I am a literary giant in Japan

"Nonsense! This is just nonsense! Cough cough cough"

Takeuchi Osamu's face was pale on the hospital bed. Beside his bed was a complete set of "Kitagawa Hide's Novels Gold Edition" published by Kawaide Shobo.

Because his health had been deteriorating recently, he gradually delegated some of the work of the Dean of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Tokyo to the more outstanding professors in the department.

Takeuchi Osamu did not waste all the free time, but used it to edit the reference book "Annotations of Kitagawa Hide's Novels" with Audemeisson who was far away in France.

These two pillars of the Japanese and French literary circles are now obsessed with studying and analyzing the novels written by Kitagawa Hide, and have decided to spend all of their limited remaining time on this matter!

The two literary masters hit it off immediately, and after consultation decided that Takeuchi Osamu would be responsible for Kitagawa Hide's early Japanese pure literature novels, and Odemeisson would be responsible for his later overseas literary novels.

As for the Japanese literature written by Kitagawa Hidetaka in his later years, they will wait until the two of them finish their current work before getting together to slowly study and analyze it.

A few days ago, due to overwork, Takeuchi Osamu fainted while writing annotations. Fortunately, his old friend Kimura Keiko always came to visit this lonely old man and called the emergency number in time, which saved his life.

The person who diagnosed and treated Takeuchi Osamu was Toshiyuki Karasawa, the current director of the First Department of Surgery and full professor at the University of Tokyo Hospital.

Toshiyuki Karasawa suggested that Takeuchi Osamu should temporarily suspend his work for recuperation, and then consider returning to work after his health has improved at the University of Tokyo Hospital.

But Takeuchi Osamu is an old man who can't sit still. Once he gets stubborn, ten cows can't pull him back.

During his rest time at the University of Tokyo Medical Center, he insisted on writing annotations for a pile of novels written by Kitagawa Hide.

In desperation, Keiko Kimura had to take care of him in three shifts with her granddaughter Shizuko Kawaide and several of Takeuchi Osamu's favorite students (Rei Jabami, Tomoyo Kobayashi, and Yumeko Kitagawa).

Although the stubborn old man didn't say it, he was very grateful to these women for taking care of him.

But sometimes the machismo of the "Showa men" in the post-war era played tricks on his heart, often preventing him from saying "Arigato", and instead he would say some harsh words of blame and belittlement.

He knew it was not a good thing to do, but he just couldn't bring himself to do it.

Moreover, such conflicts and frictions are usually caused by their persuading him not to work so hard.

They were thinking about his health, and Takeuchi Osamu knew this better than anyone else.

But he is almost 80 years old.

Having finally seen a new star rise up in the Japanese literary world in his lifetime, capable of shining in the halls of world literature, how could he resist studying, analyzing and learning from him?

This may be the only chance in his life, he can't give up!
Just like Kato Shuichi, who is also working day and night to write "History of Japanese Literature".

People of their generation, those who passed away early have been buried for many years, and those who passed away late could not delay the time.

Their biggest enemy now is time.

You have to race against time. Even if you lose, you have to lose with dignity while working at your desk!

This is the belief that the older writers of their generation adhere to!

On this matter, no one, whether it is him, Odmeson or Kato Shuichi, can compromise!
Kitagawa Hide, their spiritual pillar, suddenly came up with a new trick at this critical juncture.
When the "Disabled but Determined" trilogy was first released, Osamu Takeuchi was not optimistic about it.

The intention of film and television adaptation of these three novels was too obvious, and they also involved some political topics, which made him feel that Kitagawa Hide's literary creation path was going astray.

Simply put, their "pure literary concentration" is not high enough.

However, the subsequent response to the three novels and their own literary value were ultimately unanimously recognized by the literary circles at home and abroad.

The last line of Kitahara Hiroshi in "The Crucible" is "Just like fog", the final heart-wrenching cry of Nanbu Hiroyuki in "Children in the Dark", and the healing little girl "Hanako" in "A Wonderful Journey".

These have become classic plots in literary history.

Kitagawa Hide has refuted the perceptions of the literary giants with his actual achievements time and time again.

But even so, the highest call for him in the world literary world is that Kitagawa Hide can give full play to his talent and talent and create a literary work like "War and Peace" for the history of world literature.

When he wrote "Remembrance of Things Past" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude", the traditional old scholars in the literary world were very happy and felt that this most talented young man in modern times was on the right track.

But then, what did he write?
Takeuchi Osamu reluctantly took the towel handed to him by Jaburi Rei, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and then sighed: "What a waste of talent! What a waste of talent! This guy is really!"

