Is it okay not to want to work hard?

In the karaoke shop, Quan Konata squinted his eyes comfortably.

The air conditioning in the private room was much better than in the previous restaurant, which made her feel very comfortable.

Dong Yeling kept eating snacks. She seemed to be never full. She had eaten a lot of snacks in the amusement park, had lunch at noon, and ate snacks again here. I don't know why her small body can hold much more food than her stomach can hold.

"Aren't you guys going to sing?"

Ijichi Hoshika held the microphone and looked at Tono Kanade, Izumi Konata, Ijichi Koka and others who were either lying or slumped on the sofa, with confusion.

No, they all don’t want to sing, only she wants to sing, no way, no way.

"Hongxia, let's sing some songs."

Ichichi Hoshige looked at her sister.

It was Hongxia's suggestion to go to karaoke. She insisted on singing a song, no, several songs. One song was not enough.

"I can't sing well, sister, please sing it."

Although Ijichi Hongxia suggested going to karaoke, she didn't really want to sing. If you ask her the reason, it's just like she said, she's not a good singer. It's not that she can't sing well, she just can't sing well.

"No, all of you order songs, and no one can escape."

Ichichi Xingge was reluctant, but since everyone was at the karaoke bar, they all had to sing. At least one song per person, otherwise they couldn't just come to the karaoke bar and not sing, but just enjoy the air conditioning and eat parfaits.

"Xiaozou, let's sing 'Passionate Samba☆Super Lalazi' together."

Quan Cifang stood up and went to the karaoke machine to order a song.

"Ah, what?"

Dongye Zou was stunned and didn't quite understand what Quan Qifang was saying.

"The theme song for the movie "Magical Girl Lalako" - Passionate Hawaii."

Izumi Konakata, a senior otaku, is a loyal fan of "Magical Girl Lalako". Although the plot of this animation is a bit childish, the girls in it are still very cute, which makes her particularly like it.

"what?"

Higashino Kanade knew about "Magical Girl Lalako", but she was wondering what this movie version was and whether the name was too outrageous.

"I requested a song."

I'm singing a song here.

“I can’t sing.”

Higashino Kanade wanted to stop Izumi Konata, but unfortunately he couldn't.

"It's okay, just sing whatever you want."

Quan Cifang looked indifferent.

After all, it's just karaoke, not performance on stage. As long as the voice is loud enough and the emotions are strong enough, the skills don't matter.

"Something's going on. Very serious!"

Unfortunately, Higashino Kanade’s protest was ineffective, and Izumi Konata ordered the song.

Although everyone can sing karaoke if they want to, but Higashino Kanade doesn't really want to sing, but Konata pulls him, so he has to sing. The same goes for Hongxia, who is forced to sing by her sister.

Nishimiya Glass also requested a song.

She definitely can't sing well, but she just wants to sing.

Goto Ichiri silently ate the quail on the fruit platter. She didn't want to sing anyway. She would rather commit suicide than sing. Although she had thought about becoming a lead singer and shining on the stage after playing the guitar, she was timid and humble in reality and didn't dare to sing in front of everyone.

"Stop drinking, haven't you had enough in the store?"

Higashino Kanade saw that Hiroi Kikuri had bought the Demon Slayer Sake at some point and took it out of her pocket stealthily. He snatched it away and put it in his backpack.

This woman, really, shines brightly when the sun shines on her.

"What's wrong? Has your old illness relapsed?"

Higashino Kanade's eyes became sharp.

"No no!"

Hiroi Kikuri quickly shook her head.

Seeing Higashino Kanade scolding Hiroi Kikuri, everyone felt both amused and uncomfortable. A junior high school student scolding an adult, this scene is ridiculous no matter how you look at it.

They didn't know if it was Izumi Konakata and Ijichi Kouka's illusion, but they always felt that this scene was like a stern wife scolding her husband who loved drinking but couldn't control his mouth.

I hope this is just their illusion and won't become reality. Whether it's Kozou scolding her husband's wife or the husband scolding his alcoholic wife, it's not a good thing for both of them. Ichichi Kouka is okay, she didn't date Tono Kanade, she just had some feelings for him, but Izumi Konakata's words were unacceptable.

Xiaozou’s harem already includes Gaozi and Bochi, and maybe Hongxia in the future. That’s enough. Any more would be impolite, both to her and to Xiaozou’s waist.

The whole afternoon, everyone sang in karaoke, mainly Izumi Konata, Higashino Kanade, Ijichi Hoshika and Hiroi Kikuri. The two of them were in the band, one of them was the lead singer, so of course they could sing.

Even Hong Xia, who says that she sings badly, is actually not that bad at singing.

