Daily life in Zongman

"Strange, why are there so many people this year?"

If Fujiwara Haru remembered correctly, when they came last year, there were only half a formation of people, and they got in less than half an hour after the opening. It seems that they will have to wait longer this year.

"Isn't it like this every year?"

Kitagawa Umi was a little confused. In her memory, the club seemed to have waited in line for a long time last year.

Fujiwara Haru realized that perhaps due to the population increase, there were significantly more people attending the CM Comic Expo than last year. Furthermore, due to some global adjustments to memory suggestion and other effects, Kitagawa Umi, a veteran 2D otaku who hadn't participated in Zombie World, thought it was normal to arrive a day early to be first in line for the CM Expo. His arrival the next morning was a bit late.

It was difficult to tell Kitagawa about this, so I simply said, "It looks like we'll be late getting in."

"Really? I reminded you yesterday in the group chat to get everyone in line. Didn't you even read the group messages?"

Kitagawa Umi said this without any dissatisfaction in her mind, but was just complaining about her somewhat unreliable minister.

"I was busy all day yesterday and ran into some issues at night. I went home and went to bed. I haven't had time to check the group chat. I'm sorry."

"Ah~ No need to apologize. I don't know what the Minister is busy with, but it must be something important. I know the Minister's character."

Not reading the group's comments wasn't an excuse. Fujiwara Haru had packed up the day before yesterday and thought he'd have a day off yesterday, but Di Yuan Yi Sa called and pulled him out to work. He'd spent the entire day with Di Yuan Yi Sa dealing with the new orphanage, and after most of the summer vacation, they'd finally gotten it up and running yesterday.

I just got home and had dinner in the evening, and I saw a red exclamation mark on the map for the first time in a long time. When I went to deal with it, I found that it was a very troublesome incident. I was busy until midnight, and after I got home, I didn’t have the energy to deal with the message anymore.

While the two were chatting, Kasumigaoka Utaha, Komi Shoko, Katsura Kotonoha and others were walking towards them not far away.

When they approached and greeted each other, they clapped their hands and said, "Everyone is here, so let's start queuing now and try to get in early."

"Ah, wait a moment, Minister! I'll be right back!"

Kitagawa Umi said, and quickly ran back to where he was just now, picked up the tent and luggage he had packed after waking up in the morning and quickly returned: "I'm back, I'm ready!"

"Kitagawa-san, there's no need to queue with us. You can go in earlier."

"Eh? I don't want to! We're here to attend the comic convention together, right? And we're in the same club, so don't try to exclude me, Chief!"

Kitagawa Umi laughed and said that he couldn't exclude her, so he gave up the seat he had been queuing for all night and followed behind to start queuing again.

Apart from the initial confusion, her face has always been filled with a warm smile, and it is still the same now.

The energetic girl took the initiative to talk about some news she had accidentally learned: "Let me tell you, I heard that next year's exhibition will sort the early bird tickets purchased. This way, you can queue up according to the order, and eliminate the need to queue up the night before."

Kasumigaoka Utaha thought for a moment and calmly replied, "That's impossible. Having people queue up and show their ticket numbers and then queue up according to that order would require more manpower and time. If that were to happen, I suspect after one or two events, they'd revert to the current first-in-first-out model. At most, they'd deploy night patrols to prevent overnight queues."

"I don't know if it's true, I just heard it from others, but if there were some advanced thing like an electronic wristband that could guide everyone to line up in order with just a scan, maybe it would really help guide everyone to line up better?"

Someone nearby casually said, "If we use electronic wristbands, the ticket price will increase significantly."

"It seems so. The cost of holding a comic convention has skyrocketed. It's not as cost-effective as the current paper wristband tickets."

"Instead of fixing the queue order, I wish they could start earlier so we don't have to wait so long."

"By the way, Minister, should we get club tickets next time? I heard that club tickets allow you to get in at 7 or 8 o'clock!"

"I can do it now if I want, but we're not going in to help or actually sell anything. That would be considered queue-jumping, and I don't want that."

"That's right, it's not good to cut in line."

Chatting with each other, they walked to the end of the current team, and all the club members were waiting together for the comic exhibition.

Seeing Kitagawa Umi having a hard time carrying the tent bag, he stretched out his hand and gestured: "Give me the tent, I'll perform a magic trick for you."

"Eh? What is that?"

"Jiang Jiang~"

While giving the prompt tone, he concealed the tent bag with the backpack he brought with him and put it into the storage bracelet.