Jabami Rei shrank her neck. She originally wanted to say something good about Kitagawa Hide in front of the teacher, but then she changed her mind and thought that this sentence was also a way of speaking indirectly about herself.

It’s better not to offend the teacher again!

She had heard about Kitagawa Hide's new book, "Ring World Series", from Yumeko.

All in all, it sounds like a great idea and the story is very interesting.

It is this subject matter, and its more popular literature-oriented flavor, that would definitely displease Mr. Osamu Takeuchi, who has adhered to the path of pure literature all his life.

But there's nothing we can do about it!
"Call Me If You Can 1" written by Mengzi has recently become a nationwide hit, and its popularity is in no way inferior to "White Night Walk" and "The Devotion of Suspect X" of that year.

Even if we only consider sales and market feedback, some of Hide Kitagawa's niche pure literature novels cannot compare to it.

The fact that a debut work by a blank writer who has never been involved in the literary industry can reach such a height shows that the literary market is quietly undergoing a transformation.

Just like the "Kitagawa Bunko" founded by Hideki Kitagawa, opposition and doubts have never stopped, but as long as you have a little understanding of the "Dengeki Bunko" which has been popular in recent years, you will know that this will definitely be the literary trend in the next ten years or even decades.

It is difficult for people to go against the general trend.

Not everyone is Kitagawa Hide, who can write whatever he wants and make it a hit no matter what he writes.

Literature lovers like her and Mengzi can only survive by following the trend.

As trend-following authors, they need an industry benchmark to create a pioneering work to activate the market.

"The Call 1" cannot become such a work, after all, the upper limit of Yumeko's level is there.

Then this task can only be done by Kitagawa Hide.

As long as the "Ring Series" does not completely fail, the new trend of horror science fiction novels pioneered by Hide Kitagawa will be able to support a large number of grassroots writers and keep the Japanese literary market hot.

This will also happen to promote the development of e-reading and light novels, which are what Hide Kitagawa values ​​most.

Kill three birds with one stone.

Of course, these things don’t make sense to seekers like Mr. Takeuchi Osamu.

He is not wrong, Kitagawa Hide is not wrong, everyone is not wrong.

It is precisely because of the collision of these different ideas that the literary market will prosper.

An era when various schools of thought flourish is bound to be a time when a hundred kinds of works flourish!
Although he kept saying it was nonsense, Takeuchi Osamu still read the promotional materials about "Kitagawa Bunko" and "Ring World Series" very seriously.

"Light novel"

After closing the book, he turned his gaze back to the March issue of "Mass" beside the bed, "Was this "Ghost Call 3" really written by Mengzi?"

The second biggest regret of Takeuchi Osamu in his life was that the two disciples he valued most failed to become his successors.

Jabami Rei ran away to the entertainment industry and is now a recognized movie queen and TV queen. She will definitely not come back to engage in literary creation.

After Yumeko married Kitagawa Hide, she took care of the children and helped manage the company, and it seemed that she had neglected her writing skills.

But unexpectedly, Kitagawa Yumeko, the person he thought was the least likely to continue writing novels, actually turned back and started writing novels!

Even though it's not something that can be shown on the table, at least I've regained the glory of being a graduate of the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo.

"Yes." Jabami Rei shrank back again.

"A Ghost Call 1" was a big hit, and the novel was published in "Dazhong". Takeuchi Osamu, who paid attention to news in the literary and publishing circles every day, naturally asked them about the situation of this "Kitagawa Naoko".

Yumeko did not dare to hide the truth from her mentor, so she confessed everything when she was caring for Takeuchi Osamu.

Upon hearing that it was the debut work of his former beloved disciple, Takeuchi Osamu took the time to read it carefully.

No one knows what his evaluation of "Call Me If You Can 1" is.

But it is well known that Takeuchi Osamu dislikes this type of "pulp novels".

Recently, Kitagawa Hide started the "Kitagawa Bunko" and "Universe Series", which made him even angrier.

In order to avoid the limelight, Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko even stopped visiting him in the hospital.

This also led to Jabami Rei having to visit Takeuchi Osamu every few days and have to endure his "anger".

"Well, it's actually pretty good." Takeuchi Osamu picked up the book "Mass" and unexpectedly gave it a good review. "I'm not an old-fashioned person who doesn't want to change. Do you have to scare them so much that they don't dare to come to see me? You're a bunch of stupid kids."

After sighing about "The Call 1", he looked up at Jabami Rei and found that his beloved disciple had been quietly "teleporting" towards the gate. He immediately became furious and scolded her angrily: "Why are you retreating? Am I a tiger or a lion? Will I eat you?
Now even Mengzi, who is busy with work and housework, has written a novel. Why can't you write a good one?

