Chapter 94: A Little Concerned

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“Whew, the body is starting to warm up.”

Ayano sat down in her seat in the dining room with a cup of tea in both hands, squinting her eyes cozily.

Aoi Natsuki, who was sitting across from her, shook her head in amusement, “Does it still feel like a tingling sensation coming from your limbs?”

“Oh! There’s really something! It’s hard to believe that Natsuki you!” Ayano’s eyes suddenly widened.

“No it’s not, it’s a normal natural phenomenon.” Aoi Natsuki interrupted what she was going to say next, “You can just tell me about the short story award online, why do you need to come all the way over here, it’s at least a half hour’s drive from your house to mine, right? How did you get here?”

“I called a cab, only when I got to the entrance of your neighborhood I found that the snow had become thicker, so I had to get out of the car and run over here at a fast pace, hoo…… not freezing to death is really too good.” Ayano is again enjoying a mouthful of tea.

Aoi Natsuki’s gaze fell on the file bag on the table, vaguely able to the manuscript inside, gently pressed down the shell, and the contents of the manuscript inside became clear.

“This is the short story of youthful love you drew half a month ago, I didn’t expect it to win, what did the editor say? Is it possible to have a long-term serialization opportunity?”

Ayano first shook her head after hearing this, and then said in a serious manner, “Long term serialization is not such an easy thing to do, especially in the jp club, there are only twenty or so long term serialized manga artists in a manga publication, and they are all in competition with each other, and there is a weekly readers’ questionnaire to find out the number of votes of this week’s most favorite manga, and if the more than The manga that ranked at the bottom for a consecutive month, then it’s likely to face the waist, so every long term serialized manga artist is doing their best to qualify for such a serialization, and I’m still far from being enough.”

“Well, what is this award?”

“Of course it’s the Newcomer Award, even though it’s only the third prize, but my work is specially posted, and it’s a prerequisite opportunity for long serialization, there may be some short stories that can appear in publications in the future, so maybe someday I can become a long serialized manga artist!”

“Oh, by you saying that, I feel like the word manga artist has become heavy.” Aoi Natsuki nodded thoughtfully.

Still, he felt it was a bit unnecessary to come all the way over here for this.

He turned his head to look out of the house, the snow had started to fall again, and near the glass window, it was already white outside.

Yoshi Sauce had long since been released into his living room, and was now resting quietly on the floor.

“It’s so warm, the floor is hot and huffing.”

“Because I have underfloor heating in my house.”

Ayano stood up from her seat, glancing down at Jijou as she passed it, cute and carefree, “That’s nice ……”

There was a sound of footsteps at the dining room door.

Rina then walked in with a stack of blankets, but since she was a smaller person, the originally neat blankets had become wrinkled and ball-like, and with that, she took them to the living room and placed them on the couch, facing Ayano and pointing to the blankets with constant outbursts of gestures.

“Oh! Thank you for that! Lina.” Ayano didn’t understand exactly what she was talking about, but she roughly guessed it by her movements, and then stopped Rina to her side and shared a blanket with her.

It’s so warm ……

Aoi Natsuki looked at the two people whose movements gradually stood still, this is the plan to stay in my house like this.

“Hmm? What’s this?” Ayano suddenly saw a CD-ROM in the compartment under the glass coffee table and reached out to take a look, “Heartwarming Time Saori Episode, I’ll go! Natsuki you still play galgames originally!”

Natsuki Arai froze, then remembered that she had been playing exclusively on the living room TV the other night, and then it did seem like she hadn’t put it away.

Miscalculation.

“Yeah, why, it’s not normal for guys to play galgames.” Aoi Natsuki graciously admitted.

“Oh …… that’s true, but it does have such a fine picture on it, can I play with it?”

“Well, that’s fine, then I’ll go upstairs and bring the machine down.”

“Good.”

Aoi Natsuki didn’t care about that.

Once the machine is moved down, it is connected to the TV, after which the CD-ROM is inserted, the joystick is handed over to Ayano, and the game begins in earnest.

Aoi Natsuki looked at the time and it was almost time to start preparing for lunch.

And in the living room early in the morning because she was too excited to see Yuki, resulting in a somewhat sleepy Lina now instead, laying down on Ayano’s lap, squinting and sleeping, while Yoshizou had just bathed her during the day yesterday, which carried her into the house, and so she now also jumped onto the couch and slept next to Lina, lying on her back with her belly exposed.

Ayano, on the other hand, was concentrating on her galgame game, and the whole scene was peaceful.

Until a shriek came.

It took Natsuki Aoi, who was wearing an apron, to come out with a spatula.

“What’s wrong?”

Ayano frowned slightly and said, “This plot is so hard, I didn’t expect it to go this way at all.”

Hearing this, Aoi Natsuki grinned, “That’s for sure, this is one of the hardest raiding oriented games in the current galgame game, I also played for quite a long time before I only unlocked some of the girls, if you, just keep up the good work, this game is well-drawn, and subsequently you as a manga artist can draw on it for the characters as well as the plot references, which will be helpful to you. “

“Oh, indeed, it feels like it’s hard, but the plot is interesting! It’s true that I’ll have to work on it more.”

“Well, I’ll keep an eye on you then.” Natsuki Arai turned around and prepared to walk back to the kitchen, but suddenly he stopped and turned back to ask again, “Do you need another cup of tea?”

“Uh-huh! That’s a bother!” Ayano shouted with gusto.

“Awwww ……” Lina on her lap woke up from her nap as well, and by the looks of her it seemed she wanted a drink of water as well.

“Yes, yes, yes, I’ll pour it for you.”

Natsuki Arai then walked back to the kitchen.

While Ayano continued to start the next process of the game, the sound of the stove lighting a fire rang in her ears, and after a few seconds was the sound of chopping vegetables on the counter, and Ayano’s action of operating the joystick paused for a moment, her gaze turning to the direction of the kitchen where the sound was made.

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The snow continued to fall until two o’clock in the afternoon before stopping, Ayano stayed at Aoi Natsuki’s house until five o’clock before leaving, on the other end of the sister’s side of the text message has already inquired about many times, today was supposed to be just to notify Natsuki about this matter of his own awards, the road was cleared and then she called a cab on the Internet.

“Is it really okay to lend me these things, then Natsuki you next ……”

“That’s okay, I don’t think I’m going to be playing many games anytime soon, so you can just take it with you, and hopefully it will help you with your creativity.”

Natsuki Aoi saw Ayano off at the door, carrying the bag with the machine on her back, and after looking at him, and then at the things in her hands, she finally gave a firm nod.

The other hand made a fist and said, “I’ll be cheering!”

“Awwww!” Without waiting for Natsuki Aoi to speak, Rina now cheered with her right hand raised high beside her.

Ayano then left Natsuki’s house as well, and by this time the snow on the streets of the neighborhood was gradually beginning to clear enough for cabs to drive in, so she got in and headed for home as well.

Back home.

Takahashi Mito heard the sound of the door lock unlocking, and figured it was her sister coming back.

Putting down the senbei in her hand, she sat up from the couch until she saw Ayano, who was changing her shoes at the shoe cabinet, and then she also spoke, “Ayano you, you.”

The words had just begun, only to see her younger sister Ayano walking straight to the second floor with an unknown object in her hand, unlike usual when she would greet herself when she came home, she had never seen her like this before.

Ayano, today, looked a little strange.