My fiancée Yukino

After Yang Nai went to take a shower, Luo Bai and Shi Yu watched as Yukino turned on the Nintendo Switch and started playing Splatoon 3.

After playing some single-player games, this girl has now started researching online multiplayer shooting games.

However, Yukino had never played shooting games before, so it was quite difficult for her to get started.

Fortunately, Spray Spray isn't a first-person shooter, otherwise I would definitely get motion sickness.

After Yukino played a match and lost, she looked at Luo Bai and said, "Want to team up and play together?"

Luo Bai shook his head without hesitation and said, "No, I'm not very good at this game. I'll play the ones I like instead."

Then I took out my Nintendo Switch and started playing the new Pikmin game that was just released at the end of July.

Yukino wrinkled her nose slightly, glanced at Luo Bai with displeasure, then picked up the controller and continued her beginner's game journey.

Volume 1: Chapter 291 Departure for Tokyo (1/2)

The next day, it’s half past seven in the morning.

Luo Bai opened his eyes, and then felt that his body was being pressed down and he couldn't move.

Yukino had half her body pressed against him, Utaha was on his right, and Haruno was at the innermost position against the wall, holding Yukino with her thigh stretched out and resting on his leg.

Luckily, the air conditioning was on all the time, otherwise it would have been unbearably hot.

After Luo Bai moved, Yukino quickly woke up as well, rubbing her eyes and asking, "What time is it?"

"It's 7:30, still early, do you want to sleep a little longer?"

Shaking her head, Yukino yawned, slowly sat up and said, "No, I should get up. My aunt and uncle are here, it's not good to sleep in."

As the two were talking, Shiyu and Yangna woke up one after the other, so everyone got up together.

After washing up, Luo Bai knew without even thinking that his mother must have gotten up by now.

A phone call confirmed that they were indeed up and already preparing breakfast, so they were told to get up and come over to eat.

Luo Bai skipped preparing breakfast and instead took Yukino and the others, along with Mai and Hoshino Ai who were already up next door, and Elma from upstairs, to his parents' place for breakfast.

As for Shinobu and the others, they didn't go over. They even got up earlier than the others, had already completed a round of training, and had breakfast.

After having breakfast and tidying up briefly, Luo Bai and Shi Yu set off together by car for Tokyo.

Sitting in the car, Shiyu said while holding her phone, "As expected, Eriri is unreliable. I told her I would arrive at ten o'clock, and she just woke up now. She was playing games again last night."

Luo Bai said with a smile, "After all, you're finally back. Eriri must be much more relieved, which is why she's relaxed and playing games. She drew several extra chapters before, so it's normal for her to relax a little now. But, you really haven't watched any of it? Did she send you any pictures? Even though she drew a lot, the quality still has to be guaranteed."

Shiyu shook her head and said, "No, but I'm confident in her abilities. Besides, submitting the comic is more important to her than me this time, so even without my saying anything, she won't slack off on the comic."

That's true. Shiyu's core business is still her steadily growing novel writing career; she only does comics in her spare time.

For Eriri, this Demon Slayer manga is arguably her only chance in recent years to shed her identity as a doujinshi artist, and she must make the most of it.

Even though she loves playing games, Eriri won't relax at all during this time.

Luo Bai smiled and said, "Will she arrive on time?"

"Yes, she's already up, and the place we're meeting isn't far from her home, so she should arrive around the same time as us."

As she spoke, Shi Yu happily snuggled into Luo Bai's arms and squinted her eyes.

"I'll take a nap before we arrive."

Luo Bai nodded, stroking Shi Yu's hair and said, "Go to sleep, it'll be another half hour. I'll wake you up when it's time."

"Uh-huh."

Shi Yu happily responded, kissed Luo Bai on the cheek, and then began to take a nap.

Half an hour later, the car entered downtown Tokyo, and Luo Bai woke up Shi Yu, who was sleeping.

Rubbing her eyes, Shiyu glanced at the street scene outside the car window and asked, "How much longer until we arrive?"

"About ten minutes, we'll drive a bit slower in the city," Luo Bai said. "Take a quick tidy up, you're drooling!"

Shi Yu immediately snapped out of it, took out a tissue from her bag to wipe the corner of her mouth, and then took out a makeup mirror to touch up her makeup.

