"Huh? Sister Riko, I'm looking for a husband for you! This big brother is very good-looking! ”

Sachiko Hasegawa threw herself into her sister's arms, which made Riko Hasegawa also open her mouth and was speechless for a while.

She was going to warm her hands with a menu and a hot towel, but before she could see her sister muttering something next to them.

This made her can't help but half-pull Sachiko Hasegawa, and at the same time bow her head and apologize to Tsukasa Higashino: "I'm very sorry! Guest, this is my sister, I didn't watch her when I was busy in the kitchen, I'm sorry to have caused you trouble. ”

Originally, Sachiko Hasegawa, the little guy, was supposed to be doing his homework upstairs, but she sneaked down.

It's not the first time this little guy has done this, Rao is Riko Hasegawa has always been good-natured and a little angry, and she plans to beat Sachiko Hasegawa's ass hard after apologizing this time.

There is a good saying, how happy you laugh now, how loud you cry later.

Sachiko Hasegawa apparently didn't know the seriousness of the matter, and was still standing there giggling happily.

Riko Hasegawa bowed repeatedly and bowed her head, but she was a little surprised when she lowered her head: "You are... The one who is at Tokyo Animation Production Company today... Wrong... Are you Tsukasa Higashino-sensei? ”

That's when she found out about Tsukasa Higashino's identity.

After all, Tsukasa Higashino is also a celebrity in the industry, and a former voice actor like her has also heard people mention it, and she has even seen Tsukasa Higashino being interviewed on TV.

But today, Higashino Tsukasa covered half of his face and wore an overcoat, covering his whole body tightly, so she didn't recognize it at all.

"It's me." Tsukasa Higashino smiled and nodded, "We met just now, Miss Hasegawa." ”

"Ahh Yes... Well. It's met. Riko Hasegawa said 'ah' several times, and it seemed obvious that there was a lot of things she wanted to ask Higashino.

But she still swallowed these words into her stomach: "May I ask Higashino-sensei and... Does Kuronomiya-sensei's sukiyabe eat beef or pork? ”

Her memory is obviously good, and even the Kuronomiya Akira next to her can remember the name.

"Do you still have pork sukiyabe?" Tsukasa Higashino.

Japanese sukiyaki has always been based on beef, and Riko Hasegawa's restaurant also offers pork sukiyaki, which naturally surprised Tsukasa Higashino.

"Yes, because there are also guests who don't like to eat beef... In addition, the pork sukiyaki is not bad, so it has been kept as a dish of our restaurant. ”

Riko Hasegawa knelt on the ground and said with her head bowed.

"What does Senior Sister Black Palace want to eat?" Tsukasa Higashino looked sideways at Kuronomiya Akisa.

After all, he also brought a Kuronomiya Ming Sha, so naturally he couldn't just follow his thoughts.

"Beef." Kuronomiya Akira replied without hesitation.

She still cherishes words as always, but she clearly expresses that she wants to eat beef sukiyabe.

Then Kuronomiya Misa looked at Riko Hasegawa again, her eyes were a little puzzled: "Miss Hasegawa, there is something I want to ask... What about the previous owner? ”

yes... What about the previous owner?

Kuronomiya Misa has the impression that the shopkeeper here should be a fairly amiable middle-aged uncle, and his relationship with Chimi Nagawa is quite good.

Even if it is the light of Chimi Nagawa, Kuronomiya Akisa also knows the owner, and every time the other party serves a lot of food.

How did it get to today... Became Riko Hasegawa's chef?

"Uh..." Riko Hasegawa heard Kuronomiya Akisa's question, her mouth moved, she raised her head to look at her, and then lowered her head again, her thin lips pursed, and her delicate face seemed to tremble.

But—

"Miss Hasegawa, it's almost time to serve food next door."

There was a greeting from outside, which made Hasegawa Riko stunned, and then she lowered her head and apologized: "I'm sorry, there are still some things to deal with outside, let's talk about it later." ”

She immediately got up and left, taking Sachiko Hasegawa with her.

Looking at the delicate back of Riko Hasegawa leaving, Higashino Tsukasa also had a rare good feeling in his heart.

Riko Hasegawa's performance is not like many social people, after seeing Tsukasa Higashino, she desperately climbs favors and pulls relationships, but she is very serious about the work at hand and does not disturb the meal time of his customer.

You must know that Tsukasa Higashino is the original author of "Midnight Bell", as long as he speaks, it is not difficult to give Riko Hasegawa a chance to be nominated.

