The days that followed were the same as usual for Oda. The only changes were probably the increasing number of jobs and the fact that he and Nishino went home less and less often.
Speaking of Nishino, Oda could clearly feel that Nishino spent less time with her recently. To be precise, Nishino unilaterally avoided many opportunities to be with her. Due to selection reasons, the two of them were together.
Communication at work has also become very rare. Only occasionally going home together can allow the two of them to communicate. Most of the time, Oda talks and Nishino listens with a smile.
Single training, daily training, various shootings... The sudden increase in work allowed Oda to regain the feeling of taking extra classes after junior high school until night.
This kind of day passed for more than a week, and finally it was December 24th. After this day, the members would go home one after another to celebrate the New Year. This day can also be regarded as the last day when the members gathered together to train. Due to Ikuta's hard work,
Suddenly, the barbecue dinner that I had arranged with Maeda turned into a Christmas party at Oda’s house.
I originally thought that only three or four members who had good personal relationships would participate, but when Ikuta shouted from the loudspeaker, the number of people nearly doubled in an instant: Xiao Asuka roped in Hashimoto, Ikuta roped in Shiraishi and Matsumura, and even Nishino shouted
She slept with Ikoma and Takayama, who were close friends with her.
By the way, when Ikoma was called, his expression was like that of an uncle who was overwhelmed with happiness after successfully chatting up a goddess.
After the training, everyone was divided into two groups to prepare for the party: one group was led by Nishino and went to the supermarket to buy food for the party, called the "purchasing group"; the other group was led by Oda and consisted of several people who couldn't cook.
The members are called a "waste group" that arranges the venue but is actually used to avoid causing trouble.
"Why aren't you letting me buy ingredients?" Ikuta was being grabbed by Oda and Kotori, looking back at the purchasing team heading to the supermarket while wailing.
"I believe you, I don't want my induction cooker to be poisoned." Oda complained in his heart, but he said the opposite: "Decorating the venue is a very important task, this important matter must be done
You can rest assured if Ikuta-sama does it."
"Really?" Ikuta's interest was suddenly piqued, "Then let's set off quickly." After that, he pushed Oda and Ko Asuka forward.
Takayama and Ikoma, who were standing behind the two of them, looked at Ikuta and smiled broadly at each other.
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When Nishino and others arrived at Oda's house, it had been almost an hour since the training ended. When he opened the door and walked in, the living room had been decorated with a Christmas atmosphere. There was a Christmas tree placed in the center of the living room and small lanterns hanging on the ceiling.
The colorful bell pattern spray-painted on the window, and Ikuta sitting on the sofa sulking.
"Xiaoichi, what about the important thing you mentioned?" Ikuta pouted, acting like he won't get up until you explain it clearly.
"How dare you ask Ikuta-sama to do manual labor?" Oda racked his brains to think of a reason to fool Ikuta. After all, the IH incident that day was still vivid in his mind, and no one wanted to threaten their lives.
As for these decorations, Oda and Nishino had arranged them the night before.
Although I think it would definitely be messed up if I asked Ikuta to do these decorations, Oda quietly guessed in his heart.
"Everyone, the food is here!" After hearing the conversation between Ikuta and Oda, Hikaka smiled knowingly, stepped forward to help Oda out of trouble, and showed Ikuta the meat in her hands.
As soon as he saw the food, all the dissatisfaction in Ikuta's heart disappeared instantly: "That's great! I want to help cook too!"
"No, no, no, no!" Upon hearing the news, Shiraishi's face instantly became horrified, "I'll just do it." She then pulled Hika and Hashimoto into the kitchen, locking the door by the way.
Ikuta's lips that had just calmed down became even higher.
"It's empty now. Do you want to play board games?" Gao Shan also noticed Ikuta's mood and stepped forward to help.
"Ikoma, I brought a board game." Ikoma was stunned for a moment, then took out a small box from his bag, "This game is very fun!"
At this time, Nishino, Asuka and Matsumura also reacted and came over pretending to be interested. "German Xiaoqiang?" "How do you play?" "This feels very fun!"
"Then raise your hands if you want to participate!" Oda raised his hands while peeking at Ikuta.
The remaining five people also smiled and raised their hands.
At this time, Ikuta was staring at them closely, pouting and trying to pretend to be angry.
"By the way, let's make a bet. If we win the game, we can eat the first piece of meat later. How about that?"
The Ikuta-Erhana was sunk.
I saw Ikuta jumping from the sofa to everyone at lightning speed: "How to play!"
"Okay, done." Oda and Takayama looked at each other and smiled.
"It's very simple..."
(If you haven’t played German Cockroach, read the post below. It’s a very fun bragging board game.)
"German cockroach, do you believe it or not?" Ikoma put the cards upside down on the table and asked Ikuta with a wicked smile.
"Well, I don't believe it."
"Sorry, it's just a cockroach." Ikoma put the cards in his hand into the pile in front of Ikuta. At this time, Ikuta was already in danger of "drawing cards on three sides".
"Why does it feel like everyone's goal has changed from winning to letting Ikuta have more cards?" Oda complained silently in his heart, while Asuka, who was sitting opposite Oda, was already laughing loudly while letting Ikuta have more cards.
The team has one more card.
Just when Ikuta was "listening on seven sides" in front of him and was one card short of losing, Hinaka and Shiraishi came out of the kitchen carrying hot pot. Hashimoto's voice was heard in the kitchen calling Xiao Asuka to help serve the dishes.
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Xiao Feiniao quickly agreed, threw the cards in his hand on the table and ran to the kitchen.
"No more playing, no more eating!" Seeing this opportunity, Ikuta put the cards on the table together, and Ikoma had to sort out the cards with a look of helplessness.