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

Good night, thank you for your milk."

After she finished speaking, without waiting for a response, she left Takemoto Yasuhiro sitting on the bench in a daze, and Yamada Naoko walked back staggeringly with the empty can in her hand. When she passed by the trash can, she made a ball-throwing gesture, making a "Hey Yo" sound and trying to throw it in.

"Good! Hit!"

Hearing such joyful cheers coming from behind him, Takemoto Yasuhiro frowned even more.

"Just because you can draw quickly doesn't mean you have outstanding abilities as a creator or supervisor..."

Muttering these words, he sat on the bench for a long time, and only returned to the apartment late at night.

The next day was the first day of the official production of "Fate/Zero". As usual, Director Yuuki Sato held a drawing meeting and distributed drawing cards.

"Director, can you tell me about the sequel? How far have you come to the idea? Halfway through, or the whole thing? We often make animation adaptations, so we always need to know the general direction of the story so that we can grasp the scale when drawing."

From "K-ON!", to "Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid", to "Sound, Euphonium", to last year's sudden demise of "Million Colors of Phantom World", Kyoto Animation has originality, but all of their creations are based on original novels and comics.

It is the norm in Kyoto Animation's animation production process to first carefully study the original work and then start adapting and producing it.

Today, "Fate/Zero" has gone against the norm. It depicts a special world with many fresh settings and needs to consider the background of the era of heroic spirits for painting and portraying. It may not be possible to carry out the work normally with only the storyboards of the first episode in hand. With such considerations in mind, and also to satisfy her long-standing curiosity, Naoko Yamada raised her hand to speak.

"Well, in this regard, the plot has been completely conceived, but it may take a long time to talk about it."

"It's only nine in the morning. There's not much time, right?"

"Yes, yes, at worst we can have lunch in the conference room at noon!"

"If you want to listen, please tell us the story in detail now that you have conceived the plot."

The story is ready in his mind and he can say it at any time, but Sato Yu is afraid that it will take too long to tell it all at once and bore people. However, people from both Pandia and Kyoto Animation are extremely looking forward to it. Everyone is talking at once and urging Sato Yu to quickly contribute the long masterpiece in his head.

"In that case, then let's talk."

It would be a great idea to let the painters have a clear understanding of the entire article before they start drawing. He himself was planning to write a special manuscript later, but now that everyone wanted to listen, Sato Yu nodded and started talking.

In this lecture, he talked about Type-Moon's basic world view setting, the cultural background of each Heroic Spirit, and the evolution of the entire story of the Holy Grail War. There were too many new and interesting things to tell. It started at nine in the morning, until everyone had lunch in the conference room, and it was not until one-thirty in the afternoon that Sato Yu finally portrayed the whole story.

"I...want to be a messenger of justice. With these words, Kiritsugu passed on his ideal to the next generation and to his adopted son, Shirou Emiya. The story, and the Fourth Holy Grail War, came to an end."

"..."

"How could this be? The emperor who dreams of conquering the sea, the knight who is loyal to the king but swings his sword against the king, Kiritsugu and Saber who are only one step away from realizing their sad wish but find out that everything is an illusion. There are so many things, it's hard to accept!"

“It’s really a heavy story.”

"Passing the baton to the next generation means there will be another Holy Grail War, a fifth, a sixth, and everything will be back on track. There will be a happy ending, right?"

For most people who hear the story of "Fate/Zero" for the first time, they will be immersed in it and lament this wonderful, magnificent but heavy story. They will be completely immersed in Sato Yu's narration for a whole half day, and in the end it gets a not-so-good ending. Everyone sighs, expresses their own feelings, and starts discussing.

Xiaoxiao was self-aware of this and was afraid that this discussion would soon turn into a crusade. After adjourning the meeting, Sato You immediately pushed the door open and walked out, wondering whether he should go to the coffee shop downstairs to avoid the limelight.

At this time, someone chased after him.

"I have some ideas about the content between Lancelot and Altria, the king and the knight, Director Sato, Director Sa... Director..."

With his thoughts surging and his heart in a mess, Takemoto Yasuhiro immediately chased after Sato Yuu when he saw him go out, eager to discuss an important plot with him. As he spoke, the title "Director Sato" came out of his mouth very naturally.

