The Winter Promise
Chapter 95: The Root of My Talk Is Miyuki.
Currently I have been in one of the cafes located in the mall in Central Jakarta to meet with the comic who plans to be recorded. When I returned home from school, Malik told me to go directly to his place of meeting, because of its location near my school compared to I had to go to the office first.
I could see Malik waiting for me inside, he waved his hand at me so I could see him clearly. I approached him immediately too.
“What's sister been here for a long time?”
“I just got here.”
Malik drank a drink that was already on his desk.
“Then I want to order a drink first.”
I put my bag on the bench next to Malik and went to the cashier to order a drink there.
When I look at the prices listed there, all the drinks look very expensive. That is of course, because this is a large mall and located in the Central Jakarta area which is the center of Jakarta. Where my payment has only dropped in two weeks, but at least I still have a monthly allowance from my parents
I can use it.
After ordering drinks and food, I immediately returned to my seat.
“Have you ordered Mar's drink?”
“Already.”
I sat down and leaned on the chair to rest my sore shoulders from having to stand on the bus.
“You just relax first, besides the comic is still on the road.”
“Why don't we meet at the office?”
“This mall distance is not too far from your school. If we meet at the office, you'll have to go back and forth when we get here.”
“True also.”
Is there anything I should do in the office?
If it's my job, every day the editor-in-chief always sends it by email and I can read it when I get home. At the moment Maul is also not in the office, so I have no friends to take with me to the roof. If I take Natasha, I'm afraid she has a job to do.
“How about your school Mar?”
Ask Malik to me.
“Obviously, there's nothing interesting.”
“I'm very grateful to you for accompanying me today. Though you yourself are my superior, but I can tell you like this.”
Malik feels bad for me.
“Just relax, I also want to learn something here.”
“Today also many employees who talked about you and Maul while in the office. Because a lot of employees who just knew about you two since the party that time.”
I'm sure there are some of them who talk bad things to me and also Maul who has a close relationship with Mr. Hari.
“What are they talking about?”
“Many of them praised the hard work of the two of you.”
“What among them said something bad about us?”
Malik kept quiet and said nothing.
I know he's trying not to talk about it.
“You don't have to worry about saying it, I won't do anything to them. I also understand them if they say that.”
Because they must have never seen someone younger than them become their superior. Of course there are some of them who do not accept that. I can already understand him, that's why I don't want Mr. Hari to talk about my position to other employees. Let some people know about it.
“Only a few people say bad about you.”
“Oh so.”
“For a child of your age, you look very calm compared to what I think.”
Brother Malik looked at me a little astonished then became ordinary again.
“What does Brother Malik think?”
“Because you're young, so I thought that you'd get angry and do something to those people, or at least you're just mad at them.”
“I don't really like wasting my emotions on something I think is useless like that.”
“Hahahahaha..”
Brother Malik suddenly laughed which made me a little confused.
“Is there anything funny from what I said just now?”
“What Mr. Hari said about you turned out to be true, even though you are still young but your thinking is much more mature than other young people.”
“What thoughts like this include mature?”
“Most young people of your age are still in a hurry to make decisions and their emotions are still unstable. That's why young people like you are weird.”
I think Maul is almost the same as me. Even compared to me, I have never seen an angry Maul in front of me. Do I just not remember Maul ever being angry?
I do not consider Maul's anger at me while in the Thousand Islands is the anger that Kak Malik is discussing here, because I do not think it looks like an angry person.
My order has finally come.
“This is his order.”
The waiter put a cup of coffee and two small glasses of liquid sugar and milk.
It's the first time I've gotten sugar and milk separately like this.
“Sorry, for the food later follow.”
“Good.”
“What did you order Mar?”
“I only ordered French fries.”
“Oh.”
“So what will we discuss this time?”
I also mix a little sugar into my coffee because I don't really like something bitter but I don't really like sweet either.
“Today we will only talk about the contract issue between the company and the comic in the bookkeeping issue.”
Malik took out a map and put it on the table.
“Can you explain about it to me.”
“So for the bookkeeping contract, the company has made two choices to the comic later. First is the copyright of the comic we buy and the second is the share of the proceeds from the sale of the comic only.”
Hmmmm... It seems Mr. Hari is only doing a meeting to discuss that with the financial section only. Because I don't remember ever talking about that at a meeting.
“From those two options, which contract can earn more?”
“If purchased the copyright, komikus will be paid in advance according to the price agreed by both parties and the amount is quite large. Whereas if the distribution of sales, they will only get income if their comics sell, the more people buy their comics the more they get.”
“It's hard once.”
Because of both options it has its own advantages.
“Why is it hard?”
“If if their comics are widely known to people and if marketed, it is better to choose revenue share. But if they are not sure about the sale of comics they better sell the copyright.”
I forgot that the comics that were recorded this time were all comics that had a high rating on the app. Of course all the comics will choose the revenue share for this.
“But does this benefit us?”
Because here I am also not sure if this method will work or not remember the reason why his company Pak Hari went bankrupt.
