I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 161: Former Kodansha President Noma Sawako is imprisoned, and the second half of Paradise Lost officially begins serialization

"Of course! When I'm done with this busy period, I'll contact you, Prosecutor Miyamoto, and we'll discuss it in detail then!"

Kitagawa Hide smiled and agreed readily, then drove away with Saito Rena without looking back.

Seeing Hu Touben disappear from his sight, Miyamoto Juju let out a soft sigh, called two young prosecutors, and returned to the prosecutor's office building.

He really wanted to ask Kitagawa Hide to help him write a novel for the Tokyo Special Investigation Department, and even wrote the application form to the Chief Prosecutor in advance.

However, it was obvious that Kitagawa Hideichi didn't want to do this job, so he had to put this idea aside for the time being and wait for a chance to work with this promising teacher Kitagawa in the future.

The tiger head ran up.

Reina Saito glanced at Kitagawa Hide's profile. She wanted to remind Kitagawa Hide that the Special Investigation Department had too much power. If she was not very reluctant to write articles for them, she could actually consider writing an article as a favor.

But then I thought, Kitagawa Hide must have a better idea about this matter than I do, and my principle of doing things has always been not to interfere with the writer's own creative wishes. It is better to keep these words in my heart.

As she thought about it, her thoughts turned to the investigation of Kodansha.

As we all know, the Tokyo Special Investigation Department took the initiative, which means that all the evidence has been collected. Even if Kodansha is not completely destroyed this time, it will at least suffer a lot.

The April issue of "Qun Xiang", which had just been on sale for almost half a month, was also a complete failure. The total sales in half a month were only about 4 copies. It has completely become a second-rate pure literature magazine, even worse than the corpse of "Qun Xing".

Who could have thought that just last April and May, Gunzo almost jumped from the bottom of the top five pure literature magazines to the top because of Kitagawa Hide's Listen to the Wind Sing.

Kitagawa Hide, who created all this——

In just one year, he went from being a security guard who could only hang around outside the gate of Kodansha to a big figure whose announcement of a new book could shake up the entire Japanese literary world.

She witnessed the process firsthand.

Thinking about this, I suddenly felt a little sad.

At this time, Kitagawa Hidenori, who was driving, was thinking about the problems in the Special Investigation Department.

He personally has no political stance. If he has to say something, it would be relatively left-leaning. In any case, he definitely does not get along with those right-wing militarists.

The Special Investigation Department has the support of the United States, and likes to vigorously maintain the authority of the Japanese government. Its political stance is messy and it is definitely not suitable to be a long-term ally.

Moreover, this department has too much power. If you write a novel based on them, you can't do what Koreans do in their police movies and portray them in a shady way.

But if all the content is flattering, it would be like using your own fame to serve as a lackey for the other party, which would not be worth it.

Therefore, Kitagawa Hide directly used a panacea answer to evade Miyamoto Juju.

Adults all understand that if no specific time is given, it means that the cooperation is temporarily unavailable.

But from what Miyamoto Juzu said, it was clear that the Special Investigation Department was very fond of him, and it seemed that this cooperation was inevitable in the future.

Then write it down in a small notebook first, and see how to maximize your own interests later!
The most urgent task is to finish writing the second half of Paradise Lost, polish it, and then see how to send it to France to participate in the Goncourt Prize.

I wonder if the big boss has any connections in the French literary world?
Kitagawa Hide scratched his head. Strictly speaking, this was the first time that his novel had officially gone beyond Japan and was published to the world. This opening shot had to be a hit!

While Kitagawa Hide was busy refining "Paradise Lost" these days and asking around for any connections in the French literary world, the Tokyo Special Investigation Department sent out twelve prosecutors at once, rushing straight to Noma Sawako's mansion in Minato Ward and conducting a carpet search.

The results of the Special Investigation Department's investigation have not yet been announced to the public, but all kinds of newspapers and magazines are already filled with explosive news headlines such as "Former Kodansha President Noma Sawako is in jail"!
The most exciting one among them was the Daily Sports News.

Ken Matsuyama actually asked Yamazaki to clear out an entire current affairs section, mocking Sawako Noma in every possible way, and even deliberately used the photo of her being arrested as the lead image, repeatedly scrolling back and forth on the electronic screen outside the company headquarters!

