Tokyo Soft Rice King

After being sure that he could become a millionaire, he became mentally elated.

When you have enough food and clothing, you think about money and jade. As a very vulgar man, once you have money, you will start thinking about women.

Then Hei Yuming is still very greedy. He is always looking for more while having his cake and eating it. He has already had an overly close relationship with Ziyin, but he still envies the squad leader who can tolerate him unconditionally.

Adults, I want them all.

But Hei Yuming still had some sense. He knew that it was okay to let two women be jealous of each other, but to want to have everything under one roof and live in harmony with the three of them... it was better to continue dreaming.

That's why some scumbags would think of "trying both".

However, Hei Yuming thought about the problem from his own perspective from beginning to end.

However, he did not think that even if he really made a choice, it would still be a question whether the other party was willing to accept this choice.

Neither Murasakimiya Shion nor Asato Hitomi would simply accept failure and give in, nor would they willingly be an abandoned woman, let alone a 'spare tire'.

Therefore, Hei Yuming actually has no right to choose at all. He is just a "prize" and he has no say in who the prize belongs to.

The Shura Field, where the outcome is uncertain until the very last moment, will not stop once it begins.

They are bound to fight to the death.

It might even be upgraded to...

Life and death.

Chapter 229: The Cultural Festival That Started the Turmoil (Part 1)

On the first day of the school cultural festival, Kuroba Akira stood at the door of Kobayashi's house, saying goodbye to Shion with a tired look on his face as she saw him out.

"Well then... I'm off..."

The listless and haggard appearance looked as if he had been tortured by a ruthless female demon for three days and three nights, with not a drop of blood left.

"Well, be careful along the way."

In contrast, Ziyin looked energetic and her skin was moisturized, as if she had received nutritious nourishment. She was still beautiful today.

At first glance, it seems that the culprit who caused Kuroba Ming to become like this is our Miss Shion, but this time she was indeed wronged.

Although Ziyin was indeed upset for some reasons last night, in order to soothe her emotions, Hei Yuming stroked her fur for a long time like a cat, which allowed her to vent all her dissatisfaction and sleep comfortably. Therefore, Hei Yuming did not get to eat Ziyin's meal.

What really prevented him from resting was the joint attack of the two men on his left and right... Hijikata Isamu and Nishimura Ryuya.

After the two met, they reached a consensus through a question-and-answer format after just a few rounds of questions and answers. They shook hands on the spot and called each other comrades, which made Hei Yuming roll his eyes.

You should know that when he reached out to Ryuya Nishimura, he got a perfunctory response of just touching the mouse, but Hijikata Isamu directly became his comrade.

Is this the rich experience of a veteran programmer? Even the egocentric Ryu Nishimura acknowledged it.

By the way, Hijikata Isamu and Shion actually mistook Nishimura Ryu for a girl at first, which is why Shion was upset. She thought that Kuroba Akira had brought back a new vixen "again".

It took a lot of effort, and with the guarantee of Tashiro Hongxiang, to convince Shion that Senior Nishimura was a man, but she was still unwilling to let Kuroba Akira and Nishimura Ryuya be alone, and she still looked very cautious, probably because she was afraid that Kuroba Akira would be turned gay by Nishimura Ryuya.

On the other hand, after seeing that Kuroba Akira actually had a mistress, Nishimura Ryu looked at him with a playful look, a 'You're playing big, aren't you?' teasing smile on his face. Kuroba Akira whistled and played dumb.

However, Ryu Nishimura did not expose the fact that Kuroba Akira was two-timing. Although he was a computer geek, as an adult he understood the ways of the world better than the average student, and he had no moral bottom line, so he would not criticize Kuroba Akira for "such a small matter."

It is no longer uncommon for rich men to keep young beauties as their mistresses.

Just from the perspective of cooperation, he hopes that Kuroba Ming will not get into trouble. Even if he does, he should at least be able to maintain his relationship with the eldest daughter of the Anri family. Otherwise, his side is likely to be liquidated or even disappear from the country of Neon. He doesn't want to be affected by this.

