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Chapter 171 Matsuo Basho x Oda Short Story x Win or Lose (7000 words, thank you for your monthly pass)
At night, when the time came to 11 o'clock in the evening, Kazuya Takasugi's parents fell asleep early. He crept open the living room door and sat down in front of the TV.

Takasugi Kazuya suddenly felt the excitement of doing bad things that he had never felt before.

Looking at the empty living room, his eyes became brighter and brighter.

"It turns out that the living room is like this late at night, it's really fresh!"

The corners of his mouth turned upward.

With nervousness and excitement, Kazuya Takasugi turned on the TV carefully, turned down the volume of the TV, and dialed to TV Asahi.

At this time, the TV station was in commercial time, and there was still 10 minutes before "Funny Manga Hiyori" would start broadcasting.

"What do you need to prepare?"

He remembered Hijikata's words, of course instant noodles should be used with instant noodles.

So he went to the kitchen cautiously and closed the door tightly.

The sound of the kettle boiling water became louder and louder, and the steam thumped the lid of the kettle.

Kazuya Takasugi became more and more anxious, and the idea that his mother would rush up kept ringing out.

He has a sense of precarious crisis.

Fortunately, after 2 minutes, the hot water was boiled.

He took out the instant noodles from the cupboard and soaked them carefully.When I came to the living room, there were still 3 minutes before the animation started, which happened to be the time to wait for instant noodles.

"It turns out that Tokyo at 11 o'clock is also brightly lit like this."

Looking out the window, Gao Shanhe couldn't help being stunned.

This was a landscape he had never known before.

As a good baby of his mother, he went to bed at ten o'clock at the latest.

There were still many people busy at eleven o'clock in the evening, which he had never expected.

"Tori Akino-sensei must be working too." With the evening wind blowing, Kazuya Takasugi sighed.

After 3 minutes passed, he suddenly woke up, went back to the sofa and sat down, the waiting time for the instant noodles was just right, and the animation started.

As the title song he couldn't understand sounded, Kazuya Takasugi was speechless, "This kind of art is still too advanced..."

After 30 seconds, he saw the name of the animation script, which turned out to be "Bird Akino Mirai".

"It's really the work of Mr. Akino Tori..." Kazuya Takasugi was also taken aback.

Because of the appearance of Mirai Tori Akino, he thought about it carefully. He also seemed to have an impression of the name of the supervisor and original artist he had seen before, and he was a member of the Musashino Animation Club.

"So that's how it is," Kazuya Takasugi suddenly realized, "It's no wonder Mr. Akino Akino will contribute."

He understood this work as social practice.

The name of this episode of "Funny Manga Hiyori" is "Oku no Hosomichi".

Takasugi Kazu also knows about "Oku no Hosichi".

After all, it is the running script written by the famous Japanese comedian Matsuo Basho.

"It turned out to be an animation commemorating this work."

Sitting cross-legged on the sofa, Takasugi Kazuya also came to nature.

Bird Akino Mirai likes to add poetic elements to his works, such as "Manyoshu Raijin Tanka" in "The Garden of Words and Leaves".

This can add a sense of thickness to the work, and Kazuya Takasugi doesn't hate it either.

"As for Master Matsuo Basho, how will Mr. Akino Tori handle it? He must be a highly respected and wise man."

As he thought about it, he picked up the instant noodles, blew on them a couple of times, and started to eat them.

"It tastes much better."

He simply picked up the instant noodles, watched TV, and picked up another chopsticks of noodles.

"In the second year of Genroku, the famous comedian Matsuo Basho took his disciple Zeng Liang to the north and entered the journey of "Oku no Hosodo"..."

"Pfft! Cough-cough-cough!"

Gao Sugiwa also choked on the noodles, and then coughed violently. He put down the instant noodles, covered his mouth with his hands, and lowered the noise.

But also because of this, noodles sprayed from his nostrils.

"Ahem!" His nose was hot and uncomfortable.

