Chapter 100 One-Day Cartoonist’s Assistant

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“Name: Keiko Hayakawa.

Current grade: A

Knowledge: 73 points

Appearance: 54 points

Character: 94 points

Specialties: cooking 15 points, sports and programs 14 points.

(A total of 360 points is required for promotion to S-class, and the current total is 250 points.)”

It was about to be the final exam soon, so Hayakawa’s academics went up by 2 points with it, and given the current situation, Aoi Natsuki felt that it would be hard to make a big breakthrough in the short term in the area of academics, while the value of the personality should have reached its limit, and the area of looks was basically unchanged as well.

And the system was obviously quite harsh in this piece of determination, clearly Hayakawa’s face value already looked much fresher than it did back then, but it didn’t even have a passing line, until after Aoi Natsuki went to observe the other girls in the school with such a doubt, he realized that most of them only had a value in the range of 40-45 points, which was the range of a normal person’s face value.

The only reason for the low value was mostly from the specialties piece, and all in all Hayakawa fit the profile of an average girl who basically had no specialties.

Looking to the other girls in the school, the scores for the basic specialties piece were all about the same ranging from 20-40 points, with all sorts of specialties, but none of them were elite.

Come to think of it, it’s just ordinary girls after all, and if it’s not ordinary, then the grades are all A’s at least.

And if you want to successfully promote Hayakawa to S, then you need to work on the specialty piece.

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Weekend.

Keiko Hayakawa woke up early in the morning, unable to sleep early because of her promise to Natsuki, and was now standing in front of her closet trying on different clothes.

She used to be a nerdy girl, and didn’t pay much attention to dressing up, but slowly wanted to dress up after she met Natsuki, and started to learn make-up, buy some clothes with her own pocket money, and watch videos on the Internet every day after school to learn how to dress up.

Change doesn’t come naturally, it comes through perseverance and hard work day by day.

But winter clothes will be relatively expensive, Hayakawa did not buy new, just some of the old clothes from previous years back and forth to change wear wear.

“Cheer up.” Once everything was ready, she shook her fist and cheered at herself in the mirror, and then headed to the agreed upon destination.

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“Welcome, gentlemen.”

Ayano Takahashi pushed the door open and greeted the two as they came in.

“Fight, excuse me.” Hayakawa stood in the doorway and bowed nervously at her.

The reason for the nervousness wasn’t so much about coming to Ayano’s house, but rather the fact that she’d been particularly surprised to hear from Natsuki earlier that Ayano was drawing manga and was aiming to become a professional manga artist.

Just the two of them came over to visit today specifically with Natsuki, and also to see how a weekend day goes for a manga artist.

“Yah, I’m a little embarrassed that you’re so formal.” Ayano giggled as she rubbed the back of her head and hurriedly welcomed the two in, “Sis isn’t home today, if you want to cook later on at noon Natsuki, the amount for three people will be enough oh.”

Aoi Natsuki smiled helplessly after hearing that, “You’re quite thoughtful, the words have all been said in advance.”

Takahashi Ayano raised a mischievous eyebrow, she was in charge of the food anyway, plus Natsuki surely made it better than her sister right?

She led the two up to the second floor, Hayakawa following behind in anticipation as much as anything, perhaps this was the charm that came with the fanfic, it could directly influence a reader to want to see what the room where the original author of the anime’s drawing manga actually looked like.

For the record, Hayakawa had always wanted to visit the room where Mr. Firohiko Araki drew his manga!

Aoi Natsuki side eye secretly glanced at a face of anticipation Hayakawa, this is what he had long expected, after all, Hayakawa’s hobby is to watch dramas, buy some anime inside the role of the hand puppet, so far her favorite surprisingly a hand puppet turned out to be the Silver Soul of a hand puppet ornaments named JUST WEAVES, styling some subtle lewdness, the feeling of the meaning of the meaning is not clear.

And based on the feedback from the previous situation, he had taken Hayakawa to make cupcakes and had specifically taught her how to make bento, in addition to the two of them participating in some sports-type activities during their breaks, and surprisingly, all of these entire behaviors had turned into specialties, thus feeding back into Hayakawa’s specialties column.

That would suggest then that some of the behaviors of the initiative can also create specialties, not much, but that’s at least a good direction to go in to boost your score.

It’s just that often taking her to do some exercise things would cause Hayakawa to be a bit moody at times, and occasionally even produce a 2-3 point drop in goodwill, so does this mean that one is actually forcing her to do these things resulting in having a negative impact.

Aoi Natsuki thus also thought for a long time, and finally had a new idea, since doing things that don’t interest you will lead to a drop in favorability, then wouldn’t it be better if he himself went directly from Hayakawa’s preferences, and went to the specialties in reverse.

And preferences and specialties are two completely different concepts, and she wouldn’t have something like “likes to watch fanfiction” written in her specialties section, it’s just a hobby, not really a specialty.

But a lot of specialties can be from hobbies in and of themselves, and thus Aoi Natsuki, after mulling it over for half a day, finally decided to bring her to Ayano’s house.

Yes, a yet-to-be-formed manga artist and an avid die-hard fan of the fandango, the two would get along well with each other.

He had also mentioned the topic to Ayano, and the other had been very welcoming.

The request was granted:

Have Hayakawa come to the house as a cartoonist’s assistant for a day.

“This is the room where I draw my comics, come on in.”

Ayano touched the wall and lit the room’s lamp.

When the lights came on, the first thing that caught their eyes was a calligraphy post hanging on the wall right next to the window, measuring roughly eighty by eighty, with just this one word written on the post, but it was this word that made the originally laughing and joking trio instantly stand in awe.

“Diligence”.

Cartoonists need to be respected.

It was a profession that had condensed the blood and sweat of countless people, and even Aoi, who didn’t know much about the industry, felt a heavy feeling in his heart.

Hayakawa Keiko took a step towards the room, a large bookcase was placed on the right side, the bookcase was filled with past issues of the jp society’s manga publications, and the uppermost tier was filled with manga character’s artifacts, so many of which were ultra-rare items, which couldn’t help but make her, an avid fan, pupils shrunken slightly, and covered her mouth in astonishment to the point that she couldn’t say anything.

Aoi Natsuki exchanged a glance with Takahashi Ayano at that moment, and it seemed that the purpose of the beginning had been accomplished.

With a smile still on her face, Takahashi Ayano trotted into the room and took a deep breath of the odor of rice paper, drawing boards, and ink mixed with charcoal brushes that filled this room, and then turned to Hayakawa with her eyes looking straight at him, and said slowly:

“Welcome to my world ……”