Tashiro Hongxiang was the only one who could tell at first sight that Nishimura Ryu was also a man. To be more precise, it was Xiaohong who could tell. It was said that it was because she had seen so many corpses that she could tell the difference in the skeleton just by the body shape, and then distinguish the other person's gender.

Moreover, she, who has always been shy, did not have any social anxiety attack when facing Ryuya Nishimura, a stranger she met for the first time. Instead, she showed a look of nostalgia and took the initiative to ask Ryuya Nishimura if he was a Kabuki actor.

It seems that Xiaohong had experience as an assistant makeup artist in a famous Kabuki family when she was in college.

The actors in Kabuki, a "true traditional art", are all men, similar to the male dan in Peking Opera. It is said that this is because their voices have special advantages over women in terms of strength and thickness, and they are better at performing martial arts moves.

Because Ryu Nishimura looks more feminine than most women, Xiaohong's social anxiety didn't seem to flare up.

It was only then that Hei Yuming realized that Xiaohong's social phobia seemed to be mixed with male phobia.

Unfortunately, after being asked by Xiaohong whether he was a Kabuki actor, Senior Nishimura directly and angrily denied it, which scared Xiaohong back and made her believe that Nishimura Ryu was also a terrible person who was difficult to get along with. Sister Hong was also helpless about this, but she felt that it was okay. Anyway, it was enough for her to have Baizi as a man to get in touch with.

In addition, after explaining the reason to Grandma Kobayashi, she allowed Ryuya Nishimura to enter and leave the Kobayashi family. She also said that there was an extra small house not far from here that could be rented to Ryuya Nishimura at a relatively cheap price, saving him the trouble of finding a house.

The old woman is indeed a super-rich landlady... Grandpa Xiaolin, how much do you love your wife? How much inheritance did you leave her?

What Kuroba Ming didn't expect was that senior Nishimura, who looked very unfriendly and had an attitude of "I'm your father even if the king comes", was actually very polite to Grandma Kobayashi, even a little reserved, and used honorifics throughout the whole process.

Sure enough, the old woman is the user of the Face Fruit, right? Until now, everyone who knows her has treated her with respect. She's practically the Tokyo Godmother.

Of course, the truly remarkable one was Grandpa Kobayashi. Kuroba Akira was now certain that Grandpa Kobayashi wasn't just a brilliant individual who'd bought a house in Tokyo. This unforeseen hunk had definitely done something major enough to change the course of this country's history...

I just don't know why the general public is completely unaware of him... Is he deliberately hiding himself? But is that even possible? A figure so influential that he could influence a nation, how could he remain anonymous? There's not even any documentation online... That would require manipulation of perception, right?

It's very mysterious... However, Hei Yuming has no way or qualifications to know the truth now, and he also realized that it might not be wise to investigate this matter. It is better not to know some things. Otherwise, with Mother-in-law Kobayashi's character, she would have shown off her husband's glorious deeds long ago.

Anyway, this kind of thing should be known when the time comes, and you will be told even if you don't want to know, so Hei Yuming suppressed his curiosity and stopped thinking about exploring the secrets of the Kobayashi family.

After knowing that Nishimura Ryu was also a man, Hijikata Isamu felt a little strange at first, but after all, he and Kuroba Akira came from the same world, and had witnessed the chaotic world of LGBT+ rainbow monsters in his previous life, so a man who looked like a woman was not particularly strange to him. This was also the reason why Nishimura Ryu admired him, and the reason why he was willing to give Kuroba Akira a chance at school was also due to this factor.

Ryu Nishimura also discovered that these two people really didn't care about his appearance at all. You know, even the members of the computer department took several months to get used to his appearance.

The reason why he embraced the Internet was because he could hide his gender on the Internet, which was much more comfortable than talking face to face. This was also the reason why he wanted to set up a forum, that is, to establish a platform for equal dialogue without discrimination.

Kuroba Akira and Hijikata Isami only showed a little surprise at first, but they immediately stopped caring and treated him as an ordinary person. This made Nishimura Ryu very comfortable, and he felt that he had not misjudged them. These two people had a broad mind and character.

