Crossover Anime: This is not pure love at all

Chapter 153 Is Pochi going to confess?

In the end, Kuroe Minoru managed to bluff his way out of the situation.

Since he was the only one who saw Yukino's exposed skin, as long as he stubbornly refused to say anything, Yukino had no reason to beat him up.

"Ding-dong—Ding-dong—"

Just as the atmosphere in the booth gradually became quiet and subtle.

Kuroe's phone, which was on the table, suddenly vibrated several times.

The screen lit up, and several message notifications from Line popped up.

From: [Bo Muwen]

Yukino, who was quietly sipping her tea, unconsciously glanced at the ID out of the corner of her eye.

Twilight Text?

This formal-sounding name... seems like a pen name?

Yukino calmly put down her teacup, her gaze seemingly casually falling out the window, but her ears perked up slightly.

Kuroe Minoru didn't think too much about it. He unlocked his phone and opened the chat window with Kasumigaoka Utaha.

[Twilight Text]: Kuroe-kun, are you there?

[Bo Muwen]: Your Pokémon book has passed both the initial and final reviews by the paperback publisher. Moreover, after the editor-in-chief reviewed it, he held an emergency meeting overnight and directly increased the first print run from 100,000 copies to 150,000 copies!

[Bo Muwen]: Moreover, the pre-launch buzz online is quite exaggerated; the overall ranking on "Let's Become a Novelist" has already broken into the top three!

[Twilight Aya]: Congratulations, Kuroe-sensei! If you can maintain a consistent online update schedule, you might just break the record for the fastest new author to break the record on Fantasia Bunko!

Seeing the long string of exclamation marks and slightly teasing words sent by Shiyu, Kuroe Minoru couldn't help but smile slightly.

Data and all that stuff is irrelevant.

The key number is 150,000 copies!

What was the revenue split he signed with back then?

According to the usual price of light novels, a single volume costs around 600 to 700 yen.

15 copies, even at the lowest price of 600 yen, would amount to a total sales volume of 9000 million yen.

Based on a 10% royalty split...

In other words, he could earn a full 900 million yen from the first printing royalties of just this first volume!

If sales continue to be phenomenal, we'll have second and third printings, plus merchandise development and comic book adaptations...

"Wow...that's an exaggeration..."

Moreover, he doesn't have to worry about his enormous wealth being embezzled by banks on the grounds of "how can you prove that this money is yours?"

He had previously won an "unrestricted bank card".

When he first won the card, he thought it contained unlimited money. However, when he tried to insert the card into a bank machine, it showed that there was no money in it.

Later, he asked Dongxue and learned that this bank card could only be used to deposit and withdraw money without limit, and was not controlled by any government department or bank.

"What's so exaggerated?"

Seeing Kuroe Minoru looking at his phone with a joyful expression in his eyes, Yukino Yukinoshita, sitting opposite him, finally couldn't help but ask.

"Cough, it's nothing."

Kuroe Minoru turned off her phone screen, looked up to meet Yukino's probing gaze, and decided to tell the truth.

After all, writing and publishing a book isn't something shameful, so there's no point in hiding it.

"Actually... I wrote a light novel a while ago, submitted it to a publisher, and it was accepted."

"They just messaged me to say that the first print run is set at 150,000 copies."

"Light novels?"

A rare look of surprise appeared on Yukino's face.

She looked the tall, handsome young man up and down.

It can transform and fight monsters.

And you can also write novels, is there anything you can't do!

"You... can write light novels?" Yukino raised an eyebrow with some suspicion.

Kuroe smiled modestly, "The book is called Pokémon, and it's about adventure and collecting strange creatures."

"150,000 copies..."

Although she usually reads classical novels and literary books, she is not familiar with light novels.

However, she usually knows the number of novels published.

Typically, a new author only publishes three to five thousand novels.

If you get good grades, you might earn between eight thousand and twenty thousand.

150,000 copies... that would only be possible for a new work by a veteran author, right?

And if they really sell out completely... it will definitely be a huge sum of money!

"150,000 copies... Even for bestselling authors, that's an incredibly large first print run. How... how did you manage that?"

"Um... this..."

"Oh well, I don't have a penchant for prying into other people's secrets."

Seeing Kuroe Minoru's stammering manner, Yukino gave a helpless laugh and let him off the hook.

"Alright, then, Mr. Kuroe, would you be willing to let me read your masterpiece?"

Kuroe Minoru was stunned for a moment, then instantly realized what was happening.

"Of course, but currently only the first 100,000 words are available online."

As Kuroe Minoru spoke, she sent the "Become a Novelist" link to Yukino's Line.

"If you want to see what happens next, I have more to say..."

"Thirty thousand words will be enough."

Yukino took out her phone and started looking at it.

"Pokémon?"

Yukino's gaze sharpened, and she began to look intently.

As the girl became serious, the surroundings suddenly fell silent again, and Kuroe looked around.

The coffee shop was very quiet; they were the only customers there at lunchtime. Even the waiter who had just served them seemed a little sleepy.

"well……"

Kuroe Minoru sighed. It seemed that the time he spent reading novels with Yukino would be quite boring.

However, just then, his phone rang again.

Kuroe Minoru glanced nervously at Yukino, but Yukino was still engrossed in her novel and showed no signs of noticing them.

He then relaxed and turned on his phone.

Or is it Kasumigaoka Utaha?

With this thought in mind, Kuroe Minoru clicked on the Line icon with the red dot lit up again.

When he opened the app, the message that popped up wasn't from Kasumigaoka Utaha, but from someone he hadn't expected.

"Pochi?"

Kuroe was stunned.

That's right.

That said, apart from taking Pochi, who had been possessed by the Otherworldly God and fainted, home in the past timeline, he hadn't listened to her play the guitar even once since then.

Moreover, when they met in the past, Pochi was possessed and did not see him.

And then there's Boqi's Guitar Hero account posting "be the one"...

hiss……

He completely forgot about Pochettino!

Kuroe opened the chat box, and a long string of gravity-related messages from Pochi immediately appeared.

[Goto Ichiri]: Um... Kuroe-kun...

[Goto Ichiri]: I'm so sorry to bother you!

[Goto Ichiri]: Excuse me... after school this evening... are you free?

[Goto Ichiri]: Can you come to the ruins of the abandoned classroom where we spend every day?

[Goto Ichiri]: I... have some very important things I want to say to you in person...

Confessing/Expressing feelings?

Kuroe swallowed hard.