I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 467 The first sword on the shore, kill the one you love first? (Please give me monthly tickets, brothers, thank you)
"Ishida-kun wants to be transferred to Yamanashi Prefecture to 'open up wasteland'?"

After hearing what Yumeko said, Kitagawa Hide, who was writing furiously in the study, couldn't help but look up and confirm with her again.

Yumeko held the restless Kitagawa Midori in one hand and the "urgent letter" sent by Kobayashi Tomoyo in the other. She nodded at him and then asked with a worried look on her face, "Could it be that there is a problem with the relationship between Ishida-kun and Tomoyo-chan?"

The plot of "the first sword after arriving on shore is to kill the person you love" is also very common in Japan.

Especially men like Ishida Yasujun, who have experienced great ups and downs and then soared to fame in just a few years, are the main force in "killing their beloved with a sword".

If nothing unexpected happens, Ishida Yasujun will be transferred to the position of assistant deputy editor-in-chief of the "Dazhong" editorial department after the end of this month. Then after another three to six months, he will be able to successfully replace Deputy Editor-in-Chief Sawamura and take the position that countless colleagues in the publishing industry dream of.

With such a top position and treatment, and being so young, it is normal for Ishida Yasujun to have such thoughts.

However, Beichuan Xiu only thought about it for a moment, then shook his head and smiled: "Don't worry, it's definitely not what you think.

If that's the case, why would Ishida-kun leave Tokyo, which has a more promising future, and go to Yamanashi, a remote prefecture?"

"But if I go to Yamanashi Prefecture, I won't be able to see Tomoyo-chan every day. Do I have to ask Tomoyo-chan to go to Yamanashi Prefecture to work after she graduates with her doctorate?"

Mengzi cherishes her friends at the University of Tokyo very much, because she has been a girl who is easily bullied since she was young. Thanks to the help of these friends, she had a good youth.

So when it came to Kobayashi Tomoyo's future, she suddenly became panicked.

“Don’t worry about it, I can just call Ishida-kun and ask.

Anyway, even if he really wants to be transferred to Yamanashi Prefecture, I still have to approve it, right? "

While comforting Yumeko, Kitagawa Hide picked up his phone and immediately called Ishida Yasujun.

The phone rang a few times and was quickly connected.

"Moshimoshi, Mr. Beichuan, what do you want to talk to me about?"

On the phone, Ishida Taijun's voice sounded quite happy, and he didn't seem to be very distressed about relationship problems.

Kitagawa Hide asked straight to the point: "I heard that you want to go to Yamanashi Prefecture to 'open up wasteland'? Is there any special reason?"

"Ah, I was just about to discuss this with you, Mr. Kitagawa." Ishida Taijun held the mobile phone and quickly told Kitagawa Hide all his thoughts.

When he heard that he had the idea of ​​going to Yamanashi Prefecture to “open up new land” after watching “The Crucible”, Kitagawa Hide was stunned at first, then smiled and asked: “What is your specific idea?
Although Dazhong has been expanding its branches across the country, the relatively more promising ones are definitely big cities like Kyoto and Osaka.

In remote areas such as Yamanashi Prefecture, we usually only set up a grassroots editing station there to facilitate the work of editors who commuted there.

If you want to make a career in Yamanashi Prefecture, it may take a very long time.

Maybe it's five years, maybe it's ten years, maybe it's your whole life.

If you go to Yamanashi Prefecture, Kobayashi will definitely not stay alone in Tokyo. In this way, your future and your life may be completely different from your colleagues here."

"Dear" Mengzi looked at him resentfully, not quite understanding why Kitagawa Hide would say such "scary" words.

There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone, and then Ishida Yasujun's firm voice was heard again.

"Even so, I still want to go to Yamanashi Prefecture to 'open up new land'!
Please, Kitagawa-sensei! I don’t want to be Tomomi Muramatsu in Paradise Lost, I want to be Hiroshi Kitahara in The Crucible! "

As Ishida Taijun spoke, he bowed 90 degrees to the air.

He knew that Mr. Kitagawa couldn't see the bow.

But he believed that his perseverance and determination could be passed on to Teacher Kitagawa in this way.

Thanks to a year's hard work and savings, Ishida Taijun is no longer short of money.

Moreover, even if he is transferred to Yamanashi Prefecture, his salary and benefits will not be reduced.

So there is no need to worry about money at all.

As for my girlfriend.

He couldn't ask Tomoyo Kobayashi to give up the innate advantages of being a doctoral student at the University of Tokyo and follow him to the mountains to help deaf and mute children.

He could only take one step at a time.

Anyway, there are still two and a half years before Kobayashi Tomoyo graduates. That’s a long time and many things are uncertain, so there’s no need to think about it so carefully.

