Two days after talking to Hasumi Kanoko, Kato Yusuke concentrated on the studio.

Although his current financial situation is relatively comfortable, he has to face a certain problem.

That is, as the "Chainsaw Man" comic is coming to an end, he will also lose his largest source of income.

This is a very real problem.

After all, his main income basically comes from manuscript fees and royalties. Once the comic is completed, the manuscript fees will naturally be gone, and the same is true for royalties.

The current single volume of "Chainsaw Man" has been released to its sixth volume, and there are still five volumes left to complete. All will be available before the end of March.

In other words, his income will drop sharply in more than a month.

If you don't want to face the situation of being unable to make ends meet, then it is undoubtedly an urgent matter for the studio to generate income as soon as possible.

In view of this, Kato Yusuke has gained a bit more urgency recently.

However, he did not show it in front of everyone, but silently increased his workload.

The first people to feel the pressure were Sagara Mayu and Hashima Dekai.

As the studio's second original animator, in addition to providing Eri Kiyohara, the two of them also serve as Kato Yusuke's assistants.

As the latter started to get overwhelmed, their workload also increased. The comics work that was supposed to be completed one by one within a week was now assigned all at once.

In fact, Yusuke Kato, who had his hands free, not only did not rest, but continued to draw the original painting of the game.

Compared to Yinglili who could only draw a few original paintings a day, he easily doubled his output.

In this way, not only Mayu Sagara and Dekai Hashima successfully put on the mask of pain and faced the difficult task of Seijihara, but even Eiri was dumbfounded.

I've said it before.

What needs to be done in the second original painting is not complicated. To put it bluntly, it is a hard job.

To summarize simply, when drawing the first original painting, we usually only draw the outline and movements of the characters, and other parts such as clothes, face, hair, etc. will be omitted.

At this time, a second original painting is needed to perfect the details and refine the characters according to the settings of the script.

The technical content here is not high, it's just about picking out the details.

Such a system has already formed a complete system in the animation and game industries.

Its main purpose is to allow those painters who are good at painting to have more time and energy to paint more original paintings.

Of course, there are also many painters who are being squeezed by their superiors and are actually working on the first and second original paintings at the same time, but that is another matter.

Back to business.

As the saying goes, quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes.

When the workload of these two elements reaches a certain level, anyone will feel overwhelmed.

No matter how fast Mayu Sagara and Dekai Hashima worked, even if their wrists ached from drawing pictures, they could not match the speed of Yusuke Kato.

Often they have just finished clearing one picture, and when they raise their heads and want to take a rest, they will find that there are already two or three more pictures on the table without even realizing it.

Because Hashishima is far away from Nagoya, the experience is not intuitive. At most, I was shocked when I logged in to my email to check my work schedule.

But for Mayu Sagara, who spends every day in the studio, the pressure is nothing short of overwhelming.

She felt as if she had suddenly become a worker on an assembly line, facing an endless supply of screws every day, and her originally happy life suddenly became dark.

As a last resort, Yinglili also joined Qing Eryuan's work later.

With the joint efforts of the three girls, they were able to catch up with a certain animal.

This situation lasted for a week.

Kato Yusuke took the time to go to the Immortal River and officially submitted the remaining manga manuscripts to the editorial department, marking the end of "Chainsaw Man".

According to the serialization speed of "Boy Undead", it can be completed in the first week of February.

On the studio side, all of Nagisa Furukawa's CGs and part of Anzu Fujibayashi's CGs were also announced as completed.

Thanks to this, the progress of the original painting has also skyrocketed.

On Hui's schedule, the art department's work progress, which was originally like squeezing out toothpaste, suddenly began to increase at an exaggerated speed.

In the end, it easily exceeded the progress of the script, second only to the programming department who was far ahead. The results were amazing.

——The price is that the three painter girls are miserable and exhausted physically and mentally from this devilish work.

When we got to the back, even the others were alarmed.

In the end, it was Kanoko Hasami who came forward to calm down the extremely angry person.

"Kato-kun, it's about time you stopped, right?"

The person involved persuaded me earnestly:

"I'm sorry to interrupt you like this, but our current situation is no longer suitable for us to continue working. Can we consider taking a break first?"

After this reminder, Kato Yusuke came back from his selfless state and looked around belatedly.

What came into view were faces that were mixed with fatigue and trouble.

One of Sagara Mayu and Eiri was lying on the table, and the other was leaning on a chair. Their bodies exuded a gray-white color as if their souls were out of body, as if they were burned out.

Shiyu sat next to him at some point. The computer screen in front of him was filled with dense text. He was yawning while typing on the keyboard.

Not far away, Hui Zheng brought refreshing canned coffee to Eiri and Mayu, looking at them with worry in their eyes.

The sight in front of him shocked Kato Yusuke, and he immediately stood up and announced:

"Sorry, everyone, we are on vacation for the next week. Everyone should go and rest. I'm going to use the bathroom."

He walked out of the office as he spoke, then quickly went to the bathroom, turned on the faucet and washed his face.

The cold tap water is slapped on the face, and the coolness penetrates into the skin through the pores, bringing a refreshing feeling.

Kato Yusuke looked at himself in the mirror and felt that his extremely active brain still showed no sign of calming down, as if he was still immersed in the previous state.

He couldn't explain why, but he felt that he was in very good condition, as if he had reached his peak.

A vague feeling reminded him that his [Painting] skills seemed to be about to be upgraded.

It seemed that I was completely blocked from outside interference and just focused on the world of painting, as if I was possessed by an evil spirit.

If Kanoko Hasumi hadn't just forcefully woken him up, he might have continued painting.

Can skills be upgraded by painting a lot?

With this doubt, he returned to the art department's office.

Kato Yusuke originally wanted to verify his conjecture through practice, but the sight in front of him made him give up this plan.

The office that was bustling just now has become deserted.

For some reason, Shiyu was sitting at his work station with his eyes closed and gently massaging his eyebrows with one hand.

Kato Yusuke paused for a moment, then walked up and sat down on the swivel chair next to him.

"Senior Shiyu, what are you doing?"

The girl slowly opened her eyes and looked at him with a pair of wine-red eyes.

"Nothing, I'm just waiting for you here."

"wait for me……?"

"Hmm, Kano-chan took the others to the lounge upstairs. I thought you might not be able to figure out the situation when you came back, so I didn't go up."

Kato Yusuke couldn't help but feel shocked, "...I'm sorry for causing you any trouble."

"There's nothing to apologize for..."

Shiyu shook his head slightly, leaned back against the back of the chair, put his two black stocking thighs on top of his legs, and changed into a more comfortable sitting position.

"Compared to this, what is your state during this time?"

Through the slightly lifted skirt, you can vaguely see a hint of pure white under the hazy black fabric.

Kato Yusuke's eyelids twitched slightly, and then he quietly looked away.

"Well... I feel like I've hit a bottleneck."

"bottleneck……?"

Shiyu was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted, "Are you saying that your painting skills are about to improve?"

"That may not be accurate. Maybe it's just my imagination, but that's pretty much it."

"So that's it...that's why you fell into that state of being possessed by an evil spirit?"

"Maybe." Kato Yusuke smiled bitterly and touched his nose, "I'm sorry for causing trouble to everyone..."

"Nothing like that~ Shouldn't I say this is a good thing?"

"…Having said that, I seem to have affected everyone."

A smile spread across Shiyu's face, and he gently poked his forehead with a slender index finger.

"You are so cute and stupid. In fact, if you had said this earlier, everyone would have understood."
To be continued...