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Whether Boruto was marketable or not was another matter, but there really were already-established manga artists in this country who had abandoned their own children. Some had even said, "Manga, light novels—they're all a gamble. The winner takes all, and the loser gets nothing..."
Even someone as confident as Utaha Kasumigaoka did not dare guarantee that her future works would all remain bestsellers. Ahem, that was without taking Sogo Doma's help into account—
So an allowance of over four hundred thousand a month was already an outrageously high income that most people would not even dare dream of. She knew Hiroshi Nohara, right? According to that show, his monthly salary was only around three hundred thousand!
No wonder Utaha Kasumigaoka felt there were far too many things to criticize. A stable monthly income of four hundred thousand, and she was like, "..."
"Indeed..." Yet just as she was questioning her life, Sogo Doma was already stroking his chin and saying, "I told Hijikata and Gorilla—the dojo master Kondo—about this ages ago. Four or five hundred thousand a month is nowhere near enough to live on..."
Utaha Kasumigaoka: "..."
Hold it right there! It was not four hundred thousand a month, but four or five hundred thousand? And that was still not enough? More importantly, could she really afford to support Sogo?
"Exactly, exactly..." Okada and the others deeply agreed. "If we clear out our carts a few extra times in a month, we become what the captain calls paycheck-to-paycheck people. Vice... Mr. Hijikata and the dojo master Kondo have no idea what they're thinking. How could an allowance of just over four hundred thousand a month possibly be enough?"
"Eh!?" Utaha Kasumigaoka froze again. Allowance? It was not wages? Wait, why were these guys receiving allowances for coming to