Reborn in Tokyo after picking up Sayu who ran away from home

Chapter 390 Commemorative Photo

Bang, bang, bang, bang.

The tram dragged its heavy body slowly on the track.

There are a few passengers sitting sparsely in the spacious compartment, which is very quiet.

The sky outside the window was full of glowing clouds, dyed red with clouds like cotton candy, and the setting sun, which was the color of glass, shone obliquely into the glass, dyeing the carriage red.

Accompanied by the ever-regressing street scene, the utility poles on the street cast their shadows in the reflection of the setting sun, passing lonelyly across the faces.

Bang, bang, bang, bang.

Rhythmic white noise keeps drifting into the ears, making people drowsy.

The body swayed slightly with the tram.

Kato Yusuke sat on a row of seats, folded his hands on his chest, lowered his head once and for all, feeling drowsy.

The eye-catching silver-white short hair flutters between the eyebrows, the ends of the hair are slightly messy, but they are elegant and dusty, with a unique temperament and charm that is clear and refined.

Coupled with the delicate and handsome facial features and the lonely and three-dimensional facial contours, it really looks like an immortal in the sky.

Shi Yu sat beside him quietly, without saying a word.

She just secretly looked at him calmly, feeling overwhelmed in her heart.

She moved her body quietly, and approached cautiously, for fear of disturbing the tranquility and simplicity of his body.

The shoulders of the two were slightly pressed together.

There was a fresh and pleasant smell of mint on the boy's body.

Shi Yu looked around, his eyes seemed to inadvertently swept across the faces of other passengers, and observed the situation secretly.

After seeing that no one was paying attention, it was retracted again.

A pair of burgundy eyes flickered slightly.

Think for a moment.

She raised one arm lightly, slid it over his shoulder and toward his head.

The movements were slow and cautious, as if groping in the dark.

The dexterous right hand gently rests on his furry head, and then uses a little force to make it turn towards him, and at the same time gently lifts his shoulder, letting him rest on his shoulder.

"..."

"..."

There was a dull "clang" sound in the carriage.

Seeing that Kato Yusuke was still awake, she couldn't help but smiled with satisfaction.

Turn and look to the left.

Her one-shoulder schoolbag was still in its previous position, and her mobile phone was still inside.

Shi Yu stretched out his left hand, enough, but not enough.

She frowned disapprovingly, then tried a few more times.

Finally, one time, her slender fingertips caught the strap of the shoulder schoolbag and successfully pulled it over.

Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

A pair of calves protruding from the hem of the skirt were close together one after the other, covered with dark black pantyhose, which looked straight and slender.

The small black leather shoes on the feet gently bumped against the ground with the movement, making a pleasant and crisp "click" sound.

Shi Yu put the one-shoulder schoolbag on her lap, took out her mobile phone from inside, turned on the camera function, pointed the front camera at the two of them, and adjusted her posture.

After hesitating again and again, she still pressed the photo button cruelly.

Click.

——Bang bang bang bang.

The sound of the shutter was masked by the crash of the rails.

Kato Yusuke frowned, but did not wake up.

Such a grandiose move attracted a woman diagonally opposite to look curiously, and then smiled knowingly after seeing the appearance of the two.

"..."

Shi Yu gently took down the phone, and the corners of her beautiful mouth raised a perfect crescent-like arc, which was quite touching.

She first looked at the photo on the screen for a moment, with a look of satisfaction in her eyes.

Then put away the phone.

Looking down at the young man on his shoulder, his eyes moved down from between the brows, swept over the handsome nose, and finally stopped on the moderately thick lips.

The afterglow of the setting sun fell on his face, like adding a gentle filter.

Shi Yu thought for a while with his face sideways, and a few strands of black hair slowly fell from the side of his cheeks, swaying slightly in mid-air.

"..."

She lowered her eyes slightly.While raising her hand to tie her hair behind her ears, she slowly approached the other party in the face of the slightly hot breath, and turned her face slightly, and gently parted her red lips.

The distance between the two keeps getting closer.

The reciprocating breath slowly intertwined, flicking the girl's long and curled eyelashes, and bumping slightly with the deer in her heart.

— creaking.

"—!"

The sudden brake made her unprepared, her body also shifted while leaning forward, and finally only printed a kiss on the boy's right cheek.

chirp...

Kato Yusuke opened his eyes in an instant, and met the gaze of the girl who stood up with his thighs propped up.

What appeared in the field of vision was a beautiful face dyed red by the setting sun.

