I Am an Emperor in a World of Mixed Anime

As for Liang, he had already wisely dropped his broom and run away in advance.

Higashino Akira waved leisurely at Ichiji Hoshika, who had a sour expression, and then turned to follow the girls.

Only the angry shop manager was left behind, his face puffed out, muttering under his breath, "What about my opinion?"

"I'm off work now, Xingge, goodbye..."

In order to avoid being kept behind to clean, the sound engineer quietly walked to the door and waved to the store manager with a smile.

"Hello…!"

In the end, only one lonely old lady was left in the shop.

.........

At the Ichiji family home, Nijika was preparing food in the kitchen.

Kita took two lunchboxes out of her bag and went over to help. Looking at the dishes that Nijika was preparing, she asked in confusion, "Eh... weren't we supposed to be having hot pot?"

"Hot pot?" Ichiji Nijika tilted her head. "Ryo only said there was a get-together today and asked me to cook extra rice..."

"Um... I also have hot pot here, I brought some fruit to cleanse my palate," Boqi said softly, raising her hand as she sat next to her boyfriend in the living room.

Upon hearing this, Kita nodded and opened the lunchbox in his hand. "I also brought some fried food suitable for hot pot. Ryo-senpai said that we should have a band team building activity to cultivate our chemistry through a meal. Everyone else is here, except for me."

"Me too, Ryo-senpai said that Higashino-kun has agreed to come and wants to see me."

Looking at Boqi taking out a bag of fruit from his bag, along with the high-end ingredients brought by Dongye-kun, and the rice from his own kitchen.

Isn't this just getting something for free?!?

Ichiji Nijika's eyes widened, her eyebrows furrowed in anger, and she immediately realized what Ryo was up to. This was practically a free meal scam!

This is outrageous! We must strike hard!

Ichiji Nijika looked around, but couldn't see that idiot Ryo. She couldn't vent her anger, so she got even angrier.

Just then, Yamada Ryo, who was walking alone, arrived late, carrying a cardboard box that was neither too big nor too small.

"Liang! What's going on with the hot pot?" An angry Ichiji Nijika walked out of the kitchen, stood in front of Liang, and pinched her cheek. "Explain yourself."

Upon hearing this, Yamada Ryo proudly puffed out his chest, "Hot pot is just like this: we each bring some ingredients, throw them into the pot, cook them, and then pick them up to eat!"

Oh, so this is called hot pot?

Higashino Akira was amused; it was as if he hadn't said anything at all.

"And what about your ingredients?"

Hongxia still had no intention of letting Liang off the hook. If Liang just wanted to freeload once, as a good friend, she wouldn't mind treating Liang to a meal.

However, freeloading is unacceptable; such deception will damage the relationship between band members!

However, this time Yamada Ryo was really calm and simply handed over the delivery box in his hand, saying, "It's in here."

Half-believing and half-doubting, Hongxia let go of the box, took it, and walked to the side to open it. To her surprise, there were indeed things inside, including several kinds of fresh vegetables!

For a moment, the girl was somewhat incredulous, her gaze shifting back and forth between Liang and the vegetables.

It's still the end of the month!

Has the imperial court distributed disaster relief grain?

Liang is so generous, she actually brought out the ingredients?

Kita and Pochi also came over, looking at Ryo-senpai with surprised expressions, who always lived a frugal life.

Across from her, Liang stood with her hands on her hips, her face tilted back triumphantly, "My teammates doubted me, I'm so sad, *crying*..."

Nijika & Kita & Pochi: You don't look sad at all!

However, since it was a misunderstanding, Hongxia sincerely apologized to Liang.

Despite this, Liang, who could tell the difference between a full meal and a regular meal, did not take advantage of Hongxia's mother, who often helped her out, and generously chose to forgive her.

Akira Higashino walked over and looked at the familiar logo printed on the surface of the delivery box, and suddenly realized.

"This must be the reward from farming in the game 'Okumizome Story', right?"

"The game has only been online for a few days, and you've already spent money on in-game purchases?"

That's not worth it. It's so expensive to buy fertilizer to speed up planting. That money is enough to buy more than ten times the total amount of vegetables in this package.

"Hmph... it's all thanks to promotional rewards." Liang grinned and gave him a thumbs up. "That's the kind of connections band members have!"

"That's quite a network!" Higashino Akira couldn't help but applaud her.

Beside them, Kita and Pochi, who had been promoted to play that game by Ryo, were also full of amazement.

Only the bassist, who had been harassed, realized that his own bassist's social circle wasn't much better than Pochi's. "Practice your bass more and play fewer games! Besides... where do you get all these connections?!"

"Kukuku... Secrets make women more attractive!"

Yamada Ryo covered his mouth and chuckled, uttering words that made the two little ones admire him.

Kita: "Ryo-senpai is so cool!"

Pochi: Clap clap...

Chapter 133 A Scoundrel Who Plays with a Young Girl's Feelings

"Where is he handsome?"

Ichiji Nijika was somewhat speechless, but she still carried Ryota into the kitchen to wash the delivery box containing several kinds of fresh vegetables.

All I can say is that she's a master at creating a youthful, girlish look for moms.

Unfortunately, Hongxia's mother's figure was a bit disappointing, not quite satisfactory.

In the living room, Higashino Akira opened his mouth and ate the orange that Bochi had peeled, broken open, and handed to him, thinking with a sense of regret.

"But speaking of which, although this game has only been online for a day or two, the promotion is huge and it's very popular. Many people around me are playing it too."

