Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

But... Aren't you supposed to give explanations to American anime nerds, brag about the history and efficacy of the shrine, and sell omamori and ema by the way?

Why are all of them just focusing on posing and taking pictures with people?What is this?

What's more, under normal circumstances, a working maiden can't become a maiden just by changing clothes.

Shintoism has certain requirements for their walking pace, manners, and related etiquette when greeting guests.

The purpose is to create an elegant and soft, virtuous image like Yamato Nadeko.

Therefore, when large shrines in Japan recruit part-time migrant girls, as long as conditions permit, they need to conduct a period of training.

However, looking at the bouncing black-skinned maiden, the Hispanic maiden stepping on a moonwalk... Megumi Akiyama rolled his eyes again and sighed.

Even the skin color and race are completely inaccurate, how can this be compared with Nadeko?

Hey, lower your requirements!This is America!They didn't take out a homemade cigarette to smoke the grass and smoke, it was already very good!

Megumi Akiyama sighed, threw away the empty orange juice can, got up and walked to the staff lounge of the shrine, wanting to get another can, but saw a black-haired Asian woman also wearing a red and white priestess costume, squatting in the room The horn swallowed the clouds and smoked, with a look of enjoyment on his face, he couldn't help frowning:

"...Sister Ma Tong! What are you doing? Why are you secretly smoking during working hours again?!! Is the addiction so big?!"

She snapped in standard Mandarin Chinese, "...Could it be mixed with dried big (anti-harmony) hemp grass?"

Chapter 5 Miss Miko only eats vegetarian dishes

After hearing Qiu Shanhui's reprimand, Ma Tong, the Chinese female student studying abroad who was hiding to smoke, was also startled. Immediately relaxed, he picked up the cigarette again and stuffed it back into his mouth disapprovingly.

"...Ah, ah, ah! Xiao Huihui, don't be so serious! If you don't take a few puffs of cigarettes in the morning to refresh yourself, you won't be energetic for the day's work!

Don't worry, I just smoked an ordinary cigarette, which is a mint-flavored women's cigarette. If you don't believe me, smell it, it definitely doesn't smell like hemp! "

While Ma Tong said so without seriousness, he deliberately blew a cloud of smoke towards Qiu Shanhui's face with a playful smile.

Although it was a bit suffocating, it was just an ordinary cigarette, without that pungent smell, so Akiyama Hui couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But then came a cough.

"...Ahem! Damn it, stay away from me!"

Qiu Shanhui pushed Ma Tong away in disgust, and at the same time checked whether Chihaya, who was draped over her shoulders, was covered with soot. It will be miserable!"

"...The silk scarf is scalded, so I'll buy you one! I still have this little money!"

Ma Tong smiled and said with a cigarette in his mouth, "...Speaking of which, Xiao Huihui, your Chinese is really good! Your words are correct, and your Mandarin is even more standard than mine. Before, I almost thought you were a fellow from China. What! How did you come up with the idea of ​​learning Chinese?"

"...Hey, we are in the service industry, and what we pay attention to is to greet people with a smile. If we don't learn a few foreign languages, how can we earn money from foreign tourists?"

Hearing Ma Tong's words, Akiyama Hui's face darkened immediately, but he still found an excuse to perfunctory the past, and at the same time quickly changed the subject, "...By the way, have you sent out the leaflets and souvenirs I gave you this morning? "

"...Flyers are finished! There are still a few souvenirs left. But, Megumi, what is this thing? A slime with an antenna inserted?"

Ma Tong lazily replied, and at the same time took out a keychain from his handbag—behind the shiny silver metal buckle, there was a miniature plastic figure of Fukushima County mascot [Triium Treasure], translucent blue The blue wave base and the green jelly-like body really look like slimes.

"...This is the mascot [Tritium] launched by my hometown, Fukushima Prefecture. It is the [Tritium] that made the hydrogen bomb, and it is also required to be enshrined in the shrine.

It is said that it is to reduce everyone's resistance to nuclear radiation and make the image of nuclear energy cute. Really, everything can be cute.

