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

Kasumigaoka Shiha does have a serious sense of crisis. Her "Metronome of Love" will be completed at the end of August, and the publishing house has begun to ask whether she has any plans for a new work, consciously or unconsciously.On the one hand, she no longer wants to rely on Mr. Hachiman's ideas; on the other hand, she has taken the shortcut and is very aware of how attractive Mr. Hachiman's ideas are to her.

Of course, there is the most important thing.Machida Enko, the current editor of Kasumigaoka Shiu, will be officially promoted to deputy editor after the fifth volume of "Love Metronome" is completed.

Kasumigaoka is naturally happy for Editor Machida from the bottom of her heart. She believes that Machida Enko is the most responsible editor in the world, and she deserves it all.But for Shiyu herself, it was a whole new test for her to have Machida, her close sister, by her side.

"Senior Kasumigaoka, stop looking so grim and come have a drink."

Hikigaya Hachiman, who was sitting opposite, suddenly invited. It seemed that he had finished his work conversation with Eiriri.

"I said, you guys should become adults as soon as possible, otherwise every time I go out to have dinner with you, my sister, there will be no one to drink with me."

Machida Enko said with some distress.She doesn't really care about the fact that she can't find a partner yet. After all, she can be considered successful in her career.But she couldn't stand the fact that she couldn't find anyone to drink with.

"Okay, Editor Machida, if you continue talking, there is a risk of inducing crime."

Hikigaya Hachiman reminded.However, the other party was already lying on the table. It seemed that Editor Machida's drinking capacity was not very high.

"Yukishita, does your family have a tradition of drinking?"

Hikigaya Hachiman was suddenly very interested in this matter.

"Of course there is. But at the banquet outside, my father is basically the one drinking. After all, my father is really good at this."

Yukinoshita Yukino didn't know why Hachiman asked this question, but still answered seriously.

"So have you inherited Mr. Yukinoshita's drinking capacity? To be honest, I was really looking forward to seeing you drunk, Yukinoshita."

Hikigaya said with a smile.

"Before this, you should take care of yourself first. Your business cooperation is so frequent, won't you have social activities every day after you turn 20? If you are drunk by then, don't call me to talk to me. Take it home."

Yukinoshita Yukino pointed the tip of Hachiman's nose with her right index finger and said with a smile.

"Eh? Then I have to call Sister Yangno later. I believe she will be willing to take me home...ah, no, no, no."

Yukino didn't get used to Hachiman's suicidal remarks, and directly pinched Hachiman's cheek.

"Hey, these two disgusting parents-in-law are actually sitting across from me. Now they are so weak."

Sawamura Eiri and Kasumigaoka Shiu complained and continued to work hard.

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Chapter 124 Award Ceremony & Media Interview

After saying goodbye to Kasumigaoka Shiu and the others, Hikigaya Hachiman and Yukinoshita Yukino wanted to walk together on the streets of Chiba for a while, but unfortunately the sun at the end of May was no longer very friendly, so their plan to block the road had to be shelved for the time being.

"Let's go, turn into Ginza!"

Hikigaya Hachiman quickly brought Yukino to Ginza and walked into the cafe that had been engraved in his DNA. For Hikigaya Hachiman, this was the only cafe in Chiba.

"You seem very skilled..."

"Well, I do come here often. But this is my first time coming with you, so it's a brand new experience."

As Hikigaya Hachiman spoke, he took out his laptop and prepared to start a vigorous coding task.

"So Hikigaya-kun, we finally came out once, just to watch you code in a different place? How is this different from usual times at home..."

Yukinoshita Yukino was a little speechless, but she just complained.For her, quietly accompanying Hachiman while typing was a happy thing. When the other party was tired of typing, Yukino would give Hachiman some simple massage, and the two spent time together. Many long nights.

At this time, Hikigaya Hachiman actually didn't have much thought about coding.

It is already May 23rd, and next weekend is the award ceremony for the Integrity Reasoning Awards.And this so-called "award ceremony" is very different from the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award that Hikigaya Hachiman won last year.Since the winner has been determined in advance, the actual award ceremony for this award consists of several winners standing together holding the trophy to take a photo, and then each delivering an acceptance speech and being interviewed by the media.

The key to the problem is this media interview session.Hikigaya Hachiman is the most popular writer in the mystery world at the moment, and he is also a screenwriter that major film and television companies are crazy about pursuing. Many media will definitely try their best to get some rare information from him.Among this information, which ones can be told and which ones need to be kept secret for the time being need to be carefully screened by Hikigaya Hachiman.

"Hikigaya-kun, Hikigaya-kun? Coffee is here."

Yukino's sweet and gentle call came to my ears.

"Coffee? Did I order it?"

Hachiman is a little strange.

"I ordered it. I saw that you were thinking about something all the time, so you made your own decision."

Yukino placed a cup of steaming milk in Hachiman's hand.

"...This is really my first time to drink milk in a cafe. The weather is so hot, so I really want to drink something cooler."