Kita exclaimed with some surprise, "And, I didn't expect that the advertised game of farming and exchanging vegetables for real vegetables was actually true!"

"But won't we lose money this way?"

"After all, even games can be played for free."

As a girl who enjoys a fulfilling life, Kita naturally plays games like "Okumizome Monogatari," which are so popular. Even without Ryo's recommendation, other friends would recommend them to her. However, although she likes this type of game, she is not particularly enthusiastic about it.

As a result, she found it difficult to understand what the game company's purpose was in making such a game.

Akira Higashino didn't offer much explanation, only saying, "Game developers aren't stupid or rich; they'll definitely find ways to make money from other sources if they offer it for free."

In fact, Omizome has already made money. After all, it copied quite a few elements, such as Penguin Farm and Stardew Valley. They also plan to add some gacha elements later. Just by using the Penguin Farm model, which emphasizes social relationships in the single-player game Stardew Valley, and relying on players to spontaneously spread the game and then purchase paid items such as special seeds and breeds of guard dogs, it won't be long before the production and promotion costs are recovered.

While the system's divine power played a role, the key to success was also the integration of the strengths and weaknesses of several mature business models from previous games.

After a long day of working in a big city, who doesn't yearn for a bit of the relaxed and beautiful rural life?

Whether rural life is beautiful or not is not important; what matters is that the relaxed and pleasant atmosphere in the game provides players with enough emotional value.

Younger student groups are more easily influenced by the promotion. For a few small gifts, skins, or special items, they wander around the accounts of their various game friends every day, and actively help "harvest" the vegetables as soon as they are ripe, forcibly collecting a portion of the reward. For players who like it, they would love to have more friends register to make it even more enjoyable.

This is just within the game; outside the game, the market driven by this hook in areas such as agricultural product sales, logistics and transportation, express delivery, and local cultural tourism is even larger.

Even the only two artists in Yunmeng Entertainment gained a huge amount of popularity as a result.

The only bad thing is Sakurajima Mai's situation. Her puberty syndrome has mostly disappeared, so her mother finally remembered that she still has such a good daughter. Looking at the termination contract that has already been made a fait accompli, she was completely dumbfounded. Especially after seeing her daughter's public tweets, she couldn't help but denounc Yunmeng Entertainment on social media for being unethical and trying to deceive and ambush her, a woman in her forties.

Another segment of orange was offered to Higashino Akira. Boqi-chan smiled and seemed to enjoy this feeding game, feeling like she was in a relationship with her boyfriend.

Just as Higashino Akira opened his mouth, a large coin suddenly shot out from in front of him, its jaws snapping open like a gluttonous beast as it snatched the food from his mouth.

Higashino Akira looked at the girl with the blue hair and the rather abstract and beautiful way she ate, his lips twitched, and he rolled his eyes at her in annoyance, "If you want to eat it, then peel it yourself!"

Not only him, but Boqi, who had swallowed the orange and the crumbs of her fingers, also widened her eyes wide. The strange feeling of close contact between girls made her fair and lovely face flush red, and she froze on the spot.

Faced with Higashino Akira's sarcastic remarks, Yamada Ryo gave him a long, vacant look with his dead fish eyes, then raised his hand and took out a half-eaten orange.

How do you know I didn't peel them myself?

"Then why are you still trying to take it from me?" Higashino Akira looked at her speechlessly.

Sometimes I really feel like she's a bit too funny. No wonder she's the bassist, she's got a lot of energy.

He had barely finished speaking when Yamada Ryo broke off a segment of orange and held it to his lips, saying, "Here..."

Higashino Akira opened his mouth and took a bite.

The girl tilted her head. "How does it taste?"

"Same, a little sour," Higashino Akira answered honestly.

As soon as she finished speaking, the girl's usually aloof and taciturn face instantly scrunched up. "It's clearly very sour. I saw you eating so quietly and thought the one in Boqi's hand would be sweeter, but it's even more sour."

"Higashino, you're strange!"

Hearing this, Goto Ichiri, who had been playing the feeding game nearby, was completely taken aback. So that's how it is.

So, she just stuffed so many oranges into her boyfriend's mouth, doesn't that mean... Oh no, she might be disliked now, maybe even dumped, and that Higashino-kun will think she's a malicious woman who deliberately fed him oranges because they didn't taste good.

In an instant, Goto Ichiri melted into liquid and flowed under the table. Higashino Akira quickly grabbed her, pulled her back, and explained to Yamada Ryo with righteous indignation.

"You won't understand the coolness of someone who doesn't have a lover. Snacks fed to you by a beautiful girl have a filter on your senses."

A beautiful girl...me?

Goto Ichiri instantly returned to normal, squinting his eyes and chuckling to himself with smug satisfaction.

Across from him, Ryo gave him a look that suggested he was an idiot, then silently broke off a segment of orange and handed it to Kita, "Kita, ah..."

"Huh? Oh!!!" Seeing her usually admired, cool and handsome senior come over to feed her, Kita blushed instantly, shyly closed her eyes, and opened her mouth, "Ah..."

A segment of orange was popped into the red-haired girl's mouth. She closed her mouth and gently bit it open, juice flowing out, and then…

His face instantly turned from red to white, then from white to green, and he shrank into a ball.

"Ugh...it's so sour!"

Seeing this, Yamada Ryo gave a disdainful smile to the man who was full of lies.

Just kidding. Although she may seem abstract, she's actually not silly at all, and in many ways she's incredibly smart!

Trying to lie to her?

Oh…