The national college entrance examination is in January, which is 7 months away (in the game).
The reason why Kurosawa Jin agreed to Natsuki's request was simple. As long as he took the college entrance examination, the other party would have no reason to force him to study every day - just like doing the high school entrance examination questions before, if he wanted to use the simulated shooting range, he had to do the questions first.
In order not to affect the frog's studies, Hojo Natsuki greatly reduced the frequency of bullying it, which made Kurosawa quite satisfied.
But, Kurosawa-kun didn't know what was waiting for him.
Hojo Natsuki always has to create some trouble when playing games. He wants to become a dragon, but he can't cause too much trouble to Qinwa, so he turned his attention to [Simulation Business].
Even if there is no harp frog, at least there is a frog, which is of the same species and can barely serve as a substitute.
He set difficult tasks for employees every day, urging each employee to sacrifice their lives for the organization and work hard for his treasury. If they refused, they would still have to sacrifice their lives (physics). Fortunately, the frog employees valued their lives and were quite sensible. No frog dared to complain about overtime.
After three or four months, Hojo Natsuki's piggy bank was once again filled with money, so much that he didn't know what to do with it.
During this period, the Miyano couple also developed a replica of the [Frog Wizard's Secret Art of Retaining Youth].
[Miyano Atsushi]: The concentrations of the ingredients are exactly the same, but for some reason, the mice and test subjects did not experience any positive or negative effects after taking it. I am very sorry.
[Miyano Atsushi]: [Ingredient Analysis Comparison Table.jpg]
[Miyano Atsushi]: [Experimental record sheet.jpg]
Hojo Natsuki accepted it well. After all, it was a hugely expensive item sold in the system mall. It would be abnormal if he could copy it so easily.
Anyway, the money used to buy the props was earned by the employees of the Frog Organization, and he didn't have to spend a penny. He saved up money to buy more [Frog Witch's Secret Art of Rejuvenation], and then fed them to the code-named employees semi-coercedly to obtain [Strong Restraint], which made it easier to control them.
The money is earned by the frogs, and the props are used by the frogs. Who wouldn't say "take from the frogs and use for the frogs" after seeing this
"It's a blessing for the frogs to have me." Hojo Natsuki thought as a matter of course.
At the same time, as a heavy-paying player, he inevitably started another act of being cheated: buying grain.
The game starts with a Frog postcard.
Buy it, even if it costs tens of thousands of yen.
Acrylic bricks, double flash lights (he can't tell the difference between single flash and double flash), colored paper, small cards, frog stand, key chains...
Buy, why not
Hojo Natsuki was used to playing alone, never searched for strategy guides and sharing experiences when playing strategy games, and now he has changed his job to a casual player, and never thought about looking for people who share the same interests. He was very busy and didn't have much time to chat with netizens. Spending money to feed the squids and torture his employees every day was enough to make him happy. Because there was no one to compare, he had no idea that he had eaten up the grains at an absurdly high price.
Not long after, Hojo Natsuki felt a little regretful.
It wasn't because he realized that he had overpaid. After all, he was a sucker who could spend a lot of money on a stupid mobile game, but—
I bought so much millet, but I can’t take it out with me. People will just laugh at me and I have no place to show off.
Hojo Natsuki thought that was not a good idea, so he set the first postcard sent by the koto frog as the screen saver of his mobile phone, hoping that it would be seen by someone 'accidentally', and they would say, "What a cute little frog, what game is this?", and he could then fluently introduce the game, the koto frog, and the millet he had eaten.
The ideal is very full.
The first person to discover it was Chief Mori's humanoid special ability, Alice.
The little blonde girl with a doll-like face propped up her chin, her eyes lit up when she glanced at his screen.
Alice said the line he expected: "Wow, what a cute little frog."
Xia Shu pretended to be calm and said, "Ah? It is..."
Alice continued, "I really want to see an autopsy."
Hojo Natsuki: “?”
Hojo Natsuki turned off the screen expressionlessly.
.
Well... Chief Mori was a doctor before he usurped the throne and became the leader of Ganghei. His humanoid ability inherited his occupational disease, so it is understandable that this must be an exception.
The second person to discover it was Nakahara Chuuya.
He is a typical normal person whose drinking habits are inversely proportional to his character. When he is drunk, he not only goes crazy but also loses his memory. He has almost forgotten everything that happened on the night of the annual meeting as soon as he woke up.
He thought, "You frog, look so familiar."
Xia Shu then pretended to be calm and nonchalant: "Oh, it is, it is..." I showed you the cute little green one at the annual meeting before...
Nakahara Chuuya: "I always feel that it has a very mafia temperament, maybe it's a killer."
Xia Shu: “?”
—Are you okay
The third person to discover it was Dazai Osamu.
Hojo Natsuki didn't want him to see the frog, so when he raised his eyebrows and said, "Huh? This is...", he immediately put his phone in his pocket and left.
In order to prevent the other party from catching up with him and saying nonsense, he walked faster and faster, leaving the Port Mafia Building at the speed of light and strolling along the commercial street. Soon, his attention was attracted by the advertising billboard of McDonald's fried chicken fast food on the roadside - buy a special children's meal and get a little frog pendant for free.
Hojo Natsuki stared at the little frog pendant and thought, "It's not as cute as the frog at all." Then, out of love for frogs and quacks, he honestly walked in, bought a children's meal, and bought an ice cream with a frog biscuit on it.
It was time for dinner, so he took his plate and sat down in a corner.
There were four or five children at the table next to us, quarreling and blaming each other over some childish matter.
