Start by Becoming a Mangaka

Yuuki was in his Heaven Record company while making the trailer of "Clannad" that would be sold during the winter season in December. He decided to give the trailer after the end of the autumn season or one month before the event.

"Yuuki, do you want to drink tea?" Mio asked.

"Sure." Yuuki nodded.

"Wait here," Mio said and took out the cup of tea then poured the black tea that had been made earlier.

Yuuki was looking at everyone who was doing afternoon tea at the company together. A few days later, they would go to London for their first concert in another country. He didn't want them to overwork themselves and wanted them to be relaxed. Though, there was someone who was hardly relaxing in his place.

"Everyone! Why are you enjoying afternoon tea?!" Azusa complained.

"Azunya, come here. This cupcake is really good," Yui said and put the cupcake right into Azusa's mouth.

Azusa ate the cupcake unconscious then her eyes were shining. "It's good!" She ate the cupcake then she realized something. "Let's go and practice! Sensei! Why are you also relaxed with everyone!"

Sawako enjoyed her black tea and sipped it slowly. She heard Azusa complain and said, "Azunya, this is also part of the practice."

"Part of the practice?" Azusa became confused.

Sawako nodded and said, "Do you know that making a band is a work of several people. You need to create harmony between your band members together then achieve a perfect performance together."

"R - Really?" Azusa seemed to believe Sawako's words.

"Yes! This seems to be normal afternoon tea, but this is one of our ways to create closer bonds between band members. That's why you need to calm down and have an afternoon tea with us," Sawako said.

"That's right! This is part of the training! You can't work all the time and rest is an important thing during a training session," Ritsu said.

"Azusa-chan, come here," Mugi said and patted the seat beside her.

Azusa's feeling was a bit complicated, but she decided to believe in them. It was her first performance together with everyone and she wanted it to be perfect, but she knew that everyone in this place had a lot of experience to perform on a big stage. She decided to believe in them and joined the afternoon tea session.

Yuuki didn't say anything when he heard their conversation. He knew that they were just lazy, but he didn't stop them since he knew that they had prepared and they weren't greenhorns who had never performed on a big stage. He knew that Azusa was also quite nervous since it was her first time to perform together with everyone and he also knew that the girl wanted to train harder to achieve a perfect performance, but he knew that wasn't good in the long run. He thought that everyone had grown so much in the past few months. He remembered that they were a group of lazy girls who loved to eat sweets and drank tea then they had grown into professional musicians. He couldn't help but sigh for a long time.

"What's wrong?" Mio asked.

"Nothing. I have just realized that all of you have grown so much," Yuuki said and sipped the tea that had been prepared by Mio. He had given them the tea leaves that Baraqiel had given to him before and it seemed that the one that was prepared by Mio was better than Baraqiel.

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"Achooo!" Baraqiel sneezed.

"What's wrong?" Azazel asked.

"Nothing." Baraiqiel wasn't sure why, but he felt annoyed for some reason.

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Yuuki looked at Mio and asked, "What about your stage fright? Have you solved it?"

"N - No..." Mio said with a low voice. She had always been nervous when she went to the stage and she wasn't sure what to do to solve her problem.

"Don't worry, Yuuki will give you his special way to make you calm down later," Yukari said and looked at Yuuki. "Right?"

"......" Yuuki twitched his lips listening to this question.

Mio's face turned red and remembered how Yuuki was able to calm everyone in his unique ways.

"Eh? Is there such a thing?" Azusa, who had heard their conversation, seemed to be interested.

"Yes, this guy has a special way to make everyone calm down during their performance," Yukari said.

"Yuuki-senpai? Really? Can you do that for me?" Azusa looked at Yuuki with a hopeful expression.

'Don't look at me like that.' Yuuki felt that he had done something wrong when he saw Azusa's innocent expression. "I'll help you later for now do your best to calm yourselves."

Azusa, who was curious, seemed a bit disappointed, but she nodded honestly.

Yuuki thought to change the topic of conversation and looked at Sawako who seemed a bit depressed for some reason. "Sawako-sensei, what's wrong? Why is your face so down?"

"Eh?" Sawako seemed a bit surprised by this question.

"Yeah, Sawa-chan, don't be sad, we're here," Yui said.

"Yeah, what's wrong, tell us everything," Ritsu said.

"Sawa-chan-sensei," Mugi said while looking at Sawako with an eager expression to help Sawako.

Yukari looked at Yuuki who had become very good at changing the topic of conversation, but she was also curious why Sawako was depressed and down about something.

Sawako seemed a bit hesitant and looked at Yuuki from time to time.

"Do you need me to do something?" Yuuki asked. He wasn't an airhead and knew that this woman needed him to do something.

"N - No." Sawako hurriedly shook her head.

"Don't hesitate, if it's something that I can help with then I'll help you," Yuuki said. He walked toward her and said, "You have helped me so much and I want to do something for you."

Sawako looked at Yuuki for a while and nodded. She was a bit nervous then she asked him slowly, "Y - Yuuki..."

"Hmm?"

"Can you become my boyfriend?"

"........"

"WHAT?!"