So after dinner, the enthusiastic Ryu Nishimura pulled Kuroba Akira and Hijikata Isamu together to talk about future plans and the semi-finished project he was currently working on.

He said that he wanted to develop an instant messaging 'chat software' that could be used on mobile phones, and that it would be best if this chat software could be connected to 'e-mail', so that the scope of use could be expanded and the useless 'text messages' could be completely eliminated. He then said that this software could also be used on computers, and on mobile phones it could be a simplified 'castrated version'... and so on and on.

After hearing this, Kuroba Akira and Hijikata Isamu looked at each other, both shocked by each other's seriousness.

What Nishimura Ryuya wants to do is those two national-level softwares from Penguin!

And they also want to swallow up the email market as well! It’s like Tencent and Netease are merging!

Although there are already chat software that has formed a monopoly in this world, there is still an opportunity for "underdogs to overthrow the powerful" because after the advent of smartphones, both the hardware and software fields will undergo a major reshuffle.

Just like Kia, which once had a global mobile phone market share of 73% and ranked first in global annual mobile phone sales for 15 consecutive years, and thought it was invincible, but after the emergence of smartphones, it died because it was too big to turn around and was one step behind others.

The same is true in the software field. If you seize the opportunity, you may not be able to emerge suddenly. Of course, the premise is that you have enough hard power...

And you can play coordinated cards.

First develop the barrage video website in hand, then you will have a natural promotion and marketing platform to promote your own chat software, and then combine it with Nishimura Ryuya's forum to convert forum users into chat software users, and the basic base will be there.

The more they discussed, the more promising it seemed. Hijikata Isami's ambition was also aroused. He said that his forte was actually big data search. If Nishimura Ryu could also develop a national-level chat software, he could then promote his own search engine and take a bite out of the current search engine giants.

Nishimura Ryu also realized that these two people actually fully supported his "crazy idea" and could even come up with very specific plans. He felt more and more that he had chosen the right camp this time, and now they really hit it off.

The result was that they talked all night long, without giving Hei Yuming any chance to go back to his room to sleep, and they talked until the sun rose.

In fact, from the second half onwards, Hijikata Isamu and Nishimura Ryu were also discussing technology. Kuroba Akira didn't understand at all, but they didn't let him go back to sleep with Shion. They asked him some questions from time to time and asked him to make decisions because he was the organizer and initiator.

It felt like the two prime ministers were not allowing the emperor to return to the palace to sleep with his concubines, and they kept submitting memorials, asking him to issue an order immediately.

Kuroba Akira realized that after recruiting an overly capable crew, the small ship he had built could no longer stop and was destined to discover new worlds...

So, in his drowsy state, he suddenly decided to create a large comprehensive website that integrates all these things, and then the company was named "New World". The English name is "New World", which is a bit vulgar, but easy to remember.

The original plan was expanded several times. Now, not only is the plan to develop a barrage video website, but also chat software and a search engine.

Then after careful consideration, I realized that there were not enough people and money again.

So the two of them looked at Hei Yuming, meaning, "You are of no use technically, so the task of recruiting people and attracting investment will be left to you."

Therefore, Hei Yuming, the head of the Human Resources Department and the head of the Finance Department, had to find a way to get people and money...

And he was ready to ask for help from the squad leader like a waste.

Save me! Class monitor A-meng!

I hope the class leader can invest more, and then I hope she can poach some useful people through the Anri family's channels...

I happen to be going on a date with the class monitor today...but talking about these things on a date will make the girl very unhappy, right?

Or maybe we should wait until after the cultural festival is over. Today, I'll focus on making the class leader happy. It's also about time to get up...

After getting up and making breakfast, Hong Jie walked out of the room and heard a heated discussion coming from Hijikata-san's room, the door of which was not closed. She was surprised to realize that the three of them had not slept all night, so she came over to remind them. Only then did Hijikata Isamu and Nishimura Ryu realize that it was already dawn.

Hei Yuming was so grateful for this. If it weren't for Sister Hong, he would probably still be locked here.

