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

[This page is a scrap. I can draw better now.]

Thanks to the support of Little Bird, Si Ji, whose painting level has been raised by 1 level, replied happily and relaxedly.

This page shows bait.

Anyone who is fond of this type of comics cannot resist this kind of picture that is hazy but has a bit of beauty, and is full of bitterness, atmosphere and painting skills.

If Kashiwagi Eri didn't take the bait, then her love for doujinshi would be nothing more than that. At worst, Shiki would put on a pseudonym and draw illustrations for Yamada Fairy herself.

I guess with his current reputation among the fairies, it would be easy for him to change the illustration.

After a long time, there was a new reply from Kashiwagi Eri.

[How long does it take for you to get to Akihabara? ]

[Very soon.] Si Ji replied.

After all, they are all in Tokyo, so there is no problem whether you take the train or drive.

[Forget about the address, but you know the maid cafe in Akihabara that has become a hot topic recently, right? Let's meet there, holding a copy of Weekly NANa, and the code is "transform."] Kashiwagi Eri replied immediately.

[…This is so troublesome. Why don’t I just forget about it and revise it slowly by myself.]

[No!] [Show me!] [I can pay for it!]

The other party responded three times in quick succession, almost turning the private message on the forum into a private chat.

[Forget about paying... How about this, I have a friend who really likes your paintings, Mr. Kashiwagi, how about you drawing two paintings for her? ]

[ok (Labrador bouquet)]

The corners of Si Ji's mouth curled up slightly.

Isn’t that done?

Chapter 62: Didn’t you come up with the secret code?

Sawamura Spencer Eriri was sitting in the recently famous maid cafe Wagunaria, feeling a little nervous and regretful. She thought it was a bit inconsiderate of her to suddenly meet an online friend whom she had only chatted with twice offline.

Because of her impulsive and hot-headed personality, she has suffered a lot. Every time she would reflect on her mistakes and be determined to correct them. However, a person's character is obviously not so easy to change. In the end, all those reflections turned into "I will definitely do it next time."

"I just hope that guy isn't some weird person."

In the end, the girl could only pick up the coffee cup and take a sip of the iced Americano in the cup. She regretted in her heart why she ordered something so unpalatable, while keeping a nonchalant look on her face so as not to ruin her image as a young lady.

It's inevitable to reveal some of your true nature when chatting online, but because you don't have a close relationship with the other person, the only thing that is actually exposed is your cute otaku attributes. Eriri reminds herself in her heart that she should at least maintain her eldest lady persona on the surface.

There was a bell ringing at the door of the coffee shop, indicating that a new customer had come in.

The girl pretended to be calm and looked over there with expectation and worry.

Then she saw a boy who was about her age.

Although this may sound a bit stereotypical, the first impression he gives people is that he is gloomy, and his skin looks unhealthy and pale, perhaps because he hasn't seen the sun for a long time. This is very consistent with people's usual impression of internet-addicted teenagers.

But with his white hair tied into a small braid and his enchanting burgundy eyes, his image is not as greasy as the fat otaku in the plaid shirt. Instead, it has a special charm of classic vampire-like evil charm and coldness.

It was a pity that the T-shirt and shorts he wore greatly weakened this strange charm. In addition, the "Weekly NANa" and a brown paper file bag he held under his arm made his image less sharp and unapproachable...

Wait, Weekly NANa?

Ying Lili suddenly had a bad feeling.

The mascot of Wagunaria, a waiter with a baby face and small breasts, came forward to greet the other party. After a few words, the young customer looked around the cafe.

Eriri wanted to keep her identity secret and didn't want to attract too much attention. However, before she could raise the comic magazine she had left on the table to signal, the other party suddenly stuffed the magazine and paper bag she brought into the waiter's hand, and he reached behind him and took out a belt from somewhere and buckled it around his waist.

Then he struck a fairly standard pose, inserted the transformation props and buckled his belt, and with a strong standby sound effect, he shouted.

"Transform!"

However, he never pressed the final transformation button. After posing, he pulled out the transformation props and turned off the standby sound effect of the belt.

Everyone who can come to a maid cafe has some otaku attributes. It is well known that otaku culture will attract each other. The otaku who likes cute maids has also watched some special effects. Therefore, after his performance, the noise in the cafe suddenly increased to a higher level. Most of the comments were friendly comments such as "Isn't this the transformation action of Masked Rider Armstrong?", "The degree of restoration is really high", "I want to see the spinning jet Armstrong cannon", "I don't have xp but I can protect other people's xp".

Eriri, who was petrified by the other party's unexpected action, saw that the other party, who had not found her, was still unsatisfied and took out the second transformation prop, as if he was going to show off the transformation of the deputy knight and the villain knight as well. She immediately came to her senses and waved the magazine in her hand desperately, regardless of the fact that her big movements would attract other people's attention.

"What are you thinking about?" When the other person sat down in the booth opposite her, Ying Lili lowered her voice and asked viciously like an angry puppy.

