Chapter 51: New Personality and Healing Comics
Yoshida came to Makoto Takahashi's house at the agreed time on the phone, ready to pick up a new manga draft! As a convention, as a manga artist who signed a contract to serialize, after completing a work, he would take advantage of his strong popularity to start a new serialization!
But when Yoshida entered the room, he saw a very speechless scene! Makoto Takahashi was standing on the table, with a weird smile on his face, and he was excitedly reading something.
&Sealed confused soul, now is the time when you need it, wake up!" After glancing at Yoshida, Makoto Takahashi did not say hello, but continued to chant some unknown incantation, "Born in darkness, after the baptism of darkness, the existence that once ruled the whole hell, break free from the shackles of hope and light, with darkness and despair, respond to me, named ......"
&What are you doing?" Yoshida interrupted Makoto Takahashi's summoning ceremony at an inopportune time.
“……”
Makoto Takahashi had an angry expression on his face, his eyes were fixed on Yoshida, his mouth was closed one by one, as if he was saying something, but Yoshida didn't hear anything! Just when Yoshida couldn't help but want to go up and continue to ask, Makoto Takahashi suddenly laughed wildly on the table.
Although he was used to this kind of scene, but seeing Makoto Takahashi laughing wildly on the table, Yoshida still had an ominous premonition! Yoshida surpassed ordinary people's sixth sense and told him that Makoto Takahashi in front of him seemed to have entered a realm that could make people's hearts chill!
The original personality from the soul of the Demon King, under the sacrifice contributed by the Ogata Great, has finally awakened! A new personality has been reconstructed!" Makoto Takahashi stopped laughing, but there was still that strange smile on his face, "Our long-awaited dark age has finally arrived!"
& Can this kind of thing really be reconstructed?" Yoshida rolled his eyes, didn't pay attention to Makoto Takahashi at all, but poured himself tea first, sat on the sofa with his legs crossed with a teacup, and began to drink tea very happily, feeling life!
& Dependents of the cat, I'll show you the new work!" Makoto Takahashi took out a stack of manga drafts from the drawer and handed them to Yoshida, with an expectant expression on his face, "As I told you before, I have a new understanding these days, so I have this healing work!"
&Is it my delusion?" Yoshida put down the teacup, took the manga, and looked at Makoto Takahashi with a puzzled look on his face, "Why did I just read it heavily as if I was deliberately emphasizing it when I heard you talk about healing!"
&Yes!" Makoto Takahashi's eyes flashed with a glint of anticipation, and his face still maintained that expectant look, "After reading the first episode and the relevant content supplemented, you will believe my words!"
& Which are?" Yoshida roughly flipped through the pages, and found that the next few pages were basically text, and there was not a single comic, and he was a little puzzled, "The latter ...... It doesn't even seem like a storyboard, is it?
&Mah, those things, it's just a follow-up to this work!" The smile on Makoto Takahashi's face made Yoshida feel uneasy no matter how he looked at it.
When he saw Yoshida start reading the manga with doubts, the smile on Makoto Takahashi's face became even stronger!
The top cartoon is a very ordinary family photo! Yoshida looked at this family photo, but he was a little puzzled, because in this family photo, there is a little boy's smile, although it looks very bright, but if you look closely, it makes people a little creepy!
The little boy's smile, if you look closely, you can understand that that kind of smile is not from the heart, but disguised! That feeling of disobedience, in addition to making people feel a little curious, but more importantly, is a chilling sense of fear!
&&Hashikoto you recently ...... It seems that his drawing skills have improved a lot!" Yoshida praised without hesitation with a surprised expression on his face after reading this family photo, "But this little boy in the painting ......"
&It's the hero of this work, Ota Hazo!" The curvature of Makoto Takahashi's mouth became larger, but his face showed an apologetic look, "Hehe, you look at it first...... By the way, I'll read the follow-up text together!But I think it's a pity.,Because of the relationship of time, this work only completed the content of the first word.,It's really healing.,But it's in the back!"
Hearing Makoto Takahashi say this, Yoshida was even more puzzled, is it a healing manga? Looking at the family portrait in the first chapter, Yoshida felt a little disobedient, and no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't feel the feeling of healing! Maybe he was too anxious, right? Yoshida secretly admonished himself, and began to read the manga seriously.
Makoto Takahashi, on the other hand, got up lightly, took out the camera that had exploded from a certain stalker uncle before, and put it in a secret location where you can record without dead ends, turn on the shooting mode, and prepare to record everything that will happen next!
&Part ......" After Yoshida read the manga of the first episode and the text narrative that followed, he asked Makoto Takahashi with a calm face, "Is that what you call healing?"
"Oh, oh, my family is a cat!" Makoto Takahashi looked at Yoshida with a happy face, "How, do you feel that your whole life has been completely turned upside down? That's how it should be, this is the real healing!"
"Heal!" Yoshida almost gritted his teeth and said these two words, his face suddenly became very gloomy, he slammed the manga manuscript on the table, grabbed Takahashi Makoto's collar, and roared loudly, "What kind of cure is this? Takahashi Makoto, do you know what a cure is? In your work, from front to back, don't say anything about healing, from the manga to the words added at the back, it is completely full of despair and darkness! Are you planning to read that everyone who has read it will embark on the road of self-destruction?"
