The great revival of Yuri Kosaka

"You mean the new issue?" After returning home from school, a person who was supposed to appear on the submission day came to Yuri Kosaka's house, that is, his editor Matoi Minano.

"Almost, a short story will do, as long as it lasts these few weeks..." Minano Matoi also looked a little helpless. Originally, she didn't seem to be planning to come to Yuri Kosaka, but she recently appeared in Monthly Shonen Gongon. The three cartoonists of the series took a break at the same time.

To be honest, this is quite rare. After all, monthly comics have been available for cartoonists to draw for a long time. Normally, they can barely cope with the occasional 1 or 2 requests for leave.

But there are three, which is more troublesome. After all, if you just leave three blank spaces, the number of pages in the monthly magazine will be reduced by a large amount.

If it had been a few weeks ago, Minano Matoi would not have come over to ask Yuri Kosaka to help. After all, he himself had a lot of work to do.

But this week the animated version of Steins;Gate is coming to an end, and the manga version has already submitted the manuscript last week.

Which means Yuri Kosaka actually has quite a bit of free time this week.

According to Yuri Kosaka's speed, this time is obviously enough to complete a new chapter.

"But you said that suddenly..." Kosaka Yuri expressed his distress appropriately, mainly because the other party came too suddenly, and for a moment he really didn't know what to draw.

"I know I'm pressed for time, so just draw whatever you want. Rough, simple drawings, etc. are fine. Oh, by the way, it doesn't matter even if it's a previous scrap... If you publish it in the name of your draft, readers They should accept it." Although Minano Matoi had seen Yuri Kosaka's rapid drawings, she felt that they should be completed after deciding what to draw. Now that time is tight and the number of pages needs to be filled, She seemed to think it was unrealistic.

"No matter how much you say this, it's too much... Let me think about it, oh, by the way, how about this if a simple drawing can also be used." Yuri Kosaka looked through the cabinets at home, which contained the contents of his free time. Stacked originals.

Most of them were made by the drawing machine when he was bored and thinking divergently, and some were made by him in the past.

The graffiti of time, and the rest are the works he found interesting and reproduced.

And now, what Yuri Kosaka pulled out from underneath were several manuscripts with very unique painting styles.

"Huh? Why does this look like a Western-style comic strip?" After Minano received these manuscripts, he was first surprised by the unique painting style of these manuscripts, but after reading the content for a while, he showed a rather complicated expression.

"This is really surprising. Although the previous short story was already very unique, this one... honestly feels like reading a collection of Western fables." It is difficult for Minano Matoi to evaluate the manuscripts she is reading now. , she felt that as a fable, this comic was very qualified.

But if she wanted to publish her work in "Monthly Shōnen Gongon"——she couldn't say.

"Well... it really doesn't work?" "That's not to say it doesn't work, it's just... Never mind, I can't worry about that much. Even though it doesn't look like a shounen manga, the work itself is quite interesting." Minano Matoi I flipped back some again, and was stunned for a while when I reached the end of the second short story, and then decided to publish this as a supplementary work.

After making the decision, Minano Matoi sorted out the manuscript and decided to treat the two short stories given by Yuri Kosaka at this time as the last additional pages of this month.

Talking about the additional pages, they are actually used to fill the gaps in those works.

Practically speaking, because there are three vacancies this week, the actual number of pages will still be less than last week, but there is nothing we can do about it.

"Oh, by the way, Yuri, do the titles of these two stories need to be unified? Or can I just use the names on the short stories?" Yuri Kosaka gave two short stories with their own titles, but because the style is unified, Minano Matoi seems to think that a unified title can be used.

"As for the title, then... "Tashilia Stories"." Kosaka Yuri glanced at the first page of the manuscript he handed over. It seemed that the name of this was not written on it, only a small title, So I came up with the title of this series.

"Tahilia... a collection of stories? Are you planning to write a feature length story?" "It depends." "Then I'll leave first... I have to confirm the new issue as soon as possible." It's obvious. , before the release of the new issue, Minano Matoi is indeed very busy.

After confirming that Yuri Kosaka's unpacked goods could be used to fill this week's vacancy, she left to get down to business.