“I just saw a review from the readers on this issue and many of them do not mind if the comic is posted.”
“Reason?”
“Many of them want to collect the comic and some also prefer to read it in book form. There is also a review of someone who has a cafe in which a lot of comics, he is very happy if there are comics from Indonesian comics that adorn the bookshelf in his cafe.”
It turned out that people who had thoughts like Miyuki were not few.
“Thank God it was like that.”
“From the beginning I wanted to ask this to you and Maul but never got the time.”
“What is it?”
Hopefully not discussing the girlfriend issue or anything.
“What when building this company is quite difficult?”
Finally a very ordinary question.
“That's how, I never even had enough sleep.”
“How do you compensate for that with school?”
“I always do my chores when there is free time at school and use the break time to sleep in UKS.”
I remember those times. At that time I only realized that the UKS mattress was not too bad either.
“You slept in UKS?”
Malik was a little surprised to hear that.
“Iya, because only in UKS alone I can rest in peace. If in class there must be interference that bothers me.”
Like Miyuki... Miyuki's... And Miyuki.
“What teachers in the UKS do not forbid Amar to do that?”
“As long as it is not a lesson hour it does not matter, if there are hours of study we must bring a permit first from the teacher who taught at that time in order to use UKS.”
“I salute you both being able to do that without disturbing your school at all.”
“It's not easy to do, especially considering that we are not paid in the near future.”
Of course money can keep me motivated at the time.
“Then what keeps you both motivated despite not being paid?”
“At that time I only intended to help Mr. Febri only, not the other because Mr. Febri has often given me a job and I have not been grateful for it. If Maul himself, because he knows that he will be a leader in this company if his company has developed, he becomes excited.”
What I said was true, at first I did this because I wanted to help Mr. Febri. I just didn't really expect a boss position in that company, as long as I could still get a job and get paid there, that was enough for me.
“Maul had such thoughts when the start of this company has not been running?”
“Iya.”
“He is very optimistic once, but at least he got what he wanted.”
“At first I also did not expect that the application will be famous easily like this.”
Because I think this application is too unnatural to develop. But according to Maul, the Comic Universe application is still fairly ordinary in terms of its development. Even applications in Korea and Japan can reach millions of downloaders within a few days.
“The opportunity taken by Mr. Hari is very appropriate, that is what makes the application can be famous easily... Where did you get the idea to create an app like that?”
“Have you heard it from Pak Hari?”
“I was told that the idea of making this app all came from you.”
If it is not wrong, Mr. Febri also suggested this to Mr. Hari. Even he was the one who first said it before I chimed in that I also saw Kichida reading a similar app on her phone.
“I accidentally saw my friend reading a similar app from Japan while in school.”
“Indeed your friend can read Japanese writing? Not that the application from Japan only provides Japanese comics.”
“Not can it anymore, indeed that's the language she comes from.”
“Do you have a person who is from Japan?”
Malik was immediately excited when he talked about it.
“There are some of my friends who are from Japan happened to be one school with me.”
“What friends do you mean those are the friends you brought with you at the party at the office back then?”
“Iya.”
“It's just that they look a little different to the others. I also had time to see there is one very beautiful woman there, is that your girlfriend Mar?”
Please, why does every conversation end like this. Whatever topic was discussed at the beginning will definitely end with the question Miyuki is my boyfriend. Though at that time there were many women, but why should go to Miyuki. Maybe if to Rina I am not too concerned about this because from the way to call her Rina alone looks different compared to the others.
“None of them became my girlfriend.”
“Sweetie, there's no harm in dating such a beautiful woman. Moreover, he is from Japan, you can vacation in Japan at any time Mar.”
“I don't want to think about it first.”
“In the office are also many employees who approach Friska, there are even some of them who invite Friska to leave when the weekend.”
As I expected from Friska, it wasn't just me who admitted that she was beautiful.
“Do you also like Friska?”
Malik looked at me cynically. It seems like he wants to see if I am his rival as well or not.
“No, I was just amazed at him.”
“It doesn't matter if you approach Friska. I'm sure that Friska is not so concerned with age, let alone you already have your own money and a good position in the company, surely she wants.”
Don't give up like that, Malik. You must have liked him too but didn't want to compete with people like me and Maul, so you tried to open it up here. It's not bad, I like the way you make me talk.
“Rather than you worrying about me you better worry about Mr. Hari who has not had a partner until now.”
“Hah!? Mr Hari has no girlfriend yet?”
From his expression I could see that he did not know that at all.
I shook my head to answer Malik's question.
Then a man came to us.
“Pak Malik huh?”
“Oh, please sit.”
Malik immediately confirmed his sitting position to look more polite and let him sit. Looks like this guy is the comic we've been waiting for.
At that very instant, my food order that I was waiting for finally came. I was surprised when I saw the person who brought the order, that person was Akbar wearing a uniform from this cafe.
And look at the vision between me and Akbar happened.
the End Chapter 95
