Chapter 85: Shake Hands Like This?
Sakamoto Ken actually thought Natsume Mio would sit in the side seat, since the entire desk wasn’t that big, and he was sitting right in the middle here.
But actually, there was no rule requiring sitting in the middle, right.
Mio kneeling and sitting beside him like this was just like in a traditional family, where the wife sat virtuously beside her husband to entertain visiting guests.
He slightly turned his gaze to the girl beside him. Clearly, when he had seen her at the doorway earlier, her buttons were still fastened up to the collar, but he didn’t know when she had undone the top two.
With the loss of these two constraints, the originally taut shirt fabric immediately parted to both sides. From his angle looking down, it was an even more suffocating abyss.
At this time, Natsume Mio also turned sideways to look at him and said, “I came to find A Jian because we shot a promotional video today, and I’m still wearing makeup. I want A Jian to take a look.”
Sakamoto Ken noticed that she used “A Jian” in this sentence, not “you.”
This meant that although Natsume Mio was looking at him while speaking, this sentence was actually said for Haruna to hear.
“Hey, does it look good?” Natsume Mio smiled and narrowed her eyes, asking.
Sakamoto Ken unabashedly carefully scrutinized the girl beside him. The makeup on her face was very fine, and her eyes were wearing Makima-style circle eyes. When staring, it really gave the sensation of falling into a vortex.
Sakamoto Ken gave an objective evaluation: “It looks very good.”
“Thanks, A Jian~ I properly played Makima for the promotional video of your work.” Natsume Mio said.
“Eh… so, the heroine of Chainsaw Man is Makima?” Mikazuki Haruna interrupted the conversation between the two across from her.
“Of course.” Natsume Mio immediately replied.
But Sakamoto Ken shook his head.
“Eh?!” Natsume Mio said, “A Jian, isn’t the heroine Makima?”
“The heroine is of course Makima, but I’ve never said there’s only one heroine.” Sakamoto Ken said, “As long as it’s an important female character, I shape her as a heroine.”
Natsume Mio’s circle eyes stared at Sakamoto Ken and said, “But there’s still a primary and secondary distinction, right? Makima is the first female character to appear…”
“The first to appear isn’t necessarily the most important.” Mikazuki Haruna said, “Characters who appear later having higher popularity is totally normal.”
Sakamoto Ken nodded noncommittally and said, “Order of appearance has nothing to do with a character’s importance.”
“Exactly, I like Power even more.” Mikazuki Haruna said.
“Hmph, boob pad demon…” Natsume Mio said very disdainfully.
Mikazuki Haruna’s gaze was also involuntarily drawn to Natsume Mio, staring hard for two seconds before shifting her sight away, pretending to admire the scenery outside the window.
In this aspect, she really couldn’t compare to Mio.
Feeling that gunpowder was about to spark between the two, Sakamoto Ken said, “I have no issue with readers liking different characters, but for me, I like Makima and Power equally, and that includes the heroines who will appear in the future.”
“There are more heroines?!” The two said almost simultaneously.
Mikazuki Haruna and Natsume Mio looked at each other, then tacitly locked their gazes on Sakamoto Ken.
“Of course, this is a long serialization.” Sakamoto Ken said matter-of-factly.
“Right, you mentioned before that Denji has an official love interest!” Natsume Mio recalled a name Sakamoto Ken had casually mentioned a few weeks ago. She thought for a moment and said, “Named… Reze?”
“Reze?” Mikazuki Haruna savored the name carefully, but couldn’t tell anything just from the name. She asked, “When will she appear?”
“It’s still early; she’s only in conception right now.” Sakamoto Ken answered.
“Three heroines…” Natsume Mio began to mull over this number.
Haruna also furrowed her brows, equally concerned about this number.
“Why did you design three heroines?” Mikazuki Haruna asked directly.
“Although the three heroines differ in character design, there’s one thing that’s the same.” Sakamoto Ken said.
“What?” The two girls said in unison again.
Sakamoto Ken pondered for two seconds and said, “This counts as a spoiler. Do you want to hear it?”
“Of course, this is just exchanging about manga creation. I won’t tell anyone.” Mikazuki Haruna said.
“Yeah yeah, I’ll absolutely keep it secret for A Jian!” Natsume Mio followed up.
Sakamoto Ken kept an appropriately measured smile and feigned a sigh as he said, “They… have all thought about killing Denji.”
“Eh?” Natsume Mio was slightly stunned and said, “How could Makima think about killing Denji?”
“In the sixth chapter updated last week, Power did think about killing Denji, but at that time she hadn’t integrated into society yet and thought Denji was human, wanting to exchange him for the kitten… definitely no malice toward Denji himself.” Mikazuki Haruna analyzed carefully.
Sakamoto Ken didn’t explain further. He hadn’t thought about it this way before, but now he inexplicably felt he had something in common with Denji…
After just saying that the heroines had all thought about killing Denji, Natsume Mio and Mikazuki Haruna both fell into thought, and the gunpowder in the air immediately dissipated.
Sakamoto Ken took the opportunity to continue, “It’s normal for everyone to like different heroines. Don’t argue over these little things.”
Natsume Mio: “It’s not about the heroines.”
Mikazuki Haruna: “We’re not arguing.”
The two spoke simultaneously again like they had telepathy, but this time the content was different.
“That’s good. From now on, we’ll all be alumni of Kanzaki Art Academy, so you two need to get along well.” Sakamoto Ken said.
When Sakamoto Ken was thinking about the stability of triangles, he had realized that the ending of the previous life was because no triangle formed in the end; instead, it was three line segments centered on him, which couldn’t even be called stable.
To make these points form a triangle, line segments needed to connect between each pair.
He had originally been racking his brains for an opportunity to create safe, stable connections between them, but now they had come right to his door together.
Mikazuki Haruna mulled over Sakamoto Ken’s words. Looking at Natsume Mio sitting beside Sakamoto Ken, she felt this guy was even closer to him than before. You’re definitely sneaking closer to him!
She decisively extended her hand to Natsume Mio and said in a senior-to-junior tone, “Sensei Sakamoto Ken is right! Don’t argue over liking different heroines. We’re all classmates.”
Natsume Mio looked at Mikazuki Haruna’s hand hovering in midair and hesitated as she looked toward Sakamoto Ken.
Then she saw Sakamoto Ken actually reach out and clasp hands with Mikazuki Haruna.
“Please give me your guidance.” Sakamoto Ken said with a smile.
“Eh?” Mikazuki Haruna was slightly stunned. She had planned to shake hands with Natsume Mio, so why did he reach out?!
Natsume Mio and Mikazuki Haruna were equally shocked. She widened her eyes looking at the two hands clasped together, and without thinking for half a second more, hurriedly reached out her own hand too.
“P-please… give me your guidance!”
