Full-time cartoonist

After Kishimoto left, Akimiya Akemi walked out of the kitchen.

"Didn't you stay with Mr. Kishimoto?" she scolded.

Akimiya Akemi was holding black sesame cookies in her hands. They were freshly baked from the oven. They were still steaming and smelled of sesame and butter cookies.

This smell made Higashikata want to move.

He picked up a cookie. The hot cookie just came out of the oven. Hibiki tossed it around but couldn't bear to put it down. After seven or eight seconds, he stuffed it into his mouth, "Huhuhu, it's delicious, it's delicious. How can I say it?" Well, the sugar is just right, so it doesn’t taste greasy. The taste of sesame is unique, and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes. It also has the fragrance of wheat, and it leaves a fragrance on your lips and teeth. Well, you are worthy of being Miss Akimiya."

Akimiya Akemi listened with pleasure, watched Higashino Hibiki reach out for it again, and lightly slapped the back of his hand, "You haven't answered what I asked you yet."

"What? Oh," Hibiki Higashino recalled, "Kishimoto-kun is in a hurry to go home and draw comics. Isn't that the case in our industry?"

Qiugong Mingmei understands.

She put the cookies in the box, wrapped them carefully, and showed a satisfied smile.

Dong Yexiang saw it and licked his lips, "Isn't it for me to eat?"

"I'll make it for you next time." She returned to the bedroom with the package, and after more than twenty minutes, she came out dressed energetically.

"Come out with me."

She took black sesame cookies with her, walked out of the door with Hibiki Hibiki, and knocked on the door of the neighbor's house opposite.

It has been a few days since we moved here. Our neighbors across the street are a mother and daughter. The mother is probably in her 40s, and the daughter is still in junior high school. She is usually there after 6 p.m.

Only then did Higashikata understand what was going on.

This is a Japanese custom. After moving, you bring some small gifts to visit your neighbors. You can always see this kind of plot in anime.

He always forgets to visit his neighbors, but Akimiya Akemi always remembers it.

Not long after knocking on the door, someone opened the door. It was the neighbor's mother.

She had her ponytail hanging down from her chest and was wearing an apron, showing her gentle beauty.

The wife turned sideways and looked at Higashino Hibiki and the two of them suspiciously.

"Hello, I'm Akimiya Akemi from across the street. This is my boyfriend, Hibiki Higashi. I'm really sorry that I came to visit after so long after moving."

Akimiya Minmei bowed and handed the gift over, "It's just a small gift, so please don't take it seriously."

"You're too polite." The wife opened the door, looked at the house number, stood up straight, covered her mouth with a smile, "Please come in and sit down."

"No..." Akimiya Akemi just wanted to refuse.

There was a "good smell" in the room, and a short little girl ran out, took Akimiya Akemi's cookies, and ran back home in a hurry.

"Akane, it's so rude of you to do this." The wife reprimanded with a straight face, then turned to Akimiya Akemi and Hibiki Higashino and said, "Please come in."

The two of them had no choice but to go in.

The house next door is very warm and tidy, with photos of mother and daughter hanging on the wall. Although the living room is large, it does not look deserted at all.

"I need to wash the dishes, please wait a moment." The wife said politely.

She always had a gentle smile on her face, and had the aura of a timeless beauty.

As she spoke, she took away the gift box that her daughter was opening and returned to the kitchen with ease.

"Mom," the daughter complained.

"I want to eat with the guests." The wife turned around and smiled, with a smell that was familiar to Hibiki Higashi.

Dong Yexi also looked like this when he was angry.

Sure enough, my daughter shuddered and didn't dare to mess around.

She then focused her attention on Akimiya Akemi.

"Sister, you look so beautiful."

She should actually be called aunt, Hibiki thought.

But Akimiya Akemi was very happy. She touched the girl's head and said, "Hello, little girl."

"I'm an adult now," the little girl said with her black twintails. She was very cute and would not offend anyone when she stared.

"I am thirteen years old this year, and my name is Akane Nakajima."

"My name is Akimiya Akemi," Akimiya Akemi greeted her reciprocally, realizing that the little girl longed to become a mature adult.

Higashikata nodded and said, "I am Hibiki Higashikata."

Only then did she notice Hibiki Higashikata and blinked, feeling familiar.

"I seem to have seen this brother somewhere..."

Higashino Hibiki was puzzled by her look. Akane Nakajima walked up to Higashino Hibiki, picked up his palm and looked at it.

"There are ink stains on your hands and calluses on the side of your little finger. That's right, you must be Mr. Tori Akino!"

