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

Chapter 410 Secret Dispute

An hour passed quickly.

Hui Xia, who felt that the time was about the same, read a third of the novel, gently hugged the black cat off her body, and returned to the kitchen after washing her hands.

I lifted the lid and observed the beef in the pot, and poked it lightly with a chopstick. The meat was soft and elastic, and it would take a while.

Set the lid aside and get to work on the potatoes for the garnish.

While she was peeling the potatoes...

——Ding dong~, ding dong~
Suddenly the doorbell rang.

"I'm going to open the door." Kato Yusuke put down the digital pen, got up and walked to the entrance, and opened the door with a "click".

Appearing in front of him was a woman in a black suit and a black soft hat.

Under the lowered brim of the hat, a beautiful melon-seeded face is dotted with a pair of red lips, with red lipstick on it, and the slightly raised corners of the mouth carry a faint smile.

It seems to be covered with a veil, which looks a little mysterious.

"Yo! Good afternoon."

The woman gently raised her hand, raised the brim of her hat, looked over with a pair of wine red eyes, and announced, "I'm here to see you, kid."

After finishing speaking, she reached out and grabbed Yusuke by the collar, brought her face closer as if she was going to fight, licked her lips and asked, "Tell me, you drew that "Chain Saw Man"? "

The warm breath blows on the face, and a smell of wine-scented perfume hits the face.

Looking at Chi Chi's face, Kato Yusuke couldn't help but startled slightly, and was about to speak, but the other party turned his face away with a smile, put his mouth against his ear, and blew a breath.

"You actually came up with such a wonderful thing without making a sound, which made me excited too. Come and satisfy my appetite, kid."

The two of them stuck together in a very ambiguous posture, it looked like one of them took the initiative to get close to the other's arms, as if they were flirting.

at this time--

"Yusuke...?"

"Wow!"

Suddenly, the girl's questioning voice and the cat's warning voice came from behind.

It was as if a thunderbolt exploded in his head.

Kato Yusuke's complexion changed slightly, he put his hands on Akane Benizaka's shoulders, and took a step back, allowing them to distance themselves.

"...Good afternoon, Ms. Kosaka." He whispered something first, then turned his body to the left and looked into the room.

Huizheng, who was wearing an apron, was standing in the corridor a few steps away, looking at him for a moment with a puzzled expression, or something else.

The black cat stood at her feet, growling warningly at the stranger.

When Kato Yusuke was still organizing his words to make an introduction, Benizaka Akane asked first.

"Oh~? Are you already living with your little girlfriend? Kid."

closely followed.

"...Well, I remember you are Ms. Kosaka, right? Why did you hug Yusuke just now?" Megumi asked softly and stepped forward step by step, with a very flat expression on his face.

"About this, why don't you ask your little boyfriend?"

"--Oh?"

The gazes of the two came together at the same time, one was playful, the other was expressionless.

Kato Yusuke thought for a while, and asked the playful side: "What do you want from me? Ms. Kosaka."

"What? Have you forgotten what I just said?" Hongsaka Zhuyin crossed her hands, leaned against the door frame, and said with a half-smile, "I came here to satisfy my appetite, kid."

Hearing this, Kei glanced at her first, and then quickly turned her gaze back, looking at Yusuke with an expression as if asking "What does Ms. Kosaka mean by this sentence?".

Kato Yusuke did not answer immediately, but glanced at the rolled up "Shounen Undead" in Akane Benizaka's hand, and asked, "For the manga?"

"Bingo, you're not stupid." Benizaka Akane snapped her fingers, straightened up with a playful face, and walked towards the room generously.

"So that's it. Let's deal with your little girlfriend first. I'll wait for you."

"Woo meow!" Seeing her pass by him, the black cat couldn't help arching its body, ready to pounce, but was picked up in the next second.

The one who picked it up was Kei.

"No, Xiao Hei." She first comforted the black cat softly, and then looked up at someone standing quietly by the entrance.

"Aren't you closing the door, Yusuke?"

The response was surprisingly flat.

"...Just close it." Kato Yusuke nodded, and closed the door with a "slap".

Seeing him approaching, the black cat instinctively wanted to jump on his shoulder, but the girl didn't let it go, she just said:

"Yusuke has work to do now, let's not bother them."

