"Hasegawa! What do you think of this place?" Eriri asked Hasegawa while holding a drawing. Because the two of them had been communicating more during this period, they no longer added the suffix "classmate" when addressing each other.
"Well, it looks pretty good. But the colors here are a bit heavy, and the sense of oppression is too strong. If it starts like this from here, it will lack a certain tension later. The plot here is like this..." Hasegawa made some suggestions to Eriri's drawing based on his own improved painting skills and the plot he created.
Eriri listened to what Hasegawa said, looked at her own drawing, and nodded: "Well, it seems to be true. Obviously, my drawing skills are better than yours, but now I need you to teach me how to draw comics. It's really strange."
"It's all because you are too weak in controlling the plot. I think if you want to be a cartoonist, the kind of original cartoonist, you must improve your ability to create plots."
"You don't need to tell me, I don't know what you said, but I'm a little weak in the plot. I also want to change it, but I can't." Eriri said a little dejected.
"... You actually know what your shortcomings are, so work hard to make up for it. Anyway, you are just a high school student now, and there is still a long, long time."
"Huh, you say it easily." Eriri was angry.
It's not easy to let a person work hard in a direction he is not good at.
"Let's put it this way. If I have time, I can tell you how to arrange the plot. You, if you have time, give me some advice on my painting skills." Hasegawa thought about it and said to Eriri.
Because "Tokyo Ghoul" is suddenly going to be adapted into a manga, Hasegawa has been paying attention to drawing manga for a while. Since he is interested, it is always right to learn more.
After thinking about Hasegawa's proposal, Eriri did not refuse. But Eriri seemed to be hesitant to speak.
"What's wrong, Sawamura?" Hasegawa looked at Eriri like this and couldn't help asking.
"Well, tomorrow is the weekend. I still have a lot of questions to ask you about the plot of Tokyo Ghoul, and you also want to learn painting from me, so, why don't you come to my house on the weekend-"
"Sorry. I may not have much time on the weekend." Hasegawa refused without waiting for Eriri to finish her words.
Then Hasegawa was thinking, is he too close to Eriri, so that Eriri has some inappropriate thoughts about him?
Thinking so, Hasegawa felt that he had to keep a certain distance from Eriri. After all, he really didn't want Eriri to have any misunderstandings about him, nor did he want Eriri to have any thoughts about him.
"Are you thinking about something?" Eriri looked at Hasegawa like this, frowned, and even looked at Hasegawa with a little suspicion.
"Hmm? No, no, I didn't think anything." Hasegawa shook his head quickly, but after thinking about it, Hasegawa still felt that it would be better to be frank: "Um, Sawamura-san." Hasegawa changed his words and called Eriri Sawamura-san again.
Eriri's expression became a little strange when she heard Hasegawa's words.
"Sawamura-san, my goal is the University of Tokyo. So, I will try my best to focus on studying. Well, writing novels is entirely for survival. So, I won't consider other things for the time being, at least before graduating from high school." Hasegawa used such an excuse he had used before.
"Hasegawa, you guy, are you so narcissistic that you think I like you?" Eriri finally couldn't help it, and even laughed a little bit, looking at Hasegawa with a smile and asked.
"Hmm?" Hasegawa was stunned, and then his expression was a little embarrassed. Eriri's performance was overthinking? Sure enough, he guessed wrong. Eriri didn't seem to have that kind of thought about him at all.
"Hasegawa, although you have excellent academic performance, and even write novels, and even draw comics, you have extraordinary talent. But your excellence does not mean that girls will like you, at least I will never like you. So, you guys, don't have any strange ideas about me, okay? And you won't consider other things before graduating from high school? What other things? Dating? Haha. I tell you, Hasegawa, the boys I like must be excellent enough. Well, okay, you are indeed excellent in all aspects. But, but at least, at least I will like more handsome boys. I am a visual animal, I just like handsome boys."
Eriri said to Hasegawa seriously, and even wanted to count Hasegawa's shortcomings, but after counting them, it seems that Hasegawa, this guy, has no shortcomings, at least no particularly obvious shortcomings. Even in terms of appearance, Hasegawa is actually not bad now, and he can be regarded as a handsome boy more or less.
So Eriri finally began to emphasize that she likes handsome boys.
"Is that so? Then I'm relieved." Hasegawa looked at Eriri and saw that she really didn't seem to have any interest in him, and couldn't help but pat his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hey, Hasegawa, what do you mean? Eriri is a famous beauty in Sobu High School. I don't like you, so I let you be so happy?" Eriri was a little puzzled, and a little angry at the same time. After all, even if she didn't like it, Eriri still felt super uncomfortable being treated like this by a man.
"No, no, no, that's not what I meant. I just think girls are troublesome. And what I said is true. At least, before graduating from high school, I really didn't think about finding a girlfriend in school. No matter who it is. That's why I said that." Hasegawa hurriedly explained.
"Tsk, you're fine." Eriri pouted.
"It's just that I'm a little curious. Since Eriri doesn't have any interest in me, why do you want me to go to your house on weekends?" Hasegawa couldn't help asking again.
"I just think it would be more convenient that way. You're just overthinking it." Eriri crossed her arms, turned her head away, and said disdainfully, "As expected of a man, his head is full of such messy things."