I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

In the living room, the two sat facing each other at the dining table.

Lianzi didn't make any soup today. Knowing that Serabelle liked to eat barbecued food, she specially baked a plate of cumin chicken legs in the oven.

"I just learned this from watching videos online these past two days. Let's try it and see if it tastes good or not."

Although she looked calm on the surface, her questions one after another revealed that Akiba Reiko was actually a little nervous.

Serabelle picked one up with chopsticks and took a bite, speaking incoherently.

"It's not cooked, but it should be cooked, and it tastes good..."

"Yeah, that's good."

Reiko Akita visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, she still had to save her face. The dishes she had cooked in the past were all her regular dishes, so there was nothing to complain about. But it would be too embarrassing if she failed miserably in front of her boyfriend the first time she learned a new dish.

"Then eat more and take the rest back later."

"Why, Reiko, are you allergic to chicken?"

Serabelle swallowed the chicken leg in her mouth with force and couldn't help but ask curiously.

However, just as he asked this question, the former threw a pair of slightly delicate sanitary balls at him.

"Of course it's not because of allergies, idiot. No matter how you think about it, it's because I'm a singer. Singers must absolutely stay away from spicy and greasy food. This is the minimum professional ethics."

"And, there is..."

Reiko Akiba paused for a moment, then continued.

"I will only make this for you once in a while. After all, you should eat less greasy food. Otherwise, I don't want you to be in good shape and handsome when we first met, but after two or three years, I feed you and make you fat as a ball. I can't bear this responsibility."

"so serious?"

As she spoke, Serabelle had already finished the first roasted chicken leg and started picking up the second one.

"Come to think of it, when I was in the UK, I often ate fried food in the cafeteria during work, but I didn't gain weight. My weight basically maintained a constant ratio with my height."

"Is it true that I can eat a lot but not gain weight?"

Reiko Akita obviously didn't quite believe it.

Serabelle shrugged. "Really? Maybe it's because I exercise quite intensely."

"...That won't work either. Eating too much of anything is not good for you."

Reiko Akiba curled her lips and used the veto power that is unique to a girlfriend.

Time soon came after dinner.

Just like last time, Serabelle and Reiko Akiba went out after dinner and took a leisurely walk arm in arm in the nearby residential area. The starting point was also the key point, and they ended the walk just in time to get home.

Even so, it was still early, only about half past seven.

Fortunately, two people who like each other will never be bored no matter what they do as long as they are together.

The two simply came to the familiar battle site - the sofa.

Reiko Akiba held the tablet in her hand and leaned slightly to the side, leaning on Serabelle's shoulder. She snuggled up to feel the other's body temperature while constantly swiping the screen of the tablet.

She asked in a fake nonchalant tone.

"What time do you plan to go back today?"

"Um……"

Serabelle thought about it for a moment.

"It's not urgent. If you insist, it won't be too late to go back tomorrow morning. Anyway, there's nothing to do recently."

I can go back tomorrow morning, which means I can stay overnight.

Reiko Akiba understood the hidden meaning and subconsciously took a deep breath and bit her lower lip with a little excitement.

Then she put down the tablet in her hand, turned her upper body, stretched out her arms to hug Serabel's shoulders from the side, and rested her delicate chin on the boy's shoulder.

"Let me ask you something, Bell, have you ever been on a cruise ship where a consortium holds a party?"

"A cruise ship where the consortium is hosting a party?"

When Serabelle heard this description, all she could think of was the mission at the beginning of Vice City.

Reiko Akiba also felt that her description was a bit weird, so she changed her words.

"Well, it can't be called a party. It's just that all the upper-class people on the cruise ship, such as heirs of financial groups, politicians, artists, etc."

"understood."

Serabelle understood now.

"Although I haven't been there, I roughly know what it's like. What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

"have it."

Reiko Akita looked quite conflicted.

"About two or three days ago, when you and your sister were traveling to Niigata, a Yasai consortium sent me an invitation letter, saying that a newly built cruise ship would be launched in Tokyo Harbor in a few days. It was considered its first voyage, and it was said that a large number of playwrights and celebrities were invited to go."

"You want to go?" Serabell asked in confusion.

"Well, if you're talking about the original plan, then I'm not going to go at all."

Reiko Akiba seemed very disdainful.

"As for activities like that, it's easy to imagine that eight or nine out of ten of the celebrity playwrights and artists who attend are second-rate people who don't do their jobs properly. Those who really delve into their profession don't have that much time to participate in such things... But later I thought that this might also be an opportunity."

"What opportunity?" Serabelle became even more curious.

"Need I ask... Of course it's a chance to make our relationship public!"

When Reiko Akiba said this, her fair cheeks turned slightly red, and she even hugged Serabel's shoulders and shook her twice due to her emotional fluctuations.

She had intended to hint that Serabelle understood her thoughts, but she found that in the end she had to say it out loud herself.

"Think about it, those upper-class circles spread news and gossip much faster than news reporters, especially since the invitation letter states that family members or close friends can be brought along, so if we go together, wouldn't it be considered public knowledge?"

