Vol 13 Chapter 1 (2/2)

shi+dou widens his eyes once his gazes follow the direction that the girl’s fingertip pointed just now

Over there, there’s a high building, which height seeh-rise mansion

“Eh? Over here?”

“H me to live in a more worn-out apartment?”

“N-No, I didn’t think……”

shi+dou hesitates to answer for a uess was correct

Basically, the higher theat this girl’s appearance; in truth, he cannot e of the mansion before his eyes

“Ehehe…Co How should I put this? You see, it’s a gap Soht? Just like any other ordinary teenager”

“…………Uh it”

shi+dou knitted his eyebrohile replying to her……Soirl personality at all

“ Ah, boy, I’ s cannot ot soeneration~?”

“Aah, I think I can……Are you sure it’s okay for you to not go to hospital?”

It’s not like he has another urgent matter to do, so he doesn’t have any reason to refuse anyway And irl in this place, there’s a chance that she will collapse and die on the street and he will feel bad if that happen…………Nor should be i like this would only happen in Manga, even though such a Manga situation did happen to this girl So could be happen in real life as well

shi+dou, while piggybacking the girl, walked through the mansion’s entrance Then, they arrive in front of the auto locked door

“Then……”

In such a high class mansion, they have auto lock that must be unlocked beforehand But, the pin number should only be known by those who reside here, and the person in question couldn’t type the pin number from shi+dou’s back

Perhaps, peeking over the security isn’t so very admirable, but the current situation irl that he brought on his back

“I will closethat moment……”

“Ah, the room number is 1801, and the pin number is 1234, okay”

“Security!?”

Duirl’s word, shi+dou unintentionally let out a strange voice

“Eh, what’s with that shout just now? It’s super a Do it once more, once more”

“Forget that! You shouldn’t let others know stuff like that so easily!”

“Eh? Why?”

The girl asked back in a surprised manner shi+dou scratched his head in stress and continued talking

”That's not good for security, isn't it!? If someone else other than the residence knows the password, then he can come in and out freely! We just me for the first time, and I'm a boy you know!”

shi+dou explains his theory in a high pitch; the girl then went “Oh” and covers her mouth with her hand

“Will you do that, boy? No way, that’s so surprising”

“I won’t! I’!”

“…………Ah~, I see Even though you looked like an herbivore, you’re actually a carnivore ……Perhaps this is what you call a gap I’m a bit wiser now”

“Are you even listening when others talking to you!?”

“I’………… Anyway, I only wanted to know for reference, if a boy went to a girl’s roo they would do?”

“You really are not listening, aren’t you!?”

shi+dou raises his voice to the girl while shouting, suddenly he feels like so over them somewhere place

“Ng…?”

And over there, there’s soaze……Because of that, his body began shaking

There, stood up a figure of a woly, she’s thea ruckus in front of the entrance inside lance The woripping the phone right now

“A, Ahaha……”

shi+dou made a feeble and insincere sirl earlier, then immediately the automatic door opened

“……I’ in”

“Aye-aye, Sir~”

The girl responded with a carefree tone shi+dou exhaled, and then he walks away from the lobby and towards the corridor

After that, he took the elevator He can see the wonderful decoration of the roonated room

“………Hey, we arrived Is it okay if I put you down here?”

“Ng~, thank you But if you leave me like this, I’ll surely be dead later”

“………Ha Well then, give me the key I’ll open it”

“Roger that Ah, but the key is inside ently~”

“Why did you put it there!?”

shi+dou shouts as the girl tangles her arms to shi+dou’s neck

“I didn’t ratitude for helping ive you a little service to refresh you Even if you put your hand into the wrong place like the inside of my clothes, I’m okay if it’s in the upper part of my pants”

“What are you even saying!?”

“Ng~, No~ Well~, I think I wanted to show ’ mine to you this whole time, but you didn’t show any reaction at all~ Oh, perhaps this boy has butt fetish? That’s what I thought” “Your concern has exceeded common sense!?”

“Ah, or e breasts? You’re not interested on a bust below 80 c about this~”

“Can you not put soe fetishes?”

shi+dou shouts for a while, and then once again, he lets out a large sigh

“Forget that, just handover the key Or I’ll leave you here”

“Aw, Seems like I have no choice~”

After saying that, the girl put her hand into her butt pocket

“Ah………, Out of sudden……Kya…”

“Don’t e voice behind someone’s back, okay……”

“What’s that, your no fun”

The girl puff her cheeks, then she handovers the key shi+dou opens the door and came inside the room

“I’”

“I forgive you for disturbing~”

“…………”

“Eh, you’re not acting as Tsukkomi anymore?”[2]

Ignoring the girl’s voice, shi+dou take off his shoes and enters the room

Fro corridor Over there, the rooa

“Then, where’s the bedroom?”