Higashino Kanade later returned the wine to Hiroi Kikuri, but Hiroi Kikuri didn't drink it. She drank two large glasses of wine in the store at noon. Although she didn't drink enough, it was enough. She would save the wine for tomorrow and be patient.

Hiroi Kikuri wants to quit drinking. Even if she can't quit, she wants to drink less like her senior. Except for celebrations, she won't drink if she can.

However, if she wants to go on stage, she feels that she still needs to drink, otherwise, she still doesn't have enough courage to go on stage. Moreover, she is talking about psychedelic rock, and she won't feel anything when playing it without drinking.

For her psychedelic rock, she was very good at just drinking alcohol, because many people who played this genre didn't drink alcohol, but dipped their hands in some white stuff that would get them shot. Probably because of this, her psychedelic rock wasn't very exciting, and she was never very popular.

Having said that, for her own sake, she should quit drinking, or drink less. She doesn't expect to quit drinking, she just hopes to drink less. With Xiaozou around, it's not a big problem. When Xiaozou is gone in the future, she is worried that her old illness will relapse, so she takes the opportunity to develop the habit of drinking less and be a self-disciplined person.

Anyway, she drinks much less now than before, and she hasn't been drunk for a long time. She also carries hangover pills with her. She just hopes she won't just stick with it for a while, because after today she plans to find someone to form a band, and if a band goes on stage and drinks, she's worried that her alcohol addiction will come back again.

Well, it should be okay. She was in a bad mood and drank to forget her troubles. Although she didn't have much money during this period, she was very happy every day when she lived with Xiaozou. As long as she was not in a particularly bad mood, she could probably resist the urge to drink.

Next month, or at the latest the month after, Hiroi Kikuri will be preparing to leave the studio.

She has been bothering Xiaozou for too long, and it is time for her to pursue her dream again. If she fails again one day, she hopes Xiaozou will still pity her and let her stay in the studio for a while.

Chapter 68 My life is given by the air conditioner

In June, Tokyo is getting hotter and hotter.

Not to mention being hot enough to deform, it's also hot enough to melt.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter. During the holidays, no one wants to go out. They just want to stay at home, turn on the fan, use the air conditioner, play games, and eat watermelon.

Because of the hot weather, the assistants stayed in the studio longer. Even if they had finished drawing the comics and had nothing to do, they did not rush home, but stayed in the studio to enjoy the air conditioning.

"Ah, it's so cool. I owe my life to air conditioning."

After coming back from buying groceries, Higashino Kanade enjoyed the air conditioning in the studio, lying on the table motionless.

There was no air conditioning in the kitchen, and he felt very sad when he thought about going to the kitchen to cook. That was not a kitchen at all, it was simply hell on earth, hell in every sense of the word.

But he wanted to eat hotpot, he wanted to eat hotpot very much, especially because it was so hot today, which made him want to eat hotpot even more.

Although he called Konata and the others, no one was willing to come, even the obedient Nozomi refused.

There's nothing I can do, it's really hot today.

When he went out, he saw a dead cicada in front of the downstairs door. When he came back, he saw another dead cicada on the ground.

Once he had enjoyed the coolness of air conditioning, it was really a torture to be without it. He felt like dying on the way there and on the way back. After buying ingredients from the store, he didn't want to go out at all. He even wanted to take a taxi.

However, taxis in Japan are really expensive. Even if he has money, he still doesn't want to waste it on taxis.

When Higashino Kanade returned to the studio, his two assistants had already finished drawing the last comic of the week and left.

After learning from Higashino Kanade for a while, the two of them are ready to submit to Weekly Shonen Jump again.

Higashino Kanade has read the comics of the two, and he thinks their new comics have the potential to be serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump", but whether the comics can be serialized is not up to him, but the editor. And the editor's opinion may not necessarily count, it also depends on the cartoonists of the same period.

Normally, if a comic is interesting enough, it will be serialized. The problem is that if there are multiple comics that are interesting enough at the same time, then a few less interesting ones will definitely be chosen among the interesting ones and passed.

This pass is the hard work of a cartoonist, which can take at least a month, a year or even more.

Higashino Kanade has been in "Weekly Shonen Jump" for such a long time, and the ranking of his manga "False Hero" in the reader survey has also been up and down. Fortunately, he is very stable. Even when the performance was the worst, it was not on the verge of being cancelled. It was just that he was taught a lesson by editor Yoshida, who told him to come up with some explosive plots and not always lay foreshadowing.

Although the foreshadowing in the comic is well laid out, and the readers can feel very happy when the foreshadowing is revealed, it is very easy for the comic's performance to continue to decline if the plot is too bland, and the comic will be directly cut off and finally hastily completed in other publications.