Enduring the pain, Takasugi Kazuo also blew out the noodles, which made him feel better.

"It turned out to be a spoof type..." He has learned a lot.

Looking at the scene that appeared with the narration in the animation, Matsuo Basho was pawing the ground with his hands, about to fall into the cliff, with tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, without any dignity at all.

His disciple Zeng Liang was playing with the bird at this time.I don't care about the situation of the teacher at all.

Takasugi Kazuya looked at the instant noodles, lost in thought.

In the end, I dare not eat any more.

Matsuo Basho made an appointment to see his disciple Zeng Liang, but after waiting for three hours, Zeng Liang was late.

For going for a walk.

The status of the two was immediately revealed.

Zeng Liang entered the entrance and said he smelled a strange smell.

Basho made excuses in every possible way, and Zeng Liangcai followed him into the living room.

"Ah, ah, that's right, it's a funny animation. But the contrast is quite interesting."

Zeng Liang came to the master's house and wanted to leave impatiently. Basho lamented that he was a dreadful young man, and went to make tea for him. When he returned to the living room, Zeng Liang was already lying down and reading a book.

"Wow, this is Nobi Nobita's action of reading manga magazines, right?"

Although he already understood the style of the work, Kazuya Takasugi still exclaimed about the unconventional and unconstrained plot.

Basho said to show Zeng Liang something "embarrassing", so he stayed with him.

So he took out the treasure that had been cherished for a long time, which his parents had never seen - his umbilical cord.

"Then what do you want to say? Basho-san!" Zeng Liang closed the box expressionlessly, and knocked away Matsuo Basho's umbilical cord.

He looked unmoved.

The shy and shy Matsuo Basho exclaimed.

"Wow!"

Then he explained, "Actually, I came here this time to invite Zeng Liangjun to travel with me..."

Meanwhile, Basho's box of umbilical cords bounced back and forth, hitting him in the forehead.

Matsuo Basho broke the defense.

"But forget it..."

Covering his bleeding forehead with a handkerchief, Basho had tears in his eyes, feeling extremely wronged.

"Seeing how reluctant you are to come today, and slapping off Master's umbilical cord with a blank face, I think you won't agree..."

Zeng Liang said seriously: "How would you know if you don't ask? Please don't make up your own mind for me!"

Basho immediately looked forward to it, "Then... you want to go with me?"

"That's out of the question."

Zeng Liang drank his tea and said indifferently.

"Pfft ha ha ha ha!" Takasugi Kazu couldn't help laughing.

In the empty living room, it seemed extraordinarily noisy.

He immediately covered his mouth and finally immersed himself in the story.

He didn't perceive the sound of turning on the lights in his parents' bedroom.

"Beast!" Basho was annoyed.

He wept: "That's fine. I'm going to the northeast this time. I'm alone. The journey is hard and there are many hardships. Maybe it's right not to go..."

"Eh? What did you say?" Zeng Liang was taken aback, "Many hardships?"

In his mind, Basho was hit by a shuriken, stepped into a trap, bitten by a crocodile on the head... and other tragic scenes, so Zeng Liang said, "I'd better go with you."

Kazuya Takasugi was also relieved, although Zeng Liang has been swearing at each other, Zeng Liang still cares about his master Matsuo Basho.

but……

"There are some things I want to witness with my own eyes," Zeng Liang said.

"Well, that's how it is." Takasugi Kazuya was also expressionless, and he complained, "So you want to see the tragedy of Basho on the spot! Zeng Liang, are you so black-bellied!"

He picked up the bucket of instant noodles and started to eat in big mouthfuls.

Before the animation ended, the instant noodles hadn't moved much.

"This work is really interesting. It's called "Funny Manga Hiyori". I haven't seen such a funny cartoon for a long time."

Kazuya Takasugi thought too.

Moreover, watching cartoons secretly at night is really exciting, so he can't help but want to do it a few more times.

