a man and a woman approached us

  "Excuse me?"

  "Sorry to bother you"

  "I'm Kenjiro Toki and.."

  Toki-san looked like a regur office worker with a white shirt, dark pants, a blue tie and gsses. He had short bck hair that was uncombed.

  "Machida Sonoka"

  Sonoka was a young white woman with dark blue hair that was chin length and light blue eyes. She wore a bck work bzer, a white button-down shirt, and a knee-length bck pencil skirt.

  "Congratutions on winning the competition, we would like to speak privately with the 1st and 2nd pce winners regarding the contract"

  "Of course no problem, then Gao-sensei we will excuse ourselves"

  "Sure, and congratutions on winning the competition"

  "You too"

  Itsuki and I followed them after exiting the hall we passed the elevator that I used and we passed 2 doors then entered a room. Inside the room looks like a regur office with 4 2-meter long tables facing each other with 3 computers on each side behind the table then there are 2 doors leading to another room on the right and 1 more on the left with a rger door size than the right.

  "Then for Itsuki-sensei please follow me" then he entered the door on the right in 2nd order

  "We also enter the room" then we entered the first room.

  Inside there is a long table with several chairs on the left and right, Machida-san sits on the left side.

  "Please sit down tanzame-sensei"

  Then I sat in front of him.

  "Let's get straight to the point okay? This is the contract please read it"

  Then he handed me some papers that I received and read them. After 5 minutes I spoke

  "I want to add some"

  "First I want 15% loyalty, and also I want you to make an e-book version with 20% loyalty"

  "What!? That's too much all new authors receive 10% loyalty the boss won't accept it"

  "I have made the first 2 volumes and also made an English version for the first volume" I said then I opened the ptop and showed him

  "Here..I will talk about it" he took out his phone

  "Please tell this to the boss , if in 4 months the total sales figure does not reach 500 thousand purchases I will receive what is in the contract which is 10% loyalty from the hardcopy and 15% from the ebook"

  he looked shocked for a moment then he nodded and walked away to talk on the phone a few minutes ter he came back.

  "We agree to everything that Tanzame-sensei mentioned, along with the condition that if in 4 months the total sales figure does not reach 500 thousand then the hardcopy loyalty is 10% and for ebooks 15%"

  After that the door was knocked and Machida went to the door and received some papers

  "This is a new contract that has been adjusted, please check it"

  After everything was in accordance with what I mentioned, I immediately signed it and handed it to Machida.

  Then Machida also signed the contract

  "From now on, I Machida Sonoka will be your editor, let's fight together in this industry"

  "I also ask for your help from now on" then we shook hands for a moment.

  "Huh..now sensei if I may, I want to see your face?"

  "Hmm? Because we will be working together for a long time I think I will make an exception" then I took off my mask.

  "As I thought you are quite handsome why do you have to hide it?, I'm sure female readers will buy your book even with your looks".

  "hahah thank you but no Because in some of the novels that I make might cause anger from the fans because I don't want my life to be disturbed I also want to hide it"

  "indeed the fans can sometimes be very excessive, I want to know the meaning of your pen name? Is there a certain meaning?

  "there is but the meaning is not too deep, tanza is taken from the name of the tanzanite gemstone which has a bluish purple color and me is taken from me which means eyes"

  "ah that matches the color of your eyes. Look at the time the event will end soon. Are you going back to the hall?" he said while standing

  " if possible no "I answered while following him to leave the room and put on the mask again

  " it's okay if you want to go home right away, where is your house?" he asked while opening the door

  " yamanashi prefecture"

  " it's quite far"

  when we both went out of the room towards the hallway leading to the elevator and the hall not far away I saw itsuki, Near the elevator he leaned his back as if he was waiting for someone.

  " are you waiting for me?" I asked in surprise

  " as fellow young writers"

  " then I'll go back to the hall tenzame-sensei, itsuki-sensei I'll take my leave" Machida said and left us both

  " I'll go back home how about you?"

  " same"

  " let's chat while walking out".

  While walking out of the building we chatted for a while and exchanged numbers then I went walking towards the station when I got there I went to the bathroom to pee and also took off my mask, I got on the train to go back