Tamura looked at Higashinoji.

Higashinoji also looked at Tamura.

The two looked at each other.

The atmosphere also became heavy and stiff.

Hosokawa Koharu looked at this scene and opened his mouth, just about to say something.

Next moment—

"come on."

Tamura nodded to Higashinoji and whispered encouragement.

He seemed to want to smile politely at Higashinoshi, but when he smiled, hesitated for a while, and could only nod to Hosokawa Koharu next to him, and then he planned to leave.

But at the moment before leaving, he turned around and looked at the Urashima editorial department behind him with a very serious and complicated expression, and then he really left.

There is no hoarseness or slap in the face as imagined, and there is no slap in the face, and the reversal drama.

Tamura is not quarrel or quarrel, and he simply leaves, as if... he has never been here before.

"...What will Teacher Tamura do next?"

Looking at the other party's departure, Higashinoji suddenly asked.

Hosokawa Koharu didn't expect Higashinoji to suddenly ask this question, so he was stunned: "Maybe he would go to work or be a comic assistant. The manga author is like this. If there is no serialization, he can only work part-time."

This is how people live. No matter how they live, they live, but the way they live is different.

Finally, Hosokawa Koharu added:

"Teacher Higashino, I hope you don't affect your creative emotions for this."

"Midnight Bell" is just starting out. Don't let Higashinoji lose all his fighting spirit because of this incident. He doesn't even want to draw "Midnight Bell".

After all, he was the one who beat Tamura. At his age, he would naturally feel more inexplicably sentimental than adults.

But what Hosokawa Koharu didn't expect was that Higashinoji just shook his head at this:

"I have not given up on "Midnight Bell". I will not regret removing Mr. Tamura's serialization qualification."

Hosokawa Koharu was stunned again.

Indeed, Higashinoji looked very calm and his tone was also very stable. What happened just now seemed to not affect his mentality at all.

This is of course.

Because Higashinoji also needs this serialization opportunity.

Tamura's family has children who need to go to school, and his family also has Chihae Higashino.

So Higashinoji will not give up this opportunity no matter what.

To Tamura, Higashinoji may say sorry, but he will never regret it.

The Tamura incident was just a small episode, and Higashinoji and Hosokawa Koharu began to talk about the vested interests of "Midnight Bell".

The price given by Urashima Publishing House is 11,000 yen per page of original manuscript.

This is not too high in Urashima Publishing House. After all, as the top three comics in Japan, it is necessary to sharpen your head and squeeze it into it if you can serialize it. If other publishing houses that are not very famous, it would be a blessing to be able to give three or five thousand yen.

The original manuscript of "Midnight Bell" submitted by Higashinoji this time is 48 pages, which is converted into -

Fifty-two-eight thousand yen.

Note that the 520,000 yen is just the price of selling originals, and does not include the money that may be sold in the future, such as single-books and animation scripts.

As long as Higashinoji can stabilize and continue to serialize, it is not an exaggeration to say that the future is promising.

He roughly passed the contract and after not finding any problems, he signed the pen name and real name directly.

In this way, Higashinoji and Urashima Publishing House reached a consensus.

Hosokawa Koharu, who had been watching his actions, also breathed a sigh of relief.

She is not as comfortable as she seems on the surface.

After all, she is just a new editor. She just graduated from college and naturally lacks experience in handling things.

but...

As an editor, she still has the responsibility to guide Higashinoji!

So she looked at Higashinoji, her eyes were flat, her tone slowed down, and she asked patiently:

"By the way, Higashino, do you have anything you don't understand in comic creation? After all, you are a newcomer, so it's normal for you to not understand some of the processes."

"Hmm? No, what's wrong?"

Higashinoji looked at Hosokawa Koharu strangely.

He was still sorting out the specific information about the contract just now, but unexpectedly heard Hosokawa Koharu suddenly ask a question.

"Uh...Isn't it really not? Are you sure?" Hosokawa Koharu coughed and took out the editor's expression to teach me: "For example, you don't know how to unfold the second episode of "Midnight Bell"..."

"Ah, editor Hosokawa doesn't need to worry about it. I know how to draw the plot of the second episode."

Higashinoji waved his hand, seemingly not caring.

If the plot starts in the second episode, how can I continue to draw it? Isn’t this a joke?

"...Did you just have no blocking at all?" Hosokawa Koharu didn't believe it. She asked hurriedly, looking incredible.

Higashinoji is just a newcomer, just like himself, how could it be so reassuring... No problem at all?

"There is no blockage, I'm almost finished writing the second chapter. I'll come here next time and I'll show it to the editor Hosokawa."

Higashinoji is inexplicably confused.

Why did Koharu Hosokawa suddenly get anxious?

"Do you need a comic assistant? Urajima Publishing House can help you contact an excellent comic assistant and help you draw backgrounds and so on."

Hosokawa Koharu is anxious.

She didn't know why she was anxious.

Maybe Higashinoji's performance is so reliable and impeccable. She, the new editor, can't sit still-

I want to guide your editor! How can you not let me guide you?

"No need. I'm used to drawing by myself."

Higashinoji became even more strange, and he looked at Hosokawa Koharu.

Higashinoji's main skill is "transcendent" and only things he draws by himself can work, so he basically won't hire any assistants.

"Then is there any difficulties with Teacher Higashino? I might be able to help you with it if I say it."

She couldn't help but speak.

No...is something wrong?! Why is Higashinoji not having any problems?

You have to have some problems, right? If you have no problems all the time, how could I slap the confused author like the famous editor in the TV series?

She looked at Higashinoji with hope.

"Uh..." Higashinoji wanted to answer 'no', but looking at Koharu Hosokawa, he felt that even if he had no difficulties, the other party would force him to make some difficulties.

So he was silent for a while, then said happily: "Not yet, but whenever there is any difficulty, I will immediately call Hosokawa editor to solve the problem."

"Ah... OK."

This answer did not satisfy Hosokawa Koharu too much, and she sighed with regret.

It seems that the road to becoming a famous editor is still far...

She roughly sorted out the original manuscript of "Midnight Bell", looked at the time and said:

"Then the next time you submit the manuscript will be set at this time next week, Mr. Higashino. Is there no problem?"

"Ah...this is OK."

Higashinoji nodded.

The second chapter of "Midnight Bell" is almost finished, and the third chapter is also very fast when he draws it, of course there will be no problems.

"Okay. Then the work ends here. But Teacher Higashino, if you don't understand anything, you can really ask me. I am the editor, I know a lot."

Hosokawa Koharu closed the briefcase and said reluctantly.

This looks a bit humble, as if he was asking Higashiji to ask questions.

After she finished packing her things, she looked at Higashinoji and then recovered her spirits: "Let's go have a meal, Higashino. I wish us a happy cooperation."

This seems to be the tradition of Urajima Publishing House. After reaching a cooperation with new authors, the editor will treat you to dinner and contact you at the dining table.

This is undoubtedly a very adult-style approach, and Koharu Sugatani has always wanted to do something with an adult atmosphere, so she looks a little excited.

She has always been suffering from having no author under her command, and usually can only watch her senior editors take their authors to dinner - she is so envious.

Now I finally caught an author, so I won’t take him to the table to contact him...?

How is this possible!?

And the next moment—

Her face turned gloomy.

Because Higashinoji answered this way.

"Sorry, I still have some things to deal with at home, so I can't accompany you today. I'd better invite Hosokawa editor to eat another day."

This is too social, and if it advances and retreats properly, it almost chokes Hosokawa Koharu to death.

She looked at Higashinoji and felt that this kind of gentle young man was more like a social person than her...
Chapter completed!