Kitagawa Hide couldn't help but wonder how deep the hatred between the two was that could make a big boss of a listed company so shameless as to dance in front of the other's grave.

While many publishing houses in the publishing industry were busy taking advantage of Kodansha's misfortune, April, when the cherry blossoms were flying, passed quietly.

On the first Monday of May, the second half of Paradise Lost began serialization in the Nikkan Sports Newspaper as scheduled. Last weekend, readers all over Japan were anxiously waiting for the sequel to Paradise Lost, even though the two serializations were only two days apart.

They seemed to have spent a long month.

A group of readers who are following the updates are eager to know, after watching "Winter Falls", did Tomomi Muramatsu and Rinko Matsubara fall deeper and deeper into despair, and what was the thing that finally pushed them to the brink of despair?
From the literary review manuscript by Tetsutaro Mori, we learned that Muramatsu Tomoshi and the other man finally bought potassium cyanide and then died in each other's arms in the snow.

So why did they choose to die this way?

One question after another made them itch, and Kitagawa Hide did not disappoint the readers.

The first chapter of the second half of "Paradise Lost", "Spring Shadows", directly detonated two bombs.

As soon as the year came, the male protagonist was forced by the company to take the blame for the "Joint Essay Writing Project", and was changed from the Modern Study Room mentioned earlier to the more remote Kyoei Society.

The instigator of all this was the unknown female president of Kodansha.

She hired a private detective to uncover the incestuous relationship between the hero and the heroine, and then used this as a threat to force the hero to make a "sacrifice" for the company.

The heroine was also having a hard time, as her affairs had been discovered by her husband and mother.

But her husband was unwilling to divorce, and her mother was unwilling to acknowledge her as her daughter.

Now she is in mental and physical exhaustion and is on the verge of collapse.

The pace of the first chapter is so fast that readers feel distressed but also enjoy it.

The second chapter "Falling Flowers" is like the last carnival before death.

Between giving up this illusory love and abandoning everything to rush to the "West of the Sun" they wanted, the two resolutely chose the latter.

At the beginning of the second chapter, the male protagonist accepted the company's transfer and agreed to his wife's divorce application - he completely cut off his past life by leaving the house with nothing.

The heroine also forced her husband to divorce her, then gave up her family and blood relatives, and followed the hero to settle in the remote Yamanashi Prefecture without looking back.

At this point, the two finally lived the married life they had always dreamed of.

They no longer have to avoid the sight of others or worry about being pointed at.

They can love each other as husband and wife as they please!

At the end of this chapter, Kitagawa Hide once again wrote about "death" and the "Abe Sada incident."

“What a bizarre sight it is.

In the quiet Shuzenji Temple late at night, a man and a woman were lying there with a book between them. The man had a red belt wrapped around his neck, and the woman was holding the belt as she listened to the man reading.

The book is about a woman who is addicted to sex and ends up killing the man she loves, cutting off his penis and running away with it.”

"Yes, the image is so vivid that I can see them lying there as soon as I close my eyes, Rinko strangling her lover's neck, and then listening to him reading the text related to the 'Abe Sada Incident' word by word. It seems that at that moment, the two of them are the male and female protagonists in the book."

“Is this the poignant beauty of mono no aware literature? The two people’s mental states must be abnormal, right? Why can Mr. Kitagawa write about such a crazy thing so beautifully and movingly?”

"I can't wait to read the sequel. Damn it, why does the next issue have to be published on Wednesday? No, I will write to the Nikkan Sports News Agency right now and ask them to publish Paradise Lost one issue earlier!"

If you open the largest literary forum on Yahoo Japan's website, you can see similar posts everywhere, and the number of such posts is still increasing, completely overshadowing the attention paid to Noma Sawako's arrest.

Everyone was excitedly discussing the latest chapter of "Paradise Lost".

I thought that the second half had just begun, and Mr. Kitagawa would slowly push the story to its climax.

Unexpectedly, he broke his usual habit and dropped a bombshell at the very beginning, which made people unable to stop reading. They wished they could close their eyes and open them again, and it would be Wednesday when the next issue would be released!
(End of this chapter)