My Cartoonist Girlfriend

"Secret love, are you overthinking it?" Asakura Feng shook his head. "Who would have such a secret love these days? I think it's more like a stalker. Mom is right. When you go out these days, even boys have to protect themselves."

After hearing this, Takasu Ryuji said with a strange expression: "I instinctively want to complain, but it seems to make sense."

"Okay, let's not think about these things. Since Asakura said you only felt it at school, it shouldn't be a big deal." Kitamura Yusaku said, "Let's eat quickly and go see if the clubs are recruiting new members. I'm going to sign up for the school's softball club directly."

Asakura Feng thought that was right, and nothing would happen: "Then let's eat first, and I'll think about it one last time, whether to go to the art department or the literature club."

"Art Club, Literature Club..." Kitamura Yusaku couldn't help but complain, "Are you really going there for the pretty girls?"

"It's mainly because these two clubs are relatively easy." Shrugging, Asakura Feng said, "But I personally prefer the art club because I've always wanted to study art."

I had to look for three artists for Suqing's character design and illustrations before I found one that suited my taste. It really took a lot of effort.

Asakura Kaede had originally thought about drawing illustrations herself, but her drawing skills were only average, at best she could only draw sketches, and she still needed more practice to compare with professional illustrators.

Joining the art club would be a perfect match for my current goal.

"But... it would be even better if there were beautiful girls." Asakura Feng took a sip of his drink and said with a smile, "After I got home yesterday, my parents asked me if I had met a girl I liked. What do you think, do I really need to look for one seriously? Otherwise, I guess they will arrange blind dates for me before I even graduate from high school."

"..."

Takasu Ryuji said in disbelief: "Not really?"

"But it's true." After finishing his meal, Asakura Feng wiped his mouth with a tissue and said, "My dad is fine, but my mom, to be honest, is a little too concerned about my problems. I'm only 16 years old, but she talks as if I'll never find a girlfriend after high school."

After hearing this, Kitamura Yusaku stroked his chin and said, "Hmm...it seems to make sense."

"???"

In the puzzled eyes of Asakura Kaede and Takasu Ryuji, Kitamura Yusaku explained, "During the New Year, my family and I went to visit relatives, and then I saw a magazine at my cousin's place. It did a survey on the proportion of students who fall in love in high school and college. Compared to high school, the proportion of people who fall in love after college has increased significantly. After reading it, I also think that if you want to have a pure love, high school may be the most suitable."

"No, high school is not the best fit."

"Where is that?"

Exhaling, Asakura Feng said seriously: "Kindergarten!"

Takasu Ryuji was silent for a few seconds, then he said, "So, among the three of us, you are the most abnormal."

"I don't deny that."

Asakura Feng accepted Takasu Ryuji's evaluation with a smile and said, "Sometimes I feel that my thinking is a little too unconventional. Okay, now that you've finished eating, let's go accompany Kitamura to sign up for the softball club, and then go to the art club. Takasu, do you want to join the art club as well? I can teach you personally."

"Um... forget about painting. I've never had any talent since I was a child."

After leaving the cafeteria, the three of them went directly to the softball department's club classroom, where there happened to be quite a few people signing up.

Looking at this lively scene, Asakura Feng couldn't help but say, "As expected of a school sports club, there are so many people participating."

"Yes."

Takasu Ryuji also nodded, but at the same time he was a little nervous, wondering if his appearance would cause some problems.

But fortunately, since he was not acting alone like a lone wolf, with Asakura Kaede and Kitamura Yusaku by his side, his momentum was much lower.

Although some people still actively distanced themselves from me, it was much better now.

Chapter 8 This Art Club...

After the registration for joining the club was completed, the three left the softball club and followed the recruitment notice they had seen before to the activity room of the art department.

“It’s a bit quiet.”

Standing in front of the door, I found that there was no sound inside, which was a far cry from the softball club before. But thinking about it, there was a recruitment notice, so there shouldn't be no one.

So Asakura Kaede raised her head and knocked on the door of the activity room.

After a few seconds, a boy's voice was heard from inside.

"I'm coming......"

The door of the activity room opened, and a boy with messy hair who was obviously sleeping appeared in front of the three people. Judging from his face and nearly 1.8 meters tall, he should be a second or third grade student.

The boy saw the three people who appeared at the door, yawned and said, "Freshmen? You want to join the art club? Uh..."

There was a pause in his tone, obviously because he saw Takasu Ryuji with a somewhat vicious look in his eyes.

