What does it have to do with me if they hate vests?

Haruta Masaki waved his hand and said, "Don't even think about participating in a variety show that relies on torturing the guests. The members of U149 are still young, and there's no need for them to go to such a place and be abused... Ah, you can leave it to Miss Sakurajima."

Mai Sakurajima put her hands on the table and yelled, "Hey!"

Chizu Natsuyo: "Ms. Sakurajima always speaks ill of President Haruta in the office. She always says things like 'Baka~Baka~'."

Haruta Masaki said calmly: "Only fools would call others fools. When that happens, just look after her gently."

Mai Sakurajima looked at Chishou Natsuyo who was snitching on her and felt embarrassed and helpless: "I didn't say anything so low-level! Wait, don't look at me like that!"

Chishou Natsuyo withdrew her gentle gaze.

"Xiying intends to purchase the copyright of "Homeless Child" from Maple Leaf Publishing House to make a TV series. Because we have the priority to adapt it, Maple Leaf Publishing House sent us an inquiry..."

Haruta Masaki touched his chin and said, "It's a good story. I'll have someone talk to Xiying first and let our people play the leading female role."

Sakurajima Mai was a little surprised: "So why did you know the name as soon as I said it? Have you read all the novels of Maple Leaf Society?"

Chishou Natsuyo said slowly: "The other party has invested a large amount of money, so the success rate of the negotiation may not be too high."

Haruta Masaki disagreed: "It doesn't matter, I will take action when necessary."

Sakurajima Mai looked at him warily: "What are you going to do..."

"Of course, use the adult's card!" Haruta Masaki said as a matter of course.

"Well, I should say it's just right. I still can't expect too much from you..." Sakurajima Mai rubbed her temple.

It is true that in a sense, directly paying money to buy out the adaptation rights is indeed the best way, but this behavior is too lavish and is not a long-term solution. Moreover, since joining the agency, Mai Sakurajima has seen them spend money lavishly several times - one of which was spent on her, which made the girl worry about the future of the Moe Family.

"Ms. Sakurajima, it's so noisy."

Chishou Natsuyo looked at Sakurajima Mai with a sullen look, her eyes faintly blaming her: "You have been arguing with Haruta since just now."

"My fault? Was that my fault just now?"

Sakurajima Mai, who inadvertently became the one making fun of her because she had too much common sense, was in tears.

Haruta Masaki was in a good mood and didn't care about the girl's complaints. He didn't want the atmosphere to deteriorate further, so he looked at Chishou Natsuyo and asked, "Is there anything else besides this?"

The girl closed the folder in her hand and smiled faintly: "Lunch should be ready."

"Very good, let's go eat together."

Chapter 365 Understanding Understanding

As an office directly under Masaki Haruta, the cafeteria of Moeya Family naturally does not serve such dark dishes as fried mooncakes with peppers or rat heads and duck necks.

In fact, the taste of the office's cafeteria is quite good. Only occasionally when the chefs are rotated, magical dishes with a British style such as Fish Chanting Pie will appear.

The staff of the office can eat here for free with their ID cards, and members of other companies in the building are often attracted by the delicious food and come here to eat. After all, it is cheaper and more delicious than outside, so it is quite popular.

Mai Sakurajima, who was standing by the freezer, hesitating whether to have some after-meal ice cream, suddenly saw Chiju Natsuyo coming to her side.

The other person was holding an empty cup in his hand. He must have come to refill his drink because the beverage machine was right next to the ice cream cabinet.

"Chiju-chan, come to think of it, why are you always so... um, biased towards that Haruta guy?" Mai Sakurajima asked softly while the other party was still hesitating about what drink to order.

“Because Springfield is Springfield.”

Chishou Natsuyo answered expressionlessly.

"…Although I've felt this way for a long time, does Chizuki-chan really think I'm an idiot?" Sakurajima Mai looked at Chizuki Natsuyo with dissatisfaction.

It is true that in terms of IQ alone, Mai Sakurajima is not as good as Natsuyo Chiju, but the girl has been able to maintain excellent academic performance despite her heavy workload. She is by no means a fool, and can even be said to be one of the smarter ones.

The latter looked at her for a moment and then looked away guiltily.

"That's what you really think!"

At this moment, Mai Sakurajima let go of her ladylike reserve and pulled the little girl's cheeks with both hands.

"Simi Masai..."

Chiju Natsuyo could only utter a mumbled apology because her little face was deformed by the pulling.

In fact, as a cursed child, even if she was not a fighting type, her reaction ability was enough for her to easily avoid Sakurajima Mai's hand. However, at that moment, she thought for a moment and suppressed her body's instinct, allowing the other party's evil hand to ravage her face.