"Suck and suck, suck and suck." The living room was filled with the sound of him sucking instant noodles.

At this moment, the dark living room was suddenly brightly lit.

The instant noodles were still hanging on his lips, like a beard, Kazuya Takasugi raised his head in a daze, trying to force a smile, "Mom."

"Quiet! And, go to bed!"

Mrs. Takasugi's scolding sound, the sensor lights in the opposite building turned on.

In an instant, the silent night became lively.

……

In the morning, Higashino Higashino came to the classroom after morning exercise.

As soon as he put down the book, he was startled by Kazuya Takasugi behind him.

"What are you?" Higashino asked hesitantly, "Did you steal someone at night?"

The other party's eyes were bloodshot and had dark circles, as if he hadn't slept all night.

"Of course not," Takasugi Kazuya shook his head firmly.

"Higashino-san," he asked excitedly, "Is "Funny Manga Hiyori" your work?"

"You know?" Higashino raised his eyebrows, and then replied, "I did participate."

"Really interesting! I watched the episode "Oku no Hosomichi" and it was very... well, out of the ordinary.But very fresh! Kazuya Takasugi gave a thumbs up, "If you release DVD discs in the future, please be sure to sign me!" "

"Of course there is no problem," Higashino replied, carefully looking at the dark circles under Kazuya Takasugi's eyes, "So you are suffering from insomnia because of "Hiyo"...?"

"...There are factors in this aspect..." Kazuya Takasugi smiled sarcastically.

……

Musashino Animation Company.

President Asahina Yuko sat in the main seat with a blank expression, and the members of "Future Society" sat on both sides, waiting for her to speak seriously.

Chiharu Minami is on the left of Asahina, and Hibiki Ozawa is on the right.

The two of them held the report and looked at it like a social animal elite.

"As the popularity of "Niyori" spreads, more and more viewers know about "Niyori," "Minami Chiharu said: "So the ratings have increased. "

She drew a chart on the blackboard, and with a swishing sound, the line rose based on the 0.1% rating.

"It can be clearly seen that the ratings of each episode are higher than that of the previous episode. In the episode "Oku no Hosomichi", it even exceeded 11%. It can be said that the effect is remarkable. "

After she finished speaking, there was thunderous applause.

"It really went well."

"I thought it was going to be an ordeal."

"Following the course of events, let nature take its course and become a hit!"

The staff cheered.

"However, there is a problem now." Ozawa raised his index finger, "We lack employees responsible for administrative duties."

He glanced at Amano, Gao Xueji and the others. In the animation club, everyone is a technical talent, but there is no manager to negotiate.

"A DVD distributor contacted us," Ozawa said, "co-publishing the CD of "Funny Manga Hiyori", whoever thinks he can handle the job of negotiation."

Suddenly, the whole scene looked at each other and became cold.

Ozawa thought it was true.

At the beginning, the cooperation with the Agricultural Cooperative was handled by him alone. No one in the animation club could help him, and it was screwed up in the end.

This kind of thing cannot be allowed to happen again.

He looked at Nan Qianchun, "What did Teacher Akino say?"

Minami Chiharu spread her hands, "Higashi-kun said to leave it to us..."

"However," she gritted her teeth, "I will find a manager! I have a suitable candidate here."

Ozawa heaved a sigh of relief, finally he was not the only one struggling to support it.

After the matter was resolved, Asahina slapped the table and stood up. Under everyone's expectant eyes, she said:
"Dismiss."

……

"It turns out that "Funny Manga Hiyori" is the work of Mr. Akino Tori." Mari Tada exclaimed, "This is my favorite cartoon for a while."

The conversation between Higashino Hibiki and Takasugi Kazuya attracted the attention of others.

""Hiyo"? It's that funny anime. I've been watching it recently too! It's too funny."

"Tori Akino-sensei's work? I will definitely read it!"

Many people gathered around Higashi Higashino.

Higashino became troubled.