—————— "Huh? Yuri's new work?" "Hey~ Mr. Yuri has drawn a new work again. Let me take a look too." A few days later, one afternoon after the release of "Monthly Shonen Gongon", Mikoto Okoshiba bought the new issue and went to Nozaki Umetaro's house, and sat in front of the living room as familiar as her own home.

He opened "Monthly Shōnen Gongon" and saw an article saying that there was a work by Yuri Kosaka this week, so he turned directly to that page.

Umetaro Nozaki, who heard Mikoto Mikoto's voice, also came closer to watch this week's new work.

"Um... This is different from Yuri-sensei's previous painting style." "Indeed, if it wasn't specifically named, I wouldn't have thought of it." After turning to the page with Yuri Kousaka's works in the catalog, The two were stunned for a moment.

Because the style of the work published in the magazine is very different from Yuri Kosaka's previous works, and it is not a normal serial comic storyboard, but looks like an old-fashioned four-frame comic.

In the first frame of the comic, the name of this short story is written, and a line is drawn at the bottom to indicate that this is an article belonging to the collection of Tahiriya stories. After that, the comic really begins.

The opening of the comic is very simple. It is a very abstract-looking building. Judging from the simple structure, this building seems to be a building like a magic academy.

Then a young man appeared.

The young man practiced his magic in this building, day after day, year after year.

Then one day, a hooded woman passed by the window of his house.

The young man didn't care at all at first and was still exercising his magic.

It wasn't until the woman disappeared from the window who didn't know how long it took that the young magician suddenly realized that he had fallen in love with the woman who had just appeared through the window.

After realizing this, the young man opened the door suddenly and tried to find the woman just now.

Unfortunately, although there were quite a few people outside the door, the woman who just passed by could not be found.

Chapter 611 "Looking"

"Well, there is no dialogue between the characters." After reading two pages, Nozaki Umetaro said with some uncertainty.

"It's not completely gone, but I've omitted some facial expressions and the like, and you can see that I still made a sound when I said hello." However, Mikoto Okoshiba seemed to be looking faster than the other person, pointing to a standard in the back. The comic text says.

"Oh, indeed, this is integrated into the background." "But why did Yuri-sensei suddenly draw this kind of picture?" "Is it because those other people stopped publishing?" The announcement of those people who stopped publishing was written in on the cover, then it is possible that the magazine invites Yuri Kosaka to fill the vacancy.

"But this style is quite intentional.

I think it's very much like a European comic book. "Indeed...but it shouldn't be long. After all, I don't think this will get good results in the reader survey." "Although I have only read the beginning, Umetaro Nozaki is quite not optimistic about Yuri Kosaka's short story today.

Of course, this lack of optimism does not mean that he doesn’t like it, but that he simply thinks that the popularity of this work will be very low. The reason is the same as what Minano Matoi thought of before.

After all, "Monthly Shōnen Gongon" is a monthly magazine for teenagers. This kind of comic book style painting obviously does not conform to the aesthetics of modern teenagers.

After the young mage couldn't find the woman who passed by the window just now, what followed was a series of similar but different scenes.

The young mage first found a goblin, described the woman's appearance and then asked. After getting no results, he changed to the next person, a warrior from the desert area.

Then there was a drunkard in a tavern, a thief, and an orc with beastly features.

The young mage repeated his search and asked about the woman who haunted him.

Maybe it was because he couldn't find any normal creatures after asking a lot, but the creatures the young man found gradually became strange.

Elves with wings, unicorns with horns, and halos on their heads. Creatures that are unknown whether they are living or dead have all become the targets of the other party's inquiries.

What makes the mage regretful is that even though he asked so many people, the whereabouts of the woman are still unknown.

The mage's hair gradually grew during the journey of searching for the person, a beard began to grow on his chin, and the staff in his hand gained many accessories.

The objects of the mage's inquiries also began to become abstract.

Huge giants, monsters with multiple eyes, Medusa with hair like a boa constrictor, wise phoenixes, huge flying dragons, and illithids from who knows which plane.

The mage asked almost all powerful creatures in the world and everyone he thought might know, but he found nothing.

Finally, the old mage with a beard and a tall hat sat down by a well to rest.

He has become very powerful and has seen too many things, but he still can't find what he is really looking for.

At this moment, the old mage was suddenly shocked.

