Tokyo: I loaded the love advice system

Chapter 317 Chapter 316: Selection

Five days passed quickly.

In order to respond to public opinion and speed up the selection, the selection committee of the Edogawa Ranpo Prize has increased the number of pre-selectors from the usual 6 to 18.

Finally in just five days.

The 18 pre-selection committee members worked overtime until they were foaming at the mouth and finally selected the shortlisted works.

Although it is a shortlisted work.

But the works shortlisted for the Edogawa Ranpo Prize should never be underestimated.

First of all, among the mountains of manuscripts, only five works were shortlisted. From this alone, it can be seen that the gold content of the shortlisted works has reached the debut standard.

Second.

Historically, there have been several works that have been shortlisted for the Edogawa Ranpo Awards. In terms of subsequent sales and word-of-mouth, the famous "Astrology Killing Magic" unfortunately failed to win.

to today.

Most people only remember the grand and bizarre plot of "Astrology Killing Magic". Who can still remember the name of the work that won the 26th Edogawa Ranpo Award?

So even if it is a shortlisted work.

It will also get the attention of the entire circle.

Now the five famous reasoning members of the selection committee are conducting the final review.

They were about to select one of the five novels that would win the Grand Prize. However, none of the five people spoke at this time, but stared at one of the novels titled "The Devotion of Suspect X" with ugly expressions. work.

Yes.

The five of them are obviously aware of the recent public outcry.

Ritsu Ninomiya, a songwriter and kendo master, boasted that he would use a mystery novel to win major awards such as the Edogawa Ranpo Prize, the Honka Mystery Grand Prize, and the Naoki Prize.

This is undoubtedly an insult to them.

It also denies their journey of hard work over the years to win the award.

According to their initial guess.

A guy like Ritsu Ninomiya, who only knows how to talk, can't write works that pass the pre-selection, let alone get one of the five shortlisted places, but reality slaps them hard.

"Ahem, everyone."

As the president of the Mystery Writers Association, Bando Teito said: "Let's start looking at the works now and try to decide on the winning works today. There is a lot of public opinion in society today."

As masters of reasoning, the five of them read novels very quickly.

A novel of 100,000 words.

You can read one in less than two hours.

The five of them watched from morning to night, and finally finished reading the first four works, leaving only Ninomiya Ritsu's work.

"Okay, great!"

One of the selection committee members, the best-selling author Masahiro Mizuno, who has sold more than 10 million copies, said: "Terashima-kun is worthy of being a disciple of Aomoto-sensei. His writings are very profound. I think it is him who deserves the Edogawa Ranpo Award this year." Genus."

"Yes."

Another judge, Yuharu Yoshida, agreed: "The other three books are also good, but Terashima-kun's work is much better."

"It seems that there is no controversy over the winning works this time."

Airi Takigawa, the only female selection committee member, breathed a sigh of relief: "Finally, we don't have to argue for days and nights like in previous years."

"..."

Everyone was talking about it.

It seems that Terashima’s work will win the grand prize.

As for the second palace law?

Let's not mention that there is no such figure in the circle, how good can a mystery work written by a songwriter across different fields be? Moreover, Nigong Lü is too conceited, which makes their first impression of Nigong Lü not good.

Once the first impression is too bad.

Naturally, I don’t have much appetite for his works, and I will be biased by my preconceptions.

But at this time, the president of the association, Bando Taito, spoke: "Ahem, gentlemen, there is still one book left here and you should read it all together. Our prize is about fairness and justice, and it cannot be ignored."

Since the president of the association has spoken. The other four people couldn't say much.

I could only hold my nose and read this novel by Ninomiya Ritsu with prejudice and criticism.

"ridiculous!"

Best-selling author Masahiro Mizuno said: "The criminal was exposed at the beginning, so what else is there to see?"

"It's really a bit hard to put into words."

Judge Yoshida Yuharu is a typical socialist mystery writer: "It seems to be writing original style, but also mixed with a little socialist things, like a big sweet meat bun in a convenience store with a chili pepper. I hate this kind of weirdness. Pure work.”

"So is this a mystery novel or a romance novel?"

"..."

If you read novels with prejudice, you can pick out a bunch of bones even if they are classics.

Of course.

This book "The Devotion of Suspect

Let’s take the masterpiece “Astrological Killing Magic” as an example.

At that time, the 26th Edogawa Ranpo Prize was held, and socialism was very popular. If you wanted to win the Edogawa Ranpo Prize, writing about socialism was the only way out.

At this time, the original novels entered the scene.

No matter how good the quality is, it will only be in the shortlisting stage in the end.

"Since everyone has the same opinion."

As a socialist writer, Bando Teito, the president of the association, also does not want the works of the original school to win the Edogawa Ranpo Prize, so he is ready to make a final decision: "Then the winning works of the Edogawa Ranpo Prize this time, It’s been decided as Terashima-kun’s “Crime and Punishment”, I don’t know if you have any objections…”

"Please wait!"

At this time, the only female mystery writer, Airi Takigawa, who also looked down on Ritsu Ninomiya, suddenly changed her tone: "I think this book "The Devotion of Suspect X" may not be as bad as everyone said, especially The tricks in it are really surprising, and there is also a discussion on the social topic of homeless people..."

He talked for several minutes.

Airi Takigawa makes no secret of her love for the work.

"Takigawa-san."

Yoshida Yuharu sneered. He and Takigawa Airi were not dealing with each other, so he took the opportunity to sarcastically say: "I think you don't like the tricks of this book, but you are attracted by the male protagonist in it, right?

"Speaking of which...

"Takigawa-san seems to have a similar experience to the heroine in it. They are both very beautiful, divorced and living with a daughter. It seems that she has been harassed by her ex-husband several times recently?

"No way.

"Takigawa-san is longing to meet a man as infatuated as the male protagonist Ishigami in the book, who can protect you from the wind and rain, right?

"I advise Takigawa-san to be more realistic."

"..."

Airi Takigawa seemed to be hurt by the words: "Yoshida-san, what do you mean!"

"I'm just telling the truth."

"I think Yoshida-san is biased against this work."

"..."

"You two, please stop."

President Bando Teto felt his head was pounding: "Since there are different opinions, let's follow the usual practice and use voting to decide the winner of this grand prize. I wonder what your opinions are?"

"no comment."

"Just vote."

"..."

After a round of voting, Hayato Terashima's work "Crime and Punishment" was unanimously chosen as the winner of the Edogawa Ranpo Prize with a whopping four votes.

In contrast.

Ritsu Ninomiya's "The Devotion of Suspect X" received only one vote of support from Airi Takigawa.

(End of this chapter)