The Winter Promise

Chapter 121: Kichida the Comic Candidate

“Have you read the latest chapter from Pendekar Silat?”

“I've read it, it's a very stressful chapter once.”

“You're right, I didn't expect that there would be such a great fight.”

That's how my friends talk about one of the comics in the Comic Universe.

More and more of my friends at school are talking about the Comic Universe. That is only natural because the number of downloaders from Comic Universe is already at the number of one million more downloaders.

The more famous the application also makes the number of comics who want to register there is also more and more.

Today is Monday and as usual, the morning activity begins with a flag ceremony. Finishing the flag ceremony, I headed straight to the classroom to take a little rest for a while as there was still thirty minutes before going into the next lesson hour.

When I entered the classroom, I saw Kichida who was already at her desk and was drawing something in the picture book she was carrying.

“Good too!”

I'm commenting on the picture he's drawing.

Since my seat was behind Kichida's seat, I would definitely pass through it to reach my seat.

Kichida was drawing a man dressed as a fantasy land and wielding a sword.

“Thank you.”

Kichida continued to draw it.

Although in the multimedia lesson a lot of drawing lessons, I am not a person who is good at drawing. Yes, not just pictures, maybe all the other lessons I include mediocre students.

During semester one alone yesterday, I obtained a ranking of eighteen out of forty-two students. I think it's been a good rating because I've never learned to make my grades good either.

“Have you tried to create a comic in Comic Universe?”

“For now, I don't want to create a comic first.”

Heee... Why is it like that? He wants to be a comic. He should have done this as soon as possible so that his ideals were quickly achieved.

“Is there a reason for that?”

“I still want to do research first in order to create a comic that is in demand by many people.”

“Oh so.”

 I started putting my jacket on the table to use as a pillow to sleep.

I looked at my watch and there was still twenty-five minutes left before the next lesson began.

The fun!

I started to put my head on the table with the jacket as the base and started to close my eyes. The cold air coming from the air conditioner in my class made the atmosphere at that time very comfortable to sleep.

“Now there are so many people who download the Comic Universe application yes?”

I don't know who Kichida said that to, but since Riki and Natasha haven't arrived at the class yet, I can take it that she's talking to me. I didn't know that because my eyes were closed at the moment and I also covered my face with my jacket.

“Iya, now the number of downloads is already more than one million.”

“Yesterday my friend who is in Japan also already knows about this application, but he has not been able to download it because the application is still not available to download other than in Indonesia.”

Hearing the talk raised by Kichida quite interesting, I opened my eyes and undo the intention to sleep.

“Where did your friend know?”

“He knows it from Outstagram.”

I didn't think the effects of social media could be that big.

“You've never seen Comic Universe's Outstagram Mar?”

Kichida finished the drawing and kept the picture book in the bag.

“Never.”

Do I sound like a bad employee?

I've never seen Comic Universe's Outstagram, it's just that I don't have an Outstagram account. A lot of people told me to make it but I was confused as to what I was making the account for.

“Then take a look at this.”

Kichida gave me his phone and there the Outstagram app opened and led to an account belonging to Comic Universe.

I saw that I from Comic Universe already have five hundred thousand more followers, only half the number of downloaders of the application.

I also saw the posts that were there and most of the posts were about comics that were a lot of fans, comics that had been successfully signed by the company, he said, info about the comic that the comic was successfully recorded, and also much more info

related to Comic Universe.

The design of the posts is also quite interactive, not too boring.

“What are you guys looking at?”

Riki and Natasha who had just arrived after being absent in the teacher room immediately asked us.

“We are looking at the Outstagram account of Comic Universe, because his friend Kichida who is in Japan knows about the Comic Universe from Outstagram.”

“Ooo! Really it?”

Riki immediately asked Kichida.

“Iya.”

Kichida answered briefly.

“Oh yes Rik, what are you doing on social media?”

“I just made a design to post on Outstagram.”

“Is this all you made?”

I showed him the latest posts.

“No, sometimes I just look for the research.”

Teng... Teng... Teng... Teng... Teng......

The bell reads indicating that the next lesson will begin, and the next lesson is productive hours. We also had to go to the lab to follow the learning there.

Every productive lesson we always go to the lab, but it depends on the teacher. There are some teachers who do not use the lab because the lessons do not require us to use a computer.

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I'm already so hungry.

I opened my lunch box and there was already boneless chicken fried using spicy seasoning which was quite delicious. I made this before school because I saw in the fridge chicken leftovers yesterday. I also fry a few pieces of sausage as a complement.

Actually I was a little lazy to cook in the morning like that, but I was bored if I had to eat fried chicken just plain because last Sunday for a full day I had eaten it.

As usual, we gathered in the usual place to finish our supplies. At this time Akbar also gathered with us, Akbar also brought his own supplies even though before he always bought food in the cafeteria. Perhaps this includes the influence of his mother's return.

The more people there are, the more people there are. I don't know why I don't feel alien to his people. Is it because we have gathered like this before LDKS?

That's just possible.

“Why does the school look quieter than usual?”

“Indeed you did not know that second class is currently undergoing fieldwork practice?”

I asked that in surprise to Miyuki. He should have known this from his conversations with his friends, or indeed his friends never talked about this.

