My daily life with the Shiina sisters

After returning home, the two began to divide the work. Imagawa Kaede went to the kitchen to cook, while Mahiru helped to clean up some things in the living room and fed the kitten.

Perhaps it was because the kitten realized that no one would hurt Mahiru, so its originally timid mood turned into a kind of "coldness". It was probably like this.

Mahiru watched her eating cat food leisurely and drinking some water from time to time. How should she describe this scene? It would probably be more interesting than watching silkworms eating mulberry leaves, right?

However, after eating, the kitten began to lick its fur, and seemed to ignore the cat toy in Mahiru's hand. Probably because it was cleaning itself, the kitten after licking its fur began to patrol around this new place. Yes, this feeling was just like those large cats patrolling their territory.

Mahiru followed behind. She also wanted to see what the kitten wanted to do, and even tried to make her accept the name "Shuilanlan".

After walking around the living room twice, the kitten, probably because it was tired, ran to its own cat bed and fell asleep. Seeing this, Mahiru washed his hands, changed his clothes, and went to the kitchen to help.

Imagawa Kaede was a little surprised to see the person coming. "Aren't you going to go see the cat?"

"He's already asleep." Mahiru spoke in a low voice, probably because she was afraid of waking up the cat in the corner of the living room.

"I feel that the kitten is so smart. It can eat by itself and even use the water dispenser..."

"Maybe the person who raised her before used this kind of thing."

"But she doesn't seem to like playing with me, and she ignores me when I call her name."

Looking at Mahiru who pouted slightly, Imagawa began to give her some advice.

"We can cook some shrimps later, and you can peel a few for her to eat. As for the name, Shuilanlan is a bit long. How about changing it to blue (ブルー), pronounced as bulu?"

"No, it sounds like a boy's name. Let me make dinner and you go watch TV."

Imagawa Kaede was kicked out of the kitchen. Indeed, "Blue" does look like a boy's name, and the color blue is not a good choice, as blue also gives people a melancholy feeling. "

Sitting on the sofa, Imagawa Kaede turned on the TV and suddenly saw a piece of news [According to our station, recently the well-known idol, Hoshino Ai, was attacked by a stalker fan at home...]

Silently, he changed the channel and continued watching something else, but he still took out his cell phone and searched the term "Hoshino Ai".

At this time, the kitten, who was originally sleeping in its nest, ran to his feet and began to scratch his trouser legs, as if to express its dissatisfaction with being woken up by the sound of the TV.

Seeing this, he held the kitten in his arms, stroking her fur while continuing to look at the content on his phone.

After reading it, he found a translation tool and used the Chinese to Japanese translation function:

【Azure Blue→アクアマリン】

"Aquamarine?"

Thinking of this, he suddenly found it interesting and turned to Mahiru in the kitchen and said:

"How about we just call her Aquamarin? How about that being her full name and just calling her Aqua?"

Mahiru happened to come out at this time and saw the kitten licking Imagawa Kaede's hand in his arms. She thought about it and realized that it was indeed more suitable than Blue, so she came over and called the kitten softly, "Aqua, Aqua."

The kitten probably felt that the woman was a bit annoying so it responded to her with a few "meows" and then concentrated on licking Imagawa Kaede's hand.

Seeing this, Mahiru also wanted to try the feeling of being licked by a cat, so she held out her hand. However, Aqua ignored her and focused on licking Imagawa's hand. Even after he took his hand away, Aqua still nestled in Imagawa's arms, ignoring Mahiru's teasing.

Mahiru was a little dissatisfied with this. After taking Aqua, Mahiru sent Imagawa Kaede to the kitchen to serve the dishes. However, when Imagawa Kaede came over with the dishes, he saw that the cat, which was supposed to be in Mahiru's arms, had returned to its own nest.

"Why is Aqua only close to you?" Mahiru asked in confusion.

"We're not that close. Go wash your hands before eating."

"Then why won't she let me hold her or lick my hand?"

"Cats lick others to show their status, just like a mother cat licking her kittens. A cat with a high status will lick a person with a low status. This is how cats socialize, so he licked me because he probably thought I was of a lower status. As for not wanting to stay in your arms, it's probably because he thinks his status is not as high as yours and it's unsafe to stay there."

"I'll check." After a while, Mahiru said with a smile, "The Internet says it's because of hygiene. It must be because of your body odor."

"Ah, right, right. I'm a brat, okay. Go wash your hands and eat, or I'll feed her shrimp later."

"No, I'll feed you."

It was rare to see her so impetuous, and Imagawa Kaede shook his head helplessly, but in his mind he was thinking about whether he could make some move on the island country's entertainment industry.

For him, publishing light novels is just the beginning. The subsequent animation and other operations will definitely not require borrowing other people's channels like they do now. At that time, Imagawa Kaede can also reasonably ask for more resources.

In fact, for him, the money he earned was just a small thing to the Imagawa family and it wouldn't make any waves. All Imagawa Kaede wanted to do was to show his ability.

The average royalty income of light novel writers in the island country is only about 10%, with a fluctuation of a few points at most (if the author gets more, others will not make any money). Even if you sell 1000 million copies (which is considered to be particularly good sales, one of the best in the industry), light novels are around 600 yen per copy, 10% is 60 yen, which is only 6 million yen. After deducting taxes, what is left is definitely not a small amount for ordinary people, but it is really not much for Imagawa Kaede.

What Imagawa Kaede wanted was not just to make some money to spend, but more to demonstrate his abilities so that he could better inherit the Imagawa family in the future. The original owner had a lot of faults, and these were not only to be seen by his parents, but also by outsiders.

Analogously to the succession of the throne in ancient times, it was never the crown prince who could inherit the throne. The crown prince also needed the support of the crown prince's party. Moreover, this is different from ancient times. There is no "good saintly grandson" for you to be a tool to hand over the throne. His father and mother are ready to bypass him directly.

However, he was a little confused about things in the entertainment industry, so he needed to learn something new.

But it was indeed his bad taste to give the kitten that kind of name.

{Little easter egg: Baidu translation shows that Shuilanlan is indeed Aquamarine. The comment is based on the details.}

(Recommend to read this chapter (????)? ")