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Chapter 123 The Lonely New Assistant
Sasaki is a person full of action, and next Monday, he will be at Higashi Hibiki's studio again.

Just him, no assistants.

Sasaki explained: "His home is nearby, and he said he would come over."

Higashino prepared tea and snacks, and several people waited patiently for him.

But after half an hour, no one came.

Sasaki's face became more and more ugly, and Higashino stood up quickly.

"I went out to look for it, maybe I got lost. After all, Musashino Art University is still very big."

Higashino walked to the entrance, opened the door, but saw a familiar figure.

"Hello, I'm Tanaka, a staff member of NHK..." the other party said dully.

Ah, the npc that was refreshed several times last spring has reappeared.

The image is different this time, instead of a suit and leather shoes, he is wearing ordinary clothes, his hair is a bit messy, and he has lost the flattering smile he used to. His whole style has changed.

However, his complexion was very poor, and his cheeks were thin.

"The charging standard hasn't changed, right?" Higashino took out his wallet from his pocket, took out [-] yen, and handed it to the other party.

"Huh?" Tanaka was taken aback.

He pushed back the money handed over by Hibiki Higashino.

Higashino Hibiki was taken aback. He even started to learn Chinese in order to collect the fees, but now he doesn't want the money sent over.

Do you like hard mode?

Does it make him unhappy to spend money easily?
"I'm sorry!" Tanaka bowed deeply.

Higashino Hibiki was taken aback.

Sasaki heard the sound of the door, stood up and walked out.

"I resigned from NHK a long time ago!" Tanaka said loudly: "After being awakened by you, sir, I started to spend money on training and wanted to change to a decent job."

"Oh...oh! That's good," Higashino patted him on the shoulder to encourage him, and then asked, "But why did you come to me again?"

Tanaka opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer.

Sasaki walked to the door and said to Higashino: "This is the new assistant, Tanaka, Tanakai."

"Assistant!" Higashino was startled.

Tanaka lowered his head, trembling all over, "Not good... I'm sorry..."

……

Living room sofa.

Tanaka sat quietly, and Sasaki called Higashihiro aside to understand the situation.

Oda looked at this person curiously, Tanaka said nothing, a little afraid of Oda's probing eyes.

Yoshii-san couldn't stand it for a long time, he pulled the corner of Oda's clothes and dragged him away.

Akimi Akemi handed over the drinking water and said with a friendly smile, "Please use it."

"Thank you." Tanaka lowered his head, not daring to look at Akemi Akimiya.

"Don't worry, Akino-kun is a very kind person." Akemi Akimiya comforted him.

"Yes... yes," Tanaka nodded, "It's just that I've always been like this, so I'm sorry to trouble you."

"No need to apologize, no need to apologize." Akemi Akimiya felt that she couldn't handle this person, and she couldn't understand his way of thinking.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Higashino and Sasaki to come back.

Sasaki sat next to Tanakai, and said blankly: "In short, I understand everything about you."

Tanaka was terrified.

Sasaki said decisively: "It's Akino-kun's problem!"

Higashino remained silent.

He blamed himself for cheating other people's work.

"Anyway, don't take it to heart." Sasaki said.

"Yeah!" Tanaka nodded.

He talked about himself intermittently.

When he was a child, because his parents often moved, he just had acquaintances, so he had to say goodbye.In the end, I stopped socializing altogether, and stayed at home except for school.Over time, it became social terror.

"During that period, I often painted at home."

When he mentioned painting, he laughed.

"But the drawing is very bad, just a child's graffiti."

After graduating from Tanaka University, because of his personality, he ran into obstacles everywhere in his work.

Immediately, Tanaka thought that he had to change himself, so he joined NHK's toll contractor and became a toll collector.

With only a basic salary for several months, Tanaka finally mustered up the courage to find the first victim, Higashi Higashino.

"Nhk's fee-paying contractors are full of good and bad people, there are gangsters, there are gangsters, I can't stay anymore."

He looked like he was about to cry, but he seemed to have had enough of being bullied.

A little white sheep got mixed in among the wolves, and he knew the result after thinking about it.

If he is not drained and wiped clean, he becomes a bum, even if he is alert.

Maybe it's because he hasn't told anyone for a long time, but he still has a lot to say, analyzing his sad life step by step, so rich that he can draw funny cartoons.

"In April last year, I was woken up by Mr. Akino Niao, and I decided to change my past. Then I went to the Qiugong art training class to study."

"Because the cost of study is too expensive, I can only take one or two classes occasionally."

Seeing Tanaka's pale face, Higashino glanced at Akemi Akimiya, who lowered her head in shame.

"Well," Sasaki nodded, "After you saw Jump's assistant recruitment advertisement, you applied for it, right?"

"Yeah," Tanaka nodded.

"I understand everything." Sasaki stood up, "I have read Ni's portfolio, and there is no problem. Now let's start the test of Akino-kun."

"I... can I?"

"Of course," Higashino walked to the work desk, and took out a manuscript with characters drawn, a storyboard, and photos taken at "Tokyo Metropolitan Musashino North High School", as well as tools such as g-pens and ink .

Put it in front of Tanaka.

"You start drawing, draw the background of this manuscript."

Tanaka opened his eyes wide, staring blankly at the exquisite manuscript.

Picking up the g pen, I didn't dare to do it for a while.

He was worried that due to his own reasons, the manuscript that had been drawn for a long time was scrapped.

Higashino said nothing, and walked to Sasaki.

Tanaka raised his head and looked around at everyone's reactions.

Akimiya and Yoshii are worried, Oda is watching the excitement, Sasaki and Higashino don't change their expressions, discussing the content after "Slam Dunk" together.

"I have to think about it, this is my only chance..."

Tanaka gritted his teeth and continued to draw.

The background of this manuscript is in the basketball court, which doesn't look complicated.

Tanaka has considered every stroke for a long time, and as he draws, he becomes more and more handy.

His confidence gradually increased, and his writing became more and more powerful.

Freshmen are coming soon!

until……

With a "swish", his hands cramped and he drew long lines on the manuscript.

Tanaka's face immediately turned pale.

Higashino heard the voice, walked over, glanced at him quietly, and then left again.

Tanaka's heart was pounding, and his eyes were black.

"Am I eliminated?"

It's hard to muster up the courage...

Sure enough, I am not a normal person, so I should stay at home and not come out to work in the future...

The world is getting darker and darker, and he is about to fall into the abyss.

"Tanaka...Tanaka-san."

Tian Zhong suddenly heard a voice coming from his ear, and a ray of light fell, it was Higashino talking.

"This is white ink, please modify it. I will leave the job of the assistant to you in the future."

"Yes Yes!"

His head hit the coffee table with a loud bang, and tears streamed down his face.

"Please take care of me, Mr. Akino Bird!"

"Yeah." Higashino nodded happily, until he found out...

"Don't cry on my manuscript! Wow! And snot!"

"Forget it, keep crying, I'll draw another one."

Higashihiro himself wanted to cry but had no tears.

　No virgin, decisive killing, no supernatural powers

　　
　
(End of this chapter)