The Winter Promise
Chapter 76: I Can Finally Relax for a Moment.
I can finally enjoy my peaceful life. Because now in the office there are several interns who replace us there, so Me and Maul can relax. Right now I'm in a normal place when I take a break to finish my lunch.
I haven't felt peace like this for a long time.
“Tumben once you're here Mar? Usually you when you are sleeping in the UKS or in class.”
The new Miyuki directly rebuked me who was enjoying the tranquility of sitting under a shady tree.
“My work is done, so I can relax now.”
“Then we eat and Amar treattir.”
Miyuki immediately looked delighted to hear that.
“Nak only, I want to save my money to buy something. By the way where is Rina?”
“Rina is still in class to work on one, it looks like she will be here soon.”
Do something? Has he been having trouble with his duties lately? I don't think that's possible, because Rina is much smarter than me. I don't think the job this school is giving me is going to bother him.
Not long from Miyuki saying that, Rina also came with provisions in her hands and immediately joined us.
“You are here Ar?!”
Whether my existence has been denied here as long as I do not gather with them. I felt very sad when Lina said that.
“Whatever the job is done?”
“Already, where have you been yourself?”
“Um.. ah.. I'm out of class doing something.”
I know he's lying. Lina always turned her eyes away from my gaze when she was lying. But I guess every time I looked at her seriously, Rina always turned her eyes away. Is that just my feeling, right?
“Oh yes friends, I just heard from my friends if there is a new comic application containing comics from within the country.”
Rian showed me his phone and he was opening the Comic Universe.
“Friends in my class also know about this app. Said there were some fun comics there.”
Riki Sahut.
“Why do you look so calm Mar? Don't you have any responses about that app?”
Yoshida was watching me who made absolutely no comment about it.
“I have no response, after all it's not common for me to be dimmed like this. But I think the application is very good because it supports comics in the country to work.”
“And again I've found out about this application, it turns out the creator is the publisher of the Universe Comics. Magazine that was famous when I was a child, there used to be many good comics contained in it.”
I just saw Rian get excited like this for the first time. When he saw his nature like this, it seemed that he was not much different from Maul.
“You know about the magazine Yan?”
“The magazine was very famous first, it is very strange if there are people who do not know the magazine.”
“Hahahahahahahaha..”.
Maul laughed with great satisfaction upon hearing Rian's words. Because only Maul knows that I didn't know anything about the Comics Universe before working there.
It seems that I am a freak because I have never read the magazine. I wondered what I was doing when I was a kid so I didn't know anything about this magazine. I think my childhood, I spent playing with my friends and I never remembered them talking about comics at all. When it comes to cartoons on television, they talk about it a lot when we're playing.
“I also don't know about the magazine.”
Said Miyuki who noticed Maul who was still laughing.
“It's only natural that Miyuki doesn't know about the magazine, because it went bankrupt when we were in SD.”
“It's a shame I can't read it, but I know a similar magazine sold in Japan. If I hear from Rian's explanation, it looks like the magazine in Japan is also almost the same as that, only the comics shown there are comics from comics in Japan.”
I had also heard that from Mr. Hari while I was asking him the origin of Mr. Hari's idea to create a Comics Universe. It turns out he was inspired by magazines in Japan that raised many domestic comics to his work famous to foreign countries. He also has the same goals as the company, but unfortunately their fate is much different.
“I also heard rumors on the internet that this application is only done by four people and two of them are students.”
I was also a little surprised by the rumors that were said with Rian. Indeed Mr. Hari never hid this, but if this has been known by the internet is not this very dangerous. It could be that his company Pak Hari was sued for exploiting minors to work. If that happens, I have to do something.
As I was thinking about it, I realized that Yoshida had been watching me all along. His view could not be separated to see my movements during this conversation.
“Why is your gaze the same as Miyuki's gaze who wants to know something?”
“Does this comic have anything to do with your recently finished work?”
Hearing Yoshida's words made everyone who was there directly stare at Amar. Maul also tried to be ordinary so that she would not get dragged into this matter.
“Mana mungin.”
“Oi Mul! Please help me.”
I whispered to Maul who was beside me for help, but she kept trying to calm down and quietly said nothing.
“Thanks to the words of Yoshida I just realized something, if the time of release of the application and the time Amar finished is very coincident.”
Even Rina was suspicious of Amar now.
“You know about this app Rina?”
Ask him.
“Because of my brother's talk on my birthday, I became curious and followed the development of the application. Because I see the ads on the internet, if there are interesting comics in the application that will be published.”
AHshat! Even Rina suspected me.
“Looks like I can't hide it anymore... Indeed I made the application together with Maul, Mr. Febri, and also the owner of the company Universe Comics who wants to build his company back.”
“I've expected it.”
“I also.”
Rina and Yoshida did not look surprised at all, but Rian and Takeshi looked very surprised at all.
“Why are you two surprised? Isn't that the usual thing.”
“Maybe it's normal you think, but not for normal people.”
Takeshi said to me.
That means his words represent that I am not normal.
“I'm still normal like a teenager in general.”
“It is fitting that I often see Maul going to UKS when on break lately.”
Rian has started to accept that.
“I went to UKS to sleep there, because my sleep at night was very less because working on the application.”
