Secretive

Chapter 8

The woman has a gentle temperament, and she looks very capable in her professional attire.

Takahashi stood up from the table and walked towards her.

"Miss Fujiwara." He said and patted Miyamoto on the shoulder to signal him to stand up. "Let me introduce, this is Miyamoto Suzu who will be in charge of Teacher Yongnan from today on."

"Hello." Miyamoto Suzu bowed to Hikaru Fujiwara who came over.

"Hi, I'm Hikaru Fujiwara from the distribution department. Can I call you Suzu?" She stretched out her hand and said with a smile.

"Ah, yes."

Hikaru Fujiwara handed the document to Miyamoto and said, "This is the cover of the library book. Please confirm with Mr. Yongnan before leaving get off work tomorrow and hand it to me."

"Yes, thank you very much."

"Miyamoto is so cute, do you want to have lunch together at noon?" Fujiwara Hikari exuded a harmless radiance.

Miyamoto, who was overwhelmed by the sudden compliment from the woman he met for the first time, was speechless for a while, and looked at Takahashi in embarrassment.

"Isn't it great, such a lovely woman invited you to dinner." Takahashi smiled.

"They said they were having lunch together, but I actually brought a bento."

"Then... respect is worse than obedience." Miyamoto responded with a shy smile.

"Then I'll go back first, I'm looking forward to it, oh bell~" Fujiwara waved his hand, as if he came suddenly, and left very simply.

"Director Takahashi—" Miyamoto immediately cast a condemning look at Takahashi.

"Very good, Miyamoto." Takahashi patted Miyamoto's face caressingly, the too intimate contact made Miyamoto's face turn red with embarrassment.

"What kind of male hormones are you emitting all of a sudden, Director Takahashi..." Mizuide moved the chair to get close to Fujiki, and whispered.

"Ah, the director's usual appearance is too casual, and it's a killer to suddenly show masculinity at this time." Fujiki seemed to feel very frustrated and clutched his forehead.

"The picture is very eye-catching, and it's a kind of benefit to me." Shui Chu covered her mouth with her hands, showing off her newly-made nails as if nothing had happened.

Takahashi went on to say: "Miss Fujiwara is very nice, let's take this opportunity to talk to her about publishing-related work."

"The content of the words is not pleasant at all." Shui De immediately changed his tone.

"I see." Miyamoto smiled suddenly.

When Miyamoto came back in the afternoon, he had an expression of obvious frustration on his face.

"What's the matter? Could it be that Mr. Yongnan shut you out?" Ono asked very rudely.

"No, Mr. Yongnan is very nice. But I'm not good at Miss Yoshimura..."

"Miss Yoshimura has a strong personality, and she will get used to it after a long time." Murasaki said beside her.

"In contrast, Ms. Fujiwara is like an angel." Takahashi said emotionally with coffee in his hand.

"Ah, speaking of Ms. Fujiwara, I have to go to the distribution department." Miyamoto got up and left with the documents.

"Director Takahashi..." Murasaki said helplessly.

"Sorry, sorry." Takahashi apologized while sipping his coffee.

The publishing department is downstairs in their office. Unlike the editorial department, it is a completely open space. The side-by-side desks are full of documents, and many documents are even placed directly on the ground to form a tall building.

"Excuse me, may I ask Ms. Fujiwara..." Miyamoto asked passers-by.

"Xiao Guang—a cute child is looking for you."

The word "cute" uttered from the mouth of an uncle in his 40s made Miyamoto feel a chill down his spine for no reason.

"Oh Ling, you're here." If Fujiwara didn't stand up, the basic way would be to find her from the file that was higher than the computer screen.

"Yes, about the cover of "The Cat and the Crow in Tokyo."

"It's really troublesome to come here to deliver it."

"where."

Fujiwara took it from Miyamoto and opened the file to check.

"Mr. Yongnan thinks that the second seal is better, but he also hopes to add the elements of the first seal. I marked it on it, and I will trouble you next."

"I see. Would you like some tea?"

"Ah, no, I'll take my leave first."

"Goodbye."

"so what?"

The afternoon sun shone obliquely on the tatami, and the mist rising from the teacup shone slightly in the bright light.

"Yes, I think I should tell the teacher." Miyamoto stared nervously at Kitano Ryu's straight nose because of guilt.

Kitano Ryu sneered from his nose and said, "There's no need to report this to me. Do you think I'm still like a kid in a kindergarten who insists on taking over the teacher?"

"Sorry." Miyamoto apologized disappointedly.

"But I'm very happy to be taken so seriously. In order to reward the good boy, I'll treat you to dinner."

"Eh? How can this work..."

"Are you looking down on the bento at the convenience store?"

"... I appreciate the teacher's kindness."

In the end, Miyamoto stayed. Although he said he would have dinner, Ryu Kitano showed an unnecessary attitude and he had no choice but to give up.

"Then, I'll take my leave first, and I'll bring over the manga materials tomorrow." When Miyamoto said goodbye in front of Kitano Dragon Gate, it was already evening.The sky was about to get dark, and Kitano leaned casually against the door, and responded, "I see."

"Sure enough, it's "Rock Street" by Kitano-sensei."

Having lunch together on a public chair with fallen leaves, Takahashi nodded confidently.

"It's really cunning, obviously I saw it first."

"Hmph, hum." With food still in his mouth, Takahashi let out a smug laugh from his throat.

The topic we are discussing now is a new plan that will be launched next month. It will cooperate with the weekly comics of their publishing house to adapt the magazine's popular novels into comics and popular comics into novels to achieve the goal of double sales.

