"Be careful on the road and come back early tonight!"
Haru stood at the villa entrance like a house husband, seeing Elysia off.
He didn't know about the girl's fighting spirit and her thoughts about earning money to support him. Even if he knew, he would probably just smile calmly.
The so-called "support" was just playful banter between them, essentially wanting to provide each other with a better life.
If Haru's income never improved, it would indeed feel somewhat like being supported.
However, he was now the lead art director of miHoYo Studio, following the generous boss Bronya.
Although he didn't earn as much as Elysia, he wouldn't be reduced to living off someone.
"Mm, Elysia should be far away now. No one else will disturb the house today. It's time to do that thing..."
After Elysia's figure completely disappeared on the horizon, a dark gleam flashed in Haru's black eyes.
He quickly finished breakfast, then returned to his room, somewhat guiltily drawing the curtains and locking the door.
After doing all this...
Haru opened his computer and took out his digital tablet and stylus, his entire demeanor instantly changing.
"It's been more than half a month since the last update. It's time to let the name of Thunderfire Sword ring throughout this world once again!"
At this moment, Haru had already put on his alternate identity from the underground world.
When he was unemployed recently, due to lack of money, Haru had considered the idea of going into the business of drawing doujinshi to make quick cash.
Now that he had found a good job with double the income, the economic pressure wasn't as great.
But this didn't mean Haru was giving up on the idea of drawing doujinshi.
"After all, my account balance only has about a thousand yuan left, and wages won't be paid until next month. In comparison, selling doujinshi directly brings money faster - just put it on the platform with clear pricing, one hand pays money, the other hand delivers goods."
Haru muttered to himself, thinking about what he should draw this time.
As a former art student who failed the entrance exams, he had read extensively and borrowed from the experiences of many masters.
Works by famous artists like Mizuryu Kei, Takeda Hiromitsu, and Kisaragi Gunma - Haru had carefully studied them all. Even repeated loops couldn't make him forget these classic masterpieces.
And this gave Haru the confidence to become the otherworldly Thunderfire Sword.
"To be honest, classics are called classics precisely because they can shine brilliantly in any time and space!"
Various works flashed through Haru's mind.
Any one of them could make the perverted old men of this world go wild with joy, then enter a boring sage time.
But when it came to works that could earn the most money in a short time, it had to be...
Haru nodded thoughtfully and opened an encrypted folder on his computer named "Admiring to Become a Magical Girl."
This work wasn't a doujinshi, but a serialized manga that pushed boundaries like crazy, telling the story of an ordinary girl named Utena Hiiragi who loved magical girls, accidentally became a female executive of an evil organization, and then engaged in various large-scale play with magical girls.
Strictly speaking, "Admiring to Become a Magical Girl" was an all-ages work, but many of its plot segments were more provocative than actual doujinshi.
Haru had casually serialized a few chapters under the Thunderfire Sword account initially.
Not only did no one find it out of place, but the response was quite good, with readers urging him to update every day.
"This is my only ongoing serialized manga, with a fixed readership, which means the subscription numbers won't be low in the short term."
"Moreover, as an all-ages work, 'Admiring to Become a Magical Girl' might even be published as a complete volume after a long serialization, earning another sum of money."
Haru calculated briefly and made his decision.
Speaking of which, before his transmigration, he had also seen the previous work by the original author of "Admiring to Become a Magical Girl" - it was a proper food manga, but by the next work, the style had taken a complete 180-degree turn.
Sigh, understandable.
Proper drawing leads to a dead end, secretly going into the sea fills bags with money.
Haru thought with some empathy.
Hadn't he also considered starting an alternate account to earn some side income because his regular job paid too little?
As they say, being perverted for a moment brings momentary pleasure, being perverted all the time brings constant pleasure... Going into the sea might be hard to sustain long-term, but it's fast!
But enough digressing, back to the main topic.
Haru picked up his stylus, planning to finish the line art for the next chapter first.
Normally, a manga chapter has about twenty to thirty pages.
Plus, Haru remembered the original manga's plot and storyboards, and his drawing ability wasn't bad either. Going all out, he could finish one chapter in a day.
This speed was already quite impressive, but in the extremely competitive manga industry, it was just average.
Tezuka Osamu, hailed as the god of manga, reportedly managed to simultaneously work on 13 manga series at his peak, completing 50 pages of manga per day.
"This level of drawing skill can no longer be achieved through hard practice alone, but depends on talent. I probably have no chance, but Griseo should easily be able to do it in the future, maybe even surpass it."
While working diligently on his digital tablet, Haru thought of the little painting prodigy in the Elysian Realm.
As allies who covered for each other's alternate accounts, Haru still cared quite a bit about Griseo. Their relationship was so good that it even made Elysia a little jealous.
Of course, Elysia wasn't jealous of Griseo, but was curious about how Haru had become closer to Griseo than to her in such a short time.
To this, Haru said it was probably the mutual appreciation between artists!
"I wonder how Griseo has been lately. She should also be secretly drawing manga on weekends, but unfortunately, Griseo has been deeply influenced by my style recently, so it's not good to continue contact, otherwise I might be able to help her review her drafts."
"I just hope Griseo won't use people from the Elysian Realm as prototypes for her next work again. If she gets socially destroyed, I won't be able to help cover for her..."
Haru's thoughts wandered, but this didn't affect his steady pen strokes at all.
Some readers had noticed that Artist E had been influenced by his style, while he had actually learned quite a lot from Artist E as well. At least some techniques from Artist E's shoujo manga were applicable to "Admiring to Become a Magical Girl," making the already alluring scenes even more gorgeous.
Based on the current line art...
The final work he drew might actually be better than the original?!
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