Eight minutes later, the car arrived at the agreed-upon teahouse entrance.

After getting out of the car and coming in, Luo Bai told the waiter his room number. The waiter then said, "Another guest arrived three minutes ago. Please follow me."

Linking arms with Luo Bai, Shi Yu said in surprise, "I didn't expect her to arrive first."

Luo Bai nodded and said, "I also quite..."

Surprisingly, it's unusual; normally, girls spend a lot of time on makeup and dressing up.

After thinking for a moment, Shi Yu said, "Well, she's going to submit her work this afternoon. She'll definitely be dressed up and made up. Her family will probably drive her here."

Indeed, it must have been delivered by car from home.

As they spoke, the two arrived at the private room. As soon as they opened the door, they saw Eriri, dressed in a ladylike style and wearing a white dress, sitting inside.

Seeing Luo Bai and Shi Yu, Eriri crossed her arms and said smugly, "Hehehe, I told you I'd be the first one there!"

"Okay, okay, you're amazing."

Shiyu was too lazy to talk about this with Eriri, so she came in with Luo Bai and sat down opposite her.

Tea and snacks were served after Eriri arrived, so there was no need to order anything else.

Utaha reached out her hand to Eriri and said, "Come on, let me see the original drawings you've been working on these past few days."

"Hey, hmph, I've been working hard on my drawing these past few days and haven't gone out to play at all. But you, I can't even find you."

As she handed the manuscript to Shiho, Eriri was still making sarcastic remarks about her.

Shiyu knew she was in the wrong, so she didn't argue. Instead, she took the drawing and looked at it carefully.

Seeing that Shiyu didn't react, Eriri immediately felt bored and pouted as she looked at Luo Bai sitting to the side.

"Senior, where have you guys been these past few days? I tried calling her every time, but I couldn't get through. Luckily, I knew the number she edited, so I called back and found out you guys went out to play. Otherwise, I would have thought she had disappeared."

"Where did you go to play..."

Luo Bai smiled and shook his head, saying, "It's hard to say. The place we went to was a bit special, not a typical tourist attraction. I'll tell you when I have the chance."

It's really not a good idea to tell Eriri about other worlds and such.

However, Eriri's family has quite a background in Tokyo, and her father is a diplomat, so he might know something.

But judging from Eriri's personality, Luo Bai figured that even if her parents knew, they probably wouldn't tell her.

"Sigh! A place I can't talk about?"

Eriri looked at Luo Bai and Eriri suspiciously, wondering where they had gone to play, and felt a little depressed.

Shiyu, who was looking at the sketches, said, "It's not that I can't want to know, but it might not do you any good. Are you sure you want to know? There are some things that are better left unknown."

"kindness?"

Eriri blinked, and after seeing Luo Bai nodding as well, she felt inexplicably uneasy.

What do you mean by that?

Volume 1: Chapter 292 Eriri Learns the Truth (2/2)

Luo Bai hadn't expected Shi Yu to say that, and couldn't help but glance at her.

Shiyu noticed Luo Bai's gaze, then handed Luo Bai the manuscript of the chapter she had just finished reading and said, "When I was chatting with Nagatsuki-nee before, she mentioned that when we were collaborating on a manga with Eriri, she told me that the Sawamura family knew about these things and had provided a lot of financial support when the Tokyo base was first established."

Is there such a connection?

Luo Bai was surprised; he really didn't know that.

"Yeah, I only found out by contacting Nayuki-nee before I went on vacation." Shiyu shrugged and said, "So, should we tell her?"

"Go ahead and tell them. Since her family already knew, it's fine to tell them anyway. They'll find out sooner or later."

The conversation between the two only confused Eriri more.

"What are you talking about? How did you get involved with my family?"

No sooner had Eriri asked than she saw a cell phone suddenly appear out of nowhere in Utaha's hand.

"Huh? Huh?"

Eriri blinked, then rubbed her eyes in confusion.

She wore contact lenses when she went out today, so it's impossible for her eyes to be blurry.

Next, she saw Shi Yu's phone appear and disappear several times.

"This, what on earth is this?!"

Looking up at Eriri, who had an incredibly shocked expression, Utaha said, "Didn't you want to know where we went before? We went to another world!"

"...Are you kidding me?"

