In the process of seeking the truth, human beings will show a strong will!

If you don't have strong willpower, you won't be able to embark on the path of pursuing the truth! But after knowing the so-called truth, when the answer you have been looking for appears in front of you, and the journey of searching for the truth has reached the end...... What kind of expression should human beings who once sought the truth have?

Especially...... What happens when you learn that the answer you are trying so hard to find does not exactly match the expectations of the seekers of truth?

"......" Yoshida answered Makoto Takahashi's answer for the longest time so far--one minute! After that, Yoshida, who came back to his senses, showed a look of complete disbelief on his face, and asked Makoto Takahashi again as if asking for verification, "Wait, Makoto...... ARE YOU SAYING THAT THE PROBLEM WITH "CLANNAD" IS...... It's ......"

"Hey, my family is a cat, didn't I understand enough?" Takahashi Makoto boldly replied in the affirmative to Yoshida's cautious tone, "Because I don't have the kind of friend who can entrust my sister or daughter, I don't understand what the so-called friendship is all about!"

"But, but ......" This has something to do with comics!

"Because I can't experience this kind of emotion from reality, Phoenix Courtyard, as a cartoonist, can't achieve an excellent state of integrating body and soul into the comic when I finish the comic...... In short, a manga created in that incomplete state will also be missing the most important thing because of this!" Takahashi Makoto smiled helplessly, "The content of the manga ...... There's no way to make the soul of the reader resonate!, Isn't this a very serious problem for the comics?"

"Yes, that's right...... It turns out that the problem with the comics is this...... Hehe...... "I heard that ...... from Makoto Takahashi again Well, after the elegant statement is the answer to [there is a faint sadness], Yoshida is like a toy that has been broken. From his countenance, which had begun to distort, let out a chilling chuckle, "I knew it was going to be like this...... What I should have known in the first place...... Hehe......"

"Eh, has it been broken?" Watching Yoshida gradually enter the collapse, Makoto Takahashi frowned slightly, took out a silver pocket watch similar to the one in "Steel Forge" from his white coat, and complained a little depressedly. "Hey! My family cat didn't even survive for three minutes? It seems that the previous assessment was not very accurate...... Well, in the next period of time, I should strengthen the exercise of my dependent cat......s! Tsk, in the future, there will only be one little sea otter...... But it's not enough fun!"

While Makoto Takahashi was full of resentment and muttering to himself, Yoshida lowered his head and quietly thought about something!

At the beginning, after learning about Makoto Takahashi's reason, Yoshida's first reaction was to be teased by Makoto Takahashi, a second-year manga artist...... No. However, just as Yoshida was about to take this opportunity to blacken and go berserk, he remembered the helpless smile on Takahashi's face when he spoke before......

No friends...... Is it?

For some reason, Yoshida suddenly felt a little uncomfortable!

The so-called friendship is not about talking about that kind of relationship, but about spending time and effort to communicate, maintain, and manage! But Makoto Takahashi ......

Maybe in the eyes of others. Being able to successfully serialize in both monthly and weekly magazines at the same time can only show that the cartoonist Phoenix Yuan is really a very talented cartoonist. However, Yoshida, who is the editor in charge of Makoto Takahashi, knows how much time Makoto Takahashi spent to complete these manga drafts!

The time to make friends, the ...... to maintain the friendship of friends Didn't Makoto Takahashi spend all his time on completing the manga? While others were talking, Makoto Takahashi was holding the brush. Leaning over to sketch the plot characters in the comics; while others were entertaining and relaxing, Makoto Takahashi was pinching the eraser and burying his head in revising the slightest detail mistake in the comics; while others were resting and sleeping, Makoto Takahashi pulled out the manuscript paper and began to draw the next page of the comics...... Makoto Takahashi says he has no friends. Isn't that a matter of course?

If you want to get something, you must pay something, this is not only the truth in "Steel Forge", but also the rule of any world! The price paid by the cartoonist named Phoenix Academy's fierce manga when he worked hard to complete one comic manuscript after another was......

"Now, Makoto ......" Looking at Makoto Takahashi spinning his paintbrush while thinking about the plot, Yoshida, who had retired from the fugue state, no longer had a broken Honkai expression on his face, but a seemingly calm look, "Now I seem to be able to understand ......"

It's not that I don't want to draw it, but I can't draw it because I don't have friends......

"Hah, my family cat, what's the matter with your disgusting expression all of a sudden?" Sensing the sympathy and pity in Yoshida's eyes, Makoto Takahashi was so surprised that the brush in his hand fell on the manuscript paper, "Although I overestimated your willpower before...... But it's just this extent, so I shouldn't be spoiled like this, right?"