“No, I don't know.”

He will soon be asking about this.

“What is it?”

Anyone please answer the question. I'm lazy to serve it right now.

“So fieldwork practice or commonly abbreviated as PKL, we will go to a company to do internship there for one semester. This is done so that we get work experience because SMK is expected after graduation can directly plunge into the world of work.”

Despite the irony at this time, there are still many companies that do not accept someone who only has an SMK diploma even though their abilities can compete with those with a bachelor's degree.

“What first class will also feel it?”

Miyuki looked really happy while listening to that.

“No, we only do that when second grade semester is even.”

Ask Kichida.

“If in tenth grade, our activities are still maximized by studying at school. Later when the eleventh grade, we just have some events such as darmawisata and PKL this.”

This time it was Lina who explained that to everyone.

“Tourism!?”

Miyuki, Kichida, and Yoshida looked delighted when they heard that. They immediately stared at Rina, they must be very impatient about it.

“Iya, if it is not wrong our upperclassmen this year, they go to Yogyakarta.”

Yogyakarta... There are many tourist attractions there that we can visit. Hopefully we can visit one of the beaches that are there, because there are so many beaches in Jogja that are very beautiful.

I think I need to buy a camera too to capture the moment.

Waitaminute! Why am I so excited like them?

“Yogyakarta huh? I'm so impatient.”

That's what Miyuki said.

“Oh yes Mar, about the gift about the case yesterday, my father would like to talk to you later.”

Mul! Aren't you wrong to talk to me about that at a time like this?

I was very surprised to hear Maul say that. Maul should have known that I told her to hide Akbar's problem yesterday to the others.

Thanks to his words Maul, now all the attention is on me and Maul.

Then seeing everyone looking at him Maul realized what he had just said and she was speechless at what he wanted to say to them.

I just shook my head a little at what Maul had just done.

“What did you just say Mul?”

Miyuki directly looked at Maul with that curious look.

Maul also looked at me but I turned my face away from her, I did not want to get involved with the problem she just made.

Akbar chuckled at the level of practice from Maul who was still asking me for help.

“Can you explain to us what you just said Mul?”

Miyuki kept charging him.

I told you that talking about something in front of Miyuki is very troublesome.

“I just mispronounced.”

Maul tries to get away from this with her own efforts.

“Cannot.”

Miyuki was still staring at Maul.

“It is fitting that you always complain when suspected by Miyuki, it turns out like this it feels.”

Finally Maul felt what I felt.

“What did the three of you just do?”

Now it was Rina who asked Maul.

“We just finished a case and get a gift from it.”

“What case did you guys finish?”

Maul looked at me. Looks like he's asking for my approval to talk about this.

“Tell them, it's also free to hide it if it's like this.”

I said to him, because we are not hiding this anymore.

But why could Maul say that unintentionally, was she thinking about something right now so that she could not control her speech.

“Do you remember the kidnapping case that Rian talked about during the new year? That's the case we settled.”

Hearing this would surprise everyone. I had actually guessed this before. Had I not been the one to do this, I might have been as surprised as they were.

“You mean the kidnapping that time?”

Said Rian to make sure again.

“Iya.”

Answer Maul briefly.

“When did it happen?”

“One week after rapot retrieval.”

“Why didn't you tell me Mar?”

Now Miyuki charges that to me.

“Part of what I should tell you.”

My parents just don't know about this. Of course I hid it, if they knew I could have been scolded by them.

“This is great news once.”

“What is true?”

Takeshi still did not believe what Maul had just said.

“If indeed they did, why in the news the name of the three of you is not mentioned there or at least that hints the three of you like ‘There are three students who managed to solve this case’.”

Connect Takeshi.

I don't blame him if he doesn't believe this.

“My father is a person who works in the police, so manipulating data like this is an easy thing for him. Amar also told my father to change that.”

Maul explained it to Takeshi.

“Again you did something dangerous Ar!”

Lina looks so angry at me.

Rina scolded me for what I had done. I also just quietly accepted the words from him, because I was confused what to say to him.

“It's not Amar Rina's fault, she just wants to help people.”

Akbar tried to help me escape from Rina's anger.

“I've been suspicious of Riki's attitude that looks ordinary when discussing the case during the new year. That attitude is very unnatural.”

Miyuki's observation was quite sharp as well, next time I have to be careful with her observation.

“Then how many gifts do you get from it?”

Rian was very curious.

“I myself do not know, my father did not tell me.”

About how much money I got out of it. If it's a lot of money, maybe I can use that money to buy a camera like I wanted before.

Yeah, maybe after the money goes down I'll start looking on the internet about the camera, and ask Mr. Febri a little bit, because I think he knows a lot about the camera.

“I'm asking for money to keep her mouth shut to you Mar!”

Miyuki directly charged it to me.

I know what Miyuki meant by the money, because if she told her mother about it and her mother told my mother I was in serious trouble.

“Alright, sometime I will take you all to eat after school.”

I had to do that so that I wouldn't be expected to give Miyuki such special treatment.

And then, Riki also told them about the action taken by the three of us while handling the case. They all also became aware that the people involved in the case were his father Akbar and his sister.

the End Chapter 121