Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info wants to know the answer to the question that confuses you, which is a normal thing...... After all, the exploration and knowledge of the unknown is an important source for human survival and development!

Therefore, when Shizukawa noticed that there was a problem with the way the cartoonists faced each other this time, the first thing he thought of coming to Makoto Takahashi for answers...... For Jinghe, although a certain secondary cartoonist feels that he should belong to the [outside] level in terms of thoughts and words and deeds, in essence, Makoto Takahashi is definitely trustworthy and can be entrusted with the existence of the back!

At least in the days when he used to be an assistant to a secondary and second manga artist, Shizukawa learned a lot from Makoto Takahashi...... Otherwise, I know that Makoto Takahashi is a patient in the terminal stage of middle school disease, but he still treats such a person as a [life-changing soul mentor], and he definitely needs to go to a certain electric shock mad professor to treat it!

However......

Just as human beings always stumble on the way to the truth, Shizukawa also encountered a similar encounter when he was waiting for Makoto Takahashi to solve his doubts!

Originally, Shizukawa thought that the reason why Makoto Takahashi and his new wife Eiji proposed to decide the victory or defeat of the manga in that way was largely due to their partiality...... In terms of results, Jinghe did not make a mistake in judgment, and a secondary cartoonist also admitted that the reason for making such a suggestion was indeed out of favoritism for Jinghe!

It's just a pity...... Whether it is the reason or the reason, it is slightly different from what Jinghe thinks and thinks...... No, it should be very different!

Jinghe has always believed that the reason why a certain secondary and second cartoonist would put forward the kind of conditions that determine the outcome is largely because he favors himself, a rookie cartoonist who used to be an assistant! After all, the core of the comic "Assassination" is the character of [Killing the Teacher], not to mention the person on the side of the cartoonist, as long as anyone who has read a little serialized comics can detect it...... Not to mention Makoto Takahashi and his new wife Eiji who proposed the way to judge the winner this time!

However...... The reality is cruel, Takahashi Makoto did not hide his bad taste as usual, but instead said a reason that shocked Shizukawa!

The reason why the criteria for judging victory and defeat are designed in such a way that you have an advantage from the beginning cannot be regarded as favoritism, but just want you to have the possibility of competing with other participants on the manga side...... In other words, if Makoto Takahashi and his new wife Eiji hadn't set such conditions, Shizukawa wouldn't have had the possibility of competing with other manga artists on an equal footing!

Before coming to Makoto Takahashi, Shizukawa had also considered various possibilities!

According to the usual words and deeds of a second-year cartoonist, he will definitely say some reasons that make ordinary people sound unbearable, such as "I'm just doing this out of interest", "As a fierce subordinate of the mad demon god Phoenix Academy, it's not a matter of course to take care of it", "The stronger the opponent, the better", and [Compared to the tailwind game that crushes all the way to the end, as a fighting nation, I prefer the headwind situation with a bad combat environment] and so on......

But now this reason ...... Jinghe didn't even think about it!

First stunned, then deep and silent...... Until he left Makoto Takahashi's house like a walking corpse, Shizukawa never said a word!

After Shizukawa left, Makoto Takahashi concentrated on starting the manga draft, while Yoshida looked at the finished manga without saying a word...... A secondary cartoonist and a responsible editor seemed to have made an agreement, and no one spoke, breaking the silent atmosphere!

As a passerby character who has been watching coldly, Yoshida never said a word from beginning to end!

From the conversation between Shizukawa and Makoto Takahashi, it was vaguely surmised that a certain secondary manga artist was planning something, which was originally a thing worth celebrating for Yoshida...... But now, Yoshida couldn't be happier!

No matter how interesting the manga manuscript is, it can't attract a reader full of thoughts, and the joy of knowing Makoto Takahashi's plan can't dilute the lingering entanglement and depression...... So, after seeing Makoto Takahashi finish a page of manga, Yoshida finally couldn't help but speak!

"Hey, I said Ah Cheng, what you just said...... That's a bit too much!" Rarely, Yoshida took out the momentum of being the editor in charge, and began to talk to a certain middle school manga artist in a serious tone! "Of course, I didn't mean to accuse Makoto, but ...... Ah Cheng, the next time you speak, think about other people's feelings a little!"

"Now, my family is a cat......" After hearing Yoshida's words, Makoto Takahashi put down his paintbrush, looked up at Yoshida with a serious face, and after a moment of silence, as if he had made up his mind, he asked, "Do you understand the true pleasure?"

"Huh, pleasant?" Makoto Takahashi's unrelated question didn't seem to have any other meaning than to make Yoshida even more speechless......

