070. A man and a woman have a story
This story begins with a male high school student who aspires to become a painter and a creator.
He was really a pretty ordinary high school student. At the beginning of this story, there was no excitement like the King of Manga, nor any romantic comedy in various light novels.
That ordinary high school student didn't work desperately, but he also devoted his spare time to his dream.
But he has no talent, not really.
The things I draw are just a little bit of my own experience, and I don’t know how to operate them commercially.
Of course, the popularity is only a little bit.
Maybe everyone understands the story at this point.
This is a story that thousands of people have experienced.
However, in the subsequent development of this story, some people began to work hard and study seriously because they were unwilling to accept it, until they succeeded or failed.
Some people have discovered their limits and moved on to other interests. After all, they are still at a very young age, and different attempts are normal manifestations and privileges.
Thousands of people have thousands of choices. In the end, some may regret it, some may be grateful, and some may have completely forgotten about it, but the majority of people are still satisfied.
There is no right or wrong, it is your own choice, and you are the one who bears the consequences.
But this story doesn’t end here. The subsequent development will also be the reason why he stands out from thousands of stories and is told here today.
One day, this ordinary high school student met another young man who wanted to be a painter on his painting display website.
At first, they were just netizens who didn't know each other's gender and appearance. They just became friends because they admired each other's paintings, until they met each other and became familiar with each other.
I found out that the other party was a cute girl of a similar age to myself, learned about her favorite animation works, participated in offline exhibitions with her, and went on a little adventure with her...
It was really a sweet time, an extremely luxurious and sweet time for an ordinary high school student.
So, the story started to take a prank-like turn at this point, and the protagonist of the story also began to change.
The girl is a talented woman, so her long-term persistence in painting has paid off.
She was appreciated by a well-known blogger and wanted to start a cooperative project with a group of well-known authors.
All of this is of course the result of her strength and hard work.
This small achievement already made the girl very happy.
But the ordinary boy couldn't be happy in his heart.
He felt the distance in his heart unilaterally.
The source of this sense of distance is just a common and normal negative emotion among humans - [jealousy].
Maybe add a little bit of [inferiority]?
After that, the communication between the boy and the girl continued, but because of the boy's unilateral sense of distance, this communication lost the original feeling of a deepening and advancing love comedy.
If that were the case, this story would be just a simple [regret] story.
So there's another twist to this story.
Because girls are famous for being without warning and having a sense of drama about meeting a noble person unexpectedly, they are jealous of many people with ulterior motives on the Internet. However, unlike the boys of their friends, these are all outright malice.
The most taboo words for creators - plagiarism, plagiarism, similarity, hype...
Various words are used for this fan artist on the Internet who has just achieved a little success, but in reality she is just an ordinary girl.
Those who light fires, those who fan fans, those who watch, those who are indifferent, those who promote propaganda, those who discuss...
This incident caused a group of demons to revel in a small area, expressing pure malice.
Then he turned his attention back to the boy who was the girl's only friend with similar interests. What kind of mood does he feel now?
Didn't he go out to complain for his friends? Didn't he go to help his friends get through the difficulties?
[This is definitely not true. I have to do something. I have to help her. This is what I thought at the time. 】
[But what if the post I wrote actually added fuel to the fire? Thinking of this, I started to get scared. 】
[In the end, I didn’t do anything, and I felt that the loneliness I felt because Shimazaki was being held back and being left behind by her was starting to disappear.]
[Somewhere in my heart, there is still a...disgusting feeling of satisfaction]
These are his true words, and they are also the truest inner monologue he made a few months after the matter reached its most serious and irreversible point, that is, at this time.
Of course, mere slander on the Internet cannot be called the most serious and irreversible situation.
The so-called most serious and irreversible ending is the choice the girl made in the face of invisible attacks like waves on the Internet.
The girl finally chose to commit suicide and ended her own life.
And the person she chose as the last straw before committing suicide was that boy.
In the last few days, the girl asked the boy:
【Can I continue painting? Is it okay if I don’t want to paint? 】
This clearly explained one thing very clearly and straightforwardly - this was the final salvation she provided for herself.
But boys who are not smart, gentle and confident face this problem and choose to escape:
[I have never experienced anything like this, so I don’t know. If you ask me this, I am also very troubled.]
Look, what a perfect answer! What a perfect ostrich defense!
At this point, the story ends with the heroine passing away like a cherry blossom and the hero escaping.
Therefore, the events that happen in this future belong to the same existence in the future of this story.
Maybe you have already guessed that the male protagonist in this story who behaves very unbearably is the Shui Sa Tai who has had his psychological defense broken before Xingke.
As for the heroine who is the source of the subsequent story, Shimazaki Setsuna, formerly known as Shimazaki Yuna, when she decided to end her life, it was a coincidence that could only be explained by chance and the people who once existed in this world【
A wish left behind by Haruhi Suzumiya resonated with each other.
Shimazaki Setsuna used his own life as a sacrifice to materialize the only character in his last secondary creation animation "World?tude", the princess in military uniform-Altaïr.
And after Altair appeared in this world that to some extent killed his creator, after understanding Setsuna's despair for the world, and after knowing that the world's rejection of Setsuna was the reason for Setsuna's death——
Chapter completed!