An adult man's voice sounded from not far away: "I told you before that you can't make loud noises when eating outside. You must obey it."
The children said "Hi" perfunctorily, and two boys ran over, gathered around the young man, and eagerly took the fried chicken from the plate.
"Really?" He sounded like he had a headache. "You guys weren't listening at all. There's someone at the next table..."
Hojo Natsuki looked up and met his gaze.
Xia Shu quickly found this person from his memory.
Eh? Isn't this... Dazai's friend
He seems to be a low-level employee of the port mafia.
The red-haired young man obviously recognized him and nodded in a dignified manner: "Hello, Mr. Hojo."
Natsuki: "Good evening..."
What was his name? He stumbled back from memory and said, "… Mr. Odasaku."
Oda Sakunosuke smiled and said, "My last name is Oda."
Hojo Natsuki also gave his subordinates a standard business smile: "."
Damn, this is so embarrassing. Dazai Osamu's friends are really not good people.
A text message popped up and Natsuki's phone screen lit up.
When Oda Sakunosuke saw the Kototo frog used as the screensaver, he thought it was strange that frogs could grow silver hair. Dazai-kun’s friend was indeed as unusual as Dazai himself.
He immediately looked away, trying to pretend he saw nothing.
But at this moment, he happened to meet Natsuki's gaze, and Oda Sakunosuke felt a little embarrassed, so he said politely: "The little frog on your screen... looks quite cute, is it a game?"
Hojo Natsuki: “!!!!”
After a whole day, finally!!
Xia Shu was so moved that he almost cried.
The children nearby heard what he said and chirped, "What little frog?" and "I want to see it, too." Oda Sakunosuke ruthlessly suppressed them. Shinji, the youngest boy among the children, quietly leaned over and said to Hojo Natsuki, "Brother, can you show me? I want to see it, too."
Hojo Natsuki was waiting for this opportunity! He immediately pretended to show off the screen saver nonchalantly.
real
He took a look and said: "..."
Shinji was a polite child, and said tactfully: "Well, it's cute, but it seems a little weird. A silver-haired frog, haha... it's... quite special..."
The child's camouflage ability was insignificant, causing Xia Shu's HP to drop by 100 on the spot. He was dazed for a while and decided not to bother with the child.
Then I go home at night, open the game, and prepare to go on a shopping spree in the mall to vent my anger.
System: [Today is [Qinwa]'s birthday, don't forget to prepare a birthday surprise for your Guagua~]
Xia Shu: “!”
He glanced at the date, December 4th. He had already started playing at this time last year (referring to the game time). Why was there no reminder of Qinwa's birthday last year
Is it because the player level has increased that the birthday reminder is unlocked
Hojo Natsuki opened the panel of the Kototo Frog and found that compared to before, two new attributes had been unlocked.
[Birthday: December 4]
Age: 16
In other words, after this birthday, the frog will be 17 years old... which means it is almost an adult.
Hojo Natsuki began to think about what gift to give. His first reaction was to look for inspiration from people he knew: villas, apartments, yachts, private art galleries... He looked through the mall and it seemed difficult to achieve in the game.
Why not buy a car for Frog
He selected the "Transportation" column, and with his fingers so skillfully that it was heartbreaking, he clicked on "Price descending" and began to select models.
This one is too gray and looks dirty, so I don’t want it; this one is too pink, too pink, and the frog won’t like it; this one… uh… is too advanced for the current development of Earth art…
Hojo Natsuki picked and chose, and only two were left that he liked.
They all have frog elements, which fits the tone of the piano frog very well; they are all very childlike, which matches the interface style very well.
The first one is a frog-shaped twisting car, which is probably a modified version of the twisting cars that children play with. It looks a bit like a twisting motorcycle (?); it wears a pair of cool sunglasses, and the two round pink blushes on its face are the finishing touch, a touch of pink in the green, not bad, really not bad.
I don't know why they dared to print a [PORSCHE] on the body of this twisting car. Haha, it's so funny. It's a Porsche twisting motorcycle!
The second one is a frog-head rocking car, which is placed at the entrance of the supermarket for children to play with, the kind that sings when you insert coins.
In the demonstration video, when the frog rocking car starts running, the tracks underneath will flash colorful lights, and the background music will play while it runs, singing incomprehensible words: "Big brother's big brother is big sister-in-law", "Big brother's big brother is big brother", "Big brother is right!"... It's like a mentally retarded machine that can only call big brother.
What’s even funnier than the Porsche twist car is that the front of the rocking car is printed with a standing black horse with its hooves raised, which looks like a Ferrari no matter how you look at it.
Hojo Natsuki smiled for a while, took screenshots of two pictures of childish toy cars, and sent them to the frog, letting it make its own decision.
“Beep—”
[Natsuki]：[picture.jpg]
[Natsuki]：[picture.jpg]
[Natsuki]: If I buy you a car, which one would you like
[Natsuki]：I think the first frog is cuter
The first picture is a black retro Porsche 356A. The aluminum body lines are simple and clear. Even after ten years, it will never be outdated. It is elegant and restrained.
The second picture is a bright yellow Ferrari sports car, a convertible, with dynamic colors and full of aggressiveness.
Kurosawa Jin glanced at him calmly and immediately made a choice in his heart, but he didn't reply.
I don’t know why the other party suddenly mentioned buying a car, and what the ‘frog’ is…
He thought about it for a few seconds and concluded that it should refer to the appearance of the Porsche 356A.
(End of this chapter)