“There~”

After the girl pointing out the direction, he walks towards the room

Again, the girl’s bedrooa Almost the entire wall has transformed into bookshelves, but still in the very end, the books only piled up high inside the room

The girl’s bed is even worse There’s a bed in the e room, but it seems to have space for one person only On top of that, the room is scattered with volu towards books, since her bed looks like a prepared a casket specially made for a deceased person to use books instead of flowers

“Uh, wait”

While shi+dou stands in front of the bed for a irldown just like slime, in a ly

“Ng~, finally we arrived”

“Haa…”

Then, after finally laying down the girl, shi+dou exhaled He looks around the interior of the roo inside

“This is……”

Even though it’s rude for looking around a girl’s rooainst his curiosity He walks forward to a certain place; over there he sees soe work space There’s various painting equip fluorescent lamp which could illuminate the whole table surface

On top of that, there is a thick B4 size paper on the center of the desk Its coma script, there is not only already a drawn character and background, but also there’s some text written on it It seeh sketch drawn by pencil hasn’t been erased yet

Right This is the first time shi+dou sees this directly, no doubt about it

And what’s over there is the so called Manga paper manuscript

“Eh, perhaps, are you drawing Manga?”

shi+dou asked the girl as sleeping peacefully on the bed like a corpse Then, she raised her hand

“Ng ? That’s right I was a pro……I got too focused with ht I had no choice other than to go to nearby convenient store or to superravity becaer”

After saying that, she raised her hand before dropping it back down onto the bed shi+dou makes dumbfounded face and smile bitterly

“So, that’s what happened……But if you are a pro, don’t you have an assistant……”

“Ng Generally, that’s how it is but, I like doing everything just by myself until it’s finished~ Well, if you feel coh so to die”

“But I think it’s a fatal mistake……”

shi+dou scratch his cheeks, he take a look at the Manga manuscript on the desk once more

It’s not like shi+dou read the whole Manga book wildly just like a a just like any other nora books that he likes However, this was the first ti experience

Guessing froh it’s still not completely finished, he can tell that she truly is a pro-

“………Hmm?”

Then, shi+dou knitted his eyebrows; he bends his body forward and brings his face closer to take a look at the manuscript more closely

Because the script hasn’t been finished yet, he’s not so sure, but he recognizes that style somewhere

“………Eh, this is, don’t tell me [SILVER BULLET]!?”

shi+dou shouted at that instant Right Over there is, the Manga Nakatsugawa talked about earlier [SILVER BULLET]

“Oh? You know very well Perhaps, you’re one of my readers? Thank you~”

The girl waving one of her hand again, shi+dou become even more curious He turns his body’s direction and continues asking

“No, wait a minute Does that mean you’re Honjou Souji……?”

“Ng~, right~”

“Y-You’re not a man?”

“Ah~, that? It’s a pen name, a pen name My real name is Nia Honjou Nia Nice to meet you~”

Say that, the girl named Nia flashes a smile that made a “Nii” sound, and then continues

“It’s pretty co that riting Shōnen a For example, Takajou-san of [OTHER FAKE] is actually a woman too”

“Eh!? I-Is that true!?”

Upon hearing this information, shi+dou widens his eyes…… Then he continued thinking

Other than about the gender issue earlier, he found soe Because [SILVER BULLET] is a Manga that has existed around the time when I was still elementary school, you know? That means Honjou Souji’s debut work is even older than that…”

shi+dou shouting again ain

Her possible age is about 18 or 19 years old…… No er, being in her twenties is the lie really is 30 years old, that youthful appearance is so that everyone would alish for There’s nothat every beauty’s coe of this

In this case, she hter who has the sa style and inherited the saeneration…… There are also so

However, Nia can see through what shi+dou is thinking, she then says fufu, while shrugging her shoulders

“I’ until now, Honjou Souji and I are the same person By the way, it’s already about ten years since my debut work”

“T-Ten years…”

shi+dou is dumbfounded by her explanation, Nia’s truth echoes like the sounds of a dru about such a theory

Nor should be impossible The possibility of this entire theory is only part of Nia’s randoh

But, the manuscript placed on the work desk is obviously Honjou’s drawing style Of course, there’s also possibility that those are only copies of the original drawing However, if this Manga really got published by [BLAST], it will be evidence for this girl’s inality

While shi+dou was thinking about that, Nia went Oh, well~ and exhaled

“Uhm~……The sequence is a little bit different froht ~I’ll tell you My secret is-”

“Eh…?”

