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Chapter 202

"Tori Akino-sensei, romance manga!"

The girl Mafuyu was startled, and immediately sat up, Maruko's hair flicked, her water drop-shaped mouth opened, and she hurriedly asked in shock, "Is it true!"

"Qian Shui-kun..." The boy holding the jump blushed slightly when he saw Mafuyu's reaction, and his voice trembled, "Yes... yes, it was on the last issue of Jump, and the name was "[-] Centimeters Per Second" .”

"It's such a pity! Ah!" Mafuyu sighed, and slumped on the desk and chair weakly, "I have to wait until after school to find the previous jump."

"You...you should read this issue first." The boy closed his eyes and pushed Jump to her side.

"Thank you." Mafuyu raised his head and narrowed his smiling eyes.

"Well!"

He went back in a daze, and his friends complained:
"Mu Qi, you boy, we haven't read "Weekly Shonen Jump" yet!"

"Damn it, you specifically want to sneak away."

"I'm sorry," he apologized softly, startled.

Then he looked back and found that Mafuyu didn't pay attention to what they were talking about, he was relieved and then lost.

Mafuyu was lying on the table, flipping through Jump in boredom.

"Slam Dunk" disappeared from her fingers, and she didn't care.

until……

"Wow! So beautiful!" Mafuyu exclaimed in shock.

She sat up abruptly and looked at the cover.

Under the gorgeous starry sky, the wind is blowing the grass, and the teenagers and girls are sitting together watching the rising sun in the distance.

The stars are dotted, the stars are dotted, and the clouds are spread together. The sky seems to be a huge palette. It does not overwhelm the guests, but blends together just right, giving Mafuyu a huge shock.

The girl was sitting next to the boy, and the backs of the two of them, against the huge sky, gave Mafuyu a sense of loneliness and emptiness.

Only the name of the artist who painted it was extraordinarily huge, affecting the overall atmosphere.

"Painting: Akemi Akimiya?"

"Which teacher is this?" She was a little curious. It was a waste of a painting that could be used as a wallpaper to appear on Jump like this.

"Also, the original work... Bird Akino Mirai!" Her voice grew louder.

Qianshui Mafuyu was startled, and the students in the classroom immediately paid attention to her.

Mafuyu covered his mouth and shook his head violently.

She breathed a sigh of relief when her classmates turned their heads.

Finding that Mu Qi was still looking at her nervously, she patted her chest, expressing that there was no problem.

After no one paid attention to her, Mafuyu's smile gradually became rampant.

"A manga written by Mr. Akino Tori!"

Just by looking at the cover, she knew that this must be a romance comic.

Looking forward to it, under the narration full of prose style, she gradually understood.

In this comic called "Astronaut", the heroine is called Sumita Hanae, and she likes the hero named Takaki Tono.

Hua Miao's well-planned encounters every day are all in order to have a conversation with him.

When Guishu greeted Hua Miao, there was a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were a little sad.

Senior high school students have to fill out a career survey form, Sasaki, who is in the same grade, is going to Tokyo to go to university, and some of his friends are going to Kumamoto to go to a short-term college, but Hanae can't fill it out for a long time.

After school, she refused her sister to drive home with her, and Hua Miao waited in the carport.

When Takaki Tono appeared, his face was flushed with anticipation.

The two go home together.

"If I had a tail like a dog, I wouldn't be able to hide this joy, and my tail would keep wagging." Hua Miao thought.

She fell in love with Guishu in the second grade, and they always went home together afterwards.

In the gaps between going home together, Guishu always texts on his mobile phone.

"It would be nice if that text message was sent to me."

This humble secret love scene, especially the part where Hanae described her wanting to wag her tail in joy, made Mafuyu immersed in it.

"Can't you tell him directly?" Mafuyu whispered.

"Hey!" Someone behind her panicked.

"Muqi-kun," Mafuyu turned around, it turned out to be the owner of this jump, "What's wrong?"

"No...it's nothing..." Mu Qi panicked even more, he pointed at the jump, "Isn't this the protagonist of "Sakura", Takaki Tono!"

Tono Takaki showed a lonely look in his eyes, although he is now a high school student, he still looks a bit like before.

"Is he with Mingli?" Mu Qi asked.

This really diverted Mafuyu's attention, "Akari? Who is it?"

