Is it okay not to want to work hard?

"I mean you go play the game without me."

Higashino Kanade was not in the mood to paint or play games.

"I'm bored playing alone."

Izumi Konata wanted to play games with Tono Kanade. She felt bored playing alone, but she became interested if there was two of them.

"You can play with Yuzuru."

Higashino Kanade played with Izumi Konata's daze, touched her hair to soothe his nervous heart.

"Yuzuru..." Izumi Konakata turned his head and said in a low and sinister voice, "She is too lame."

Yuzuru's gaming ability can't be said to be terrible, but he can only be said to be a cute rookie. She played a cooperative game with Yuzuru, and it didn't take long for her to be alone, with Yuzuru turning into a ghost behind her to watch her play.

She is not someone who has no patience to teach newbies how to play games, but when the newbie starts out so frustrated that "It Takes Two" turns into "The Lone Gunman", she still thinks she might as well play a game with Bruce Wayne as the protagonist.

Chapter 101: Drawing comics is crazy, I'm just forcing myself

The weather is very good today, with sunshine, blue sky, white (not too much) clouds, but the sun is setting and I am heartbroken in the editorial office.

Yoshida Koji looked at the sunset from afar, and his heart sank little by little along with the sun.

Should I tell Higashino Kanade this news?

The third place is not the first place, nor the second place, but the third place. The first place has 30 votes, the second place has 27 votes, and the third place, which is the manga "False Hero" by Higashino Kanade, has 20 votes.

This result does not mean that the tabloids have no chance of reversal, but the ranking of the quick report made him, who had high hopes for Higashino Kanade, feel strongly uneasy. He read the first and second comics, which were interesting comics, but he felt that the third one, "False Hero", was more interesting.

It’s just that editors look at a comic from a personal and market perspective, and they can’t accurately guess the readers’ aesthetic preferences. The comics that the editors are optimistic about are not popular, and the comics that they are not optimistic about are very popular in other publishing houses. It’s not uncommon for editors to make mistakes.

What's more, he is a new editor. His optimism about "The False Hero" does not mean that other editors are also optimistic about "The False Hero", nor does it mean that readers will definitely like it.

Please, it must be reversed.

Teacher Ringo, whether for you or for me, Xiaozheng must make a gorgeous reversal!

At this time, we should not be the bad Ringo, but the good Ringo, and serialize it successfully.

After hesitating for a while, Yoshida Koji sighed, and thinking about words of comfort, he decided to tell Higashino Kanade the quick results.

I made a call and the call was connected after a while.

"Hello, I'm Tono Kanade."

Yoshida Koji gradually got used to the polite voice on the other end, and he slowly came out of the trauma of being rudely hung up during their first communication.

Yoshida Koji did not say congratulations, but said calmly: "Higashino-kun, your quick results are out, third place, 20 votes..."

There was no response from the other end of the phone. I don't know if it was because he was so shocked that he remained silent.

"It's okay, Higashino-kun, report the third place quickly. Xiaozheng decided everything. It's not impossible to reverse the situation."

Yoshida Koji was comforting Higashino Kanade as well as himself. As a new editor, he was worried that he would make a mistake, and he was also worried that Higashino Kanade, a new manga artist, would be hit hard.

"Ah."

There was a muffled response from the person on the other end of the phone.

After saying some polite and comforting words, and telling Higashino Kanade that he could stop drawing "The False Hero", Yoshida Koji hung up the phone.

He has work to do and can't just be on the phone with Tono Kanade all the time to slack off.

"Oh, really, I didn't expect it to be like this. I hope Xiaozheng gets what he wants."

Yoshida Koji sighed deeply. He was originally very confident about "False Hero", but he lost confidence when the preliminary results came out.

It’s really difficult. Whether you are an editor or a cartoonist, it’s hard to do well in the industry.

……

At the Higashino family, Higashino Kanade was in a bad mood. He held "Akamaru Jump" and stared at the comic book blankly. It took him nearly ten minutes to finish one page of the comic book.

When Tono Suzu came to the study and saw Tono Kanade like this, she asked Izumi Konata in confusion: "What's wrong with my brother, Sister Konata?"

“He shut himself in.”

Quan spoke in a low voice.

When Higashino Kanade was on the phone, Izumi Konata was standing next to him and eavesdropping blatantly. From the phone conversation between Yoshida Koji and Higashino Kanade, she learned that Higashino Kanade's comics might not be optimistic.

