The next day.
At six in the morning.
Akari opened her eyes in a daze. It was time to get up, prepare breakfast, and send the children to school.
"Husband..."
She tried to push away Takashi's hand, which he put under her neck while sleeping, but this time... 'she didn't grasp anything?''Hmm?' Akari forced herself to look around, only to see that the bed next to her was empty.
"Takashi?"
She was stunned for a moment, asked hesitantly, and muttered: "Did he go to the bathroom?"
But she suddenly thought about it, as if she hadn't felt Takashi had fallen asleep the night before...
She instantly panicked. 'Had Takashi not come back all night?''Where had he gone?' Yesterday she remembered that Takashi went to the computer room after dinner and showering, saying he had work to do, but...
Takashi was not the type to work all night after work.
'Could it be that he went out fooling around at night while she was sleeping and still hasn't come back?'
Although Takashi has behaved well over the years, he has never had any bad habits and has always acted like a good husband and father.
But... her best friend said that the better a man behaves, the more problems he has.
He doesn't show it now, but that doesn't mean he has no problems.
Before, Akari only smiled and didn't take it seriously when she heard what her best friend said.
But now she realized that Takashi didn't fall asleep all night...
She immediately panicked...
'Could it be that Takashi couldn't help but show his flaws?''If not, why didn't he fall asleep all night?' Akari instantly became nervous. She quickly got up, vaguely angry, and planned to call Takashi to see where he was.
But when she got up and went to the table to get her phone, she saw... that the light was still on in the computer study across the hall.
She was stunned for a moment and then took the phone to the study.
Takashi... he was in the study! As Akari breathed a sigh of relief, she saw that although Takashi was neatly dressed, his eyes were bloodshot and he looked dull as he stared at the screen.
She panicked even more, approached Takashi, and tried to shout: "Husband... Takashi! Takashi!"
Takashi continued to stare at the screen with bloodshot eyes, and suddenly he began to murmur to himself: "Everything is meaningless."
"Thousands of years later..."
"Life will end..."
"Morality is meaningless..."
"Identity is meaningless..."
"Faith is meaningless...".
As he said this, his body trembled and he breathed heavily.
It was a very light and heavy breath.
If it weren't for the nearby silence, Akari wouldn't have been able to hear his faint breathing.
But Takashi's breathing seemed to flow with all his might, as if it were the last breath of a dying patient.
"Husband, don't scare me...".
Akari panicked even more; she didn't understand what was happening to him.
At that moment, she unconsciously saw the computer screen in front of Takashi and a cartoon scene, which looked like a cinema.
A man and a woman were in the audience, and no one else was around, but they were smiling at each other.
'Is it because of this manga that Takashi has become like this?' But looking at it, the scene is obviously very warm...
Akari was a little confused, but she still turned around and worried about Takashi, who was obviously in a bad state.
"Congratulations, Yusuke-sensei. The popularity of "The Gods" this week remains at a good fourth place," Kenji Suzuki, Yusuke's editor, told him with a smile over the phone.
"Okay, thank you, Kenji-san."
Yusuke listened to the news, smiled contentedly, and hung up the phone.
Although "The Gods" is still in fourth place,
he didn't feel disappointed. After all, except for the brief plot climax in the previous Bronze City God-Slaying Operation, "The Gods" is still quite flat.
Therefore, it's normal for its popularity not to have increased.
It hasn't even decreased, which shows that it has stabilized.
This also shows that its plot is correct.
Next, it will have another good start.
But now he also knows that giving Yuki and Aoi, who only have a temporary form, a 'knife' as before.
Although it will attract attention and generate heated debates among manga fans, it is not enough.
Yuki and Aoi are too poorly developed, and their death and disappearance haven't caused much emotion or sadness among manga fans.
A lot of space needs to be dedicated at the beginning to create a three-dimensional and popular character that fans like, such as Maine and Dolio in "Edgerunners".
In the end, letting their disappearance be tragic, which will make manga fans feel and react more! So... we can't just focus on the protagonist now.
We also need to shape other characters to improve in the future.
Yusuke already had an idea in mind and decided to shape the other characters.
"Then... let's stage a good show within the academy," he said confidently.
Next, several important supporting roles need to be shaped. As for his protagonist, the loser... forget it, let him mature later.
Now he just needs to remain a loser who never matures.
Yusuke planned everything that would happen next and then reviewed
the six complete volumes of "Edgerunners" that were saved.
Now he has some impressions, not about Edgerunners, but about...
"What a pity, the plot of Chainsaw Man is really disappointing."
Yusuke shook his head. "Is Edgerunners really your peak work? Are you running out of ideas?"
To be honest, he initially looked forward to Chainsaw Man.
He even had the idea of learning the plot and setting of Chainsaw Man as he did with Edgerunners.
So lately he has been watching the plot of Chainsaw Man in his free time.
However, after all that talk, he can only say that both the setting and the plot are mediocre.
The character setting is quite interesting, especially the female protagonist Makima. It must be said that the beautiful red-haired queen lives up to Yusuke's expectations.
And the ambiguous scene with the protagonist is also quite tense.
But if that's all there is to it, it will still be inferior to his Protoss.
After all, the next plot of Protoss will be a wave of continuous climaxes.
"If you continue with this plot."
Yusuke looked at the volume of "Edgerunners" and seemed to be talking to Ren: "I'm going to win now."
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