A middle school cartoonist

After a long conversation with Makoto Takahashi that night, Yoshida was finally convinced and agreed not to modify the content of the fourth episode! But when the new issue of "Shounen Jumk" went on sale, Yoshida suddenly felt regretful!

"I always feel like that kid calculated it all from the beginning!" Yoshida looked a little ugly. Sitting on the office chair, he kept thinking about the previous exchanges. He always felt like he had been deceived.

"Yoshida, the results of the reader survey are out!" The colleague in charge of statistics suddenly shouted, making Yoshida jump up from his chair!

Yoshida took the reader survey, closed his eyes, and began to pray in his heart, hoping that the ranking of "Fullmetal Alchemist" would not drop too much! Seeing Yoshida's appearance, many colleagues laughed it off, because this scene often happens in the editorial department, and everyone is not surprised!

Yoshida squinted his eyes and saw that the name at the top of the list was indeed not "Fullmetal Alchemist"! Although he had already guessed it, Yoshida still felt a little disappointed after losing the first ranking. He had prayed to hold the first place before, but now it seems that he thought too much!

"Ah, the number one position has really been given to someone else!" Yoshida complained in a sour tone, but his eyes began to look downwards! When he saw "Fullmetal Alchemist" ranked fourth, Yoshida's heart, which had been tense, suddenly dropped! "This result is better than I expected. It's just like that kid said. Did I think too much?"

"Huh? Yoshida, do you still have time to think here now?" The deputy editor looked at Yoshida, whose expression kept changing, and kindly reminded him, "If the cartoonist you are responsible for this year has not come to attend the annual meeting, …I guess you might have to dress up as a bunny girl at this year’s annual meeting!”

"What?" Yoshida suddenly remembered that there seemed to be only more than a week left before the annual meeting!

"Shounen Jumk" magazine holds an annual meeting every year, inviting cartoonists who are currently serializing to gather together. This can be regarded as a consolation to the cartoonists who have been working hard to draw! And in order to make the annual meeting more enriching, the editorial department proposed that if the cartoonist in charge does not come, the corresponding editor in charge will be punished accordingly!

Generally, there are no special circumstances, and all the cartoonists who are invited will come. However, although Makoto Takahashi has been serializing for four years, he has never attended an annual meeting! This also made Yoshida the target of punishment for four consecutive years!

"Takahashi Makoto...Teacher Makoto Takahashi, please, you must attend this year's annual meeting!" Yoshida clasped his hands together and begged Takahashi Makoto very devoutly, "If you don't go, I will Dressed up as a bunny girl or something!”

"Huh? The annual meeting... not this year! I will be sick during the annual meeting, so I can't go!" Makoto Takahashi looked at Yoshida with a look of anticipation, "And the bunny girl costume... isn't this great? ? You can satisfy your long-hidden cross-dressing habit!"

"What kind of cross-dressing fetish!" Yoshida tried his best to deny it, and suddenly a puzzled expression appeared on his face, "Wait a minute, you said before that you couldn't go to the annual meeting this year because of illness? But now you look fine?"

"The Evil Eye of the Demon God has seen that day in the future! On that day, the Great Demon King Ogata and I had a decisive battle at the Forbidden City. Because the weather was too cold and the Great Demon King Ogata was unethically late, I fell ill!" Takahashi! Cheng looked at Yoshida with an idiot look, "My beloved cat, idiots don't catch colds! So you are really an idiot! You actually don't believe in the precognition ability of the evil eye of the devil!"

"Believe your sister!" Yoshida was so angry that he trembled and pointed at Makoto Takahashi, "Takahashi Makoto, you said the same thing last year!"

"..." Makoto Takahashi turned his head and sighed helplessly, "Okay, my beloved cat, I will tell you the truth! When I was very young, my grandfather told me, At that time of year, as long as I am illuminated by the moonlight, I will lose my mind, turn into a gorilla that only knows how to destroy, and then destroy the entire earth!”

"Become a gorilla? Do you think you are a mutant Saiyan?" Yoshida sneered, "I don't care, I will take you there myself when the time comes!"

"Yoshida, are you planning to destroy the earth?" Seeing that Yoshida was not intimidated by his words, Takahashi Makoto immediately accused Yoshida of coming, "How could there be such a selfish earthling like you! Back then, I worked hard to survive. Earth, are you the one who saved me from Frieza? I’m so sad!”

"Um...I heard that it seems Makaino Aoji is going too!" Yoshida revealed the news, and as expected, he saw Takahashi Makoto's expression change!

"Great Demon King Ogata, is that really the extent?" Makoto Takahashi complained with some dissatisfaction, "I have obviously created so many advantageous conditions for you, but you have delayed it until now! Is that really the Great Demon King Ogata? ? You are really incompetent... My beloved cat, for the sake of your sincerity, I will show mercy to you once!"

"I knew you would go!" Yoshida finally breathed a sigh of relief and took out the reader survey paper from his bag, looking a little embarrassed, "Um...Takahashi Makoto, I'm very sorry, I was still doubting what you said before. , but the result proves that you are right!”

"It's okay, it's okay, don't worry!" Makoto Takahashi took the reader survey and looked at it carefully, his face suddenly turned gloomy, "Do you think I can forgive you for your mistakes by saying this? I want to be forgiven. , just take practical actions! For example, commit seppuku, or commit seppuku or something like that!”