Hey, the officials only know how to do these silly things all day long, my hometown is really a mess for them and TEPCO..."

Qiu Shanhui grabbed the plastic tritium key chain, waved it in front of Ma Tong's eyes, and said in a disinterested manner.

"...In other words, this is... a hydrogen bomb slime? How did you come up with it? Hehe, it really matches Fukushima!"

Ma Tong took out another keychain of the same [Tritium Treasure], and looked at it curiously, "... I vaguely remember that when the Fukushima nuclear accident broke out, the Russians once suggested that they simply drop a high-yield hydrogen bomb on it. Blow up the nuclear reactor and everything, and it will be over..."

"...Ah, I've heard this story too. Regardless of whether it is true or not, let alone whether it works or not. But Hiroshima and Nagasaki have already suffered two atomic bombs. If Fukushima is hit by another hydrogen bomb, wouldn't Japan Has it become a powerful nuclear power?"

Megumi Akiyama rubbed his temples and muttered, "...But thinking about it, the situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, no matter what happened, I'm afraid it will not be worse than what it is now. Maybe a hydrogen bomb was dropped at that time. Go on, and the result will be better than it is now..."

Megumi Akiyama is full of complaints when he thinks of his deserted shrine with few people, and the Akiyama family estate that has been included in the radiation blockade.

Although the gamma radiation and neutron radiation pollution brought about by the hydrogen bomb explosion will also turn the coast of Fukushima into a place of death, at least the half-life period of tritium is very short, and nothing will be gone within two years at most.

In the next few years, it will be able to return to the level where human beings can survive under the natural wind and rain.

And now the Fukushima nuclear power plant is in a state of continuously burning money and discharging nuclear waste water, which is really tantamount to raising Godzilla in the Pacific Ocean...

It is estimated that Tsuburaya, which made the monster special film back then, would not have thought that Japan in the future would really turn their settings into reality, right?

After chatting for a few words, Akiyama Hui pulled Ma Tong up, pushed her butt, and urged this lazy, fish-working witch to go to work quickly.

As a result, as soon as she pushed Ma Tong out, there was a burst of brisk American country music at the comic convention, announcing the arrival of lunch time.

"...Ah, it's time to eat, Megumi! Let's go to the cafeteria to grab a seat! Let's have lunch together today!"

Ma Tong, the lazy migrant witch, let out a cry of joy, turned around 180 degrees on the spot, turned around and pushed Akiyama Hui to run in the opposite direction.

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It is different from those miser who always think that paying employees is tantamount to "stealing money" from their own pockets, so they say chicken soup for the soul one bucket after another. , the organizer of this Los Angeles Comic Con seems to be very rich and powerful.

——Not only are the wages generous, but the lunch that the organizers provided to the workers during the exhibition was not cheap hamburger hot dog sandwiches, but meal coupons from a nearby cafeteria.

So, without thinking about changing clothes, the working witch Ma Tong and the real witch Akiyama Hui held hands and wandered into the cafeteria.

Amidst the soft blues saxophone music and the tangy aroma of food, Ma Tong and Akiyama Megumi each brought a large tray and looked for a place to sit.

Since they had been running around and working hard for a long time, neither of them planned to go on a diet to lose weight, and the trays were piled high.

However, Ma Tong's tray is full of hard dishes - black pepper steak, charcoal grilled pork leg, butter stewed chicken, Kabayaki eel, grilled cod, as well as crab cakes, bacon rolls, lobster ... Just smelling the aroma of that oil is enough to make people move their index fingers.

However, Akiyama Megumi’s tray is full of healthy green food, all fruits and vegetables - pan-fried asparagus, fried bananas, skewered pleurotus eryngii and small tomatoes, dried cabbage, grapes, strawberries, figs, cantaloupe, watermelon, Avocado, Prickly Pear, Green Bean and Corn Salad...

"...Eh? Why does Xiao Huihui eat all vegetarian dishes? You're not a nun, don't witches have to eat vegetarian food too?"

Ma Tong, who shared a table with Qiu Shanhui for the first time, couldn't help asking in confusion, "...you don't need to save on the buffet! Eat more meat to grow taller!"

