The lonely Hikigaya Hachiman wants to become the king of mystery novels

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"Received, then the third question. Mr. Hachiman, the overall tone of the first four chapters of your "Confessions" is leaning towards despair and ruthlessness. Is this your own creative tone, or is it simply the emotional tone you gave to this book?"

"Of course it's just about this book. The theme of this book is Teacher Moriguchi's revenge, and the endless pain this revenge brings to students and families, and these pains are not simply caused by acts of revenge. The teacher's revenge is just a Introduction, the more essential reasons for the tragedy are naturally the things I want to discuss such as tutoring and teacher ethics. Therefore, no one will be saved in this book, and this will naturally be the tone."

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"Okay, we also look forward to you bringing some heart-warming works in the future. Next question..."

In fact, many of the questions and answers in today's interview were simulated in advance. Regarding the work "Confession", Hikigaya Hachiman has no secrets for Naho Imamura or the entire publishing house.If it hadn't been for the request from the publishing house leader, Hikigaya Hachiman would have directly instructed Imamura Naho to compile an interview transcript.

With the end of the interview, the last preparation work before the publication of "Confessions" also came to an end.Next Monday, the day after tomorrow, "All Readings" magazine will serialize Chapter 4 of "Confession" and launch a large-scale publicity campaign. Next Friday, the single volume of "Confession" will be available in all Literary Spring and Autumn Bookstores, and online sales channels will also be available. open.

However, before the eagerly awaited readers had waited for the release date of "Confession", a huge amount of money had already arrived in Hikigaya Hachiman's account.

After the first batch of 60 printed copies of "Confessions" were divided up among bookstores across the country, Hikigaya Hachiman's account received about 500 million yen in after-tax royalties, without any taxes paid directly through the account. It is as high as 300 million yen.The heartbroken Hikigaya Hachiman hopes that the tax department will issue him a "big taxpayer" sign to make up for his psychological trauma.

As mentioned before, the amount of royalties is not affected by the actual sales of the book, because the publisher has already used the author's copyright when printing is completed and supplied to bookstores across the country. If the book sales are not good, the publisher will still be charged. Swallow the bitter pill yourself.Therefore, the publishing house will conduct careful market research before the first printing, and this "Confession" has given Wenyi Chunqiu Publishing House great confidence that it has not had in many years.

Chapter 26 Hikigaya Hachiman received rave reviews

On January 22, the much-anticipated fourth volume of "All Magazine" was released. Long before the release, "sources" reported that "Confessions" would be published after Chapter 4 was serialized.The audience directly confirmed the authenticity of the news after getting the magazine and turning to the serialization section of "Confessions".

"On Friday, January 26, the single volume of "Confession" will be available for sale in bookstores across the country, and online sales channels will also be opened."

This is a notice-like slogan on the official website of the magazine, calm and calm.

"The single volume of the 15-year-old genius writer Mr. Hachiman's debut novel "Confession" will be released soon! It contains the fifth and sixth chapters that have not been serialized in the magazine. The final twist is coming!"

Although exaggerated, there is a lot of effective information. This is the slogan on the cover of the magazine and in the column.

"A representative of social mystery writers in the new era, a genius junior high school student writer Hachiman's painstaking work! Use books to arouse society's attention to the healthy growth of minors."

This kind of high-hat propaganda is very annoying to Hikigaya Hachiman, and it can easily ruin his popularity with passers-by.He thought that he should tell the publishing house to reduce this form of advertising slogans.

As for the fans on Twitter, they were even more happy. They finally no longer have to wait a month to see the [-]-word magazine. The single volume of "Confessions" is finally coming, and there are still two full chapters of unreleased content.People were excitedly discussing possible endings to the final two chapters on Twitter.

On Tuesday, the text version of the exclusive interview with Mr. Hachiman's "Confessions" was released.It has triggered a new wave of attention, mainly due to readers’ curiosity about Mr. Hachiman, a mysterious young writer.However, everyone who read the entire interview was a little disappointed, because except for a self-introduction, Hachiman spent the entire interview talking about the plot and creation of "Confession".

"Does this reporter know how to ask questions? Jing picks up these useless things and asks them here and there."

A Twitter user expressed his dissatisfaction without reservation and received so many voices of support.An overseas account also liked the comment.

But this interview is not completely useless. Mr. Hachiman mentioned that "the only twist in this book is in the two chapters five and six that are not serialized. They are absolutely wonderful." This has raised everyone's expectations for the book. .

Naturally, Yukinoshita Yukino also learned this information from the electronic version of the magazine. She immediately sent an email to her sister and asked to mail her a copy after it was released. Naturally, she was inevitably teased by Haruno before she finally agreed.

"It's such a waste of money to mail it across the ocean. How about this, Xiao Yukino, after I buy the physical book, let's start a voice chat and I read it to you."

After seeing this message from her sister, Yukino, who knew that she was in a weak position in asking for help in this matter, clenched her phone tightly and silently accepted the teasing of her sister with a bad personality.

Finally, Friday came.

