How can I let go of the matter of saving my stepsister?

The operation has already been carried out successfully once, so the second one should be smoother than the previous one.

Sato Yu was expecting to hear such words, but Dr. Honmura was still unable to comfort people and would not hide part of the truth from the patients or their families.

Straightforwardly, he pointed to the area where the tumor had spread and explained briefly, trying to use words that Sato Yu could understand.

"Unlike before, this time the tumor has spread further downwards and closer to the nerves. According to estimates, the difficulty of separation during surgery will be greatly increased compared to last time, and the risk will also be greatly increased... almost doubled.

In this case, whether to have surgery or not is always up to you, Sato."

If she has surgery, she will face huge risks. If she doesn't have surgery, her condition will continue to deteriorate, which will in turn extend her remaining time.

However, prolonging the treatment will never cure the disease. It will only make Sato Yuu see her getting weaker and weaker, more and more painful, and even unable to bear the pain in front of him, truly exposing her vulnerable side to him.

"...Perform the operation, doctor, please!"

After gritting his teeth and making up his mind, Sato Yu finally bowed deeply to Dr. Honmura and asked for help.

At this point, as the person who made the decision, Sato Yu had finally prepared himself mentally.

After leaving the office, Chiharu Oda asked him for a favor.

"Sato, choosing to have surgery is undoubtedly the right decision. Don't put too much pressure on yourself, and then...

Although it won't show on the face, but ever since you started making the animation, you have been facing serious illnesses more and more positively, choosing to face tomorrow positively. Qiong is undoubtedly no longer longing for death, but yearning for survival.

When she hears the news that she has to undergo another surgery, she must be feeling uneasy and frightened, and she needs your comfort in this regard.

After all, for Qiong, you are the only one who can enter her heart and give her comfort, the absolute spiritual support."

Cancer is a double torture to patients both physically and mentally. In a sense, the psychological torment is more painful than the physical discomfort.

Chiharu Oeda's suggestion made sense. With a nervous mood, he returned to the ward and wanted to say something several times but stopped himself. When he was about to leave, he finally found an opportunity and told the truth to Qiong.

"Another surgery is needed. Sure enough, my feeling was right. It is indeed time for this again."

This was beyond Sato Yu's expectation, or perhaps this was just Qiong's pretense of being relaxed. In short, as the patient who knew best whether there were any abnormalities in her body, Qiong seemed to have a premonition of everything.

The air in her cavity inflated her cheeks and she sighed, frowning and looking quite distressed.

"Yuzuki-chan reminded me of this. Now it really bothers me."

It was understandable that she was distressed, but why did she mention Yuzuki, the little girl in the same ward with her? Sato Yuu was confused.

At this time, he reached out to take off the wig and touched the raised surgical scar on his head which had remained smooth since the last operation. Qiong's little face was wrinkled and his smile was extremely bitter.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to watch my brother's animation for a long time after the operation."

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"If I laughed too much like Yuzuki-chan and got a cut that was bleeding and had to be stitched up again, I wouldn't be able to bear that kind of torture."

With a smile on her face and bright eyes, Qiong was still telling jokes to Sato Yu at this moment, as if she had no sense of crisis or fear about the high-risk operation she was about to undergo.

Stunned by Qiong's strange train of thought, Sato Yuu laughed for a long time, and then he suddenly realized -

As a brother, he was actually comforted by his sister who was about to go on the operating table.

He hugged Qiong tightly in his arms and kissed the scar on her head lightly. No matter how Qiong blushed or struggled, Sato You rested his chin on her head and said heavily.

"Then I'll try to heal my wounds as quickly as possible, finish watching all the backlogged episodes in one go, and then have a good laugh."

“Hehe, then I want you to watch it with me, brother. I’m going to make fun of you, H-onnie-chan, for playing all kinds of obscene jokes in the animation!”

"The operation must be completed safely."

"I will try my best. Even when I was anesthetized during the operation, I kept telling myself: I must get through this safely and watch more interesting animations made by my brother!"

Rather than comforting Qiong, it would be more accurate to say that he was comforted by Qiong's optimism. The last bit of hesitation in Sato Yu's heart about undergoing the surgery was wiped out in this conversation.

The next day, Sato You took another leave and accompanied Qiong all the way into the operating room, and then waited in front of the operating room door in fear for a long time that seemed like an entire winter.

This is the second time I have experienced waiting for the surgery to be completed, but as expected, I can't get used to it at all. Instead, I feel more anxious and tormented because I spend more and more time with Qiong and my liking for her increases.

But fortunately, everything is developing in the best direction, and this operation is still safe!

But what about next time? What about the next time after that?

Gambling luck cannot last forever, especially when it comes to matters involving Qiong, Sato Yu dare not gamble at all.

The process of completing the fame value task must be accelerated, and there must be a sense of urgency. Every minute and every second cannot be wasted!

His determination became even stronger. After accompanying Qiong for a few days after the operation, Sato Yu returned to the company. He became more focused on animation production and worked even harder.