Mu Qi breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "Guishu's girlfriend."

"I understand," Mafuyu thought thoughtfully.

She looked at Hua Miao in the manga and felt pity for her.

It turns out that this is the case, and in the end it was just wishful thinking.

Rejecting Mu Qi's spoiler, she planned to finish "Sakura Copy" slowly after school.

For now, keep watching carefully.

……

"Every time I come to Tohno's side, I feel a dull pain in my heart."

At night, watching Guishu sitting on the grass and texting earnestly, Hua Miao feels far away from him.

Takaki Tono was very gentle, which made Hua Miao feel like crying.

"Unrequited love is so miserable." Mafuyu sighed.

But watching the comics, Mafuyu gradually discovered that Guishu was even more lonely.

With the launch vehicle encountered on the way back, his thinking flew into the universe with the rocket.

Walking alone in the dark, finally...

"Walking with the familiar girl on the grassland of the alien star, I can't see her face clearly as usual, there is a nostalgic feeling in the atmosphere..."

The mobile phone was on the SMS interface, Guishu typed, but did not write the recipient, and finally deleted the letter.

Mafuyu felt suffocated for a while, so it was like this.

Guishu didn't contact Mingli anymore, and she didn't even know what she looked like when she grew up.

Using a rocket as a metaphor for myself, I am boundless in the starry sky, and I don’t know when we will meet each other.

Thinking about it carefully, he was even more desperate than Hua Miao.

After half a year, Hua Miao is ready to confess to Guishu.

But Guishu has always treated her tenderly, and there is no slight change in the long-term relationship.

This kind of gentleness seems to have a sense of distance.

Thinking that the confession would not be successful, Hua Miao couldn't help crying.

At this moment, a rocket was launched behind them.

Under the sunset sky, the rocket quickly flew into the sky, and the tail flame divided the sky into two worlds, one was bright and the other was dark, which was exceptionally distinct.

Watching the rocket go away, Hua Miao understood that in Tono Takaki's eyes, there was no existence of himself.

He kept staring into the distance.

"My expectations of Tono-kun will definitely not come true."

"Even so, whether it's tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, or in the future, I'll still love Tohno-kun uncontrollably."

Hua Miao curled up together and fell asleep with tears in her eyes.

The manga is over.

After reading it, Mafuyu felt unbelievably depressed. The manga is full of vast skies, but it can't soothe her heart.

Akino Tori's "Astronaut" tells two stories.

Hanamiao's one-sided love for Takaki Tono,

There is Tono Takaki's longing for Akari.

No matter which story it is, it seems that it is heading for a bad ending.

Guishu doesn't like flower seedlings, even if they are far away, his life is still bright.

And what about Guishu's longing?
At the end of the manga, in the image, on the grassland, Mingli stood up and looked at Guishu with a smile.

Just like the flying rocket, the love between the two of them may end without a problem.

Guishu has not sent a text message to Mingli for a long time, always typing in the text message interface, sharing his life, and finally deleting it...

"What a sad story..." Mafuyu muttered to himself.

She shed tears silently.

……

"Five Centimeters Per Second" has updated the second chapter.

Sasaki was surprised to find that the number of votes in the reader survey actually reached 602 votes.

Although it is still not as good as "Confessions", it is already a very high score.

Is this what a girl romance manga can achieve?

There is no edge-to-edge content, such as the heroine's panties accidentally exposed, or in the bathroom under the hazy water vapor, she outlines an amazing figure with half-breast exposed.

Without Sese, girls' love comics can crush all the long-form serials.

This is amazing.

"Female readers voted 47%..." Sasaki was taken aback, "Where do these readers come from?"

Are there so many female readers on Jump?

……

"Five Centimeters Per Second" has a third and final chapter.

Naoko Takeuchi finally calmed down from her grief.

In the first chapter of "Cherry Blossom Copy", under the relief of Yoshihiro Togashi, she thought that this story was an open beginning, and she felt relieved.

But there is a second chapter, the name is "Astronaut".

Astronaut-related plots occupy a small proportion in the comics, with only a few frames.

But it is a generalization of Guishu.

He came to Kagoshima and never saw Akari again.

Over time, even communication becomes impossible.

This is like an astronaut on a long-distance voyage to the stars, with an indescribable loneliness.

