Chapter 17: Chapter 17 [Worrywart Girl]
Now a few more hours before the upcoming book signing event in a really popular bookstore, Honoka now currently talking to the other group chat members about further information about the upcoming group cosplay...
The date for the group cosplay had been announced as one of the things that was on the new information, along with the name of the event that they were going to be doing it at.
Azuki - "Has anyone started with their costume yet?"
Machiko - "Nope, I haven't started yet. I'm still in the process of buying the materials for mine."
Kazu - "Still looking up the stores to buy my materials at right now..."
Honoka - "I started working on mine already"
Honoka replied, attaching a photo of the almost completed armor set.
Yuuki - "A fast worker as usual, Honoka"
I wouldn't really call myself a fast worker but... Whatever, I don't even care...
The silver-haired girl shrugged, neverminding the half-angel's opinion.
Honoka - "I only started working on it since I had some free time... I'm not really fast..."
Yuuki - "U sure about that?"
She doesn't believe me, does she...? I'm already telling the truth here...
Honoka sighed, trying to not fall for Yuuki's teasing.
Azuki - "That's enough, Yuuki. Ok, Anybody else?" Azuki ruining the mood, asked once again.
The replies that followed was a mix of people that haven't started to buy the materials yet and people that were already shopping for the materials.
It was almost like a fifty-fifty ratio if someone were to tally up the replies.
So I was the first one to start to get to work, huh?
The realization kicked in as the Oni-Yuki Onna girl read all of the aforementioned replies and looked at how much progress she had done so far.
The time for her to start preparing for the book singing event had drawn even closer as even more replies came in, there was now only an hour left before she needed to do so.
Now with a shorter ammount to spare, she started to get herself ready for the event; her hair was tied up into a a pony tail, her outfit was casual-- But not to casual that it looked plain.
My editor hasn't given me an update about the manga adaptation of my novel...
Oh, Whatever. I don't have time for this...
I should probably ask her when I get to the venue.
***
"I love your way of writing."
"The latest antagonist is awesome!"
I can't believe I didn't get the chance to immediatley ask when I arrived... This sucks...
The event went on as the line of people that came to her book signing became shorter and shorter as time went on, there were different reactions that her fans showed, from the dramatic to the energetic type of fan.
The exhaustion from signing so many books had really shown when the event had ended, she could barely hold the pen she used by the time it had finished.
N-Now where's Shigure...?
Her manager which had been talking to a staff member since the singing had started was now heading towards her.
Oh, Looks like I don't have to try to find her.
"Did you need something?" Shigure asked the obviously-wanting-to-ask-a-question girl.
"Well... I just wanted to ask about the manga adaptation..."
Was my expression that obvious?
"The first volume will have the first eight chapters in it and are already finished. And for the release date..." She started to browse through the tablet-looking object that she had been holding the whole time before she answered. "In four weeks."
"It's finished already?? Wow, she's fast..."
Shigure gave her a nod in reply before telling her that she was free to leave.
It hasn't even been a week ever since Koto has been told about when the deadline is, she still had another week to work on it if she wasn't done with it yet.
Honoka was quite amazed at the speed that Koto managed to finish working on the first eight chapters from how she knew that it wasn't really that easy to achieve such a feat- But something still made her worry about the said girl...
I'm worried... Did she even sleep during those seven days?
I just hope she didn't over exert herself...
***
Now back at her apartment, Honoka who had just gotten back from the book signing still couldn't shake the feeling of worry off her mind.
*Ding!*
Yuuki: "Here's another announcement everyone:
In regards of the event that we'll be doing the group cosplay at...
Me and the other admins have decided to do it on the next doujinshi event that we all last meet up which is around a few months away, which will be the winter one this december."
In 2 months, huh? I'm already finished with my costume so I pretty much don't have to worry about not finishing it in time, all I have to do now is just order the wig I need for it and style it.
Now with the date confirmed for the next chat group's in-real-life activity, the silver-haired girl let out a sigh of relief as her preperations for the said activity was now almost done; not forgetting about her worry about Koto's health.
"That's it! I can't take it anymore!" She couldn't help but raise her voice as she couldn't focus on her planning for the next volume of her light novel, her worry about the cat-eared girl had now reached it's peak, she started a call with her editor asking about the said girl's contact details.
"I'll see what I can do."
Is what her editor, Shigure had told her in reply as Honoka explained her worries about Koto health.
As she awaited the results of her editor's attempt on trying to obtain the manga artist's contact details from her editor, Honoka attempted to convince herself that Koto was fine but unfortunately this didn't help all that much.
This only made her get even more worried as she continued to attempt this self-convincing attempt over and over everytime the feeling of worry came back.
I guess I'll try and get my mind off of it by talking to Yuuki...
And so she did, she spent quite a bit of time doing so until...
"You're worried about someone, aren't you?" Yuuki saw through her.
Was I being that obvious?
She attempted to deny the fact but to no avail, This only made her online friend even more suspicious of her.
Yuuki: "Yes, You are. I can tell."
Honoka: "Ok, I admit... I'm pretty sure you heard about this already but..."
She told Yuuki all about how she got worried about Koto overexerting herself and couldn't stop herself from doing so ever since she had heard about how Koto managed to do it within a week.
Yuuki: "Oh, come on... She'll be fine, people that have the job of being a mangaka are more tough than you think."
That doesn't really help though...
Honoka thought as she read her friend's reply about the matter, not feeling any better.
Honoka: "I guess you're right..."
[End of Chapter 17]
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