"no..." "I guess it was supposed to rain this afternoon." "I forgot my umbrella..." "What am I going to do?" "Sakura?" "N-Nozaki-kun?" "!" "You don't have an umbrella?" "Y-Yeah." "I accidentally forgot it." "How embarrassing." "There was a 100 percent chance of rain today." "I think I might be the only dunce at school who forgot her umbrella." "so I guess there are two dunces!" "I really am an idiot!" "Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun Ninth Issue" "Do You Have Enough Excitement?" "Want to go somewhere?" "how about karaoke?" "Great idea!" "don't people use their jacket in place of an umbrella when this happens?" "Want to get in with me?" "that is cool." "But I don't think you're able to cover your bag as well in those cases." "I'm getting wet!" "Yeah..." "I thought up a new way of doing that..." "What do you think?" "That's incredibly lame!" "Want to get in?" "Wh-Where?" "let's go!" "It absorbed more water than I thought it would. a single piece of cloth wouldn't be of much help when it's raining like this." "huh..." "Doesn't this situation make you think of manga?" "Huh?" "Rain." "School..." "No one else in the school building." "Two people trapped inside by the rain." "Th-They get to talking and grow closer... or something like that?" "no one ever saw them again." "A ghost story?" "!" "I'm bored." "I guess I'll try to think up some scenarios for my manga." "I can use the rainy season scenario for June." "Rainy season scenario?" "Let's see... the girls probably wouldn't leave him alone." "I forgot it. making it look as though flowers had blossomed all around him." "it's raining?" "Kashima-kun!" "Get under mine!" "mine!" "Thanks." "Rather than flowers..." "It looks like a mob of mushrooms." "then..." "I guess I'll try to think of a cool way of opening an umbrella." "Okay." "I think the classic..." "Did you want to get in?" "don't you?" "But isn't that a bit condescending?" "like..." "Whoa!" "You can have it." "so go ahead and use it." "Huh?" "Wait..." "Yuzuki?" "!" "It's so cold!" "me." "She just isn't thinking at all!" "But I'm still gonna write that down." "I guess I'll borrow it." "get in!" "Get in!" "wait..." "Could this mean..." "We're sharing an umbrella?" "!" "Are we actually sharing an umbrella?" "!" "What am I going to do?" "We may look like a couple to everyone else." "Just kidding!" "He's stuck?" "isn't he?" "S-Sakura..." "The umbrella... didn't he?" "but Tani-chan was saying that might not be true..." "What's that?" "What the hell are you doing?" "!" "Stop blocking the road!" "How could he tell where Kashima was in all of that?" "what were we talking about?" "The quiz tomorrow morning?" "Sorry to have you hold it." "It's all right." "I've seen this before." "Huh?" "He's leaning the umbrella more towards me." "But his shoulder will get all wet... please hold it evenly!" "The side closest to the road is dangerous." "Th-Thanks... too." "And his line will be..." "I'll protect you from the rain." "Yeah." "I don't think there was anything I could have done to prevent that..." "Sorry to have you walk with me to my house." "so don't worry about it." "I actually wish it was a bit farther away..." "I'd like to stay with him like this a little longer..." "If only we'd never reach his house... right?" "If only..." "If only we'd never reach my house..." "Wh-What?" "My house..." "I just remembered I had laundry drying outside." "He wants to escape reality?" "!" "so please be careful." "Sorry for intruding... it's warm." "But our uniforms are soaked." "Maybe you should take yours off." "T-T-Take it off?" "But I don't have a change of clothes... the pose for the next chapter's frontispiece is this..." "I'm not wearing it!" "I'm not doing it!" "Nozaki-kun!" "I wrote that rainy season scenario." "Want to read it?" "What?" "Really?" "Let me know what you think after you finish reading it." "Sure!" "Wow..." "I wonder how the story turned out." "We ended up sharing an umbrella..." "So maybe he used that... no." "I forgot my umbrella." "Ah!" "Why don't you use this?" "Wh—" "What?" "You idiot... whatcha doin'?" "I lost to Yuzuki!" "Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun." "Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun." "My name is Miyako Yukari. so people won't find out." "Apparently Yukari has a boyfriend..." "A long-distance