Great Mangaka

Although Takumi repeatedly refused, Gong proved to be extremely enthusiastic and even mobilized Watanabe to persuade him.

In the end, Takumi nodded and accepted. He would be free when he was free; when he was free, it could take a long time.

After completing the admission procedures and meeting with some school leaders, Takumi dedicated his free time to this extraordinary treatment. The driver helped him move his books. Before leaving school, Takumi also met with Shiori's two roommates.

There was nothing remarkable about the encounter. The two girls seemed very excited, but they were a little scared to approach Takumi, and Shiori, for some reason, became boring.

"Then I'm leaving first."

After saying a few words, Takumi felt that it would take the two girls a while to look at him calmly, so he didn't care too much and said goodbye to Shiori.

"Aren't you having lunch at school?"

Shiori asked reluctantly.

"No, there are too many people here."

Takumi shook his head and refused. Thanks to Hinotori Publishing's semester-long promotion and advertising, mangaka Mirai-sensei became very well-known in Osaka. The revelation of his identity impacted Takumi. Few young people were unaware of him. He received all kinds of attention at Osaka's N.º 1 High School.

He didn't want to have dinner with Shiori and the other two in public.

Shiori accompanied him to the door. Takumi was about to get into the car when he suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, Shiori." He turned to Shiori and said: "You're a voice actor at Hinotori Publishing. We might call you often. There's no time for vacations. For convenience, I told the school directors that you can ask for leave at any time."

Takumi smiled and said: "When we call you, you can leave directly. If you want to accompany my mother, you can also come to my house. As long as you don't drop your grades, the school won't stop you."

Shiori was stunned.

"I can leave?!" she shouted in surprise, and she felt the depression that had plagued her for the past few days suddenly fade away, and even the sun shone much brighter.

"Yes, it won't affect your academic performance."

Takumi nodded.

"No problem, it definitely won't affect my grades!" Shiori smiled, and studying was no problem for her: "Takumi, thank you very much!"

"No, then I'll go first."

Takumi got in the car. Then he disappeared from Shiori's sight.

After finishing school tasks, Takumi organized his thoughts and planned to return to Hinotori Publishing to attend to pending work. At that moment, he received a phone call. It was Kazuki, editor-in-chief of Tatsuryū Manga.

Kanto wanted Takumi to switch jobs there. The remuneration was very tempting. Not only would all the manga be animated, but 10,000,000,000 yen would also be given away.

"I'm sorry, I haven't considered leaving Hinotori Publishing."

However, Takumi refused. He had a good impression of Hinotori Publishing and met Genji's requirements. What he got was much more than 10,000,000,000 yen, and manga animation was not a problem; he even had his own animation production department.

But his refusal was so blunt that Kazuki felt very uncomfortable.

"He doesn't accept."

When Kazuki hung up the phone and informed Yang, the head of Kanto Manga Osaka, Yang frowned.

"Kazuki." asked in distress: "What should we do? Mirai-sensei is a very threatening mangaka. He has made a lot of noise in the last two weeks. Should we redouble our efforts to convince him?"

"Redouble?"

Yang looked surprised and then laughed: "Are you kidding? How many people can afford to give 10,000,000,000 yen for free? The price we offered him at Kanto has already given him enough prestige, and we can't give him more."

"Minister, the company said it wants to move its headquarters to Osaka. I'm worried about this situation..." Kazuki paused. In the last two weeks, Hinotori Publishing has attracted the attention of thousands of media. 'Will Kanto's plan to move south be interrupted?'

"What are you afraid of?... Don't worry, the company's plan won't change. As for mangaka Mirai-sensei..." Yang shook his head and said: "He didn't even accept the 10,000,000,000 yen price for changing jobs. It might not be good to let him join Kanto."

"But..." He smiled again: "We don't have to be afraid of him. The company has other plans to defeat him."

"Other plans?"

Kazuki was surprised, but Yang just smiled and didn't continue.

At that moment, in the foggy city of Great Britain,

Takeshi Yamamoto, president of Kanto Manga, was sitting in an old castle. A blonde maid served him coffee in a cup. As she did so, an old man came out with a steady stride.

Takeshi Yamamoto quickly stood up, bowed to the old man, and greeted him in stiff English: "Duke Anthony."

"Don't speak to me in English. I speak Japanese."

The old man stroked his white beard and laughed.

His Japanese was as standard as that of the Japanese people, and there was not the slightest discomfort.

Takeshi Yamamoto breathed a sigh of relief: "Your Excellency the Duke's Japanese is amazing...".

"What's so amazing about this?" Anthony smiled and said: "Japanese is a language that all countries must learn. I simply studied it more carefully at school."

He remembered that, as a child, all children learned Japanese. They had to understand Japan. At that time, Japan was the enemy of the world. They hated the great country that wanted to conquer the world by force.

But now it's different...

Anthony looked at the middle-aged man in front of him with a smile. He would never have imagined that one day he could meet a Japanese person in such a peaceful setting.

"Tell me, guest from afar, what do you want to talk about?" Anthony sat in front of Takeshi Yamamoto and asked: "I heard that you are the director of a famous manga company in Japan, right?"

The reason Anthony met Takeshi Yamamoto was because he was the president of Kanto Manga.

"Yes." Takeshi Yamamoto nodded and carefully handed him his business card. When Anthony took it to observe, Takeshi Yamamoto said: "Your Excellency the Duke, our company wants to invite you to Japan."

Anthony stopped moving his hands.

"Who do you represent? Kyoto Imperial Palace, Eastern Emperor, or Heian Imperial Palace?"

Takeshi Yamamoto shook his head.

"I don't represent the government."

"You don't represent the government?" Anthony thought. 'In fact, it's nothing to represent the government. If it were decades ago, he wouldn't dare to go to Japan even if he were beaten to death, but now Japan is the country that values peace the most. If he wants to realize his aspiration, he will never act.'

'If Japan hadn't stopped, the world would have been destroyed a long time ago.'

"You represent a manga company? Let me think..." Anthony read the business card and put it back on the table, smiling. "Does it have something to do with The Detective Sherlock that I authorized?"

He seemed to have heard that his work, was defeated by a young mangaka in Japan, but he always wanted to go see him.

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