"'The Crucible' hasn't been finished yet, and you don't know Kitahara Hiroshi's ending yet." Kitagawa Hide heard the determination in his heart, his smile gradually faded, and he said to him very seriously.

Ishida Taijun still insisted on his own idea: "I know. And judging from the plot of the novel, Kitahara Hiroshi, who has no one to rely on and even has to rely on his wife to collect the "teaching position donation", is unlikely to be able to defeat the scumbags of the Charity School for the Deaf and Mute.

But even so, I still want to be Kitahara Hiroshi!"

In the last chapter of this serialized edition of the novel "The Crucible".

At the moment he was insulted, Kitahara Hiroshi finally realized that real life had begun.

After finishing his meeting with the principal and the director of administration of the Charity School for the Deaf and Dumb, he walked down the busy street as if he were completely naked.

The nightmarish scene was terrifying and shameful.

Kitahara Hiroshi looked at the principal opposite him and felt that he seemed to have a faint stench emanating from him, like the fishy smell of a sweating animal, or like the smell of discarded rust when a deep-sea shipwreck was salvaged long ago.

On this morning of a new life, he was terrified by the savage feeling that crawled all over his body.

This feeling of fear also frequently appeared in Ishida Yasujun's dreams after he made the decision to leave Tokyo and go to Yamanashi Prefecture.

This also prompted him to not dare to tell Kobayashi Tomoyo his true thoughts.

But as he said to Kitagawa Hide.

Even so, he still chose to be Kitahara Hiroshi rather than Muramatsu Tomoshi who was being eaten away bit by bit.

"I understand. Since it's your choice, I will definitely respect it.

In a few days, I will personally call the board of directors of "Popularity" to see if they can set up an editorial base station in Yamanashi Prefecture specifically for deaf readers. "

Kitagawa Hide suddenly remembered the ending of the movie "The Crucible". Although the protagonist and his friends failed to completely change the society, they still built a new home that was warm enough for the disadvantaged group.

Perhaps this task, in the real world, in Japan, can be entrusted to ambitious young people like Yasushi Ishida.

"We fight all the way, not to change the world, but to prevent the world from changing us."

This most core line in "The Crucible" has appeared in Kitagawa Hide's mind countless times.

He couldn't have as much empathy for an unfamiliar group of people as Ishida Yasushi and Jabami Rei.

Even because of his identity as a time traveler and his previous life, he doesn't have much empathy and dependence on this country and society.

But this does not mean that Kitagawa Hide is unwilling to help those who have that kind of fire and light in their hearts.

There is a very famous line in the Marvel movie Spider-Man:

The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

Kitagawa Hide is now more aware of this. "Yes! I won't let you down, Mr. Kitagawa!" Ishida Taijun was actually worried that the top management of the "Mass" editorial department would not want to let him go.

After all, he was the editor-in-chief chosen by Mr. Beichuan, and he had been promoted all the way to the present day. He was a rising star in the publishing industry that could be seen with the naked eye.

And because he is a man, his future is generally optimistic among industry insiders, who believe that he can surpass the current "number one in the world" in the publishing industry, Rena Saito.

If the higher-ups don't let him go and Mr. Kitagawa's attitude is unclear, he will be very distressed.

Fortunately, Mr. Kitagawa really understood him.

Just like what Mr. Kitagawa said when the two met for the first time, "Actually, you can have your cake and eat it too", "If it's you, I believe you can do it."

He knows himself and understands himself.

"Yeah. But there is one more thing." Kitagawa Hide glanced at Mengzi beside him and smiled at him, "Such a big thing, you should at least discuss it with your girlfriend. You can't keep silent all the time."

"Oh, I understand. I'll go tell Tomoyo-chan right away!" Ishida Taijun wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

News spreads so quickly among women.

No wonder he felt that something was wrong with Mr. Kitagawa's tone when he answered the phone.

I'm afraid Mrs. Kitagawa is standing next to him right now, looking at him and himself who can't see her with a reproachful look!
After hanging up the phone, Ishida Taijun immediately sent a text message to Kobayashi Tomoyo, hoping that she could call him when she was free.

Today is a study day, and Tomoyo Kobayashi is probably busy with his studies, so after sending the message, he picked up the new manuscript and prepared to deal with the work at hand first.

Unexpectedly, the phone rang just a few seconds after the message was sent.

[I will come to Ishida-kun's company to have a face-to-face chat right away. ]

Tomoyo Kobayashi's reply was very brief, but based on Ishida Taijun's understanding of her, if Tomoyo Kobayashi, who was always talkative, became less talkative, it meant that something was wrong!

