[62] New Manga
One hundred and fifty years ago, superhumans appeared in this world.
After a period of chaos, the world returned to peace... the birth of superhumans also became more stable.
Over ninety percent of people worldwide would become superhumans.
At the age of twelve is when superhumans awaken.
And there are many types of superhumans—physical mutations, control over certain things, never choking while eating, instantly falling asleep when they want, and more. Some suddenly gain a memory in their minds.
This memory could be that of a mage, an onmyoji, a warrior, a wizard, or even that of a monster... and even a god wasn't out of the question.
The protagonist—Aoi Tomoya.
At the age of twelve, he also awakened his own superpower...
However, what this superpower was, it would only be revealed at the very last moment of his life.
Due to the widespread existence of superhumans, naturally, various people started using their superpowers for criminal activities.
Naturally, there emerged a corresponding presence... that of heroes.
The protagonist is someone who aspires to become a hero.
This kind of setting was quite common in the future. However... hmm... looking at Iwamoto Yu, who kept saying things like "so cool" and "oh, this ability seems very powerful," and wondering how the story would develop, Kazuya thought about it and didn't say anything more.
"Um, Kurokawa-sensei," Iwamoto Yu suddenly said out loud instead of muttering quietly.
"Huh? What is it?"
"Isn't the beginning for this protagonist... not tragic enough?" Iwamoto Yu carefully suggested.
"Not tragic enough?" Kazuya was surprised. "Isn't it tragic?"
"Yes... but it's just that his childhood friend died, the teacher died, and the parents died. Maybe we should add a little more. For example, this, this. His friend should probably die as well, right? The person helping him should also die. And before the protagonist dies, it's better to make him suffer a bit more. That would be good. Of course, making it even more tragic would be better, it actually emphasizes the protagonist's unwavering determination even after going through all this, right?"
"..." Kazuya didn't speak... was this kid traumatized or something?
The ability setting for the protagonist of his new book was to load saved games—
Just as mentioned earlier, after finishing an RPG, there might be phrases like 'Would you like to restart from the beginning with your saved game?'.
His inspiration came from here.
The protagonist's ability was to load the game from when he died.
To restart meant going back to the beginning of the story, when he first awakened his superpower.
In other words, every time the protagonist died, he would go back to when he was twelve years old, just when he had awakened his superpower...
And he would go back with the abilities he had before he died.
Typically, this would require constant contemplation on how things would unfold and what would happen when he restarted.
However, Kazuya didn't need that.
He just needed to draw the beginning, with sufficient settings, and the rest... could be left to his dreams.
Among them... adding the setting of memories from various people was to give the protagonist room to grow, allowing him to masquerade as this type of power user, and at the same time... to gain knowledge that could make him stronger!
But, this Iwamoto Yu was really ruthless... because the protagonist won't die, was he torturing him right from the start?
He had originally planned to torture the protagonist in the first chapter, and the rest would be about his rise for a while. As for when he would be tortured again? That would be a matter of plot development...
He just added continuous effort, even if he encountered all this, he still remained kind and admired heroes, giving off a character that seemed like a BUG...
And with this effort, he found himself with a childhood friend who was both an ally and a rival... this fulfilled friendship.
After that, he spread some positive energy, occasionally gave the protagonist an EX-level persuasion ability, and with his multiple rebirths, made his persuasion ability appear even more convincing.
In this way, friendship, effort, victory.
These conditions were all satisfied.
He could even try to adapt his personal experiences in dreams into an energetic JUMP manga, accumulating his creative experience.
So, this editor coming over was just... ah, well...
To make him look a bit more like an editor... watching this guy shouting "I'm an editor too" over there, he felt slightly embarrassed himself.
"Well... let's talk about that later. By the way, you can take these things back. I should start preparing to draw this manga."
"Uh—what's the name of the manga?"
"I haven't thought of one yet..." Kazuya looked at Iwamoto Yu and came up with something that made him feel a bit like an editor: "How about this, why don't you think of a name for this manga?"
"Leave it to me? Really?" Iwamoto Yu said excitedly.
"Yes yes, really really, then think about it carefully, I'll let you see the original manuscripts for the first few chapters after I finish drawing them."
"Huh? Original manuscripts again?"
"Ah, because drawing names and such is too troublesome, it's easier to just draw the original manuscripts." Kazuya said, picking up a few blank original manuscripts and placing them on the worktable, then picking up his pen.
"..." This might just be genius...
Iwamoto Yu looked at Kazuya and said with a slight sense of awe... to dislike drawing names and find it tedious, only this person in front of him could probably manage to do it...
The difference between genius and ordinary...
But...
Looking at the character settings in his hands, he took a deep breath.
Although it didn't look like the original version and was printed, it still couldn't calm his inner excitement.
The name of the new manga—
After being an editor for this person for so long... was he finally taking on some editing responsibilities?
Alright!
"Kurokawa-sensei! I will definitely come up with the best manga name!"
"Uh... ah, I know, good luck."
"Yes!" Iwamoto Yu said excitedly, trembling.
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