I am a literary giant in Japan

"Haha! I finally bought it!"

On a bench in Asakusa Park, Taito Ward, Tokyo.

Ashin and Ajiu snuggled together in the cold wind, shivering and laughing heartily while holding the copy of "Beichuan" in their hands.

After the two major conglomerates, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo, completely blocked Kitagawa Bunyu and Kawaide Shobo, the people most affected were low-level readers like Ashin.

There are a huge number of these people, and they don’t know much about the literary market. They are already short of money, and have tried many times to buy magazines but failed. They will most likely give up, causing Beichuan to lose a lot of potential readers.

The same is true.

On October 10, Oricon released the first-day data of literary magazines, and the data of "Kitagawa" was almost one-third less than that of the previous month.

This is the result of the consortium’s pursuit and blockade!
Beichuan Entertainment has also made corresponding countermeasures and adjustments.

For example, relaxing the entry conditions for online sales, increasing the preferential treatment for cooperating bookstores, and allowing Beichuan Network’s internet trolls to post “tap water” posts online.

Thanks to the efforts of the publicity and public relations departments, the sales of "Beichuan" gradually returned to normal, but the most difficult problem of Mr. Beichuan's reputation has not been solved.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Axin and the other person who are reading "Asakusa Red Group".

They would rather huddle in the cold wind for an hour to get a sneak peek at the latest plot!
The last time I interrupted "Asakusa Red Group", I was in the chapter "Sumida Park".

After reading the previous series, Shin and Jiu went back to Sumida Park to relive their childhood memories.

When they arrived at Sumida Park, they discovered that it had become a pilgrimage site for many readers!
Not only Sumida Park, but the entire Asakusa community has attracted a large number of tourists.

Located in downtown Tokyo, the long-forgotten urban village has suddenly become a hot spot in everyone's eyes.

The original residents who remained in the Asakusa community made a small profit from this wave of traffic, so they spontaneously promoted Mr. Kitagawa.

This is probably what Mr. Kitagawa said, "Every bite and every drink has its destiny."

"It's really worrying. That's a casino. If you hang around there but don't go in, you'll get beaten up!"

In the novel, the member of the Red Group who led me around Sumida Park whistled and said this to me.

This line of dialogue at the beginning of the new chapter "Someone with Disheveled Hair" directly pulls Ashin and Ajiu into their memories.

They can't forget the scene when they went to play near the casino when they were young and were beaten up.

From then on, they looked down on Asakusa's underground casinos.

The Asakusa community includes both simple and honest indigenous people and arrogant lawless outlaws.

Just like what "Beichuan" wrote when promoting "Asakusa Red Group", Asakusa is Tokyo's "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" -

A social melting pot that can reflect the real bottom of Tokyo.

“I wonder if Kitagawa-sensei’s novel can completely change the environment of Asakusa.”

Ashin thought so.

After all these years, she still has deep feelings for Asakusa.

If possible, she hopes that Asakusa can become a true part of Tokyo, just like other renovated urban villages.

Instead of always being on the outside, and then when being mentioned by "Tokyo people", looking disgusted, thinking that the place does not belong to Tokyo.

When mentioned by outsiders, they look at me with disdain, thinking that people living in Tokyo are just like that.

Ajiu didn't think as much as she thought, he just continued reading the novel.

“My first meeting with the Red Group members ended in failure.

Maybe it’s because I wanted you to have a good impression of the Red Group members, so I seem to have overemphasized their good side.

What I am about to write may make you feel uncomfortable, so please read it with discretion. "

Jiu, who always lives for the moment, couldn't help but straighten his back slightly when he saw this. He felt a little curious and a little scared.

Is Mr. Beichuan going to write negative content related to the Red Group?
As a core member of the Red Group, Jiu felt uncomfortable, but he also wanted to know what Mr. Beichuan would write.

Ashin, who was standing by, was also attracted by this plot.

No one knows the Red Group better than her.

Especially after the members of the Red Falcon Group betrayed him and went to blackmail Mr. Kitagawa.

“I said earlier that maybe I overemphasized their good side.

One day, Ono Fukuko said to me: "Yes, I am very beautiful. Because I am beautiful, Asakusa gave me food.

The same goes for people who run music stores and carousel shops.

