NovelBonte Chapter 384 New Ideas
Chapter 384 New Ideas
Chapter 384 New Ideas
"Sorry, Shiba-senpai, I haven't used that thing before."
Hearing Kato Yusuke's answer, Shiwa didn't ask any more questions, but just replied lightly, so that people couldn't see his inner thoughts.
snort snort snort.
The black cat gradually relaxed, lying lazily on Kato Yusuke's shoulder, enjoying his massage with a contented expression, and licking his fingers with a small pink tongue with barbs.
After some reassurance, the black cat no longer cares about someone tricking the cat into the bathroom to "kill".
Kato Yusuke got Xiaoyu to feed the cat, and at the same time asked the girl, "What's the matter with you today? Sister."
Shi Yu nodded in affirmation, thought for a while and said: "What I want to say is basically to come here to see you, and ask about your future plans by the way."
"I go back to school on Monday."
"Well, I heard about this from another classmate Kato, but what I want to ask is something else, the previous studio... what are you going to do?"
"For now."
"for the time being?"
"Ah."
"why?"
"Something has happened and there's not enough money right now."
Shi Yu raised her eyebrows slightly, but immediately recovered.
"In other words, you haven't given up on making games, have you?"
Kato Yusuke responded with a nod, and then said: "No, but it won't be restarted in the short term."
"Because you have to pay back the Sawamura family's money first?"
A brief silence.
"Yes."
"How much do you owe her family?"
"...?"
"Although I have heard her mention this matter, but the specific figures are not clear, so forget it if you don't want to talk about it."
Kato Yusuke shook his head at this, "It's nothing, but I asked her family to borrow 2000 million."
"So..." Shi Yu blinked her eyelashes lightly, her eyes were full of inexplicable expressions, and then asked again: "You said that the budget of "Clannad" is 1200 million, right?"
"Ah."
"The Sawamura family's money plus the money for making games, the total is 3200 million, right?"
"?"
"Hey, Kato-san."
Shi Yu raised the hair in front of his face and asked him, "Are you interested in changing the creditor?"
"..."
Kato Yusuke frowned and looked at her, silent.
"Maybe you don't know, "Love Metronome" has now sold 60 copies."
The girl coughed lightly, and whispered nonchalantly: "... Otherwise, I can borrow it from you too? You can return it to me after the game is released."
"..."
"You don't have to be polite, I can't afford it."
Another moment of silence.
"Sister Shiyu."
"What's the matter~ Kato-san?" Shiyu asked with a smile, but didn't mention his specific savings at all.
In fact, although the current cumulative sales volume of "Love Metronome" is indeed 60 copies, Undead Sichuan Bunko has indeed paid her the income of the royalties.
However, after deducting taxes and some other expenses, what is still left in her hands is actually only about 3000 million, and these are all her current net worth.
Kato Yusuke looked at her with deep eyes, "What if the game I made can't be sold?"
"It doesn't matter that way." Shi Yu smiled softly, "I didn't ask you to pay back with money, after all, there are many ways to repay your kindness."
She stopped here, with a strange gleam in her eyes, she was thinking about something, and then continued to speak.
"In short, I don't make too many demands. I just simply charge some 'interest'. You should be relieved after hearing that."
Kato Yusuke didn't answer, waiting for her to speak the answer by herself.
Rustling.
Shi Yu moved her body, slowly moved over, and sat beside him.
A pleasant fragrance of cosmos wafts faintly.
"All you have to do is..."
The girl put one hand on the carpet, put her face close to his ear, and blew in her warm breath along with her words.
"Be my...slave..."
The words are not finished yet...
"—Woo meow!!"
The little black cat suddenly uttered a sharp cry, stood up abruptly from Yusuke's shoulders, arched its body, and bared its sharp teeth fiercely at her who approached without authorization.
"ah!"
Shi Yu was taken aback, and instinctively stepped back, leaning against the bed.
"Feel sorry."
Kato Yusuke apologized, and took the cat to a seat a little further away to prevent accidents.
Only then did the black cat calm down, but there was still a low growl waiting for an opportunity in its throat, and a pair of green eyes stared straight at Shi Yu.
And Shiwa also looked at the cat with lingering fear, and watched the black cat become honest again under the comfort of Kato Yusuke, and once again ate the dried fish leisurely.