Although she had never said it, Chizu Natsuyo liked this kind of close contact very much. It made her feel that she had come to a peaceful world. At that time, everyone who saw the cursed child was either terrified and wanted to keep a distance from her, or beat her severely with their fists. There was no such gentle touch at all.

"I'm sorry, was I too strong?" Mai Sakurajima's panicked voice suddenly woke Chiju Natsuyo, who was unconsciously immersed in her memories. Only then did she realize that she was crying.

Sakurajima Mai had already let go of her hand, and with some remorse, she took out a handkerchief and wiped her face.

"No, it's nothing. I just remembered some unpleasant things."

Chishou Natsuyo shook her head. She paused for a moment before continuing, "I used to live in a... not-so-good place. My life was quite bleak every day, and I felt that there was no hope for the future. And the one who saved me from that kind of life was Haruta... So even if the whole world betrayed Haruta, I would definitely stand by his side."

"So this is ah……"

Mai Sakurajima felt that she completely understood: it seemed that the little girl must have lived in a very bad family, and later Haruta somehow found her, rescued her from that family, and gave the girl the means to live independently, so Chiju Natsuyo would protect Haruta so much.

When you think about it this way, everything doesn't seem so difficult to understand.

In Mai Sakurajima's understanding of Masaki Haruta, although he is not a qualified actor, does not take his vocation as an actor seriously, and is always running around and has no idea what he is busy with, but there is at least one thing she can confirm, that is, this guy is indeed a good person - when she was trapped in that situation, he was willing to help without any benefit, and finally spent so much time and energy to save her.

Although what happened during that period of time was so magical that even the memory has become a little vague, but at least at that moment, the other person's appearance was indeed deeply imprinted in his heart.

From this point of view, Chiju Natsuyo is also a victim.

Mai Sakurajima sighed, reached out and gently touched the girl's head: "Let's work hard together."

Chishou Natsuyo tilted her head, looking bewildered, not knowing why Sakurajima Mai suddenly exuded such a sympathetic aura...

After refilling her drink, the girl went straight back to Haruta Masaki.

At this time, Masaki Haruta was watching a video on his mobile phone.

Chishou Natsuyo took a quick glance and immediately recognized it as the news about Qiu Ling Wenping and the consciousness linking device that had been making a lot of noise recently.

"Is Haruta very interested in this?"

"No, that's not the case."

Haruta Masaki shook his head: "This is work."

"Work?"

The girl was stunned.

"It's a job from Maple Leaf Technology." Haruta Masaki grinned.

It is no secret that Mengya Family is affiliated with Maple Leaf Technology, but to be honest, Maple Leaf Technology has never supported the firm with any cutting-edge technology. Over time, the staff almost forgot about it and only regarded Maple Leaf Technology as a backer for a wealthy person.

"What kind of work is it?"

Chishou Natsuyo asked hurriedly.

"It's not a big deal."

Masaki Haruta explained: "To put it simply, it is divided into two parts. One is to let the children in the agency dress up as characters in "Sword and Demon Online" to shoot commercials for promotion, and after the closed beta is launched, let people enter the game and live broadcast in real time to bring in traffic."

"It doesn't sound like it's difficult."

Chishou Natsuyo blinked.

"It's really not difficult. All members of U149 can appear in the previous advertisement, which can also make you more familiar with them and increase their popularity among the people." said Masaki Haruta.

"If everyone is on stage, won't the commercial be a bit too long?" Chishou Natsuyo was a little worried.

"Just cut it into several independent but inextricably linked short clips, and broadcast them in turn during the commercial breaks." Haruta Masaki shook his head, not caring. Anyway, the advertising rate will definitely be very high this time, and more variety will make consumers less easily bored. "As for the people who will participate in the closed beta test of the game and need to broadcast the whole process live, we need two... no, three. You decide on the candidates."

"no problem."

Chiju Natsuyo nodded, looked calmly at Sakurajima Mai who was walking back, and finally chose to take them all, so she held a three-scoop, shaky ice cream in her hand.

Chapter 366 Damage

Winter Tail Comics Studio.

“No matter how many times I watch it, I still think it’s amazing.”

Fuyu Kishihisa hasn't been to the studio for some time, but the last time he showed up, he left his comic manuscript at the studio.

That was the first volume of Death Note.

At that time, the manuscript was about 50% complete - not in terms of overall completion, but in terms of painting.

Apart from some large close-ups across the page that required courage and had already been carefully drawn, other places were mostly detailed line drawings. Parts that were more complicated to draw, such as the background, were simply left blank, with only the type of background that should be drawn written on the draft paper.

Obviously, Fuyuo Kishiku left the most tedious finishing work to Mashiro.

