Chapter 43: Pure Shiina Mashiro

For all the comics he signed, he never gave up these additional rights, even if it meant losing out on royalties.

Although he doesn't mind some people who want to contact him to make money after his comics become popular, he still has to observe carefully whether the other party has the ability to do so.

He didn't want his comics, which paved the way for the game, to be adapted into animations by others, as that would be detrimental to the popularity that Johan wanted.

Today is the day when a certain editor wants manuscripts. He usually gives the finished manuscripts to the other party in batches, and today is the day.

Half an hour later, Johan arrived at the place where he had an appointment with the comic editor, which was in a dessert shop.

"Hey, Johan, here, here!!"

As he came in and talked to the waiter, the short-haired beauty sitting at a table not far away raised her hand and greeted him with a smile, motioning for him to come over quickly.

After Johan nodded to the waiter, he walked over and looked at the short-haired beauty in front of him, who was his mother's friend and his current comics editor, Iida Ayano.

After Johan approached the table, he found that Iida Ayano was not the only one sitting there, but there was also a girl sitting next to her, eating cake in small bites like a quiet and cute little hamster.

The girl's temperament is unusually clean and ethereal, as if she is a quiet girl who walked out of a painting. She is tall but a little thin, with long, soft light golden hair draped over her shoulders, skin as white as snow, and slightly phoenix eyes that make her look a little mature.

The overall look is very beautiful, but it also gives Johan a sense of being a fragile beautiful work of art.

Johan recognized who the other person was. After all, there was an older female teacher named Chihiro Sengoku in the school office. If he guessed correctly, this person must be the famous Shiina Mashiro in the art world.

This girl's artistic life so far has been paved with various art awards. Her value cannot be measured by money. At the age of sixteen, she is already one of the world's top artists.

According to Johan's memory of watching TV frequently in the past, the queen of a certain Ying country placed Shiina Mashiro's paintings in the palace.

This is very interesting. All the paintings handed down in the royal palace are treasures handed down from the Renaissance. This means that Shiina Mashiro's paintings are precious enough to be compared with those famous artists in history such as Leonardo da Vinci or Van Gogh.

Without considerable value, it is impossible for her to appear in the palace. Shiina Mashiro's value is no less than that of a princess.

Although Johan knew the origin of this girl, after he sat in front of Iida Ayano, he still raised his eyebrows and looked at the grinning girl and said, "Why did you bring another person here, your daughter?"

"That's not the case!!"

As soon as Johan said this, Iida Ayano, who was keeping a smile on her face, broke down on the spot. If the girl Shiina Mashiro was her daughter, how old would she be?

But if she really had a daughter as cute and talented as Mashiro, she would wake up laughing in her dreams.

Mashiro Shiina, who was eating the Baumkuchen with both hands and licking her white fingers like a kitten, looked at Johan who was sitting in front of Iida Ayano with an innocent and calm gaze.

There was no obvious emotion on that innocent and cute little face.

Johan didn't feel anything when being looked at by two big watery eyes. Shiina Mashiro was very cute and beautiful, and her pure and ethereal temperament would make people move their gazes unconsciously.

However, compared to the temperament of Kasugano's mature body, Shiina Mashiro's purity is far inferior. She really cannot compare to Kasugano's holiness. The mature appearance of Kasugano makes Johan unable to forget it at all.

Iida Ayano, who was standing by, looked at Shiina Mashiro who was like a little animal next to her, and introduced her to Johan with a smile: "She is also a cartoonist, but she just debuted, but she is quite famous. Guess who she is."

As for Shiina Mashiro who is by her side, Iida Ayano really treats her as a troublesome younger sister and takes care of her. She is also a good friend of Shiina Mashiro's friend Rita Ainsworth.

In response to the mysterious tone of Iida Ayano in front of him, Johan suppressed the smile on his face, took out his mobile phone, took a photo of Shiina Mashiro, and then clicked on the picture search.

After a quick glance, he turned the phone directly towards Iida Ayano. The phone was full of superficial information about Shiina Mashiro.

