I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 208 The dust has settled
In a Toyota car heading to the Tokyo Intermediate Court.

Sitting in the back row with Shigeo Nishiguchi, Hiroshi Yamaguchi was flipping through yesterday's evening edition of the Nikkan Sports News while glancing at the head of a yakuza organization with a buzz cut, a big gold chain and a famous watch, who was also reading the newspaper.

The headline of the newspaper's literature section was dominated by a review of the Prix Goncourt by the famous literary critic Tetsuta Mori.

Ever since he met Tetsutaro Mori by chance during a lecture at the University of Tokyo and exchanged business cards with him, Hiroshi Yamaguchi would often invite him out for dinner to discuss the plot of Kitagawa's new book, as they were both die-hard fans of Kitagawa.

Last night, just as Hiroshi Yamaguchi left his law firm, Tetsutaro Mori called him and excitedly told him that Mr. Kitagawa had won the Goncourt Prize!

At first, Hiroshi Yamaguchi didn't care.

There are countless literary awards in the world. Not to mention an outsider like him, even practitioners like Tetsutaro Mori cannot clearly explain the substantive relationship between awards, works and writers.

Whether or not a writer wins an award, or what award he wins, has never been the criterion used by ordinary readers like him to judge a writer.

He only recognizes the other person's work.

If it’s well written, read it; if it’s badly written, discard it; that’s all.

But he bought this evening edition last night and read it on his way to the court today, and Hiroshi Yamaguchi was suddenly shocked.

It turns out that the French Prix Goncourt is comparable to the legendary Nobel Prize in Literature!

According to Tetsutaro Mori, this award is second only to the British Booker Prize and the world-famous Nobel Prize.

In other words, is Kitagawa-sensei actually more famous abroad than all the other writers in the Japanese literary world?
This is truly an amazing achievement!

Thinking that he would be able to attend the trial of the "Drunken Rose Saint War" case as a witness together with Teacher Kitagawa, Hiroshi Yamaguchi couldn't help but straighten his back a little more.

He just couldn't understand why Mr. Kitagawa would ask this notorious yakuza leader to go to court with him.

Although the Sumiyoshi-kai is not as "evil as the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Inagawa-kai", they have done many bad things such as bullying men and women and forcing women of good families into prostitution. They are also a group of rats living in the sewers.

In short, these Japanese yakuza are no good at all!

Shigeo Nishiguchi knew that social elites like Hiroshi Yamaguchi would definitely look down on him, and he did not take the other's obvious contemptuous look to heart.

If you join Japan's yakuza organization, no matter what achievements you make in the future, you will be subjected to similar stares for the rest of your life.

If he doesn't have this little bit of practice, how can he hold on to the position of president of Jihui?

But one thing is for sure, if this guy wasn't also a die-hard fan of Mr. Kitagawa's books, I really wanted to pull out the metal rod from behind my butt and smash his head into it!
The two of them had their own agenda and there was no dialogue throughout the entire process. They just admired the newspapers in their hands in tacit understanding. They only expressed their feelings together when they praised Teacher Beichuan for winning the award.

At this time, their eyes would meet and they would nod slightly, which was considered a small recognition of each other.

the other side.

As a special witness in this trial, Kitagawa Hide arrived at the Tokyo Intermediate Court early in his Mercedes-Benz.

As soon as I got off the car, several familiar figures gathered around me.

Miyamoto Juzu took the lead, and after he, a first-level prosecutor of the Special Investigation Department of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, appeared, the others immediately moved back tactfully, as if they didn't want to have anything to do with the people in this department at all.

"Congratulations, Mr. Kitagawa!" Miyamoto Twelve said with a smile on his face, with the young male and female prosecutors standing behind him.

"Huh?" Kitagawa Xiu was stunned, not knowing what the other party was congratulating him for.

Miyamoto Juzu also showed a look of surprise, then suddenly realized, and talked with a smile about last night's "Yomiuri Shimbun" and "Nikkan Sports News".

After an overnight fermentation, people all over Japan now know that Hide Kitagawa won a major prize in France that is slightly less important than the Nobel Prize in Literature.

People in the public and the industry began to discuss who was more famous overseas and who had achieved greater success, the award-winning Kitagawa Hide or the nominated Tanizaki Ichiro.

Kitagawa Hide was completely unaware of these things.

After returning home last night, he was busy chatting with Yumeko, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and then made plans to travel to Izu for vacation in August.

Last night was also the only time he slacked off in recent times. He neither wrote properly nor read newspapers, watched TV or attended forums to keep himself fresh and interested in current affairs.

I didn’t expect so many outrageous things to happen in just one night!
In the eyes of Miyamoto Juju and others, Kitagawa Hide's surprise was actually a manifestation of his humility, his indifference to fame and fortune, and his focus on literature, which immediately made these prosecutors admire him even more.

".Anyway, if there is a chance in the future, please ask Mr. Kitagawa to write a book for us prosecutors!" Miyamoto Twelve brought up the old matter again. Anyway, no matter whether it can be said or not, he would say it first!
"Of course, of course!" Kitagawa Hide responded with a smile and continued to use the "polite perfunctory" skill.

Anyway, now he has the excuse of going on vacation with Mengzi, so no one can force him to work at this time!

