My childhood sweetheart is Nishimiya Glass

Chapter 281 Half a Month
Only after the gate to the Nishimiya family's house was closed did Tsuna turn his gaze away and continue riding towards his garage as if nothing had happened.

Based on that shout just now, coupled with Shoko's unusual behavior today and what she said after school this afternoon, he had a vague idea of ​​the reason.

After thinking it over, he decided to pretend nothing had happened. As long as he wasn't feeling unwell, he had nothing to worry about.

Not long after dinner, Shoko arrived at Tsuna's house. The feeling of being tiptoed around that morning had disappeared.

Neither of them mentioned what happened that afternoon. Shoko continued drawing her unfinished illustrations, and the two chatted casually.

Sometimes, if there's a small mistake in the illustration, she'll angrily slap someone next to her and complain that they're bothering her.

Tsuna continued to check and revise the light novel while also replying to messages from Kazuno Jun.

"Miyamura-sensei, is it really impossible to change this ending...?"

After waiting a while and seeing that the other party did not reply and the previous message did not show as 'read', Kazuno typed out another sentence and sent it.

"Actually, I think Menma can still be saved. At the very least, she could be the male protagonist's guardian spirit..."

At first, before Tsuna gave her the second volume of "Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day," her guesses about the subsequent plot were similar to Nishikata's analysis.

Unfortunately, not long ago, Tsuna sent her the second volume. She was so excited that she couldn't wait to start reading it as soon as she got home, and then she took the day off the next day...

Especially when she saw the ending, she wanted to run to Tsuna's house immediately, grab him by the neck, and make him fix the ending.

"Ding dong..."

"Ding dong..."

"Ding dong..."

"Tsuna, why don't you check your phone first? What if someone has something important to say?" Shoko said worriedly. "If you really can't, could you put it on silent?"

"It must be harassing messages from Sister Xiaoshun." A-Gang looked away from the computer, picked up his phone, and sure enough, it was true, and there were more than a dozen of them.

"Sister Shun? Is there a problem with the illustrations for 'Anohana'?" Shoko stretched her cute head over to see what was wrong.

"No." Tsuna pushed her head away without hesitation, and rubbed it as he did so. "She just wanted to vent."

"..."

Seeing that Shoko didn't understand, Tsuna explained it to her in detail again, and even showed her the chat history between him and Kazuno Jun on his phone.

"..."

At first, she thought what Gang said was a bit excessive, such as harassing messages, but after reading it, she understood it a little.

Of these dozen or so messages, only one or two contained the main content; the rest were purely harassment, almost all asking if the ending could be changed...

She scrolled up through the chat history. At first, when Sister Xiaoshun asked if the ending could be changed, Gang replied seriously and explained the reasons.

But she asked every other day, and later Tsuna became more and more perfunctory, even going a whole day without replying...

Seeing this, Shoko didn't know what to say, so she handed the phone back to him and continued drawing illustrations, while reminding him to put the phone on silent.

"Can't be changed..."

After replying to the main messages, Tsuna ignored his phone until it was almost 10:30 PM when Shoko said goodnight to him, at which point he picked it up again.

"Miyamura-sensei, but with an ending like that, you might get beaten up when you go out, and you might even receive razor blades in the mail."

"It's okay. As long as I don't hold book signings, no one will know I'm the author of 'We Still Don't Know the Name of the Flower We Saw That Day.'" "..."

For a moment, she didn't know what to reply...

Whether or not to hold a book signing event depends on the author's interest. Holding a book signing event can also generate income for the author by selling merchandise and autographs.

But she felt that with Tsuna's background, he really wouldn't risk getting beaten up by holding a book signing event...

After a few brief words, Tsuna sent Shoko a goodnight message, telling her to go to sleep early, charge her phone, and then enjoyed a baby-like sleep.

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By the end of April, the cherry blossoms had already fallen and turned to dust, but the new green of the roadside trees was becoming increasingly lush.

After the Golden Week crowds subsided, the corner convenience store quietly put up new posters for ice cream, and housewives put away their wool coats and hung their linen shirts on the entryway coat rack.

The mid-May sun began to carry weight, wisteria blossoms hung down beside the shrine's torii gate, and the air was filled with the unique clarity that preceded the arrival of the plum rains.

Half a month has passed, and the sales of the first volume of "Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day" have only just entered the top tier.

It's not bad, but it's not great either; it's somewhere in the upper-middle range. However, the second volume is fine.

On second thought, that makes sense; the climax of this book is in the second half, which is the second volume.

Most people are still hesitant, fearing the second volume will be poorly written, so they haven't bought the first volume. After all, it's a new book by a new author, and there's absolutely no guarantee in that regard.

However, this problem will be solved as long as Tsuna publishes a few more books.

Some people want to wait for the second volume to come out before buying it together with the first volume, so they can enjoy reading them all at the same time.

Meanwhile, during these two weeks, Tsuna also met that chuunibyou girl. To be fair, she was indeed very cute, but being pestered by her was also very annoying.

Tsuna was just a 'passerby' and only brushed past the two of them. He remembered that the two of them seemed to have been together since their second year of high school.

As for Ishida Shoya, who was 'slightly' concerned about him, he was still an 'isolated' and invisible person in the class, so he didn't pay much attention to him anymore.

There is some good news in the past two weeks: a few days ago, he went to Futaba Publishing House to discuss with Kazuno Jun about when the second volume would be released.

After several rounds of discussion, the date was finally set for the second week of summer vacation, around the beginning of August, putting pressure on Shoko...

But not really, since Xiaozi still has about two and a half months to go.

"Tsuna, are you feeling unwell?"

Tsuna felt a small, white hand waving around in front of him, accompanied by Shoko's worried voice.

"I'm fine. I was just thinking about something and got distracted." He shook his head, looking at the swimming pool reflecting the scorching sunlight in front of him, feeling a little like crying.

Good news over, now for the bad news: their class was assigned to clean the pool, and Ms. Nanase had them as the first to be cleaned...

As he had predicted, there were seven people, plus two oxen and horses in their group of five.

"Miyamura, this is an opportunity I worked very hard to get. You should cherish it and not have to go to class."

Just then, Ayumi Azumi's playful voice rang in his ears, intensifying his desire to strangle her.

(End of this chapter)