Although she said that, Eriri had a strange feeling that Utaha wasn't lying to her.

"Another world, is it real...?"

"Of course it's true."

As she spoke, Shiyu unlocked her phone, opened the photo album, and handed it to Eriri.

"Take a look for yourself. These are photos I took these past few days. For the first few days, we went to a deserted island to play around, and then we went to a human city in another world. We played there for about ten days, which was quite interesting."

Eriri took Shiho's phone and looked at the photos on it.

The initial photos were indeed taken at the beach, and everyone was wearing swimsuits.

Soon, Eriri noticed something different in the photo. There were three people in it: an older woman, a young girl, and a little girl. All three of them had a pair of different horns on their heads, and the young girl and the little girl each had a tail that didn't belong to a human.

"This, this is?"

Seeing Eriri show photos of Tohru and the others on her phone, Luo Bai explained, "The tallest one is Lucoa, the one with orange twin tails is Tohru, and the little white-haired one is Kanna. They are all dragons."

"Dragon, dragon!?"

“Oh right, Dragon.” Nodding, Luo Bai began to introduce the three of them to Eriri.

Of the three, Kanna had the simplest background, while Lucoa's identity as the Feathered Serpent God and Thor's status as a princess of the Chaos faction left Eriri completely bewildered.

"Are there still dragons living in our world? And they can even transform?"

Luo Bai said, "Yes, and it's not just the three of them. Later, when we were on the island, one of Thor's friends also came over and has now come to this world with us. In addition, there is another one who came before and stayed at Sister Lin's friend's house. He also likes to play games. If you have time to get together in the future, you can come over and chat. He seems to play quite hard, whether it's single-player games or online games."

Eriri was even more confused now. There were actually dragons who were addicted to games?

Then, as she flipped through the photos, she soon saw Elma, Thor's friend, whom Luo Bai had mentioned.

"It really is a dragon. It has a single horn, and its tail looks a bit like a fish's tail."

Hearing Eriri's evaluation, Luo Bai said, "I haven't seen Erima's true form, but I guess it should be somewhat similar to the Naga in our mythology."

Then, Eriri saw the photos of Luo Bai and the others visiting a human city in another world. It was obvious that it was not from any country in this world; the style was completely different.

After looking at the photos and watching two videos that Shiho had taken while eating, Eriri returned the phone to Shiho and said in shock, "It really is another world... How unbelievable! Did our world really have such a secret?"

"There are still many secrets."

Luo Bai finished reading the original manuscript of the chapter and put it away.

After getting up, he said, "In our world, creatures and items from other worlds occasionally drift over. If they're ordinary, it's fine, but we're afraid of some terrifying creatures. There have been quite a few man-eating monsters before. Look, the man-eating ghosts on this are based on real beings, and even the story you're drawing now has a prototype in another world!"

Eriri's eyes widened in surprise as she exclaimed, "Really? They have real-life counterparts? Do demons and Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen all have real-life counterparts?"

"Yes, they all have real-life counterparts."

At this point, Shiyu had finished reading the original manuscript. She reopened her phone's photo album, found a picture of Shinobu Kocho and the others, and said, "I haven't given you the rest of the script yet. This is Shinobu Kocho. She's the Insect Hashira of the Demon Slayer Corps over there. She's a very strong swordsman. Not only is she skilled in swordsmanship, but she also knows medicine and has a poison technique that even demons can't withstand. Right now, she's brought her sisters over and is staying in the apartment building where Luo Jun and the others live."

Looking at the photo of Shinobu Kocho wearing a butterfly hair clip, Eriri blinked, her curiosity completely piqued.

"Then, may I go see them?"

Shiyu put away her phone and said, "Okay, now that I've told you everything, I won't hide it anymore. But today our main task is to submit the manuscript. They're also looking forward to this manga, hoping it can spread the story of the Demon Slayer Corps to other worlds. Oh right, I forgot to mention, do you remember the cake I brought before? That was an ingredient from the manga Toriko, a bellows mane cake."

As a seasoned otaku, Eriri naturally knows about the manga Toriko.

Upon hearing Shi Yu's words, she immediately remembered.

"Ah! It's the trumpet lion! That's right, that's right, I was wondering where this delicious cake came from, it's better than any cake I've ever eaten, so this is it!"