Laid-Back Life in Tokyo: I Really Didn't Want to Work Hard-Chapter 797 - 474: Embrace, Novel, Support You for a Lifetime_2

Chapter 797: Chapter 474: Embrace, Novel, Support You for a Lifetime_2

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From the moment Akizuki Katsuyama learned of the news that his childhood friend Yasukawa Harumi had passed away in a car accident and that his mother had died in the hospital, his girlfriend’s ruthless departure left him with no attachment to this city.

He began to flee, to escape from the city where he had struggled for ten years only to lose everything, Tokyo.

He bought a ticket to an unknown destination, carrying only a little money, and started to leave Tokyo, wanting only to escape as far as possible.

Akisuki sat silently on the train headed to an unknown destination, staring out the window, watching his reflection in the mirror alternate and shift with the constantly passing scenery outside.

Only in this way, watching scenes he had never seen before, could he feel a bit better.

The train kept running for several days, and he sat dazed in his seat for several days.

When hungry, he would get off and buy two cups of instant noodles to eat. Once full, he’d find another train and continue to the next spot where he felt he should stop, repeating this process.

It wasn’t until he ran out of money for tickets that he stopped, squatting in a dimly lit station, dazed and dispirited.

It was only when his legs went numb from squatting that he thought of walking outside the station for a stroll.

He didn’t observe this city closely but knew it wasn’t Tokyo for sure, as the night here wasn’t bustling, just very quiet, silently so.

...

Uesugi Sakura exhaled lightly as she wrote to this point, burying her head under the drawing board, starting to depict how the male protagonist muddled through the night and met the female protagonist Hanabi Chiwa at a café, just about to open.

"Sakura-kun."

Just when Uesugi Sakura was getting into it, Hanamaru Hanabi reminded her from the side.

Uesugi Sakura instinctively looked up, realizing Professor Ebitani was looking at her with a smile on his face.

"If I’m not mistaken, you are Uesugi, right?"

"Yes." Uesugi Sakura closed the draft she was revising halfway.

"What are you doing?" Professor Ebitani glanced at the small notebook in her hands.

"Writing a novel." Uesugi Sakura was very honest.

"Oh? Has your novel been published?"

"Not yet."

"So, at this moment, it’s still a hobby, right."

"Right."

"Since it’s a hobby, I hope you finish the sketches first before developing your hobby. That’s a suggestion from your teacher; otherwise, your grades at the end of the term could be uncertain."

Uesugi Sakura thought Professor Ebitani would scold her, possibly making her draw over a hundred sketches, but unexpectedly, he was so kind.

After Professor Ebitani finished speaking and left, Kitagawa Sakisa came over with a curious face: "Uesugi, are you writing a novel?"

"Yes."

"Can I see it?"

"I found a problem," Uesugi Sakura said.

"What?"

"It’s that everyone around me who hears I’m writing a novel becomes very curious and wants to see my unfinished work."

Kitagawa Sakisa retracted her head that was reaching out, looking at him and saying, "Come on, we are just purely curious. Besides, being an author is quite mysterious. I’m really interested in how they write those love-hate stories."

"Yes." Uesugi Sakura nodded, indicating she was listening.

"So," Kitagawa Sakisa continued to ask, "let me see it first?"

"Not now. When my novel is published, feel free to buy it and read it."

"Let me see now, and when it’s published, I’ll fill two warehouses with your books to ensure your novel isn’t axed due to a lack of readers." Kitagawa Sakisa giggled.

"..."

Regardless of anything else, with this lady’s financial power, she’s not just bragging.

"That’s not the point."

"What’s there not to get? Don’t you write novels to make money? Let me see now, and I guarantee you’ll earn plenty."

Uesugi Sakura shook her head, saying: "It’s not that simple. Besides, I don’t lack money right now, though I can’t buy an estate, but supporting Hanabi is not a problem."

"Hanabi-chan, Uesugi Sakura is calling you." Kitagawa Sakisa turned her sight to Hanamaru Hanabi on the other side.

"Hmm?"

Hanamaru Hanabi, who was drawing, looked at Uesugi Sakura with a puzzled gaze, "What’s up?"

Kitagawa Sakisa covered part of her mouth with her hand, laughing as she said to her, "I heard it just now, Uesugi Sakura said he wants to support you for life."

Hanamaru Hanabi’s gaze turned to Uesugi Sakura again.

He nodded firmly: "That’s right, it’s true."

"Hanabi knows, but... why say such things in the classroom, Sakura-kun?"

For a moment, Uesugi Sakura really didn’t know how to reply, so he just glared at the meddling Kitagawa Sakisa, then smiled at Hanamaru Hanabi, saying: "Because I like you."

Hanamaru Hanabi suddenly blushed.

Kitagawa Sakisa on the other side made a strange sound: "Ehh~~~"

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Afternoon, at the café.

Uesugi Sakura felt her life had been entirely taken over by the café and school.

But this was also nice, being with Hanabi in the morning studying drawing, and still being with Hanabi in the afternoon, plus getting to see her in a maid outfit.

A fat cat jumped onto the counter.

"Meow~ (Boss, you haven’t paid attention to me for a long time)"

"Is that so?" Uesugi Sakura was focused on editing the novel, ignoring the fat cat Keke wagging its tail at him in front.

"Meow meow~ (Boss, I have decided on something)"

"Speak."

"Meow~ (I have decided to take all three little female cats in the store into my harem)"

Uesugi Sakura finally looked up, taking a glance at the fat cat whose head and tail seemed to be reaching for the skies.

In this era, could it be that even cats have such grand dreams?

"You, being a cat, can handle that?"

"Meow~ (Easily, not to mention three little female cats, even fifteen would be under my belt)"

Uesugi Sakura remembered that a cat’s time seemed to be around ten minutes.

"You think so?"

"Meow meow! (Boss, don’t look down on us!)"

"Okay," Uesugi Sakura lowered her head again, writing, "It just so happens that you’re close to adulthood. Towa-san and the manager are discussing whether they should neuter you."

"Meow! (Absolutely not!)"

"That’s not up to me."

The fat cat Keke immediately marched its cat steps, leaping off the counter, rubbing its face against his arm:

"Meow meow~"

Uesugi Sakura glanced at it: "It’s useless; as a cat, once you’re an adult, you have to be neutered by humans."

"Meow! (Unfair, humans have no reason to punish cats!)"

"What do you eat?"

"Meow~~ (Cat food, mackerel, and beef.)"

"Mice?"

"Meow (I wouldn’t eat those stinky things.)"

"Right," Uesugi Sakura said, "since you cannot catch mice yourself, you who have accepted human food, you must be controlled by humans in terms of reproduction destiny."

"Meow meow (Boss is wrong, I exchange my looks for food from human servants, and all I need to do is flick my paw, and they’ll bring me one exquisite dish after another. This is our natural right as cats.)"

"..."

This fat cat has quite a rationale of its own.

Uesugi Sakura: "Alright, I’ll barely drag out the neutering time for you."

The fat cat Keke jumped at the chance: "Meow meow meow! (And then let’s conquer this planet together! Boss, do you need my harem? With your strong physique, you’d definitely have many stronger offspring with my harem.)"

"I’ll pass."

"Meow meow! (I know, Boss is afraid of being discovered by partners, right? Hoo-hoo-hoo, I knew it from when she hugged me. She’s a white cat who has practiced for thousands of years, with an aura stronger than Boss’s. But don’t worry, Boss, I won’t abandon you!)"

"..."

Uesugi Sakura stopped her pen, silently watching the fat cat wagging its tail on the counter, not sure what to say.

Why is it that only this fat cat can talk?