"Oh, sure."

Serabelle agreed without thinking.

"Really?"

Reiko Akitai's face immediately showed surprise.

"real."

Serabelle emphasized again.

However, as the words fell and Akiba Reiko's eyes were filled with joy, he suddenly realized an embarrassing problem.

Wait, if people from various financial groups come, then Mrs. Suzuki—

Maybe not necessarily?

Serabelle thought hopefully.

Chapter 491 Mrs. Suzuki is about to arrive at the battlefield

The Yashiro Group is one of the largest groups in Japan today, second only to the Suzuki Group.

Its consortium business covers a wide range, especially in the manufacturing sector, the Eighth Generation Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. is at the top of the list among the many businesses under the Eighth Generation Consortium.

Recently, Yashiro Shipbuilding's latest super luxury cruise ship "Aphrodite" will be launched in Tokyo Bay and embark on its maiden voyage.

In order to promote the fame of this maiden voyage, the Yashiro Group specially invited many celebrities from all over Japan's upper society, including the financial, political, and entertainment circles, to participate, and it was all the rage in the daily news for a while.

Thus, at dusk, white gulls fly over the red sea.

As the fiery red sunset in the sky gradually sank below the sea level, the white super luxury cruise ship carrying more than 600 people slowly sailed on the Sea of ​​Japan, causing white waves wherever it passed.

The Aphrodite had been away from shore for nearly an hour.

In the red-carpeted corridor inside the cruise ship, Serabelle in a black suit and Reiko Akiba in a dress walked hand in hand, with the warm lights that gave a gorgeous visual effect shining softly from above their heads.

They had just come out of the room assigned to them on the guest room floor after putting their luggage away, and were now heading to the largest public restaurant on the cruise ship.

In fact, it was almost dinner time now, but for some reason, apart from them, there were only two or three other couples in the entire corridor.

"That's weird, are we in the wrong place? Why are there so few people coming to the restaurant?"

Reiko Akita held the boy's arm and turned her head back and forth curiously.

After all, this cruise ship is so huge that even the smallest single-deck floor space is as large as three or four football fields.

Although a navigation map was distributed when boarding the ship and the contents of each floor of the cruise ship were explained, especially emphasizing that the second floor of the cruise ship was the restaurant for tonight's dinner, Reiko Akiba was still a little hesitant as to whether she had gone to the wrong place.

"I don't think so. The map says this is the right place."

Serabelle looked down at the navigation map in her hand, then looked up at the signpost hanging upside down from the ceiling not far away in the corridor.

"As for why there are so few people, I think it may be that quite a few people have already arrived."

"Arrived first?"

Qiuting Lianzi was puzzled.

Serabelle continued to explain.

"To put it simply, they are all from the upper class, and the upper class is more particular about ceremony when doing things, especially on the first night of a maiden voyage like this. There will definitely be introductions and speeches from the consortium or company directors, and your hands will not be used to hold forks and knives at that time."

"……Why?"

Reiko Akita still didn't understand.

Serabelle tilted her head and said, "Because we have to applaud. You can't be showing off your German roast pork knuckle while the leader is speaking."

“What if you don’t applaud?”

Miss Lianzi is a bit stubborn.

“I’ll probably be accused of something.”

Serabelle shrugged.

"As far as I know, there was a British official who was accused of racism because he accidentally glanced at his watch during a speech by an African American."

“…This is too insane.”

Reiko Akiba expressed her disdain for this kind of formalism.

"That's true, but they really do enjoy using this to torture people."

Serabelle paused and added.

"Well, it tortures everyone equally."

As they were talking, they had reached the end of the corridor. The door to the restaurant opened inwards without them having to push it open. Elegant piano music mixed with the aroma of red wine and champagne flowed out from the door.

The waiter in work clothes was standing by the door, and he bowed slightly when he noticed the two people coming.

"Hello, it's... Mr. Serabelle and Ms. Akiba Reiko, right? Just the two of you?"

"Just two."

Said Serabelle.

"Okay, I'll arrange a seat for you."

The waiter held the menu under his elbow and guided us with gestures.

"plz follow me."

So the two of them entered the restaurant under the guidance of the waiter.

Perhaps because it was her first time attending such an occasion, Reiko Akiba seemed a little nervous. Although she did not show it on the surface, she held the boy's hand even tighter.

On the contrary, Serabelle, who claimed that she had never been to such a place, seemed very calm, and her relaxed demeanor was as if she had returned home.

"But there are really a lot of people in the restaurant here. I thought you were just talking casually just now, Bell."

Walking in the aisle of the restaurant, Reiko Akiba looked around slightly along the way, and was surprised to find that there were actually quite a few people in the restaurant just as Serabelle had said before, and most of them were sitting in groups of four or five around a table. The table was clean, and they were holding red wine glasses in their hands, looking dignified and calm.

Of course, the premise is that you have to ignore the slightly bulging belly under the slim suit or dress.

Obviously, he was already in a state of fullness.