Full-time cartoonist

Chapter 82

The last chapter of "The Garden of Words" has finally been printed in a manga magazine.

After waiting for the editor to leave, Akemi Akimiya said, "Can I have a look at Youth Jump first?"

Higashino was curious and handed her the magazine.

Akemi Akimiya took it, took a deep breath, and recalled what Higashino wanted to draw in the end.

It is also the final idea in the work.

This is the first time she reads this manga from the perspective of a reader, or in other words, tries to understand Yukino and Takao.

……

After meeting Takao, Yukino tried to take the tram. It turned out that she was going back to her hometown on Shikoku Island.

This time, she told Xiaoxiong, goodbye.

Xiaoxiong was very disappointed and got up to say goodbye.Even though it was still raining outside, he couldn't stay any longer.

Yukino was crying in the empty room.

She recalled the time with Xiaoxiong, making lunch for her, making her shoes, and that sentence.

"Thunder faintly, cloudy sky, even if there is no rain, I will stay here."

Suddenly she changed her mind, got up in a hurry, and the stool fell aside.

Xue Ye ran out of the room, without bothering to put on his shoes, just like that, with bare feet, stepped out of the line of defense in his heart, and took the step he had always expected.

She ran fast, even if she fell down, she got up immediately, trying to catch up with Xiaoxiong.

Finally, in the rain, she saw Xiaoxiong.

There are many things in my heart that I want to confide in him.

"Miss Xue Ye, please forget what I just said, I actually don't like you at all."

Seeing Xiaoxiong's words, Akimi's heart tightened.

The passionate ditty she had just played and sang in her heart stopped instantly, with a kind of tension that was hard to breathe.

Xiaoxiong said: "From the beginning, you seem to be unlikable."

He gritted his teeth, "Drinking beer early in the morning, there are inexplicable short songs to fool people."

Angry, "I don't mention a word about my own affairs, but keep trying to figure out other people's thoughts. You already know that we are a teacher-student relationship!"

Suffering, "You're too cunning! If I knew you were a teacher, I wouldn't have mentioned shoemaking."

Roaring, "It can't be done anyway! Impossible! Why don't you tell me so!"

"Do you think that it's enough to just perfunctory the children's dreams!"

"No matter how much I yearn for! No matter how much I admire anyone, I can't convey it, it's just wishful thinking!"

"You knew it from the beginning, so make it clear!"

"It's an eyesore, children should go to school obediently!"

"Say you hate me!"

Different words from different lenses, densely packed.

But it is Xiaoxiong, the mental journey of the whole comic.

This is what has been portrayed all the time. After seeing so many words, I won't feel bored. Instead, everything is connected together, and the story has ushered in a climax!
Akemi Akimiya's scalp was numb. Although some of them were drawn by herself, she hadn't felt the emotion of this work until now.

"Is this the thought that Xiaoxiong has been suppressing?"

Akemi Akimiya murmured, watching Xiaoxiong curse Yukino, weeping in pain.

I also shed tears.

Finally, the rain that had been continuous throughout the article suddenly cleared up.

The sun shattered the hazy sky, Yukino threw herself into Xiaoxiong's arms, crying heartily.

Tell him that he is dressed up and ready to go to school every day, but he is always overwhelmed by fear, and it is Xiaoxiong who redeemed himself.

They hugged each other tightly, and a rainbow hung in the sky.

This is the real "even if it doesn't rain, I'll stay here."

At the end of the story, I finally let go.

Akemi Akimiya smiled, she was very happy,
However, I remembered what happened next.

Xue Ye left the city and returned to his hometown to teach and educate people.

The lives of the two parted ways, and life continued.

"Why do you want to do this?" she asked Higashino Hibiki.

Higashino smiled with relief, until now, Miss Akimiya finally felt the same way.

"Then what about you?" Higashino asked back, "What result do you hope for?"

"Of course it is," Akimi Akemi's words were ready to come out.

"I hope the two can be together."

She and Higashino said at the same time.

Blushing shyly, Akimi continued: "If we can be together, it must be the happiest time. For them..."

"Yes." So Higashino turned a page backwards.

A few months later, Xiaoxiong became more calm. He received a letter from Xue Ye, which contained words of blessing for him.

Xiaoxiong has already prepared the pair of shoes for Yukino, and put them in the pavilion in the snowy park.

He was going to find Xue Ye.

"So?" Akimi looked up, "Is it an open ending?"

Higashino shook his head, and turned to the cover of the last episode of "The Garden of Words".

"look."

Akemi Akimiya's eyes lit up, Yukino on the cover was wearing the last shoes made in the manga.

"so it is?"

"Yeah," Higashino nodded.

The two of them are together.

"So...Miss Akimiya, you..." Higashino's words were not out of his mouth.

She threw herself into her arms.

Higashino Hibiki was stunned for a while, and finally hugged her tightly.

"Dongye, I found out that I like you too."

"Thank you, Miss Akimiya."

Looking down at Akemi Akimiya in his arms, Higashino remembered the fireworks festival that summer.

This time, he bowed his head and kissed it.

No need for a mask anymore.

"Hmm, Higashino." Akemi Akimiya murmured.

After a while, she asked shyly, "Want to touch my feet?"

Higashino didn't want to be regarded as a foot fetish, but he nodded for some reason.

"It really is a pervert." Akemi Akimiya said.

……

Naoko Takeuchi finished watching "The Garden of Words", and fell silent for a while.

The final ending didn't quite satisfy her.

The people who were in love parted ways, which made her, who longed for love, very upset.

Princess Naoko has always dreamed of finding her own prince.

Live a happy life with your sweetheart and your children in a lovely cottage surrounded by the fragrance of flowers.

It would be a pity in her eyes that people who love each other don't cherish each other.

Taking out her mobile phone, she made a call to someone.

"Hi, it's Kazuhara Kazuchi."

"I'm Naoko Takeuchi, Mr. Kohara, long time no see."

Ichihara is a jump manga artist that Naoko Takeuchi knew, and the two occasionally meet.

Naoko said she wanted Akino's contact information.

……

Higashino Hibiki was living tenderly with Akemi Akimiya, at this moment, he was simply the happiest.

The "Soul of Chess" manga passed the serialization meeting, and it was not as happy as it is now.

When I heard that Takeuchi Naoko was going to contact him, I just told him the easter egg on the cover, and by the way said thank you for him, then hung up the phone.

"Who is it?" Akimiya Mingmei was curious.

Higashino looked at her feet and drew them with brush strokes.

"A reader of The Garden of Words."

(End of this chapter)