Of course, in Asakusa, there are many beggars who beg with their miserable and ugly appearance. '

She laughed at me: "How can someone like you understand the bottom of Asakusa's ugliness?"

The 'beauty' she refers to is the beauty of appearance, which is slightly different from what I and you all mean by 'good looks'. Yes, let me give you another example.

The prototype of Ono Fukuko is Ono Satoko, who was also a "yujo" in Kabukicho, but was not as famous as Yumiko and Aku.

Mr. Kitagawa spent a lot of time and effort to portray Fukuko Ono.

But what is surprising is that he did not deliberately discredit Ono Satoko and others in the book as a way of retaliating against them because of their excessive behavior.

In Ashin's opinion, Japan is a country where the strong prey on the weak.

As the winner, Mr. Kitagawa will not be criticized no matter how he writes about their bad deeds.

Because that's the spoils of victory.

But Mr. Kitagawa didn't do that.

He portrayed Ono Fukuko in detail, writing about her arrogance, short-sightedness, her miserable childhood, and her inner worries.

People are complex, and so is human nature.

"I wonder what Satoko will think after reading the latest update."

Ashin curled her lips. If it were her, she would definitely choose to completely destroy Ono Satoko both in and out of the book.

Chopping the grass does not remove the roots, but the spring breeze blows and regenerates.

"It's highly unlikely that she will see it. Satoko doesn't like to study, and she hangs out with Sato Tsuyoshi and his group of idiots all day. I'm afraid her brain is filled with semen!"

Ajiu once had a big fight with Satoko over a customer.

The hot and attractive Satoko and the petite and cute Ajiu are two extremes, and neither of them looks down on the other.

"boom!"

Ah Xin slapped Ah Jiu on the head, and then said to her unhappily: "I've told you so many times, girls shouldn't keep saying words like yj and jy all the time."

"Ah, it hurts, Sister Xin, I know, I know, I won't say it next time, okay?"

Ajiu curled his lips, rubbed the back of his head, and continued to read with his head down.

As she watched, she was suddenly a little surprised. She rubbed her eyes hard a few times, and after confirming that it was correct, she quickly pulled up Ashin's sleeve.

"Sister Ashin, Sister Ashin, look, look!"

Ah Jiu pointed at "someone with disheveled hair" and shouted at her,

"So you're the one I'm talking about!"

Kitagawa Hide deliberately used an entire chapter to portray a certain person with disheveled hair - the leader of the Red Group, the bad girl Ashin.

“It was mid-November, and Yumiko and I were talking about a report in that day’s newspaper.

'The evening paper says that a girl with dishevelled hair has been arrested.'

'Someone? Who is that? My hair is disheveled too. I hate having my hair cut short. Look, look, I am 'Agong with disheveled hair'.

Hey, just kidding.'

Yumiko smiled, revealing a dimple under her eyelid.

But when she saw the censored picture of the girl in the newspaper, her smile disappeared instantly.

Having messy hair is a sign of honor in the Asakusa community.

Because those who are taken to prison or juvenile detention center will all be forced to shave their heads to distinguish them from ordinary people.

If you walk around the Asakusa neighborhood with your hair down, it means you've never been 'in'.

The longer the hair, the more admired it is.

The girl in the newspaper is Ashin, the one with the longest hair among them and the one who founded the Red Group! "

Ashin was arrested by the Xianggao Police Station twelve times and escaped from the juvenile detention center seven times. She was only twelve years old when she did these earth-shaking "big things".

At the age of thirteen, she returned to Asakusa and founded the Red Group, and has never "entered" since then.

In seven years, Ashin has become a "legend" of some magnitude in the Asakusa community.

"A bold girl", "Oshin", "a hero in the history of bad boy groups", "slept with at least 150 men".
There are so many halos and labels on Ashin that no one can tell her true situation.

She is Hongtuan, a living “legend” of the Asakusa community.

When he finished reading this chapter, Ashin was already in tears.

She hadn't shed a tear in at least seven years.

She lived a hard life, leading the entire Red Falcon Group, with a tenacious attitude that others could not understand.

In the Asakusa community and within the Red Falcon Group, there are both good and bad opinions about her, and no one really respects her.

Everyone wants to be Ashin, but everyone looks down on Ashin.

This is the true situation of the Red Falcon Regiment.

Mr. Kitagawa actually pieced together the truth from the scattered information and the messy stories told by dozens of bad boys and girls, and restored Ashin's real life.