"Let me make it clear first, I don't have any money to give you."

"..."

After exchanging a glance with the helpless Takasu Ryuji, Asakura Kaede said, "Senior, you think too much. Takasu just has a fierce look in his eyes, but he is actually a very honest person."

"...If you didn't use this kind of evaluation method, I would be more grateful to you."

After listening to the two people's words, the boy roughly understood them. He stepped aside and said, "Don't talk at the door. Come in first."

"Excuse me." x3

After coming in, Asakura Kaede looked around.

This place is still smaller than the classroom where they have classes, but there is a door in the corner, so it seems there is another room inside.

On several cabinets, there are also various sculptures for sketching and various painting tools.

There are chairs, drawing boards, canvases and other things, so it can be said that this is a well-equipped club.

"Please sit anywhere. The school has just started and the art club hasn't officially started its activities yet." After saying that, the boy sat down on the sofa where he shouldn't be in the club. He yawned and said, "Well, I'm the head of the art club, Harukami Akira from Class A, Grade 2. Are you three going to join the art club? It just so happens that the seniors in Grade 3 have all quit, so we're short of people."

Shaking his head, Asakura Feng said, "I want to join the art club, and the two of them came to accompany me to take a look. But...are we short of people?"

Looking at the club activity room, Asakura Feng said puzzledly: "It's obviously a very good place, why is there a shortage of people?"

"The third-year seniors joined the art club out of interest, and they would not choose an art-oriented university in the future. After entering the third year of high school, they basically had to study hard for the college entrance examination, so most of them dropped out. Then several second-year students also left, and I was the only one left."

Leaning on the sofa, after a pause, Harukami Akira said lazily: "Well... it should also be due to my personal reasons. I prefer to sleep, and the club is relatively quiet."

"..."

After hearing what the senior said, the three of them felt speechless.

In such a big activity room, is he the only one left now?

Kitamura Yusaku looked at Asakura Kaede and said, "Asakura, are you still determined to join? If the art club doesn't increase its number of members, this club will definitely not be able to continue."

"It's okay, it's just a small matter. Besides, it's impossible for a club like the Art Club to have no one joining." Shaking his head, Asakura Feng said, "Director, I want to join the club. Can you give me an application form?"

Harukami Akira looked at Asakura Kaede with some surprise, nodded, took out an application form from the drawer of the cabinet and handed it to him.

"Thank you."

After taking the application form, Asakura Kaede took out the pen he carried with him from his pocket and started filling it out.

After finishing writing quickly, Asakura Feng also realized it belatedly and asked, "Boss, don't we need to do any pre-entry assessment?"

"Assessment? No, no, no."

After taking the application form and checking it out and finding that there was no problem, the director shook his head and said, "Even if you are a complete novice and want to join the department, you can. Although I am not a genius, at least I can teach a rookie. So, can you draw?"

“Yes, I studied it for a while.”

"That's fine." The director clapped his hands and said with a smile, "As long as he's not a newcomer, it'll be fine. This way, when the consultant comes to see me later, I'll have an easier time reporting back."

Takasu Ryuji looked at this unreliable club leader, leaned over to Kitamura Yusaku and whispered, "I have a feeling that Asakura has joined a club with some issues."

Although Kitamura Yusaku was a little worried, seeing how worried Asakura Kaede was, he could only say, "Asakura should have an idea in mind. At most, we can come to see him occasionally."

After registration was completed, there was less than half an hour left for lunch break, so Asakura Kaede and the other two said goodbye to Harukami Akira and returned to the classroom.

And just five minutes after the trio left, more people came to the Art Department and applied to join.

......

In the afternoon, Asakura Kaede, who was in class in the classroom, recalled the trip to the art club at noon and always felt that she had some impression of the director.

I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn’t remember it.

"I think he's a main character in the anime like Takasu, but I can't really remember."

After a day's classes were over, although there were not many people in the club, Asakura Kaede felt that since today was her first day in the club, she had to go there at least. So she said goodbye to Takasu Ryuji and Kitamura Yusaku, packed her things, and went to the art club.

But it was different from what he expected. He originally thought that the director would be sleeping, so he could finish his homework in the art department, type quietly for a while, and play games happily when he got home in the evening. But who would have thought that there were three more people here today.

Except for the minister who was still lying on the sofa and resting leisurely, two girls had already sat next to each other in front of the drawing board and started drawing, while the other boy was looking around curiously in the activity room.

