The lonely Hikigaya Hachiman wants to become the king of mystery novels

"I didn't expect that, brother. It turns out you really know Mr. Hachiman. I always thought you were bragging to me."

Hoshino Ruby looked at her brother with admiration. For people in the entertainment industry like them, content creators of Hikigaya Hachiman's level are highly respected in the industry.

"Actually, there is one more thing that I haven't told you because I couldn't fully confirm it before. Now I can tell you that Hikigaya-san, also known as Mr. Hachiman, once asked me if I would like to play Watanabe in "Confession" Repair it."

Hoshino Aqua also confessed the matter to her sister. At this time, Ruby was shocked and speechless.

"This is also the reason why I finally chose to apply for the Performing Arts Department."

Aqua said finally.

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"So, have you decided to play this role? Hoshino-san"

Finally ending the morning's autograph session, Hikigaya Hachiman invited Hoshino Akua out of the lounge.

"I think no newcomer like me can refuse such an opportunity, and I am not immune. I will go to the audition, Mr. Hachiman."

Hoshino Aqua admitted, and at this moment he finally showed a smile.

"Very good, Hoshino-san. You should also know that Watanabe Shuya is the most important male character in "Confession" and also the most outstanding character. If you can play him well, I think you may even have a chance to win Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.”

Hikigaya Hachiman paused and gave Hoshino Aqua some time to think.

"However, Hoshino-san, you must also try your best to fill in some knowledge about acting and film shooting in these short few months. After all, the actors who will play opposite you will be very popular. , I think your talent is very good, but you can’t make a good movie just by relying on talent alone.”

Hikigaya Hachiman instructed.Considering that Hoshino Akua claims to be a top student with a deviation value of [-], his learning ability must be very good.

"I have learned my lesson, Teacher Hachiman. I will definitely improve myself even more. You can look forward to my performance."

Hoshino Aqua agreed very firmly.

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"Come on, come on, come on, it's five o'clock in the afternoon, the live broadcast is about to start. I heard that there will be important announcements at the venue today."

"Why do you feel that Mr. Hachiman's autograph signing event is like a game exhibition, and there are new games announced?"

"By the way, will Mr. Hachiman appear in the live broadcast?"

A large number of viewers had already poured into the live broadcast room, and they were chatting intensely.

Of course, Hikigaya Hachiman will not appear.At this time, he had just finished his book signing and walked into the lounge like a zombie.

"You guys think of a way to carry me back. I'm going to sleep first."

After saying this, Hikigaya Hachiman fell into the sofa and instantly fell into a baby-like sleep.

"Let's go out and watch the press conference first, and let him sleep here alone for a while."

Yukinoshita Yukino suggested, and everyone agreed and left the room.Soon, two familiar figures returned to the lounge from two different directions.

"Do you only do this kind of sneaky thing now? Sister."

Yukinoshita Yukino asked coldly.

"Hmph, let's do it to each other, Yukino-chan."

Haruno said proudly, covering Hikigaya Hachiman's body with his coat.

Chapter 100 "The Causes of Disintegration" is a big hit (Junior High School Chapter Completed)

From all aspects, Hachiman-sensei’s first book signing held by Bungei Chunqiu achieved completely unexpected results.In President Hirao's own words, "I thought it would be successful, but I didn't expect it to be so successful."

the most important reason.Naturally, Hachiman-sensei finally unveiled his mystery and was honest with readers.Although no official picture source has been released, people who have been to the scene have posted on Twitter more than a hundred photos of Hachiman from various angles and different resolutions, which have been repeatedly reviewed by netizens.

Of course, Hachiman is not an idol or a singer after all. After everyone satisfied their curiosity about his appearance, they stopped paying attention to this.Writers, naturally, should focus on their works.

Thanks to the popularity brought by this book signing, the sales performance of "Disintegration of Causes" in the first week was very good. Bookstores from all over the country have reported requests for replenishment, which really disrupted Literary Spring and Autumn's original plan.

