I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 86 Could it be that the lost "football" has returned on its own? (1?)
Kitagawa Hide's first reaction when he saw the letter was that Jabami Rei was doomed.

When he wrote "Hear the Wind Sing", he never thought that he would win the Group Portrait Newcomer Award, publish a physical book, and sell well. And now "No Longer Human" sold 9 copies in the first two days of its release and was directly sold out.

If he had known that things would go so smoothly, he would never have concealed the fact that "Kitagawa Hide is Kitagawa Hide" from Jabami Rei with Yumeko!

What is the saddest thing in life?
Kitagawa Hide felt that social death was inevitable.

Is there anything sadder than this?
Have.

That is, without knowing that it will lead to social death, one walks step by step towards social death!
Kitagawa Hide put down the letter in his hand, clasped his hands together, and sincerely observed a minute of silence for Jabami Rei.

Although she had a sharp tongue and never forgot to insult him every time they met, Kitagawa Hide secretly gave her the nickname "poisonous tongue woman".

However, she did all this out of her friendship with Yumeko, and she didn't want her best friend to be hanged on a rotten tree in such a hopeless way.

After all, from her perspective, Kitagawa Hide is a complete rotten person——

The image may be slightly better now, but it’s basically the same.

Who made that unreliable predecessor leave her with a lot of bad first impressions?
Once a wrong first impression is made, it takes ten or even a hundred times the effort to make a big change in other people's perception of you.

Originally, this was nothing. Kitagawa Hide believed that he could slowly change his position in her heart through one fact after another, at least to the point where she would no longer feel disgusted and would not object to him and Yumeko being together.

However, it backfired!
Now it can be expected that the first impression of me in Jabami Rei's mind will be reversed. This method is a bit too rough. I don't know if she can bear it.

"Hideki? What are you doing?" My wife Yumeko came out of the shower room and was still wiping her hair with a white towel. Because she hadn't had time to buy many daily necessities and furniture, and hadn't bought a bathrobe or bath towel yet, she could only wear her panties and a white shirt of Kitagawa Hide on the outside, using it as a bathrobe for the time being.

Kitagawa Hide is 1.78 meters tall and my wife Yumeko is 1.58 meters tall, so his shirt can be used as a miniskirt for her.

The only difference is that their shoulder width and body shape are quite different, and the white shirt looks too big on Mengzi.

"I am observing a moment of silence for Jabami-san." After Kitagawa Hide finished his moment of silence, he turned around and saw Yumeko tilting her head and rubbing her hair. His eyes widened immediately!
No wonder many people say that you must let your girlfriend wear your white shirt once, then you will know what charm, sexiness and seduction mean!
"Li-chan? What happened to her?" Mengzi dried her hair, sat down next to Kitagawa Hide, her soft body pressed tightly against him, and asked curiously.

Kitagawa Hide sniffed the fragrance of shower gel coming from her body, and handed her the letter from Takeuchi Osamu with a smile: "Professor Takeuchi invited me to give you a literature appreciation class at the University of Tokyo, in the capacity of writer Kitagawa Hide."

"Ah" Agatsuma Yumeko was delighted at first, then her expression turned into a dilemma, and she immediately understood why Kitagawa Hide was observing a moment of silence for Jabami Rei.

She thought quickly for a while, then hugged Kitagawa Hide's arm and asked seriously: "Hide, Dongda has a very formal process for inviting outsiders to give lectures. This should be of great benefit to you. Will you go?"

"Yeah, I think so too." Kitagawa Hideya was once a student at the University of Tokyo, and he was very familiar with this. "It's just that Jabami-san. I can only apologize to her."

As the top university in Japan, the University of Tokyo attaches great importance to academic exchange activities and generally does not easily invite anyone outside the school to teach students.

They think that anyone who can teach Tokyo University students should have a teaching level above that of a Tokyo University lecturer, because Tokyo University students are the most elite among contemporary Japanese young people. If they were put into society, they would definitely be the "gold watch group" in all walks of life.