Regarding Johan's behavior, Iida Ayano pouted a little unhappily and said, "Johan is really old-fashioned. He is not as lively as your mother at all."

She and Johan are quite familiar with each other. Since she knows Johan's mother, she naturally also knows Johan himself.

Iida Ayano attended the funeral held at Johan's house.

"What a strange color..."

Suddenly, Shiina Mashiro, who was silently watching Johan ,spoke up. She opened her beautiful phoenix eyes, looked directly into Johan's eyes and said, "Why do you have so many colors?"

The soft tone of voice was like a gentle breeze, so low that if one didn't notice it, it would be an illusion, but Johan was not one of them.

"You also have a pair of extraordinary eyes, great painter." Looking at the girl in front of him, Johan's eyes were free of any emotion. After carefully looking at the other's clear and clean eyes, he also returned the other's compliments.

Mashiro Shiina is very clean inside and out, and her beautiful eyes have a different perspective from ordinary people. The world may be different in the eyes of a painter. Johan doesn't know what Mashiro Shiina sees in him, and he doesn't have much interest in exploring.

The girl showed a hint of doubt in her eyes when she heard Johan's praise.

Although the pure girl is very innocent, she is neither stupid nor dull, it's just her personality.

The girl's sensitive senses and vision showed that Johan had a different "color" from the people passing by, so she was very curious.

"Riddler, go away. Don't talk to me in a language I don't understand. Johan, are you interested in my Shiina?"

Watching the two people talking at a frequency that ordinary people couldn't understand, the somewhat bad-tempered Iida Ayano added salt to the sweets on the table, took a big bite and spoke out.

He even reached out and hugged Mashiro, looking at Johan with his face close to hers and teasing him.

In response to Iida Ayano's suave teasing, Johan took the dessert placed by the waiter, tasted it, ignored the teasing, took out a large bundle of drawings from his handbag and placed them on the table.

"I'm very busy. It seems that you, Ayano, have other purposes for coming here to submit the manuscript this time."

With one hand on the table supporting his chin, his pair of pale blue eyes as bright as the sky stared directly at Iida Ayano in front of him, causing the other person to break out in a cold sweat.

Johan has never delayed his drawings since his debut. When the delivery date comes, he would directly hand over all the drawings to the comic editor in front of him at once. After he became popular and famous, he would give the finished drawings to the other party later.

Now he has taken all the completed drawings of the fifth part of JOJO and handed them over to the other party to work on.

Wanting to divert attention, Iida Ayano let go of the cute little Mashiro, then took the drawing on the table and started looking at it quickly.

Mashiro Shiina on the side was looking at the exquisite drawing in front of Iida Ayano with bright eyes. Although the style of painting seemed very strange to Mashiro Shiina, after looking at it carefully for a while, she was attracted byJohan's immersive style of painting.

"May I take a look at it?"

Shiina Mashiro was attracted by Johan's drawing and spoke while looking at Johan

The girl also knew that it was rude to casually look at other people's unsubmitted drawings, so she politely asked Johan for his opinion.

"Can"

Johan smiled and nodded. He had a good impression of Shiina Mashiro, and he did not refuse the request of the pure and ethereal girl.

He is just a porter who paves the way for the game. Compared with Shiina Mashiro, a girl with extremely high attainments in painting, he is really nothing. It is his honor to be seen by the world's top painters.

After getting Johan's consent, Shiina Mashiro carefully took the draft that Iida Ayano had placed aside, and blinked her beautiful phoenix eyes as she began to read it carefully.

Iida Ayano, who was standing by, naturally wouldn't mind what Mashiro did, after all, the owner of the drawing agreed.

Johan was eating the dessert bit by bit, while Iida Ayano was quickly and carefully flipping through the drawings to check them.

The quality of the work was still impeccable. After quickly looking over the draft, he carefully placed it on the table and put it away under the reluctant gaze of Shiina Mashiro on the other side.

Johan's painting style is as delicate as hers, and has a magic that draws people into the story. When flipping through the pages, it feels like you have really entered into an interesting story and are immersed in it.

