Chapter 10 [Questions about the artist named Koto]
I'm really curious about Koto's actual username now... I need to ask Yuuki about anyone being a manga artist on the chat group...
Honoka immediatley took out her smartphone as she got back in her apartment and quickly typed her question about the said loli-like woman named Koto via DM on the same chat group app that she had used numerous times now at this point of time.
*Ding!*
"If I remember right there should be two members that are, why?"
Her question was answered, though Yuuki got the impression that Honoka was investigating someone and adds: "Did you meet one of them somewhere?"
"You could say that... I met someone at my publisher's office earlier when my editor said that I had to attend a meeting and that person claimed that she was part of our chat group."
"Really? A lot of people say that but a lot of them are lying since our chat group is pretty famous. What did she look like?"
"She looked like a middle schoolor with a sailor uniform-styled dress that had oversized sleeves covering both of her hands, she had long curled ginger-colored hair with a braid at the right side of it and... oh, she was also a cat humanoid and had sky blue eyes."
Honoka described in a fully detailed answer.
"Hmm... I don't think I've seen her on the other meetups at the previous doujinshi events..."
Yuuki tried remembering if there was a girl that looked like what Honoka described but couldn't... and then she added: "But there's still one of them that hasn't attended one of the meetups so maybe that's her...."
Could that actually be her...? I guess I'll find out if she goes to one of the future meetups...
Honoka thanked Yuuki and logged out of the app and just fell asleep on her bed with her
phone still in her hand...
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How long was I asleep...?
She woke up soon after feeling confused about how and when she fell asleep, so confused that she totally forgot to finish the last chapter of the new volume of her light novel.
In a panic she immediately stood up and slowly stumbled towards her laptop to start and finish it before the next deadline which was in a few hours time....
Damn.... How could I let myself fall asleep when I haven't finished my work yet?!
She began to start where she left of and finished the story with a cliff hanger and a climax that would probably satisfy her editor once she checked it.
The nervous feeling about the thought of how made her editor would get was only one thing that she got scared of when she first missed a deadline, but another was her editor not letting her live the publishing office until she had finished...
With her fingers now hurting she sent her finished draft to her editor's email address before turning off her laptop.
That should do it...
Since now was the perfect time for her to check on what had been going on at the chat group she picked up her phone which she had left by her laptop and she had been ignoring since she started writing a little while ago.
A lot of the messages were from Yuuki just talking about random stuff including her plans for future cosplays along with her upcoming trip back to the US to visit her family, while some where just other chat members that Honoka didn't really know at all.... Seemingly new members that had just joined recently.
Along with a privately sent message from Azuki talking about the other details that she had forgotten to mention about the upcoming photoshoot in Kyoto.
Oh, I almost forgot to ask if any costume was fine to wear for the photoshoot...
She had almost just went with the recently just finished costume for the upcoming photoshoot but she suddenly realised that the photoshoot might have some kind of theme and not just a "wear whatever".
She quickly unlocked her phone and typed a message through direct message to Azuki asking about that said topic.
*Ding!*
"It's gonna be a kimono-themed shoot but the character doesn't matter, you can do any character as long as the clothing is a kimono."
Was what Azuki had said.
With her question now answered she now knows what to do when it comes to the theme and character.
She decided to order a long curly blonde-colored wig like a character from a certain game franchise that had begun in the early thousands as a arcade game online via express delivery along with green contact lenses, now all she had to do was wait for a day for the items to be delivered.
Fortunately she already owned a kimono, it was the a antique kimono that you could get during the edo period which she took out of her closet with it well wrapped since she hadn't worn it in years she was now pretty much ready for the photoshoot.
With that out of that now out of the way she went around her apartment and cleaned it since she has nothing to do after she finished her draft and its currently in the review/proof read process.
Like a vacuum cleaner she cleaned every corner had been cleaned and tidied up.
*Ding!*
A new message from Yuuki had just been received.
"The person you talked about is actually a part f the chat group, I just saw her send a selfie of herself with the username "Kokoro"."
"I thought she was just messing with me..."
Honoka who for some reason doubted the ginger-haired artist when she mentioned being a member of it as well now believed that she had told the truth and wasn't just messing with her.
But she told me in a tone that sounded like she was just joking, I didn't expect her to actually be serious about it...
what a small world, i guess...
Her evening was uneventful and she just went to bed after chatting with the other members of the chat group.
But the next day someone unexpected had visited her apartment...
*Ding Dong!*
Somone rang Honoka's apartment's doorbell again but this time it wasn't her editor that did it but Koto.
With her small build the loli-like girl had been standing on her tip toes to just press the button for the doorbell when Honoka had finally answered.
"Koto? How did you know where I lived?"
Honoka couldn't believe her eyes when she saw her standing in front of her door carrying a paperbag with a brown paper envelope inside.
[To Be Continued...]