Women only affect the speed of my reasoning!

The girl didn't speak, but nodded slightly.

So the following magical scene happened in the supermarket——

A young man who looked like a high school student carried a shopping basket and shuttled between the shelves. He picked through the various vegetables and refrigerated meats on the shelves and threw whatever he liked into the shopping basket.

Behind him, there was a girl of about the same age, dragging a huge suitcase behind her, following the boy like a little tail. She would follow him wherever he went.

"this is?"

Qin Ushu had just taken down a pack of hot pot base ingredients from the shelf. Mashiro Shiina, who had been following him, suddenly turned his head sideways and stared at the thing in his hand, his eyes as pure as gems. There was a hint of curiosity in it.

"this one?"

Qin Sanshu raised the hot pot base in his hand.

"This is the hot pot base, an important ingredient for making hot pot. The tradition of Sakurasou is that every time a new person joins, they will eat hot pot. When I first arrived at Sakurasou, Misaki and Jin also welcomed me with hot pot."

"Misaki? Hitoshi?" Mashiro Shiina tilted her head again.

"They are also residents of Sakura Manor. You will see them later." Qin Sanshu said.

"Oh."

"Eh... No, by the way, you don't even know about hot pot?"

"do not know."

"Yeah, that's right, Britain doesn't eat hot pot."

Suddenly realizing that he had asked a very stupid question, Qin Ushu couldn't help but hold his forehead slightly.

"Then please wait for me for a moment. I have to call Misaki and Jin and tell them that they are going to have hot pot tonight and there is no need to buy anything else."

After saying that, he took out his mobile phone from his pocket and made a call.

"Hey Misaki, it's me. Let's have hot pot tonight... Yes, there's a new person. I'm going to take her to Sakurasou to buy things in the supermarket... Yes, I'll ask you to inform him about Ren... Okay, Bye."

Communicate briefly and effectively, with a few sentences lasting no more than 2 minutes.

chap!

When Qin Xianshu hung up the phone and put the phone into his pocket, the sound of unpacking the packaging bag coming from behind him attracted his attention.

He turned around in surprise and saw a girl as beautiful and elegant as a ragdoll cat holding a Baumkuchen in her hand. She tore off a corner of the package, peeled off the rings of the cake, and bit one end tightly like a big bubble gum. In the mouth.

There was even a bit of cake crumbs stuck to the corner of his mouth.

Qin Xianshu was silent.

"...Li Zai Gan God Demon?"

"Eat Baumkuchen."

It was still an answer with no fluctuation in tone, an extremely pure statement.

"Are all supermarkets in the UK where you can pick up items at will?" Qin Sanshu looked at her sideways.

"Well……"

As if she was troubled by this question, the girl who always answered questions quickly showed a thoughtful expression for the first time.

After a while, she nodded hesitantly, and then shook her head. It seemed that for her, this question had completely touched her knowledge blind spot.

Don’t you have any common sense in life...

Qin Xianshu came to a conclusion in his heart.

"Listen, I don't know what the situation is in the UK right now, but at least there is still China in Japan. You need to pay for food in the supermarket before you can eat it. Do you understand?"

"Pay... money?"

"Correct."

Qin Sanshu pointed to the Baumkuchen in the girl's hand.

"This time I invited you, just treat it as a meeting gift, but it won't be the same next time."

"……Um."

There is nothing to say. The purpose of opening a supermarket has always been to open the door for business, not to cause disputes with customers.

After Qin Shanshu paid the same amount in cash as the selling price of the Baumkuchen, the cashier at the counter said very generously that it didn't matter and didn't take it to heart. She even packed away the empty packaging bags for Mashiro Shiina.

So the two of them successfully left the supermarket with their large and small bags and set foot on the road to Sakurasou again.

"By the way, Shiina, what did you do in England before?"

Qin Xianshu pretended to mention it casually, turning his side face to the girl following him.

"draw."

"anything else?"

"And painting."

"Dick..."

Chapter 13 What is a professional player!

At dinner time, four people sat in a circle around the round dining table in the living room of Sakurasou.

"Then, three two one..."

"Welcome Mashiro to our Sakurasou!"

Snapped!

The loud firing sound of the fireworks tube sounded in the living room, and a large number of small pieces of colored paper mixed with ribbons fell from the sky, falling in a flourishing manner.

The person in charge of placing the fireworks was Misaki Kamiigusa. Qin Umashu didn't buy this thing at all, but after the former got the news that Sakura Manor was going to hold a new year party tonight, she decided to put them on after school without saying a word, but she was still kept in the dark. Therefore, Mitaka Jin made a special trip to the fireworks shop two kilometers away from Sakurasou.

"Ah... Misaki, you put it too close, and it got into Shiina's bowl."

Mitaka Jin had the foresight to cover the hot pot in the center of the dining table the moment Misaki took out the fireworks.

But even so, several pieces of colored paper accurately landed on Shiina Mashiro's body and the small bowl in front of her on the way down.

