Chapter 1: Meeting the Super God 4
"What's going on? I...I'm going to sign the contract now?"
I stared with wide eyes as Xia Sen methodically copied the contract , blew on the wet ink handsomely, and then handed the copy to me.
Meatball smiled happily and raised his chubby hands, as if he wanted to shake hands with me.
I looked at the signature over and over again, and it was indeed what I had just written. It was over, it was over, there was no way to regret it now.
Yan Dingding, your bad habit of daydreaming is really killing me. You don’t even know when you’ll sell yourself out! Just like now, it seems like you’ve already sold yourself out, woo woo woo…
However, I still have to fight for my rights.
"Um...are meals provided here?" Just then, my stomach growled twice, very appropriately.
I touched my stomach sheepishly and said, "I didn't eat today and I'm still hungry..."
Xia Senshi was stunned for a moment, with a trace of confusion in his deep eyes: "Meals included?"
"Yes, yes, my home is far from here. Oh, by the way, what time do you go to work? It's too early and I can't make it. It takes more than an hour to get here. I'd better take a taxi..."
"Stop, stop, stop... No need to say more. Hanamachi Research Institute will take care of all your meals while you're an assistant this summer. And you don't have to take a taxi. We can provide accommodation here. Just pack your bags and come over tomorrow. Your dormitory is ready. It's in the attic."
As he spoke, Meatball climbed onto his shoulders again.
"You mean, I'm going to live here? For the whole summer?"
He nodded at me seriously. "Any questions? If not, let me tell you your first priority now..."
After listening to Xia Senshi's first and most important task, I was completely stunned. But saw the contract I signed, I couldn't say anything. I could only stupidly take a taxi home, and then sleep with a blank mind until the next day.
"Dingding, how about this skirt?"
The person who spoke was my best friend Yao Duotao.
Although she is 1.72 meters tall and has a perfect "queen" figure, only I know that she is actually a little girl who loves to be infatuated with men at any time.
"Hello? Ding Ding?"
Yao Duotao's charming eyes enlarged in front of me, and I came back to my senses. Oh, now I am shopping with her in the department store!
I looked at her blankly: "Ah? Duoduo, what did you just say?"
Yao Duotao pouted angrily: "I just asked you what you think of this skirt. It's too short for me, but I think it suits you very well."
She was holding a sleeveless dress with a daisy pattern. The dress was very fresh, but when I looked at it for a little longer, the daisy print on it seemed to have turned into the little flower on her head, which made me lose my focus again.
Yao Duotao put down her skirt worriedly and pulled me out of the brightly lit clothing store.
"Why are you so absent-minded today? It's been like this since last night, and your voice on the phone sounded weird too... Didn't you say before that you were very happy about the summer vacation and could go to the comics cram school? Did something happen?"
I sighed deeply: "Oh, it's hard to put it into words!"
Yao Duotao rolled her eyes and said, "Then cut to the chase! Are you still trying to hide this from me?"
"Let's find a cafe and tell you something... I can't go to the comics class anyway."
Yao Duotao put her arm around my shoulders and dragged me away, just like she had done countless times before.
Oh, how can I put it? I met the great god I admired the most, "Firefly Forest", and became his assistant, but my mission...
Elegant piano music was playing in the quiet cafe. My matcha latte was untouched. It turned a strange color after being stirred by me. Yao Duotao finally couldn't help it.
"Come on, tell me! Why can't you go to the comics class again? Do your parents disagree?"
I sighed and said, "That's not the case. They are both abroad and can't control me! But I encountered something even weirder..."
I told her everything about how I inexplicably received a court summons, how inexplicably I came to the Hanamachi Research Institute, and how inexplicably I became Xia Sentoshi's assistant.
"You want to be an assistant at Hanamachi Research Institute?"
Unexpectedly, she suddenly jumped up in excitement, attracting many people in the cafe to look over here.
I quickly pushed her down to sit down: "Shh! Keep your voice down! Why are you so excited?"
"Dingding, don't you know Hanamachi Research Institute? It's the most famous research institute in the city! Do you know the latest invisible cell phone? That's a product of Hanamachi Research Institute! Many amazing high-tech products are developed by them! And the scientists there are all geniuses who were discovered at a young age!"
I stroked my chin and asked, "So it's so amazing?"
But…isn’t “Firefly Forest” a manga artist, and does he work there too?
"That's weird! Dingding, the last time Hanamachi Research Institute came to our school to recruit, didn't our school also hold a selection? You participated in it too!"
"I……"
By the way, I seem to have some impression of it. So this is what my head teacher said when he scolded me last time?
Yao Duotao rolled her eyes: "Okay, now you know it's an amazing place! Hey, what does an assistant do? I remember that your physics and math are not very good..."
"I can't even show off my only specialty, comics!"
The atmosphere was frozen for a second, and then we all pretended nothing had been said and continued chatting.
"No, since all the researchers found you, it must be because you are amazing!" Yao Duotao helped me smooth things over.
"No, it's just... I'm just unlucky!"
Oh, I was really suffocating, but in the end I didn’t tell her the truth.
After all, the real situation was related to the first task Xia Senshi assigned to me: due to some unspeakable reasons, he could not disclose his identity as "Firefly Forest", so he found me on the Internet - an unlucky little fan, and asked me to help him receive the award at the "Phantom Star" comics competition in two weeks as his assistant...
I signed a contract and was threatened several times not to reveal the content of this mission. In other words, I can't tell anyone that Xia Senshi is the comic god "Firefly Forest", otherwise, I will be in court...
This is really suffocating me!
Yao Duotao didn't notice my tangled thoughts, she said excitedly: "Is Xia Senshi handsome? Is he handsome? Is he cool and dashing?"
"you……"
"Hurry up and tell me!"
I gritted my teeth and said, "He is the most evil, terrible, and shameless demon in the world!"
Unexpectedly, Yao Duotao was even happier: "Wow! It's written like this in novels, the most evil and terrifying demons are usually very handsome! It seems that Xia Senshi must be a handsome guy!"
"well……"