Because before his eyes, the woman he had seen in the Master Academy appeared in front of him again.

The mage was convinced that the woman in front of him was the woman he saw back then who made him embark on this journey.

However, when things came to an end, after spending most of his life looking for the person in front of him, the mage opened his mouth but could not say any words. He just sat there stiffly, unable to make any sound from his throat.

He didn't know what he was going to say or what he was going to do. He didn't even know the other person. He just saw the other person at the window and found him in his seventies.

However, the mage didn't know what to say, but the woman asked the mage if she had seen a male elf.

The old mage was silent for a moment, stood up, and pointed back. In that direction, the male elf described by the woman was there.

Then the old mage saw it.

The woman he had been chasing all his life took off her mask and revealed his elf ears from the mask.

Then, the elf woman and the elf man held hands and walked into the forest hand in hand very lovingly.

The old mage watched as the woman he had been chasing all his life disappeared and her lover disappeared into the forest.

Silence, a long silence... I don't know how long it took, the mage came back to his senses, seemed to have figured something out, and reached out to release his spell.

A moment later, a huge dragon appeared next to the mage.

The mage sat on the dragon's back and let the dragon take him away, far away.

"Wonderful fable!!! You really deserve to be Teacher Yuri!" "Next is... text description?" The text after the mage flew away on the dragon was some background description, which seemed to supplement the setting.

Umetaro Nozaki feels that in terms of story alone, this short story with almost no text is already a very standard comic fable.

"This can already be regarded as a Western-style fable." Not only Nozaki Umetaro thought so, but Mikoto Mikoshiba also thought so.

"But it would be too much of a disadvantage to publish this style of painting in a juvenile magazine. Although it is a comic, it is closer to a traditional literary work." However, although Umetaro Nozaki personally spoke highly of this short story after reading it, but from the normal perspective From a business perspective, he feels that it is difficult to succeed with this unique style of painting.

Of course, it’s not too important that Yuri Kosaka already has famous works.

He just felt a little pity.

Because of such a short story, he guessed that Yuri Kosaka wouldn't be able to draw a few.

"Comics can't be considered traditional literature." "It's just an analogy. This is obviously not the creative idea of ​​​​commercial comics." "Hey, there is... there seems to be another article?" Just when the two thought This was already the end, and when he was about to turn over, Mikoto Mikoshiba suddenly realized something was wrong.

Because in the first short text description

After it ended, the next page was no ordinary comic strip, it was still a painting with a unique style.

"Really?! It's really... That's it for sure. This must be a short story written by Yuri-sensei in his free time. It couldn't have been specially drawn this time." As Umetaro Nozaki, who is also serialized in the magazine, After realizing that this was not a single short story, but two stories of the same style, he felt that these must be Yuri Kosaka's manuscripts.

Because this kind of work is like filling the pages of a magazine. If it is a current painting, it is unlikely to be divided into chapters, at least he cannot do it.

Chapter 612 "Contract"

"The second part is... "Contract"?" "Although the style of painting is the same, it is not a purely graphic fable like before." "It is much longer than the one just now... It should be these two. That’s it.” Mikoto Mikoshiba tried to turn back and found that this article had many more pages than the previous one.

However, what is different from the short article just now, which was almost purely pictures, is that the following article is not purely pictures, but has a lot of text.

But because the painting style was exactly the same, he judged it to be another independent short story.

"I thought Mr. Yuri would draw a series of fables without dialogue..." "Well... Although it is theoretically possible, it must be troublesome to come up with ideas. After all, the pure illustration story has to last for a certain week. It would be difficult to serialize, but the plot would be easier to understand if there are words." "That's true... In other words, although Yuri-sensei is trying to draw novel things, he still retains the habits of a commercial cartoonist. , it doesn’t seem to be incomprehensible.” The first purely painting story without words seems to have given Umetaro Nozaki quite high expectations. At first glance, when the second painting has text, he feels slightly empty, like There was something missing, but Mikoto Mikoshiba, who was just an assistant, thought carefully.

However, after chatting for a few words, the two of them still focused on the content of the comic. "After all, whether there are words or not is secondary. The comics still have to read the plot of the comics themselves.

