because she suspected that she was dreaming.

Starting from that delicious cup of milk tea, everything is unreal.

Until the store manager Qingzi came downstairs, there was still a painting in his hand that had not yet dried.

"Ichiki-kun, hurry up and help me buy a picture frame. I just went up to clean Kotone-chan's bedroom and found that she painted another one last night."

Manager Haruko smiled from ear to ear.

Because the picture showed her and Mazi mixing milk tea.

Okura Ayako finally sat down on the ground.

She suddenly discovered to her horror that she seemed to have lost the courage to pick up the paintbrush again.

The gap is too big~ah!
　When I wake up during the day, there are still two to three shifts.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)