Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou

Chapter 227

☆Shoujo Manga Artist Lily

「Thank god~, you really saved me, Lily-chan. I thought that you can become a battle-ready force because your fingers are dexterous, but this surpass my expectation.」

「I'm honored that I can be useful. I myself is having fun getting involved with the creation work of manga……」

It was about a week after Sumire took away Liliana without Hajime even noticing to become her work's assistant.

Because several of Sumire's assistants who were working with her until know suddenly got sick or had family problem, she became short of hand all of a sudden and in need of substitute assistant in a hurry.

Of course, because Sumire was a big-shot manga artist, the publisher would prepare excellent assistant even in such situation. But, Sumire who knew that recently Liliana got really addicted with shoujo manga thought that this was a good chance and she tried making Liliana became her helper.

As the result, Liliana who was skillful and possessed uncommon concentration power from the start managed to learn the skill that wasn't inferior even when compared with veteran assistant in just a week. Now she had become a very satisfactory battle force.

It appeared that manga creation work suited Liliana. The work also had a moderate pressure where she couldn't bear to make a mess of the manuscript that was drawn by Sumire who was someone she loved, it needed precise attentiveness, it had a clear time limitation that was the deadline, and the work amount was also quite much.

And then, the best thing for Liliana above all else, was that this work "wasn't a work that she was forced to do". It was a work that Liliana liked where the factor that she was helping Sumire was strong.

In a sense, it could be said that this work was fit for Liliana to a T.

「Fufu, Lily-chan. Right now you are making a really good face you know? You have shadow under your eye, but it feels more like something healthy and fulfilling.」

「Yes. Perhaps this is the first time I'm getting absorbed in work with an excited feeling like this.」

They had just somehow finished the manuscript in time right before the deadline. Now they were talking to each other leisurely while drinking café au lait that was filled with a lot of milk. The other assistants were also unanimously praising Liliana's work attitude.

Here she wasn't standing in the lead. They all were working hard together where everyone was praising their peers. It was something really fresh for Liliana and gave her a great sense of fulfillment.

「So Lily-chan. I asked you to come helping for the time being but, what will you do after this. If it's okay with you, I'll employ you formally.」

「Sumire-okaasama――no, Sumire-sensei, if it's fine with you then please, by any means.」

The two exchanged a firm handshake with each other.

Like this, the workaholic part-time leader had gone through being a shut-in NEET and finally become a shoujo manga artist's assistant.

Half a year after that.

「Haa, Sumire-okaasama. As I thought, it's just no good. It's fine already, so please go back to your own work.」

「What are you saying now. There is still time. It's too fast for you to give up.」

「Uu, but……」

Liliana dejectedly turned her eyes to the clock on the wall. It was just a bit more until the time limit.

Well-balanced meal and the fierce and violent battlefield that was the approaching deadline had shaved off the excessive fat from Liliana's body. However, in reverse her body build became just right――even though she was slim, yet her style became voluptuous and her sensuality increased considerably. There was also how her age had turned seventeen years old, her charm as a woman was increasing by far and away.

Liliana who was putting on such adult sensuality was now in a state that was being down, for some reason it caused anyone who was looking at her to harbor various desire without reason.

「Come one, don't be that down. Lily-chan is the prized pupil of this Sumire-sensei, that's why hold yourself more confidently.」

「Sumire-okaasama……that's right. Besides, even Hajime-san is a person who won't give up until the end. It's no good if I give up now.」

Liliana clenched her small fist and made an appeal of not giving up.

Now then, if it was asked what Liliana and Sumire were waiting together for, they were waiting for a call.

In this half a year, Liliana whose heart was completely stolen by the world of literary creation had increased her skill by a great margin. And then, she made her superabundance delusion to erupt and secretly drew her own shoujo manga, but Sumire who knew that invited her to apply for the Rookie of the Year Award.

Today was the day where the winner would be announced. If someone won a place then they would be told by phone. If there wasn't any call until the appointed time, then that meant that their work was rejected.

The work where she poured her heart and blood got evaluated by other people. This experience that was the first for her was heightening Liliana's nervousness to a new height.

Seeing Liliana who was staring fixedly at the needle of the clock, Sumire who thought inside her heart「The nervous face of Lily-chan who recently grew into a completely lewd body――not that, she recently look adult……it's unbearableee」unconsciously reached out her hand squirmingly, it was at that time,

――purururururururu-

「!?」

「I'm sorry-, it's just a sudden impulse! Forgive me!」

The resounding ringtone caused Liliana to stand up in a flash. She left behind Sumire who for some reason was apologizing while making excuse and took her smartphone into her hand.

