Chapter 8
What does a painter need?
Hands as steady as a rock?
Eyes as sharp as lightning?
Or can he still burn his life for painting even when he is hungry?
There will be a thousand answers to such questions for a thousand people.
But Kasugano Toru believes that only by discovering the essence of this world can one draw the most realistic paintings.
As the saying goes, it is not that this world lacks beauty, but that it lacks LSPs…it lacks eyes to discover beauty.
So in his pen, the prosperous Tokyo becomes a forest of steel, and the passers-by become puppets on strings.
Oh, you mean the two girls yesterday.
In Kasugano Toru’s eyes, they are just walking yen.
For the sake of money, it’s okay to violate your principles occasionally.
In other words, when drawing for those people, Kasugano Toru was just drawing. It was not a hobby, not a belief, it was just a job. Would you regard a job that barely guarantees your food and clothing as a lifelong belief?
But when drawing a portrait for Eriri, Kasugano Toru couldn’t help but immerse himself in a wonderful state.
Well, they are all LSPs, why pretend to be innocent.
In fact, he just saw a rare beauty who was willing to be his model, and he was tempted.
Although he said that he had no plans to get married, it did not prevent Kasugano Toru from appreciating beautiful women.
After a long time, Eriri came back to her senses from her strange state.
“This classmate, you……”The blonde girl didn’t know what to say.
To say that Kasugano Tetsu’s drawing was bad?
But that was indeed her, and she was someone that all Toyonosaki’s students had never seen.
But to say that Kasugano Tetsu’s drawing was good?
What a joke, if my true face was known to others, I would be socially dead, okay?
“Shocked! The school beauty of Fengzhiqi Private Academy secretly……”
“The blonde beauty is secretly doing… Is this a distortion of human nature or a loss of morality?”
“The drawing doesn’t look like it, does it?”Kasugano Toru smiled. It was really too much to do this to a beautiful girl who was speaking to her for the first time.
“It’s okay, Sawamura-san can return this painting to me, and I will paint you another one as an apology. At the same time, because I have wasted Sawamura-san’s time, and because I have to trouble Sawamura-san to be a model again, I will not accept the agreed fee… um, I will only accept half of it.”Kasugano Toru, who originally wanted to be generous, still succumbed to reality.
Forget it, five thousand is five thousand, the two girls yesterday also received a total of five thousand yen, so just treat it as the same as yesterday.
Anyway, I earned five thousand yen by painting two paintings, which is enough to make those sour people around me jealous.
“No, you misunderstood me.” Seeing that Kasugano Toru was going to take back the painting, Eriri got anxious and quickly explained:”This… um, what is this classmate’s name?”
Oh my god, Eriri felt that she had never been so embarrassed as now. If she was given enough time, it would be no problem for her to have another three-bedroom apartment.
“Kasugano, my name is Kasugano Toru, Sawamura-san.” Kasugano Toru generously told the other party his name.
Anyway, according to his understanding, if the blonde girl is determined to find out a person’s identity, unless he leaves Japan, he will always be found out.
What’s more, he has no intention of hiding his identity, and he is not a criminal who is not willing to see the light.
Not wanting to be associated with a big family does not mean that he cannot live an upright life.
And he also knows that the girl in front of him will never have too many opportunities to contact him.
In Japan, a country with serious class stratification, her friends are destined to be the children of those big families.
And what about his friends?
Oh, he doesn’t need friends, he just needs a sister.
“Well, Kasugano-san, you misunderstood what I meant just now. I wanted to ask, can you sell me this painting as well? I’ll give you 20,000 yen.” Eriri stretched out her white and tender fingers and made a 2 gesture. Kasugano
Toru frowned.
Seeing the boy’s expression, Eriri was afraid that the other party would take back the painting, so she continued to raise the price:”How about 30,000? How about 50,000? I’m in a hurry to go out today, so I only brought this much cash. If Kasugano-san still doesn’t want to, I can ask her family to send the money over.” Eriri originally intended to use the 50,000 yen to buy comics and games.
But now she can no longer care about so much. At most, she can send the housekeeper to buy comics and games, but if she misses this painting, she may regret it for the rest of her life.
“Sawamura……”Kasugano Toru swallowed hard and said even harder,”Actually, when you said 20,000, I wanted to agree. The reason I frowned was purely because I didn’t expect you to give so much.……”
Kasugano Toru was really frightened. From childhood to adulthood, in order to ensure that he and his sister could live safely, he wanted to spend every penny.
No one really thought that he didn’t like to eat fresh vegetables and fruits, right?
As long as there is two dollars in the pocket, who doesn’t like delicious food?
But he didn’t expect that the living expenses for him and his sister for ten days, which he saved by eating frugally, would come out of the mouth of the girl in front of him so easily.
And it was just the cash that the other party brought with him.……
“Evil capitalists!” After spitting inwardly, Kasugano Toru put on a more mercenary expression.
“Since Sawamura-san likes this painting so much, I will sell it to you. To express my gratitude, I will try my best to draw a portrait of Sawamura-san for free!”
The sour-minded people around were even more jealous.
Ten thousand yen was enough to make them drool, and many people might not be able to earn such an income in a day.
It can be said that art students are actually very hard-working. You know, although they can earn one thousand to one thousand five hundred yen for a painting, in addition to the time consumed, the costs of drawing paper and drawing boards are not small expenses. There is no point in learning art without money.
Therefore, it is really a big question whether these people can earn ten thousand yen in a day.
As a result, Kasugano Toru easily earned fifty thousand, and also pretended to be cool in front of the beauty.
Eriri didn’t care about the reactions of the people around her.
She only cared about the painting that touched her soul. After getting Kasugano Toru’s promise, the girl finally felt relieved.
Fearing that the other party would go back on his word, the girl stuffed the banknotes in her hand directly into Kasugano Toru’s backpack, and then quickly put away the painting. She didn’t even care about Kasugano Toru’s promise to draw another portrait for her, and left here directly.
“What on earth am I doing?”The girl, walking quickly and almost jogging, complained to herself in shame.
“Didn’t we agree to come here to ask for advice on painting techniques today? How did it turn out like this?”