Today's class was finally over, Higashino and Akemi Akimiya walked towards the teacher's dormitory side by side.

"It's been really hard recently," Akemi Akimiya rubbed her shoulders.

Not only do you need to handle the work of "Slam Dunk", but now you are also in charge of "The Great Change of Go".

In her spare time, she also has to create comic storyboards.

One person can't wait to use it for two people.

Higashino raised his hands, looked left and right, there were too many people around.

Suppressing the desire to help her rub her shoulders, Higashino lowered his hands.

After returning to the dormitory, the assistants have not arrived yet.

When Higashino Hibiki was in class, they finally had a break, and Higashino Hibiki didn't urge them.

He walked to the balcony, looked at the students and teachers in twos and threes outside the window, and closed the curtains.

After Akimi took off her shoes, she sat on the sofa and smelled her feet, and immediately turned her face away in disgust.

"Wearing stockings affects the breathability." She sighed.

At this moment Hibiki Higashino closed the curtains, and Akemi Akimiya complained: "The sun is just right today, what are you doing with the curtains? And I'm going to work soon."

Higashino walked to her side and pressed her shoulders with both hands, "Don't worry about work, I'll give you a massage, it's been a hard time."

"Thank you," Akemi Akimiya closed her eyes, feeling Higashino Hibiki's powerful hands.

"Well, here it is, ah~ so comfortable."

Higashino has never learned massage, but the effect is surprisingly good.

Akemi Akimiya felt her stiff shoulders loosen, her whole body was soft, and she was about to collapse on the sofa.

Sudden……

"Snapped."

She hit Higashino Hibiki's hands with her right hand.

"Are your hands facing down too much?"

"Sorry," Higashino replied, "Because the dream is there, I can't help it."

After that he was honest.

Five minutes later, Higashino opened the curtains.

……

At four o'clock on Friday afternoon, Sasaki called.

"The Xiaozheng score in "The Great Change of Go" is No.1."

As a follow-up work of "Soul of Chess", this result is normal.

But Higashino breathed a sigh of relief.

He was really worried that the work would not be popular.After all, this is also the first time he has created content by himself.

While drawing on what will happen in the future.

After hanging up the phone, Higashino noticed that Oda was absent-minded.

There is no problem with the work under his hands, but his eyes are dull, and he is just working mechanically.

"Oda-san?" Higashino called out, "Have you not had a rest, okay? The work has been too hard recently, I'm sorry."

"Sorry," Oda came back to his senses, "it's my own business."

With a wry smile, he nervously took out a brown paper bag from behind him.

"The short comics I created are finally drawn..."

What I have learned in Hibiki Higashino's studio will soon see the result.

That's why he was so absent-minded.

Even if I am confident that I am Oda, at this point, it is understandable to be like this.

"Please! Mr. Akino Tori!" Oda bowed and handed out the kraft paper bag with both hands, "Please take a look and give me some inspiration."

"……it is good……"

Higashino took it solemnly.

Is this short story... the beginning of "One Piece"?
He suddenly had a feeling that he was going to face the legend.

Oda's light can no longer be hidden, he is about to shine and create his own era.

Sitting down on the seat, Higashino carefully took out the manuscript.

The name of this short comic is "Romance Down", which means the beginning of romance.

The hero of the story is Luffy.

He took over a devil fruit worth 50 billion Berry from the great pirate grandpa, as well as his grandpa's straw hat, inherited his grandpa's will, and became a pirate.

Higashino Hibiki's expression became strange, and he kept complaining in his heart, "It turns out that Karp is a big pirate..."

It feels extremely inconsistent.

Oda looked at Higashino Hibiki's distorted face, and felt even more uneasy.

After a while, Higashino finished watching "Romance Down".

This short story must be the prototype of "One Piece".

It has many characters in "One Piece". Although the heroine has a different name, she looks like Nami.

Sanji, Kebi and others all appeared.

With a sigh of emotion, Higashino raised his head and saw Oda's mournful face.