In the 'Age of Chaos' in the First Age of Tahilia, the devils, like their counterparts on other main material planes, desperately collected human souls... The first page of the comic seems to describe the era of this story. In the background, on the second page, there is this black and white silhouette of what should be the devil, a pure black and white silhouette that looks like some kind of lanky goblin.

However, only black and white should have nothing to do with the fact that the other person is a devil. It is purely because this work uses black and white silhouettes as character portraits.

'As long as I press this fingerprint, that's it? ' 'Yes, that way your father won't die of illness. ' Just like what was said at the beginning, this devil seems to be doing what a devil should do: seducing a human child who knows nothing.

It can be heard from the conversation that the boy's father is ill, and the devil is ready to sign some kind of contract with him in exchange for curing his father.

'Then when will you come and take my soul? 'Although this child was young, I don't know whether it was because of the age or because of his precocious maturity. He seemed to know what the devil wanted after he cured his father.

'No, no, child, I will not take your soul, it will be mine only after your death. ' However, unlike what the child thought, the devil didn't seem to intend to take away his soul now, but would wait until he died.

'What do you want with my soul? ' 'This is a very complicated question. If we get more souls... then we can exert stronger power than the people in heaven.I know this is hard to understand, but these things have nothing to do with you. ' Faced with the children's inquiries, the devil seemed to have no intention of hiding anything and tried to explain it in words that children could understand.

Unfortunately, this was a very young child who was unable to understand such a complex matter and shut up appropriately.

'Yes, I just hope dad survives. ' This is indeed the case. The child doesn't care at all why the devil needs his soul. He only cares about whether this can really save his father.

Therefore, without any hesitation, the child pressed his small fingerprint on the devil's contract very briskly, which represented that he agreed to cure his father at the cost of giving his soul to the devil after his death.

"This background...is it borrowed from dnd?" "Dnd?" After reading a few pages, Mikoto Mikoshiba said with some uncertainty.

However, Umetaro Nozaki on the side seemed not to have heard of it and made a rather confused sound.

"World view, world view... By the way, Nozaki, don't you usually play games? DND is quite famous." "Um... I don't know." Because Mikoto Okoshiba often plays games on weekdays, he is not familiar with most of them. Well-known games have some exposure, and dnd game is one of them.

Therefore, when I saw the title of Devil, Contract, and the Prime Material Realm in the opening scene, my first thought was that the painting was from a DND background.

If you think about it carefully, just

The creatures that appeared in the first article seem to be from DND.

"If you don't know, I'll just... forget it. It won't take just a moment to explain that. Let's continue reading. After that, I'll bring you the games I have at home. I remember I put away the games I played when I was a kid. There is also the first edition of "Planescape: Torment" in the cabinet." "Is Planescape: Torment?" "An early DND computer game. You have a laptop, right? If you are interested, you can give it a try. ." "It depends." As a normal human cartoonist, Umetaro Nozaki doesn't have much leisure time at his disposal because he has to go to school.

I bought the laptop because it was convenient for work communication and so on. It was fine for checking information, but Umetaro Nozaki actually had a little trouble with it when it came to gaming.

However, playing a game directly just to understand something does not seem to be a good choice for Nozaki Umetaro.

But looking at Mikoto Okoshiba, whose eyes were shining brightly, he couldn't refuse directly. He could only respond vaguely, and then continue to watch the subsequent developments.

'Then from now on, this contract will take effect. ' After confirming that the boy pressed the fingerprint, the devil looked somewhat satisfied, with a slight smile on his lips.

'My father's illness has been cured? "Don't worry, kid. His fever will subside tomorrow morning and he can get out of bed after another day of sleep. In fact...how should I put it, although everything in this contract complies with the formalities, but..." Facing the boy's inquiry, the devil He told him his father's situation directly, but after that, he became a little hesitant, as if he wanted to say something, but felt it was unnecessary.

'Uncle, do you want to regret it? ' 'of course not!Children, commitment is above all else to us! ! ! ' The changing look on the devil's face made the boy misunderstand something, but the devil immediately denied it.

He made it very clear that he is a devil who keeps his word and will not go back on his word.

'But I fear that after your death those covenants in heaven will use their power... ...to take you away from us. ' 'Why? ' The boy showed very obvious confusion.