"I want some fries...or a sundae," the boy replied nonchalantly.

"That's not the question!" Ying Lili slapped the table so hard that even the waiter nearby couldn't help but look over here: "It's your stupid behavior just now!"

"Didn't you come up with the code? And even if it's Teacher Kashiwagi Eri, I won't allow you to dislike Masked Rider Armstrong!" the young man said righteously.

"No, I dislike you!" Eriri felt a little crazy, her golden twin ponytails swaying.

Is communication between people such a tiring thing?

"Being angry all the time can easily cause irritation, which is bad for your liver. It would be great if you could learn to be calm and composed like me." The young man said seriously, but his sickly appearance was totally unconvincing.

"Who would I be angry at?" If such a thing as a rage really existed, Eriri felt that her twin ponytails would turn into horns that could beat this guy to death with one blow.

"Anyway, how about some Sichuan spicy ice cream to soothe yourself? It's my treat." The young man smiled gloomy yet hearty. It was hard to believe that these two feelings could exist on the same face at the same time.

"That will only make people more angry!"

"Then..." The boy hesitated for a moment and asked uncertainly: "Mapo tofu herring sundae? Pineapple salmon sushi pizza?"

"It's not about the food! What kind of weird things are sold in this store..." Eriri's train of thought was interrupted by the weird menu in the store, but she immediately came back to her senses and stared at the boy fiercely: "Where are the things you promised?"

"The goods are very good." The boy immediately put on a businesslike expression and pushed the brown paper bag towards Eriri with the same movements as in a casino poker game. "Don't forget the reward we agreed on."

"Just give it to me normally!" Seeing the waiter not far away taking out his cell phone and seeming to be hesitating whether to call the police, Ying Lili felt her anger rising again.

But this time the boy did not answer, but just made a 'please' gesture.

This made Eriri feel as if she had thrown a punch in the air.

"If the story of this new work is too bad, I won't help your friend draw." She could only find compensation for this uncomfortable feeling in other places.

“Red bean paste Simi Masai.”

"Don't give up so quickly! Give me a little more confidence!"

"Not really my friend, but my friend's friend."

"Is this the place to apologize for? I am completely unable to understand your sensibility!"

Ying Lili opened the brown paper document bag with a mutter and started to read while complaining.

But after reading only two or three pages, she forgot to continue complaining and was immersed in the story of "That Snow".

Chapter 63: Beyond Perfection

"It's amazing that you can tell a story like this, with such a light sweetness..."

"I see. Bai Shanxue is this kind of child."

"Why would you choose this? Why don't you just catch up with him?"

"Is this... Damn it, why did Xiaoxue encounter such a thing..."

Shiki discovered that Eriri's expressions were unexpectedly rich.

She seemed to be truly immersed in the world of comics, constantly changing with the character's story, sometimes delighted, sometimes suddenly enlightened, sometimes anxious about the protagonist's choice, and sometimes sad for the tragedy in the story.

All in all, very interesting and worth watching.

By the way, just like Yamada Fairy and Yukinoshita Yukino, you can also affect the points by deliberately teasing Eriri, but the points obtained from her are less than those from Yukinoshita Yukino, and are probably on the same level as Yamada Fairy.

"How come it's gone now?!" After turning to the end of the story, Eriri was surprised to find that the rest of the page was blank. She could only look at Fin and ask Shiki, "Where's Xiaoxue? Where's my Xiaoxue!"

Si Ji shrugged and spread his hands with an innocent look: "I don't know."

"You old thief, have you eaten yet?" Ying Lili was so angry that she picked up the paper towel that could be used as a napkin on the table and rolled it into a stick, then chopped it towards Si Ji: "If you haven't eaten, then take my knife!"

The soft tissue paper naturally had no killing power, but Shiki looked at the tissue paper and said slowly, "This blow woke me up, so let her and Yoshida Saki (the heroine of "Metamorphosis") have a similar ending. After all, "Metamorphosis" was well received, right?"

Ying Lili froze and looked at him with a complicated expression: "Please be a human being..."

"Putting all that aside, what do you think of this story?" Si Ji asked calmly, "Is it good?"

The girl naturally realized that this guy asked this question deliberately to tease her what she had just said, that he would not fulfill the agreement if the story was too bad.

Her tsundere personality made her instinctively refuse to admit that this was a good story, but her heart just couldn't say no.

When you first read "That Snow", it would be easy to think that this is a pure love comic.

But when you really look at it from the perspective of someone who loves eating candy, you'll find that candies are made of knives, and your mouth will be full of blood after eating them.

But sugar is sugar, even if your mouth is full of blood, it still feels sweet to your heart.

However, this is only the first layer.

The girl was covered in filth and had no other way to survive, so she could only sell her body. In the end, she lost her place to stay and even had to disappear from the life of the person she loved. Literally, it seemed to be just an ordinary minotaur comic, but from beginning to end, the girl's heart was as bright and beautiful as glass, and it had never been stained by a trace of dust.