"What's your expression?" Higashino asked subconsciously.

"The result? Mr. Akino Bird?" Oda asked.

Higashino murmured.

"Interesting." He finally nodded.

"Long live!" Oda jumped up!
In the first year of university, he gave up his studies and chose to enter the comics industry.

As a gambler, he was once apprehensive, but now he is more confident in the face of this evaluation.

"Details." Oda looked at Higashi Higashi expectantly.

"Ahem," Higashino coughed, pulling his throat.

"Oh! I see." Oda quickly ran to the kitchen, and after a while, he stumbled back with mineral water.

Higashino put the mineral water aside, "I want to drink hot water now."

"Understood." Oda nodded, and he ran to the kitchen again.

Akemi Akimiya shook her head, she rolled her eyes at Higashino, "You are going too far, why are you tossing Oda-kun so much?"

Dong Yexiang said with emotion: "If you don't order him, you will have no chance in the future."

"Huh?" Akemi Akimiya was startled, she watched "Romance Down", "Is this short story exciting?"

"Yeah," Higashino nodded.

Not long after, Oda came back, and he mixed mineral water with water temperature to the extent that it could enter the throat.

Higashino took the water glass, took a sip, and put it aside.

Oda didn't care either, just like an Akita dog, circling anxiously beside Higashino Hibiki.

"Is there anything else? Please tell me."

"Okay." Dongye cleared his throat.

"Devil fruits, pirates, dreams, partners, treasures..." he listed them one by one. "The combination of all kinds of settings is really a wonderful comic."

The core of "One Piece" is ready, and Luffy is setting sail.

Higashino Higashi glanced over, only feeling emotional.

"It will pass the serial meeting," he assured, "I have no doubts about it."

"Yeah!" Oda jumped for joy!
Yoshii Yamaku and Tanaka congratulate Oda, today's Bird Akino Studio is still peaceful.

……

The gears of the times are turning, and Higashino is looking forward to another era.

Oda has already started, I don't know how Kishimoto and the others are progressing now?

Kyushu Sangyo University.

Masashi Kishimoto is graduating soon.

""Rurouni Kenshin" is still very interesting." He had no sense of urgency, and read the manga leisurely.

"Such an interesting samurai manga has really hit me who wants to create samurai themes. No matter what, I can't surpass this work."

He believes that "Rurouni Kenshin" has reached the limit of the subject matter.

"The game setting of this episode of "Yu-Gi-Oh" is very boring." He sighed again.

Kishimoto actually doesn't understand why Takahashi and Nozomi often switch game content.

Just substituting in, it's an unfamiliar game again.

In this way, the threshold is very high.

After all, to understand how the game is played, it is also necessary to operate the brain.

And manga readers, sometimes just want to find a way to relax.

"It would be nice to specialize in one game, but in this way, the core setting of "Yu-Gi-Oh" is also lost. It is really difficult to choose."

Kishimoto admires this brain-burning creative method, but it is also a bit thankless.

"Next is..." He opened the manga, "Soul of Chess."

At this moment, the phone rang and Kishimoto answered.

Finally, I learned about Oda's creation of "Romance Down".

On the phone, the other party proudly expressed his views on the future of Akino Bird, thinking that it was a work that could be serialized.

At this moment, it was also handed over to the editor. The editor thought that it could be published on "Akamaru Jump" first.

If the effect is good, it is to draw the first three chapters for the serialization, followed by the serialization meeting.

It can be said that although he is still far away from being serialized, he has already taken a solid first step.

Kishimoto congratulated again and again, and he was particularly envious in his heart.

After hanging up the phone, looking at the comic magazine in his hand, he lost interest.

"Serialize."

There was no hope for him at all.

"Robot" won the comic award, which also made him see his limits.

With his current ability, it is impossible to serialize works on Jump.

It will take some time to practice.

And during this period of time, Kishimoto couldn't see how long it would take.

"Oh." He closed the comic magazine and let out a long sigh.

