Start by Becoming a Mangaka

Yuuki and Reiko entered Teitan Elementary School.

Conan, Genta, Mitsuhiko, Haibara, and Ayumi greeted them.

"Yuuki-nii! Reiko-obaasan!" Gentsa said.

"Who is aunty?!" Reiko knocked his head.

"Ouch!" Genta held his head in pain.

"You can say that to a woman, you should call her big sister," Yuuki said to him.

"Eh? But isn't she in her 30's right?" Genta complained.

"Do you want to teach you or I will leave you right now?!" Reiko was really angry since she was sensitive about her age.

"N - no, Genta, hurry up and apologize!" Mitsuhiko said.

"Yeah, you can't say that she is old, that's very rude," Ayumi said.

"..."

'Ayumi, you're also rude....'

They were speechless looking at her.

"I - I'm sorry," Genta said.

"Let's do the practice, alright," Yuuki said and looked at the two girls, "Ran, Sonoko, you're here too?"

"Yes, I want to monitor them," Ran nodded.

"Yeah, this guy had a tone-deaf," Sonoko said and placed her hand on Conan.

Conan only laughed wrily.

"Tone-deaf?" Yuuki looked at Conan curiously.

"His voice is bad," Haibara nodded.

Yuuki smiled, "How about you?"

"Mine is good," Haibara nodded.

Both of them were talking to each other Mitsuhiko who saw them couldn't help but frown.

'Does Haibara love someone who is older?' Mitsuhiko though.

"Alright, I won't waste my time, let's go to the music room," Reiko said.

"Yes!!!"

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Yuuki was sitting on the chair bored while listening to their singing. In his opinion, chorus competition for the elementary school didn't need a lot of complicated practice.

Children should be singing happily on the stage, that is the most important thing.

Sonoko, who was sitting beside him, looked at the kid with a smug expression.

Yuuki looked at her and wondered why this girl had this kind of expression.

"TEITAN TEITAN SHOUGAKOU!"

The kids were singing and Ran was the one who played the piano.

Yuuki sighed since he noticed a few mistakes but he didn't intend to talk since he wasn't a professional teacher. It was better to leave everything to Reiko who had a musical background and learned in the university. He also noticed some strangeness in the piano. He was wondering whether the tune was quite off.

The song was over and everyone smiled together.

"How is it?" Ran asked.

Reiko, who had been looking at the window, walked toward them, "Let's see... First you!" She pointed her finger toward Genta, "Your voice is too loud!"

"Eh..." Genta was startled.

"Try to blend in with the others!" Reiko said. She started to comment to everyone without missing anything.

"Hmm, perfect pinch, huh?" Yuuki said.

"The perfect pinch?" Sonoko who was beside him was curious.

"Yeah, it means that she can hear anything perfectly, as long as she hears a voice or sound, she can remember it clearly and even produce it," Yuuki said.

"Amazing..." Sonoko nodded and asked, "Do you have it too?"

"Me? I don't have one," Yuuki shook his head. He could make it using his magic but he felt that it wasn't that necessary for a normal singer.

"The problem is you!" Reiko pointed at Conan.

"Ah, that kid has a really bad tone-deaf," Sonoko shook her head.

"Yeah, that one is just too bad," Yuuki also felt that Conan couldn't sing at all.

Reiko started to reprimand Conan, "You were completely out of tune from the beginning to the end! You weren't doing it on purpose, were you?"

Conan was very embarrassed, "N - no..."

Ayumi, who saw his crush being reprimanded, couldn't help but wanted to help him, "It wasn't on purpose! It's just that Conan-kun is tone-deaf!"

"Hahaha!"

Everyone laughed when they heard her.

Conan had a tired expression on his face.

Reiko shook her head, "Worst of all, the piano sounded weird too."

"Eh?" Ran was startled.

Reiko walked toward her and said, "The sound was flat the whole time, hasn't it been tuned properly?"

Ran was surprised by her action and asked whether Reiko had a perfect pinch or not.

Reiko answered 'yes' and showed everyone that she had a perfect pinch.

Yuuki was looking at the scene with interest until he noticed Genta walking toward the back of the classroom.

"Shhh," Gent said to him.

Yuuki only shrugged his shoulders and let him do whatever he wanted.

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Everyone was surprised by her actions.

"That is why you're very good at singing?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"I don't know, I'm not even sure that perfect pinch is that necessary for it," Reiko said and pointed her finger at him, "He doesn't have one but his singing skill is good."

"Yuuki-nii, you don't have a perfect pinch?" Ayumi asked.

"I don't have one," Yuuki shook his head and said, "Conan should have one too, but he isn't that good on singing right?"

"Eh? Conan you have it too?" Ayumi asked.

"Y - yeah, I have the perfect pinch," Conan said.

"But why is your singing so bad?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"...."

Conan was a bit speechless by them.

"Yuuki, let's go back," Reiko said to him.

Haibara looked at him and asked, "You're living with her?

"I will stay with her for four days," Yuuki said.

Haibara sighed and wondered how he could live in Reiko's apartment suddenly.

"I will go back, you can come to my house anytime you miss me," Yuuki said.

"Alright," Haibara blushed.

"Yuuki, let's go," Reiko said.

"Okay," Yuuki stood up and waved his hand to them.

Both of them walked out together until they heard Genta's laugh. Both of them turned and saw that Genta had stolen her drinking bottles.

"Ah? What are you doing?" Reiko was surprised by his actions.

"Thanks for the tea!" Genta said and started to drink the tea on the drinking bottles. Suddenly he felt that his thought felt very uncomfortable and painful, "UAAAAA!!!!"

"Genta!!!"

Everyone was surprised and started to help him.

Yuuki tried to calm him while looking at the tea, "There is something inside the tea."

Reiko had a startled expression on her face when she knew that someone had put something on her tea.