But Riko Hasegawa didn't say anything, just did her current job without saying a word.

This serious personality at a glance made Higashino Tsukasa very satisfied, and it also made Higashino Tsukasa respect each other.

Higashino wiped his hands with a hot towel and waited a little longer for Riko Hasegawa to put everything together.

Weilin sauce, enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, konjac shreds, green onions, snowflake beef, two pieces of tofu, two sterile eggs...

She knelt on the ground, revealing a small part of the back of her neck, and quickly placed the cast iron pot on the small stove of the gas tank, and then said, "Please use it slowly, two of you." ”

Riko Hasegawa does things quickly, very steadily, and is serious with the naked eye, and even tried to turn the fire off several times, and only after confirming that there is no problem did it hand it over to Tsukasa Higashino and Akisa Kuromiya.

After doing these things, Riko Hasegawa raised her head again and said embarrassedly: "Miss Kuronomiya, I'm sorry, I still have something over there, and when I'm done... I'll talk to you about my father again. ”

After saying this, she bowed again and exited the room.

On the other side, Higashino Tsukasa could understand her embarrassed face, but since she had something to do with Kuronomiya Akisa, it didn't have much to do with him.

It's not that Higashino is indifferent, it's that meddling isn't a good behavior.

He knocked the eggs, put the beef in the pan, and waited until the butter was fragrant, then added the green onion and fried it, and waited until the fragrance came out, and then he put the beef into it.

Sukiyaki, since there is a word 'burned' in it, then there is naturally a frying process, so Higashino Tsukasa did not rush to cut the sauce, and waited for the beef to be cooked on both sides a little bit, and then poured the flavor on it - with a 'zila' sound, the aroma was forced out from the beef and green onions, and the whole sukiyaki pot was gurgling and steaming.

Tsukasa Higashino wrapped the beef dipped in the miin sauce and the green onion segments together, mixed some egg liquid and ate it in his stomach...

Call...

Not bad indeed.

It's just a little sweet, and the taste of Tsukasa Higashino is salty.

On the other side, Kuronomiya Akira also started to move on her pot, and Higashino Tsukasa also found a topic, chatting with her without a word.

Most of them are about how Midnight Bells was drafted.

The other party is obviously still struggling with Higashino's painting style.

After more than forty minutes of stumbling like this, Tsukasa Higashino and Akira Kuronomiya can be regarded as solving this table of dishes.

It's quite comfortable to eat, but the only fly in the ointment is that the sweet sauce is a little unsuitable for Tsukasa Higashino's taste.

At this time, there was a knock on the sliding door, and Riko Hasegawa's voice came from outside: "I'm sorry, Kuronomiya-sensei, Higashino-sensei, I'm sorry to disturb." ”

After she got permission, she pulled the door and came in: "I don't need my help in the back kitchen for the time being... So I came over to tell Kuromiya-sensei about my father. ”

After finishing speaking, Riko Hasegawa showed an apologetic expression: "I'm sorry, Mr. Higashino, can you please go to the empty room next door and wait for a while?" ”

That's understandable.

After all, Kuronomiya Akisa knows Hasegawa's father, and Tsukasa Higashino has nothing to do with it, so it's not good here.

In fact, even if Riko Hasegawa didn't mention it, Tsukasa Higashino would take the initiative to bring it up.

He nodded immediately and walked to the empty room next door to wait.

But he hadn't sat down long before he heard a rustling sound by the door.

"Big brother! I know how much 12 is! My sister told me just now! ”

Sachiko Hasegawa glanced left and right, and cautiously ran to Tsukasa Higashino.

This is like a thief's little expression at home, so Higashino Tsukasa couldn't help laughing, he called Sachiko Hasegawa over, and asked her with some interest: "Is it?" Is it so powerful? ”

"Uh-huh!" Sachiko Hasegawa nodded vigorously, and asked him with some confusion: "So when will the eldest brother marry my sister?" ”

“......”

It seems that this little guy can't get around this problem in this life.

Tsukasa Higashino was a little speechless, and expressed puzzlement at Sachiko Hasegawa's stubbornness: "Why do you want me to marry your sister so much?" ”

"Because my brother is good-looking."

Sachiko Hasegawa was stunned for a moment, and the baby's fat little hand crossed her waist and replied confidently.

Tsukasa Higashino couldn't help but shake his head even more when he heard this-well... This little guy is only five years old and is a good-looking dog, which is a bit bad to go on like this.