……

Morimichi Yamamura reads a manga magazine on Monday.

Naturally, he couldn't let go of the follow-up content of "Soul of Chess".

The previous short story "Soul of Chess" moved him for a long time.

"The Great Change of Go" has a lot of freshness in the style of the original work." Yamamura said with emotion. He just climbed out of the bottom of the valley and saw Tori Akino's new creation in the future.

But instead of feeling the blow, he became more motivated.

The content of this episode is naturally the online chess game between "Master" and "Shinto Hikari".

Watched by chess players all over the world, this chess game began.

In the layout stage, Kondo Hikari used the improved Shuce flow.

Behind him, Zuo Wei appeared out of nowhere, and with the selection of his fingertips, Zuo Wei's folding fan also fell on the same position on the chessboard.

"Is that you? Zuo Wei."

Kondo Hikaru's eyes were piercing, watching the "Master" move.

The chess piece of "Master" falls on the upper right side of the board.

"Three three!"

"Eh? Just hit [-] at the beginning?" Xiaoguang was taken aback.Then it fell down.

He understood that the "Master" couldn't be Saori.

This weird way of playing neither belongs to the past nor is it the current style, so it cannot be Zuowei.

He started to get down listlessly.

The opponent's moves are based on the challenger's perspective.

Because the opening point three-three is a coward's move, only occupying one corner, giving up a wider world.

"This is "Master"? Ta Yaliang also stood up, the result of this chess game is already obvious.

But as the layout deepened, Shindo Hikaru's expression became more and more serious.

What he started to think was wrong.

"Master" showed its sharpness.

Since the end of the layout, Shindo Hikaru found that the opponent in front of him was impeccable. Although he played like walking on thin ice, he walked very steadily.

The opponent's calculation speed and derivation ability are simply superior to his.

Like a robot, there are no fluctuations.

And because of the advantage of [-] at the beginning, "Master" is more efficient than him.

When it came to the closing stage, Shindo Hikaru calculated for a moment, and he lost...

So I pressed the admit defeat button.

At this moment, how similar it is to Tayao Yang!
Many years ago, Toya Yukihiro lost to "sai" on the Internet, and now, he himself also lost to "Master".

Shinto Hikaru was not depressed, he let out a long sigh of relief, and saw a broader future behind Go.

……

"The protagonist lost at the beginning?"

With the end of the fierce chess game, Yamamura Shoudao became upset.

Just like in "Dragon Ball", Monkey King just became invincible on the earth, and the Saiyans arrived.

Shinto Hikari also lost to others at the beginning.

What Yamamura wants to see more is the plot of Shinto Hikaru being invincible.

Although this style of wanting to promote before suppressing is understandable, it is very uncomfortable for the mountain village to keep the way.

"The 30-year-old Shindo Hikari should be at the peak of his life."

The 30-year-old chess player is a backbone chess player in Japan

Down to the age of 50 or 60, there are too many to enumerate.

Therefore, Yamamura also recognized Higashi Higashi's pinnacle Shindo Hikari.

"Big change?" Shancun was taken aback, and he suddenly thought of the title of the short story.

"The weird way of playing is a big change in Go?"

Then it is understandable that Shindo Hikaru lost as the pinnacle of Go before the change.

"But just like this, can you be called a big change? There must be more content!"

But the manga has only entered the second chapter, and no more details have been developed yet.

Shancun began to look forward to it, "If this change is not big enough, don't blame me for criticizing you, Akino Tori."

Meanwhile, countless readers share his thoughts.

What kind of medicine is sold in Bird Akino's gourd?

　Thank you for the account of oh meow. QAQ800 points are rewarded.

　　After reading a reader's comment, the ratings of animation are too high. I researched it and found that there is indeed a problem.

　　以前查的资料是11点的，所以收视率普遍在10左右。到了1点钟，一般就是1～2了。

　　I adjusted it and changed the time to play at 11 o'clock.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)