Without any real skills, do you dare to teach them?

In other words, if you can go to the University of Tokyo to attend classes as an outsider, it is equivalent to the University of Tokyo issuing you an invisible "lecturer certification".

This is a shortcut to improving social status and popularity.

Moreover, Takeuchi Osamu also said in the letter that he was willing to mobilize his connections in the literary world to make the industry recognize the new literary genre created by Kitagawa Hide - the "Rogue School".

This is a favor from a great man!
It was not logical for Kitagawa Hidetoshi to refuse the invitation and he could only make Jabami Rei suffer.

"Okay, I'll find a way to explain it to Li-chan, don't worry, Xiujun~" My wife Yumeko quickly hugged his arms, fearing that Kitagawa Xiu would go back on his word.

She silently said three "private Marseilles" to Jabami Rei in her heart. For Xiujun's future, she could only make a small sacrifice for Rei-chan!

After this matter was finalized, Kitagawa Hide discussed it with my wife Yumeko, and finally decided that they would visit Takeuchi Osamu together in a few days to discuss the specific matters of teaching at the University of Tokyo, and then consider the subsequent procedures.

This is not a trivial matter that can be easily brushed aside.

Fortunately, in his previous life, Kitagawa Hide himself was a graduate student in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo, and many of his literary thoughts and concepts were nearly thirty years ahead of this era. In addition, the literary world in Japan has already degenerated a lot compared to the original world.

All in all, Kitagawa Hide is equivalent to starting sixty years ahead of the others, so he is not seriously unworthy of his position.

He plans to prepare the content of his lectures carefully in the coming days, to see how to play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, so as to "fool" those "gold watch group" from Tokyo University as much as possible in the track he is good at.

It just so happens that it is summer vacation in August now, so the classes can be postponed until the school officially starts in September.

At that time, "No Longer Human" was probably also a hot seller for a while, so Kitagawa Hideya would have been more confident.

After briefly sorting out these things, Kitagawa Xiu turned on his computer, connected to the Internet, and went to the forum to check out various consultations as usual. He also paid attention to the financial section to see if there were any investment suggestions worth referring to.

He quickly ignored the financial section. Although most netizens today are elites, they cannot project their vision into the future like he does thirty years later. Today, financial tycoons online are all suggesting investing in securities and foreign exchange.

They believe that it has been three years since the bubble burst, and Japan's real estate, currency and stocks are in a mess and definitely not worth investing in.

But the situation is different in neighboring South Korea and Thailand in Southeast Asia.

Their economy is booming, their monetary system is solid, and their securities are thriving.

After seeing these suggestions, Kitagawa Hide closed the financial section without a second thought. Even though he was a financial novice, he knew about the financial crisis caused by Soros' attack on the Thai baht in 97!
Now, together with most of the international speculators, they are rushing to invest in the currencies and securities of South Korea and Thailand. They really want to lose their lives and have too much money!

The Japanese are indeed very talented in committing suicide.

Investing in that stuff is really not as good as investing in baseball cards! September is almost here, and the Koshien Autumn Baseball Tournament is about to begin. Maybe baseball cards will appreciate in value!

The forum of Qiwu.com was completely dominated by "No Longer Human".

This masterpiece was sold out when it was first released because of Kitagawa Hide's name, and later it was unsalable for a while because of its extremely gloomy style and stomach-breaking content. Now it has finally ushered in a big reversal in sales and reputation.

A quick browse on the forum will reveal in-depth interpretations of "No Longer Human" and enthusiastic recommendations from veteran bookworms.

Each of these Amway posts basically has thousands of replies. According to Qiwu.com, the total number of Internet users in Japan has now exceeded 300 million. Even if only 3% of these people pay attention to "No Longer Human" through the Internet, with these people as the base point, if one person spreads the word to several people, the speed of spread will immediately increase exponentially.

Hide Kitagawa had imagined various reasons for the popularity of "No Longer Human", but he never thought that it would be the first pure literary novel to become popular through the Internet.