After speaking, he hugged the cat and walked into the living room with a patter.

"..."

Kato Yusuke's lips moved, and he followed back to the living room without saying anything.

On the workbench where he was sitting before, Akane Benizaka, who had taken off his hat and suit jacket, was sitting there, carefully studying the manuscript on the digital screen on the desk.

Hearing their footsteps, she hurried up.

"How is it? Have you finished your work? If you are done, come here quickly! Boy."

Her tone was very blunt, and her low voice was slightly higher than usual because of excitement.

Kato Yusuke did not respond, but looked at Kei.

The girl had just put the black cat back into the cat climbing frame and turned around to look at it.

"By the way, dinner will be ready in a while. Will Ms. Kosaka also eat here? Yusuke."

"No." - Kato Yusuke shook his head, and was about to answer, but Benizaka Akane spoke first.

"—Well, that's right, then I'll just stay for a light meal, thank you, little sister."

There was no politeness in the words, as if he was the master here.

Kato Yusuke frowned, but Kei just watched him quietly, waiting for an answer.

A brief silence.

"Can I trouble you, Hui."

"Well, that means Kosaka-san will stay, right~?"

The girl tilted her head slightly, and said, "Well~ I understand, then I will continue to prepare."

Without waiting for his response after finishing speaking, he just went back to the kitchen, and then continued to be busy with the previous progress.

Kato Yusuke stared at her back, unable to guess her emotion for a moment, then looked back and walked towards the desk.

"What do you want to know? Miss Kosaka."

Benizaka Akane heard the indifference in his tone, turned her face slightly and glanced at him, with a meaningful smile on her lips.

"What? Are you afraid of me?"

"What do you mean?"

"Otherwise, why didn't you even dare to use your previous pseudonym? You even secretly changed to the pseudonym "Fujimoto Tree". Aren't you afraid that I will mess with you? "

"Correctly speaking, it's causing trouble." Kato Yusuke corrected her statement, and said in a deep voice: "Your character is too crazy, I just want to avoid trouble."

Hongsaka Zhuyin sneered: "After all, aren't you afraid that I will mess with you?"

- Boom!

The dull chopping sound suddenly sounded in the room.

"Sorry, both of you."

The girl's voice came from the kitchen: "I want to ask what you mean by what you said?"

Kato Yusuke's eyelids twitched slightly.

It was a very soft and clear voice, as sweet as the wind chimes sung under the porch in summer, very nice.

However, combined with the previous movement, there is a feeling of trembling.

Kato Yusuke looked back, just in time to meet the girl's deep eyes, like a deep and quiet pool, reflecting his appearance.

The words that just came to his lips could not help but stagnate, and it took a second before he could speak them out smoothly.

"It's just some things at work. Miss Kosaka and I have some misunderstandings."

Akane Benizaka took up the topic.

"Stop fooling around here, kid. I've said it a long time ago, mediocrity can't survive in this business. It's rare that you still have some skills. Let me squeeze them all out."

The high-ranking words were full of strength and ego, which caused Hui to frown slightly, but the doubts in his heart temporarily faded a little.

She didn't like this person a little bit, but she didn't presumptuously comment on anything, she just looked at Kato Yusuke thoughtfully, said something like this, and then continued to cut potatoes.

Boom, buckle, gurgling.

The rhythm of cooking became gentle again, just like the atmosphere in the room.

Kato Yusuke turned his face to the front, and his eyes became darker when he looked at the person beside him.

Meeting his eyes, Akane Benizaka just rested her chin with one hand, and sneered, as if mocking.

"Okay, let's get down to business. I've read the manuscripts of your two episodes. For the sake of something interesting, I can temporarily put aside your breach of the agreement."

Saying this, she turned the swivel chair to the left, raised her right leg, and drew an arc in the air with her black silk-wrapped toe, sweeping across Yusuke's dantian as if inadvertently, and placed it on her left leg above.

"Now, give me the outline of your story."

Kato Yusuke didn't know whether she was intentional or not, but this commanding attitude still made him feel uncomfortable, so he suppressed it restrainedly, but didn't make a sound.

Seeing his cold confrontation, Akatsuki Benizaka was not angry at all, she first glanced past him to the girl whose back was facing here, and then cast it on his face, with a bit of playfulness in her eyes.