Takemoto Yasuhiro wanted to change his words, but after a pause, he called out again—

Supervision.

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Volume 148: Chapter Chapter . Pig's sudden advance!

"Hey, this time the painting is very good. The character's expression is well portrayed, and the details are also well-cut. What's more important is that the speed is much faster than before.

Although we have been together for a long time, there is no so-called "imperceptible influence" at all. I have made progress every time. It's really good, Hongmei."

"Hehe, it's all thanks to you, Miss Yamada! By the way, I'm afraid I won't leave the company until after 10 o'clock today. Do you have time to go to the spa together after the celebration party? I want to complain to you about that guy Ryunosuke..."

Being praised by Yamada Naoko, the invisible tail behind him almost spun up to the sky. Although Hiromi Yuyu lowered her voice to complain in Yamada Naoko's ear, Ryunosuke on the other side still heard it.

"I'm telling you. You're pregnant and still working so hard every day. What's wrong with you?"

"I will never quit my job before six months!"

"Alright, alright, you two should stop showing off in the company. Ryunosuke is right. You should reduce your work hours when you are pregnant. I think six hours of painting a day is too much, but you are still painting hard. If you paint for more than ten hours, won't people criticize you?"

"I'm carrying a baby in my belly, but animation is also my baby."

"Hiromi, you really have to listen to your husband and Supervisor Sato. We are more than capable of drawing, and it's not the turn of this expectant mother to work so hard."

“But I’m afraid that if I slack off now and wait until the baby is born and the breastfeeding period is over before picking up my pen, I won’t be able to catch up with everyone. And by then, Ms. Yamada and the rest of you will have to return to Kyoto Animation, and I’ll waste such a precious learning opportunity…”

As she spoke, Hiromi Amayura was about to burst into tears. In response, Ryunosuke Hamanishi, the prospective father who had married Hiromi Amayura and had a child with her, frowned and sighed. Yuya Sato could not help but smile bitterly.

In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed. Just as a new life has been born in Hiromi Amayura's belly, "Fate/Zero" nurtured by the people of Pandia and Kyoto Animation is also growing vigorously.

Thanks to the almost redundant team of nearly fifty painters, and the hard work of everyone, the company has already completed thirteen episodes of the animation, and the drawing is in progress for sixteen episodes, even though the animation has not yet been aired. The production schedule is so smooth that people in the capital area are envious and the national team is in tears.

To be specific, last week, Nanae Mochizuki even specially pulled together a group of people to help with the cutting of the fighting scenes in the animation.

The most gratifying thing is Yu Shenghongmei's concerns and words just now -

If you miss this period of time, you will fall behind in catching up with everyone else’s progress, and you will miss the precious opportunity to learn from Kyoto Animation’s senior artists.

Technology requires one's own hard work, but it also requires the guidance and inheritance of others and predecessors.

It often happens that a novice painter struggles for months on how to depict an object. No matter how hard he tries, he forgets to eat and sleep to learn painting and tries to imitate it, but in the end he cannot compare to the few words of advice that his predecessors give him when he sees his paintings and the painting process.

Therefore, in the field of painting, it is an extremely fortunate thing to meet a teacher, a famous teacher, to be criticized, educated and guided from time to time.

Speaking of "predecessors", people who draw well, there were some in Pandia before, but only Sato Yuu, and as for Mochizuki Nanae...

Even if they are leaders among young people, they are only young people. After all, they are not as good as the old seniors and can only barely be qualified to give guidance to others.

During this time, Sato Yu painted every day. Once the [Fast Painting] buff was turned on, he would pick up the brush and start painting quickly. He would not stop at all and hardly pay attention to the outside world. After finishing painting one day, he would immediately leave the club and rush to the hospital.

Therefore, as a "senior", he can only inspire the spirits of many young painters in Pandia, infect and encourage them, but he can ultimately not improve their painting level.

He was like this, and the only one left who could help, Nanae Mochizuki, was also busy with the president's affairs.

