Daily Comics: Mystery Begins from Everyday Life

"Kuku has the subtle and powerful observation skills needed to investigate crimes, as well as the courage to face danger and the persistence to find the truth. He is a good example for us to learn from!" Cang Xingshi said seriously, with a heavy look on his cute little face, as if he had put himself into the situation and become Kuku's successor.

"Father, look!" Canary excitedly took out a yellow-brown detective hat from the suitcase. "The shop owner is very nice. He also gave us some Kuku-related items as a gift."

"Well, very good!" Luo Tian nodded seriously and said, "Now put away your comic books, and use the observation and courage you learned from Kuku to go buy ingredients for the hot pot tonight!"

"Okay, father!" Zhenhong and the others put away the comic books and followed Luotian into the supermarket.

Soon, the group arrived at the fruit and vegetable area.

"Canary, Blue Star Stone, Emerald Star Stone, True Red, and Hinamei, let's act separately and buy the food you like first, and then come to the seafood area to find me later." Luotian said.

"Yes! Father!"

Zhenhong and the others responded in unison, then dispersed to look for their favorite food.

Immediately afterwards, Luotian took out his mobile phone and contacted Nakano Ichika and others. After chatting for a few words, he hung up the phone.

"How about it, are Ichika and the others free?" asked Sakurajima Mai.

"Yes," Luo Tian put away his phone and said, "Ma Yi, let's go buy some seasonings for the hot pot."

"Hot pot...dipping sauce? What is that?" Mai Sakurajima was a little confused. This was beyond Mai Sakurajima's understanding of hot pot.

"That's the soul of real hot pot!" Luo Tian blinked mysteriously, and then said: "Originally, I planned to buy a pot with two, four, or six grids, so that I could save the trouble of preparing dipping sauces separately, but now it seems that I can't be lazy even if I want to."

"By the way, what kind of sauce do you like, Mai-san?"

"Sauce?"

Sakurajima Mai stared at Luotian blankly, as if she didn't understand.

"Peanut butter, shacha sauce, ketchup, or sweet noodle sauce?" Luotian gave examples.

"Um... peanut butter and ketchup are both fine..." Mai Sakurajima replied in confusion.

"That makes it easy. Let's go buy the ingredients!"

"Eh?!"

Amid Sakurajima Mai's exclamation, Luotian took her to the supermarket to buy a lot of seemingly unrelated ingredients.

What about shallots, ginger, sesame oil, red oil, sesame, pepper, etc...

After buying all the ingredients, Luotian dragged the confused Sakurajima Mai straight to the meat and seafood areas....

It's eight o'clock in the evening...

The rooftop of the [Rose] Doll Shop was unusually lively. Amid the sound of chirping and laughter, everyone sat around a large hot pot table. On the table were many sliced ​​ingredients, vegetables, fruits, seafood, meat slices, etc.

"The soup is boiling! It's ready to eat!"

As Luotian finished his words, everyone picked up their chopsticks skillfully, put the thinly sliced ​​ingredients into the big hot pot, and then dipped them in the prepared sauce. Immediately, a burst of exclamations rang out.

"Wow! This is what it's like to eat hotpot! The taste is so delicious!" This is the compliment from foodie Satsuki Nakano.

"Yeah, it's been five years... It's been a long time since I had hot pot in the hot summer." This is the sigh of Nakano Nino.

"Soft-boiled egg~Soft-boiled egg~Ichika, are you still not done?"

"Please be patient and wait~"

This is the interaction between Canary and Nakano Ichika, which appears extremely harmonious.

Of course, where there is harmony there will be noise..play.

"Ugh! My meat! Verdurous Star Stone!"

"Hehehe! It's delicious!"

"Hinaberry, mine is yours."

This is Hinamichi, whose food was taken away by the Emerald Starstone, and Aoshiseki, who is always trying to make up for her sister's mischief.

"Hey! Mercury Lamp! This is the slice of meat I cut! Put it down!"