one." "Huh?" "!" "What the heck?" "That's the first I've heard that!" "How do they handle it long-distance?" "she's been writing letters during our lectures." "I was happy to see you after so many years." "I want to be with you longer!" "my footsteps chase after him..." "The sign of goodbye." "Why is it itemized?" "!" "And the last half is a poem?" "I could cringe..." "But the guy's a total jerk." "When I saw her yesterday..." "I can't believe he had ten other girlfriends besides me..." "I think I'll pass out from shock." "Make sure to include tanukis!" "T-Tanukis?" "!" "where's Yukari?" "she's on the phone." "Maybe it's her boyfriend!" "What?" "Seriously?" "!" "Want to take a peek?" "Shall we?" "so could you call me tonight?" "Y-Yes." "I'll make sure everything is ready on time." "I'll talk to you later." "it was from work." "Debt collectors?" "Does she work in the nighttime scene?" "A degenerate lifestyle... — Excessively Cheerful —" "Wow. but it really is amazing for a manga to show up in a publication." "Yeah." "Hey!" "The beta I did is in here!" "you sort of forget how you felt the first time..." "Let's go confirm something." "Huh?" "Where are we going?" "Maeno-san?" "I don't know about adding another tanuki..." "Huh?" "A female?" "!" "A male and female couple?" "!" "so that's different than the tanuki from last time?" "right..." "Right." "Right..." "I am so blessed right now!" "Ken-san!" "Chiyo-chan." "Not at all." "We're sorry for suddenly barging in." "what are you going to do about those two tanukis?" "Well..." "I did think about it and..." "What do you think?" "Huh..." "I'm A-ko." "and everything else." "I can have any guy of my choosing." "But..." "I have a feeling he's not like the others..." "But why...?" "Perhaps it's because he has a tanuki with him..." "I'm inviting you to have lunch with me." "Just be quiet and come along." "What?" "Who the hell do you think you are?" "Why can't you just be honest with yourself?" "!" "I have a girlfriend." "I'll find happiness for sure!" "The damn mascots managed to surpass the protagonists!" "I tried to soften the bad taste you get from that ending... having just the tanukis succeed is sort of..." "Can't they at least be equal?" "I see..." "Then how about this?" "no!" "I'm going to be late!" "Ah!" "Our personalities have been switched!" "eh?" "it feels so light not having any boobs!" "1)}Shake Shake" "Why do the tanukis look much more serious?" "though!" "you're so honest." "Are you sure you're okay?" "E-Even I can fight when I need to!" "Just recently... is a bit boring." "Really?" "I think it fits the story pretty well..." "Let's make it "Tanu Pon." Isn't that a great idea?" "so I did my best to voice my opinion!" "And did you win?" "Yes." "{\cH22B6FF}Ta{\cHADF8BE}nu {\cHF5F6F8}Po{\cHFCD429}n {\fs24\b0\cHE7E0FF}~Hold Me Tightly~" "Miyako Yukari" "He let me include it as the subtitle." "Tanu Pon ~Hold Me Tightly~"..." "You totally lost!" "Nozaki-kun?" "they did." "When I was first starting out..." ""Wavering Heartbeat." "Got it." ""Wavering Heartbeat" (Furueru Kodou)." "Let's make "Wavering" a bit more cute like "Shakey Shake." (Furu Furu)" "And then with "Heartbeat" (Kodou)..." "Hm? "Heartbeat"?" "Code?" "What's Code?" "And when it showed up on the magazine..." "Yuru ♥ Yuru {\cH000000}Kondo" "Can you hear my voice?" "Yuru Yuru Kondo!" "Not even a fraction left!" "Perhaps that was just a misprint... misprints happen quite often." "Miyako-san?" "!" "In my case..." "Dignity (koken) was turned into nether region (kokan)." "Right..." "It has to do with the thing between your legs." "Why would you make a girl say that?" "!" "And there was an instance where "sixth sense" turned into "sex sense"..." "That means my sex sense was working!" "you say?" "They all seem rather stupid... 