After flipping through the posts for a while and finding that the contents were different, he soon lost the desire to read. Instead, the anti-cult public opinion on the Internet became increasingly intense and seemed to have fermented to a very terrifying level.

In the original history, Aum Shinrikyo and the Unification Church, which caused the family of "Japan's No. 1 Male Gunner" Tetsuya Yamagami to be destroyed, were the two largest cult groups in Japan.

But now, the Unification Church, which just spread from South Korea, is still the younger brother among the younger brothers, and Aum Shinrikyo is the big brother.

This kind of cult basically has political backers, and is even a tool used by some politicians to launder political donations and canvass for votes, making it difficult to truly rectify it.

The Aum Shinrikyo cult was not completely eradicated until a new faction of prime minister took office in the year 00.

But now, something seems to be wrong.

More and more people have begun to expose the disgusting inside stories of Aum Shinrikyo on the Internet. Among the whistleblowers are victims, former persecutors, and even someone who claims to be a former high-ranking member of Aum Shinrikyo. After suffering mental torment after watching "No Longer Human", he decided to turn himself in and publicly identify a series of crimes committed by Asahara Shoko!

Regardless of whether this thing is true or false, Hidekazu Kitagawa's "No Longer Human" has been firmly regarded as the current number one "anti-cult" masterpiece.

Among a large number of whistleblowers, a newly established organization called "National Inspirational Commercial Law Countermeasures Lawyers Liaison Association" caught Kitagawa Hide's attention.

If he remembered correctly, this was the largest anti-cult civil organization in Japan's history, and it was also the main anti-cult force that crushed Aum Shinrikyo and the Unification Church.

Why can this civil society organization play such a huge role?
Because its only 300 members are all senior lawyers, and they have a certain prestige and influence in the Japanese legal community.

The social status of lawyers in Japan is almost on par with that of writers and doctors, which is ridiculously high.

The root cause of this situation is that Japan strictly controls practitioners in the political and legal system. In 1995, there were about 1.1 people in Japan with formal lawyer qualification certificates, accounting for 0.01% of the total population. It can be said that every lawyer is an elite selected from ten thousand.

Such a group of 300 people has such an influence that it could even move the Ministry of Justice.

At this time, the National Inspirational Commercial Law Strategies Lawyers Liaison Association had just been established. The poster invited fellow lawyers to join. The post was not very popular and was soon drowned in the wave.

Before the post sank to the bottom, Kitagawa Hide immediately followed the poster, lawyer Hiroshi Yamaguchi, in case he could not find the post later and could not continue to follow its progress.

Seeing that Hiroshi Yamaguchi not only used his real name online, but also listed his resume in detail in his personal space, Kitagawa Hide secretly sighed that the early Internet environment was really good.

If Hiroshi Yamaguchi had done the same thing thirty years later, he would have been drowned in the saliva of the trolls.

After closing Qiwu.com, Kitagawa Hide opened the document as usual and continued to write "I Am a Cat". Mengzi, who was standing beside him, was so sleepy that she was about to fall asleep. She leaned her little head on Kitagawa Hide, trying hard to stay asleep.

"Yumeko-chan, you go and have a rest first. I'll go to bed after I finish writing these 1 words." Kitagawa Hide rubbed his little wife's long hair with heartache. She must be exhausted from taking care of Takeuchi Osamu in the hospital these days, and she probably didn't get a good night's sleep.

"Well, it's the first day in the new house. I want to sleep with Xiujun~" Mengzi opened her sleepy eyes, leaned in his arms with a blushing face, and whispered.

Kitagawa Hide's hands that were tapping on the keyboard stopped instantly!

Could it be that the lost "football" has come back by itself?
He picked up Mengzi, looked at her pretty blushing face, hesitated for a moment, then leaned over and kissed her delicate lips.

Mengzi also cooperated by closing her eyes and put her arms around his neck in response.

Kitagawa Hide took the opportunity to quietly put his hands into his white shirt
(End of this chapter)