"What? A train schedule costs 89 yen?"

"Yes, yes, yes." The smiling bookstore owner nodded and bowed. That expression seemed extremely annoying to Ai Fei!

After picking up the timetable again, he could only put it on the bookshelf helplessly: "It's too expensive, I can't afford it!"

"So, thank you for coming." The smile on the bookstore owner's face did not disappear because of the boy's final decision, but instead seemed even warmer.

Walking out of the street corner bookstore not far from home, Ai Fei gathered his hair that was messed up by the cold wind: Fuck, nothing went smoothly, it was a damn thing.

"Dudu!Dudu!" The sound of a car horn came from behind him. He hurriedly hid aside and made way. Who knew that the car actually stopped beside him, and a familiar voice sounded: "Ai Jun?"

Ai Fei looked up: "Ah, Qingye Jun, why are you..."

Aoba Nagasuke poked his head out from the passenger seat and was smiling at him: "Come up?"

Ai Fei then saw clearly that this was a Dodge Jeep used by the US military. The one who drove was a tired young man with no sleep on his face. Maybe someone Aoye contacted through his father? As he pondered, he opened the door of the car behind: "Ah, what a big iron bucket? Is this for me?"

"Of course. I promised it!" Qingye giggled: "But you have to tell me what is it for?"

"It's very simple, it's just a big bucket for hot water. Do you remember what I told you? It's extremely comfortable to take a hot shower at night and then go to bed?"

"Use... this hot water? How do you plan to heat such a large vat? Are you fire?"

The car started again, and Ai Fei explained to him while holding the iron bucket: "Put two copper plates in the water, then turn on the electricity and you can heat it up."

"……………” Qingye looked at him blankly: “Will you... be short-circuited?"

"Theory is, but in reality it will not. Water will only be short-circuited after power on when it is very, very pure, and the water we are using now will not have such an effect."

Qingye snorted a few times, "Do you know again? Have you tried it?"

"If I said, after I made such a shower equipment, would you like to invite you as the first experimenter, would you thank me? Ah, that's it."

The car stopped and with the help of Aoba and the driver, he unloaded the big bucket at the door. When Aoshiko heard the movement at the door, she quickly ran out: "Are you back?"

"Ah, mom, this is my classmate, Mr. Nagasuke Aoba."

"Hello, I am Ai Fei's mother. I'm the first time I met, please take care of me."

Aoye bent down and bowed: "For the first time we met, please take care of me. I am Aoye Nagasuke."

Ai Fei ignored the two of them and saluted each other here, leaned their heads and looked into the iron bucket. The wires, copper plates, iron pipes, wires, and a box of colored pens were all needed by him: "Then, Qingye Jun, thank you."

“…………”

"What are you doing?"

"Come on! Ai Jun, let me open my eyes. I really want to be the first tester!"

"Then you have to help!" As he was talking and laughing, the two young people started working - in fact, it was just Ai Fei who was working alone, Qingye, it was already very good if he was not troubled! During Ai Fei's work, he kept running around next to him with his hands crossed, but he didn't know what he should do.

Installing such a simple water heater is much more difficult than many people imagine. To connect the water pipes well, it is also necessary to seal them. The laying of wires must not only take into account the capacity of the current, but also cannot be placed in a position that anyone can see - for the sake of beauty, the most important thing is to connect the hot water pipes and cool water pipes to the kitchen hose. By the time everything is over, the sky has begun to darken.

When they finally wanted to connect the power supply, Aoba and Ai Shizuko, who had just known what his son was going to do, seemed to have doubts about his theory, and covered his ears with his hands and avoided them far away: "Ai Jun,... are you sure it's really OK?"

After installing the wire with a screwdriver, Ai Fei closed the switch: "Look, I said, there is no problem."

"Ah, it's true!" Ai Shiko walked over skeptically and touched the iron bucket: "Xiao Ai Jun, will there be no problem?"

"Sit for a while. Let's sit outside for a while, and the water will heat up later."

"If that's the case, I'm so grateful!" As he said, Ai Shizuko bowed to her son and Aoba Nagasuke in an extremely excited tone and expression. Seeing her appearance, she was almost crying.

"…………!” Ai Fei stretched his waist: "Do you have water to drink? I'm a little thirsty, I think, is Qingye Jun the same?"

"Hi Yi, Hi Yi! How confused Mom? Did you forget to pour water for you?"

Two young men sat down in the small living room, and Aoba looked back and forth and left and right: "Ah, it's very... cute room!"

"Do you want to say...a very small room?"

Qingye laughed: "Ah, what is this? Is the picture?"

"This is a work I'm going to submit to "Comic Boy". Speaking of which, I'm asking you for color pens to color this comic!"

“…………Ai Jun, aren’t you going to draw comics?”

"I don't know how it will happen in the future for the time being. But now, it should be considered right? In fact, formally speaking, the drawings this time should be comic strips, which cannot be considered as comics."

"It's great! In this way, Ai Jun aims to create the famous cartoonist Osamu Tezuka who has published a circulation of 400,000 copies?"

Ai Fei knew that he was talking about the sensational news that the single-line comic book "Xin Treasure Island" launched by Osamu Tezuka in 1947 sold 400,000 copies nationwide: "Believe me, Aoba Jun, if the work can be released this time, you will know what sensational news is."

"Then..." Qingye's hand unconsciously flipped the paper a few times on the table: "Can I... take a look?"

"Of course. To express my gratitude to you, I hope Aoye Jun can be my first reader."

"Really?" Aoye no longer hesitated and took the notebook: "Marie biscuits (ocean biscuits)?" He raised his head and looked at the classmate opposite in confusion, then lowered his head and looked around.

After only a few glances, Qingye raised her head, her eyes were confused: "Ai Jun..."

"What?"

"can't read!"

“Eh?”

"These..." He put the drawing paper on the table and gestured with his fingers: "These... cannot be understood."

Ai Fei came over and took a look. It turned out that what he said was incomprehensible refers to some words that appeared on the screen: some pronunciation and mimetic words written in English - this is what he learned from Akira Toriyama's comics: "This is just a tone that adds some on-the-scenes feeling to the horse racing scenes and drawings. Aoba Jun doesn't have to worry about this."

“But…why use it like this?”
Chapter completed!