Dong Yexiang nodded, "How did you tell?"

"Sure enough!" Akane Nakajima exclaimed excitedly.

She began to run around the living room excitedly, her twin ponytails fluttering behind her like flags.

The high-end apartments are also well-soundproofed, otherwise the neighbors downstairs would complain if they were like her.

Akane Nakajima roared excitedly, finally causing her old mother to appear. Mrs. Nakajima was holding a dinner plate with three cups of coffee and a cup of milk, and cookies were also placed on the plate.

"Quiet!"

The little girl sat back down safely.

…

"I love Mr. Tori Akino's comics the most!"

Akane Nakajima said the last six words in a row and looked at Hibiki Hibiki with admiration.

Higashino Hibiki was used to this kind of look. He moved his calf calmly, "Thank you very much."

As if she thought Hibiki Higashino didn't believe it, she took out a lot of peripherals, all from "Slam Dunk".

"Sakuragi Hanamichi is so handsome!"

Akane Nakajima was not talking about Rukawa Kaede, which surprised Hibiki Higashino.

He picked up a peripheral, it was a cartoon type, Sakuragi Hanamichi was holding a basketball, looking up and laughing.

"Well, your liking is the driving force for me to move forward."

This sentence made the little girl blush.

Higashino Hibiki added: "Hahaha, I'm joking, but I really think so."

Mrs. Nakajima roughly understood, "So you are the manga artist Tori Akino Mirai. Akane often reads "Weekly Shonen Jump" and asked me to vote for you."

Hibiki Higashino has been interviewed on television and appeared twice, so only the most loyal readers will recognize him.

Normally when he walks on the street, no one pays attention to him.

So this little girl really likes herself, Hibiki Higashikata has no doubt about this.

Because of this, he drew a simple drawing for Akane Nakajima, signed it, and left behind the teachings of "study hard and make progress every day."

Mrs. Nakajima nodded with satisfaction and looked at Hibiki Hibiki with a more friendly look.

…

The four of them ate cookies and chatted. Akane Nakajima was very excited and kept talking about the contents of "Slam Dunk".

"But why isn't there a fight later? I think the teacher's fight scene was particularly well drawn."

Hibiki glanced at his wife awkwardly, and he taught Akane Nakajima earnestly. "Fighting is a sign of immaturity. Sakuragi Hanamichi has grown up and has the basketball he yearns for, so he won't fight anymore."

Akane Nakajima nodded in understanding, but still showed a sweet smile, "Yes, I understand, teacher!"

The little girl still had some baby fat and was so cute. This made Hibiki Higashi feel warm and wanted to have a daughter.

"Xiao Akane, she is so well-behaved in front of you," Mrs. Nakajima complained as she hugged her daughter.

Her name was Rei Nakajima, and she hadn't seen the male owner for a long time. Hibiki and Higashikata didn't ask, fearing that the contact would hurt her.

Hibiya Hibiki replied, "We always release our true nature in front of those close to us."

Eating cookies and chatting, not long after, the topic of marriage came up.

"Well, we are getting married on the Moon Festival." Akimiya Akemi said shyly.

"Then I will call you Mrs. Higashino from now on."

Speaking of this, Hibiki Higashino picked up Akimiya Akemi's palm, put it in his palm and rubbed it, "Japan's constitution stipulates that married couples must change their names to the same name, otherwise I really don't want to change Akimiya's name to Higashino."

He was used to calling Miss Qiugong and didn't want to change his nickname.

Akimiya Akemi was actually a little concerned about this. After all, she had been calling her by the same name for many years, and suddenly it was about to change. When she heard this, she was also a little moved.

Mrs. Nakajima said: "Tori Akino-sensei, you are very good at having this idea."

…

After staying at Nakajima's house for more than an hour, the two stood up to say goodbye and returned to Higashino - Akimiya's house.

“What a welcoming family.”

Dong Yexiang breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's great to have such neighbors." Akimiya Akemi was very happy.

The next day, the Nakajima family also sent gifts. They were not expensive things, but the main thing was reciprocity.

Time soon came to Monday, and "Weekly Shonen Jump" was released.

In the Shueisha building.

There is an editor-in-chief looking at jump.

Shueisha owns many magazines.

Finance, travel, graphic novels, etc.

This editor-in-chief is responsible for the "Basketball Peripheral Magazine", which contains reports on basketball games and related news.

"It is indeed Shonen Jump. A magazine has more than 400 pages and sells 5 million copies every week. It is terrible."