"Yes, real pleasure......" Makoto Takahashi leaned back in his chair, a smile on his face, "If you understand true pleasure with my family, you wouldn't have asked the superficial question of ignorance just now!"

"Then Ah Cheng, what is your so-called [pleasure] ......" The so-called [pleasure] has nothing to do with the previous words at all, okay...... In fact, what Yoshida really wanted to say was this, but after seeing that Makoto Takahashi's expression was not quite right, Yoshida decisively chose to follow the meaning of a certain middle school and second cartoonist!

"The collision of wills, the fierce battle with high morale, the dignified head-to-head duel, in the real sword victory and defeat of the opponent in chess, experience the excitement of dying, and feel the pressure brought by danger and crisis with your heart...... "Unlike the usual more and more excited, the tone used by Makoto Takahashi to speak today is quite calm...... This made Yoshida, who originally wanted to interrupt Makoto Takahashi, hesitate again and again, but still chose to be a quiet listener!" But not long ago, I suddenly realized that the [pleasure] brought by those actions was actually wrong! Everything is just my simple fantasy, and taking those as [pleasure] in a partial way is just the arrogance that sleeps in the depths of the human soul in me!"

"I thought Ah Cheng what you wanted to say seriously...... Hehe!" Yoshida let out an inexplicable laugh with a bad expression, and at the same time did not forget to complain, "Also, Ah Cheng, what you just said...... It's an adaptation of Edward's words in "Steel", right? What should I say at this time? Should I say that Ah Cheng, you are worthy of being the cartoonist who created "Steel", Phoenix Courtyard is really fierce?"

"No, my dear cat, I just wanted to tell you that I was lost in the search for pleasure...... And now, I finally understand what true pleasure is, that's all!" Makoto Takahashi said with a serious face!

"I think it's because Cheng Cheng is getting ......worse that your illness has become more serious," Yoshida muttered quietly as he pretended to sort out the manga manuscript in his hand, "So, Cheng what you're talking about now has anything to do with the previous incident?"

"My family belongs to the cat, the reason why you are angry now is because of what I said just now, right?" Looking at Yoshida's unhappy look, a secondary and second cartoonist said with a very conscious emotion, "Forget it, I won't bother with you about this matter...... After all, a guy who doesn't even understand [Pleasure], what qualifications does he have to comment on His Majesty the Fierce True Majesty of the Phoenix Courtyard?"

"Hey, Makoto, how dare you say it!" Yoshida, who was sorting out the manga draft, fiercely 'put' the manga manuscript on the table...... Obviously, a responsible editor is blowing up at the moment...... Should I say that the ridicule level of a certain middle school cartoonist is too high, or should I say that the resistance of a responsible editor to withstand ridicule is too low?" "What kind of [pleasure] are you? What kind of [pleasure] are you? What kind of [pleasure] did you say just now, but what you said just now was a blow to Shizuha-kun, Ah Cheng, your so-called [pleasure] is simply your own bad taste, right?"

Yoshida's three-stage spitting ...... It's been a long time!

"Liuzi will be hit by what he just said, and then he will gradually become depressed, and finally he will have a self-defeating mentality, which will make the content of the serialization worse and worse, and the comic "Assassination" will be cut in half...... The successive setbacks and failures will make Ryuko begin to doubt herself, doubt her correctness as a manga artist, and even begin to doubt the ...... of life" Obviously talking about a rather terrifying speculation, Makoto Takahashi had an incomprehensible smile on his face, "What I just said may not have such an effect...... However, for Liuzi, it will definitely make his emotions negatively affected and shake his will!"

"Hey, Ah Cheng, since you already know the consequences of doing this, why do you ......" can ruin a cartoonist, or even a person's life...... It's not just a bad taste, is it?

Of course, Liuzi may also engrave all the humiliation in the depths of his soul because of what he just said, and then turn resentment and unwillingness into motivation, and fight and kill with all his strength in this duel...... Reborn in the midst of the most tragic battlefields, your body, mind and soul will henceforth be stationed in the fiercest and hottest battles!"

Obviously, Makoto Takahashi just said something to himself, but Yoshida felt that Makoto Takahashi's figure in a white coat was completely distorted with the image in his memory...... Wrong, delusional, right!?

"Sa, my family is a cat, what kind of choice do you think Ruko will make?" Takahashi Makoto said to himself not so much as Yoshida, but to himself, "Whatever the choice, it is only a struggle between destruction or rebirth...... Ah, sure enough, only human beings can provide such a [pleasure] that I am looking forward to!"