Tokyo Wingman King

Futami's smash was easily caught by Asama, but the fat boy hit the ball into the net.

Laughter rang out from all around.

The fat boy's movements were clumsy and a little funny. This was not the first time he hit the ball into the net.

[Robert, you can return the ball yourself, you don’t have to pass it to me all the time.] Looking at Asama’s encouraging eyes, he couldn’t say these words.

"If your jump height is not enough, you can try to dribble the ball over."

"Ok."

When Asama made another volleyball for him, he pushed it back with all his strength, but the direction was wrong. The volleyball drew a parabola and hit the head of a middle-aged man who was rowing in the river. The volleyball and the middle-aged man's wig fell into the water and floated together.

"5:1, Robert-kun~ Xiaoyue and Xiaomai won this round~"

Asana touched the fat boy's head, jumped into the water and returned the ball and wig to their original owners. Then he high-fived Fuzugawa who raised her hand and said [switch] with a smile, and stood in the referee seat in her place.

After the fat boy apologized, he stood next to Asama.

"Lose. Sorry, Robert."

"Isn't this your first time playing volleyball here? You did a great job."

The winners of the previous round [Hoennin & Pochi Team] and the bye team [Shinomiya & Ogata Team] stood on the field.

There were more people watching.

"No, if you weren't on the same team with me, Robert, you're so good, there's no way you would lose."

The fat boy continued to blame himself.

"I didn't fight much, how do you know I'm good?"

"Isn't this something that is obvious at first glance? Shouldn't a normal team give the right to shoot to someone more powerful? I'm just wasting opportunities."

The fat boy said this without any resentment. He knew that Asana didn't mean to embarrass him, but his own psychological quality was too poor.

"It can't be considered a symphony if there is only one violinist on the stage. In a team competition, which is more important, the competition or the team?"

"I think that as long as it's a competition, winning is definitely the most important thing. Anyone who doesn't take winning as their first goal will definitely be regarded as a coward with no ambition, right?"

"Do you want to say [If you don't want to win, you will never win]? The desire to win and the desire to win certainly have a positive effect on motivating people, but no one can win all the time.

In my opinion, victory is just an extra reward of the game. The growth, friendship, fun, tacit understanding and respect, identification and integration in the process are the value of the game.

Those who are afraid of losing and obsessed with winning will find it difficult to enjoy the game and understand the true meaning of the game. Those who only rely on the strong and win by doing nothing will never be remembered by honor. They are just slaves of honor. "

After hearing this, the fat boy nodded, not quite understanding.

As he was about to enter seventh grade, he silently digested Asana's long string of words with an overly rich German vocabulary.

After Asama finished refereeing the entire game, when it was their turn to be the loser group with [Fuzuigawa & Fujiwara], the fat boy said to Asama happily: "Robert, I know what you mean! I also think that although James is the GOAT, he can't compare to Jordan even if he wins another championship! Anyway, I will enjoy the game!"

Asana nodded silently and looked across at the opposite side.

The fat boy who got Asama's approval felt that he could forget about the people around him who laughed at him. He was determined to jump up with all his strength no matter where he was and to hit any ball as hard as he could.

Then, 10 minutes passed.

"Won."

The fat boy felt a sense of emptiness.

In this match, Robert didn't let him touch the ball once except for serving. It was the first time he saw a smash back. What was more outrageous was that Robert's smash always drew a beautiful arc and hit the head of the lady in the red bikini. The onlookers focused their attention on the lady in the red bikini.

His own off-ball jump was also seen as a screen to assist Robert's offense.

The two returned to the sidelines.

Asana held Little John's shoulders, and Asana said, "Look, victory without participation is meaningless, right?"

The fat boy wiped his sweat and nodded in agreement.

Asama continued,

“Everyone in every team is different. Some are good at attacking, some are good at assisting, and some are good at defending. The people in the orchestra are also different. Some are conductors, some are responsible for brass instruments, and some are responsible for woodwind instruments. Everyone in life is different. Geniuses are as dazzling as stars, and ordinary people are as dim as planets, but they each have their own path.

Regardless of whether you can emit light or not, as long as you move and exist, you will have contributed to the formation of the universe.

That’s the secret of engagement.

Other people’s eyes and victory cannot affect the sense of participation. They are not as interesting as [enjoying the next goal].”

The noon breeze from the Danube lifted Asaga's hair. His eyes were brighter than the Danube illuminated by the sun.

Enjoy the next ball?

The fat boy laughed.
"Robert, have I ever told you that you are really handsome?"

Asama frowned and smiled.