"Haha, it seems that many people still want to talk to Teacher Kitagawa, so I won't bother you." Miyamoto Juzu bowed slightly, and before leaving, he suddenly lowered his voice and said, "That brat should be sentenced to life imprisonment." "Life imprisonment?" Kitagawa Hide nodded slightly. This penalty result had actually exceeded his psychological expectations.

Under normal circumstances, if the juvenile offender is not of sufficient age and the nature of the case is not so bad as to shock the whole country and have a huge social impact, it would be difficult for such a juvenile offender to be sentenced to more than ten years under the new Juvenile Law.

This life sentence should be a "courtesy to former officials" plus respect for promoters such as Kitagawa Hide.

After Miyamoto Juju left, the two big bosses, Machimura Nobutaka and Hara Bunbei, also came over with a smile and exchanged brief greetings.

One of them is the current Vice Minister of Culture of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and the other is the Metropolitan Superintendent, and their status is no less than that of Miyamoto Juju.

It was actually the first time that the three of them met in real life. The two big guys congratulated Kitagawa Hide on the Goncourt Prize. Then Hara Bunbei and Kitagawa Hide exchanged contact information and left with an excuse.

Before leaving, Hara Bunbei saw his juniors, Fujiwara Kei and Hikigaya Nako, waiting to talk to Kitagawa Hide in the distance. He weighed the situation in his mind, then called his secretary and whispered, "Aren't there some vacancies in the Kokubunji City Police Station and the Metropolitan Police Department? Go and arrange them."

The secretary nodded and bowed continuously, and secretly wrote down the appearance and police numbers of Fujiwara Kei and the other man.

According to the rules and regulations, Fujiwara Kei and the other person are both from non-professional groups, so they will never be able to get a position above the rank of inspector in their lifetime, but there are always exceptions.

"These two guys are so lucky!" The secretary sighed in his heart and stole a glance at Kitagawa Hide who was chatting and laughing with Machimura Nobutaka.

He is indeed a rising star in the Japanese literary world!

I have to curry favor with him in the future!

At this time, Kitagawa Hide was chatting with Machimura Nobutaka about the Goncourt Prize.

".I heard that there was some minor friction between the Cultural Supervision Department and you, Mr. Beichuan. Don't worry, the problems have been resolved now. You don't have to worry about these trivial matters."

Machimura Nobutaka heard about the conflict between Amuro Sho and Kitagawa Hide from his secretary. Previously, because of the issue of the sale of the hardcover paperback edition of "Hear the Wind Sing", Amuro Sho had been secretly disgusting Kitagawa Hide, and later he was also involved in the Akutagawa Prize issue.

Now that Kitagawa Hidenari's new "Tenka No. 1" position was almost certain, Machimura Nobutaka would naturally not offend the upstart literary figure he had made with great difficulty for the sake of a section chief. He decisively found a random reason and transferred Amuro Sho to the powerless Shimizu Yamen to retire.

Kitagawa Hide pondered for a long time before he remembered Sho Amuro from the Cultural Supervision Department.

He actually had no contact with this high-ranking official of the Ministry of Culture, but he heard that he had always been disgusted by Saito Reina, so he accepted this favor from Machimura Nobutaka: "Thank you for your trouble, Mr. Machimura."

After seeing the big guys leave one by one, Hikigaya Nako and the other person who were hiding in the distance tiptoed up to say hello.

Hikigaya Nako, who was originally a little nervous, chatted for a few words and found that the other party was still the same teacher Kitagawa who was so powerful in her big thunder. She instantly felt a lot more at ease and her tone became much warmer.

The two were sincerely happy that Kitagawa Hide won the award, but they admired him even more for writing "Confessions", which actually promoted legislation.

Perhaps "Confessions" is far inferior to "Paradise Lost" in terms of achievements and sales, but the substantive significance it brings to the nation far exceeds any previous novel!
Before the chat, they were also worried that Mr. Kitagawa, who was about to become the "best in the world", would be like Arima Yoriyoshi whose golden body was broken, and would gradually lose the original intention of writing books because of fame, status and money.

In the end, he turned into a ruthless typing machine that only pursued awards and historical status, and completely abandoned the thousands of Beichuan fans behind him.

Fortunately.

After chatting casually for a few minutes, Hikigaya Nako discovered it.

Teacher Kitagawa is still the one who is willing to help her and Mengzi open beer bottles, make side dishes, and watch them chat with a smile on his face.

He hasn't changed, and he won't change.

"Looking forward to your new work! Teacher Kitagawa!" Hikigaya Nako bowed 90 degrees, and Da Lei shook violently in his uniform, attracting countless people's attention.

"Okay, I'll try to make you continue to pay for my next book!" Kitagawa Hide responded with a smile.

Then a few people followed the crowd into the court.

Shigeo Nishiguchi, who had a criminal record and was not invited, was hanging around the door and then made several phone calls to confirm the whereabouts of the underage yakuza who had been sent to various prisons.

He put his hands in his pockets and looked at the huge "Tribunal" sign above the court gate with a sneer.

Kitagawa Hide had already sent someone to discuss with Shinichiro Tou that he would be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Just as Shinichiro Azuma said to Hide Kitagawa in the Family Court.

If he is sentenced to life imprisonment, he can be released from prison on commutation of sentence in three to five years by pretending to be virtuous.

"Out of prison? Haha." Nishiguchi Shigeo waved to a group of his younger brothers to drive the car far away. He then found a step and sat on the ground, leisurely lighting a cigarette.

(End of this chapter)