"Tomoyo-chan is not going to stop me from going to Yamanashi Prefecture, is she?" Ishida Taijun held his forehead with his hand. He felt that if she really came over and said that, he would be quite embarrassed.

Love, career.

I have heard from my predecessors that these two will conflict sooner or later.

Ishida Taijun was also prepared to deal with it.

It's just that this happened too quickly and too suddenly.

At this time, Tomoyo Kobayashi, who was helping Professor Osamu Takeuchi organize the "Selected Novels of Hide Kitagawa" in the faculty office of the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo, could not suppress her restless heart after receiving the message from her boyfriend. She had to tell Osamu Takeuchi everything, then asked for leave and left at the speed of light.

Takeuchi Osamu and Kimura Keiko, who also came here to help, looked at each other. Kimura Keiko saw dissatisfaction, helplessness and a little panic in her old friend's eyes and couldn't help but chuckle.

“Ah Zhi, you were too strict with the children, that’s why the snake girl ran away.

If you keep looking so miserable and treating your disciples like tools, the current successor might even run away." Kimura Keiko said to him with a smile.

What she actually wanted in her heart was that she hoped Takeuchi Osamu would stop working as soon as possible, spend his old age in peace, and stop working so hard.

Because of things that happened in his early years, Takeuchi Osamu missed his best years and was unable to dominate the Japanese literary world and realize his ambitions like Ichiro Tanizaki.

So after becoming a professor in the Faculty of Literature, Takeuchi Osamu's attitude towards academic research was unmatched, as if he was frantically making up for his lost youth.

But the longer he worked frantically, the worse his health became.

Keiko Kimura doesn't want to bury her childhood sweetheart when she is old.

But Takeuchi Osamu has a stubborn mindset.

After Jabami Rei "escaped", he was so angry that he couldn't sleep for several days. Then he quickly looked for Kobayashi Tomoyo, who was relatively mediocre in all aspects but had a more reliable character, hoping that she could inherit his mantle and carry out the research on Japanese pure literature to the end.

did not expect!
Tomoyo Kobayashi also got into trouble!

"Humph! You can leave if you want! I don't care!"

Osamu Takeuchi became sulky in front of the "Mass" in his hand, and then started coughing uncontrollably.

Now in his seventies, he increasingly feels that his body is running out of energy and he is unable to do things anymore.

But the more this happened, the harder it was for him to let go.

Japanese literature is still in its infancy.

It was not easy for Kitagawa Hide to emerge, who corrected the Japanese literary world from its direction of being cumbersome and boring and learning Westernization, and freed everyone from the shadow of conservative writers.

He had to study Kitagawa Hide's book thoroughly and deconstruct it clearly while many young people had not yet started writing formally and were still babbling, so that later generations could learn the most useful writing skills clearly and systematically.

It was the only thing he could do.

How is it possible to give up completely and stagnate completely because of physical reasons?

I heard that Mr. Odemaison from France is also doing this.

Takeuchi Osamu felt that he was not alone and was very pleased.

"You are just saying one thing and thinking another. You have a lot on your mind but are unwilling to tell your disciples. That's why they don't dare to communicate with you."

Kimura Keiko quickly patted him on the back and handed him a cup of water. After he calmed down, she continued slowly,
"I don't think Kobayashi will leave, but it's hard to say whether he will stay at the University of Tokyo in the future."

"Whether it's the University of Tokyo or Yamanashi Prefecture, as long as you're doing literary research and creation, what difference does it make where you are?"

Takeuchi Osamu sighed. He had seen "White Tower" and admired Dr. Satomi in the movie very much.

That is the true attitude towards academic research.

Moreover, compared to medicine, literary research does not require any high-tech equipment and can be done anywhere.

"When I read The Crucible, I felt that there was nothing wrong with the protagonist." He added, "By the way, have you done what I asked you to do before?"

"It's done, it's done. I've asked someone to donate all your savings to the Yamanashi Prefecture Deaf and Mute Mutual Aid Association.

Don't worry, I know the people over there, and they are backed by our Kawade family, so they won't cheat you." Kimura Keiko said with a smile.

After hearing this, Takeuchi Osamu smiled with relief and nodded, saying, "That's good. I hope my small contribution can help them."

I will write a review to support The Crucible later. We must not let the Ci Ai Group get away with it!

By the way, I don’t know what the second new book by Kitagawa Hide is about, but it should also be related to these things.”

"Didn't they say it would be serialized in Beichuan, which will be released on the 15th? I asked for the title, and it sounds even more chilling."

Keiko Kimura has already obtained first-hand information from Shizuko Kawaide.

Takeuchi Osamu immediately became interested: "What book title can make you shudder?"

“Children of the Dark.”

(End of this chapter)