Chapter 18 The Magnificent Event

"You brought the man, Orihime, aren't you chasing?"

Watching Fang Ye leave in a hurry, Qiuzi quipped to the woman beside her.

"Just leave him alone. ”

Orihime Asagami shook her head when she heard this, and said with a smile: "Akiko, maybe in 36 days, you will be surprised by him." ”

"I think it's just you, Orihime," Akiko didn't take it seriously, and continued: "And you don't know much about this year's 'World One Manga Awards', and now there are no less than 30 rookie cartoonists who have announced to the outside world that they want to take the opportunity to make their debuts." You have to know that last year there were only 20 participants at most. ”

"What? There are so many newcomers going to participate this year? Are they all competing for five prize spots?"

Orihime Asagami opened her mouth slightly and asked in surprise.

"Not five, just one. ”

Raising an index finger, Akiko shook it in front of the beauty, "You really don't care about the industry news for too long, this time many contestants are going for the first place." As for the rest of the places, no one will care anymore. ”

"Why is this happening? It can't be that the competition committee has come up with hundreds of millions of yen as the first prize money, right?"

"It's even more exaggerated than that, it was Master Kohei Nishiwaki who made a move. ”

Akiko said with a solemn face.

"He, hasn't he already sealed his pen?"

Orihime Asakami frowned, and her tone became a little out of shape due to surprise.

In order to attract more cartoonists to participate, he promised that as long as anyone can become the first person this time, he will grant that person a place. ”

"Is he crazy?! Even if he wants to, the government will not agree to this kind of thing!"

"No, at the press conference the day before yesterday, the Chief Cabinet Secretary was present in person and made his final speech at the invitation of Kohei Nishiwaki. Looking at his attitude at the time, the government supported this 'One Comic Awards' behind the scenes. ”

"Mother...... Does she know?"

"Master Akiko seems to have been passed through the qi in advance, and when Sakaki-kun reported to her and came back to say that the master only said one word-"

Qiuzi paused and said, "Her original words were to follow that old man's nonsense, as if she didn't plan to get involved." ”

"It's really a mother's style," Orihime Asagami smiled.

"So you know now, no matter how hard the guy just worked in the next 36 days, he couldn't finish in the top three, and this time the opponent was too strong for him. ”

Akiko then lowered her voice, "I've also heard from some people that some professional manga artists who have already debuted have been moved by the fact that Kohei Nishiwaki will grant a place to them, and they may even give up their original pen names and make their debut as a rookie again. I'm afraid this kind of thing is not groundless......"

"Hmph, what a bunch of shameless guys," Asakami Orihime said disdainfully at first, but then sighed, "but then I think that if I really have a chance to get a spot from Kohei Nishiwaki, it's really worth their motivation and willingness to give up their previous achievements." ”

"Now the newspapers outside call this competition a grand event in the history of the Dongying comic industry, all the cartoonists who meet the conditions for participation, which one is not gearing up and planning to do his best to fight for the first place?"

Akiko patted Orihime Asagami on the shoulder, "You, instead of putting your expectations on that person, it's better to let Inoue Naohiko learn more from his brother, his strength is already enough to make his debut." ”

“……”

In the face of these words, Asakami Orihime was just silent and did not speak, but there was already a trace of sorrow between her eyebrows.

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"Hello, I need to buy two packs of manuscript paper, a pack of dot paper, a G pen, a D pen, a round pen, a scraper, a net knife, and a ...... of drawing rulers."

On the first floor of the Kyoto University Manga Club Building, Fang Ye is shopping at a painting stationery store in the building that is only open to members.

While looking at the list in his hand, he reported the painting tools he wanted to buy one by one.

There was no way, the original owner of his body didn't have these tools at all, and there were only some experimental instruments in the room.

"You're going to buy a complete set of comic drawing tools, right?" the clerk who was smiling softly as he heard a series of names reported by the young man in front of him.

"Well, you all have them here, right?"

"Of course, but I think you seem to be a new face, and I want to confirm with you first, are you a member of the Manga Society? ”

"I'm Fang Ye, who just passed the assessment and joined the club before, do I need to prove it?"

"Yes, you just need to put your ID card here and swipe it, if my computer can read your information, it can prove that you are a member of the Comic Painting Club. ”

The clerk pointed to a black credit card machine placed on the counter and said to Fang Ye.

"No problem. ”

Fang Ye put his hand into his right pants pocket, and soon he took out a Kyoto University student ID card.

"Didi......"

As a clear voice sounded, the clerk looked at the information that appeared on the computer interface and nodded, then turned around and walked towards the shelves where many tools were placed in the store.

But after a while, a large bag of tightly wrapped plastic bags was walked out of the store by Fang Ye with both hands, and the heavy weight made him frown, regretting why he didn't ride a car just now.

"Yesang, is that you?"

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind him, and then a silver sedan suddenly burst into view, and as the driver's window was completely lowered, the big round face of Masashi Hirota appeared in front of him.