Kitagawa Umi watched the tent bag disappear in disbelief, then curiously opened the backpack to check and found that there was nothing inside.

"How did the Minister do that?! That's amazing!"

"A magician never reveals his tricks."

"What about this, Minister? Can this make it disappear?"

Kitagawa handed over a bottle of water.

"Jiang Jiang~disappeared."

"Wow!"

Kitagawa Umi's eyes were sparkling.

"Jiang Jiang~ I'll give you a bottle of juice."

"Amazing! I want to drink it!"

"Drink."

"Eh? Can I really drink it?"

"It's just regular freshly squeezed juice. I've prepared quite a bit. If you want more after you finish drinking it, just come to me. We have all kinds of flavors."

"Okay!"

While Kitagawa was guzzling the wine, he also gave a bottle to Nozomi, Nozomi, Shiyu-senpai, Katsura-san and others.

"Chaha~"

Kitagawa Umi drank half a bottle of juice generously and made a comfortable sound.

The slightly sweet taste made her, who was a little hungry, feel the sugar seeping into her body, making her feel comfortable all over, and she couldn't help but drink some more.

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"How boring! We have to wait until 9:30 to start."

Kitagawa Umi sat on a small stool, stretched out her legs, and swayed boredly.

Under his exposed long legs were a pair of small white socks, and under the socks were a pair of light sneakers. It seemed that he had prepared for a long queue in advance. The small round-top leather boots used by Cos were probably placed in the suitcase.

Because of the shaking object in the field of vision, he shifted his gaze to glance at the feet beside him, but then ignored it and continued to scroll through his phone and responded: "I'll play on the phone for a while."

"My phone just ran out of battery~"

He sighed and dug into his backpack: "Power bank, here you go."

"Great! Minister Saigao!"

"Look, you came to line up a day in advance and didn't you prepare anything?"

"It's my first time too, so it's normal to be unprepared!"

Kitagawa Umi is not right but she is still strong-willed.

Sitting next to her, Kasumigaoka Utaha flipped through the book in her hand: "So, I haven't had my first time yet~ Next time, how about trying it with my junior? Maybe it's not my junior's first time, but it is~"

After getting over the awkwardness of our first meeting the day before yesterday, she returned to her usual state of occasionally liking to tease and say bad things, but the contrast was quite big when she was saying erotic words while wearing a gentle image of long black straight hair.

Kitagawa Umi had no intention of teasing at the beginning, but now she was awakened by Kasumigaoka Utaha's words, and a smile appeared on her face: "Ah la la~ If I think about it carefully~ I wasted my first time on the chief~"

"What a sinful underclassman, wantonly ruining the beautiful girl's first experience."

"You are truly a sinful minister, even though my first experience wasn't bad."

"A great sin."

Katsura Kotonoha repeated what she had read on the side. As a Yamato Nadeshiko, she was not very good at taking the initiative to chat, but after joining the club's group chat, she learned how to repeat in a very short time and put what she learned into practice in real life.

"A great sin."

Glass repeated it along.

"..."

Glass repeated the words with her eyes fixed on the side.

"Oh~ It's Shura Field."

A light complaining sound.

He tapped each of them on the head and said, "The club has a rule that members are forbidden from teasing the club leader!"

"Uncle, I'm your senior, you're committing insubordination!"

"Aaaaaah! It hurts! How could you do this? You only hit the two of us. Everyone said it, you're really biased, Chief."

Kitagawa Umi was full of energy: "And when did this rule come into being?"

"I am the Minister and I am in a higher position according to my position. It is you, Senior, who is committing insubordination."

After complaining about the senior, he replied to Kitagawa: "This rule was just added. As the president, my power is unlimited!"

"Minister, you are abusing your power! I will expose your behavior to Sister Ci and let her teach you a lesson."

Although she has played many R18 games, Kitagawa Ume, who is still a pure virgin, chooses to seek help from outside the field.

"Hmm~ So you like it on top, you know~ I can cooperate~"

The old driver, Kasumigaoka Shiyu, was flipping through the book in her hand while combing her straight black hair. She was extremely elegant but her mouth was full of dirty words.

"Then can you sit on my lap now, Shiyu-senpai?"

The elegant Miss Kasumigaoka Utaha no longer uttered obscenities, and quietly became a literary girl. She was now very erotic with her words, but she didn't dare to make any tentative seductive moves anymore, and she was high on offense and low on defense.