So Higashino Tsukasa deliberately frowned, pressed his eyebrows, and showed a very indifferent look, and then directly picked up Sachiko Hasegawa and scared her: "I'm actually a bad person, a bad person who eats more than a dozen children a day." ”

As soon as he said this, Sachiko Hasegawa was not only not afraid, but also giggled: "Big brother won't eat me." ”

"Huh?" What is the truth of this?

"Because Sachiko is also very good-looking! Better looking than my brother! Chubby for nothing! ”

Sachiko Hasegawa raised her head and said innocently.

"Good guy, this Sachiko Hasegawa is taking good-looking as justice.

The kind that does whatever you want as long as you look good.

So Higashino thought for a moment and pointed to a calendar hanging in the dining room.

There was a little calf on it, and it looked very clumsy and cute.

Each dining room is illustrated with this kind of illustration, which looks quite interesting.

He pointed to the painting and asked Sachiko Hasegawa, "Isn't it cute?" ”

"Niu Niu is cute!" Sachiko Hasegawa nodded immediately.

"Is it cuter than you?"

Belch...

Sachiko Hasegawa hesitated for a moment and nodded.

"I even ate such a cute cow just now, do you think I will eat you?"

"Huh?" Sachiko Hasegawa finally stopped stupid.

She glanced at the cow on the calendar painting, and then at Tsukasa Higashino, and then realized that something was wrong, and she was a little shocked.

But she was pulled by Higashino Division again, and she couldn't escape at all.

So she struggled for a while, and finally looked at Higashino Tsukasa hesitantly: "Brother... Don't you eat me, okay? ”

"Not good." Higashino immediately denied it.

"That's... That..."Sachiko Hasegawa panicked, and 'that' in place for a long time, before finally stretching out his chubby little hand: "Is it okay for Sachiko's hand to give my brother food?" Sachiko still has things to do, and she can't all be eaten by her brother. ”

"Anything else to do?" Higashino didn't continue to tease her, after all, it would be a bit too much to joke anymore.

"Hmm." Sachiko Hasegawa nodded lightly and whispered, "Sachiko still has to accompany her sister... Otherwise, my sister would be too pitiful to be alone. ”

Alone...?

Tsukasa Higashino stopped talking and didn't ask any more questions.

In fact, there was no need for him to continue asking.

Combined with Riko Hasegawa's hesitant look before, coupled with what Sachiko Hasegawa said... Tsukasa Higashino probably understood.

Riko Hasegawa's father probably suffered some kind of accident... And listen to Sachiko Hasegawa ... It seems that her mother is also long gone.

Higashino didn't continue to delve in, but just smiled and touched Sachiko Hasegawa's head, skipped the topic of 'eating children', and started talking with her.

Although it is said to be nonsense, Sachiko Hasegawa is just a child after all, and her sometimes words will still reveal some of Riko Hasegawa's current situation.

Riko Hasegawa's father did not stop Riko Hasegawa from chasing her dream of being a voice actor.

And with the support of her father, Riko Hasegawa also worked very hard, she graduated from a regular voice actor school, and then transitioned to a voice actor agency called AK89.

She worked there for nearly two years, and then, with her outstanding strength, won the voice of the second female character in the animation "Ultramarine Philosophy" last year.

Later, at the beginning of this year, under the excellent voice of Riko Hasegawa, "The Murder of Kaneda" exploded, and she began to be known as a voice actor...

Originally, everyone thought that Riko Hasegawa's career had begun.

But no one thought that in the back, Riko Hasegawa fell to the bottom all of a sudden, and unilaterally terminated the contract with AK89, not to mention, her father also died of illness during this period, leaving only Sachiko Hasegawa and this sukiyaki store.

And then until today, she inherited the family business and worked at this sukiyaki shop... Every day, I go to Tokyo Animation Production Company to try my luck.

As for the reasons for the unilateral termination of the contract... This is naturally impossible for Sachiko Hasegawa to know.

She just raised her head and said very seriously, "Sister is not that kind of person. Those people are bad guys, deliberately smearing my sister. ”

For this sentence, Tsukasa Higashino did not agree, but he did not disagree either.

After all, it is certainly not appropriate to jump to conclusions before there is the truth.

It's just that as far as Higashino's current observations are concerned... Riko Hasegawa really doesn't look like the kind of person who doesn't take responsibility for her work.

Another thing worth mentioning is that Riko Hasegawa is still his fan.

"Midnight Bell" single book, the whole set of "Midnight Bell" peripherals, with the whole book of "Lonely Gourmet" and special chapters... She collected them all.

It's definitely a fanatic.