19 Chapter 19

Throw some stones(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)

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After reading the manuscript, Machida was happy that it didn't lost it's interesting part, she was afraid that the quality would be lower than before since he wrote it immediately just after sending the first one. "That was quite good, did you really have the whole story in your head? Then you're quite a monster aren't you?" Machida joked while praising his work. She then noticed that Xander was coloring something and ignoring her. "Hm? What's that? Are you also a mangaka?" She asked trying to make him notice her.

Xander finally put down the coloring materials, as he arranged the 4 drawings in order. The moment Machida saw the drawing she was shocked again, the drawing quality was like a first class mangaka, no, much better. She took the papers as she finally saw the characters of the story in perfect drawing that was so beautiful.

Because of Xander's rush, she can only pick a normal illustrator for his book, so the drawing was not that good. Now that she finally saw what the characters appearance are she can definitely say that the book would sell well if this is the illustrations used in the books. After the characters she saw the drawing Tiamat meteor, it was so beautiful with colorful design that enhanced the drawing much more. She never saw a drawing this pleasing to the eye.

After looking at them for 10 minutes straight, she finally put down the papers while sighing. "Why didn't you draw this before? We could've used this for the illustration of your light novel" Machida asked while looking at him with a vexed gaze. "Ah.. would you believe me If I said I forgot about illustrations..?" Xander said while looking away.

Machida sighed hearing his words "Would you like to use your illustrations for the 2nd volume?" Machida asked thinking that he would accept since it would make his book flourish more. "No, let's not use my drawings, I already promised someone that I'll use her drawings in this book" Xander said while thinking of Shiina.

Machida accepted his words and looked forward to the person Xander recommended. They ate their dinner and went home afterwards.

After eating with Machida, Xander went to Sakurasou, where he was received by Shiina who was drawing in the living room. "Shiina, Good to see you" Xander greeted Shiina because its been a long time since they met. "Um, Xander too" Shiina nodded her head with a smile on her face. They went to the living room where they saw Chihiro with a mask on her face relaxing on the sofa.

"You're back again? Xander" Chihiro said slowly taking the mask on her face. "Yes, I'm here for business" Xander said making Chihiro raised her eyebrows. "Business? With who?" She asked thinking that it might be Misaki. "With Shiina" Xander's words made her baffled but she realized that Shiina is indeed an option.

Shiina tilted her head, wondering what Xander wanted with her. "Shiina, remember that I promised you to draw my work? Why don't you start at easy stage which is the illustrations instead of a hard manga?" Shiina just nodded her head since she doesn't understand the difference between drawing small things and drawing many things, in her mind its just drawing.

"Shiina, I want you to draw the illustrations for 'Your Name'" Xander said making Shiina's ears perked up, she immediately accepted the job, as Xander and Chihiro negotiated for Shiina's pay. "Here, you can use this as a guide if you're lost what to draw" Xander handed a drawing that is the same level as Shiina's painting making Chihiro wide-eyed.

"Who the hell drew this!?" As a teacher in Suimei, a school that is focused on art, she immediately know that this level of drawing was a world class level. She saw many things in her life, but this quality of drawing, she only saw few of them, and most of them were famous in their specific category, so seeing Xander handing a drawing like this is like throwing diamonds to a beggar.

"I did, I was afraid that people wouldn't understand the greatness of Your Name so I made some few illustrations that Shiina can follow" Xander's following words made her question the world's fairness. Xander is handsome, can cook, can write, can draw, how did God made this man? Did God die making this guy? That's what Chihiro thought.

They were amazed by his drawing, it was quite detailed, its almost like they can really feel the character in the drawing. It was the same level as Shiina's painting making them awe even more. "If you can draw like this, why do you need Shiina to draw your illustration?" Chihiro asked the obvious question in this moment. "Actually, I don't have time and I want Shiina to experience drawing a light novel" Xander said while smiling at Shiina which made her blush a little.

"Sigh, you really.. you're the only one who would do this kind of thing you know?" Chihiro said knowing about Author's and their quirks. Shiina was even more happy hearing that, she didn't expect that Xander would care about her that much. After chatting for a hour, Shiina started to get drowsy so they stopped and Xander went home.

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(A/N: Everything that would happen here is a result of Xander acting as he didn't know Kuroka, just because he wanted fun and there would be bullshits too, don't mind it.)

While walking towards his home, Xander saw the black cat again, he smiled and moved behind the cat, his speed is so fast that he arrived in just one step. Kuroka shivered when she felt a presence behind her, she was about to run when she was picked up by her nape. She immediately went stiff thinking that someone strong caught her and was surprised when she saw a young man, clearly a high school student holding her.

"You're quite cute, want to be my pet?" Xander asked while Kuroka was shaking her head refusing his offer. "Oh, too bad" Xander placed her in the ground, Kuroka was about to run when she heard him mutter. "Too bad, and she looks like Koneko-chan too" she immediately stopped and stared at him, she started rubbing her body towards him.

"I see! You really want to be my pet right?" Xander nodded understandingly as if he solved a great puzzle. "You're a being of the supernatural world right?" Xander said as Kuroka stiffened, not knowing how to answer. "Looks like I was right, anyway don't worry, I won't kill you, I said I want you as a pet right?" Kuroka sighed in relief hearing his words but also furious that he's treating her as a pet.

Xander placed Kuroka in his head, making her curl in there as he walked home while whistling. He arrived at his house, he opened a cat food and handed it Kuroka, she was infuriated as she slapped the can of cat food. Xander just laughed as he watched Kuroka's reaction. Seeing Xander laughing, Kuroka dashed towards him and slashed him with her claws imbued with magic, even a high class devil would be cut by this claw.

She was stunned when instead of hearing the human's body being cut, her claws were disfigured in something horrific. There wasn't even a scratch in Xander's body making her scared even more. "Oh are you tickling me?" Xander laughed hard as Kuroka tried hard not to shout in pain.

Kuroka didn't expect the sudden pain as she lost control and turned into human again. "...Huh? Where's the cat?" Xander asked seeing that the cat was missing and was change into human. "Are you perhaps that cat? Oh nice!" Xander asked which Kuroka nodded while holding her broken hands. "That's bad" Xander healed Kuroka's hand with a single touch making her stunned. 'This human can use healing magic? And its good too!' Kuroka thought while watching her already healed hands.

"Now that's done, let's introduce ourselves. I am Xander Ranvil, a human magician" Xander introduced himself as he waited for Kuroka to stand up. Kuroka slowly stood as she composed herself and also introduced herself. "My name is Kuroka, nyaa" The moment Kuroka said her name a dreadful feeling appeared inside of her. She suddenly felt a huge killing intent emerging from Xander, she backed away as she didn't know how she offended this weird magician.

"You...Kuroka right? Then are you Koneko's sister who traumatized her!?" Xander acted as if he's about to murder her. Kuroka got scared by the killing intent of the 'Death' himself.

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