She couldn't help laughing angrily, "...this cat is too fierce, almost like a vicious dog. Compared to Xiao Hei, I think the name Boqi suits him better."
(In Japanese, "Boqi (ポチ)" is a name commonly used for puppies, similar to the habit of "the parrot's name is Polly" in English.)
The movement of Kato Yusuke's hands stopped.First, he frowned and pondered for a while, then slowly raised his head.
"Sister Shiyu."
"Ok?"
"Do you know anything about manga submission?"
"...Eh, why are you asking that all of a sudden?"
"I want to submit a work."
Shi Yu couldn't help frowning slightly, feeling a little puzzled by this sudden turning point, but still thought about it and responded:
"Sorry, I don't know much about this aspect, but there is a comic branch in Immortal River, do you want me to ask for you?"
Kato Yusuke nodded and said, "If it's convenient."
"It's not that Fang is inconvenient." Shi Yu stood up from the ground, and said in an indifferent but meaningful tone: "Seeing that you are willing to cheer up is better than anything else...then I'll go to the balcony and make a phone call."
After finishing speaking, she stepped out of the balcony gracefully, leaving him with a beautiful back view.
Kato Yusuke was speechless.
The black cat had had enough of staying on top of him, and jumped off his shoulders, too, and ran to drink water.
After about 15 minutes.
——Crackling.
After finishing the phone call, Shiyu returned from the balcony and sat down on the bed.
"I asked. The price of manuscripts for serial comics is 9000 to 15000 yen per page, and color pages are 1.5 times that."
"If you want to submit a manuscript, you only need to send the original manuscript to each comic publishing house, and the relevant personnel will notify the author whether the manuscript has passed the review."
"According to the different emphasis and readers of each publishing house, the requirements for collecting comics are also different, so it is best to choose a publishing house that matches the style of your own work to submit."
"As for more specific things, I'll meet Miss Machida after school on Monday. Is there anything else you want to know?"
"No, not anymore."
Kato Yusuke shook his head in denial, and Shiwa asked again.
"So why do you suddenly want to draw manga?"
"In order to make money."
"To make money... you don't need to do that kind of thing, do you? Like I said just now, Kato-san just needs to concentrate on being my... well, it's fine to be an advisor and a helper. I can lend you money~"
Saying so, Shiyu folded her legs together, supported one cheek with one hand, and pressed the weight of her upper body on her thighs, showing the graceful curves of a girl.
Kato Yusuke glanced at her, and faintly saw the shadow of Benizaka Akane from the girl, but he didn't say anything, but simply rejected the proposal and said nothing.
Borrowing money from Shiwa is a more complicated matter than owing money to the Yingli family, and he has no intention of doing so on the premise of knowing certain things.
Money has a price but favors are priceless.
There are some things he feels he can't give, so he doesn't want to consume others.
The girl in front of her is neither Akane Benizaka, who has a fixed outlook on life, nor Xiang Xinjo, who is in love with each other because of her interests.
Not someone he could play with feelings for.
Shi Yu stared at him for a while, trying to find changes in that calm and handsome face, but found nothing.
Then he lowered his eyes again and asked, "...but why comics? If you want to make money, wouldn't it be faster to continue selling doujinshi?"
Kato Yusuke frowned slightly, "Because someone will make trouble."
"Someone... making trouble...?"
"Miss Kosaka came here once two days ago."
"Miss Kosaka?"
"It's Akane Benizaka."
"--Eh?"
Shi Yu was taken aback for a moment, then his expression immediately became serious, "Wait a minute, what do you mean? Why did that person come?"
Kato Yusuke thought for a while, and then briefly told her what happened. It didn't mention the matter between the two of them, but only explained why he couldn't draw the book.
After listening to him quietly, Shi Yu's expression changed, and she fell into deep thought.
After a while, he nodded slightly and let out a breath.
"Why don't you listen to me, Kato-san."
She said: "I told you to stay away from that person a long time ago, but you still wanted to cooperate with her, didn't you completely put yourself in it now?"
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
The girl shook her legs once and for all, as if feeling extremely irritable.
"The other party is that Benizaka Zhuyin, what are you thinking?"
