Inside the panda exhibit, it was packed with people.
The crowd stretched from front to back with no empty spots - it was hard even to squeeze to the edge to see.
Hayashi didn't want the three of them to squeeze around with the crowd.
So naturally they floated in the sky to watch.
"Levitation spell."
With one levitation spell, the three floated up to a height of less than 2.5 meters.
Adding an invisibility magic on top made it completely perfect.
The three floated into the panda exhibit.
Upon entering.
Everyone was carefully watching the pandas.
And phones, cameras, and camcorders were all aimed at the pandas, taking photos non-stop.
Of course, with flash turned off.
Otherwise, if discovered, they'd be kicked out.
After entering.
Tohru and Kanna's eyes were glued to the pandas.
Tohru hugged Hayashi's arm and hurriedly asked: "What's its name?"
"Xiangxiang." Hayashi explained: "These repeated syllable panda names all indicate the panda is very cute."
Tohru asked curiously again: "Are all pandas black and white?"
"Yes... uh..." Hayashi was about to say yes, but suddenly thought of something and changed his answer: "Not completely. A very few pandas have deficiency mutations and turn brown. This is extremely rare, very few."
"Oh~~~" Tohru understood.
So the vast majority were black and white.
But Kanna became curious at this point.
"Then why don't they turn pure black or pure white?"
Genetic color changes included both blackening and whitening.
Like white deer or black panthers.
Usually black and white were mainstream.
But when this question was applied to pandas.
Hayashi could only shake his head to indicate he didn't know.
"Maybe pandas are originally black and white. Too black would make them black bears, too white would make them polar bears, so genes don't allow them to become single colors - they can only have deficiency mutations that fade to brown."
Others changed colors, pandas faded colors.
This was also an extremely rare case among rare cases.
Kanna seemed to like them very much.
She watched intently in the air, hardly looking away.
After a long while.
She suddenly asked:
"Can we keep one at home?"
"?" Hayashi almost didn't hesitate to shake his head: "Our house is too small, not suitable. Keeping one isn't great, keeping two would be even less adequate."
The main problem was that pandas were too rare.
Unless they stole one, there was no way to find unwanted pandas.
"Oh right."
Thinking of this, Hayashi suddenly asked the two girls:
"Tohru, Kanna, don't you have pandas in your other world? If you really want to keep one, you could catch small pandas that can't survive from the other world."
In the animal kingdom, when parents encountered danger or children were too weak.
They generally couldn't survive, so you could pick up strays.
But both Tohru and Kanna shook their heads.
"No."
"?" Hayashi was quite surprised: "Not even similar ones?"
"There are." Tohru first nodded, then shook her head: "But they're not black and white, just ordinary bears."
"Right." Kanna also confirmed: "No black and white bears like this."
Hiss~~~
Hayashi was really surprised.
So pandas were unique even in other worlds.
It seemed if he really wanted one, he'd have to look in parallel worlds.
"Forget it then."
Hayashi shook his head: "Let's not consider it short-term. Our house isn't big enough anyway. We'll see later."
Tohru and Kanna also nodded: "Mm."
Afterward.
Hayashi, Tohru, and Kanna just watched pandas here.
Watching pandas eat bamboo, scratch ears, roll around, spin in circles...
During this time, the three of them were also eating.
The tourists below them changed batch after batch.
They could only watch for dozens of minutes before having to leave to let the queuing people behind come in and continue watching.
Just like that.
They watched until after 5 PM.
Until there was a message notification on his phone.
Hayashi took out his phone to look.
Sakurajima Mai: "I posted my first video! Go check it out, just search my name. What's your account number? I want to follow each other!"
Takatsuki Sen: "Pay attention to street billboards, there should be a surprise."
Billboards would have a surprise?
Hayashi first replied to Mai, telling her his TikTok account, which was actually just an initial account with nothing on it, only used for browsing videos.
His likes and favorites were empty, even his avatar and name were blank.
After sending it.
He was actually instantly followed by Sakurajima Mai's verified account.
Hayashi clicked mutual follow.
Then asked: "Can you control your ability now?"
Sakurajima Mai: "Mm, I can already make ordinary people notice my existence, but remembering me is still a bit difficult, so posting videos for social media should help, right?"
Hayashi: "It definitely will. Compared to shouting in public, the internet's effect is much, much better now. Good luck."
Sakurajima Mai: "Mm!!"
After replying to Mai.
Hayashi checked the time - it was already 5:30 PM.
"Let's go home." Hayashi turned to Tohru and Kanna.
"Okay."
They had seen enough too.
But they still took one last look, then returned to Hayashi's side, waiting for teleportation.
Hayashi looked at Takatsuki Sen's message.
"Let's go to Akihabara first."
Snap~
With one finger snap, the three arrived at Akihabara.
Here.
There were many maids and other cosplayers handing out flyers on the street.
Everywhere around were posters and advertisements related to 2D culture.
Among the crowds, most were discussing various circles.
"Wow~" Kanna looked around and exclaimed: "This place looks really fun."
Tohru nodded: "It does."
"Then we'll come play when we're free the next few days." Hayashi decided: "But mainly we're here to check messages."
He scanned around.
And directly found news about Takatsuki Sen's new work on a huge electronic screen on a building wall.
The screen read:
"Super Popular Author Takatsuki Sen's Explosive New Work Preview: Animal Rhapsody, Pre-orders Now Open!!!"
The cover used many exclamation marks.
Some words were especially large.
Hayashi took Tohru and Kanna to look for other advertisements.
He found this wasn't even the most outrageous.
The most outrageous advertising copy directly used: "Will It Become a Banned Book Once Released?! Takatsuki Sen's Must-Buy New Work! Hint or Metaphor?!"
"Incredible." Hayashi called it incredible after seeing it.
This promotional language made even him want to buy it.
He originally thought that having the publishing editorial circle consider it might become a banned book upon release was enough.
Who knew they'd use it directly for promotion!!
Now this was what you called professional!
You know about banned books, right!
You know about metaphors, right!
If you don't buy now, you won't be able to buy it later!
Come buy it now!
Tohru and Kanna were stunned seeing this promotional method.
"Wow~~~"
Tohru exclaimed: "The human world really knows how to play."
Hayashi took out his phone, photographed all these advertising words, then sent them to Takatsuki Sen.
Hayashi: "Too outrageous. Was this pushed by your idea or the editor's?"
Takatsuki Sen replied instantly: "Both. After the editor saw it, he was even more excited than me, saying this book would definitely become required reading for metaphors between humans and ghouls if it wasn't banned."
Hayashi: "That's really incredible. This is perfect - just wait for it to explode. This will definitely be banned and definitely go viral."
Takatsuki Sen: "That would be best."
After seeing the advertisements, Hayashi helplessly shook his head, expressing that humans were even crazier than he had imagined.
Then he took the two back to the late-night diner.
"Let's go, home. We'll come again tomorrow."
"Mm-hmm."
Teleportation magic, home!
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