Is it okay not to want to work hard?

It is very difficult to find a girlfriend, but it is hard to find multiple girlfriends who know each other, can accept being with you and are not jealous. This is definitely possible in the world, but there will definitely not be many such examples, they will be very few.

This is not a relationship maintained by money, but a relationship maintained by feelings. I can only say that girls in the second dimension are good. Generally, once they have decided on a person, they will not let go. If it were the case in the third dimension, some people would probably be in the refrigerator.

"Yeah yeah."

Higashino Suzu nodded in agreement.

Her brother is good in every way, except that he is unfaithful.

When she grows up, she must not become a playboy like her brother!

At a very young age, Dongye Ling secretly swore a vow in her heart.

In the girls' horse riding battle, Class 1, Grade won.

When it comes to playing games, whether it's video games or other games, Izumi Konaka is very good. Although her headscarf was almost snatched away by Xiao Jing, fortunately she was slightly inferior and successfully defended her victory.

"Oh, horse fighting is really fun, I can touch girls casually."

As soon as he came back, Quan Konata made an extremely perverted statement.

Fortunately, she is a girl. If a boy were to let others hear this, he would probably call the police and take her to the police station.

"That's all you've got."

Higashino Kanade patted Izumi Konata's head. He didn't want to touch that wet head covered with sweat at all.

Being fuzzy, warm, and wet is not a good feeling.

"Humph, it's better than some people."

Izumi Konata stared at the hands held by Tono Kanade and Goto Ichiri with a burning gaze.

This is the ugly side of the Heisei otaku!

"Is this satisfactory?"

Tono Kanade held Izumi Konata's hand with his empty hand.

"Tsk!"

Quan Chifang smacked his lips unhappily but said nothing.

That's pretty much it.

Chapter 19 People live to eat!

The sports meet is over.

After the school's cultural festival and sports meet, there are no more activities this semester.

This is the case for first-year and third-year students, but second-year students do have a school trip.

Before we knew it, September was over.

Throughout October, Higashino Kanade was working on the band's song "Dancing Girl". Filming the MV and recording the song were both time-consuming and laborious tasks. In addition, Hiroi Kikuri had resumed her band activities and had to focus on her own band activities, so the progress of filming the MV and recording the song for "Dancing Girl" was very slow.

“I really don’t want to come”

Downstairs in the apartment building, Yoshida Koji looked up at a window on the third floor in a daze. He hadn't come to the studio to collect manuscripts for a month. It was always Ringo-sensei who came to the editorial office in person to hand in the manuscripts.

It's not that he was slacking off, but he didn't really want to come to Mr. Ringo's studio.

If, as a cartoonist editor, he doesn't dare to go to the studio of his own cartoonist, wouldn't he be laughed at?

But it is.

In the past, Bad Ringo's studio was full of men, with no women. Later, for some reason, a rock-and-roll lady moved in. At that time, it was OK, as there was only one woman in the studio. But after Bad Ringo's two assistants resigned and wanted to try serializing comics, there were more women in the studio.

Although he knew the Izumi and Nishimiya sisters, and also knew the sister of the bad Ringo teacher, the time for the visit was not good.

He couldn't accept the reason.

I can't accept that I don't have a girlfriend at my age, while the bad Ringo teacher is surrounded by cute and beautiful girls at a young age.

The worst thing is that several of these girls maintained impure relationships with him.

Moreover, as a man, he was embarrassed when Ringo-sensei was not at the studio when he visited and it was Hiroi-san or Nishimiya-san who opened the door. He could not glance around casually. The biggest reason why he did not want to come to the studio was that he once saw a familiar blue box in the trash can.

He had never used that thing, but he had seen it at a convenience store.

He really didn't want to come. He was really worried that when he knocked on the door, he would hear strange noises coming from the room, and then the bad Ringo teacher would come to open the door for him, wiping the sweat from his face.

It always feels like playing with butter.

