My name is Rina Shijo, and I have been dreaming about someone since I was 12 years old.
However, I don't know that person's name or where he lives. All that is known is that he speaks with a Kansai accent, has a twin brother, and loves volleyball as much as life.
After the true concubine's cousin, the emperor's cousin, and the young tame Ran Youshi Qian also found out, they all tried to find him for me. However, no information could be found no matter what, as if he did not exist in this world.
So, I drew his figure into the comics, imagined every look in his eyes, and repeatedly traced the profile of his face that appeared in my dream, trying to salvage more details from my memory.
Draw his posture holding the ball, the moment he lands, his flamboyant expression on the field, and the clumsy tenderness he occasionally reveals off the field that is completely opposite to that back view, and hide that throbbing in all the storyboards.
Finally, this transformational girl manga, which I named "Love Starts in a Dream", became a big hit.
Readers thought I was in love, and the editor said the emotion was sincere and the plot was novel, but only I knew that it was my personal experience and a phantom in my dream.
In this way, I gradually drew comic strips based on him, "Dream Meeting, Hand Hand" (If you meet in a dream, hold that hand), "Kun Drawing, Love Falling" (Every time I draw you, I fall in love with you more deeply), "Heartbeat's Right to Serve", "Parabola to the Dreamland" "The pen is your court", learn knowledge about volleyball.
In the blink of an eye, five years have passed, and readers have become accustomed to it. They firmly believe that I am in love, and my lover is the prototype of the male protagonist in the comics.
I didn't explain it. I couldn't explain this kind of thing clearly. I only said a few words from my heart to comfort my mood when I wrote the postscript after the comic was finished.
After five years of companionship in dreams, I have accepted that he does not exist in this world.
Unexpectedly, one day, when I was holding a book signing in Tokyo, he appeared in front of me, his eyebrows as bold and sharp as in my dream.
I was a little stunned, but he didn't seem to notice. He held the table and said his first words to me: "You have been painting me for five years, how about the portrait fee?"
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My name is Miya Yu, Inarizaki setter, and I have a twin brother named Miyaji.
Before high school, I never felt that shojo manga had anything to do with me.
After entering high school, I didn't think shojo manga would have anything to do with me.
It wasn't until one day during the break that the character took out a comic, pointed at the male protagonist on it and said, "Yu, this is you, right?" I didn't know that someone had been drawing someone for five years in a place I hadn't noticed.
And I don't even know who the person who painted me is.
When I looked at the characters in the paintings, they were not very similar, but they were only vaguely similar, not to mention the movements of passing and spiking the ball, and things that only people with close connections would know.
"Who is she?" I asked with a frown.
Kakuname said: "Shoujo manga artist, Yu Shiomi. She is very famous. It is said that the male protagonist in the manga is based on her boyfriend. Many people like her manga. The one I am showing you is one I got from my sister."
"I don't know him." I denied it subconsciously. It was too outrageous to have a boyfriend.
Unexpectedly, Kakuname nodded quite matter-of-factly: "If you had a girlfriend, you must have told her already. Moreover, what I just said is only part of the rumor. In fact, regarding the explanation of the male protagonist, Yu Shiomi mentioned earlier that he is a boy in a dream and does not exist in this world. So, Yu, you don't have to worry."
Me: ... What does it mean that this world does not exist?
Also, Zhi, why are you laughing?
Pre-reading Guide
1. The copy is in the first person and the text is in the third person.
2. The if line of "The Inarizaki Setter has something to say" involves Kaguya-sama Wants Me to Confess, Volleyball Boy, Diamond Ace, Tennis, and a little bit of the Miracle Era. The timeline is mainly volleyball, with fine-tuning of Kaguya-sama, Diamond A, tennis, and basketball timelines.
3. Starting from the first year of high school, the school is in Xiuzhiyuan
Intention: Never give up, miracles will happen