Hearing Nia’s words, shi+dou shrugs his shoulder a little

It’s true that he is curious about it, but…… Whatever is it, will it be alright to tell it to a coer like shi+dou? That question is what popped up inside his mind

“Actually~”

However, a moment later…

Gu~………Kyururururururu…………

That voice came out from Nia’s stomach louder than before

Furthermore, since she was about to talk a serious matter, she creates such a serious face to show that the situation earlier is beco pretty surreal

“B-Boy………”

Nia called shi+dou in a weak voice shi+dou exhales and scratches his head

“Okay, okay…… I’ll borrow your kitchen for a while”

“Yes~……”

Then, shi+dou walked out from the room, but he quickly turns back to Nia

“………I only wanted to hear this to make sure You can eat ordinary food, aren’t you? You’re not sucking blood in order to ht?”

”Eh? You'll let me suck your blood?”

Then, Nia tries to ier from both hands, “Gaah~” and then she flashes her teeth But, soon she loses her physical strength and falls down

“………For now, I’ll accept that answer as a yes”

shi+dou said that with his eyes half-opened He leaves the room and walk alone to the kitchen

Looking at Nia’s manner, he expected the sink to be filled with dirty dishes However, apart froanized

“Heee How surprising……I know it’s rude to say this but, this is pretty well-organized”

But, a ed his earlier i at the surface of kitchen’s table pretty confirm it In the corner of the room, he can see instant foods rubbish from a convenient store

In other words, instead of Nia never tidying up this place, it seems she never used the kitchen in the first place Shea box lunch from a convenient store; in short she must always eat instant foods for every meal

“…………”

shi+dou kept his silence and put his hand on his forehead, he soak the table and begin wiping the surface of kitchen’s table with some kind of cloth

“Well…………Now”

After finish cleaning the dirt, he looking around the kitchen and walks to open the refrigerator,

“…………O-Only sake…………?”

shi+dou voices his disbelief at what he just saw, and then he pulls the vegetables drawer to take a look

There are only bottles of sake inside, and also several books covering them

“…………”

shi+dou silently closed the refrigerator He goes back to the entranceway and takes the shopping bag he brought earlier, and decides to choose soinally, these are meant for Spirits’ dinner, but………since the quantity he bought is ht And irl starve to death

shi+dou washes his hands, and then start cooking like he usually does

Though, there was not much kitchenware he could use, so was it’s impossible to make a delicious meal Also, there’s not much ti

After shi+dou decided, he pours some water into the only available small saucepan in the kitchen Then, he also put in uncooked rice into the water, and he lit the fire to start cooking

After that, he places some scallions into the place where the fire was lit, as well as some bean paste He also added soerator to add sos into the mixture to complete a simple soup

In this case, right now the food had finished cooking in only a short ti to death Despite the fact that this is only an ordinary irl

“Okay, I hope this is enough”

After shi+dou says that, he returns to the previous room to deliver the bowl filled with Zousui[3]

“Here, I finished It’s still hot, so be careful”

“Waa! I’ll have some~!”

shi+dou put the Zousui on the table near the bed, Nia then Pan! clapping her hands And with a bit of vigor she takes the Zousui

“Whoaaa!”

Of course, the food is still hot Nia’s body shook a little

“I already told you right……”

“Fuu~, Fuu~”

Learning from her earlier mistake now, Nia blew the spoon with her breath before transferring the food into her mouth

After that, she tastes the Zousui while chewing it inside her mouth, and then she let out a voice

“Aaaa~……”

Nia made a voice that sounded co Tears started flowing down fro overwhel her spoon

“So delicious……What did you just let me eat……What……”

While saying these words, she continues eating the re Zousui After five minutes had passed, the Zousui’s boas already empty

“Fuh~ Thanks for the meal No~, that was delicious It’s been a week since the last time I ate a warm meal”

“A week……”

shi+dou made a wry smile and then cleaned up the tableware He turns back as he is about to open the door to return to the kitchen

“Well, I’ll wash the dishes, after that I’ll go ho froain”

“Ah~, wait a minute”

Then, as shi+dou was about to walk out from the room, Nia let out a voice

“Is that not enough? I’inally for the dinner in my home, if you want more, just order from delivery”

“Ah~ That’s not it! That’s not what I meant”

Then Niaher hands, she raise her right hand and pointed to the unfinished drawing manuscript that was placed on top of the desk

“Like I said before, I didn’t hire any assistants Is it alright if it’s only a simple task, would you help me? Please! I’ll pay you extra for that”

“…………Eh?”

Being asked an unexpected request, shi+dou widens his eyes

But he should refuse Nia’s unreasonable request right after just cooking the meal

“N-No-no-no What are you talking about? That’s totally impossible”

“Eh~, isn’t that fine~ Do you have anything else to do?”