1)}Otsuka-kun's Love Affair" "1)}Otsuka-kun has a secret he can't tell anyone...?" "!" "He also changed "circumstances" (jijou) to "love affair" (jouji)." "Otsuka-kun's Love Affair" "Why are all of these mature content?" "!" "get mad at him! it'll be troublesome for the newcomers." "A-All right!" "I'll lay into him!" "this is Maeno." "Maeno-san!" "Miyako-sensei." "What's the matter?" "Um..." "The title was wrong last time..." "Please get it together!" "Eh?" "I'm so sorry!" "That was totally my bad!" "I won't make any excuses." "but... don't you think your manga has too many kanji?" "Eh?" "it's really troublesome for me." "Please use easier words." "please apologize!" "Eh?" "I-I'm sorry... why are you apologizing?" "Then let's plant some complaints into the dialogue." "Into the dialogue?" "How?" "You write your manuscript as usual..." "But then you connect the character's line with a face emoji." "It turns into please let me change editors." "I see!" "I got it." "How's this?" "Too many tanukis." "Miyako-san!" "That's not a complaint!" "why don't we try pushing the tanukis until it's obviously overdoing it?" "I see!" "Maybe he'll calm down a bit." "So it's reverse psychology!" "Right!" "Let's try it!" "pon." "This is awful!" "There's no way!" "Nope!" "This would never happen!" "Let's send it." "Please do!" "Amazing!" "This is so incredibly cute!" "this one's my favorite!" "Huh?" "Miyako-sensei?" "Miyako-sensei?" "Hello?" "Can you hear me?" "1)}And things calmed down. but I don't want to see a hero like this!" "Huh?" "He's not the least bit cool!" "he doesn't look very good in a kigurumi." "I'll redesign the character." "Eh?" "!" "You're changing the character?" "!" "Let's take off the kigurumi first!" "Someone who's a bit more dull and would look good as a tanuki..." "I'm done." "New Hero Tanuki-kun and lack of emotion..." "Likes the indoors and his hobby is gate ball." "And his catchphrase is... pon." "I like this one the best so far!" "This hero!" "Sakura?" "!" "Yep." "My manga is normal." "and no kigurumis... 1)}Romance" "Thank you for your time." "Thank you for your time." "I'm thinking about making the next chapter a slightly fantastical." "246)}Slightly Fantastical" "I see... so you want to spice things up a bit?" "What were you thinking?" "an alien would transfer to to the school." "I think that goes beyond spice." "Palascoian there's more! the Palascoian's outer appearance is that of a handsome young man." "and he can't use magic or spells." "His only difference from an earthling is..." "He's slightly more popular!" "Palasco-kun!" "Then he'd be just another handsome guy." "{\fs18\cHD3E7AC}Monthly Girls' {\fs24\cH7751EF}Romance" "Ken-san..." "I can't help but feel that my manga lacks humor..." "Wha?" "I thinking that Suzuki should have some kind of special talent." "What do you think this is?" "!" "Mamiko!" "What in the world is he competing with?" "That meeting was an absolute waste of time." "Miyamae-kun." "Wait..." "What is this?" "!" "It looks awesome!" "It's got good taste!" "Hey." "Palasco!" "Nozaki-kun!" "I had Miyako-san draw this for me!" "Sakura..." "looks a lot more excited than when she got my autograph... so how about we trade?" "Eh?" "N-No!" "Mamiko!" "I'll even throw in Mamiko!" "No!" "then?" "!" "I'll have them dress up as tanukis!" "Nozaki-kun..." "Please treat your characters with more care." "I..." "I'm sorry... for having you come over so suddenly." "Yay!" "It's fine." "Did something happen again?" "Well..." "Maeno-san asked me to make a modern high school girl the protagonist..." "But I have no idea what kinds of conversations they'd have." "I totally don't have any money." "Something like this?" "That's hilarious!" "either." "I'm just going to rely on the mob characters..." "Mob?" "for example... look!" "Isn't that bag the really popular one?" "her clothes were in a magazine last week!" "So stylish!" "Ooh!" "She really does seem modern!" "That's amazing!" "You start to think that's how that world is." "I see... it's Mamiko!" "The mediocre high school girl!" "But she's so popular!" "But it's set up so her face looks mediocre." "The reason she's so popular... or something... the mob characters are making excuses..." "I know." "do you have anything you're really into recently?" "Eh?" "Um... right!" "Since you're a actually a current high school student." "Something I'm into..." "Oh!" "I've been really into corn soup lately." "Yuzuki came up with a good way to get all of the corn out and that was really amazing." "Just when I thought Yuzuki was running away suddenly..." "Eh?" "!" "Eh?" "!" "Huh?" "!" "What?" "!" "Huh?" "!" "To Be Continued" "Ninth Issue End" "Next Issue I was thinking that "shararan" would be a better sound effect than "kyapin." "I think "kyararan" works best." "Ken-san!" "Next time: "What's Strengthened Is Our Bond and Our Reins." "isn't it?" "please enjoy it."