At a close distance, he could clearly feel the body temperature from the other party, as well as the fragrance of shampoo permeating the tip of his nose.

"...Good afternoon, Yu-chan."

Shi Yu pretended nothing happened and sat up straight, explaining: "You fell asleep and accidentally leaned on my shoulder."

"..."

Kato Yusuke was stunned for a moment, but didn't say anything, just sat upright silently, and moved a little to the empty seat next to him, leaving a little space between the two of them.

The tram moved again after a brief stop.

Shi Yu bent her waist slightly, resting her cheek with one hand, and teasingly joked, "Oh, you slept so soundly just now, do you think my shoulders are very comfortable? Yu-chan really is."

"……Feel sorry."

"Why are you apologizing~?"

"fine."

"Ah~ Speaking of Yu-chan, probably she would prefer to lie on my lap?"

"..."

Kato Yusuke shook his head and said nothing more.

The tram carried them far away...

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"I'm here, senior."

Yusuke, who arrived at the destination first, bid farewell to Shiwa, and responded with a slight nod of his head for convenience.

"Well, be careful all the way, see you tomorrow."

Kato Yusuke got off the tram alone and walked out of the station.

The sky outside also turned from orange to dark.

After returning to the apartment, it was already 7 o'clock in the evening.

There was a faint fragrance of cherry blossoms in the room.

"..."

He took off his shoes in the hallway and walked into the living room.

"Meow~"

The black cat ran out from the corner and barked softly at him.

In a quiet and clean room.

Some food wrapped in plastic wrap was placed on the low table, and a post-it note was pressed under one of the plates.

Kato Yusuke held the note in his hand, with two lines of clean and elegant fonts on it.

—— "Remember to heat it before eating. Because Xiaohei didn't allow me to get close, I couldn't clean up the cat litter, sorry (Megumi)."

He put down the note, glanced at the cat at his feet, then squatted down, and rubbed the cat's head.

"It's hard work watching the house."

"Meow meow~"

"Are you giving anyone trouble?"

"Meow?"

The black cat looked puzzled.

Kato Yusuke didn't speak, but gently pushed it to the ground and rubbed its belly.

The black cat resisted a little at first, but immediately snored comfortably again, and collapsed on the ground with limp limbs.

— humming.

In line with the black cat's purring, the phone in his pocket vibrated unwillingly.

I took out my phone and took a look. It was an unread message from LINE.

【Sister Shiba: Commemoration~】

【Sister Shiba: (Photo)】

In the orange-red tram car, boys and girls are cuddling each other intimately.

One of them was sleeping soundly, while the other was holding up his mobile phone to take a selfie with a vaguely curved mouth.

Kato Yusuke turned his head to look over his left shoulder, and a faint scent of gerbera seemed to enter his nose.

He brushed his shoulders and didn't reply to the message.

— humming.

Another...an email was delivered on the phone.

[Xinjoxiang: Good evening~ President, can we meet? www】

He turned a blind eye to this, threw his mobile phone on the bed, then got up and walked to the cat litter box, and began to clean the cat litter.

"Woo meow~?"

The black cat also followed step by step, with a pair of green pupils fixed on his hand, watching him clean up his own poop with a shovel and a garbage bag, and its fluffy tail flicked back and forth.

Kato Yusuke ignored it, silently cleaned up the cat litter, added some new ones to it, and then put the sealed garbage bag at the entrance, ready to throw it away.

After washing my hands in the bathroom, I went back to the living room and started eating.

Peel off the plastic wrap with the water mist hanging from the plate.

He didn't bother to heat it up, so he just ate it.

The girl's dinner is spaghetti bolognese with a club sandwich.

The tomato meat sauce is the kind that is fried by hand, and the grains of the ground pork are plump, juicy and Q-bomb.

Although it is not difficult to prepare, it is very delicious.

The taste of the sandwich is also quite good. The sliced ​​ham wrapped in mayonnaise tastes very harmonious, and it tastes like a smooth feeling of cream melting in the mouth.

The lettuce dotted in it brings a refreshing taste, which neutralizes the greasy in the mouth very well, making the flavors blend together perfectly.

He didn't like mayonnaise very much at first, but he changed a little after eating the girl's cooking.

"Meow~"

The cat meowed from the side, put its front paws on his lap, and seemed to want to eat as if it was licking its mouth.

One person and one cat stare at each other.

Kato Yusuke thought for a while, then broke off a small piece of sandwich and put it in the palm of his hand, then stretched out his hand.

