Laid-Back Life in Tokyo: I Really Didn't Want to Work Hard

Chapter 750 - 451 Buying a Kitty

Hanamaru Hanabi heard his words and was stunned for a long time before speaking:"Sakura... so cruel..."

"What’s the big deal."

"How could Harumi just disappear in the next Chapter...?," Hanamaru Hanabi still couldn’t understand. Whether it was Yasukawa Harumi’s concern when Akizuki Katsuyama was down or her friendship of giving up her entire eight-year savings for him, Hanabi had developed a fondness for this character.

Such an important person suddenly dying in the next Chapter was bewildering.

Uesugi Sakura answered, "It’s the plot requirement. Yasukawa Harumi is Akisuki’s close friend and childhood companion. Their over ten years of acquaintance make their entirely incompatible personalities able to frequently have heart-to-heart talks together.

"They are both friends and comrades who worked hard in Tokyo after coming from Hokkaido. She is the only person Akisuki can trust in this city. Suddenly losing such a familiar person makes Akisuki lose all hope in Tokyo, completely disheartened."

"Does Hanabi know what this means?"

"I don’t know..."

"This means Akisuki urgently needs a rebirth, urgently needs a turning point to save him from his current predicament, and that’s when the heroine enters the scene."

"Sakura, you’re still so wicked... Can’t the story be a little happier?"

"Well," Uesugi Sakura was momentarily speechless, unsure where to start, so he tried to organize his words and explained, "Let me give an example."

Hanamaru Hanabi: "Go ahead, Sakura."

"It’s like when we watch movies; we watch them to gain deep feelings because we want to experience an array of emotional baptisms, to immerse ourselves, empathize, and fall in love with who the protagonist loves. Novels are the same; our primary task is to guide the audience into a deep emotional experience.

"Without deep emotion, it’s hard to make people feel tension, and they can’t get into it, just like God, indifferent."

"Don’t get it?"

Uesugi Sakura noticed Hanamaru Hanabi batting her eyes at him.

"In simple terms, it’s about conflict. The plot needs conflict, and the story needs conflict!"

"Due to losing his job, a breakup, and even being evicted by the landlord for lack of money, Akisuki struggled in Tokyo for eight years, and it seemed like he was treading water, making no progress, instead sinking deeper into the abyss. This is why Akisuki was so despondent. His family’s illness makes money his most urgent need, but unemployment deprives him of obtaining what he wants."

"Money represents the conflict between Akisuki and reality. It’s also what disappoints him most about Tokyo, where it’s cold, ruthless, and lonely - everything points to money. He spent a night drunk on the street, and no one cared to ask."

"At that moment, who helped him?"o gently knead them, and finally place them to his mouth for a gentle bite, just to see how soft they really were.