"I would rather others tell me, [You are a good person]. After all, my own life lesson is to learn to be a good person."

Asama and Fat Boy John lost to [Futami & Majima Team] again in the revenge match.

The final winner of the game was the [Phoenix Court & Pochi Team] who maintained an undefeated record.

The surprise prize set by Phoenix Court was purely a reward for themselves. Their team also had the priority to choose lunch desserts.

A group of people were sitting on the grass, and a huge lunch basket provided by the hotel was placed in the middle of the dolphin cushion. When turned upside down, the lunch basket could be turned into a spacious low table.

"Mind if we join in? We brought quite a bit of fruit."

Mr. Paul, who was standing by, saw Asama bringing the dishes to the table, greeted them with a smile, and raised their lunch baskets.

"Is that okay?"

Asama looked at the girls.

Unexpectedly, no one had any objection to the fat uncle's family joining the Love Consultation Department's grass lunch.

Even Miss Fujiwara Ai, who never disappoints others, nodded.

After learning that she was planning to ask Paul and his wife some questions about love, Asama bought her hush money with [custom desserts from tomorrow].

For lunch, Asama prepared three kinds of sandwiches - German mixed sausage truffle egg sandwich, Italian fig ham cheese sandwich, and Japanese teriyaki sauce mushroom fried chicken sandwich. Each sandwich is served with different breads: sausage sandwich is served with soft and sweet Vienna bread, ham and cheese sandwich is served with nutty Italian ciabatta bread, and Japanese stir-fry is served with soft white toast.

These breads were chosen by Asama, Futami, and Majima at a bakery that was said to have been visited by students who failed out of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

What comforted Asama was that the studious Mashima did not forget to study even when buying bread, and took notes of the vocabulary for the more than 30 kinds of bread in the store.

The Daming God blushed and knocked on the hard crusted bread. Asama didn't know that the Daming God was thinking about the little cook script in her dream yesterday.

After sorting the 12 sandwiches and placing them on the low table made of a basket, Asana took out four Lock & Lock boxes from the lunch basket.

In the box were some cold meats such as sausages, ham, chicken steaks, beef slices, etc.

In order to enrich the taste, Asama made three kinds of sauces for the meat, including sweet and sour and salty and spicy.

The white rice didn't take Asama too much time to prepare, and the various desserts took Asama less than 2 hours to prepare.

In addition to several traditional Austrian pastries such as Sachertorte, Mozart Torte, and Punch Torte, Asama also makes some soufflés, Basque cakes, Madeleines, and Swiss rolls.

Because Futami was there to help, I made some orange-flavored versions of the following cakes that she liked.

Each one was packed in a transparent box provided by the hotel that can hold cakes. It looked no different from the desserts in the glass cabinets of dessert shops.

[Love Cooking] Asama, who was already a master, has become a ruthless cooking machine.

You can perfectly replicate most dishes just by looking at recipes and videos, and be confident that your dishes will taste better than those made by any century-old or internet-famous restaurant.

Mr. Paul and his family brought a fruit plate of blueberries, raspberries, grapes and cherries to the table, and rye bread with yogurt and chocolate, as well as three kinds of sauces: lentil sauce, yellow apricot sauce and sweet pepper sauce. "Robert, it seems that we have a good understanding."

Mr. Paul placed their sauce together with the sauce made by Asama and smiled.

"The world is just a giant triangle."

Asama responded using Mr. Paul's previous [World Definition Method].

"Just now I heard Little John imitate Risei-san and call you Robert. I was a little curious. It turns out that the Great Sensei's English name is really Robert."

Hououin asked Asama, and Fuzuigawa winked at Asama and answered for him,

"Because Robert is indeed Robert~"

"What do you mean Robert? Robot?"

Fujiwara asked curiously.

Busui River waved his finger.

"Robert means [famous and glorious] in ancient Germanic. Am I right, Mr. Paul?"

"Yes, there are many people named Robert in Austria. I thought this was an Austrian name that Asama Shizumizu gave himself temporarily."

Mr. Paul laughed.

With Fuzugawa and Houhouin acting as translators, even people like Pochi, Majima, and Ogata who are not good at German can easily join in the conversation.

"Uncle Paul, do you know Ah Shui?"

"Haha, the process of getting to know each other is wonderful."

After some communication, I found out that Mr. Paul and his wife had already known Asama, Futami and Mashima through the movie "Falling in Love with the Absent Him" ​​produced by Ichijo and Takashi.

"Uncle Paul, do you remember what I played in the movie?"

Pochi asked with a smile.

"You also played a very important female role."

Mr. Paul's obvious carelessness fooled Pochi.