She answered the phone timidly, and a beat later, her expression turned bright in a flash. She expressed words of thanks「Thank you very much-」many times while bowing her head repeatedly as though she was a pure Japanese person.

Like that after Liliana cut off the phone, she leaped toward Sumire who was smiling broadly from guessing the result.

「I did it, Sumire-okaasama! I, I did it!」

「You see, it's just as I told you right? I told you it will be fine if it's Lily-chan. And, which place you won?」

「Yes, it's the first place! The number one! The grand victor!」

「Oh my. I thought that it might be possible, but you actually really took it. As expected from Lily-chan.」

It seemed that Lily's submitted work took first place.

After that, the work of Liliana who took the Rookie of the Year Award obtained an explosive popularity and it sold out like hot cakes.

Surely her being a relative and also a prized pupil of that famous shoujo manga artist great Sumire-sensei was also one of the factors of her high newsworthiness.

By the way, the story of the manga was about the journey of a talentless young man who was summoned to another world, where he brushed aside adversity until he defeated an evil god, in the process of that journey the main character was connecting his heart with the princess of the kingdom. It was a really common love fantasy genre.

In the middle of the journey, the princess of vampire, rabbit-eared girl, a dragon onee-san, a widow and her daughter, the teacher and girl classmates who were summoned together with the young man made their appearance and they had a nice atmosphere with the young man, but the young man's heart was leaning toward the princess of the kingdom. Like that, there was also the desire of certain someone laid bare in the content of the story.

It went without saying that Liliana was given a coo~~~ld chilly gaze from the wives who were reading the manga.

Although, even though the story was something common, the emotion of the characters, the story's development, and the scene depiction were something overflowing with realisty as though the creator had seen it with her own eyes. It seemed that caused it to be received by the readers.

Now then, Liliana who had discovered something for her to live for, became Sumire second gen, and took a seat in manga world, inside such person there was a trait that couldn't be ignored by the people related with business world.

That was her elegance as a royalty that she had recovered from discovering something to live for. And then, her personality and beauty that once in the past charmed millions of people. In addition, was her refined sex appeal that recently she was clad with.

In short, she had the appearance and personality that was extremely appealing for media.

Because of that, once she showed up in things like autograph session or interview, her popularity exploded greatly separated from the manga.

After all, because she was a former princess she was used with going out in front of a lot people, she also had the full knowledge of what kind of expression she needed to give the impression she wanted to other. Compared to probing the gut of each other against foreign negotiator or noble, just making herself to be received favorably by the mass was just too easy.

Because she was recognized as the prized pupil of great Sumire-sensei by society, there was no way she could smear mud on the face of her treasured mother-in-law. She also wanted to respond to the feeling of her fans who said to her that they liked her manga.

Liliana who was thinking like that displayed her princess skill in full without holding anything back.

As the result, a year after Liliana started her activity as shoujo manga artist, at the time when her manga was decide to be turned into anime in an unprecedented speed, Liliana was,

「Everyy~~one! Thank you very much for coming today! Anime decision☆ Congratulations! This is Lily who will sing the theme song as the work's creator dee~~su! I'll sing with my all, so please enjoy it okay!」

――WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

While a thousand fans raised their loud cheers (because the ticket was limited, only a thousand people could enter), Liliana stood on a stage wearing a cute outfit like an idol, and then she sent a wink *pachin-*.

The former princess, former part-time leader, former shut-in NEET, and the popular shoujo manga artist, was now turning into an existence that was laying her hand on the seat of top idol.

AN: Thank you very much for reading this every time.

Thank you very much too for the thoughts, opinions, and reports about misspelling and omitted words.

I'm sorry that Lily arc turn long.

I'll end it in the next chapter, after that I'll write a bit of the wives who didn't get spotlight, and I'm also thinking of trying to write about the Getting Kidnapped Too Much Case.

Incidentally, in the main story, is there any section that feels like「This part is written vaguely, more detail please」? Sometimes in the middle of writing I often thought 'I want to try writing it in more detail someday', but the After and extra story are too fun that those things are completely at far distance of the memory.

If you have request, then please don't hold back and tell me whether through review or message.

The next update is planned to be be at 6 P.M Saturday too.

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