The more doujinshi about evil and minotaur that you read, the more you will be infected by the girl's sincere and pure nature that is untainted by the world, not to mention that Eriri herself is a doujin cartoonist who specializes in drawing evil minotaur.

If this thing causes 10 damage to ordinary book readers, the damage to the Evil Minotaur fans is 50 critical hits, and for Eriri, the book illustrator of the Source of All Evil (one of them), the damage is 100 critical hits plus special attacks.

The level 10 writing gave the story a soul, and the drawing that was infinitely close to level 7 gave the story skeleton and a beautiful appearance. Perhaps the original work in another time and space would not be able to reach this level, but at this moment, this story was a perfect work that shocked Eriri.

Finally, she could only whisper dejectedly, "It looks good."

"What? I can't hear and I'm not in the mood." Si Ji said pretentiously.

"It's great!" The girl looked at him angrily. She loved and hated his story, especially the feeling of not being able to get what she wanted. It really made her feel painful and itchy as if a cat was scratching her heart. "This story is so perfect, what else is there to change?"

Although she was still dissatisfied with the current blank ending, if she was really asked to change the ending, no matter how hard she thought, she could not think of an ending that could surpass this one.

Perhaps it would be better to arrange for Bai Shanxue to show up at the end and tell the male protagonist that she is happy now, or even let the male protagonist give up everything and let the two of them be together. This can be regarded as a happy ending in the sense of the story. However, the original charm of "That Snow" would be destroyed, and it would be transformed from a shocking story into a mediocre dumpling-making sketch.

This made Eriri scratch her head but she couldn't figure out how to change it.

"You only read it once, so of course you can't think of how to revise it." Si Ji took out a page and put it on the table, motioning the girl to take a look.

Ying Lili took a glance and found that it was the page where the other party had fished her out online before.

This page itself has a strong impact in the story, not only in the picture, but also in the narrative. It is from this page that the beautiful expression is torn apart, and the readers and the male protagonist are dragged into the cruel reality and forced to face the scarred and pitiful heroine.

There is no doubt that even in the entire story, this page can be selected as a representative "famous scene".

And this page is also perfect in Eriri's opinion. The storyboard, structure, atmosphere, impact and even the detailed background are all plus points. There is not a single part that is poor. She has no idea how to modify it.

"This page doesn't need to be modified, right?" Eriri was silent for a moment, then she spoke the truth: "It's already great now..."

But Shiki just smiled, then pulled out a piece of white paper from the bottom of the manuscript paper - only then did Eriri realize that this pile of white papers was not a prank on her, but was used to draw revisions - and began to draw with the pen she carried with her.

Many cartoonists will first draw a draft when drawing the composition and storyboard. The characters will be represented by simple spheres and cylinders. After the composition is determined, they will change it into characters. After the draft is officially finalized, they will let assistants refine it, do blackening, add background, etc.

The four seasons drafts mentioned earlier are actually the finalization stage for other cartoonists.

In Ying Lili's eyes, he was also writing with great enthusiasm, as if he had already thought about how to draw in his head. In just a few minutes, he outlined this famous scene again with lines.

There was obviously no detail at all, the background was drawn rather simply, and the shadows on the girl were not particularly detailed, but at the moment when Shiki stopped painting, Eriri felt a shock she had never felt before.

The girl in the picture still has her clothes open, exposing her body to the protagonist and the readers.

But compared to the finished draft, the girl in this 'draft' is still covered in wounds, but her face shows an uncompromising attitude towards life, just like a saint who is about to be devoured by cruel flames. At this moment, she even has a sense of holiness that was not in the previous drafts.

Dirty and filthy scars, and saint-like holiness, two extreme contrasts are presented simultaneously in one painting. The sense of tearing is much more touching than before, but they do not destroy the beauty of the picture. Together, they form a beauty with hope in cruelty. This beauty can bring people a strong thrill, even strong enough to modify the reader's XP.

Although it was just a rough draft, Eriri had already realized that the other party had indeed surpassed her understanding of perfection with his simple and powerful sense of picture and painting skills in these few minutes, and naturally created a more perfect picture.

Chapter 64 What are you doing?

Generally speaking, when you see a comic that completely suits your taste, you should feel extremely excited.

But if a part of this masterpiece was casually drawn by the other person in front of you, then your feelings would probably be more complicated.

Once you become a comic creator and realize that you may never be able to reach this level, you will feel a mixture of emotions that are hard to describe.

Talented people have never suffered a real setback, so when they first see a genius who is much stronger than themselves, they discover the gap between the two, understand their true position, and realize that they are just mortals. Needless to say, the feeling of loss they feel like falling from the sky is

In short, the joy of seeing a masterpiece is no longer so pure.

The girl with blond hair and twin ponytails slumped down on the sofa like a deflated balloon and said dejectedly, "What do you mean by coming to me for help after all this..."

Better plot ideas, better dialogue designs, and more amazing work style. If Eriri had any of these three points, she would have been able to offer opinions and suggestions.

"And let me help your friend draw a picture..."