My childhood sweetheart is Nishimiya Glass

Chapter 273 The Secret in the Browser

"Ayumi-chan, why did they call you out just now?"

When she returned to her seat, Shoko couldn't contain her curiosity and asked in a low voice.

Ayumi first looked around to make sure the two people weren't paying attention to them before telling them everything.

The consultant teacher standing next to the podium noticed the two people whispering below but chose not to pay attention and continued to work on his work.

In the north-facing classroom, the smell of turpentine lingered in the shadows of the plaster statues, and the undried acrylic paintings shimmered with a mother-of-pearl-like luster in the twilight.

Having learned the whole story, Shoko gave Ayumi a thumbs up, very satisfied with her handling of the situation.

After a few brief words, the two went back to their own business.

Shoko continued revising the unfinished illustrations, while Ayumi Ajitani stared blankly at the dozen or so circles on the drawing board.

She started to feel a little regretful about joining the art club... During the circle activity, she couldn't understand how Shoko-chan and Miyamura had managed to get through it...

Time passed as Ayumi Ajitani drifted into her own thoughts, and by the time she came to her senses, she had already waved goodbye to Shoko.

"Get in the car."

Shoko didn't move when she heard this, her eyes still fixed on the backpack he was carrying.

"Tsuna, I don't understand."

"What?" He already had a vague idea of ​​what Shoko was going to ask.

"I understand that you have to carry your schoolbag to school in the morning, but why are you still carrying your schoolbag when you pick me up in the afternoon?!"

She didn't voice the question, "Did you do this on purpose?"

Instead, she glared at him with a fierce look, trying to get him to confess.

"I didn't go home after school this afternoon. I went to Shuangye Publishing House to take care of some things." Afraid that she wouldn't believe him, he even took out his phone from his school uniform pocket and showed it to her.

Seeing this, Shoko couldn't say anything, so she could only obediently sit in the back seat, hug him with one arm, and use the other hand to look at his chat history with Kazuno Jun.

As the car slowly started moving, the arm around his waist tightened involuntarily.

His chat history with Kazuno Jun was only a few sentences long. Just as he said, Kazuno Jun suddenly asked him to go to Futaba Publishing House.

Shoko opened her contacts again, glanced at them briefly, and then exited 'LINE'.

Aside from his close friends and other close acquaintances, there was really no one else. He only had a few female friends, but they were all people he knew.

The only person I didn't know was someone I hadn't spoken to in a long time, so there was nothing to doubt.

"Shoko-chan, I heard from Xiaohui that boys' phone browsers often have 'little secrets' hidden inside. Have you seen Miyamura's?"

Just as she was about to turn off the screen and return it to him, the words that Ayumi-chan had told her that morning involuntarily flashed through her mind.

On a whim, she clicked on his browser.

Just as she was wondering if Tsuna was hiding any secrets from her, a page popped up asking for a password, making her frown.

She became even more convinced of what Ayumi Ajitani had said.

She glanced at the receding pedestrians and vehicles out of the corner of her eye, calmed herself down, and slowly entered Tsuna's birthday, but unfortunately, an error message popped up saying 'incorrect password'.

She then tried celebrating her birthday, Aunt Miyamura's birthday, Uncle Miyamura's birthday, Yuzuru's birthday, Hachiko's birthday, and even her mother's birthday.

All the attempts displayed "incorrect password". Just as she stubbornly entered her grandmother's birthday, the page immediately popped up a locked message, telling her to try again in one minute.

"..."

"Glass, we've arrived."

"Ah...oh...oh!"

Shoko got off the bus absentmindedly. On the way, she tried about twenty different methods, exhausting every possible one she could think of. The result, as expected, was failure...

The clever Shoko didn't alert him; she simply returned his phone and helmet to him quietly.

She felt that if she told him now, the little secret in the browser would definitely be destroyed by Tsuna.

At the same time, Shoko was somewhat impressed with her own cleverness, that she could have thought of this.

Suppressing the urge to smile from the impending discovery of Tsuna's little secret, she said "See you tonight" and turned to leave.

"..."

As Tsuna watched her retreating figure, her expression darkening, he momentarily wondered if he had gone too far.

After much thought, I've decided not to pack my schoolbag too full tomorrow...

Shoko wanted to give it away for free, but when I tried to stop her, she got sulky. I couldn't stop her at all!
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In early April, the cherry blossoms in Tokyo had not yet fallen, and a few pink and white petals still clung to the branches. By the end of April, new green leaves had densely covered the tree canopy, and it was already too hot to wear a light jacket during the day.

"Miyamura-sensei, the day after tomorrow, bookstores that have partnered with Futaba Publishing will all have 'The Name of the Flower We Saw That Day' on their shelves."

"This also includes book launch day promotions and small-scale bookstore advertising."

"Tsuna, what's wrong?" Shoko looked at him with a puzzled expression, especially since he had stopped eating and started looking at his phone.

The other three people eating their bento boxes were also drawn to her words, their curious gazes falling on Tsuna.

Tsuna quickly replied with a "thank you" to Kazuno, then put away his phone and shook his head.

"It's nothing. Sister Xiaoshun just sent me a message. Our light novel will be available in bookstores this Thursday."

"!?"

"!!?"

"This is nothing!?" Nishikata couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

"???"

The students eating lunch nearby were drawn to the commotion he made, and they were curious and puzzled about what he was talking about.

However, seeing Nishikata clasp his hands together in a silent apology, he looked away.

Only a few people in the class knew that Tsuna had a physical book that would soon be available for purchase. It wasn't that they didn't want to tell him, but Tsuna was afraid of the trouble, so he had to keep it a secret.

"Did Sister Xiaoshun say anything else?"

Unlike Takagi and the other two, Shoko, as the illustrator of "Anohana," had already heard Tsuna mention that the book would be available this week, so she was relatively calm.

However, I couldn't help feeling secretly delighted, after all, the illustrations in this book were her debut work.

Upon hearing this, Tsuna swallowed the food in his mouth, recalled the message sent by Kazuno Jun, and picked out the important parts to say:
"Futaba Publishing will announce the new book on its personal social media today, and bookstores will conduct limited promotion. The book will be available in the light novel section of the new book area."

"..."

"Excuse me for asking," Ayumi Ajitani said, raising her small, fair hand.

"Ayumi-chan, go ahead and ask."

"Hmm..." she paused to find the right words, "Is this really the treatment a new author and a new book should receive...?"

She knew beforehand that Miyamura was going to publish a physical book, and since she was also interested, she looked up some related information online.

It can only be said that the treatment given to new authors and new books is completely incomparable to that of Miyamura! At most, they can only be put on the new book section of a bookstore.

Because of Japan's backwardness in this area, publishers and bookstores rarely help them with promotion, except for famous novelists.

(End of this chapter)