He will come to the studio today to discuss the color pages of "False Hero" and subsequent plot issues with Bad Ringo. Some things are difficult to explain over the phone, and he is not always available when Bad Ringo comes to hand in the manuscript, so he can only visit in person when he has time.

Koji Yoshida came to the studio.

The person who opened the door was Hiroi Kikuri. In the studio, Higashino Kanade and Nishimiya Shoko were drawing, while Higashino Suzu and Nishimiya Yuzuru were helping to color the picture in black while one was pasting dot paper.

Higashino Suzu helped because she wanted to become a cartoonist like Higashino Kanade and wanted to learn. Nishimiya Yuzuru helped simply because she was bored, so she helped Higashino Kanade so that he could finish drawing earlier and they could go out to shoot the MV earlier.

"Long time no see, Editor Yoshida."

When Higashino Kanade saw Yoshida Koji, he looked up and opened his eyes, said a lie, and then lowered his head again.

"We just met last week, okay?"

Yoshida Koji smiled, sat down on the sofa, and began to talk about the latest reader survey rankings.

Although he didn't want to come to Bad Ringo's studio, Bad Ringo was the one he trusted the most among all the cartoonists under him. He didn't need to worry too much about him, just give him some occasional reminders. He could give him advice when he encountered problems, and he could also help him give advice on other cartoonists' comics.

The way an editor looks at a cartoonist is different from the way a reader looks at a cartoon, and it is also different from the way a cartoonist looks at a cartoon. When he couldn't make up his mind, having Bad Ringo-sensei help him read the cartoon really saved him a lot of trouble.

"Really? I don't remember."

Higashino Kanade shook his head. A week was a bit long for him. School, drawing, games, GHS and making songs took up a lot of his time, and he didn't have a deep impression of going to the editorial office once a week to submit manuscripts.

"Remember this, what if you forget to submit the manuscript?"

Yoshida Koji complained,

"It's okay. I believe you will come to urge the manuscript."

Higashino Kanade believed that if he really forgot, Yoshida Koji would definitely call him frantically to ask him to hand in the manuscript, and if he didn't answer the phone, he would definitely drive to find him in a hurry.

"I don't know whether I should be touched by your trust or not."

Yoshida Koji sighed helplessly.

He is considered an old man in the editing field, no longer the rookie he once was. But he can show his authority as an editor in front of other cartoonists, but he really can't show it in front of Bad Ringo.

There is no way. If the cartoonist is average or just excellent, he can still put on airs, after all, he can give all kinds of suggestions to the cartoonist. And genius cartoonists can quickly find problems in their cartoons. The rare suggestions you can make are about innocuous things. Sometimes you don't find the problems in the cartoons, but others do, which shows that your professional quality is very poor.

When cartoonists are weak, editors will be strong, and when cartoonists are strong, editors will become weak.

After finishing the page of comics in his hand, Higashino Kanade stopped writing and had a good meeting with Yoshida Koji.

Communication between cartoonists and editors is essential. Even a genius needs to learn. If you work in isolation, you may be out of touch with readers' tastes and market trends, and then you may draw a comic that only you can appreciate, or even draw something weird.

During the meeting, Higashino Kanade asked Yoshida Koji about some other cartoonists. He was mainly concerned about Niizuma Eiji, Ajo Mumeha and his two assistants.

Eiji Niizuma's comics are doing very well, and his single-volume books are also doing very well after their release. Although not as high as his, the data is also quite scary. As for Akira Muneha, he is competing with other cartoonists for the Golden Future Cup. If he gets first place, his comics will have the opportunity to be serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump".

Although Tomi Norihiko's manga did not pass the serialization meeting of Weekly Shonen Jump, it was serialized in the monthly magazine. Nakai Kyōrō's manga also did not pass the serialization meeting. While working as an assistant to Eiji Niizuma, he also collaborated with others to draw manga and competed for the Golden Future Cup.

After hearing this, Higashino Kanade's memory about "Dream Eaters" was revived. He remembered that this seemed to be the plot in the animation. The specific result seemed to be that Yagi Mumenoha's manga passed the serialization meeting.

