Chapter 228: Time Accelerates!
"It's delicious!"
Sakura Yoshida carefully chewed the braised chicken and exclaimed with satisfaction.
"Eat more if you like it."
Ren Amamiya brought a plate of steamed fish and said, "I feel like you've lost a lot of weight lately."
"Yes, Sakura, you look much thinner lately," Ayumi said with concern.
Sakura immediately put down her spoon, touched her waist and abdomen, compared them, and said happily, "Yes, it seems I've lost a little more weight. Isn't that great?"
Today, in Ren's apartment, the golden iron triangle formed by Ren, Sakura, and Ayumi gathered for the first time in a long while.
As for Ren's three assistants, Yuka, Hiroki, and Akutami Yuta, they naturally don't have to work today.
Normally, on Fridays and Saturdays, after Ren submitted the manuscript, they had a vacation and didn't have to work.
So they usually have nothing to do on those two days, so they don't have to come.
But today is rare; Sakura and Ayumi are here.
Ayumi is fine, but Sakura has been very busy these days and only comes to Ren's apartment from time to time.
However, she rarely tastes the food that Ren himself prepares.
She often comes for a while and then goes back, and never waits for the food that Ren takes more than an hour to prepare.
And it's rare for Sakura and Ayumi to come for a meal.
So Ren also put a lot of thought into this moment.
"It's not good to be too thin."
Ayumi quickly persuaded her, "This isn't healthy. The main thing is, Sakura, you're not fat to begin with. If you lose more weight, you'll be malnourished."
"Sakura looks better a little chubbier," Ren said with a smile. "At least I think girls with chubby faces look better!"
"Really? Then I have to be more careful."
Sakura heard this and quickly touched her face, saying expectantly, "I want to gain weight... It's all because of work. I've been eating takeout and food from those hotels. I feel like I'm missing out on food when I think about it."
"Homemade food is better. It's been a long time since I've had homemade food," Sakura said happily.
She has enjoyed a refined life since she was a child, and those delicacies from the mountains and seas are no longer fresh.
On the contrary, Ren, with a strong sense of the underworld, feels that every meal is a surprise.
"If it tastes good, eat more."
Ren quickly picked up the bowl and chopsticks and greeted them.
"By the way, there's..."
Then he remembered something and picked up Pochita's bowl from the floor.
"Woof, woof, woof!"
Under Pochita's expectant gaze, Ren picked up a bunch of boneless meat and put a large spoonful of rice in the bowl.
"Pochita! This is for you!" Ren said, placing the bowl in front of Pochita, satisfied.
"Woof, woof, woof!" Pochita cheered excitedly.
The three of them and the dog started to have dinner together. Sakura asked while eating, "By the way, Ren, your recent manga are very popular, right?"
She was busy and didn't follow the Chainsaw Man manga series at all.
It's probably the helplessness of adults, or... the helplessness of office workers.
After being worn out by work, how much energy can one have to maintain their original hobbies? "It's okay."
Ren chewed and said, "I've always had good popularity and everyone praises me a lot!"
"Praise..."
Ayumi was speechless upon hearing this.
Amamiya-sensei, are you sure those comments on the internet calling you a "thief" are praise? Although the popularity of Chainsaw Man is not bad, it has been surpassed by The Gods and suppressed for a long time.
Why does Amamiya-sensei seem so calm?
"I wonder where Chainsaw Man is now..." Sakura asked with curiosity.
"It's already on chapter 66."
Ren picked up a piece of fish and said.
"Chapter 66?! I missed so much!" Sakura said with some annoyance. "Then I have to catch up next time."
She had read it before, but she was still on chapter 13. Now she's 47 chapters behind...
She's really far behind!
"A new volume of Chainsaw Man will be out soon. I'll ask the manga world to give me a copy and then I'll give it to you."
Ren said, "Sakura, you can catch up... It seems you've been very busy lately."
"The main reason is that I haven't graduated yet."
Sakura said helplessly, "But the university has given us a lot of conveniences, but we still have things to complete, so we've diverted a lot of energy."
"In less than a year, Sakura will graduate from university, right?" Ayumi asked with curiosity at that moment.
"Yes, next semester I'll be in my final year," Sakura said with a smile. "I can finally graduate... Speaking of which, the four years of university flew by in the blink of an eye."
"That's how university is. In fact, when you become an adult, you feel that time passes faster and faster," Ayumi said with deep emotion. "I've been working for two years without even realizing it."