“Is your grade okay Ar?”
“My value has not decreased in the least.”
“How do you keep pace between studying and working Mar? I need to learn that from you.”
Yoshida asked me.
“Learn? I never studied during school here.”
“That's impossible.”
“My grade was never high and I was only aiming for average grades, so I wasn't too burdened with studying. In addition, in my opinion, listening to the teacher in the classroom seriously has replaced the time to study at home.”
“So so... At first I thought you were always asleep in class when the teacher was explaining because your face always looked sleepy. But when I look at you, you always listen to the teacher seriously.”
Said Kichida to me.
“How about PR?”
Ask Kichida who still doesn't believe that I've never studied.
“If PR is other than productive lessons, I always do it when I'm at school. As for the productive lesson, I've conspired with Mr. Febri for that.”
“Isn't that cheating!”
Yoshida doesn't accept that.
“It's not cheating, I call it with insider power.”
“Stay alone it cheats Ar.”
I can't argue that Rina said that.
“Do you already know about this Miyuki?”
Rina asked Miyuki who had been silent from earlier not making a sound. Usually if there is such a thing, he is the one who is most eager to find out about the truth. Especially if this matter held me about myself, he would have no end to ask.
“That's.”
“When did you know it?”
“I guess when I went to the bookstore with Amar and when he asked for advice on the comics I read.”
Mi-yu-ki! You shouldn't have said that.
“So you've been to a bookstore together with Amar?”
Lina looks jealous hearing that.
“It's not so Rin! At that time I asked Amar to help me find a gift for your birthday.”
Miyuki was at a loss to explain what to Rina, and also she was very late to realize that.
“If Kichida?”
“I already knew when Amar suddenly asked me for advice about interesting comics in my opinion, whereas a few days before he said that the comics I read were very strange.”
“Indeed the Yamaha comics and the Seven Montirs were very strange in my opinion.”
“That's good, you're the only one who doesn't know where good is.”
I also had a debate with Kichida about Yamaha and Seven Montir. I do not know how the whole story of the comic is because the comic has not come out in Indonesia, so I do not know where the good location of the comic is.
“Why did you shut up Nishimura?”
Kichida asked Takeshi who had not said anything..
“I don't know what to say anymore, it seems like I can't beat Amar in any way.”
“Do you still think about it?”
I never thought of that myself at all.
“Of course, before I beat you though, I will never be satisfied.”
It seems like my decision to give Takeshi a win was not a bad idea to end this.
“I won't forgive you if you purposely relented.”
Waw! It's great that he knows what I'm thinking.
“Better you don't have to think about that anymore, isn't that too much of a hassle. You better focus on what you can at this time.”
Teng... Teng... Teng... Teng......
The doorbell rang and I and the others went to their respective classes to take their next lesson.
“Today's your Mar's birthday, What will you do after this?”
Riki asked me during the trip to class.
I already knew that today was my birthday because my mother made me yellow rice for breakfast. If he doesn't make me yellow rice, maybe I'll forget it too.
Why do I often forget my birthday, because only three things I pay attention to when looking at the calendar. The first was a red date, and the second was a grace period, and the third was the birthday of my parents. I can't forget their birthday, because
it was one form of dedicating me to the two of them.
“Oh yes, my birthday is today yes.”
“Even your own birthday until you forget Mar.”
I didn't forget that, I just pretended to see your response.
“I've been too busy working lately, so I don't really remember my birthday. If you ask me about the red date of this month, I've remembered everything.”
“Then do you have any plans after school?”
“Do you want to ask me to treat you? If it's just you and Maul it's okay.”
“Others?”
I already knew that Riki would say something like this. It seems like Rina, Miyuki, and the others have included my close friends as well.
“I don't have that much. Although I have finished doing a great job, but the pay of the job will only come down later after the application makes money. So for now my money is not much.”
“Then we eat at a place to eat near the school. I heard from the class children that there has a fairly cheap price.”
Cheap! I don't think it matters as long as it's cheap.
“Can only.”
“I'll pass this on to Maul now.”
Riki ran away from me.
“Remember! Don't invite others, just you and Maul.”
“Quiet only.”
Riki started to disappear from my sight. I'm sure that he's on his way to Maul's class now.
Surely you are confused why we are not with Maul even though during the break we were with him. Because when the bell rings, riki and I went first to the picket table in the first building to ask the teacher there if the teacher who taught the next lesson in my class came in or not. That's why I parted ways with Maul and the others.
***
“Pak, I want to go together with my friends for a while now. Go first to the office.”
“How about Maul?”
“Maul also want to go with me, later we will follow.”
“Ok.”
After telling Mr. Febri, I went straight to the school gate to meet with Riki.
It is time to go home from school and I along with Riki and Maul intend to go to the restaurant near the school to celebrate my birthday. But before going there, I also had to tell Mr. Febri first that I could not go to the office with him so that he would not wait for me and Maul.
When I reached the school gate, I only saw Riki there alone.
“Where is Maul?”
I approached him too.
“Say he's having a little business with his exculpation.”
“She knows where to eat right?”
“Tau.”
“Then we go straight away and wait for him there only.”
“Alright then, because today you are the birthday, I will follow you only.”
“You could have.”
Then we went to the place to eat.
the End Chapter 76