Seeing Asakura Kaede coming in, the director also sat up and greeted, "Oh, Asakura is here. We are so lucky today. There are three new people in the art department. If there are five people, the club will not be disbanded. Our advisor will come over later."

"I see, that's really good."

Looking at the three people on the other side, Asakura Kaede said, "Hello, I'm Asakura Kaede from Class C of the first grade."

"Class 1, A, Sawamura Spencer Eriri." The girl with blonde twin ponytails looked at Asakura Kaede with a hint of certainty in her eyes, and introduced herself politely.

Next to her, the cute girl with short hair and a bunny hairpin said a little stiffly: "Hello, I'm Usami Mizuki from Class A of the first year."

Finally it was the boy's turn. He said calmly, "First year, Class B, Subaru Uchimaki."

"Hello, please advise me."

Apart from the tsundere blonde twin ponytails, Asakura Kaede finally remembered everything after sitting down.

It seems that this art department...really has some problems.

Chapter 9: What is the purpose of joining the art club? (Please collect and vote!!!)

The advisory teacher of the art department is a male teacher who is already in his sixties, Mr. Xiaoshan.

After arriving at the Art Department and taking a look, and discovering that there were already four new members, he smiled and nodded, then left without staying any longer. He seemed to be the kind of advisory teacher who liked the students in the club to express themselves freely.

After Mr. Xiaoshan left, the minister lay down again, even taking out a pillow from somewhere and said to the other four people, "Well, I'll take a break. You can move around as you please. You can use the sculptures and drawing paper for sketching as you like. Just put your things away after you use them."

"..."

The two girls were dumbfounded at this point; they didn't expect this to happen.

Eriri looked at the club leader and was stunned for three seconds before asking, "Bull Leader, aren't you going to arrange some homework for club activities?"

"no, I'm fine."

The lying minister waved his hand and said, "You all have a basic knowledge of painting anyway, so I don't need to teach you anything. You can just learn from each other. That's it."

Then, he took out an eye mask and earplugs from his pocket, put them on, and fell into a deep sleep.

Usami Mizuki, who was sitting next to Eriri, pulled Eriri's clothes and asked quietly, "Sawamura-san, is this really okay?"

"You ask me, who should I ask?"

Ying Lili shook her head helplessly and looked at the other two boys in the activity room.

Subaru Uchimaki was already reading an art book from the cabinet, not caring about the club leader sleeping. Asakura Kaede said after noticing Eriri's gaze, "You'll get used to it. I had a feeling this when I came here at noon. This club leader is a bit lazy and casual. But it's good this way, there won't be too many rules during club activities. If there were so many rules and regulations, I probably wouldn't have come to this club."

As he spoke, Asakura Kaede took a drawing board, set it up, and sat down on a chair to the right of Eriri.

"Hmm...I haven't sketched for a while, what should I draw?"

After looking at the sculptures over there several times, Asakura Feng looked at the head sculpture that the two girls were drawing and shook his head: "Forget it, I have no motivation again."

Then, I put down my paintbrush and took out Shonen Jump, which I bought last week but hadn’t read yet.

Subaru Uchimaki also came over and sat down next to Asakura Kaede. When he saw Shonen Jump in his hand, he was a little surprised and asked, "Asakura, don't you draw?"

"I don't have much motivation for now. Anyway, the minister didn't assign any homework. I plan to read the comics I want to read first, and then finish my homework. I still have things to do when I get home."

"are you busy?"

"Yeah, there are a lot of things to do." After flipping through two pages of the comics, Asakura looked at Uchimaki Subaru and asked, "Uchimaki, did you join the art club to improve your painting skills?"

"No." Shaking his head, Uchimaki Subaru said something shocking with a smile, "I joined the club because I wanted to draw my ideal 2D wife."

"..."

"..."

Both Eriri and Usami turned to look at Uchimaki Subaru, as if questioning the truthfulness of his words.

After seeing this, Uchimaki Subaru said in dissatisfaction: "Don't look at me like that, I'm serious! I've had this idea for a long time, to draw a truly perfect two-dimensional wife!"

The two girls curled their lips in disbelief.

Usami looked at Uchimaki Subaru and asked, "Could it be that, Uchimaki-san, you are that kind of...otaku?"

"Well... I guess so. I'm more interested in ACG, so that's why I started learning to paint." Subaru Uchimaki didn't object at all and admitted it with a smile.