"Tori Akino is really too much."

In "Astronaut", Guishu always gives her a very lonely feeling, this is his purpose.

If this remark is a bad ending, she really wants to, spray Higashi Hibiki.

Stayed up until Sunday.

Thanks to Fu Jian, she was able to see the sample issue of Jump and knew the plot earlier than other readers.

……

The timeline jumped again, after Guishu and Mingli met for the last time, that is, after the winter of the first year of high school, to the early spring 13 years later.

The petals floated into the bedroom, Guishu stopped working.

Strolling in the streets where the cherry blossoms fell, I walked to the side of the tram track unknowingly.

The siren of an approaching tram blared.

Guishu passed by people, it was a figure from the back that Naoko Takeuchi was very familiar with.

"This is Mingli!"

She widened her eyes in shock, looking forward to it.

Unexpectedly, the beginning of "[-] Centimeters Per Second" is the reunion of two people.

"At this moment, if I turn around, I feel strongly that she will turn around too."

Takeuchi Naoko stared at the manga closely, she saw the barriers fall, and Akari turned her head slowly.

But at this moment, the tram passed by, as in the beginning of the comic, dividing the story line...

"This... hateful tram, hateful bird Akino!" Takeuchi Naoko shouted madly.

She is extremely looking forward to this plot, hoping to see the two continue their relationship.

Just like in "Sakura", they calmly talked about the past after parting, and finally kissed and hugged each other under the cherry blossom trees fluttering in spring.

but!What is this!

There was a burst of anxiety in her heart, wishing to leave clear marks on Higashino Hibiki's face with her hands like a cat scratching a cat's scratching board.

There are thousands of words in my heart, and I want to curse!
"Wait!" She suddenly came back to her senses, looking at the storyboard of Akari turning her head gradually in the manga.

There is a small detail, Akari wears a diamond ring on her left ring finger.

This means Akari is married or engaged...

Thinking of this, Takeuchi Naoko took a deep breath and almost passed out.

Then came the sense of powerlessness.

She continued to read the manga, and Akari was indeed getting engaged.

In the dream, she dreamed about things from the past.

At night, in the snow, the footprints left by the two walking.

Over the long period of time, the two have gradually grown tired of each other, and finally moved towards the farthest direction in their hearts.

"I realized that the feelings that were etched in my heart from the past had disappeared without a trace."

This is Guishu's idea.

The past love events in "Sakura Copy" have faded away under time and space.

"Yesterday, I had a dream."

"A dream from long ago."

"In the dream we were only 13 years old."

"It was in a field covered with a thick layer of snow."

"The lights of the people's houses are far away, and only two sporadic spots can be seen."

"There are only footprints of the two of us on the fresh snow."

"then."

"One day we can enjoy the cherry blossoms together again."

"He and I are steadfast..."

"I think so."

At the end of the manga, the two reminisce about the past, but compared to the present, they are completely different.

"[-] Centimeters Per Second" is over.

It turned out to be such a sad ending at the end.

The tram is not important, what is important is the relationship between Guishu and Akari.

They are not young anymore. In the past 13 years, they have each had their own lives. The proportion of memories from the past has become smaller and smaller, and the deep love has gradually turned into numbness.

So it came to an end.

Takeuchi Naoko understood this.

"It's really realistic, Bird Akino." She was very helpless, what she actually wanted to see was a fairy tale story, not such a powerless love that faded like a cherry blossom.

In May, the cherry blossoms outside the window are almost gone.

Naoko Takeuchi put down the manga, walked into Yoshihiro Togashi's studio, ignored the eyes of his assistants, and embraced him deeply.

……

Since the release of "Weekly Shonen Jump", the landlines of the editorial department have been ringing one after another.

All Angry Readers.

Torishima Kazuhiko didn't care much, he was just a little surprised, "This manga should be aimed at a small audience, but it has aroused such a big response."

"Also, so many female readers."

Jump has reached its peak, and if he wants to develop further, he can only attract young girls readers while attracting the new generation.

Torishima Kazuhiko was troubled by this, and Tori Akino helped him achieve some inexplicable things in the future.

"It's strange."

But he has forgotten the influence of "The Garden of Words".

Higashino Hibiki also left a mark among the young girls, but it was not very good.

(End of this chapter)