After dealing with the senior, he looked at the energetic girl opposite him and said, "Kitagawa-san has a good idea, but guess what, if I tell Sister Ci that you did something bad outside, will she believe you or me? Then maybe Sister Ci will help me educate you. Get ready to receive a double education!"

"I'm done for. I've been caught without any resistance. Goo! Kill me!"

Kitagawa Knight Princess declared defeat.

The club members all sat together, occasionally chatting and joking with each other, waiting for the CM to begin.

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As time passed, the sun felt scorching hot just at nine o'clock. In Tokyo's summer, there is only a distinction between hot and very hot.

He cast a spell to minimize the attention of the recipient, then, using his backpack as a cover, pulled out a large parasol from his storage bracelet and set it aside. Shiyu-san and the girl at the table in front of him were a little surprised, but not surprised. Komi-san, Kitagawa-san, and Katsura-san were quite surprised.

"Bumi, is this also magic?"

Kitagawa asked curiously.

"It's not actually a magic trick, it's a magical prop, like the bracelet I wear on my hand. You can put something in it."

I had just said that performing magic was just for fun, and when asked, I had no intention of hiding anything. I didn't want to lie, and there was no need to lie. I demonstrated it to Kitagawa-san, and then took out some food: "Here, watermelon shaved ice. I prepared some in advance. You can eat it while you wait."

Kitagawa Umi's three perspectives were shocked. He took the shaved ice in a daze and took a big bite.

Then, his whole body trembled instantly, and he suddenly realized: "Hiss~ So cold!"

"I told you to eat slowly."

"Hey hey~"

Kitagawa Umi gave a silly smile and watched the manager handing out shaved ice to the others, her curiosity growing. However, she restrained herself from asking further questions. After all, there were people around, and she subconsciously wanted to help keep the secret.

So she found a new topic: "Oh, by the way, what was the Minister busy with yesterday? I'm curious. He didn't have any free time all day."

After handing out the shaved ice, he took one for himself and sat aside: "Yesterday, yesterday was fine during the day. I was busy with the welfare home with my friends."

"Huh? The Minister is volunteering!"

"Well, that's not a bad thing to say."

It wasn't a lie, but I wasn't one to brag about my good deeds, so I chose to skip the topic: "After finishing my work for the day, I went home to eat. After dinner, I went out for a walk and ran into a troublesome situation."

"I was walking outside when it started to rain. Not only did I run into a painter who was trying to kill a little girl. After stopping the crime, I discovered the high school girl who had abducted the little girl. Although, to call it abduction isn't quite right, because the high school girl took the little girl home with her consent."

The story, which is difficult to explain, actually took place in someone else's home, was omitted. The description was simply and crudely described: "After the painter who attempted murder was handed over to the police, it was discovered that the little girl had apparently been abandoned by her mother, while the high school girl had lost both her parents and was adopted by her aunt. Her aunt had some mental issues and didn't care much for her, so she was essentially homeless."

Kitagawa Umi was a little confused: "Huh? Are both girls homeless? Are they living in the Minister's house now?"

"How is that possible? I threw them all to the orphanage last night."

After taking a bite of shaved ice, he said, "It took quite a while to figure out what happened and settle the two of them. I went home and slept right away after finishing my work last night. As for finding the little girl's mother, I'll leave it to the orphanage. It's just that the high school girl seems to be mentally unstable due to her poor living environment, just like her aunt. We still need to find a way to cure her."

Kitagawa Umi also took a bite of shaved ice, a happy smile on her face, and swung her feet leisurely. "Speaking of which, whether it's school bullies, gang bullies, or just people in need, the Minister always steps in decisively. How should I put it? I always feel like the Minister is like a superhero, always stepping up when needed."

"It's not that exaggerated."

Fujiwara Haru himself doesn't think so. He has never considered himself a superhero: "If you ask me to take the initiative to patrol and fight evil, I definitely can't do it. If I have that kind of time, I would choose to play more games."

"Superheroes don't always fight evil. It's their character that matters. The Minister is very helpful and always stands up when bad things happen. To put it a little more bluntly, he's like the brave and righteous Superman!"

"Thanks for the compliment, but I just happened to come across it, so I'll be happy to help you if I can."

Kitagawa Umi didn't say anything more, slowly eating the shaved ice in her hand, she recalled the scenes she had encountered before. Whether it was the heroic figure who saved her in the alley, or the scene when she accidentally ran into him helping others, or his unrestrained handsomeness in daily life, he was always very charming.