"why?"

After one question was answered, Higashino Ling had a new question.

"Okay, Chifang, let's play games. Tonight is going to be crazy. Let's play games. I'm going to play games hard during this golden week. I won't draw anymore!"

Higashino Kanade suddenly became autistic, closed the comic book, slammed the table, and stood up.

I won't draw anymore. No matter what I draw, it may not be able to be serialized. What's the point of working hard to draw one more episode?

Playing games. It has been a long time since I last played games happily. The night before yesterday, staying up all night with Cifang was not enough. From today until the end of Cifang's vacation, he wants to play games like crazy, playing games to get revenge.

Xiao Zheng couldn't stand it anymore and had to wait for two weeks. The more he wanted to reverse the situation and get first place in the reader survey, the more he worried that the greater his hope, the greater his disappointment.

The sooner you die, the sooner you will be reborn. This feeling of waiting to decide whether you will live or die is really torturous.

It feels like I'm back to the time when I wrote a lousy but barely passable graduation project, and am waiting to show it to my supervisor and wait for the verdict of whether I should be sentenced to death or released on bail.

"Okay, let's play games!"

Quan Konfang had tried to comfort Dongye Zou before, but it was useless.

Since comforting her is useless, then just accompany Xiao Zou to go crazy and vent her emotions. When you are in a bad mood, you should vent your emotions properly. If you keep them in your heart, you will either hurt yourself or your mind. The former will affect your body, and the latter will cause mental abnormality.

Izumi Konata and Higashino Kanade went to the living room to play 3DS. Seeing that there was no one in the study, Nishimiya Shoko stopped drawing and moved to the living room.

Before that she washed her dusty hands thoroughly.

This is how sketching works. It's easy to get your hands dirty. Not only will there be pencil dust on your hands, but there will also be pencil dust in the gaps between your fingernails and on your cuffs.

Fortunately, Nishimiya Naoko is not an art student who paints all day long, so her little hands can be washed clean after a while, unlike art students who may not be able to wash away all the dirt even after washing for a long time.

So Higashino Kanade gave up comics, at least that's what he thought before the results of Xiaozheng came out. However, when he woke up the next afternoon, Konata was still sleeping at home, and he picked up the paintbrush again after having nothing to do at home.

I can’t stop painting. Painting feels boring, and not painting feels boring too.

“Practice.”

Higashino Kanade bit the shaft of a 2B pencil with mixed feelings.

He had already prepared for failure, but he was unwilling to accept it when it really came. Although he was not sure that he would fail, it was time to come up with a new comic to find a way out for himself.

While practicing basic skills, Higashino Kanade thought about what the new comic should be about. He would not touch the other world, but think about other themes. How about sports comics? Or funny comics that are inspired by inspiration? Learn from Chinese jokes and translate them into Japanese and then adapt them?

It's not that it's impossible, it's just that funny comics really require a lot of inspiration. The cartoonist himself is an interesting person and may have some shortcomings. He considers himself boring and doesn't think he can maintain a high level of funny inspiration.

If this is the case...

Well, if we take the material from that direction, it would become "Lucky Star".

Wow, then my pen name should be Mei Shui Jing.

Forget it, don’t think about it anymore. Everything is possible before the result comes out. He said that there is no turning back.

But if he fails, he can go back to school and stop forcing himself to draw weekly magazines. He can also draw monthly magazines. If Shueisha doesn't work, he can still look at Shogakukan or Kodansha. Besides these three giants, there are other comic magazines, such as Houbunsha, which is also pretty good.

Chapter 102 She chases, she flees, she can't escape even if she has wings

Dreams are both illusory and real.

Ichiri Goto was having a nightmare, a horrible nightmare.

She couldn't finish her homework no matter how hard she tried. Next to her was Higashino Kanade, who was laughing at her.

"Come on, Yili, don't stop."

Higashino Kanade waved his fist with his left hand, twirled a pen with his right hand, and looked at Goto Ichiri with a sinister look as he worked on his homework.

Save, save me.

Goto Ichiri looked at Higashino Kanade for help with tears in his eyes.

Tonight's dream was so painful. She was aware that she was dreaming, but she could not control her body, nor could she change the dream. She could not even speak and could only watch herself do her homework.

It was so torturous.

"I'm sorry, I can't do it." Higashino Kanade gave Goto Ichiri a helpless look, "You save yourself. Tell yourself in your heart not to do homework, not to do homework, not to do homework. That's how I got out of trouble."