This characteristic is what Mashiro Shiina has always wanted to pursue, and Ayano has also talked about the shortcomings of her comics.

"Teacher Dugu, are we still going to sign the contract like before?"

After finishing reading, Iida Ayano started to become serious and started addressingJohan as "teacher".

In response to Iida Ayano's question, Johan said calmly: "Do I need to repeat it a few more times, Ayano?"

"Is it still not working..."

Iida Ayano also smiled bitterly at Johan's answer. She knew it wouldn't work.

After Johan's comics became popular, he kept all the other peripheral rights in his own hands, because if he wanted to make a game, it would be impossible for him to give up these rights.

It's okay to make an animation, but Johan will examine the other party first. He holds the attitude of "better to have nothing than to have something of poor quality". If you just want to use my comics to gain popularity without making them carefully, Johan will never give it to the other party.

For example, after JOJO became popular, many companies wanted to adapt it into animation. Johan rejected many of them after careful selection and intervention, and in the end he only selected one company that had good quality and met his requirements.

Voice actors, animation quality, etc. are all indispensable. Under his obsession, the JOJO trilogy animation appeared in this world, and the fourth part is already in production. The quality of the animation is only stronger than what he remembered in his previous life.

If the previous animation production company is still at a level that Johan is satisfied with, what would happen if he gave the rights to JOJO animation to them?

Johan only regards comics as a necessary means to pave the way for games. He doesn't care much about the profits he gains, and he will not allow anyone to stop or ruin his path.

Iida Ayano herself naturally knows about Johan's obsession in this regard. If she wants to take away the peripheral copyrights from him, it is impossible without strong strength, and Johan will not trust the comic publishing house in this regard.

"Johan, it's not that I won't give up, it's the guys above me who won't give up. Those guys have always wanted to tie you to their chariot." Iida Ayano had some helplessness on her face. After all, she was just working for others. Johan was the son of her best friend, so she naturally wouldn't harm him.

As Johan's value gradually increased, some people naturally wanted to win over Johan.

When it comes to winning over others, he usually makes decisions after careful consideration, but when it comes to things that involve his fundamental interests, Johan will never give in.

Iida Ayano took out a contract from her handbag and handed it to Johan: "Yes, it's still the contract you requested. I originally prepared two copies, but I think they are redundant."

Johan took the contract silently and looked over it carefully. After making sure there were no problems, he signed it directly.

"By the way, Ayano, I won't be drawing the sixth part of JOJO for the time being. I'll have a new comic for you after a while."

"Eh!? JOJO is so popular and has a bright future, why don't you continue to draw?"

After receiving the contract signed by Johan, Iida Ayano was in a very happy mood. Johan was not like other authors who would cancel their payments. This freak had never asked for leave, and every time he handed in a manuscript, he would either give her several issues or complete the whole book.

However, when I heard Johan say that he would not draw the sequel to JOJO for the time being, I didn't quite understand his behavior. After all, JOJO is what Johan became famous for, and it is very popular now. If he continues, the prospects will definitely be good.

Although when Johan was updating JOJO before, he once released a copy of Dragon Ball when JOJO was on hiatus, and although the quality was very good, its popularity was not as high as the current JOJO. She thought that the other party just wanted to take a break and look for some inspiration.

The popularity of the first part of Dragon Ball was second only to JOJO, but when Johan released the Dragon Ball Z series, this comic was completely incomparable to JOJO.

That was the most popular phenomenal comic in Johan's previous life. Although JOJO is good, it is completely inferior to Dragon Ball.

Of course, Johan didn't tell Iida Ayano everything, and there was no need to. He only spoke the facts.

"Don't worry, didn't I tell you that I have a new comic for you, and the quality will definitely not be inferior to JOJO's."

"Oh well."

Looking at Johan's firm and confident look, Iida Ayano swallowed back what she wanted to say. The other party was a capable person and would not do anything without confidence.

After discussing work matters, Iida Ayano was about to talk about a request, and immediately took out some other drawings from her handbag and handed them to Johan.

ps: I went out to help with housework today and came back a little too late.