"Time! It's going to accelerate!"
At that moment, Ren suddenly said in a serious voice.
"Huh?"
Ayumi and Sakura looked at him strangely.
"Ren, what do you mean now?" Sakura asked with some confusion.
"An... idea for a scene just came to me," Ren scratched his head and said.
Suddenly, he also had a brainstorm. Hearing what Sakura and Ayumi said, the famous scene from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure from his previous life suddenly appeared in his mind.
"Scene?"
Ayumi suddenly understood and said, "Is it the sensei who came up with the plot for the next manga?"
"I guess so," Ren said, embarrassed.
"Sounds interesting," Sakura said with a smile. "Ren is a genius. The plot he came up with is completely unexpected and quite attractive!"
"Sensei, it's true!" Ayumi also nodded. "The sensei will undoubtedly become the most outstanding mangaka in the manga industry in the future!"
"Hehe! Sakura, Ayumi, you're praising me so much I'm getting embarrassed," Ren said with a smile. "Well, I'm going to take this opportunity to eat a little more rice. I'm so happy, my appetite has improved a lot!"
The three of them enjoyed a pleasant dinner like this.
...
Imperial Capital.
As spring passed, the hot summer reappeared in the territory of the Republic.
Dr. Hiroki Suzuki also used some contacts and took some time to find all the information about Ren Amamiya.
"It really is Kaito Sato..." said Dr. Hiroki Suzuki with mixed feelings, looking at the previous information.
It says that Ren's original name was Kaito Sato. Since entering Xuanmen in Xuanjing five years ago, he changed his name to Ren Amamiya and received the Taoist name Qingsu.
But two years ago, he suddenly came down from the mountain to Tokyo to become a mangaka.
He debuted with his first work, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and became famous overnight, becoming an emerging mangaka with a promising reputation in the Republic.
"I didn't expect him to have disappeared before and become a Taoist priest..." sighed Dr. Hiroki Suzuki. "After all, something like that happened, which affected him deeply."
"That is... Amamiya-sensei is really my older brother..." said Takeshi Saito, a little strange.
Although he is ten years older than Ren, from the moment of his admission, he really must call him older brother...
and he is still a doctoral student, but Ren has already obtained it! "In this Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the setting of the brain-computer interface..."
Dr. Hiroki Suzuki said, "Your older brother's previous project is related to this. In fact, this idea came up as early as the last century. Your older brother thought about applying for this project...".
He got a little excited thinking that Ren was still obsessed with this experiment.
That's why he created Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
However, if the brain-computer interface experiment is completed, it will undoubtedly be a result that will shock the world!
Once the brain-computer interface experiment is successfully completed, it may not be realistic to install prosthetics.
But the function of the brain-computer interface is not just to control prosthetics.
At that moment, the brain will be directly connected to the electronic device, and its signal will come from the central nervous system, and transmission will not depend on the peripheral nervous system or the muscular system.
It is often used to help, improve, and repair the sensorimotor function of the human body, or to improve human-computer interaction. That is, it allows patients with paralysis to use electronic devices and communicate with the outside world without obstacles. "It seems I have to go to Tokyo now," said Dr. Hiroki Suzuki immediately.
"Go to Tokyo to find Older Brother Ren?" asked Takeshi Saito with curiosity.
"With your older brother's computer knowledge, he could be of great help to our project," said Dr. Hiroki Suzuki seriously.
"But... your older brother is now a mangaka, and he doesn't know how long it's been since he's studied cutting-edge technology."
Takeshi Saito hesitated and asked, "Can his technology still help?".
Whether it's hardware or technology, the development of computers is quite fast.
Especially in the case of cutting-edge technology, if you don't pay attention to it for a while, it can change drastically.
"Your older brother is not like you. He used to study hard just because no one was watching him."
Dr. Hiroki Suzuki looked at Takeshi Saito and said sadly, "That's why he obtained two doctorates in computer science and applied physics before he was 23, while you are still studying for yours."
Takeshi Saito felt embarrassed. He didn't expect his tutor to criticize him for comparing him.
But how could he compare him to a genius like Older Brother Ren? He, an ordinary person, couldn't be compared to such a genius. Is it possible to compare someone older? "Well, anyway... I have to go see your older brother," said Dr. Hiroki Suzuki. "Even if it's just to see him, after all, he is my student...".
But if Ren can really help him, it would be even better...
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