Higashino Kanade smiled at Goto Ichiri. He really had no choice. Even though he was spinning a pen, in fact only his upper body could move, and his lower body was like paralyzed.

To be honest, this dream was quite tormenting. If you want to know why, it's because most of this dream was his material, and the other half was Pochi's material.

His materials are monitors...classrooms, homework, and teachers, and Pochi's materials are tables and chairs.

This nightmare was in his memory of writing high school homework and test papers in a junior high school classroom, and the teacher was Bushi, the neck man teacher in the game "Little Nightmares 2" he played. This teacher stood on the podium, and if any student was naughty, his neck would stretch out and his old face would stick in front of you.

Before Tono Kanade could save himself, he spoke to the person sitting in front of him uncontrollably, and then that terrifying face suddenly came close to him and woke him up. If he hadn't been worried about Pochi crying alone, he would have run to the study room instead of coming back to continue his dream and struggling hard.

Unfortunately, the result of struggling for so long is that I don’t have to do my homework and I don’t have to worry about being scolded by the teacher when I speak.

What a nasty dream.

Higashino Kanade looked at poor Goto Ichiri and wanted to help but he was really powerless. Besides, he had a vague feeling that if Pochi and himself really escaped, the moment they left their seats, it would instantly turn into a chase.

He had been looking forward to virtual reality, and now that he had really experienced it after the dream connection, he found that it was not as good as he had imagined. If the dream was an adventure, it would be fine, but he really couldn't stand the horror dream.

He has seen ghosts in real life, but seeing ghosts doesn't mean he is not afraid of them. Ordinary ghosts in real life are okay, but those evil spirits are really more terrifying than each other. I remember going to a shrine with Konakata and Uncle Sojiro when I was a child. The gods enshrined in that shrine looked even more terrifying, and they were not in human form.

If that "god" had not had no ill intentions, he might have turned into the protagonist of a hot-blooded comic and tried his best to exorcise the guardian god of the shrine. His superpowers were weak, but if he could surpass his limit, his body would be turned into flames.

Fortunately, this is the everyday world. Well, so far he has been living an everyday life and has not encountered any strange things. Even when he encountered evil spirits, he deliberately walked into dark alleys.

"what!"

Higashino Kanade was thinking about something in his dream, and noticed out of the corner of his eye that Goto Ichiri was trying carefully to leave his seat without making any sound.

Is he going to run? He is so brave, and Pochi is so amazing, he can actually move completely, unlike him, sitting on the chair with paralyzed legs like Otto.

With a "bang", Goto Ichiri, who was thinking while rubbing the chair, accidentally knocked down the homework on the table.

"what!"

The teacher on the stage let out a scream, turned around and stretched his neck when he saw Goto Ichiri trying to run away.

"run!"

Higashino Kanade shouted, and Goto Ichiri quickly pushed the chair away and ran away.

Immediately, a weird and exciting BGM sounded, and the classic chase scene in horror games appeared.

Wow, it really has become a horror game.

Higashino Kanade saw Goto Ichiri running away and the teacher chasing after him. He didn't expect the chase and fight he had expected to happen. He might as well stay here. It was just a dream. If Pochi died in the dream, he would either wake up, be reborn, or have a dream within a dream. Anyway, he would not really die, so he didn't need to worry too much.

……

"what!"

In the dream, Goto Ichiri woke up again.

She couldn't sleep, she really couldn't sleep, this was the third time, she died in her dream for the third time tonight, she couldn't stand it anymore. Why did she have such a horrible dream? It was horrible enough to do endless homework, and now she didn't have to do homework, and now it became a horrible teacher chasing her.

The teacher chased her and she ran, but she couldn't escape even if she had wings.

I can’t sleep, I really can’t sleep, it’s so scary.

Goto Ichiri rubbed her eyes. She was not sleepy, she was crying.

Fear is like a river flowing backwards.

After crying for a while, Goto Ichiri stopped crying. It was not because he didn’t want to cry anymore, but because he was tired of crying and felt sleepy again.

Although she didn't want to sleep, her eyelids were drooping.

"No, I can't sleep!"

Thinking of the fear in her dream, she woke up again.

By the way, he said I could come to him if I had any problems.

Goto Ichiri thought of some of the things Higashino Kanade said to her before she left that day. She quickly got up from the bed, turned on the light, and looked for the contact information of Higashino Kanade that she had written down.