"Don't push yourself too far, kid!" Yoshida looked at Makoto Takahashi's mocking expression, grabbed the reader survey paper in his hand, and began to accuse loudly, "Is the fourth place result worth being proud of? As a devil, you What about your self-esteem? And you kid, don’t be ungrateful! Do you know that many readers wrote to express their dissatisfaction, but I stopped them a lot?”

"Is that the challenge you mentioned?" After listening to Yoshida's words, Takahashi Makoto squinted his eyes and looked at the two handbags Yoshida brought over, "Oh! I can feel that dark and boundless resentment. Ah! But is that just this? What do you want to do with the residual image of resentment that you can’t even materialize?”

"What I said is only a small part of it, most of it is a letter of support for you!" Yoshida sighed, "No matter whether a work is good or bad, some people will like it, and naturally some people will hate it, so don't care too much... Wait, what do you want to do?"

Seeing Takahashi Makoto suddenly stood up without saying a word, dumped a large pile of letters from readers on the table, and began to open them for reading. Yoshida showed a hesitant expression on his face, but he did not make any move. Because Yoshida knows that this is something that a cartoonist must experience!

"Human experimentation! What the hell is this? Does the author still have any humanity? Resolutely resist this kind of morally corrupt comics! Go to hell, author!"

"I have read all three of your comics by Phoenix Academy Fierce. As a price of equal exchange, I can ask you, are you really a human being? Do you still have the so-called human heart? Killing indiscriminately with no regard for life, Human lives are being played like chess pieces. If this isn’t enough, why don’t you start using humans and animals for experiments? Maybe a mental hospital or prison is a good option?”

"Originally, the content of the first three episodes of "Fullmetal Alchemist" was quite inspiring. I thought you had changed your past, Phoenix Academy Murderous Man. But when I read the fourth episode, I felt that you had already changed. It’s completely hopeless! They wantonly kill lives and launch wars to massacre civilians... Don’t use comics to vent your dissatisfaction and don’t insult the profession of cartoonists!”

"Did the editor of the magazine grow up Chi Xiang? Can this kind of comics be approved without review? Is it because Phoenix Academy is fierce and a cartoonist who has been serializing for a long time, so he has special privileges? Who is my dad? , why don’t you come kneel and lick me!”

When Makoto Takahashi looked through the envelopes, there was no expression on his face at first, but as more envelopes were opened, Makoto Takahashi's head lowered, and there was no expression on his face.

"..." Yoshida was silent, watching Takahashi Makoto's face getting more and more uncomfortable, and couldn't help but secretly blame himself for being too impatient. Just when he was about to say something, he saw Takahashi Makoto raise his head, his face He showed a weird smile.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, why didn't you bring such an interesting thing to me before?" Makoto Takahashi looked up at Yoshida, "My Familiar Cat, what are you worried about? And what's that expression on your face? What’s going on?”

"Huh?" Yoshida was a little confused this time, because Takahashi Makoto's expression didn't look like he was shocked, but rather he felt like he was enjoying it? "Don't you feel depressed...or angry?"

"Huh? My beloved cat, what are you talking about?" Makoto Takahashi still kept that smile and raised the envelope in his hand, "This gift is very good. I have learned a lot! These things, It can be said to be a very precious gift! Why do you feel depressed and angry?”

"Then why do you emphasize the word 'gift'?" Yoshida looked at Makoto Takahashi's evil smile and asked with some horror, "That smile is... Makoto Takahashi, what do you want to do? ah?"

"Now that I have received a gift, I naturally have to prepare a gift in return! I am a very well-educated Demon King!" Makoto Takahashi said matter-of-factly! Frowning slightly, Takahashi Makoto looked at Yoshida several times intentionally or unintentionally, and then slowly said, "But there are some things that we should discuss with the Commander in advance!"

"You were just thinking about how to get revenge, right? You were definitely thinking about this!" Yoshida scratched his head with a headache and tried to comfort Takahashi Makoto, "In comparison, more readers have expressed support for you. , so don’t do anything excessive! It’s not just you, many authors have encountered this situation, but others didn’t do anything and continued to draw comics!”

"My beloved cat, all I see are beings full of resentment. Is this a problem of probability, or is it Tokiomi's fault?" Makoto Takahashi shook his head helplessly, and took out two letters full of words. Paper, "Okay, let's not mention this for now! Regarding the comic "Fullmetal Alchemist" that is currently being serialized... I have come up with two endings. It was a bit difficult to choose before, but now..."

"Wait! You..." Seeing Makoto Takahashi laughing wildly and tearing one of the papers to pieces, Yoshida showed a desperate expression on his face, "It's terrible, it's terrible..."

"I still choose this version!" Makoto Takahashi looked at the paper with special notes in his hand, and a very happy expression appeared on his face. "As for the gift to the readers, I will discuss it with the commander at the annual meeting!"

"Don't make the dark and desperate comics like before!" Yoshida began to pray in his heart, but looking at the smile on Makoto Takahashi's face...Okay, Yoshida decided to pray to God for two hours every day from today!

"By the way, the title of the Great Devil of Destruction doesn't sound good!" Makoto Takahashi ignored Yoshida's confused look, walked to the balcony, and looked at the sky in the distance. "In order to implement the real sin and become a terrifying villain, I decided to carry out healing and love to the end! Well, that's it, that's right!"