Moreover, she has always been burdened with the burden of being the president, and she is vigorous and decisive in doing things. She is tsundere and shy only in front of Sato Yuu and Sugino Miki. In the minds of other painters, she has always been an ice beauty who is difficult to get along with. Therefore, the people who could seek help from her in the end were directly excluded. In the long run, this is actually not conducive to the continued development of Pandia.

Due to lack of experience in this area, neither Sato Yuu nor Mochizuki Nanae noticed it before, and even if they had noticed it, they didn't know how to change it. But now, the participation of Kyoto Animation's people has solved the problem invisibly.

Kyoto Animation has been established for decades, and the atmosphere within the company is excellent. Its talent pool has always been at the top level in the industry. In addition to Yasuhiro Takemoto, Naoko Yamada, and Naomi Ishida, there are actually many outstanding talents who can serve as creative leaders in other companies.

Moreover, he was really kind and had really mobilized his main force in repaying the favor. The young people stayed with Mr. Yoshiharu Kigami to continue their training, while those who came to Tokyo were all senior painters who were over 35 years old and had more than ten or twenty years of painting experience.

In this way, when the two groups of people work together, they will naturally provide continuous guidance after they become familiar with each other, with the advanced ones supporting the juniors and driving the juniors to make great progress.

Seeing the opportunity, Nanae Mochizuki also added fuel to the fire and, following Kyoto Animation's example, boldly implemented an hourly wage system in the metropolitan area.

She is fighting her own Holy Grail War at all costs, betting the fate of the entire company on "Fate/Zero". If she fails to win, she must go home and inherit the tens of billions of assets. Nanae Mochizuki uses all the start-up funds supported by her father and the income from the "Azure Blue" animation to pay salaries and keep the company running.

In this way, the number of drawing cards will no longer choke their lives. The young artists at Pandia's head office will take on fewer drawing responsibilities and only focus on quality and precision. They will ask and learn from their predecessors at Kyoto Animation every day, while Kyoto Animation people will receive higher hourly wages plus education subsidies, and each will be assigned to a person for one-on-one tutoring.

The mercenaries made a lot of money in Tokyo, and the locals actually got the painting technology from Kyoto and improved their painting skills. It was a win-win situation.

While being willing to teach, they are also willing to learn. Now, half a year later, the painting skills of Pandia's head office members have greatly improved. They are now able to ensure quality and complete painting tasks in a relatively short time.

To put it in a more quantitative and mysterious way, the experience points of each of them have increased significantly, and now have reached the level of 2 Pandia = 1 Kyoto Animation, directly evolving from the original 10 Pandia = 1 Yu to the current 5 Pandia = 1 Yu!

"No matter what, I just want to draw. I'll use this time to teach my baby early, so that he can become a drawing monster like Sato in the future!"

"Why did my child become like Sato?!"

"It would be great if I could become like Sato!"

"you you......"

"I, what's wrong with me?"

In the interval of thinking, the verbal battle... the conversation seemed to have escalated and reached a very bad situation. Seeing that his good brother Hamanishi Ryunosuke was already touching his head and wondering if he was cheating, Sato Yu realized that the situation was not good, and the sweaty Sato Yu hurriedly fled.

"Ah, um, um, I remembered that I have something else to do, so I'm going to go outside to get some fresh air first...Also, Yu Sheng and I are really innocent!"

Realizing that if he ran away like this, the situation might only get worse, after he had already taken two steps in fear, Sato Yu turned back to explain to Hamanishi Ryunosuke, which made Yamada Naoko and Amayura Hiromi slam their tables and laugh. Hamanishi Ryunosuke's face became even gloomier, and Sato Yu hurriedly ran to the rooftop.

At this moment, what was originally nothing really turned into something.

[Today's light (you are still my light to this day)]

I had just stepped onto the rooftop and closed the door behind me when the phone rang.

Sato You took out his cell phone and glanced at it. His expression immediately softened a lot, too much.

It was Qiong who called.

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Volume 149: Chapter Chapter . Reasons for Victory

"Onii-chan, what are you doing now? I'm ready to watch anime!"

"Fate/Zero" is scheduled to be broadcast tonight, at 8 o'clock in the prime time. The little girl should have prepared snacks and was sitting in front of her laptop with her back leaning against a soft cushion, ready to watch it. When the phone rang, she immediately shouted excitedly, lively and cheerful, with full of energy.