"...I didn't save! Big sister! Vegetables and fruits are the most expensive in Japan! Seafood is cheaper in Japan."

Akiyama Megumi rolled his eyes, "...Thanks to the non-personnel agricultural cooperatives, they insisted on selling the fruit at a luxury price, and did not allow the import of foreign goods! If I don't eat my fill while in the United States, I will When the poor return to Japan, how can they still eat such abundant fruits and vegetables?"

——In Japan, not only is there no food basket project that facilitates the life of urban residents, but there is a monopoly operation of buying low and selling high, which slaughters customers upwards and exploits farmers downwards. By the way, it also fanatically boycotts the import of cheap agricultural products, which can force Congress to impose food tariffs Pushed up to 800% of the Japan Agricultural Association.

It may be hard for many people to imagine that the area of ​​cultivated land in Japan is already so small, and the Agricultural Association will forcibly abandon 40% of the country's rice fields! ,

Even if it causes Japan's food self-sufficiency rate to plummet from 80% in the 73s of the 37th century to [-]% in the early years of Reiwa, it is not hesitating!

why?Naturally, it is to keep the price of rice high in Japan, to ensure profit margins, and to exploit farmers by the way.

——If you want to grow rice or any other agricultural products, you must have the approval of the Agricultural Association, otherwise no one will dare to harvest them, and you will be beaten if you sell them on the street.

Not to mention, the NH also has a lot of thugs who will secretly spray your fields with defoliants or poison the feed troughs in fish ponds and barns.

Even if farmers want to be self-sufficient in a fit of rage, they hoard the agricultural products they grow to eat for themselves, but they have no money to pay taxes.

When farmers want to get the approval of the Agricultural Cooperative for farming and sales, some transactions of money and favors are inevitable.

(Just like in Chinese feudal society, farmers who want to grow the land of the landlord must not only pay rent, but also have to be handled like dogs.)

As a result, many fruits and vegetables in modern Japanese cities are terribly expensive, and the varieties are not rich, and the dining table of the citizens is quite poor...

(Although Megumi Akiyama's hometown is in the country, he went to boarding middle school in Fukushima City and lived in the city most of the time.)

A rough impression is easy to deceive, but if we compare it with statistics, the annual per capita vegetable consumption in China is 377 kg, and the per capita fruit consumption is 98 kg.In Japan, the annual per capita vegetable consumption is only 91 kg, and the per capita fruit consumption is 33 kg.

It looks very different - the annual per capita vegetable intake of the Chinese is four times that of the Japanese, and the fruit intake is three times that of the Japanese!

Moreover, unlike the per capita income level that may be "average between billionaires and poor people", no matter how wealthy the rich are, they will not eat fruits and vegetables desperately, or show off their wealth by desperately ruining vegetables.

Therefore, the difference in the amount of fruits and vegetables in the daily diet of ordinary people in China and Japan is really so outrageous.

——The modern Japanese diet advertises a healthy diet, but in fact it lacks vegetables and fruits, and relies entirely on seafood as a base. Eating too much is prone to gout...

Even Americans, who have the impression that their three meals a day are fried chicken, burgers and donuts, actually consume 130 kilograms of vegetables per capita per year.

The per capita annual fruit consumption in the United States is as high as 110 kilograms, which is higher than the consumption level of the Chinese!It is nearly four times that of the Japanese!

In other words, after excluding some junk people who only eat junk food, Americans eat greener and healthier than Japanese!

Very unexpected, right?

But this also proves how shabby the people's three meals a day are in Japan, which is known as a developed country.

For poor students like Megumi Akiyama who don’t cook by themselves and whose families are extremely poor, their usual food is even more shabby, especially the lack of enough fresh fruits and vegetables in their lunch boxes—cabbage has to be shredded, strawberries In terms of selling one piece, watermelon and cantaloupe are genuine luxury goods...

In the end, Akiyama Hui could barely cope with his desire for fresh vegetables by relying on the few cheap dishes such as bean sprouts and pea sprouts.

