Chapter 82: Love Manga
Publishing manga online is a good idea, but Takumi remembered that Kurosawa didn't like the internet.
After all, slow-paced manga aren't published, so it's difficult to achieve good results. So Takumi considered that there was no need to draw long manga and that it was better to write short stories. It wasn't necessary to publish them all at once, in the style of The Legend of Wukong.
Of course, The Legend of Wukong was published for free to quickly increase its influence, but this novel has already made Mirai-sensei's influence known online. He has thousands of followers in his personal space and new manga can be published for a fee.
The question now is what kind of short manga to choose.
Takumi didn't read many short manga and thought about it for a long time without success. On Saturday, he decided to buy a scanner first.
A scanner is a necessary tool for scanning manga images and uploading them online. He didn't want Alice to find out, otherwise, Tsukimoto Genji might have to impose conditions if he found out. Takumi wanted to act first and inform later, so he had to move Alice.
"Mom, don't you want to meet that village girl?"
During breakfast, Takumi suggested to Aika: "Today is a holiday, let Alice take you to see her later."
Aika was happy to hear it.
"Okay, practice piano today, and by the way, I'll go thank the teacher."
Takumi quickly refused. He used the excuse that he wasn't feeling well and didn't want to practice piano, and asked Aika and Alice to go. Aika saw that Takumi was in good health, but she assumed the child must have other things on his mind.
Takumi had been very busy during this time, and Aika thought about letting him rest. After Alice arrived, Takumi hid in the room, pretending to be sick, and Aika didn't let a worried Alice come in to visit him.
"Takumi asked me to take him to see the girl, but he has a cold and I don't know her, so take me!"
Aika tried to persuade Alice, and the two closed the door and left.
Shortly after they left, Takumi left the building and drove to buy a scanner.
On the way, he received a call from Hirano-sensei.
"Are you sick? Alice said you need to take a break."
"Yes, Hirano-sensei, I'm sorry, I'll see you next week."
Takumi pretended to be weak.
"Good, rest well. Bring me the music when you come next week, I need to see it."
"Music?" Takumi asked, surprised. "What music?"
"It's the music you and the girl from school played! Do you think I don't know? This matter has caused quite a stir. The girl was called to the Academic Affairs Office for a reprimand. If it weren't for my help, she would probably have been punished..."
Hirano-sensei said on the phone that Shiori was almost punished, but Takumi had never heard of it. 'It seems that Shiori didn't tell him on purpose.'
But the performance video should be hidden. 'Why did the school know? Could someone have leaked it?'
"Okay."
Takumi sighed inwardly, but still nodded.
He hung up the phone and ignored the matter for the time being, but Takumi got lost shortly after getting off the bus.
With no one to guide him, Osaka is a huge city. Takumi didn't know the way and thought he wouldn't have any problems as long as he had money. He got into a taxi, but he had problems three times in a row. The driver heard that his voice didn't sound like a local's, so he deliberately took a long detour.
Takumi started to get angry. 'Things had been going very badly these days.'
There was no way, so he could only take out his mobile phone and open the browser. The driver couldn't trick him, so he arrived at the computer city without problems.
"Boss, do you have a scanner here?" Takumi found the largest store, went in and asked, "The kind that allows you to scan images to the computer."
"Yes." The boss came over enthusiastically: "We have many models here, and we can also install them on site, take a look."
He accompanied Takumi to choose and present them. Takumi didn't know anything about the machine, and no matter how good it was, he didn't understand it very well.
"I want to try it."
He decided to speak with actions. The boss took out some photos and planned to scan them, but Takumi stopped him.
"I'll draw it."
'Who knew if there were any tricks in the image?' Takumi drew the image himself, and then it was safer to use it. He took a pen and drew a figure on a piece of paper.
"Wow, this guy draws wonderfully!" he exclaimed. He looked back and saw three women behind him, looking at his drawings: "Wow, you're amazing!"
"Normally..." Takumi replied indifferently. A woman took two steps towards him. Her perfume smelled pungent and her clothes were quite revealing, showing almost all of her chest. He couldn't stand it.
"Seeing the way you draw, do you like reading manga?"
"What artist do you like the most?"
they asked excitedly, looking him up and down, as if they were very interested in Takumi, and gradually surrounded him.
"I don't have a favorite artist. I occasionally read Weekly Shōnen and Weekly Shōjo Manga."
Takumi took a step back and replied:
"Weekly Shōnen and Weekly Shōjo Manga?"
Several women looked at each other and their faces changed.
"So those are Mirai-sensei's paintings?"
"Why is it him again? He promotes it every day. How annoying!"
"That Inuyasha is hilarious, only the protagonist is a woman. The content is a battle or a love triangle, and the love triangle is between two women and one man. Mirai-sensei is so shameless, putting a boys' manga in a girls' manga magazine to attract male readers and still has the nerve to say he defeated Kaya Hoshino."
"Anyone can say it's love after reincarnation. Who can't?"
These women told Takumi: "Mirai-sensei has a problem with his character, handsome boy, you should stop reading his manga in the future."
After saying that, these women seemed to lose interest and walked away.
"What's wrong?"
Takumi frowned slightly. 'Who did he offend? Why is someone talking about him again?'
"Oto-san, let me show you the scanner." The boss came over and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about those women. I know Mirai-sensei, and lately there has been a lot of negative news about him."
"Negative news?"
"Yes, yesterday I saw a report condemning Mirai-sensei, who doesn't understand love, for participating in girls' manga. They said he was like a rabid dog and didn't give anyone a chance to live." The boss shook his head and said: "Mirai-sensei is really special. A man shouldn't draw love stories. No wonder they laugh at him."
"Love, let them laugh at him..."
Takumi was annoyed. 'When did he say there was a love manga about Inuyasha? This manga does have love elements, but these elements are only the beginning. How can others conclude that he doesn't know how to draw love?'
Takumi had been bored these days, and today everything went wrong again. He narrowed his eyes slightly, and a desire to vent overwhelmed him.
'Love...'
Well, he decided to draw a short manga about love to "cure" those who doubted him.
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