Autism

Sure enough, the ranking of "Evolution" still fell down.

During the half month in the hospital, she only drew a little bit intermittently, but she still couldn't catch up.After being discharged from the hospital, I also worked hard to draw the name carefully, but the final reader votes were always around eleven or two.Just recently, a new batch of manga has been published one after another. After discussing with Koji Yoshida, the editor-in-chief can only decide to cut it in half.

"so?"

"Five chapters and the like are over. It will take a month."

Seven years old looked at the manuscript on the table, but didn't speak any more.Seeing her like this, Yoshida Koji couldn't bear it, but this is reality, and this is the rule set by jump.Although seven-year-old comics are as high-quality as ever, if they lose popularity, they can only be cut in half.That illness... came at such an inopportune time.

It was just like what happened to Yacheng Mumengye before.

It's just that seven years old is a little younger than them, and she is a girl, so it will definitely be more uncomfortable.

"Well, actually, Toda-kun, Ajoki Mumeha has encountered this before, but isn't it a good serialization now? Well, we can discuss the subject matter of the next drawing. Do you have any ideas? ?”

"I don't know." She shook her head, then turned her head to look at Koji Yoshida, "Well, thank you, Yoshida-san, I'm fine. Really."

After Yoshida Koji left, she sat on the chair and held her hands tightly, holding them hard.But his strength was so weak that he couldn't stop pinching the pen in his hand.

Tears dripped down his legs.

It's really coming to an end.In her "evolution", she can proudly tell every character, every detail, and every story in it.Whether it's the world view, everyone's meeting and separation, there are still many, many things that have not been drawn.So many foreshadowings, so many hidden lines, all of them are invalid.

Just like her first child, now this much-anticipated child will be killed by her own hands.

Will she feel better?How can it be!

Even if I know there is another chance, I still can't let it go.

Ryo Aihara also got the news from the school, probably Riku Toda told her.The first time she returned to school at the age of seven, Aihara Ryo hurriedly pulled her to ask.

"Are you all right? Are you feeling better? Really, so many things happened to you as soon as I left!"

"Sorry for worrying you."

"...Seven years old?" Ryo Aihara looked at the listless look of seven years old, and tilted his head in doubt, "What's wrong? What happened again?"

She sat on her seat, and it took her a long time to speak: ""Evolution" was cut in half. There are still five episodes to come to an end."

"Eh?!"

"Wait!!! What cut in half?!"

Before Ryo Aihara could ask why, Kise who was eavesdropping yelled loudly.Then, under Ryo Aihara's angry glaring, he quickly covered his mouth, moved closer, moved a stool over and sat on the side: "What's going on? Isn't the current serialization very good! Why..."

"The ranking has dropped." She opened the corners of her mouth and forced a smile. "It doesn't make any sense to procrastinate like this, so it's better to just end it."

That's right, think about what is the next painting to be serious, right?

In fact, she was already thinking about this problem. Even though she was in a bad mood, she was still thinking about it very hard.People always have to look forward, right?She can't give up, absolutely can't give up.

If even she gave up, what about Akashi?I agreed to prove it to him, if it doesn't work once, it will work next time, it will always work... Sometimes he also thinks, what if it takes a long, long time?Akashi won't wait for her, Akashi walks on his path with all his heart, never looking back.

Occasionally when she fell down, he would just walk in front and tell her what to do, but he still wouldn't look back.

Probably because her mood has reached a trough recently, she can't think of any good plots.I can only stare blankly at the blank paper after drawing the quota every day.

My mind is full of Akashi's resolute words that day in the hospital.

Think about it, and my heart hurts.How can such a mood draw good things?But fortunately, in the last five chapters, she drew very seriously and hard.Just like Akashi did, practice with concentration.

Exhausted everything, tried my best to give "evolution" an imperfect and perfect ending.

When she finished the last stroke, her hands trembled a little.

"Very good! The ending is great! These few chapters have reached the top ten!" After reading the name of the last chapter, Yoshida Koji kept nodding his head, "Speaking of which, have you thought about what to draw next? Is it the subject?"

She shook her head, "Not yet. Maybe, try something you haven't drawn before?"

"It's like this. There will be the New Wife Award, Tezuka Award, and competitions of different sizes. You can write more short stories. Once you win the award and publish it... Just like "evolution", the serialization will be very fast. But you don't have to worry too much, take your time."

"I see, thank you Yoshida-san...By the way, what do you think of painting themes of love...?"

But when he heard the sentence of seven years old, Yoshida Koji was stunned for a while, and it took a while to react, "Hey...love theme?! Do you have any good ideas?"

"No, it's just because I haven't tried it before... well, I'll just talk about it." Because recently, in my heart and mind, there are all things about myself and Akashi, which have already filled up the entire brain capacity, making her Thinking about other things...it's really difficult.

"Hmm..." Yoshida Koji stroked his chin and thought for a while, "You can try painting first... Oh, by the way, your painting style is always gloomy. If you paint love themes, you probably need to pay more attention to it. Work harder."

"I see."

Finally found a goal for himself, seven-year-old has a lot of energy, Aihara Ryo and Kise are relieved to see her like this.Anyway, that depressed Nana was not the Nana they liked.

But before that, Huang Lai took a rare thought and made a phone call.

That's right, it's for Akashi.When it comes to things about girls, Kise always seems to have an extra brain, and he is very good at love issues and so on.

"Cut in half?"

"That's right - I see Nana-chan looking super sad! By the way, is it really so sad because of the cut in half? I don't even say a word every day, just like a little black boy~~ I can't find a sense of existence at all. ! It’s super worrying!”

Akashi was silent into the microphone, not knowing what to say.

He is also part of the reason for the sadness, right?It's just that I didn't expect that the manga would be cut in half because of this illness.He understands the significance of "evolution" to the seven-year-old.

It seemed as if the girl could be seen crying on the ground alone.It was like the time when he cruelly abandoned her when he graduated from junior high school, crying loudly on the street.

Some pain, where the heart is.However, what he said into the microphone was another story.

"Okay, I get it now."

He knows, the unwillingness of the seven-year-old, the sadness of the seven-year-old, the helplessness of the seven-year-old... But he knows that there is nothing he can do.

Akashi Seijuro lost that qualification long ago.

From the time he said something against his will to the girl.