The spring rain shrouds Tokyo, which has a thousand-year-old history, in a hazy cloud of rain and mist.

At this time, Fang Ye just opened his eyes slightly, stretched out his hand to open the curtain next to the sofa, and saw the rain scene outside the hotel.

"It's raining......"

He muttered softly.

Still sleepy-eyed, he didn't realize that he was in Tokyo until a moment later.

"I've slept for so long?"

He picked up his phone and frowned when he saw the time on it.

It had been a few hours since he and Asagami Sakaki and the others arrived here - four o'clock in the afternoon, and he had planned to take a nap, but he didn't expect to fall asleep as soon as he closed his eyes.

Damn it...... Haven't you eaten dinner yet......

The intense hunger prompted him to quickly sit up from the couch, put his feet on the cold floor, and walked into the bathroom.

After a brief freshening up, he hurriedly put on a trench coat and left the room to forage for food.

Today is the last day before the Kyoto Awards Ceremony of the 'One World One Manga Awards', and the shortlisted contestants like him who have been invited should all be in Tokyo to prepare for tomorrow night's ceremony.

And now Fang Ye, who only cares about getting the prize money as soon as possible, does not care about the fact that the outside world is making a fuss because of the top three that have been decided.

During his time off, the official website of "One World One Comics Awards" seemed to be unable to withstand the pressure from "One Punch Man" fans, and banned comments on the work page of "One Punch Man", which made netizens dissatisfied with the results of the competition lash out at the competition committee on social media such as LINE and INS.

It's a pity that the current Fang Ye doesn't know anything about this situation, of course, even if he knows, at most, he will sigh with emotion, and he will never stand up to guide public opinion.

Because there is no need, as long as he gets the money, he will return to China, and this is his plan for the next.

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"Welcome!"

When he walked through the night of the long street and pushed open an izakaya called "Hanbei", the waiter who was waiting for customers to come to his door smiled and said to him.

"Are you alone?"

He looked at Fang Ye, who had entered the store alone, and asked with a professional smile.

"Hmmm......"

A warm gust of hot wind blowing from inside made Fang Ye squint his eyes and nod in response.

"Okay, please come with me. ”

The waiter took Fang Ye all the way into the inner room, and in the 80's Toei songs, Fang Ye chose a seat on the inside to sit down, and he first ordered six strings of Tsukuba Army chicken skewers priced at 70 yen each, and then selected some edamame, cold slave (tofu), tempura, fried chicken nuggets, and then checked a bottle of shochu before returning the menu to the waiter with satisfaction.

While waiting for dinner to arrive, he focused on a wall TV not far away.

A TV Tokyo interview program is being shown inside, and a good-looking young female host is talking to a handsome young man.

"Mr. Masatoshi Kawahara, how did you feel when you knew that your work "Shura's Gate" won the second place in this year's 'Tiandai One Manga Awards'?"

The hostess asked with a smile.

"Of course I'm very happy, for a newcomer like me, to win such a prize, I didn't expect it before the competition. ”

The young man pursed his lips when he heard this, and then replied.

"After "Shura's Gate" was officially uploaded to the official website of the 'Tianyi Manga Awards', its ranking on the major lists has been rising, indicating that there are many readers who like your work, how did you come up with the idea of drawing such a fighting manga?"

"At first, I just wanted to draw a work that depicts the passionate and romantic feelings of men, and then I consciously began to read the biographies of some romantic figures in the history of Toei - such as Yoshitsune Minamoto, Miyamoto Musashi, Oda Nobunaga, Sakamoto Ryoma, and Hijikata Toshizo, and finally I had a complete inspiration to reproduce these people in my work. ”

………………

"It turns out that Masatoshi Kawahara is the second place this time. ”

Fang Ye held his chin and said thoughtfully.

He once watched the whole process of Koo Nishiwaki judging the entries in the backstage of the Kyoto branch of the 'One World One Manga Awards', and naturally remembered several other fighting manga works in the same column as "One Punch Man".

In addition to "Shura's Gate", he remembered that there were also two fighting manga submitted to the competition, "Heaven and the World" and "Wind Demon Kojiro".

At that time, for the three works that competed with him, he was actually more optimistic about the "Heaven and the World" of the Great Dusk Weiren.

“…… Forget it, it has nothing to do with me anyway. ”

He yawned, not intending to look like the other guests, but lowered his head and stared down the aisle, expecting his dinner to be delivered sooner.

At this time, another question from the hostess came from the TV.

"Since the recent announcement of the judging results of this year's 'One World One Manga Awards', public opinion on the Internet has been revolving around the final ranking of 'One Punch Man', what do you think about this?"

The young and beautiful hostess, after asking some questions that were not nutritious, suddenly threw out this question at this time.

“……”

Masatoshi Kawahara, who was still smiling, suddenly froze on his face.

"Don't you have any thoughts on One Punch Man, which won third place?"

As if noticing that the atmosphere on the stage was in embarrassment, the hostess blinked her eyes and continued to ask.