While I was making the animation, half a year had passed in a flash. The injected anti-cancer drugs were very effective. The spread of cancer cells in the brain was suppressed, and the existing tumors showed no signs of enlargement so far.

Now her hair has grown again, there is color in her cheeks, she is getting healthier and healthier, and she is regaining her vitality and her natural beauty.

Every time he saw her, although they were usually together for less than a day, Sato Yu felt that Qiong became more and more beautiful, which made him happy and excited.

"I'm also waiting for the broadcast. Sorry, as a supervisor, it's really not nice of me to not be in the studio at this time. I can't watch it with you."

"It's okay, it's okay as long as I can watch my brother's animation! And compared to the beginning when I had to hide in the equipment room with Chiharu to watch it secretly, now I can call other people to watch it together in the ward, which makes me very happy.

After all, my brother has already made the most amazing animation that can be broadcast in prime time...

My brother has fulfilled the promise between us."

"It's still far from enough! We are only halfway through the journey, and we are far from reaching the end. I will make even more amazing animations for you in the future!"

The promise, for Qiong, is the promise between them that her brother, Sato Yuu, will produce the best animation, and as a younger sister, she persists, holding on to hope and waiting for the day when she can watch it, waiting for the day when medical advances will be sufficient to heal her.

But for Sato Yu, the content has already changed too much, and what needs to be achieved is difficult and wonderful. It is the real path to a miracle.

Sato You reacted strongly to the fact that the promise that Qiong had made had been fulfilled, and he almost shouted to Qiong on the other end of the phone.

This slightly heavy and even harsh shouting made Qiong silent for a moment. When Sato You realized something was wrong and was about to apologize for being too loud and wondering if he had scared her, the girl laughed and giggled with joy.

At least in the ears of Sato Yu who couldn't see Qiong's face, it was a joyful laughter.

"Well, brother, you have to work harder. I'm looking forward to seeing it."

The animation was good enough, she was satisfied after watching it, and her body had improved enough, she became more and more lustful, the thoughts that had been suppressed broke out again, and she began to want him to accompany her more...

It's not because I don't have much time left that I want him to accompany me more, but because I have more time that I want him to accompany me more.

This thought, which was fueled by the desire for exclusivity, seemed to be impossible to express.

To encourage his brother, he clenched the phone and lowered his eyes, making a small test.

"After the examination today, the doctor was very happy. He danced with joy and told me that if I continue in this trend, I can have another surgery when my body recovers a little bit to try to remove the tumor. If it is successful, I will be completely cured."

"That's great. Qiong must eat well and sleep well, take good care of your body and wait for that day to come. By then, Qiong will be healthy again, able to go home, go to school, get married, and give birth to a lovely boy or girl. At that time, I, as his uncle, will be responsible for naming him..."

"uncle?"

"What, what's wrong?"

The system task is only to complete three stages. He knows that the doctor has overestimated the current situation, and he also knows that it will take a very long time to completely cure Qiong, but this does not prevent Sato Yu from planning the future blueprint.

In his mind, the various scenes after Qiong recovered from his illness appeared in his dreams every night, just as Sato Yu said during the initial quarrel, "I want to see what you will look like when you grow up."

Sato Yu had already fantasized about that situation countless times.

But at this moment, when he spoke, he was obviously so excited and expectant, but his words seemed to touch a sensitive point of Qiong. She shouted loudly, her voice seemed sharp, and she was actually very angry.

"I will not marry any other man."

Such a voice came from the painting tube in a stiff way, and Sato Yu was stunned.

Other men...So, who is the one and only man?

Sato Yu was stupid and foolish. He didn't think about it and just laughed it off.

"Okay, okay, my Qiong is not thinking about men yet. It's true. But when I think about my beloved Qiong being cheated away by another man, I feel inexplicably irritated. I even have the urge to kill that unknown guy with a knife. This is probably how an old father feels when he sees his new son-in-law."

"I'm not...Okay, the head nurse looks like she wants to ask me something, so I'll hang up first."

"Okay, remember to go to bed early."