"A healthy body requires efforts in all aspects. By the way, Hikigaya-kun, there are various drinks in the refrigerator in your apartment. You should drink less cold drinks. When you come out with me in the future, just Drink more of this stomach-nourishing drink, cheers.”

Yukinoshita Yukino picked up her glass of milk and gently clinked it with Hachiman's glass.

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One week later, on May [-]th, the [-]th floor of the Takabayashibaba branch of Yoshirindo Bookstore in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, was the venue for the Honka Mystery Award.

"You...you really...have wonderful ideas..."

Hikigaya Hachiman said breathlessly. He ran from the first floor to the eighth floor in one breath.

"Hey, are you so tired? Hikigaya-kun, haven't you and Yukino-chan been running in the morning lately? I thought it was very effective."

The culprit Yukinoshita Yono said easily from the side.She didn't even bother to blush at the level of exercise like running up to the eighth floor in one breath.

As for Yukinoshita Yukino, the weakest among the three, she was naturally too tired to talk. In fact, she was also one of the initiators of running upstairs.

Hikigaya Hachiman took the Yukinoshita family's car to attend the award ceremony today. Along the way, he kept trying to tell Yukino about the interesting things that happened when he and Harano attended the awards ceremony last year. Every time, Harano would cover his mouth and even He was pressed directly onto the sofa.The confused Yukino judged that the two of them were having some fun that she couldn't understand, and didn't bother to ask.

"Hikigaya-kun, today is Saturday. After the award ceremony, how about you sleep at our house?"

Before Hikigaya Hachiman entered the venue, Harano invited him.

"It's no problem, senior. In fact, before I left Yukinoshita's house this afternoon, Mrs. Yukinoshita told me the same thing, and I had already agreed. And what your mother said is that I can come anytime I want. You can spend the night at Yukinoshita's house, senior sister, you are a little too conservative."

After saying this, Hikigaya Hachiman entered the venue.

"Sister, did my mother start dating my father when she was our age?"

Yukino asked her dumbfounded sister.

"That's more than just starting a relationship..."

Yang Nai's answer was very simple, but it seemed that everything was left unsaid.

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After taking photos with the winners of other categories of this year's "Honge Mystery Award", Hikigaya Hachiman, as the most important winner, will be the first to be interviewed.According to the staff, this award ceremony has never attracted so many media before, and there is no doubt that they are all here for Hachiman.

"Teacher Hachiman, congratulations on your award! Less than two years after your official debut, you have already won the two most important awards in mystery literature, and dominated the two final annual lists of mystery novels. .How do you feel now?"

The first media outlet to ask questions was "Weekly Bunshun" magazine under Bungeishunqiu. The question was very formal and gentle. After all, Bungeishunqiu Publishing House wanted to know the inside information about Hachiman, and it did not need to be done through interviews.

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"Thank you for your blessing. I think the original intention of writers may not be to win awards, but if their works can be recognized, anyone will be happy from the bottom of their hearts, and I am the same. I would like to thank... the Integrated Reasoning Association The judges awarded this award to me.”

Hikigaya Hachiman originally wanted to thank Mr. Arisugawa, but considering that he was the president of the True Reasoning Association last year, he finally chose to avoid suspicion.

"Teacher Hachiman, your topical masterpiece "The Clock Museum Incident" will be officially released early next month. I wish this book will be a big seller. Can you please reveal some more information about this book?"

Good guy, the second question has nothing to do with the award at all. I really don’t even bother to pretend, Hikigaya Hachiman thought to himself.

"Well, actually, there really isn't that much to reveal about a true mystery. But since you asked, I can still reveal one thing, that is, there are a lot of dead people in this book, so you don't have to worry about the reading experience being boring. "

Hikigaya Hachiman replied.The plot and ending of a mystery novel are always different, depending on the strength of the author, but if you just want to make the process less boring, it is very simple, the murderer just needs to kill.

Chapter 125 Hachiman Studio’s First Month Income Report

"Please try to minimize questions that have nothing to do with the award itself. Thank you for your support."

The staff at the scene found that the questions asked by the media were starting to be a little distorted, so they said this to the reporters between questions.However, it is impossible for reporters to care about such things.

"Hello, Mr. Hachiman, congratulations on winning the award. The film of the same name adapted from your novel "Confession" is currently being filmed. The crew also released a video of your visit to the class before. Could you please reveal some of the current filming conditions?"

As the questioning progressed, the question became irrelevant to literature.

"Sorry, I really can't talk much about this aspect. There is only one thing that can be confirmed, and that is that this movie will be very good. I hope everyone can buy tickets and go to the cinema to enjoy it in the future."

"Teacher Hachiman, at the beginning of the year, your TV series adapted from "Malicious" achieved good ratings. Will you have any further cooperation with NHK TV station in the future?"

"This, please stay tuned, that's all I can say."

It is well known that NHK has bought the adaptation rights of Hachiman's "The New Participant" and there is no need to mention it. However, the cooperation on the original script he will provide for NHK in the future has not been formally signed and is still confidential and cannot be announced to the public.

