The Eyes of Divinity (Jujutsu Kaisen x Male OC)

Chapter 48 | Ryuji Unbounded

Again today, there's someone who wants to create the "world" known as manga...

Sometime before the Culling Game, a young man with blue hair and blue eyes filled out a visitor's registration form at a publishing house in Tokyo. Two of the staff members, upon noticing that he was a foreigner, discussed him.

"Ah, that foreign kid! He came to submit a manga." One staff member said.

"You don't see that often." The other staff member commented.

The blue-haired man met with a staff member to get his manga submission reviewed. He sat improperly on the desk. He casually expressed, "What makes a mangaka a mangaka? Look, it's not like there's a license to be a mangaka."

"Do you have serialization experience?" The employee asked.

"Well, that's a little rude to ask." The blue-haired man answered.

"Have you been published?" The employee asked.

"Now that's an outdated question." The blue-haired man responded.

The man was looking over the manga while hardly listening to the blue-haired man's words, wishing that he just sat in a chair instead of the table. He simply commented, "You speak Japanese very well."

"You too. You speak Japanese very well." The blue-haired man responded.

Confused by the statement, the employee stated, "Huh? But I'm Japanese."

The blue-haired man sat on the chair as he replied, revealing, "And I was born and raised in Japan. My parents are French. What you are experiencing now is me in my entirety."

The employee responded, "Eh, sorry?" By apologizing for assuming, he thought to himself, "What a strange kid..."

However, the blue-haired man dismissed it "Let's try to get along. After reading my manga, you'll realize that we'll have a long and fruitful relationship in the future."

The employee looked over the manga, mostly unimpressed. He blurted out in response, "Uh, sure." Before he looks over the manga further, he begins to critique the blue-haired man's submission. "Stories based on legends or classic stories are pretty common, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. But isn't this a little too adult-oriented?"

"Pretty common?" The blue-haired man asked.

The employee continued with his critiques. "The main character gets pranked by the general every night and has to deal with illogical problems like how to catch a tiger in a screen. But the tiger is actually a catgirl, and the main character is enchanted by her. Instead of using an improvised witty dialogue, he just copied the same answer Ikkyu-san did in the Original Story."

The employee rubbed the back of his head as he continued, "It's hard to understand. Or perhaps, you could say the context is just too specific. We're a shounen magazine, after all. The later developments are also quite curious. Is this a comedy? Horror? If you want to combine multiple genres, you'll find it weakens the story's core."

The employee then showcases one of the sketch panels to illustrate his point. "And the sketches are exceedingly inadequate. Like this one. Real fingers wouldn't bend this way."

He then pointed his finger to illustrate his message. "Here, look at it closely." The blue-haired man wasted no time by breaking the man's finger to match the manga's art, much to the employee's horror.

Irritated, the blue-haired man told the employee, "Now it's the same as in the manga, right?" While the employee screamed in pain.

The blue-haired man continued to tell the employee, "If you really care so much about realism, then just watch live-action movies or look at photos!"