“No, that’s not what I’ to say……I’ve never touch a pro’s manuscript before, I can’t take the responsibilities if I made any mistake”

“It’s alright~, it’s alright~ I’ You only have to put soth to do that”

“Even if you say so………”

“Please, please, please! Currently my hands already full with important jobs to be done~ In this case, I won’t be able to finish the manuscript on time………”

Nia keeps pleading to hih

“……Haa Okay, but only a siht?”

After shi+dou gave into her arguladly

“Got it~, got it~ Well then, let’s go to the workroom As expected, this place is too small to be of use for the two of us~”

While saying that, Nia get up froh……”

She scratched her body After acting lazily until just now, the girl is already gaining back her energy extremely fast

“The work room……do you have another place other than this one?”

“Yes I prepared everything like this, so whenever I feel like I’ht away, but I also have another workroom to use~”

“Even if you say it as if that was a nore”

shi+dou half closed his eyes when he said that, Nia seely doesn’t particularly pay attention to it After that, shi+dou follows Nia to the other workroom

“Well, come in, come in”

“Wah…………”

Nia asks shi+dou to enter the workroom, the scenery made shi+dou widen his eyes

Inside the roo work desk placed; on top of it, there’s various stationery prepared The wall still looks the same with the previous one, where the whole surface of the as turned into bookshelves Other than that, there’s drawing raphs and etc all lined up

Inside the room, there is a stoic atmosphere somehow The appearance of this place surely is just like an artist’s workplace

“There, you can use that desk”

“Eh, is it alright? Somehow the atmosphere makes it feel like this is an artist’s sacred place……”

“That’s fine, that’s fine Ah, or perhaps you like the desk in the previous roo?”

“Ah, this place is fine too”

shi+dou refused instantly, the girl seems to be dissatisfied and her lips made a “Buu~” sound as she pursed her lips

“Well, which part should I erase?”

“Aah, then please erase this part”

After shi+dou asked, Nia wears her glasses and beganout several sheets of manuscripts that had already been inked

“After you finished erasing the draft, please fill up the blank space with black ink” “…………Ng?”

Nia said those words naturally, shi+dou inclined his head

”W-wait a minute! Didn't you want me to do only Gomu-kake!? Even if it's Beta-nuri, you shouldn't let an amateur do it!”[4]

“Fine~, fine~ Since you’re pretty skillful, you’ll so as you paint the tools The trick is to paint ser part with so quick

“No, wait, are you listening when other people are talking…………?”

“I’ht Boy, you’ve used painting tools before, right?”

“Huh………? Wh-What, out of the blue……”

Hearing those sudden words, shi+dou’s face suddenly turned pale

Then Nia lift up the tip of her lips and continue speaking

“You know? Boy For those who don’t know anything about Manga, They won’t call erasing as [Gomu-kake], or black as [Beta]”

“……tch!”

Whispering, shi+dou held his breath

“T-That’s…………”

“Perhaps that’s it, right? When you’re still around inal character that you created No~, I get it, I get it At first, you drew that on your note book using pencil Then, one day you decided to go to a stationery store to buy a Manga pen as well as the ink, but then you found it pretty difficult to use”

“!? N-No, I……”

“Then, you thought that you wanted to use screen tone too but, ‘It can’t be, how the price for one sheet could be so expensive even though it can only be used once!’ Then you gave up after said that”

“G-Guu…………”

“After that, once you found out that there’s a , That way I can draw as ot really shock once you found out the price for the pen tablet and the software, right?”

“A-Aaaaaaaaaah……………!”

shi+dou’s body started tre as he scratched his head

“And then………”

“Ok, I got it! I’ll do it, no need to say more Please”

“Then, I’ll count on you boy! And I’ll be working over there”

shi+dou says that with a displeased tone, Nia started laughing upon seeing that and gives him a thumbs up while walk back to her bedroom

“Oh, my………”

shi+dou let out a sigh, Phew

But, it can’t be helped Then, he sits down on the chair; he grips the eraser on his hand and carefully begins to erase the pencil trace

After that, he takes the Fude-pen on his hand and begins working on Beta-nuri like she instructed

He begins painting the part given an x-e part; after that, he began painting the entire surface

Even if he is only repeating the sae to paint is various

Overwhelmed by the pressure that he shouldn’t ruin a pro’s manuscript hadthe work, he tries to finish it as soon as possible

After soht the finished beta inking oes to Nia’ place

“Oh, are you done already? Hee~, Aren’t you quite skillful?”

“……………Aah, soe it Man, it’s been a while since the last ti like this”

Exhaling, he continueshis body slowly and turns his shoulders

Then, when he looks over there, shi+dou face turned pale as his body started tre

“Wha………!?”

There’s no e her roo until now

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