"Now that everything's finished, why not take a break for a while?"
Rita put away the manuscripts. So many chapters in reserve... for some reason, it gave her an immense sense of satisfaction. She could start playing around for an entire year without worrying about missing an update. It felt incredible!
So even though they were finished, Rita had no intention of handing them all over to Iida Ayano at once. They could just continue as they had before.
"..."
In response to Rita's words, Mashiro Shiina's expressionless face suddenly looked a little pitiful.
"No. I want to draw manga."
Mashiro's tone was firm. She could compromise on anything else, but manga was her conviction.
"Um..."
Looking at Mashiro, Rita fell into thought...
Mashiro had gained a little more common sense now, but Rita could clearly see that she still had no ability to independently complete a manga. If the work she struggled so hard to draw kept getting rejected like before...
"Then how about this? Mashiro, do you want to draw a manga with yourself as the protagonist?" Rita seemed to have suddenly thought of something, a hint of amusement appearing in her wine-red eyes.
"Draw myself?"
Mashiro tilted her head cutely and looked at Rita, not quite understanding.
"Yeah. Draw a manga about things that happen around you, Mashiro. We'll call it... The Pet Girl of... no, no, it should be Rita's Pet Girl now... That still feels way too embarrassing! Let's just call it Pet Girl!"
After agonizing over it for a while, Rita settled on the new manga's title!
With her and Mashiro's abilities, let alone working on two series at once... even three or four wouldn't be a problem. As for the subject matter, this world already had many manga that existed in the original