Tokyo: Who would still fall in love after being spoiled?

Chapter 64: The Victim of Points

The day for Sakurai to treat her to a barbecue as punishment was finally set after the Kitakura High School Listening Club's official application was approved and it had its own activity classroom.

Students will not be working during the summer vacation, so I will have to wait at least another month and a half to have this lunch.

After returning to the rental house, I bought a set meal recommended by the system at the points store for dinner.

I turned on the water heater in advance, read a book for a while, calmed down, and started drawing the second illustration for the latest volume of "The Wasteful Hero".

Before Takeda comes back from his part-time job at the grocery store, I wash and bathe and boil some new hot water.

At eleven o'clock, the sound of the entrance door opening was heard outside. The footsteps paused briefly in front of his room, then gradually ascended the indoor stairs and faded away...

I woke up the next day, washed up, and went to the nearby park for a run with Takeda. I went to school to paint in the morning and finished my manuscript in the rental house in the afternoon... I spent the whole week like this.

When you are busy enough, you can use your points to eat three meals a day on the spot, which can save a lot of time.

Ichinose is at school every day, sometimes even arriving earlier than him.

Saotome would bring lunch boxes at noon. At first, there was no portion for him, but later she felt guilty and asked him if he wanted one.

After that, he returned home half an hour earlier in the morning.

When the last illustration was completed, the work I was going to enter into the Youth Painting Competition was almost finished.

It’s okay to stop writing here and submit your article directly.

But he planned to polish it further, and in his spare time he studied the award-winning works of previous years, looking for what the gold medal-winning works of different age groups had in common in terms of overall style and selection of subjects.

It was another Monday, the sky overcast and drizzling. He walked to school, umbrella in hand, as usual. Before leaving early that morning, he emailed his illustrations for "The Useless Hero" to his editor.

When he was almost at school, he received a response from the editor via Line.

[Sasaki: No problem.]
[Sasaki: Inoue-sensei's drawings are as reliable as ever.]
He read the message, switched the input method to one-handed mode, and started typing and chatting.

[Inoue: I haven't shown it to Kuroki yet.]
[Sasaki: Kuroki even exceeded the real deadline by one day. If it weren't for you, the release date of the new volume would have been postponed.]
[Sasaki: Dare to have an opinion? He has no right to have an opinion.]
The light turned red, and he stopped at the pedestrian intersection, listening to the sound of rain falling on the umbrella. He could feel the editor's resentment through the phone.

Thinking of Asakura, he changed the subject.

[Inoue: I heard that "The Wrong Love" is going to be animated.]
[Sasaki: Ah... Yeah. Did Asakura tell you?]
[Inoue: I heard it from others when I was selecting the voice actor for Kuroki.]
[Sasaki: I see... No wonder.]
Not only Asakura himself, but even the editor's attitude is a bit subtle.

[Inoue: Is animation a bad idea? Is the animation team short on funds?]
[Sasaki: Hmm…]
[......]
wow——

The rain got heavier and the green light came on. He tilted his umbrella slightly forward, walked quickly across the intersection and headed towards the school.

Sasaki: The reason "Wrong Love" was adapted into an anime is because the latest volume of a work that was originally confirmed to be adapted into an anime and had been in preparation for over a year has been poorly received and has lost its value as an adaptation, so a temporary replacement was decided.
[Sasaki: The voice actors, artists, and directors...are all the original cast.]
[Sasaki: The only similar work from the publisher is "Wrong Love."]
[Sasaki: When the editor-in-chief approached me and asked me to ask Asakura about her interest, I thought she would refuse... but I didn't expect that.]
He left his umbrella in the storage room, walked into the school building, changed into indoor shoes, and walked through the empty corridor.

[Mission: Ensure the success of the animation of "Wrong Love".]

[Reward: 200000 points]

Two lines of virtual light flashed before my eyes.

Amid the sound of the heavy rain, the sound of the wind ensemble could be heard in the distance.

(End of this chapter)