My childhood sweetheart is Nishimiya Glass

Chapter 194 The Night Before School Starts

"Tsuna, I'm going back to sleep now. I have to get up early tomorrow." Shoko finished the last bit of water in her cup and stood up.

"You don't have to get up so early," Tsuna said, seeing her walk briskly to the door with an empty cup.

Shoko had been preparing his school lunches since the first semester; if she hadn't, she probably could have slept for another thirty minutes or so.

"Damn." Shoko opened the door, shook her head at him, and walked out of the room, making sure to close the door behind her.

"Click..."

Only after the door closed did Tsuna turn his gaze away, glance at the time '22:13', and continue writing 'Anohana', a story he hadn't finished during the winter break.

Now there's only one volume left to finish writing.

He had complete confidence in this light novel, but unfortunately, he encountered an editor with no vision.

He had chosen an editor at Futaba Publishing House after looking at their resumes, and even submitted his application to one who had been there for four or five years, but he still didn't get accepted...

Gang raised his hand to rub his temples, shaking off the distracting thoughts in his mind, and sped up his typing.

He wanted to finish typing the last few hundred words before 10:30, then quickly go to bed so he could get up early for his morning run the next day.

At the same time, Shoko went downstairs, washed the cup in her hand, put it back in its proper place, and slowly walked to the entrance of the living room.

"Auntie, it's the same as usual tomorrow, no need to prepare a lunchbox for Tsuna."

Shizuka Miyamura stopped her yoga stretches, turned to look at Shoko standing in the doorway, and nodded: "Okay, Ma—"

"No trouble at all, Auntie. I'm going back to sleep now. Goodnight."

Shoko quickly interrupted her, afraid that she might want to say something polite, and waved her hand before leaving quickly.

"Click..."

Shizuka Miyamura stared blankly at the door for a while, only snapping out of her daze when she heard the door close. Then she continued the movements she hadn't yet made.

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"I'm back!"

"Keep your voice down, your grandma and sister are already asleep," Yaeko Nishimiya's voice came from the living room.

"Oh." Shoko gently closed the door, changed into slippers in the entryway, and quickly walked into the living room.

"Mom, aren't you done yet?"

Shoko sat down next to her and noticed that she was still staring at her laptop and ignoring her. She asked with concern.

Without turning her head, Nishimiya Yaeko answered irrelevantly, "Did you see your Uncle Miyamura resting when you came back?"

"No." Shoko didn't know what she meant, but she still honestly shook her head: "I saw Uncle Miyamura still in the study at the time, he should still be working."

As Shoko finished speaking, only the occasional tapping of a keyboard remained in the living room.

"Is there something you want to tell me?"

About ten minutes later, Yaeko Nishimiya stopped what she was doing and turned to look at Shoko, who was sitting quietly beside her, with a puzzled expression.

“Hmm…” Shoko hesitated for a moment, then nodded and paused: “Mom, I want to learn to draw.”

She was already prepared for her mother to reject her and lecture her, but she still couldn't resist asking.

"Hmm." Yaeko Nishimiya nodded calmly. "And the reason?"

When Nishimiya Yaeko mentioned the reason, Shoko somehow seemed to lack the courage to speak out for a moment.

When her godmother asked her why, she could say without hesitation that it was because she wanted to be Tsuna's illustrator.

But when faced with her own mother...

The words of explanation stuck in his throat, and not a single syllable could be uttered...

"Boom...boom...boom..."

Listen to the ticking of the clock on the living room wall.

After a long while, seeing that she was keeping her head down and not speaking, Nishimiya Yaeko chose to speak for her and tell her the answer in her heart:
"You only want to learn it because of Tsuna, right?"

Shoko looked up at her in surprise, but quickly lowered her head the moment their eyes met, making a low sound.

"Um……"

Nishimiya Yaeko added, "You wanted to study art to become Tsuna's light novel author, so you wanted to be his illustrator, right?" "Mmm..."

"Have you ever considered that Tsuna is completely unsuitable to be a light novel author?"

Yaeko Nishimiya had another thought left unsaid: 'He'll be inheriting his father's agency eventually; how will he have time to be a light novel author?'

But she still didn't choose to say it; saying those words would have effectively shut down Shoko's words.

"I do not believe!"

Shoko suddenly looked up, met her gaze, and shouted firmly, "I believe in Tsuna! I've read his novels, and I believe he can succeed!"

The way Nishimiya Yaeko looked at Shoko now was a stark contrast to how cautious she usually was when speaking to her...

"That--"

Seeing that she wanted to say something more, Shoko interrupted her and looked away.

"Mom, get some rest early, goodnight!"

Before he finished speaking, he stood up and quickly went to the living room.

"Click..."

It wasn't until the sound of the glass room door closing that Yaeko Nishimiya came to her senses.

This was the first time Shoko had shown such a tough attitude in front of her, although she didn't hold out for long before giving in...

I turned my attention back to the computer, but found I couldn't concentrate. My daughter's excited expression kept flashing through my mind.

"Ugh……"

Nishimiya Yaeko closed her notebook, rubbed her slightly sore eyes, and was just about to get up to take a shower when she noticed someone standing at the door out of the corner of her eye.

"mom?"

"Did we talk too loudly and wake you up?"

"No." Nishimiya Kei, standing at the door, shook his head with a kind expression, slowly walked over to her side and sat down, pulling Nishimiya Yaeko back from getting up.

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"Ring...ring...ring...!"

"boom…"

Based on past experience, Shoko on the bed simply reached out and turned off the noisy alarm clock before falling asleep again.

"Ring...ring...!"

"boom……"

As her second alarm rang, she reached out to turn it off again, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and sat up in bed.

Because of what happened last night, she didn't fall asleep until around midnight.

I lay in bed for a while, then pulled back the curtains that were covering the window and looked at the sky, which was just beginning to lighten.

He glanced back at the clock, slapped his cheeks to wake himself up, and quickly got out of bed.

First, I prepared lunch with my grandma, and then it took me about thirty minutes to wash up and go back to my room to change into my school uniform.

Why not wash up and change into your school uniform first, and then prepare your lunchbox?

That's because it might make your face look oily, and your school uniform would smell of cooking oil.

Important! I'm afraid Tsuna might smell it.

"Mom, why did you wake up so early today? Didn't you want to sleep a little longer?" Shoko walked into the dining room and saw an extra person at the table. She asked in confusion after she saw who it was.

"Hmm." Yaeko Nishimiya swallowed the food in her mouth. "There's something important at the office today, so I need to go early."

"Oh."

Shoko nodded, walked to her side, pulled out a chair and sat down. Looking at the sumptuous breakfast her grandmother had prepared on the dining table, she swallowed hard.

"If you have any art training classes you'd like to enroll in, just tell me when you get back, and I'll look into it."

(End of this chapter)