Full-time cartoonist - #26 - Chapter 26 Tezuka Award Banquet

“Asahina-san, how did you know?” Hibiki asked in shock.

“During the summer vacation,” Asahina Yuko said, “you and Akimiya-sensei met me in the countryside.”

“Why don’t I have any impression…wait a minute!” Hibiki Higashi looked at his painting, covering his hair with his hands, and understood instantly: “Are you the girl wearing the big golden flower hat and taking photos of mantises hunting?”

“Yes,” Asahina nodded and said quietly, “Higashino-san didn’t recognize me.”

“I’m sorry, it’s just that your long black hair left such a deep impression on me that I couldn’t remember your appearance.” Higashino Hibiki quibbled.

It hadn’t been long since I had traveled through time, and the memories in my mind hadn’t been straightened out yet. Moreover, the original owner only knew Asahina as an indifferent classmate and a goddess among friends.

“Asahina-san, even if this is the case, how did you know that I am Tori Akino Mirai?”

“Tori, Akira Toriyama; Autumn, Akimiya Akimiya; No, Hibiki Higashi. The future is a bright future for the three of them.” Asahina’s face was expressionless, but Hibiki seemed to see Conan’s reasoning in this face.

With a little pride.

“And I’ve seen that you live in Akira Toriyama’s house,” she continued.

Hibiki Higashino understood that he was 17 years old and had a similar drawing method to Toriyama Akira – movie-style comic scenes, smooth and easy, easy to read.

When these conditions are combined, the only person who can draw “The Soul of the Game” is Hibiki Higashino.

“Asahina-san, you are so smart.”

“Don’t flatter me, I won’t tell others. I just want to know,” Asahina blinked, as if light was flowing: “Higashino-kun, is the content of your work interesting?”

“Well, it’s very interesting.” Hibiki Higashikata was the most confident on this point.

He is a person with a knowledge base.

Seeing Yuko Asahina nodding thoughtfully, when Hibiki was about to ask her, he saw Akimiya Akemi glare over. So I gave up.

She is a teacher, so give her face in class.

Definitely not afraid of her.

After school.

Higashino Hibiki was surprised. Akimiya Akemi in front had her hair tied up in a high ponytail and her legs were moving very fast.

Before he could call her, she had already disappeared from sight.

Abandoning Yoshii Sankyu, he quickly chased after him.

Higashino Hibiki said to her with a playful smile: “Miss Akimiya, let’s go home together.”

“Call me teacher.” She said coldly.

“Teacher Akimiya,” Hibiki Higashi answered, “Are you angry?”

“I…I…why should I be angry?” She stopped and stood there thinking.

Higashikata looked at her expectantly, “You’re jealous!”

“how come?”

“what is that?”

Akimiya Akemi became entangled.

Although the person in front of me is still a student. But gifted, mature and capable.

Such students…

“When you were in the drawing class, you didn’t concentrate and drew the portrait of Yuko Asahina seriously. And it affected her, so she went on a errand together.”

Yes, I can’t let him waste his talent. I am teaching him strictly.

“As a teacher, of course I’m going to be angry.”

“Yeah!” He nodded sharply, fully agreeing with his idea.

Dong Yexiang shook his head helplessly.

This time I failed, I can only look forward to the next time.

Leave room for the two of them, and there is still hope for the future.

…

November 3rd.

“Didn’t Touya go to school today?”

“He took a leave of absence.”

Nishimura and Kitamoto came to the Art Department and learned the news from Yoshii Yamahisa.

“It’s such a shame, I still want to go eat ramen with him.” Nishimura patted his thigh, “The three of us haven’t had dinner together for a long time.”

“We can only wait until next time.” Kitamoto sighed.

“By the way, Yoshii, come and eat ramen with us!” Nishimura looked at Yoshii Sanhisa expectantly: “That makes us three people again!”

Yoshii Sanjiu nodded, “Dad said that if a friend invites you, if it’s not something important, you have to agree. Well, I’ll go.”

Kitamoto suggested, “Then go to the store at the subway entrance.”

“Set off!”

A trio of friends went for a dinner, and Hibiki Higashino also came to the restaurant.

The ceiling is more than ten meters high and the restaurant is magnificent.

And the people who come and go are even more shining.

“Is that teacher Hirohiko Araki?” Hibiki touched Akimiya Akemi and asked curiously.

“It’s him,” Akimiya Akemi looked at Araki enviously, “his appearance has not changed from when I saw him ten years ago.”

Hibiki Higashino, “Perhaps it will still be like this in another twenty years.”

Akimiya Akemi questioned, “How is that possible?”

“We’ll see.”

The waiter passed by. He took two glasses of juice from the dinner plate and handed one to Akimiya Akemi.

“Cheers.”

Clink glasses and drink it all in one gulp.

“Akinomiya-kun, you are here again this year.”

Someone saw Akimiya Akemi and came to say hello from a distance.

“Miss Akina, long time no see!”

She went to chat with her old friends, and Hibiki Higashino stepped towards the display wall.

Cartoon with winning entry.

From the ranking, you can probably tell the level of the award.

Higashino Hibiki saw from a distance that the top-ranked comic was his “Soul of the Game”.

There is also a familiar person watching carefully.

…

“Torajiro is dead…”

His voice trembled, and the sadness in Shancun Shoudao’s heart turned into a river.

I want to take a look at the level of the “Tezuka Award”. Is it as high as your own works?

After seeing “The Soul of Chess”, I completely lost this idea and became immersed in the story.

Fujiwara Sae was a chess player in the palace during the Heian period and taught the emperor how to play chess.

In a competition to decide whether to stay or go, another chess player Sugawara Kentada cheated. Fujiwara wanted to expose his behavior of insulting Go, but he bit back and accused Fujiwara of cheating.

As a result, Fujiwara Sawei was kicked out of the palace.

Apart from playing chess, he had no other skills. With grief and anger, he committed suicide by jumping into the river.

It was just the pursuit of the “god’s move” in Go that kept his unwilling soul from becoming a Buddha.

Over the course of thousands of years, hatred has been forgotten. Just chasing, waiting for the “hand of God” to appear.

Until a child named Kujizono Torajiro sensed his soul.

So he began to possess the child and began a legendary life.

At the age of twenty, he defeated his teacher and became the heir to the fourteenth Honinbo.

In the following years, no matter how powerful he played against chess players, he always maintained a complete victory.

Here, Yamamura Morimichi saw a kind-hearted child who dedicated his life to Fujiwara Sawei and helped him to still fight in Go after death.

“When Torajiro picked up the chess pieces, his eyes were shining.”

“Give up your love for Go to help others?”

“Torajiro, you are really gentle.”