The Winter Promise

Chapter 74: The School Is Home

It was already a week of rest, I never went to an ordinary place because I wanted to sleep in class. Lately I'm being called work because of the Comic Universe application that will be released today.

As usual, I went to the UKS to sleep there because in the UKS the place is better to sleep than in class. Sometimes Miyuki and Rina come to disturb me.

When I got there, Ternayta Maul was already there and asleep on one of the mattresses in the UKS.

It turns out that he is already here, it is better that I also go to bed immediately before the rest is up. There were still thirty minutes before the entrance bell rang, it seemed like it was enough to pay for my lost sleep last night.

I began to lie down on the empty bed and closed my eyes.

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

I heard the bell ringing and woke up from my sleep. I tried to gather my consciousness and look around me. I saw Maul who had woken up and gathered her consciousness as well, besides that I also saw the teacher who served in the UKS was already there. Indeed we will not be scolded to use UKS to sleep at rest.

“Why are you here too?”

Maul looked at me with eyes still sleepy.

“Of course to sleep, what else.”

“Why don't you sleep in class?”

“If I sleep in class, there are so many distractions that I cannot sleep in peace.”

Whether it's from Miyuki and Rina or from my classmates who always invite me to talk while on break. If I am in a mediocre condition and not sleepy, I will serve them until the break is over.

“Do I need to come to the office later?”

“Did you forget that today is the day the Comic Universe app was released? Of course we have to come there.”

“Finally I can sleep peacefully also tonight.”

We started walking out of the UKS and into our classes.

“What's the next lesson in your class?”

Ask Maul to me.

“Sports.”

“Bad once.”

“I agree with you, in a time when I was sleep deprived like this and I had to take sports lessons.”

When I got to class, it turned out that all my friends were changing their clothes there.

Take it easy, in this story there will be no scene where I accidentally enter when the girls are changing clothes. Because at my school girls change their clothes in the bathroom, so it's not possible.

“Ayo Mar quickly change your clothes! Sports lessons will start soon.”

Tell Riki who is already wearing his clothes and prepare to head to the sports hall. I immediately changed my clothes and went to the gym.

At the gym, I was very sleepy. I slept in the UKS, but why am I still sleepy?

“Why are you so sleepy Mar today? Didn't you sleep in the UKS earlier.”

Riki also watched me from earlier yawn continuously.

“Yesterday night is the last day of grace from my work and there is still much I have not finished, so last night I stayed until morning to finish all that.”

“Is the job still the same as the work you did with Maul?”

“That's.”

“What are you working on?”

I don't think it's wrong to tell Riki now, after all, the end of this application has been released as well.

“I'm working at a publishing company that is creating an app to read comics digitally.”

“You should ask Kichida for comic recommendations often, so here's why. Then what's your job there?”

“I became an editor there, I was assigned to check the comics created by the comic. Whether according to the requirements of the company or not.”

“The work is very heavy as it sounds.”

“If the comics I checked were few in number, it might not be too heavy. But the comics I have to check are so many, that's why I always work on them late into the night.”

Although initially Pak Hari could only get thirty comics who wanted to help in the release of the application. But when the web was released, suddenly a lot of new comics entered the application. I don't know what Maul did to get so many new people to sign up to publish the comic.

“I don't know what it's like.”

“Later you will feel it when O2SN is done, so be patient.”

When the sports lesson, my class and Miyuki's class were merged to run the lesson together because the gym teacher owned by this school was not much and the lesson this time was volleyball.

“Why should there be volleyball lessons at a time like this.”

I looked limp as the gym teacher began to explain and practice the techniques in volleyball.

“What's Why Mar?”

“I'm not very able in volleyball. In ordinary conditions I am not sure I can serve the ball correctly, especially if in this condition.

My gym teacher had already finished explaining and practicing it to us and called us one by one to practice it as well.

“Amarul Ihsan.”

All right, now it's my turn.

Like I said earlier, I can't serve properly and I'm always reprimanded by my gym teacher.

I sucked so bad today.

I sat on the sidelines and watched the other students do it after my turn was over.

“Why are you today Mar? Not like you usually.”

Kichida who was done with her turn came straight for me.

“Today is a deadline for my work and I just finished my work this morning, which is why I didn't get enough sleep today.”

“Does it have anything to do with you going to the UKS during the break earlier.”

“Iya, I just slept there.”

“What are you working on is a comic application that will soon be released in Indonesia which is Comic Universe?”

It turns out that Kichida also already knew that the application would be published as well.

“Where do you know about it?”

“I saw the ad while watching a video on the internet. Because it's interesting, I'm so looking around.”

It turned out that the ads created by Maul really worked.

“That's a very good application, there are already a lot of comics listed there and will be available when the first release.”

At least I did a little promotion.

“Where did you know it was Mar?”

“I work in that company.”

“What is your job there?”

“How about you guess.”

Kichida began to think, occasionally tilting his head to the right and to the left when thinking about it.

“Quickly once.”

“It's worth it that you always ask me for advice on comics.”