"Hmph~ Zhenhong, you are such a naive little fool."

The daily life of two sisters who are enemies. The elegant Mercury Lamp eats slowly, but her movements are always faster than Zhenhong, snatching away the food that Zhenhong wants to eat.

Chapter 272 Sakurajima Mai: See you at school

"Ms. Rena! Come! You have to drink a few more drinks with me today!"

"Miss Jing, you have already drunk all the beer..."

"What?! You're done drinking? Xiaotian! Go buy some wine! I'm not going to leave until your mother and I are drunk!"

"That's enough, Teacher Jing..."

These were the only two adults at the table, one of them was drunk, the other was quite sober.

"Wow! It's so hot!"

"Himari, drink some of this!"

As a cat demon, Himari still couldn't escape the weakness of cat tongue being afraid of heat, so Kaya quickly fed Himari some cold juice.

"Mai-san, how is it? How does this hot pot taste?"

"It's delicious, especially the tomato sesame dip, it's awesome!"

"That's good, come on, eat more!"

"Uh... Luotian... That's enough. I can't eat so much meat..."

Although the aroma was so fragrant and her appetite was aroused, Sakurajima Mai, who was worried about getting fat, could only refuse with pursed lips. In the end, she could only look enviously at the alien hero Yusa Emi who was eating with big mouthfuls of food and the COS girl Kitagawa Umi who could never gain weight.

"Luotian Luotian, give me another serving of cumin-flavored dipping sauce!" Kitagawa Haimeng's mouth was full of red oil, and she handed the empty dipping sauce plate in her hand to Luotian.

"Luotian, please give me another serving of spicy flavor!" The alien hero Yusa Huimei also had a mouth full of red oil, and she also handed an empty plate to Luotian.

"Okay, wait a moment."

Luotian took the empty plate, stood up, then took two plates from the sauce table and handed them to the two women.

The meal was extremely lively, and the various dipping sauces were also very popular.

On the edge of the rooftop, the roses planted by the gardening twins have already grown buds, and the green leaves and vines have spread out, and it seems that they are about to bloom.

After dinner, the vegetables, fruits, meat and seafood on the table were almost all eaten up.

Rena and the others were helping to clean up and sweep the rooftop, while Rakuten, Shizumiku, and Kaya were washing dishes in the kitchen.

"Kaya, is Himuri okay?" Luotian asked.

"I just burned my tongue with the fish ball, I'm fine now." Gaya replied.

"Speaking of which, Himuri is a cat demon, so why is her tongue so afraid of heat?" Luotian asked in confusion.

"I don't know either." Gaya shrugged.

"After all, it's a stupid cat and can't escape the weaknesses of its nature." Jing Shuijiu said vaguely.

"Weakness of nature..." Luotian seemed to understand something.

"Just like I can't leave the water for a long time, it's for the same reason..." Jing Shuijiu explained lightly.

"By the way, Shizumiku, aren't you afraid of burning your tongue? There seems to be something wrong with the way you speak..." Kaya asked puzzledly.

"Don't be afraid..." said 793. Jing Shuijiu replied briefly.

"It's good that you are not afraid." Luo Tian smiled and asked, "Jing Shuijiu, how do you feel about this hot pot?"

"It's not bad, but the sauce tastes a bit numbing..." Jing Shuijiu spoke in a vague manner, as if that was the reason why she spoke so vaguely.

"Um...you can't eat peppercorns?" Luotian was a little confused. After wiping his hands clean, he quickly gathered a trace of life energy to treat Jing Shuijiu's tongue.

"I don't know either." Jing Shuijiu shook his head and said, "It was only after eating that I felt my tongue was a little numb..."

"What about now?" Luotian asked after the treatment.

"Okay, the tongue has returned to normal." Shizumi Hisahisa replied.

"That's good..." Luo Tian breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed Jing Shuijiu's little head and said with a smile: "It seems that in the future, when you eat hot pot, I can't add these slightly heavy ingredients to you. Just eat some clear soup."