It was clear that the animation could be broadcast on time, and everyone could have relaxed and slowly drawn, but he changed his attitude and turned into the intimidating and strict look of Nanae Mochizuki during the production of the previous animation "Sisters Are Not Sisters".

However, the production environment is obviously completely different. Is it necessary to do this?

Everyone should have such complaints and grumbles, but for some reason, no one showed dissatisfaction in front of Sato Yu during the entire production process.

Just like that, time has come to mid-September, and the summer series broadcast period is more than halfway through. Most animation companies' originally scheduled optimal schedules are constantly disrupted, and they are successively caught in a hellish scene of tight staff and disrupted schedules. However, the production team of "Azure Blue" is in a peaceful mood.

Just a few days ago, they even held a celebration party to celebrate the fact that the entire anime was completed with the highest quality and best level that the production team could produce.

Today, Pandia, the youngest animation company in the industry, has reached the stage where it has nothing to do and has begun to outsource entire episodes of animations from other companies, frantically boosting its performance and selling favors to other companies. This is probably the first time in the entire industry.

"Eh? Satou, aren't you going to draw? A-1 specifically asked you to draw the stage part. I'm looking forward to your excellent long show-off LIVE like the final episode of Sister Not Sister."

"It's not possible recently. Let's see what A-1 says. If the plot can be changed and the LIVE can be moved back one episode to the tenth episode, maybe I can help."

"Azure Blue" has aired seven episodes so far. Although the protagonist and his friends played a prank on his girlfriend's best friend, which was full of jokes, the end result was that his brother broke up and was forced to return to being single, which caused dissatisfaction among some moral gentlemen and led to a lowering of the ratings.

And because the real hegemony of this quarter, "Attack on Titan Part 3" and "Overload Part 3" have too high a fan base and excellent animation and plot performance, they were pushed to the third place on the animation list.

But as the first work of a new animation company, "Azure Blue" can indeed be said to have achieved unprecedented success, and it also made the talent of Sato Yu, a talented newcomer, finally officially recognized by the industry.

As for the fame value, the broadcast has only just reached halfway, but the fame value count displayed by the system has already reached 410,000. Although the growth has slowed down recently, it is certain to reach 500,000 by the time the animation is finished.

With such high fame and the success of "Azure Blue" in terms of plot, visuals, and comedy, Sato Yu is now a hot commodity in the eyes of various animation companies, especially those animation companies that once refused Sato Yu to be the director, who now regretted it very much.

They have a solid foundation, and it's not that they can't produce high-quality animations, but the production cost and difficulty of "Azure Blue" are there, and it's really too terrifying to achieve such a level.

Based on this, various companies are actually currently secretly contacting Sato Yu, offering various favorable conditions in an attempt to pry him over to their own company as a supervisor. Even though he has not made a clear response, after Pandia started to accept outsourcing, various companies have also asked him to draw some important scenes in their own animations.

For example, A-1 gave me a one-minute-long "Idolmaster" LIVE picture, and JC gave me the animation sports meeting running picture drawing work...

On the one hand, the companies were indeed short on time schedules and could not spare any manpower; on the other hand, they wanted to show goodwill to Sato Yu.

However, faced with many favorable jobs that could allow him to show his face and gain fame in other animations, Sato Yu rejected them all, contrary to his usual behavior.

In fact, it was not a rejection, but a negotiation about whether it could be postponed and the drawing work of these important scenes could be taken over after a period of time.

Although the cards are very tiring to draw, he doesn't want to give up easily as long as he can get through it with perseverance and determination.

As for what he's going to do now...

It's another chain of plans. The reason why he chose "Azure Blue" is that it suits his actual situation. It is perfect for him to play a role as a debut to improve his qualifications and demonstrate his value. But apart from that, it is also a "only" part of Sato Yu's plan to increase his fame.

To be precise, the well-made "Azure Blue" is actually just a prelude, a trigger to ignite public opinion and help his real killer move.

What he really had high hopes for was the comic that was about to be released, which was the "childhood sweethearts love story" that she saw on the night when Mochizuki Nanae asked him to be the supervisor, and which was only a few dozen pages long and had an unknown follow-up.

"Not able to do it recently? Are you busy with Qiong's business?"

The conversation took place in Nanae Mochizuki's office. When she heard Sato Yuu's request to postpone the nomination of A-1's drawing card, she guessed something in her mind. Even though outsiders couldn't hear it at all, she subconsciously lowered her voice and asked.

"I guess so... Actually, I want to finish the manga that I didn't finish before."

"Comics, oh! That childhood romance comedy, it's pretty refreshing in the beginning, but I always feel like you're going to do something big. But as for comics, I can draw them later, right? The company's next animation will be next year anyway, so there's plenty of time in between."

"Not now, I have to release it while "Azure Blue" is still on air."