“That's because I very rarely read comics before I got this job, even I never read them. So I don't know how comics that I find interesting to readers, which is why I always ask Kichida.” for comic recommendations

Although I previously mentioned that Japanese comics seem strange in terms of story, but there are some comics that I think are very cool and I am very happy to follow the comic.

“Great once you Mar can work as an editor in that company.”

“The company that manages the app is not as big as you imagine. The company is not a big company, even its employees are only four people.”

“Four people!?”

Kichida was very surprised when he heard that.

“The employee is only the owner of the company, Mr. Febri, Maul, and me. Me and Mr. Febri work as editors, Maul takes care of apps and the web, while the company owner takes care of the relationship between the comics and finance.”

“It's worth it that you look tired once.”

“This is the last time I work like this, in the future I will work more relaxed.”

Because according to Mr. Hari, soon he will open a job vacancy for new employees.

“What means you belong to one of the people who founded the company?”

“I don't know, but obviously I work there.”

“If if the application is famous, you could have become a top brass of the company at a relatively young age.”

After all the things I've done, it doesn't seem bad either. But I don't want to big head first, still everything goes back to Mr. Hari. His decision is in his hands.

“How possible is the application famous?”

I asked Kichida.

“If I see from the ad, it doesn't seem to take long for the app to become famous.”

“Why?”

“Before the application just release antusian from people want it reader or comic is very crowded on the internet, even many who respond positively about this application.”

On the internet yes... Lately I have rarely opened the internet or play games because of the busy tasks I do. Even I haven't followed the news about the kidnapping back then.

“Where did you see that?”

“I saw it in one of the forums. Because I was curious about the application, so I found out more details on the internet.”

“So so.”

If indeed this application gets a lot of positive responses from people, it seems to be good news for everyone. The effort we have put in so far has not been in vain. But I feel that the crowded conversation of this application on the internet is the act of Maul as well.

“Especially at this time such an application only has one in Indonesia, so it can attract the existing comic in Indonesia to join the application. As long as applications from Korea and Japan enter the Indonesian market later, because the applications you create already exist first compared to others, it will not affect much.”.

It was like what Mr. Hari and Maul said on our first day of meeting.

“Most which will be influential about in-app development and contracts between the company and the comic.”

It's not wrong for me to tell this to Kichida, he seems to know a lot of problems like this. As I expected of the person who would later become a comic.

“Thank you for the input you gave me Kichida. I know a little bit about it.”

“Maybe I'll try to be a comic also there.”

“Then I will help you in giving advice.”

“Heee.. Looks like I much better understand which interesting stories are not.”

Eaks.. Kichida is not wrong, I'm still asking him for some advice and recommendations.

“Oo... You two look so familiar. What are you guys talking about?”

Riki who had made her turn came to us and sat down beside me.

“We are only discussing about the comic application that wants to release only.”

“I thought you guys were talking about something exciting.”

What is something exciting right now? If you're still talking about the kidnapping case, I can't argue much at all because of my lack of information lately.

“What lesson did Rik learn?”

“English.”

Alhamdulillahot.. It seems like my sleep time will increase later. Because usually English teachers have rules in their lessons. We will study seriously for one hour of lessons and another hour we are free to do anything, usually we call it free class.

Whether you think what my English teacher did was wrong or not, if I don't think he's wrong. As long as he had delivered the material that he should have delivered today and there was nothing left behind at all, besides that all his students understood the lesson he was teaching, I think he's done his job as a teacher.

I also thought that it was the best way to draw attention to the students in my class in order to be interested in listening to the teacher with focus.

“Oh now turn Miyuki.”

The three of us also saw Miyuki who was ready to serve with her volleyball. I looked around me when there were so many male students watching him, whether it was from my class or from Miyuki's class. A princess is different, she always gets attention from others.

Sports lessons are over and there is still time left before going into the next lesson. I also intend to sleep in the remains of that time, because this time is very precious.

“Rik! Wake me up if the teacher is already in.”

Tell Riki when she wants to go to the back of the class to join my other friends.

“OK.”

Good evening.

“Oi Mar!”

Who else woke me up at a time like this? It would be impossible for Miyuki and Rina to come here just to talk to me.

I raised my head to see who it was and it turned out he was Mr. Febri.

“What do you need sir? Right now I want to sleep before entering next hour.”

“Hahaha... Looks like you got less sleep last night.”

Mr. Febri was sitting on the empty bench next to me.

“The father speaks like that, the father himself is also not getting enough sleep right?”

At that time I saw under Mr. Febri a sizable eye bag under his eyes, Mr. Febri.

“How can I not sleep when I remember that today is the day of the release of the application and there are still so many comics that I have to edit.”

“I also did not expect that the comic was that much. When Mr. Hari told me to become an editor and he said there were only thirty comic artists joining, I guess my job wasn't that hard. I was wrong!”

“Look at it later, if the application already has income I will charge the fee to him.”

“What are you doing here, shouldn't you be teaching next class?”

“I did teach in the next class, but there are still teachers teaching there. Now also has not changed the lesson hours.”

“I want to use this time to sleep first.”

I started putting my head on the table and started to close my eyes.

“Do not fall asleep Mar.”

“If that happens, Riki will wake me up.”

the End Chapter 74