"I would like to ask Mr. Hachiman, will you continue to create original reasoning after "The Clock Museum Incident" is written? If so, do you already have an idea?"

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It is a recognized fact that it is difficult for original mystery novels to compete with social mystery novels in terms of market performance.Therefore, many Honkaku fans are worried whether Mr. Hachiman will stop writing Honkaku because of the poor market performance of Honkaku novels.

"Of course, I will continue to write the original style, and I will continue to write the social style. I think mystery novels need to be diversified, and the types of mystery novels that everyone reads should also be diverse, so that they can be called Sound."

"As for the follow-up original creation, of course there is, and I am already writing it. You can follow my Twitter homepage, and maybe some information will be revealed one day. Here I can give you a sneak peek. The literal reasoning I am working on is a very unpopular category."

Hikigaya Hachiman began to draw the cake and left a suspense. This was also a way to increase the discussion for himself.

"Teacher Hachiman! Please tell us your expectations for the sales of "The Clock Museum Incident"!"

At this time, it was time for Hikigaya Hachiman's interview. He was reminded by the staff, expressed his gratitude to the interviewers, and stood up to leave.

However, there were still many friends from the media who had a lot of questions to ask. Seeing that Mr. Hachiman was about to leave, some reporters even shouted out the questions directly.When Hikigaya Hachiman heard this, he naturally couldn't return to Mike, so he turned around and stretched out his right hand to show two fingers.

"What does this mean? Two million copies?"

"Nonsense, it's obviously 20 copies on the first day!"

"You all guessed wrong. This is Mr. Hachiman posing for us to take pictures."

Various media outlets quarreled privately.But they all agree on one thing: since Mr. Hachiman didn't say anything and just showed a movement, it doesn't matter what they write when they go back, it's all guesswork anyway.

At this time, Hikigaya Hachiman didn't care at all how these media would interpret his actions.He was a little sleepy, and now he just wanted to take the car back to Chiba, take a good bath in the huge bathtub at Yukinoshita's house, and then go to the guest room to have a good sleep.

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"Please give way, Yukino-chan, I'm going to deliver breakfast to Hikigaya-kun. Go to the restaurant quickly, your mother and father are already waiting for you there."

Early the next morning, Yukinoshita Harano was pushing a dining cart towards Hikigaya Hachiman's room when her sister blocked the way.

"With all due respect, sister. Isn't this breakfast a bit too much for Hikigaya-kun to enjoy alone?"

Yukino looked at the breakfast for two people in the dining car and teased.

"Well, okay, I do want to go in and have dinner with Hikigaya-kun. But as you know Yukino, I am now not only Hikigaya-kun's senior, but also the financial director of Hachiman Studio. So. , it was actually a breakfast meeting and I had work matters to report to my boss.”

Yang Nai emphasized the word "boss" very seriously.

For this reason, Yukino also gave up the idea of ​​entangled.After all, even Mrs. Yukinoshita is a member of the team that advises Hachiman Studio. If she delays her work in this area, her mother will not let him off lightly.

"Good morning~Boss."

Yukinoshita Yono opened the sliding door of Hachiman's room and stood at the door to say hello. Her voice was neither loud nor quiet, just enough for Yukino at the other end of the corridor to hear.

"...What are you doing again?"

Hachiman watched speechlessly as the senior student in front of him, wearing OL uniform and pushing a dining cart, slowly walked into the house.

"Of course it's a breakfast meeting. Don't many companies have this tradition? Managers report on the situation while eating, which is a very efficient way of working."

“I don’t know if it’s efficient, but it’s definitely not conducive to digestion.”

Hikigaya Hachiman complained, but he still tied the napkin and started eating.

"It has been a little more than a month since I started taking over the studio's finances. There are currently three large amounts of income: one is the film and television copyright fee for "The New Joiner", which NHK paid The second is the film and television copyright fee paid by Toho Film and Television for "Confession", totaling 500 million yen, which was recorded in the account after tax deduction of 150 yen. Ten thousand yen.”

Yukinoshita Harano was not in a hurry to eat, but opened her notebook and began to report on the first month's work.

"As for the third payment, it was the biggest profit this month. Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House printed 50 copies of the library version of "The Causes of Disintegration" in one go, and paid us a total of 5000 to 50 million royalties, tax deducted. Later, 43 million yen was recorded. In the past month or so, the studio account has received a total of 7301 million yen. Even after deducting the salary of hiring Yagami lawyer and Sakamachi assistant, this is pure profit."

Yukinoshita Haruno finished the first stage of the report, put away her notebook, but did not start eating immediately. Instead, she stared at Hikigaya Hachiman with her big eyes blinking.

"Senior, you can eat after you finish talking. Why are you staring at me?"

Hikigaya Hachiman felt a little embarrassed being stared at.

"Hikigaya-kun, as the boss, after listening to my employee's report, shouldn't you make a few brief comments..."

Yang Nai said it a bit pitifully.

"Well...how about giving you a reward?"

After saying that, Hikigaya Hachiman picked up a piece of sausage and put it towards Yukinoshita Haruno's mouth.