Now in the United States, which is rich in products, there is a free buffet to enjoy. Of course, Megumi Akiyama wants to feast on vegetables and fruits!

——Although the mention of Western food reminds people of steak, in fact, there are not few delicious vegetarian dishes in modern Western food.

For example, those exquisite skewers of pleurotus eryngii and small tomatoes. The ripe cherry tomatoes have a surprisingly sweet feeling after being grilled. Wrapped with a thin layer of pleurotus eryngii and paired with green sauce, it is really delicious.And chunks of watermelon and freshly squeezed orange juice are refreshing too...

I saw Akiyama Megumi swaying from side to side without ladylike demeanor, chewing with her cheeks shaking, until her belly bulged, and then she sighed in satisfaction.

Hey, it's so good to eat!

Unfortunately, this is the last free work meal.

This evening, the comic exhibition will end, and tomorrow I will fly back to Japan, returning to the daily life of poor high school girls...

Forget it, even if there is only half a day left, you should work hard!

Thinking of this, Megumi Akiyama sighed, stood up lazily leaning on the wall, and then slowly walked back to the comic exhibition venue.

——But what she didn't know was that the fate of impermanence was destined to leave her in this land on the other side of the ocean...

Chapter 6, First Blood

As the sun in the sky gradually slanted westward, the three-day Los Angeles Comic Con finally came to an end.

Watching the number of tourists in the venue dwindle, those white-skinned, yellow-skinned and black-skinned brothers and sisters wearing dazzling and gorgeous COS costumes took off their anime costumes and colorful wigs in twos and threes, and played around and dispersed one after another.

The exhibitor booths were cleared up one after another, and the deafening animation music also subsided one after another...

Facing the suddenly empty surroundings, Akiyama Hui couldn't help feeling a little melancholy that the song was over.

Although this manga exhibition is only three days long, and the various activities at the Toy Shrine are exhausting, Megumi Akiyama still enjoys staying here.

In addition to the sense of accomplishment of presiding over such a large shrine and directing so many temporary maidens, this comic exhibition itself also makes Akiyama Hui feel happy.

——Whether before time-traveling or after time-traveling, Megumi Akiyama is an anime fan addicted to the Two-dimensional world.

Although it has not yet reached the level of immersion of the old otaku in Japan, but by the standards of China, Megumi Akiyama is already called an anime otaku.

Therefore, Megumi Akiyama is really nostalgic for the atmosphere of this comic exhibition—fantasy and romance, longing and expectation...all things that are lacking in reality.

What was the opportunity for you to become an anime nerd in the first place?

Usually it's a particularly attractive anime, maybe it's a casual glance, maybe it's a strong recommendation from a friend.

Then there is the amazement and joy that shines in front of the eyes, the seemingly monotonous life is instantly filled with color, and the door to the kingdom of heaven is quietly opened.

I used to watch new animations until late at night, and saved up my pocket money to canvass votes for my favorite characters.

I once cried for a certain touching plot, and cried for those fictional stories and characters.

Once again, I was excited for the rise of a certain protagonist, as if fighting side by side with them in the illusory time and space.

In the past, the wallpapers of mobile phones and computers were all favorite characters, who secretly recited their famous lines backwards.

I used to watch the laughter and slapstick in the anime with my mobile phone and tablet in bed, and I also giggled silently.

I once joined the Two-dimensional group to find like-minded friends.

Just after watching an interesting drama, I ran to the group to find those unknown friends who were crazy about Amway.

Looking for the same emotion and throbbing, use the torch of fantasy to dispel the loneliness and loneliness of life.

With their company, youth will not fall into helplessness and confusion.

I used to chat endlessly in the group until dawn, and I also used to say that the second illness will never end.

I don't know the names of the group of friends, I don't know what role they play in reality, I don't know the ups and downs of their lives.

But at a certain moment of resonance, even if it is separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, it seems to be close at hand.

It was once said that Naruto would never be Hokage, but he finally put on the fiery red shirt of the seventh generation on the screen.

It was said that the story of Fairy Tail will never end, but Natsu defeated the black dragon after all.