>> Have you been cured of your existence called life?" Looking at the smile on Makoto Takahashi's face, Yoshida felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity, "My family belongs to the cat, do you feel that life is meaningless, and you are tired of living?
>&...... What was your original intention for creating this manga?" Yoshida suddenly let go of Makoto Takahashi weakly, as if he had lost all his strength, and made it soft on the sofa, "This kind of manga, it's impossible to get serialized!"
&I remember someone once said to me...... "Makoto Takahashi took out a pair of black-rimmed glasses out of nowhere, put them on, crossed his hands to support his chin, and began to imitate the commander of the editorial department, "As long as the manga is interesting, it can be serialized!"
"Fun for you!" Yoshida angrily picked up the manga on the table, tapped his fingers hard, and roared loudly, "This kind of darkness and despair...... What do you find interesting about this kind of work that carries out negative energy to the end? I really want to knock your head open to see what you think!"
"It's fun!" Makoto Takahashi's eyes were full of pleasure, and his face showed a look of enjoyment, "Especially when it is serialized, under the banner of the healing system, those cowards who seek healing are completely plunged into darkness and despair, and the supreme pleasure that arises from this, ah, I feel drunk when I think about it!"
This kind of work is absolutely impossible to serialize!" Yoshida first looked bitter and hateful, but seeing that Makoto Takahashi was still unmoved, Yoshida began to spit bitter water towards Makoto Takahashi, "Makoto Takahashi, the fierce teacher of the Phoenix Academy, how much enmity and resentment do you have with our "Juvenile Jumk"? After this kind of work is serialized, the editorial department will definitely be besieged by parents! If you do this, you will not only destroy the editorial department, but also drag the entire "Juvenile Jumk" into the abyss of death!"
&I don't think that's the only way!" Makoto Takahashi shook his head, feeling a little emotional, "Before, I told the Ogata Great Demon King that I want to become the Demon King who dominates the manga world, and then live happily ever after with Princess Rina...... "One Piece", "Hokage", "Bleach and Dragon Ball" and so on, it is an impossible task to surpass these classic masterpieces and dominate the manga industry......! Isn't the way many demon lords dominate the world by destroying the world and creating new worlds?"
&How did this extreme idea come about?" Listening to Makoto Takahashi's reason, Yoshida almost cried!
>> My family cat, it looks like you don't believe what I say!" Makoto Takahashi sneered, "You've read this manga too, that kind of endless darkness and despair...... Hehe, publish this kind of work that can easily lead people astray...... Parents are angry, and they will definitely kill your editorial department!"
"It's Makoto Takahashi, have you forgotten that this work may not be serialized!" Yoshida suddenly laughed, "It's a pity, your wish can't be fulfilled, so let's redraw it for me now! The one before was good, I remember you drew some before, and that's the ...... that story."
"Tsk, my dependents, you're so naïve!" Makoto Takahashi smiled and shook his fingers, taking out the contract from his arms, "Have you forgotten what is written in the contract?" Article 32, serialized cartoonists, after finishing a work, are eligible to participate in the new serialization for the new works that follow!Do you plan to break the contract?"
&It's just an opportunity to serialize!" Yoshida also showed a weird smile on his face, put it in his arms, and looked at Makoto Takahashi proudly, "And this sketch, can you reach the editorial office safely? This is a very serious question! Maybe the author forgot to hand it over to the editor, or the sketch was accidentally lost or something......"
"Do you want to throw my sketch away in the middle of the way?" It's exactly what I expected......" Makoto Takahashi shook his head with emotion, "The camera over there, but it's a very faithful record of all this!
Yoshida and Makoto Takahashi looked at each other, and the smile on Makoto Takahashi's face made Yoshida feel very disagreeable, but it was very familiar!
>> Okay, I'll submit this work of yours to the serialization meeting!You're satisfied!" Yoshida hesitated for a long time, and finally compromised! But Yoshida's face was still very ugly, "This kind of work that doesn't belong to the royal road at all will definitely not pass the serialization meeting!"
"Oh, this work of mine, not to mention the royal road comics, is not even an evil road comic!This is the exclusive domain of the Demon King, the way of darkness and despair!" Makoto Takahashi took out a bunch of drawings from the desk drawer and handed them to Yoshida, "Speaking of the royal road, this work should be considered a good one, right?"
&'s drawer, is it connected to another dimension?" Yoshida complained weakly, took the comic manuscript, and his eyes couldn't help but light up, "This is ......"
&&Wrong, it's really the one you saw before!" Makoto Takahashi whispered, "This is one of my favorite works in my previous life!"
Yoshida took the comic manuscript and quickly left Makoto Takahashi's house! Yoshida always felt that Makoto Takahashi was acting a little weird today, but he couldn't tell where this weirdness was!
&If only this little ghost could be like Hiramaru-kun!" Yoshida sighed to himself as he walked, "Hiramaru-kun sometimes, just like a child, as long as he gives something to eat, he can coax ......"
Yoshida suddenly stopped! Because he accidentally saw the glass of the shop, reflecting the smile on his face, how similar it was to Makoto Takahashi's smile before!
&...... Dark Era" Yoshida recalled what he had seen and heard when he first arrived at Makoto Takahashi's house, and suddenly realized that "that little ghost refers to ......"