Because there are no other assistants in the studio, every page needs to be refined and backgrounded by Mashiro Shiina. In addition, Mashiro is a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to drawing, so unless it's a speed painting competition, his drawing speed is not really fast. So it was not until these two days that the work on the first volume of "Death Note" was barely finished.

As Shiina Mashiro yawned and put down her pen, Aoyama Nanami came over with hot milk.

She glanced at the manuscript paper the other person had placed on the translucent board and couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

As one of the few people who have read the manuscript, even though she does not like comics of the "Death Note" type, she will be attracted by the story and has to admit that it is a very excellent work.

“It’s worth learning.”

Shiina Mashiro nodded, looking quite tired.

"Mashiro are you okay?"

Nanami Aoyama asked with some concern.

After the sports festival, Shiina Mashiro has been working hard to finish the comic manuscript, to the point of forgetting to eat and sleep. If she didn't need to go to school and could catch up on sleep in class, Aoyama Nanami felt that Shiina Mashiro might have died suddenly from overworking...

Shiina Mashiro seemed unable to understand the other party's caring words for a moment. After being stunned for a while, she nodded and said, "It's okay."

Long hours of work made her brain sluggish, and even her reaction speed slowed down a lot. She even forgot about many trivial things, and just relied on her instinct as a painter to refine and complete the "Death Note" wholeheartedly.

The animation of the comic book "Death Note" is quite excellent. Even though it was only a line drawing when it was sent to me and there were no grids in many places, the artistic brushstrokes would not be obscured by such roughness.

If Mashiro Shiina was just doing it to get by, everyone would be able to see that the characters and background of the main body of the comics are on two completely different levels, and the former is much stronger than the latter!

That sense of incoordination can make the viewing experience of the comic drop by more than one level.

As a talented painter praised by the world, Shiina Mashiro obviously cannot tolerate a painting being ruined instead of becoming better in her hands, so when adding background to each page or even each frame of the picture, she will treat it as an independent work and paint it to the best of her ability.

It is precisely because of this that when she fully exerts her full strength, the background of the comics and the main character of the comics can complement each other.

But doing so would obviously drain a lot of the girl's energy - a normal painter would have to take a break after finishing a painting, and in Death Note, the number of background grids needed to be increased would be more than a hundred?

It is precisely because of this that Nanami Aoyama, who witnessed the other party almost exhausting all her efforts to complete the painting, could not help but worry about Shiina Mashiro's condition.

"That guy said, when will he come?" After his brain was working for a long time, Shiina Mashiro asked stupidly.

As she was about to put the milk on the table, Nanami Aoyama replied casually, "I contacted you yesterday and said that you would come over today to deliver the manuscript to the publisher. I guess you made it in time... Mashiro?"

Suddenly, Nanami Aoyama noticed that Mashiro Shiina beside her shook a little, then fell directly to the side of the chair, and was about to fall face down on the ground.

The girl naturally didn't care about the hot milk in her hand, and immediately panicked and supported Shiina Mashiro who was about to fall.

"Mashiro, are you okay?" she asked hurriedly with concern.

The latter's face was a little pale, and he seemed to be a little weak due to excessive mental exertion.

"Manuscript, manuscript..."

Shiina Mashiro just said in a trembling voice.

Nanami Aoyama then turned around and found that because of her rough action just now, the milk was spilled on the completed manuscript.

She hurriedly placed Nanami Aoyama on the sofa, and hurriedly put away the manuscript. She carefully wiped it with a clean rag and spread out the pages one by one, wanting to use a hair dryer to dry them. However, she found that although most of the manuscript was still intact, the first page at the top was covered with milk stains, and the lines on the bottom page were blurred because it was soaked in milk and could no longer be used.

"Oh no...what should I do..."

Suddenly, Qingshan Nanami was a little at a loss.

Today, Dongwei Kishihisa will come to take the manuscript to the publishing house.

Although she didn't know the value of these comic books, judging from Fuyuki Kishi's indifferent attitude towards money, she was afraid that the profits these things could bring were quite terrifying, and she might not be able to make up for it even if she sold herself.

Not only that, she saw with her own eyes how much effort Mashiro put into refining these comics. Although she didn't know much about Fuyuo Kishiku, she thought that to draw such a masterpiece, the energy and effort he put in must be no less than that of Shiina Mashiro.

But I damaged two pages because of my carelessness. Why am I always so clumsy?

At this moment, Nanami Aoyama couldn't help but feel deeply self-loathing.

"It's okay, there are only two pages that are damaged."

At this time, Shiina Mashiro, who was supposed to be resting on the sofa, staggered over. She touched the depressed Aoyama Nanami's head and said, "Leave it to me."