Chapter 13
Before coming here, Kasugano Toru had actually carefully read the first volume of”Love Metronome” and thought about the image of Sayaka in his mind several times.
As for the male protagonist named Naoto?
Sorry, throw it away.
Who buys illustrations to see men, especially those Asian male protagonists who are popular for no reason.
And he also knows that if he wants to get this stable job, how to design Sayaka’s image is the most important thing.
Originally, it was not clear why the author of”Love Metronome” wanted to describe such a big-breasted girl with long black hair, although she has an attractive figure, but she is unexpectedly innocent.
But when Kasugano Toru saw Kasumigaoka Utaha, he understood everything.
Good guy, write yourself as the heroine…
Let’s get back to the point. Now that we understand the purpose of Kasumigaoka Utaha’s creation of Sayaka, a certain image that Kasugano Toru prepared before can come in handy.
And he also roughly guessed the reason why Kasumigaoka Utaha and the previous illustrator fell out.
After silently mourning for the former illustrator whom he had never met, and despising his lack of tact, Kasugano Toru quickly began to draw.
Because it was just a small test and not for a serious sale, he only used pencils.
“Sayuka is just an ordinary high school student, so the design of her clothes cannot be too revealing, otherwise she will not look like a student, but rather like a paid date.”While drawing, Kasugano Toru told the other two his inner thoughts.
Anyway, they were the ones who asked themselves what kind of image of Sayuka they had in their hearts, so it’s okay to say a few words at this time, right?
Besides, if I don’t say something to ease the atmosphere, maybe it will become like when I first came in, which would be embarrassing.
“From my understanding of”Love Metronome”, Sayuka is a girl who is full of beautiful visions of love. Such girls are generally more innocent and kind by nature.”
“Although she and the male protagonist have experienced many hardships, their relationship has generally been stable and progressing. Therefore, the illustrations should reflect Sayuka’s growth, from an naive little girl at the beginning to a girl who bravely pursues love in the later period. These details cannot be missed.”
Good fellow, although Kasugano Toru was talking about Sayuka the whole time, every word of flattery hit Kasumigaoka Shiyu’s heart.
On-site teaching, interpretation of”Emotional Intelligence”.
Kasumigaoka Shiyu felt that her heart seemed to skip a beat.
She poured a lot of effort into this novel, and even transformed herself into Sayuka and became the heroine of this book, which shows her intentions.
But people who write books often have a common problem. They want to hide their feelings as much as possible, but they also want others to understand what they describe in the book. If this contradictory psychology is placed in real life, we often call it tsundere.
But in literature, it’s different.
We only call it”reading comprehension.”
Now Kasumigaoka Shiyu has the feeling of meeting a soulmate.
She is a pure girl who has never been in love, never had a boyfriend, and even has no one she likes.
But this does not prevent her from being an ordinary adolescent girl. Occasionally, when she sees girls’ comics, she will also fantasize about meeting her white horse one day. What kind of scene will it be after the prince?
The only thing that makes Kasumigaoka Utaha better than ordinary people is that she has a writing style that ordinary people can’t match, so she wrote her understanding of love into this novel called”Love Metronome”.
She felt that it was a wise choice for her to suppress her inner irritability today and agree to come here with Machida Sonoko. If Kasugano Toru was not still continuing his painting work, she would have wanted to talk to the other party directly about the issue of remuneration.
Suppressing her inner excitement, Kasumigaoka Utaha forced herself to focus on the drawing paper in front of her.
As Kasugano Toru continued to sketch, the image of a girl came to life on the paper.
The girl wore a sailor suit commonly seen in neon, with long hair fluttering, her hands holding her heart, and a gentle smile.
That smile seemed to be able to penetrate other people’s hearts, making people involuntarily feel a sense of pity. But unlike the pure expression, the girl’s figure is unusually hot, and her heavy chest tells everyone that she understands people’s hearts very well. She also knows what to pay for love.
“Senior, what do you think of this image? At least in my mind, Sayuka should look like this.”It doesn’t take long to draw a pencil drawing, and soon he pushed the finished Sayuka in front of Kasumigaoka Utaha.
“Kasugano-san… it’s totally beyond my expectations.” Kasumigaoka Utaha sighed when she saw the finished Sayuka.
She still underestimated the boy in front of her.
Machida Sonoko, who was particularly familiar with Kasumigaoka Utaha, had already known her inner thoughts from the expression on the girl’s face.
It seems that the illustrator for the second volume of”Love Metronome” has been found.
“Senior, such ambiguous words are not what a girl who wants to pursue love should say.”After blinking at Kasumigaoka Utaha, Kasugano Toru put away the pencil in his hand.
“It seems he really knows.……”Kasumigaoka Utaha sighed inwardly.
“Confidant,” this word is really good.
It feels even better when someone can understand what you write.
“”Teacher Kasugano, let’s talk about the compensation.” Seeing the expressions of the two people, Machida Sonoko, who is as shrewd as a person, how could she not know that this matter has been done.
Well, this is a strange thing to say, as if these two people have been on a blind date before. However, the excited Machida Sonoko has long been unable to care about anything. As long as”Love Metronome” can continue to be written, she will be very satisfied.
“No problem, I want to hear the senior’s offer first.”Kasugano Toru was not polite at all. Was n’t the reason why he came to this place today just for this?
After seeing the beauty, he forgot his last name and the original purpose. Such a character setting does not fit Kasugano Toru’s style.
“Currently, the industry pays illustrators 20,000 yen for a color picture, and about 10,000 to 15,000 yen for a black and white one. Machida Sonoko gave a price. Kasugano
Toru nodded. This was also the result he found out. It seemed that Machida Sonoko didn’t talk nonsense just because he was a high school student. This also strengthened his idea of continuing the cooperation.
“Editor Machida, I plan to pay Kasugano-san 30,000 yen per copy.”Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was supposed to be a bystander, suddenly spoke up.
This speech almost doubled the reward.
She didn’t care about money, she wanted friends more!