The two released their joined hands at the school gate, avoiding the teachers’ disciplinary checks, and held hands again after school.
"I’m back!"
"I’m back."
Shouko, who had changed her shoes, was the first to enter the living room. Seeing the empty room, she was a little confused. "Auntie isn’t ho at this ti?"
"She probably went to the neighbors’ house who moved in next door a few days ago," Tsuna said as he walked into the living room and casually tossed his backpack onto the sofa.
"Hmm..."
Hearing this, Shouko began to recall. It seed that soone had indeed moved in a few days ago, but when they ca to visit her house with gifts, she happened to be at Tsuna’s place.
At the ti, Grandma had even ntioned their na to her, but she didn’t think much of it and quickly forgot. Now, trying to rember... it seed a bit difficult...
"Stop thinking about it, the surna is Uzaki," Tsuna said, raising his hand and rubbing her head.
"Let’s go, let’s go upstairs. Let’s hurry now and send the illustrations to Jun quickly."
Shouko is currently 158 cm tall, and Tsuna is half a head taller than her. He will definitely grow taller later, so he doesn’t need to worry about Shouko surpassing him like before.
As for the new neighbors, he didn’t have much of an impression, only barely rembering their surna. Let alone these past few days, he hadn’t even seen their faces once.
"Tsuna, don’t rub my head, I won’t grow taller!"
"Alright, alright..." He withdrew his hand, casually brushed it off, and took Shouko’s hand, walking towards the second floor.
Only the simple Shouko would believe Takagi’s nonsense like that.
"Click..."
As soon as the door opened, Shouko went straight for soone’s bed with a clear goal. Tsuna was used to it and walked to the desk to press the computer’s power button.
While the computer was booting up, he also checked the eight black-and-white illustrations and two color ones.
In the past half a month, he felt like he had lost a lot of hair, but the result was good. He had perfectly completed the task.
He even drew two more than expected, so wasn’t it a perfect completion?
"Is sothing wrong, Tsuna?" Shouko sat up from the bed, seeing him staring at her drawings without saying anything, and felt a little worried for a mont.
Tsuna shook his head, his gaze returning from the tablet. "No, I was just thinking about sothing."
After speaking, he turned back and smiled at Shouko on the bed, then found Jun’s friend on ’LINE’ and simultaneously sent the illustrations on the computer to her email.
"Jun, I’ve sent those illustrations to your email. Please check if they’re okay."
After waiting for about ten minutes without a reply, he stopped paying attention, turned off his phone screen, and put it aside casually. She should still be at work and not have ti to check ssages.
"How is it, Tsuna? What did Jun say...?"
Unlike his unconcerned deanor, Shouko was nervous from the mont he sent the ssage.
Tsuna shrugged, explained that she was at work, and comforted the nervous Shouko a few tis before pulling her to do howork to help distract herself.
Anyway, just keep her busy.
For the rest of the ti, whenever she asked about the issue, he would skillfully change the subject until Jun actually sent a ssage, ending it.
"Tsuna, send the second volu too. How about I help you check for typos and things?"
Both of their eyes fell on this ssage at the sa ti, and Tsuna was a bit speechless for a mont.
She had co to him a week ago, asking him to send her the second volu, but he had brushed her off.
Since he didn’t know the sales of the first volu yet, he wasn’t very keen on sending the second volu. What if the first volu was cut short?
Moreover, he felt that Jun’s purpose wasn’t just to check for problems, but rather to see the continuation of the book...
"..."
"Jun, did you see the illustrations?"
After sending this sentence, he waited for another ten minutes before receiving a reply.
"I can tell they’re a bit rusty..."
Shouko looked at this sentence, and before she could feel discouraged, she imdiately saw the next ssage.
"But there are no problems with these illustrations. I’ll notify the factory tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and they will start printing."
"Can you finish a sentence next ti?"
Tsuna was a little speechless. For a mont there, he had already started thinking about how to comfort Shouko.
"Tsuna, about the second volu...?"
"It passed, Tsuna!!"
Before he could reply to her, the girl beside him excitedly gave him a koala hug.
"..."
"Congratulations, Shouko Teacher," Tsuna said, unceremoniously dropping her back onto the bed.
"Right, Tsuna, ask Shouko whether she wants to use her real na or a pen na for the illustrator section when it’s printed?"
"Stop, stop, stop, look at this ssage first," Tsuna quickly raised his hand to stop her actions and held the phone in front of her.
Shouko is getting more and more clingy to him now.
However, she used to like being close to him in private; it’s just that everyone was younger back then... in all aspects.
Shouko took the phone from his hand in confusion. "Why does Jun know that I’m the illustrator?"
Tsuna paused at her words and explained, "I ntioned it to her a week ago. I didn’t expect her to still rember."
As soon as he finished speaking, he quickly followed up, "Do you want to use your real na or a pen na?"
As for the illustrator, he hadn’t thought about it that much, so he couldn’t give Shouko any advice on this. It seed like it didn’t matter whether it was her real na or a pen na.
"What should I call it... hmm..."
Indeed, this question was a bit difficult for her, she really hadn’t considered it.
Most of the past half a month had been spent drawing illustrations, coloring, and optimizing...
"No rush, think about it first. It’s okay to tell later."
"Okay, okay."
After speaking, Tsuna casually brushed off Jun on LINE again and found out the exact printing ti, the day after tomorrow.
So, including tomorrow, there is about half a day for Shouko to think of a na.
Seeing that things were pretty much resolved, the two continued to do their howork. Shouko was also able to concentrate on her howork this ti.
It’s just that the result was a little different from what he expected. This ti, Shouko couldn’t calm down. She just wanted to eat sothing good to reward herself.
In the end, she still dragged Tsuna to a famous dessert shop nearby to buy desserts. Seeing her so happy, he didn’t choose to dampen her spirits or anything.
As dusk began to fall, the March wind carried the scent of faint cherry blossoms past the stone street corner, and the setting sun cast the shadows of the two onto the warm curtain of the convenience store.
By the ti the two finished shopping and returned ho, it was already past six in the evening. Originally, after they quit the club, they would normally finish school around 3:30, but with only a few days left until graduation, they had been getting ho an hour earlier.
"Miyamura Auntie, I’m back!!"
"I’m back."
As soon as they opened the door, they slled the scent of fried fish coming from the kitchen.
"Dinner is ready," Shizuka said, walking out of the kitchen wearing a black apron, wiping her hands with a tissue.
"Shouko, Yuzuru just ca to find you to go ho for dinner."
Shouko’s action of changing her shoes paused. She could only obediently put the shoe she had just taken off back on, waved goodbye to the two, and turned to leave Miyamura’s house.
As for why Yuzuru didn’t call her? That’s because from the ti school ended until she got ho, she hadn’t gone back to her house to get her phone...
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