The black cat lowered its head and sniffed twice, then ate it "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", and raised its head again after eating, wanting more.

'Exchange for small dried fish. '

[Successfully redeem dried fish, deduct 10 points. 】

——tear it up.

"You eat this, sandwiches are not good for cats."

"Meow meow."

Feeding the cat while eating, one person and one cat are very satisfied...

……

I ate and washed the dishes.

Put unfinished sandwiches in the freezer for tomorrow's breakfast.

It took Yusuke Kato a while to finish her school assignments, and then she started working on the manuscript for Episode 2 of "The Chainsaw Man."

Compared with the previous books that emphasized drawing skills, "The Chainsaw Man", which focuses on the plot, is much easier.

Having said that...but it was only for him.

After all, it is a series of very tedious and complicated tasks from splitting mirrors, grids, drawing lines, inking, pasting dots, blackening, color grading with software... to the completion of the final manuscript.

Generally speaking, after a work is serialized, the first thing a cartoonist will do is to recruit 2 to 3 assistants to help him simplify the process.

And he did it alone.

in Japan.

Although cartoonist is a very respected profession, it is often given the title of teacher along with lawyers, doctors, and government officials.

But at the same time, the fierce competition among them is extremely cruel.

Not to mention that it is not easy to get the opportunity to be serialized, including the examples of being cut in half due to low popularity after serialization, there are too many to mention.

Take the industry leader Shueisha "Jump" as an example.

通常在1000人之中只有50人有刊载机会，50人中只有10人有连载机会，10人中只有3人能真正获得连载。

And among the last 3 people, only 1 person can become a popular author and continue to serialize.

This is not finished.

Take newcomers in the industry as an example, according to the manuscript fee of 9000 yen per page.

After throwing away water and electricity rent, paper and pen consumables, assistant expenses, as well as catering and transportation expenses, the final result is basically a deficit, or even a loss.

But in this situation, you still have to keep on painting, accept the test of the market and readers, and fight for the first-line hope of getting ahead... It's really not much better than being a social animal.

Of course, those who can succeed in the end will naturally become a member of the top crowd in the industry amidst warm flowers and applause, and become famous.

Kato Yusuke didn't know much about this, but he had some knowledge, and Shiwa didn't tell him about it.

With the secret help of the girl, his starting point is much higher than that of ordinary people.

Not only is the remuneration high, but the freedom of creation is not much worse than doing whatever you want.

Take the manuscript as an example, the general cartoonists need to show it to the editor for review first, and discuss the plot, until the other party agrees before proceeding to the next steps.

And although he also needs to do this, he is much more relaxed, at least he will not encounter any situation of being beaten back.

In a sense, this might not be a kind of privilege and preferential treatment.

It's just that the price is Xia Shizi's reputation.

After all, under such circumstances, if his future results are mediocre...

Even if you don't say it on the surface, there are bound to be people who have some criticisms about Xia Shizi.

Kato Yusuke was thinking and drawing.

The black cat jumped onto his lap, nestled into a ball, and began to doze off.

Time passed peacefully...

About a dozen pages were drawn, and the progress was advanced to the point where the male protagonist was included by Ma Qima of the Ministry of Public Security for the first time, and then encountered an emergency in the service area.

Kato Yusuke stopped writing and began to add lines to the characters.

……

Facing Miss Machima who rescued himself from the gangster's territory and invited him to dinner, Denji inevitably developed a good impression of this demon hunter.

It's just that when he wants to eat udon noodles first, instead of saving the citizens who are attacked by demons first...

"Did you forget? You are my dog ​​now and can only answer yes or woof."

"I don't need a dog that can say 'no'."

Convenience said so with a flat face, and threatened to destroy him.

In an instant, cold sweat broke out all over Dianci's body...

"Wang."

Kato Yusuke wrote this response in the dialog box of the telegram.

This is destined to be an abnormal youth comic.

I don't know how the original author came up with this topic...

Kato Yusuke couldn't help thinking about the opponent's brain circuit, but he didn't go too deep.

However, the character of Machima is indeed very charming, so he put a little effort into drawing this character to make it more vivid.

After filling in the lines.

He put down the digital pen in his hand, turned his head and glanced at the clock on the wall.

It is now 10 o'clock in the evening.

Because he has to go to school tomorrow, he has no intention of continuing to paint.

So I packed up my things and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Get ready for bed.

…………

(End of this chapter)