"It's okay, it's okay~"

Misaki Kamikusa casually picked up the pieces of confetti from Shiina Mashiro's bowl and stuffed them into the finished fireworks tube, and then threw the fireworks tube and the confetti into the trash can in the corner with a precise throw.

"You won't get sick if you don't eat it!" She smiled full of energy towards Mashiro Shiina.

"Misaki..." Mitaka Jin was helpless.

"I didn't say it, it was Ah Umbrella who said it."

She confessed to Qin Sanshu without hesitation.

"I'm not, I'm not..."

Qin Xianshu flatly denied it and abruptly changed the subject.

"Okay, the welcome has been given and the fireworks have been given away. Let's start eating. I'm hungry."

"no problem!"

It seems that Misaki Ueizusa can always maintain her invincible vitality. She suddenly opened the lid of the hot pot and announced loudly.

"Then let's start!"

After the words fell, everyone moved their chopsticks together.

Qin Xianshu seized the opportunity and unceremoniously picked up a chopstick and rolled the mutton into his bowl. At the same time, he skillfully took out his mobile phone from his pocket with his other hand.

"By the way, what did Long say? Do you want to go out to eat hot pot together?"

Dragon, whose real name is Akasaka Ryunosuke, is also a resident of Sakurasou. He lives in Room 103 on the first floor. Because his name is too long, he was simply called "Dragon" by Misaki Kamikusa, and it is pronounced "Doragon" in spoken language.

At the same time, he is also the ultimate stay-at-home programmer. He is the kind of person who never sees the end of a dragon. He usually stays in his room coding all day long, and only occasionally comes out for activities in the dead of night.

According to Qianshi Qianxun, even she, the dormitory manager, has only met him three times so far.

As soon as Qin Xianshu finished speaking, the phone in his hand automatically lit up, and a Q-version little maid with short pomegranate hair popped up from the bottom of the screen without warning, dragging a hair long enough for her behind her. height length USB cable.

At first glance, it looks a bit like an electronic pet, but it is far more humane than those inanimate programs.

"This is Mei Dou-chan. Ryuunosuke-sama is currently at an important juncture in overcoming technical difficulties, so he said that he only needs to take one of each dish and pair it with a bowl of rice, then seal it with plastic wrap and put it at the door of the room~ "The Q version of the maid said cutely.

It's not the kind of emotionless electronic synthesized voice, but it's really as if a real person is dubbing it behind the scenes, and the speech speed is smooth and the tone rises and falls extremely naturally.

The main source of music is Horie Yui's.

"What is this?" Shiina Mashiro tilted her head.

"Mei Dou-chan."

Qin Xianshu put the phone flat on the table so that she could see it more clearly, took a bite of the mutton roll and explained.

"It is an artificial intelligence black technology developed by Doragon, another roommate of ours who does not want to reveal his appearance. He is usually responsible for replying messages and emails for him. As long as the residents of Sakura Manor have connected to WIFI once, This program will be automatically installed."

"Oh..." Shiina Mashiro nodded slightly.

"Then I'll go get the dragon's share first!"

As Misaki Uekusa said, she stood up from her seat, walked around the chair and walked towards the kitchen.

"It's a pity that Sengoku-sensei isn't here, otherwise it would be even more lively." Looking at the back of his childhood sweetheart, Mitaka Jin couldn't help but sigh.

But Qin Ushu gave him a sideways glance.

"Then she gets drunk and drags a group of minors along to accompany her. I think it's a no-brainer."

"……Too."

……

After having enough tea and food, everyone was still sitting around the dining table.

It would be a bit anticlimactic if the grand welcome party was just for a hot pot meal and then immediately dismissed to each room.

Misaki Kamikusa suggested that we do some after-dinner activities.

Well, I mean the serious kind of activities.

"By the way, Umbrella Shu, why don't we play magic!" she suggested loudly.

"Um...magic, yes."

Qin Xianshu thought for a moment and nodded.

"What kind do you want to see?"

"Cool!" Misaki Kamikusa said without hesitation.

"Do you want to see something with a stronger visual impact?"

Qin Xianshu looked around and touched his chin.

"Limited by venue restrictions, let's use the simplest...cards."

With that said, he got up and walked back to his room. When he came out again, he already had a deck of playing cards and a marker in his hand.

Qin Xianshu raised the cards in his hand to the three people at the table.

"Considering that Shiina is the protagonist of tonight's welcome party, I can only have you two, Misaki and Jin, as the audience."

"learn."

"no problem!"

Hearing what Qin Ushu said, the two of them very consciously picked up their chairs and ran to the left and right behind Shiina Mashiro. They sat down as if they just had a handful of melon seeds in their hands.

Qin Xianshu also sat down in his seat.

His seat was next to Mashiro Shiina, so he directly cleared an area on the table in front of him, wiped it briefly with a rag, and then spread the playing cards face up from left to right.

This is a complete set of playing cards, with a total of 54 cards excluding the blank cards.

"Please pick any card you like from it."

Qin Ushu smiled and gestured towards Shiina Mashiro to a whole deck of playing cards spread out on the table.

"Oh--!"

"It's started, it's started!"