"Is this okay? You don't want your little girlfriend to know about us, do you?"

The eyes faintly conveyed a similar meaning.

Kato Yusuke narrowed his eyes slightly, and returned a "whatever you want" look.Although the expression on his face was a bit cold, there was no feeling of guilt or compromise.

Seeing this, Zhuyin Hongsaka frowned slightly, feeling that she might have misunderstood something.

She thought for a while, then raised her foot and kicked his calf, and changed her tone: "If you don't want to talk about this, just tell me about your arrangement for this work, and I can give you some suggestions."

There was an interval of about three seconds.

Kato Yusuke asked neither humble nor overbearing: "What arrangement?"

"The length of this comic, how many episodes are there?"

"Less than a hundred."

Benizaka Zhuyin estimated it, "According to the single book, it is about 10 volumes?"

"It's volume 11."

"That's not bad. Today's readers are influenced by new things, and their endurance is not high. Medium-length comics have gradually become the mainstream. If you dare to draw long-length comics, you will die."

She stopped here, and then changed her words, "However, judging from your current plot, it seems that volume 11 is not enough. If it is less than volume 25, it may be about the same."

"No." Kato Yusuke shook his head, "Only volume 11."

"Ok?"

Benizaka Akane frowned, and said: "You must know that the length of a work is affected by many aspects such as the number of characters, the structure of the plot, and the length of the main story.
Sometimes even the author can't say for sure, why can your tone be so sure? "

At the end, her tone was tinged with suspicion.

As a cartoonist who debuted as a cartoonist and is still one of the ceilings of cartoonists, no one knows all aspects of comics better than her.

Although she didn't feel it at the beginning, but when Yusuke continued to insist on the number of 11 volumes, she felt a little strange.

In the face of her doubts, Kato Yusuke did not intend to explain, but simply responded with "This is enough to tell a complete story", and will not mention more.

Seeing this, Hongsaka Zhuyin didn't ask any more questions, and vaguely guessed that he should have a complete plot development and context, so he discussed some other issues with him about the plot.

Ignoring that bad character, as the manga artist No.1, she does have a lot of experience, and Yusuke Kato has also gained something from it.

As for Akane Benizaka, she was also pleasantly surprised to get a lot of inspiration and ideas from his few words about the plot and character setting, and became more excited from this, looking at him as if wanting to bite him eat it.

The two chatted back and forth, and the atmosphere gradually became more cordial.

Hui in the kitchen was attracted by their voices that were getting higher and higher, and occasionally looked back, while doing the seasoning work silently.

About half an hour after the potatoes are stewed.

Only then did she interrupt the conversation between the two, and said, "Well, dinner is ready, Yusuke."

As the sound spread in the room, Yusuke Kato also stopped communicating with Akane Benizaka and started to help in the kitchen.

After some busy work, the food was quickly served on the table.

The tomato beef brisket that has been simmered for more than an hour is bright in color, and the thick, soft and rotten tomatoes are evenly wrapped around the dark brown beef brisket.

The indistinct heat rising from the pot, accompanied by the rich aroma of food, constantly stimulated the appetite in the body.

However, when Akane Benizaka picked up a piece of beef brisket with her chopsticks and put it in her mouth full of anticipation...

"...!"

Her expression suddenly changed, from a smiling face to a serious one, and then she glanced at the girl opposite with a deep meaning, and silently put down her chopsticks, and looked at someone beside her.

Kato Yusuke didn't notice her expression, so he also added a piece of beef brisket and put it in his mouth, tasting it for a while...

A tongue-numbing, salty taste spreads in the mouth like someone who sells salt to death.

"Is it delicious? Boy." Hongsaka Zhuyin asked with a leisurely smile, her voice full of embarrassment.

Hui didn't speak, just ate rice in silence, only rice.

The atmosphere suddenly became a little weird.

Kato Yusuke's movements paused for a second, and he didn't look up to meet anyone's eyes. He just picked up two mouthfuls of rice, then picked up a piece of beef brisket, and ate it with a normal expression.

"I feel good."

He said so in a calm tone.

……

(The progress of the draft is 7/10, and the rest will be counted separately...)
(End of this chapter)