"Originally, Xiaoqiao didn't have any suitable works in her hands."

"I think Mr. Nagi's "Night Shift Detective" is very suitable."

"That's obviously a funny novel."

"If the contrast effect is good, you can try it."

"No, no, in terms of style, "Rock Street" is more suitable."

"I agree with that."

"Then, does that have an idea?"

"On the novel?"

"Yes, I want to give it to Takizawa-sensei."

Ito showed a surprised expression, "Takizawa-sensei probably won't agree."

"Well, I think so too, anyway, let's try first."

"There's nothing I can do about you, haven't you considered a backup candidate?"

"No. I'll leave that to you."

"I see, don't come over while eating."

"Don't be so confused, Xiaoqiao~"

Ito glanced at Takahashi with a half-smile.

"Since Director Takahashi is off today, I will hold the morning meeting today."

The next day, Kurokawa stood in front of everyone with a notebook in his hand, with a troubled expression.

"For the meeting about the new project this morning, please sort out the resources at hand. The meeting materials have been sent to everyone's computer. I will ask everyone to implement the content of the meeting in the afternoon. Is there any problem with the above?"

"Yes."

With Takahashi absent, the morning meeting was a rare one of love and peace.

Everything seems to have been decided a long time ago, and it went so smoothly that one would suspect that the usual meeting was a fake meeting.

After the meeting was over, Miyamoto was about to go out to Kitano.

"what--"

There was the sound of things falling outside the door, and Miyamoto's flustered apology.

"I'm really sorry!!" Miyamoto knelt down to pick up the dropped documents.

"Don't worry about it." It was Ito who answered him.

"What are you going to do in a hurry?"

"I want to go to Kitano-sensei." Miyamoto smiled shyly.

"Really, I just want to go out too." So the two walked towards the elevator together.

"Director Takahashi didn't come today, so I thought it would be a mess."

"According to his personality, he should have confessed to Kurokawa in advance." Ito replied casually.

In fact, it was Takahashi who made the phone call in the morning while looking at him with resentful eyes.

"Yeah, I don't know how Director Takahashi is doing."

Miyamoto was worried in a normal way.

"I'm probably going to be a mentally idiot when I go to work tomorrow."

"Director Ito really likes Director Takahashi."

"Huh?" Ito had a question on his face why he said such a thing.

"Ah, it's just intuition..." Realizing that he might say something strange, Miyamoto hastened to remedy it. "The same goes for Director Takahashi. Although I always say that Director Ito is not good, I don't feel any malice, so I think he probably likes Director Ito very much."

"Miyamoto."

"Yes." Miyamoto nervously looked at Ito who smiled and called him.

"You are quite suitable for writing novels."

"Eh..." This is a disguised denial... Miyamoto, who couldn't get a clear response from Ito's side every time, began to feel depressed.

Your newcomer is truly amazing.The message Ito sent to Takahashi said so.

"So, what should we do?" Takahashi's expression was rather bad.

Ito sat on the sofa, facing Takahashi's condescending questioning.

Takahashi was picked up by Ito onto his lap, and turned into a face-to-face embracing posture.The close distance between the lower body made Takahashi quite uncomfortable: "You don't want to do it anymore, do you?"

"Do you want to do it?"

"Give me a little bit, didn't you say you have been abstinent for a month?" Takahashi blocked Ito's approaching face with one hand, and said through gritted teeth.

"What a pity." Ito grabbed Takahashi's hand and kissed it lightly on his lips.

"What about the answer?"

"what?"

"I'm asking, what should I do if Miyamoto finds out so much?"

"He hasn't found substantive evidence yet."

"Do you realize the seriousness of the matter?" Takahashi frowned.

"Then... tomorrow we won't eat together for lunch, and I will make different dishes for bento."

"That alone won't solve the problem." Takahashi said with a sigh, and he got up to get a beer from the refrigerator.

"I know what you're thinking," Ito said. "But I think you're just overwhelmed."

"Why are you overly nervous? If the fact of living together is exposed, how can you explain how you fought to the death in the company before?" Takahashi said in a bad tone, slamming the refrigerator door.

"Forget it, whatever you want."

"Just me?" Takahashi, who was ignited by Ito's perfunctory tone, said angrily.

"Does confrontation at work necessarily mean that there is no communication in private?"

"I can't control this situation! If the relationship is exposed, I don't even know if I can stay in the company. Have you ever thought about the consequences? I'm so scared when I think of this kind of thing." I can't even eat food!"

"Want to let the whole world know that I like you?" Ito also stood up from the sofa, even if he didn't wear glasses, his blurred vision could not affect his sharp vision.

Being questioned like this, Takahashi was suddenly speechless. "Don't shake me at a time like this..." He moaned weakly.

"I'm going to bed."

"Hey……"

Standing in front of the closed door, Takahashi lowered his head in frustration.

He woke up the next day on the couch, covered in blankets, with a prepared breakfast and packed lunch boxes on the table.

"Have you gone out yet? This is not something that a guy who likes to say like this would do..." Takahashi complained to himself.

"Excuse me, may I ask..."

When Ito arrived at the company, because it was still early, there were not many people there.So he was stopped before entering the building.

It was a young woman with neatly cut short hair. She had a polite smile on her face, giving off a sense of alienation.

"Which floor is the magazine department of the publishing house?"

"Who do you want?"

"Hmm... Kitano-sensei's editor. It seems to be Miyamoto..."