"Hmm..." Jingshui stared at Luotian blankly and nodded.

After a while, after cleaning the kitchen, Luotian came to the rooftop again.

Mai Sakurajima and Ichika Nakano are practicing the plot dialogue for the "LycorisRecoil" script here.

But rather than saying it's practice, it's more like popular actress Mai Sakurajima is guiding newcomers who haven't debuted yet.

"No, Ichika, your tone needs to be more natural."

"Eh?! More natural?"

Nakano Ichika was confused and a little nervous, but she calmed down when she noticed the boy standing at the stairs.

"Yes, because according to the script, you need to give a monologue about the city's situation, and your tone should come from the heart and come out naturally."

"It just comes naturally..."

Mai Sakurajima's advice inspired Ichika Nakano to concentrate on her work. She closed her eyes and remained silent for a moment before she began to read her monologue again.

This time, the sincere, natural and emotional monologue surprised Mai Sakurajima. She obviously didn't expect Nakano Ichika to be so talented that just a reminder could help her find the right tone.

"Wow... Mai-chan looks so professional..."

"Yeah, he's a popular actor indeed..."

"Shh! Keep your voice down, don't disturb Ichika's training..."

A little further away, Nakano Nino and others were watching the practice and were very impressed by the seriousness and professionalism displayed by Sakurajima Mai.

Soon, the first paragraph of practice was completed, and then Sakurajima Mai selected a dialogue to start practicing.

"Hello, partner! I'm Chitsuki! (abdb)"

"I'm Inoue Takina, please..."

"Oh! Takina! Nice to meet you!"

"Yes, I was transferred from Kyoto last year..."

"Ooooh! An excellent member who has just been transferred here! What's his age!?"

This was the conversation between the two protagonists when they first met. After the conversation ended, Sakurajima Mai pointed out the problem again.

"Ichika, your expression is wrong. Your tone lacks the expected surprise and outgoing and lively personality, especially the familiarity that Nishiki Chitsuka is designed to bring."

"Eh?!"

Without waiting for Nakano Ichika to respond, Sakurajima Mai continued speaking.

"Also, you didn't smile brightly enough when you were with Inoue Takina... No... You should say you were confident, and you didn't live up to what the script said..." Sakurajima Mai flipped open the script and read: "Faced with Inoue Takina who came to report, Nishiki Chitsuka was surprised and happy to talk to Inoue Takina. Her lively and self-familiar exaggerated personality made the serious and rigorous Inoue Takina a little overwhelmed."

"Ichika, the main character of the script, Chitsuki Nishiki, is extremely confident and active from the heart. Your first priority is to become Chitsuki Nishiki, not to play her or say the lines according to the script."

"Yes! I understand!"

As a person with rich experience in filming, Mai Sakurajima pointed out the problems very accurately, which even shocked Luotian. It was also the first time that he saw Mai Sakurajima's skills and insights as a super popular actress.

Of course, Nakano Ichika was not bad either. She took note of the teachings and instructions from her predecessors very seriously, then made precise adjustments and practiced again.

Although Mai Sakurajima called for a stop several times and then started over again, Ichika Nakano continued with determination.

Being an actor is really hard.

Looking at Nakano Ichika with sweat on her forehead, Luotian couldn't help feeling distressed, but it was not easy for him to intervene.

It was around nine o'clock in the evening...

After sending Rena and the others home, Luotian came to the doll shop in the front hall and stayed there. After all, it was still early before closing time, and Yusa Emi had already gone home.

Just as Luotian was sitting at the cash register thinking about painting the background of the script, Jingshuijiu came over.

"Falling sky."

"Well, you've worked hard today."

Luotian withdrew his thoughts, turned around and looked at the petite girl standing beside him, his eyes full of love.

"Nothing." Jing Shuijiu shook his head slightly, and then said: "Luotian, I have to leave for a while."

"Leave?" Luo Tian raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked thoughtfully: "Are you going back?"