You are going to make me angry sooner or later."

The inexplicably badly treated Snake Rei pouted, secretly cursing the teacher's partiality in her heart, and then obediently moved back to the bedside: "I, I actually wrote something too."

"What?" Takeuchi Osamu was interrupted and looked at his beloved disciple in astonishment. He asked again in disbelief, "What did you just say?"

"That's right. I'm actually writing a novel too." Jabami Rei hesitated, a little hesitant to respond to Takeuchi Osamu's words.

From her four years in college to now, three years after graduation, she has lived under the "shadow" of her teacher for seven years. Every time she sees Takeuchi Osamu, she is terrified, like a mouse seeing a cat.

"Take it out and let me see it! Quick! Quick! Quick!" Takeuchi Osamu threw away the "Volkswagen" in his hand, and even the "Kitagawa Hide's Novels Gold Edition" next to it made way for Jabami Rei.

It was the first time that Jabami Rei saw her teacher so anxious, and she quickly took out the manuscript she had always carried with her from her handbag.

But as soon as she took it out, she regretted it.

The "Kara no Kyoukai Series" is the trashy light novel that Takeuchi Osamu dislikes the most. If he sees this, won't he be scolded again?
Takeuchi Osamu rarely paid attention to Jabami Rei's little thoughts. With a "Give it to you", he snatched the manuscript from her hands.

After getting the manuscript, he ignored his beloved disciple and couldn't wait to read it.

"'Kara no Kyoukai'? That name sounds quite interesting."

Takeuchi Osamu began to comment as if he was grading homework.

The "Kara no Kyoukai Series" is actually not released in the order of the story.

The first work published, "Overlooking the Scenery", is actually the fourth work in the entire series in chronological order.

The entire work consists of ten volumes including the extras, and the publication order and story chronology are completely confusing.

The first part in the story timeline should be the officially published second part "Murder Investigation (Part 1)".

Therefore, after reading only a few pages, Takeuchi Osamu's brows became more and more furrowed.

Jabami Rei standing aside was like a prisoner waiting for the judge's trial. She was at a loss but at the same time hoped that the trial would come soon to save her from the torment.

While Takeuchi Osamu was conducting the "ultimate judgment" on Jabami Rei, Chihaya Touo, who was far away in a villa in Chiyoda Ward, also opened the March issue of "Mass" out of curiosity.

Tonight, when Xiangchuan, the old driver who had followed him for decades, sent his daughter back with a bruised face, he was surprised.

After some questioning, he finally found out the whole story by forcing the other party to resign if he didn't tell the truth.

Uncle Kagawa originally thought that the master would be furious, but unexpectedly, after hearing all these things, he just said lightly, "My daughter is naughty, I'm sorry for hurting you," and said nothing else. Instead, he asked him for a March issue of "Mass".

After sending Kagawa away, Chihaya Touo began to read the book "The Masses".

Because of his busy work, he basically doesn't read these literary works which he thinks are meaningless.

What he said to his daughter Chihaya Ruri was also his true inner thoughts.

But recently, when socializing with some business partners and senior executives of conglomerates, Chihaya Touo found that everyone was increasingly fond of talking about literature, and that they were not just casually chatting, but were really discussing the literary world and literary works.

Among these people, the name that was repeatedly mentioned was "Teacher Hide Kitagawa" whom their daughter missed so much.

By now, his daughter has grown up, and he understands the principle that "it is better to loosen up than to block".

In that case, let's take this opportunity to learn more about what my daughter likes.

As he thought about this, he gradually immersed himself in the story of "The Call 1".
The next morning.

Chihaya Ruri yawned and walked out of the room.

April is the start of the university semester. As long as she can make it to that time, she can completely get rid of her father and family.

The new Ohamizu University implemented a semi-closed and compulsory accommodation model, and even she had to obey.

Many freshmen are calling for the abolition of this "bad habit" of the old society. She likes and supports this system very much.

Chihaya Ruri was just about to go to the restaurant to see if there was anything delicious to eat. When she passed by the living room, she suddenly discovered that her father, who always went out early and came back late, was sitting on the sofa for the first time!

"Father?" She was stunned.

"Liuli? You're up. Come here and sit next to me. I want to talk to you about something."

For some reason, Chihaya Ruri felt that her father was a little strange today.

His eye sockets were sunken and his expression was wooden, as if he had not slept all night.

This is extremely rare for my father who has always been self-disciplined! (End of this chapter)