Since "The Causes of Disintegration" is just a collection of short mystery stories, sales of this type of novels have always been mediocre in the past.Judging from the response to the previous questionnaire released by the publisher, readers’ willingness to purchase is indeed not as strong as "Confession" and "Malicious".Accordingly, Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House only issued [-] single volumes in the first wave of printing, while the Wenku edition was not rushed to be released.

However, the news of shortages coming from various warehouses made Wenyi Chunqiu understand his miscalculation.After receiving a scolding from President Hirao, the directors of the Intelligence Department and the New Book Department quickly returned to their departments and began to reassess the market prospects of the book and prepare for additional printing.

The library department of the publishing house

In the live broadcast after the book signing, the host first announced that Mr. Hachiman’s latest social mystery work "New Participants" will be serialized in the "All Readings" magazine starting next month, and stated that this time The new series has a warm theme, and the protagonist is Detective Kaga, whom everyone is familiar with.

"It's the new Kaga Detective series. It seems that Mr. Hachiman wants to make it into a very long series."

"If it were made into a series, wouldn't it be cheap to cast the actor who played Detective Kaga in "Malevolence"? He picked up the protagonist of a big IP for nothing, and now he has a long-term meal ticket."

"The acting is really good. It fits my imagination of Kaga in the book."

"Wait a minute, you didn't realize that the host said this new series has a warm theme? This is a brand new style."

"Confessions" and "Malice" by Hikigaya Hachiman are relatively dark and heavy social novels, while "Disintegration of Causes" is a small collection of original characters with a relatively humorous overall style.As for the word warmth, it is somewhat incompatible with Hachiman's previous themes.Moreover, in a literary genre like mystery novels, where murders occur all day long, are you looking for warmth in the wrong place?

As for what comes next, it’s the highlight.Literary Spring and Autumn announced that "The Clock Museum Incident" will be officially released on July [-] this year.The announcement of this news is equivalent to telling other publishing houses: Wenyi Chunqiu has officially won the distribution rights of this novel that mystery fans have been waiting for.

The host introduced during the live broadcast that "The Clock Tower Incident" will be a large-scale architectural mystery novel, and attached an illustration. The picture shows a building complex composed of a huge clock tower. This is "The Clock Tower Incident". The place where the "Clock House Time" case occurred.

"Oh oh oh, I'm on fire. Architectural reasoning is my favorite category in this book!"

"Architectural reasoning is really a test of the author's writing skills. I believe Mr. Hachiman can add a rich touch to this reasoning!"

Many readers have raised the flag on Twitter.

"Let's take a look at this painting first. It's very strange. Why does the clock on the big clock tower in the painting have no hands?"

There are also sharp-eyed mystery fans who discovered problems with the illustrations and raised questions.

"The lack of pointers... This feeling can be considered in many ways, such as using the pointer as a murder weapon, or not wanting others to know the current time, etc. Moreover, what if someone simply didn't finish the painting? Just look at it Nothing can be analyzed from a picture.”

All in all, when a book's release date is accurate to a specific day, then it will be considered to be basically completed, and it is inferred that readers' expectations for "The Clock Museum Incident" will naturally be raised to a higher level.

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"This is really... exquisite and magnificent! Hikigaya-kun, I really want to know how your brain grows? Even if Shimada himself were to read it, I think he would also say this A book as good as his Astrology!"

After reading the first draft of "The Clock Museum Incident", Arisukawa praised Hikigaya Hachiman loudly.

At this time, Hikigaya Hachiman, several writers from the Mystery Writers Association, some senior executives from Bungeishunshu, and some bookstore representatives were reading the first draft of "The Clock Museum Incident" in the conference room of Bungeishunshū Headquarters.

Since "The Clock Museum Incident" is one of Literary Spring and Autumn's most important works in the publishing field this year, they also attach great importance to the completion of the book, so they have this round of reading session.

What makes Bungeishunqiu very excited is that everyone present gave "The Clock Museum Incident" a very high evaluation, and Arisukawa even directly compared it with "Astrology".