"Hey, in terms of roles, I'm the third female lead."

Shinomiya and Ogata, who also played supporting roles, did not bring humiliation upon themselves.

After the identity of director Fuzukawa was revealed, everyone discussed the topic of the movie again.

Regarding the hotel prototype location of Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel", Mr. Paul dispelled the rumor that the Baroque-style Imperial Hotel was actually a complex of more than a dozen Eastern European hotels and buildings. He also introduced the places worth visiting in Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic and other countries related to the film.

"We are free this weekend and can take you to Görlitz. The view on the bridge there is nice. I can also take my annual leave and take you to Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic."

Mr. Paul's enthusiasm was a little overwhelming for the group.

"I'm sorry Mr. Paul, but we're leaving Vienna tomorrow."

"Oh, that's a shame."

The Handke family, who were in a low mood, were soon inspired by Asama's cooking. They threw aside the bread they had brought with them and praised Asama's white rice with the passion of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig in writing about human heroes.

It seems that delicious food does have a healing effect.

Uncle Paul quickly made up his mind to invite Asama and his group to his house for dinner, but Asama politely declined.

The healing magic of delicious food soon lost its effect.

Futami brought a pot of fruit tea made by Asama and filled it for the Handke family.

Mr. Paul, who was just immersed in regret, raised his glass and laughed.

"Thank you beautiful Vienna for letting us meet, but unfortunately, our meeting was too brief. You are the beautiful wind that made ancient Vienna 500 years younger. I wish you a smooth journey, may your youth be like an everlasting flower, and may the love between you last forever."

After hearing this, the girls really started to like this fat uncle who kept talking to Asana.

"By the way, Robert, I want to ask you one last question. What does ASAMA SHIMIZU mean? Does it also mean glory and honor?"

"A quiet little puddle."

"Is that so? I really don't understand the point of your Eastern-style excessive modesty."

After saying goodbye to the Handke family, Asama obtained the contact information of Mr. Paul and Mrs. Handke.

The movies produced by the Love Advice Department do not have a huge influence. At least when you walk on the street, even in Tokyo, there will be no paparazzi or people asking for autographs.

But she is not small either. She actually met the judges of the film festival in Vienna and their appearance was remembered by them.

The ripples of the butterfly effect made him feel a little uneasy. Was he, a man of great ambition and lofty ideals, going to become a succubus?
It's not that exaggerated, after all, it's just a niche movie. In this noisy world, "Falling in Love with the Non-Existent Him" ​​doesn't even qualify as a background sound.

As long as there is no second part, people's impression of it will remain silent.

The girls changed their clothes one after another.

Just as Mr. Paul said, they are like the most beautiful flowers blooming on the earth, slowing down the pace of pedestrians on the river bank and the clouds over the Danube.

The housekeeper and bodyguard of the Fenghuangin family helped Asama and the others clean up the mess and move the tableware and outdoor supplies into the car.

"Next, let's go to the amusement park~"

Busei stretched towards the sky and spoke to everyone.

"Ferris wheel~Ferris wheel~"

Pochi was the first to respond.

"Eh? Didn't we say we were going to Schönbrunn Palace first?"

"The amusement park is so close to us, why did Mr. Robert choose to go so far away?"

Fuzukawa pointed to the Ferris wheel on the skyline behind them.

"Speaking of amusement parks, Shizumi-kun, you can make crepes, right~"

Damingshin, didn’t you just have lunch and two pieces of cake?
"There are so many coffee shops in Vienna, there should be spinning coffee cups in the amusement park, right?"

Sigong, your logic is wrong!

"Well, I've already bought the ticket. Time is precious. I bought the ticket so I don't have to wait in line. Let's go."

Phoenix Court has used its cash power again.

Maybe it was because of the tiring schedule these days, or maybe it was because of the excessive alcohol intake, but Fenghuangyuan, who won the championship and had an extra dessert, was not in a very good mood.

It’s a pity that she didn’t stand on Asama’s side.

Even though he knew that there were no more allies to win over, Asana decided to resist. His plan to avoid boring activities by cooking for Ichijo couldn't be crushed by the whim of Busou.

"Don't you think the Ferris wheel is more romantic at sunset?"

"Stupid A-Sui, by that time, Masumi-chan's concert will have already started!"

The ladies agreed that it would be better to go to the amusement park first.

Woman, woman, your name is fickleness.

Former Minister Fujiwara quietly elbowed Asama and whispered,
"Asama Asama, I can ride the Ferris wheel with you, and then we can go to Dubai together. The Ferris wheel there seems to be more fun. Do you want to go?"

(End of this chapter)