Reading Still Sick

Still Sick

Chapter 8

1. Maekawa, a memeber of the management team at work, found out about my nerdy tendencies, 2. I'm Shimizu Makoto, 29 years old 4. But see, this Maekawa woman, 5. "what's a yuri~?" 6. and after that happened, she kept on forcing herself into my life. 7. she was actually... 8. I thought she was just interested in manga, and how to draw and write stuff, but it turned out that 9. something about her was very off.

1. "Maekawa-sensei." 2. "I didn't expect to see you here," 3. She was - emphasis on was - a proper bona-fide published manga author. 4. But then she had a breakdown, and couldn't make herself draw, so she had to quit. 5. I know those feelings of failure, of wanting to run away and just disconnect, 6. so I wanted to help Maekawa. 7. Which was all well and good, except. 8. And I promised her that, together, we'd find a way out of this vicious cycle she was in, 9. and she decided that she'd try to start to write manga again! 10. And I'd help her, no matter what! 11. "Please be my first..."