Still revealing the foreshadowing? It’s already over!

At noon, Higashino Kanade and Hiroi Kikuri had hot pot.

While eating, Hiroi Kikuri talked to Higashino Kanade about what she was going to do this month.

“I’m going to form a band.”

"Ah."

Higashino Kanade didn't look up while eating.

"Will you come with me when I go meet the band members?"

To be honest, Hiroi Kikuri is a little shy. If she doesn't drink, she actually has some social anxiety. But she is determined to drink less. Since she can't drink, she can only hope that someone will accompany her to meet the band members.

"Hmm?" Higashino Kanade felt a little strange when she heard Hiroi Kikuri's timid voice, which sounded like a little girl. She glanced at Hiroi Kikuri, who was smiling as usual, and simply nodded, "Okay."

I don't know if he was overthinking it, but he felt that Hiroi Kikuri seemed to be getting softer and softer, not in terms of body, but in terms of personality. If Hiroi Kikuri was like Konata in the past, then she seemed to be developing more and more like Ichiri and Naoko.

I don’t know whether to say this is a good thing or a bad thing. Anyway, he likes the current Hiroi Kikuri very much. It can’t be said that he doesn’t like the drunk Hiroi Kikuri, but he can only say that he hates her very much.

"Okay."

When Hiroi Kikuri saw that Higashino Kanade agreed, she smiled even more happily.

She did not tell Higashino Zou about moving out. She wanted to wait until she had formed a band and rented a house before telling him.

Before leaving, she wanted to leave Xiaozou with the image of a reliable adult, rather than the image of an extremely unreliable and useless adult when she was picked up by Xiaozou.

In this way, she could say goodbye to Xiaozou in a cool manner without making Xiaozou worry.

Hiroi Kikuri is a very thoughtful person. She looks careless, but that is purely the influence of alcohol. So she knows that Higashino Kanade is very worried about her. She is worried about how she will live without him and whether she will live like before.

While eating hot pot, Higashino Sou started to sing. The last time Higashino Sou sang at Laka OK, he was reluctant at first, but after singing one song after another with Konoha, he gradually got excited, and after that he would sing whenever he had time.

It’s okay if you don’t have the skills, as long as the feelings are there.

"What are you singing?"

Hiroi Kikuri was listening to the song sung by Higashino, and as she listened she asked a question that had been on her mind for the past few days.

"Song."

"What song? I have never heard of the songs you sing. The songs you like are too niche."

"Uh..." Higashino Kanade suddenly realized that the song he was singing didn't seem to exist in this world. After thinking for a while, he said, "I sang the song I heard in my dream."

This is a lie. Higashino Kanade has been dreaming for so many years, whether before or after the dream connection with Ichiri, he has never dreamed of these songs in his dreams, but he often dreams of the BGM of horror games and horror movies.

"The song in the dream..."

After listening to what Higashino Kanade said, Hiroi Kikuri believed it. When she was composing songs, she would occasionally dream of some beautiful melodies in her dreams. Although she could not remember most of them when she woke up, she could remember a few of them after waking up. Even if she did remember them, she would find that they were from other songs. Only a few melodies and tunes were her own inspiration.

In the afternoon, having finished drawing the comics, Higashino Kanade leisurely played games with Izumi Konata, while Hiroi Kikuri searched the Internet and among people she knew for someone who could form a band with her.

As a girl, she naturally wants to find female band members. It's not that there is a bias against men, but it's possible for band members to fall in love. When they are in love, the band is happy, but once they break up, the band is likely to disband.

In order to avoid the band disbanding upon breaking up, she thinks it's still necessary to look at girls, and it's best if they have normal sexual orientation, focus on their careers, and are not love-brained.

Chapter 69 Band Promotion

late at night.

Higashino Kanade came out of the bathroom, rubbed his wet hair and exhaled a breath of hot air.

This guy is such a lazy dog ​​that he doesn't even take a bath.

Today was Friday, and both Konata and Naoko were staying overnight in the studio. The three of them slept in a tatami room, but in the middle of the night he and Konata sneaked into another empty room and did some happy things.

The lazy Ci Fang went back to his original room to rest without taking a shower, saying that he would take a shower tomorrow morning. However, the diligent and clean Ci Fang not only took a shower, but also cleaned the room and put away the elves that were randomly thrown around while playing.

This party does not pay attention to safety, he should pay attention to safety.

Being married to a high school student is outrageous enough, and being married to a junior high school student is not as simple as shooting him once, but ten times or even nine times.

I have to say, it's pretty impressive that I can finish a pack of Durex, even though I used a pack of 6, but it's still pretty impressive.

No, I can’t do this anymore.