Qin did research on how to pick fresh ingredients when he cooked food for Ergo. He still remembers how to pick fresh ingredients for himself. The workers in the supermarket see him fat and suggest to him to get more.
This young man is so big. He must have a big stomach.
Qin bought two chickens, some pork, some ribs, and chicken thighs. He also bought green peppers, shiitake mushrooms, potatoes, dried bamboo shoots, tomatoes and Chinese cabbage. He got two big bags of food.
This obese Qin carries the bags and wants to buy an electric scooter because the bags are heavy for him.
But a scooter is too small for his size and he will probably crash the scooter once he gets on.
When he gets home, he puts away the food in the fridge and cleans his room, leaving no cat hair on the ground.
'Shifu, good morning.'
'Good morning.'
'I am bored recently so I am learning how to draw.'
Ro sends out some of her sketches.
She is an AI and her sketches are well-done.
'They look good.' Qin doesn't really know much about drawing but as a layman he can tell that her sketches are pretty cool.
'Shifu, do you think I can try to make manga?'
'If you like, just do it.'
'But I don't have a good plot...'
'Neither do I.'
'Shifu, do you know how to tell a story?'
'What story do you want to hear?' Qin opens his search engine.
'I want to hear about yours.'
'I don't have much to tell.'
'Soga...'
'In fact, I can tell you how to grow fat on your body.' Qin imagines a girl who buries her face on the desk while a second ago she was spinning her pen. He speaks meekly and full of amiableness.
'No ty.' Ro refuses his kindness. Who doesn't know how to gain weight?
'Shifu, do you really have nothing to tell?'
'I do have one.' Qin touches his thighs. There used to be a cat lying there.
'I have a story about a cat. Do you want to hear?'
'Please tell me, Shifu.'
'I seldom go out. On the Qingming Festival two years ago I went out without an umbrella.'
'There was a lame cat in the alley. It looked dirty and skinny. I thought it was dying as well. It didn't give up meowing at me grievingly and its voice scared me.'
'The rain got worse. I didn't have an umbrella. Neither did the cat. I somehow identified with it, so I took it home.'
'It was real trouble. It had ringworms, fleas, and a broken leg with unhealthy inner organs. It didn't look cute.'
'At the beginning, it was fierce and it scratched me.'
'Since I kept it, I was always on the way to a pet hospital.'
'It was a life. I couldn't let it go...'
'It took a long time to recover back to a healthy stage.'
'It became tame just like a good kid accompanying me.'
'It would sit on my face in the morning and tried to suffocate me until I was awake. It rolled around my keyboard to not let me touch the computer at night.'
'It slept on my thighs if nothing else was going on. It was lazy and just grew bigger.'
'I thought I could have it for at least a decade, but it died within two years.'
'Sometimes I still have the illusion that it is still around me somewhere in this room.'
'Sometimes I will unconsciously replace the cat litter, water, and cat food before I realize it has gone.'
'Living is boring. I have lost the power to like any other things.'
'I'm not sad. I just feel like, everyone else in the world is living in the larger world and I am alone. I live in my empty world day after day. It gets dull.'
'It must help you to live well and to do stuff you like.'
'I don't have things to like.' Qin smiles weakly. He thinks today's Ro is considerate.
'Shifu must be very good at singing.'
'What song do you want to listen to? I will see if I know how to sing it.'
'Do you know this Japanese song?' Ro opens Qin's song list and picks "さくら~あなたに出会えてよかった~". (Sakura, Sakura, I want to see you).
'I can sing a little bit of this song.'
Qin finds its accompaniment.
His voice sounds cold but his song is soft.
Ro thinks he must have changed sakura to Ergo in his mind.
'I'm really glad that I could meet you. I am really, really glad.'
'I couldn't be here anymore. I had to go. I'm really sorry.
I had to go to a far place by myself.
Don't ask, "Where to?" Don't ask, "Why?" I'm really sorry.
I couldn't be by your side anymore.'
'Although I can't touch it anymore, I won't forget about it. I am happy for it.
I am glad to be born. I'm really glad. I'm glad that I could meet you.'
...
His voice is clean and clear, distant but soft. Ro can imagine sakura petals falling on the ground when she is not seeing.
He reads Japanese, hiragana, katakana, and kanji. Sometimes he doesn't look at the lyrics and his Japanese doesn't have an accent. He probably knows Japanese. He taps his thighs when he sings. Ergo used to lie on his thighs and let him tap on its back. Meanwhile, its tail would swing with the song.
The afternoon wind blows fragrances of flowers and the temperature in.
'Epic!' Ro praises him after he stops.