If that’s the case, can we see the main characters at this year’s annual meeting?

Every year, Weekly Shonen Jump holds an annual meeting at the end of the year. He attended last year, but he didn’t know anyone and he just kept eating. This year, it will probably be more interesting to see the protagonist and supporting actors of Dream Eaters.

but……

He still wants to eat.

The purpose of life is to eat!

Chapter 20 Boys should protect themselves when they go out

Sunday.

Ye Zou was standing in front of a newly opened milk tea shop, patiently waiting for his girlfriend to arrive.

The weather was a bit cold today, but he didn't wear a coat, but a gray sweatshirt instead.

The clothes are actually average, but because the person is good-looking, the clothes become better-looking too.

Higashino Kanade is waiting for Ichichi Kouka. Today is the day he and Kouka go on a date.

Although the weather was bad today and it was cloudy and might rain, he still successfully invited Hongxia to go on a date with him today.

The appointment time is at 2pm.

In order not to let Hong Xia wait for him, he went out at one o'clock, and now it is less than half past one.

The time seemed to be good, but this was his third date with Hong Xia, and he knew that Hong Xia would arrive at the date early.

The first time he didn't know, the second time he knew but Hongxia still arrived earlier than him, the third time he finally arrived earlier than Hongxia.

About ten minutes later, Higashino Kanade saw a girl with blonde side ponytail across the street.

An orange-red bow, a dark green coat, a white dress that doesn't reach the knees, and a pair of slender yet healthy legs are exposed to the air.

Take one look, wow, take another look, wow, it’s really good, take another look.

Higashino Kanade just looked at the pair of legs approaching from afar without any hesitation.

"Xiao Zou, if you see someone else staring at their legs like this, call the police."

A hand covered Higashino Kanade's eyes, and there was a smile of doting in the complaining words.

"If it was anyone else, I wouldn't have watched it." Higashino Kanade grabbed Ichichi Hongxia's hand and held it naturally, smiling, "I came earlier than you this time. You said you only came twenty minutes early last time, but you were lying. You actually came half an hour early."

"Have you been caught? I'm sorry. As an apology, let's go Dutch today."

Ijichi Hongxia apologized without any sincerity.

"We've been AA every time. How can you apologize like this? If you apologize, you have to show your face..."

Higashino Kanade stopped midway through his words.

"Ok?"

Ijichi Hongxia's eyes became sharp and turned into a cat-like eyes that looked down on people.

"Ahem, it's nothing."

Higashino Kanade couldn't say anything obscene because of the stare from Ichichi Kouka.

"Then let's go."

Ijichi Hongxia held onto Tono Kanade's arm and pointed her other hand forward with full energy.

This date was invited by Higashino Kanade to Ijichi Kouka, but the date location was chosen by Kouka, so he had no idea what they were going to do on the date.

Unexpectedly, the first stop of their date was not a movie theater, an amusement park, a clothing store or a game hall in a shopping mall, but an art supply store.

"Wow."

When Higashino Kanade arrived at the art supply store, his heart was moved by the paintbrushes and dot paper in the store.

"Please recommend me a paintbrush."

Ijichi Kouka knew that Tono Kanade would like this place.

Because she had heard Xiaozou complain that once he entered the art supply store he would stay there for a long time, and when he came out his wallet would be empty.

"no problem."

Higashino Kanade is a frequent visitor to art supply stores. He has visited all art supply stores, big and small, in Shimokitazawa, and this one is no exception.

There were not many customers in the art supply store.

Apart from the two of them, there were no other couples dating here.

Painting is a hobby for Hongxia, not a livelihood, so the brushes and other painting materials he selected for Hongxia were inexpensive and mostly cost-effective.

It's true that some painting materials are very good, but they are expensive. Very expensive.

It’s not that it’s particularly good, but the quality is guaranteed to a certain extent. However, due to the brand, there is a serious premium.