This made Ashin, who has always been bold on the outside but sensitive on the inside, feel understood for the first time.

"She just wants to live a hard, good and free life."

This is the only sentence I said in the novel after listening to Ashin’s story.

"Hard, good, and free to live."

Ashin chewed over these words carefully.

I repeated it over and over again, at least a hundred times.

Yes.

Every day when she passed by Gongzi's house, she would call Gongzi and knock on the door as usual. When she didn't get any response, she was happy and lonely.

Gongzi was redeemed.

Doesn't she want to be redeemed?
"Sister Ashin? You, you're crying?" Ajiu's eyes were also red, but when he saw Sister Ashin, who was always strong and always the strongest support for them, shedding tears.

She felt like the sky was falling.

"Who, who is crying?! You are the one crying!"

At the same time, in a rental house, Ono Satoko, holding "Asakusa Red Tuan", threw a pillow at Sato Tsuyoshi, then secretly turned her back and wiped away her tears.

After tearing up the labor contract they had signed previously, they avoided the risk of being blamed by Mr. Beichuan and also avoided going to jail.

After the "Asakusa Red Falcon" field trip incident, the Red Falcon Group organized by Ashin completely collapsed.

The other members ran away or escaped, and most of them could no longer be contacted, and some even did not return to Asakusa.

Among these core members, only Ajiu still follows that stupid sister Axin.

Originally, Ono Satoko and Sato Tsuyoshi were surrounded by a few friends.

But after confirming that the two of them were the culprits who angered Teacher Kitagawa, those people fled as fast as they could.

Now they are the only ones left.

Just as written in "Asakusa Red Group".

Ono Satoko has all the bad qualities of a bad girl: arrogant, vain, conceited, likes bullying, despises studying, and fools around with the opposite sex.
But she also has her own strengths and shining points.

Human nature is complex.

It’s not completely unchangeable.

She couldn't get out of her own character.

So after that incident, she started fooling around with Sato Tsuyoshi, who had betrayed her long ago.

But she also wanted to change.

Or like Yumiko Meggie and the others, or like Shin and Ajiu and the others.

When Ono Satoko saw that Mr. Kitagawa did not completely destroy himself with "Asakusa Red Circle", she finally felt a real throbbing in her heart.

She didn't know how long this throbbing feeling would last, or whether it would make her change.

But just like what is written in "Asakusa Red Group".

"Only by doing it can there be results, right?"

Written in the style of the Edo period, "Asakusa Red Circle" in the form of a travel diary and road writing can be said to be a niche subject within a niche subject.

Many of Kitagawa Hide's die-hard readers find the more they read, the more they feel uncomfortable with the writing, and the more they become addicted to it.

They have read too many novels depicting the lower classes of society.

Literary writers who like to complain without any reason love to write this kind of thing.

It seems to expose the current social situation and criticize national politics, but in fact it is useless. It is just a tool for them to make money and please the judges of the awards.

But Kitagawa Hide’s book “Asakusa Red Ball” is different.

Kitagawa Hide had previously written a novel depicting the lower classes of society.

It is also one of his representative works, "No Longer Human".

It’s just that "No Longer Human" is written in a point-to-surface manner, with Ohba Yozo, who is based on Iwai Takuya, as the entry point, reflecting the current situation of the entire lower class of society.

Today's "Asakusa Red Buccaneers" goes a step further, portraying at least dozens of different grassroots people with flesh and blood in the form of a group portrait.

Especially the bad boy group Hongtuan in the novel, each of their characters comes alive on the page, which is really touching.

Characters such as Ashin, Yumiko, and Ono Fukuko became topics of much discussion, and a bill on the handling of underage delinquents was also mentioned by a member of parliament in Congress.

Taking advantage of this trend, Kitagawa Hide and Kawaide Shizuko sounded the clarion call for a counterattack.

The strategy of Mitsubishi and Sumitomo is to use money to pave the way and be invincible.

The strategy of Beichuan Entertainment and Kawade Shobo is to play the emotional card and win with quality.

As the two forces were struggling against each other, October 10th arrived quietly.

"The Evil Woman" serialized in "Wenyi" has also reached the final chapter of the second half.

After the highly controversial ending was announced, Kitagawa Hide was immediately pushed to the forefront! (End of this chapter)