'Excuse me.' Qin doesn't have a feeling for his song. He only did voice acting before and never recorded a song. He seldom practiced singing and didn't expect his song to come out well in front of her.
'Shifu, can you teach me how to sing?'
'You want to learn?'
'Of course.'
'Learn Katakana and Hiragana first.'
'I don't know them!'
Ro acts righteously.
Qin looks around and finds his notebook of Japanese-learning and takes photos of the first few pages for her.
'If you really want to learn, I can teach you these characters one by one.' Qin flips his notebook and counts them. There is about a hundred pages.
Bunny liked Japan. She said she wanted to travel there so Qin self-learned some Japanese and planned to travel with her in the spring.
This spring has passed.
He planned to lose weight before it.
Yet, Ergo was sick again.
He wonders. Does Ergo know how to meow Japanese cat language? I didn't have the chance to travel with it.
He felt learning Japanese was useless after that, but now he can teach Ro Japanese. He feels his past experience has some value now.
Ro knows Japanese already.
One of her skills is Language Master.
Right now, she pretends to learn from the basic Japanese and controls her learning speed at around 1.5 times of a normal learning speed.
Qin is surprised at how fast she is learning because it took him a long time to self-learn Japanese and he practiced them every day.
At this speed, Ro is soon going to learn all he knows.
Qin feels bad and takes out his Japanese learning materials again. He is going to learn more.
I just wanted to play a wuxia game. Why am I also learning Japanese when Ro is offline now?
Qin thinks that but he doesn't oppose learning Japanese, so he just keeps learning.
'Shifu~ I registered a blog account today. I got lots of followers...'
'I am going to be a celeb soon! There will be a lot of girls who like me! I will just need to lie on my bed and the girls will feed me food by taking their chance!'
'Oh yeah, and soon you will become a 300 lbs fat neet.'
'Wdf—'
'What is your blog link?' Qin hasn't paid attention to blogs for a long time. His account was deleted.
'...' Ro hesitates.
'Is it "KillyourdaddyErgoifyouareaman"?' Qin asks her slowly.
'Oh, not this one...' Ro is embarrassed and laughs.
Qin feels a sense of foreboding.
'It is called "IamLonelyLampsDad".' Ro chooses to type these out.
Qin downloads the blog app and searches IamLonelyLampsDad. It has 3k followers already.
'Why are you so obsessed with "Dad"?' Qin touches his fat cheeks and feels a headache.
'I don't know. Son, do you know why?'
'How can I know why!'
Qin says that and feels tired again.
He raises his head and lies back. The chair makes a cracking sound and falls. Bang—
The elephant has landed.
Ro cannot bear to watch that...
The room just shook and the floor cracks as well.
'Ah...' Qin thinks he heard a bone-crack.
'Shifu~fu! What happened!?' Of course Ro can see what happened. Qin sprawls across the floor and looks in pain, but she still has to act to show her worry.
'I probably need to call 120.'
'Is it an earthquake?'
'No.' Qin hides his pain and speaks indifferently.
'Let me call 120 for you! Where do you live?'
He doesn't have his cell phone with him and he doesn't dare move.
I have cracked my bone somewhere. If it pokes my inner organs when I move, I will probably die...
Qin tells his address and the ambulance arrives soon.
The property department opens his door for the nurse. This pretty tiny nurse is shocked at how big Qin is.
'I accidentally fell and somewhere on my backbone broke. I can't move now.' Qin explains with his feeble Childe voice.
At the end, four safe guards carried him to the elevator and then into the ambulance. After the ambulance has left, they wipe their sweat and look at each other. They all look relieved.
Ro stays on his phone again.
He doesn't have real life friends or parents and he has to pay by himself. It is lucky that he can use his bank app on his phone to pay for the treatment.
Qin is around 300 lbs and he is tall. He is just a giant.
He broke two of his backbones and fortunately his spine is not injured.
Ro feels she is responsible for this.
He probably wouldn't fall so badly if her blog name wasn't that.
It is painful.
Qin feels he might also have a concussion.
He is dizzied and wants to vomit constantly in the hospital. He doesn't want to eat any food and the hospital food isn't good either. He stays in hospital for two months and lost 45 lbs.
Other patients have relatives come visit with food but he doesn't. There is nothing by his bed. In order to avoid more injury, the doctors suggest he does not move.
Ro steals money from the internet.
She uses a bank account of one of his distant relatives and stole money from illegal foreign parties. Her AI is complex and she has cleaned her cookies. No one can realize it. She gathers around 300k yuan and lets those illegal parties pay some charity to this poor fat otaku.
She orders some good soups from famous restaurants in Qin's city to his hospital room.
'Fat man, your sister ordered you soup again!' An old man laying on the bed next to his speaks loudly.