So the plan came to an end, and they decided to merge the two barrage video websites first. Then Hijikata Isamu did not forget to remind Hei Yuming to quickly find a designer to design the webpage and mascot, as well as to draw emoticons.

This was also part of our discussion last night. The mascots and emoticons are very suitable for promotion, making the website more recognizable. In order to increase its spread, there are more things to do.

At this time, the leader Hei Yuming agreed weakly like a social animal worker and said that he would find a designer as soon as possible. Only then were they willing to let Hei Yuming leave.

After being liberated, Kuroba Ming was almost in tears, but he couldn't ask for leave to slack off today. After all, he had an appointment with the class leader to go to the cultural festival...

If you are a man, you must keep your promise!

But I need to catch up on some sleep first... I can't die suddenly again.

Hei Yuming quickly seized the opportunity, skipped his usual morning run, went back to his room and fell asleep without even eating breakfast.

Ziyin also took this opportunity and clung to him lovingly, taking in the scent and feeling fully charged early in the morning.

This is why the mental states of these two people are completely opposite.

Because she felt sorry for Hei Yuming's condition, Sister Hong gave him money for the bus so that he didn't have to walk to school today. Hei Yuming was so touched that he wanted to call her mother.

After sleeping for a while in the car, Hei Yuming also arrived at the school.

As soon as he got off the bus, Hei Yuming saw the campus, which was much more lively than usual, and his mental state improved slightly.

This is probably because of the change in my mood. There is a hint of expectation in my heart, which comes from the yearning for the youthful campus.

In his previous life, Kuroba Ming watched a lot of campus anime and was envious of Japan’s high school life. Not only were there many activities, but also freedom in dating. He felt that Japan’s high school life was really colorful.

But after actually traveling through time and becoming a high school student in Japan, Kuroba Akira found that it was just like that.

It is true that the school hours are very early, but it is similar to college life, not as "youthful" as imagined.

Of course, this is also because Hei Yuming doesn't speak the local dialect after traveling through time and has been a lone ranger for a semester, so the excitement is for others and has nothing to do with him.

It’s like looking through your friends’ circle and only seeing photos of people having fun. You wonder why you are living such a carefree life when you are so miserable.

In fact, it is because no one wants to show the boring, tedious, repetitive and monotonous daily life to others, so we can only see the glamorous photos of traveling.

The same goes for campus anime. They don't describe boring daily life, but only show the "interesting parts" to the audience, so they give people endless longing and imagination.

This is what is called, what you can't get is the best, because fantasy will give reality the most beautiful "filter".

Therefore, Hei Yuming has long since become indifferent to it. Going to school is just to fulfill Hei Yuming's own obligations. As for enjoying youth... is it as important as making money?

But today is definitely different.

He was also infected by the lively atmosphere.

Campus cultural festival...students' carnival...

"Hey! Ming! Good morning!"

Just when Kuroba Akira was stunned, he heard a cheerful voice greeting him. He turned around and saw Sumitomo Ryota greeting him.

"Oh... Good morning."

"Why do you look so listless? Were there too many deer last night?"

At the same time, he made a very obscene up and down gesture.

“Bullshit!”

Kuroba Akira rolled his eyes and punched him directly in the face, but Sumitomo Ryota caught it easily with a smile.

"Hey, I'm not the same person anymore! There's no way a limp fist like that can touch me!"

"Tsk...are you getting carried away after learning a little boxing?"

"I'm still a long way from that, but I've discovered that counter punches are truly satisfying. If you time it right, you can knock your opponent's soul out of their body. No wonder that punch you threw at me hurt so much back then..."

It seems that Ryota Sumitomo is really obsessed with boxing. He usually has bandages wrapped on his hands, which makes him look very childish.

"Hey, Ming, why don't you learn boxing too? Don't you think it's cool to use your fists to protect the woman you love?"

"Yes Yes Yes……"

This was not the first time that Sumitomo Ryouta had encouraged Kuroba Ming to practice boxing, so he just casually dealt with it.

To be honest, the protection provided by personal force alone is limited. This is not a world where force is supreme. The strongest creature on earth like Hanma Yujiro does not exist at all.