Under the same company, the annual sales of "Basketball Peripheral Magazine" are not as good as the weekly sales of Jump.

However, due to the serialization of "Slam Dunk", the sales volume of "Basketball Peripheral Magazine" has increased by 270% compared with before, which is already the peak in history.

"This method is..." He looked at the comic, which was the C-level evaluation page of Xiangbei, and was stunned for a moment, "Is it an intuitive way to evaluate the team's strength?"

There are also columns like this in basketball magazines, but they are not so ruthless.

"Will I be complained by the team?"

Touching his chin, the editor looked hesitantly.

"But..." His eyes became brighter and brighter, "Maybe it would be better to complain!"

Doesn’t this open up the scene!

He just did what he said, he summoned his subordinates, and he immediately added columns to the next issue of the magazine.

…

"Our team is only B-level?"

Takehiko Orimo looked at "Basketball Peripheral Magazine" and said, "But I'm A-level, so that's not bad."

His team only wrote reviews about him.

This is also due to "Slam Dunk".

In the previous cartoon, Kazuo Karasawa, the coach of Fukasawa Sports University, came to recruit Takenori Akagi. After reaching the top eight in the country, he recruited Akagi to his staff.

Coming with him was Shota Sugiyama, the university's champion ace.

Shota Sugiyama reached the top eight in the country in his last year of high school and won the national championship in college. This was completely the life of Takehiko Orimo.

Since Akino Tori and Takehiko Orisho know each other, and Takehiko Orisho often says that he is a reader of "Slam Dunk", many readers think that Takehiko Orisho is the prototype of Shota Sugiyama.

As a result, Orimagi Takehiko's reputation has skyrocketed recently.

He is very strong and has an outstanding appearance. He is 190 centimeters tall and has a gentle temperament. He has been very popular recently.

"Because of this, the magazine should put me on page three."

After closing the magazine, Takehiko Orimo didn't say anything. He wanted to get the highest level of AA rating.

Still need to work harder!

…

Hibiki stood in front of the window and looked at Akane Nakajima waving to him downstairs.

"Tori Akino-sensei, I'm going to school!"

She was holding her backpack and shouting, "We're going to be late! We're going to be late!" and disappeared in front of Higashikata like the wind.

Higashino Hibiki hasn't put down his greeting hand yet.

"It's really lively." Dongye smiled.

Not long after, the assistants arrived.

Kishimoto also held a basketball magazine in his hand.

"Teacher, this magazine is plagiarizing your idea." He said to Hibiki Higashikata.

"This is not considered plagiarism," Dong Yexiang shook his head and let it go.

After drawing comics for a while, Hibiki received a call.

"Sorry to bother you."

It was Sasaki, and he was also talking about this magazine.

Since it was a comic produced by his own author, Sasaki apologized and then talked about the main things.

I want to authorize my work.

Since the magazine in the manga only had Takenori Akagi's evaluation, Shueisha thought it would be better to put other people's evaluations in the "Basketball Peripheral Magazine".

Written by Hibiki Higashino, a color manuscript costs 50,000 yen, which is nothing. The licensing fee is 5 million yen, which is pretty good here.

Higashino Hibiki agreed. It only took half an hour to earn 5 million yen. No fool would do it.

And if it works, there will be other roles, which is a continuing income.

Sakuragi Hanamichi, Rukawa Kaede, Mitsui Hisashi, Miyagi Ryota...

etc.

…

After the matter fermented for two weeks.

"Do you know "Basketball Peripheral Magazine"!"

"What magazine?"

"Basketball Peripheral Magazine!"

"What basketball magazine?"

"Peripheral!"

"What peripheral magazine!"

"I'm talking about "Basketball Peripheral Magazine"!"

"Oh, what does this magazine do?"

"News about professional basketball players. The new column it has opened is the same as the magazine in "Slam Dunk"! There is also Sakuragi Hanamichi's evaluation!"

"let me see."

The new column is called "Slam Dunk".

On the first page of the review, there is a color draft of Sakuragi Hanamichi.

"Sakuragi Hanamichi:

Height: 189 cm;

Weight: 83kg;

Position: Power forward. "

Under simple data, it is the evaluation of Sakuragi Hanamichi.

"The most talented player in "Slam Dunk" has already become the main player after learning basketball for three months."

"The physical fitness is amazing, he has top jumping ability and ability to stay in the air, and he has great shot-blocking and rebounding abilities."

The evaluation is grade B.

Thanks to the alien space, Nangong rewarded happily.