"Playing with you...... Whew...... "half-cut words and continuous deep breaths...... Obviously, at this moment, Yoshida is trying his best to contain the uncontrollable power of the desolate flood in his body! But judging from Yoshida's strange face at the moment, a certain editor in charge, who was still entangled and confused just now, has an expression of "I really want to kick you away" on his face at this moment!

"Oh, oh, oh, it's really scary to put on a look of wanting to eat people!" The problem is that Makoto Takahashi's tone of voice when you speak, no matter how you look at it, it looks like you're mocking Yoshida instead of falling into a panic!

"Now, Makoto ......" Yoshida put aside the monthly magazine in his hand and walked in front of Makoto Takahashi with a serious face, "We're friends, aren't we? I'm not talking about the kind of friend who only nods his head to know each other...... It's about trusting each other and entrusting each other to their friends!"

"......" Makoto Takahashi looked at Yoshida's serious expression, gradually retracted the smile on his face, and after a moment of silence, he asked Yoshida with some hesitation, "Then my family is a cat, can you answer me a question first?"

"Although all along, we have only been responsible editors and cartoonists...... But Makoto, I've always regarded you as a friend!" Yoshida seemed to have fallen into some kind of demonic state, completely ignoring Makoto Takahashi's question, and instead entered the [Mouth Cannon Mode] by himself, "Although Makoto you have a rather bad personality, although Makoto you have caused me a lot of trouble, although...... But Ah Cheng, from the day I met you, I felt that we would become good friends and lifelong friends!"

"Mm-hmm, I already have a rough understanding of what you're going to say...... But before that, answer my question first!" Makoto Takahashi scratched his head a little troubled after a short silence, "My family is a cat, do you have a sister?"

"Huh?" Yoshida, who was full of excitement just now, was stunned by Makoto Takahashi's question! "Sister? I don't have any sister!"

"Whew, there's no sister...... Then what the hell are you excited about!" Takahashi Makoto's voice suddenly raised a lot, "I've already said it before! True friends, but they can entrust their daughters or sisters to each other's existence! And as a single meow, my family cat, my daughter is naturally impossible...... But you don't even have a sister! Are you still qualified to talk to me about your best friend? Hmph! If you want to be friends with His Majesty the Fierce Demon King of the Phoenix Courtyard, let's go and have a daughter or find a sister first!"

"......" At this moment, Yoshida's heart should be broken!

"As a cat of my dependents, you must have the consciousness of my dependents!You are just a slave, a toy, and a tool for the pleasure of His Majesty the Demon King!" Makoto Takahashi slapped the table as he pressed Yoshida with his momentum, "and...... Don't show resentment! Compared to the little sea otter who is simply a toy, compared to the good friends of Yacheng Mumengye who is simply a tool to please the king, and compared to those humans who are not even as good as tools, you should learn to be satisfied if you can have three titles!"

"Then I should be honored!" Yoshida said through gritted teeth!

"Hmph, my family is a cat, don't be too complacent!" Makoto Takahashi pulled out a stack of comic manuscripts from his desk, and his face showed a look of the elders educating the younger ones to get married early, "You are still far from the King of Black Flame who hovers between partners and toys!"

"Hi hey, I'll do my best...... I should say this at this time!" After seeing Makoto Takahashi's right hand touch the magic sword, Yoshida said with a depressed expression as he took the manga manuscript from Makoto Takahashi's hand. After a casual glance, Yoshida immediately showed a look of surprise on his face, "This is, this is ...... The contents of the latest episode of the "CLANNAD" comic draft!"

"Otherwise, what do you think?" Takahashi Makoto was a little dissatisfied with Yoshida's skeptical tone, and tilted his head unhappily, "Although you didn't pass the trial, but this time you can barely be considered qualified......! But because you're just barely qualified, as a candidate for the reward, that comic is temporarily sealed!"

This is considered tsundere, right?

"The new comics aside...... You actually finished the manga draft in a week that was originally not required to be completed until next month?" Yoshida shook his head helplessly, "Ah Cheng, you are really ...... Let's pay attention to your body!"

"My dependents are cats, don't worry! Even if the end of the world is extinct, I will live well!" Makoto Takahashi rubbed his right eye and leaned back in a strange posture on the chair, "Although it is a reward...... But in the whole "CLANNAD", the content of this chapter is my dear! because for the reader, this is one of the great murders of tears, just more ...... than Xiao Nagisa."

Makoto Takahashi's voice became smaller and quieter the more he spoke, and finally fell asleep directly like this!

"Makoto is really not honest!" Yoshida looked at Makoto Takahashi who was asleep, and did not wake up, but went to the sofa and flipped through the manga drafts!" "Just let me see...... Belch...... Who is this boy in the hat? Anyway, Ah Cheng must have taken the wrong comic draft, right?" )