"Perfect work, Hachiman-sensei, I need to applaud you."

Masahiko Arai, the representative from the Mystery Writers Association, stood up and praised Hikigaya Hachiman, and actually clapped.Following his applause, the rest of the venue also began to applaud.

"Thank you all seniors for your support. I am really sincere. This is only the first version of the novel. There are still many areas that need criticism and correction from seniors. Please feel free to give me your advice."

Hikigaya Hachiman had no choice but to stand up, bow to the applauding crowd, and remind them not to forget the main purpose of this reading meeting.

For a large-scale mystery novel, it is very difficult to have no plot holes or flaws at all.As for the authorities, it is often difficult for the author who is creating to see the loopholes in his own writing, so he needs others to help read the first draft to minimize such loopholes in the plot.

"I'm sorry. When I read it for the first time, I just enjoyed the text. I'd better wait until I go back and read it again for any loopholes."

Mr. Arisukawa said this, and other participating members also expressed their agreement.The reading meeting has come to an end for the time being.

It is worth mentioning that after everyone left the venue, there were many pieces of draft paper filled with various notes and maps left on everyone’s desk.This is their habit when reading original mystery novels, and it also reflects the complexity of the plot and story of "The Clock Museum Incident".

"I held a reading meeting, originally to help me find problems, but now I am almost praised to the sky."

Hikigaya Hachiman said to President Hirao in a teasing tone.

"At least I can rest assured, Mr. Hachiman. You have indeed created a shocking work."

Chapter 101 A new stage in Hikigaya Hachiman’s life

Chiba Municipal Sobu High School has officially announced the list of students admitted to the school for the new academic year.As the leader of Chiba City's public high schools, on the day when the list was released, it naturally attracted a large number of students and parents to confirm the situation.

However, as stakeholders, Hikigaya Hachiman and Yukinoshita Yukino were too lazy to confirm this already certain result.The two of them talked about each other on the phone for a long time, and finally they unanimously decided to ask Hayama to take a look and take a photo to send back.

Of course, there was no need for the Yukinoshita family or Hikigaya to say anything. As a normal examinee, Hayama Hayato would definitely go to Sobu High to confirm it himself.

Sobu High School recruits about 240 new students every year. With so many names printed densely on a rectangular display board, it is not easy for other students to find their own names.

However, considering that these names are sorted according to the entrance examination scores, it is not difficult for Hayama Hayato to find their names.

"Is it true that you are number one in your grade? It's really not surprising at all, Yukinoshita-san."

Hayama Hayato murmured to himself.

The first name on the display board is naturally Yukinoshita Yukino. With a score of 820, she undoubtedly became the number one in the first grade of Sobu High School in the new semester. She must be the student representative.

"I am No. 3... Hikigaya-san is No. 4. Tsk, that's amazing, Mr. Hachiman, he can write such a powerful novel and get more than 800 points in the entrance exam."

Hayama Hayato sighed.His score was 810, while Hikigaya Hachiman's score was [-], ranking third and fourth respectively. The gap with those behind him was not big.This is also the scary thing about Sobu High's academic performance. The top six on the list all scored more than [-] points.

Hayama remembers that there was a very liberal high school in Chiba, which seemed to be called Toyosaki Gakuin. At that time, a girl only scored more than 750 points in the entrance examination, and she was able to widen the gap with No. 2 when she entered the school.This is the difference between a high school for entrance and a high school for non-entrance.

However, Sobu High School is not a boring high school that specializes in training nerds. The club culture of this school is very developed.Even today, the day when the results are released, there are seniors from some clubs standing nearby and watching, trying to attract these juniors who have not yet officially enrolled in the club into the club.

After taking the photo, Hayama Hayato quickly left the campus and sent the photo to Yukinoshita Yukino and Hikigaya Hachiman respectively.He didn't pay attention to the pink-haired girl behind him who was cheering to celebrate her entrance into Sobu High School.