"I don't understand what you're planning, but you're always so unpredictable. Never mind... I'll negotiate with A-1. They're very short-handed, so maybe they'll agree to adjust the plot.

But it's only postponed for one episode, so your comics are almost finished?"

"It's just a few finishing touches, and it will be finished in about three to five days."

This is the hard work of Yu Sato. During the production of "Azure Blue", he completed the storyboards, drew the original paintings, and finally supervised the production. He also spent a lot of time on his job as a supervisor.

But at night, after visiting Qiong and returning home from work every day, he would constantly compress his leisure time and sleep time to work on his comics homework. Over a few months, he has slowly accumulated experience and has completed more than 300 pages of comics so far. He only needs to do the final finishing work to complete the task.

"After you finish drawing it, I want to be the first one... No, please let me be the second one to see the comic!"

With the precedent of "Azure Blue" making people laugh until they twitch, Nanae Mochizuki is also very interested in the manga that Yumoto Sato intends to use to demonstrate its value and win the position of supervisor.

Now that the comic is finally nearing completion, she is eager to be the first to read it, but she soon realizes that she has no chance of winning over that kid Qiong, so she quickly changes her mind and settles for the second best, choosing to be the second reader.

However, the truth was beyond Mochizuki Nanae's expectations. Sato Yuu actually responded to her words:

"Okay, then you, Mochizuki, will be the first reader of my comics."

Volume 97: Chapter Chapter . Changed? Not changed at all!

"Ugh?"

As if she had seen a ghost, Mochizuki Nanae stared at Sato Yu, trying to communicate with him and saw the ghost attached to him from behind.

A few days ago, when she was visiting a patient, she was defeated by her sister, Qiong, who was not at home. Mochizuki Nanae never thought that she could surpass her sister and get the first place in Sato Yu's heart.

And now, when it comes to choosing the first reader of the comic, Sato Yuu promised her to be the first person.

"Is it because of your sister's surgery? You really drew it like a funny cartoon. You're afraid that Qiong will laugh too hard and cause a bad influence, right?"

Still very realistic, Mochizuki Nanae quickly found such a reason.

Sato Yu had asked for leave from her before, so she had a rough idea of ​​Qiong's current condition.

But in response to this, Sato Yu just shook his head, and when asked about the specific reason, he just said:

"You might know after reading the comics."

"It's so mysterious, it makes me feel uneasy."

Mochizuki Nanae grumbled like this, and five days later, when Sato Yu finally handed her the comic book that had been drawn, reviewed and revised, she complained even more.

"You've been keeping me on suspense for days, wondering what kind of comics you'll draw and almost failing at my job. If the comics aren't good, I'm going to give you a good beating."

The first reader of Sato Yu's new comics was not Sora, not Sugino Miki, nor the extremely feminine and gentle nurse Oda Chiharu, but her.

If Mochizuki Nanae had a tail like a dog, she would definitely not be able to hide her joy and would wag her tail non-stop.

Feeling fortunate that she was not a puppy, she threatened Sato Yu with a punch and opened the comic book in her hand. She sat upright and looked at it seriously as if it were a treasure.

"It's so thick, more than 200 pages?"

"Three hundred and six pages."

"You're really working hard to draw a comic of this length in between animation production. Do you like Qiong so much, Satou-nii~"

"I must be deeply in love with her, so I am always entangled..."

"Tangled?"

"Nothing, just take a look."

"Then, I'm starting!"

"What? It's like having a meal."

“For me, this is spiritual food!”

"Then don't eat too much later, and try my cooking on an empty stomach."

Similar to the situation when watching the storyboard of the first episode of "Azure Blue" before, now, Mochizuki Nanae is in the Sato family.

She can't cook, but Sato Yu seems to be a good cook, and her interests are in animation and depicting excellent stories.

Indeed, they are a perfect match.

Random thoughts flashed through her mind, making her face blush. Even though Sato Yu had already stood up and gone to the kitchen, she was sitting with her back to him so her face could not be seen. Mochizuki Nanae also panicked and buried her head, biting her teeth, and lifted her hair to cover her red ears.

She clapped her hands together and reverently opened the first page of the nameless comic.

Although she had read dozens of pages before, that time was too long ago... Even if it wasn't that long ago, she would read it again and fully enjoy this comic by Sato Yu.

It's very strange, because there is a precedent of "Azure Blue" which starts seriously but turns into a comedy animation after a few minutes. But during the few days of waiting, recalling the plot I had seen before, the fresh scenes full of the hazy taste of first love, Mochizuki Nanae always felt that this time it was a real love story.

This was her expectation, and Sato Yuya did respond to her expectations.

There are not too many dialogues, and the story is filled with letters, with a lot of monologues from the male and female protagonists. The immature, slightly sad, and longing first love story is presented before her.

"......Huh~"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh

I took several deep breaths to calm my mind. My heart felt as if something was blocking it and it was unexpectedly heavy and stuffy. After reading one third of the entire comic and the first chapter, Mochizuki Nanae took a break.