"And there seem to be a lot of ambiguous parts in your words, what is this? Could it be that for you, I am a more worthy of defense than her?"
"Can I trouble you to explain it to me carefully and well?"
Her voice was soft and fast, and it was really hard to tell whether she was talking to someone or just talking to herself.
The words contained concern and blame for him at the same time, and there was also a hint of taste in it.
A dark aura rose from the girl and gradually spread in the room.
Kato Yusuke watched her fold her arms around her chest and kept shaking her legs, then got up and walked towards the kitchen.
Shi Yu didn't notice this at all, and was still complaining to himself.
"...and in Hokkaido before, do you know how much preparation I have made to meet you first?"
"Not only did I buy a ticket for that night to find you, and I stayed alone in the terminal all night, but I even bought tickets for all the return flights the next day, but you didn't even let me in."
"Why do you treat me so excessively? Am I so annoying to you?"
"It really pissed me off."
- Whoosh.
The sound of the kettle's "swoosh" sounded in the room, and then went out immediately.
"Have something to drink, Shiba-senpai."
"……Eh?"
Shi Yu raised his head in a daze, and what caught his eyes was a steaming soup bowl.
"This, this is...!"
"It's almost lunch time. I only have these here. If you don't mind, eat some." Kato Yusuke said with a bowl.
"..."
Shi Yu blinked his eyes twice, hesitatingly stretched out his hand gently, and silently took the soup bowl.
"……thanks."
"No, I'm preparing instant noodles. Seafood tonkotsu, black garlic oil tonkotsu, spicy tonkotsu, what do you eat?"
"Then, seafood pork bone..." She responded in a low voice.
"Okay." Kato Yusuke returned to the kitchen again and started making instant noodles.
Shi Yu was holding the bowl, looking at his back, her heart was full of branches, and she suddenly felt less angry.
Then he picked up the soup bowl and took a sip.
"Ah, it's so hot... Kato-san's."
She muttered, intentionally hiding the word miso soup.
"Phew, drink it well... I didn't expect Kato-san to be so good at cooking. As long as you want, you can be a badass at any time."
"That's a quick shot, just heat the water."
"Hey, if I can drink such delicious miso soup every day, I will be so happy..."
Kato Yusuke looked up at her.
I saw the girl who was complaining just now was sipping soup with a quiet and obedient expression.
This man is so coaxing.
He thought silently, and immediately said: "I still have a lot of unopened ones here, if you like to drink, you can take them away later, Shiyu-senpai."
……
He returned to the low table with two Nissin Cup Noodles.
Shiwa had finished drinking the instant miso soup in the bowl, and set her eyes on the cup noodles in front of her.
The two sat on the carpet, chatting while eating.
"All in all, I understand the reason why you can't draw a book, so have you thought about the content of the manga you want to draw?"
"Ah."
"What is your name?"
"The Chainsaw Man."
"What type?"
"Young blood."
"The eighteen forbidden ones?"
"Class B."
"Really, which publishing house are you going to submit the manuscript to?"
Kato Yusuke thought for a while, and replied, "If nothing unexpected happens, it should be Shueisha's "Jump."
"Is that so..."
Shiyu rolled up a handful of instant noodles with a plastic fork and put it in his mouth, chewing while thinking.
"But didn't that woman ask you to play games? Wouldn't she be a hindrance if you drew comics?"
"I don't know, but the cost of comics is not high, and it is worth trying."
Shi Yu slowly nodded his head thoughtfully, his brain spinning rapidly, and then he shouted: "I say, Kato-san."
"?"
"About Shueisha, don't be in a hurry to submit an article, and we can discuss it after I learn more from Ms. Machida, okay?"
"Okay." Kato Yusuke had no objection to this, and agreed.
After eating instant noodles.
Feeling better, Shi Yu stretched comfortably and let out a light breath.
"Well, after being fed such a delicious thing by you, even if you push me down on the spot with your brute force, I'm ready to be ravaged by you."
"..."
See Kato Yusuke pretending to ignore.
She stretched out a finger teasingly, trying to poke his face, but he avoided it without a trace.
"I'll clean it up." Yusuke said, picking up the leftover trash and bowls from the two of them, and walked towards the kitchen...
……
(End of this chapter)