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"No. 4? It's really unlucky. Just ask Hayama to let him go before the next exam, and I'll go to third place..."

Hikigaya Hachiman looked at the photo sent back by Hayato and thought silently.

"I never expected that our Hikigaya family would have such a smart brain."

Hikigaya's mother stroked Hachiman's hair lovingly and said proudly.

Sobu High School itself is the pinnacle of Chiba public high schools. Ranking fourth among the freshmen of such a school shows that Hachiman also has a very high ranking in the entire Chiba City.

"I actually want to go to Sobu High School... I feel like there are some very powerful people there."

Hikigaya Komachi looked at Hachiman's results and muttered to himself.

Since the end of last year, when Hikigaya Hachiman began to guide Komachi's studies, some improvement has indeed been achieved. At least now Komachi has recovered to the point where he can read Hachiman's short stories.But if it comes to taking the Sobu High School exam, Hachiman believes that his sister still has a long way to go. Fortunately, Komachi still has two years of junior high school career, so there is still plenty of time.

"If you Komachi make up your mind, then brother and I will work hard for it. However, you have to promise that your determination is firm."

Hikigaya Hachiman stared at Komachi. He wanted to confirm that his sister was just a whim or if he had really thought about it carefully.With my sister's current grades and her learning ability, this may not be an easy task.

"Komachi, there is no need to force yourself on this kind of thing."

Hikigaya's mother said.Although she doted on her precious daughter, she also knew very well that it was too difficult for Komachi's academic ability to reach the Sobu High School.

"Brother, let me think about it again. However, even if my brother moves out, he can't miss my tutoring!"

Hikigaya Komachi said eagerly.After attending the book signing a while ago, she finally knew how good her brother was with women. I am afraid that after his brother lived alone, his home would be very lively every day. She began to doubt whether he would still have time. Gave her tutoring lessons.

"Okay Komachi, you can think about it slowly. As for tutoring, Komachi, if you have any learning problems every night after school starts, you can call me directly. I will definitely come back once every weekend to give you a special I’ll guide you for a while.”

Hikigaya Hachiman promised.This promise is very real. His sister's affairs are always overwhelming to him at all times. This is what a sister control should be like.If someone wants to go on a date with him on the day he tutors Komachi, just ask him to come directly to his home.

"Yeah! I knew my brother would definitely do this. I like it the most!"

The idiot brother and sister were getting tired of each other on the sofa for a while.Hikigaya's mother left with disdain.

After announcing the good news to his real mentor Machida Enko, Hikigaya Hachiman suddenly felt the urge to show off his achievements on Twitter, but finally resisted.

While I was tinkering with "The Clock Museum Incident", the last day of spring break came quickly. Considering that the next day was the first day of school, I had to go to school a little earlier, and there were a lot of materials to carry.Hikigaya Hachiman decided to officially move into his new apartment from today, which also means that his life will officially enter a new stage - living alone.

Standing downstairs in the apartment he had been to many times, Hikigaya Hachiman actually felt a different emotion this time. People are always unwilling to leave a familiar place, unwilling to face unknown things, and want to stay forever. Stay in your comfort zone.In fact, people's environment is constantly changing everywhere.

"Hikigaya-san? Why didn't you go up directly?"

A familiar voice came from behind, it was Yukinoshita Yukino. She came to Hikigaya and pressed the elevator button.

"If I said, I'm waiting for you to come. Would you believe it? Yukinoshita-san."

"How do you know when I will come? If I don't come today, won't you have to wait for a long time?"

The two of them walked into the elevator together, Yukino asked with a smile.

"It doesn't matter, you will always wait. At least it is much better than facing the complete unknown."

Hikigaya Hachiman shrugged and said.

The elevator soon reached the eleventh floor, and the two of them walked towards their homes, one on the left and the other on the right.

"As a neighbor, I would like to ask for your guidance in the next three years, Hikigaya-kun."

After Yukino said this, she quickly closed the door and disappeared from Hikigaya Hachiman's sight.