Hikigaya Hachiman set out on his way to school as usual, but today he paid special attention to what was going on in the bookstore on the way.Normally, no one would visit the bookstore on a weekday morning.But today is an exception. There are many people visiting the two bookstores on the road. It seems that they are all social animals getting ready to go to work. On the way to work, they came to the bookstore by chance or by accident, in order to naturally buy "Confession" which is on sale for the first time today. ”, these people probably have to fish and read when they go to work today.

Just like when a popular game is released, there are always people who like to grab the concept of "first launch".The same is true for novels. Starting at around nine o'clock in the morning, people gradually began to post their copies of "Confession" on Twitter, injecting social attributes into the novel and even being on it for a long time. Daily trend.

Hikigaya Hachiman walked into a bookstore. As soon as he entered the door, he could see that the single volume of "Confessions" was placed prominently, and it was obvious to the naked eye that some of them had been sold.Although today is a working day on Friday, many people do not want to be spoiled by those who bought the book first, and are not willing to risk waiting until Saturday even if it is only one day late.

With the blessing of various reasons, the sales of "Confession" on Friday were already very gratifying, and it will undoubtedly explode in the two days of the weekend.What's more, Bunko books, the main sales area, have not yet been fully installed in stores. Due to their advantages of being cheap and portable, Bunko books must not only be sold in bookstores, but also in station stores and various convenience stores. Bunko books will be introduced for sale nationwide. The sales points have also been installed, and the sales of "Confession" have begun to embark on a real fast track, which will not take long.

After the craze for the first release ended, everyone started to actually read. In order to recall the previous plot and enhance the reading experience, most readers started reading from the beginning again.When the first wave of readers finished reading the twist on the last page, they were shocked and developed a fanatical desire for expression. They eagerly wanted others to know how shocking the book was at the end, but because of their own cultivation, they No spoilers.

"Okay, I finally punished this little brat who doesn't know how precious life is. It feels good to watch."

"Speaking of which, it would be too dark for Mr. Moriguchi to do this."

"Didn't Hachiman-sensei already say that Moriguchi-sensei is just a character used to promote the development of the story? In a sense, she is the only character in this book who implements a set of behaviors throughout."

"The ending is really shocking. Mr. Hachiman perfectly left the suspense until the last page, even the last few lines."

The Twitter timeline was flooded with discussions, but without exception they were all positive.

At this time, Yukinoshita Yukino, who was thousands of miles away, was very conflicted. She wanted to block all social media and wait for "Confession" to be mailed, but she couldn't bear the curiosity and continued to browse Twitter, and was praised by a lot of spoilers. It makes my heart itch.

"You actually have such magical power, Mr. Hachiman."

Yukinoshita Yukino fell on the bed and sighed.

As for her sister Yangno, she just returned home from school. She bought three copies of "Confessions". This was certainly not for the purpose of reading one, collecting one, and preaching.One of them went to the post office to apply for expedited international express delivery and sent it to my sister. The other two books were taken home to show to my parents and myself.

"What a cruel ending, Mr. Hachiman..."

After finishing reading, Yukinoshita Harano sighed. While she was surprised by the plot twist in the ending, she also lamented this kind of story where everyone fell into darkness and couldn't see any light.The teacher Hachiman I met that day was a young man as warm as the spring breeze. He wore glasses that added a touch of the writer's unique literary and artistic atmosphere. How could he write such ruthless words?Yukinoshita Yono closed the book and fell into thinking.

Chapter 27 Hikigaya Hachiman makes a lot of money

Time came to February. At this time, Hikigaya Hachiman had finished all the creation of "Malevolence". He first sent the content of the last chapter to Naho Imamura and Enko Machida. For the first time, neither of them had the same character this time. As before, I responded to his email immediately after reading it. Maybe I was so shocked by the conspiracy of the ending that I was speechless.Hikigaya Hachiman thought proudly.

After sorting out the complete manuscript, Hikigaya Hachiman sent it to the publisher, and it soon received unanimous praise, including Arisukawa's.Arisukawa even called directly and praised "Malicious" for creating an unprecedented new way of writing mystery novels and for being a masterpiece that can promote the development of social novels.

However, after writing "Malice", Hikigaya Hachiman had no time to relax at all, because in less than a month, he would have to go through the final exam of the second grade of junior high school.His grades in the literature class are still nothing to worry about. Not surprisingly, he will still be the liberal arts champion of the entire grade in this final exam, but he still needs to review mathematics.Since he had already boasted to Mr. Arisugawa that he was going to be admitted to Chiba University, he had to at least get admitted to the high school with the highest deviation in Chiba City, namely Sobu Municipal High School.

Speaking of Sobu High School, it is well known that the school implements a strict management system that is rare among Japanese schools. Mobile phones are absolutely contraband during class. Teachers are affected by factors such as performance and will strictly restrain students' class discipline. Various There are countless in-class tests and group quizzes.The most frightening thing about Sobu High School is its strict tutoring system. The tutoring lines for each major exam are set very high. If you want to avoid being left in school during summer vacation and spring break, you have to do this. I work harder on weekdays.

Thanks to strict management and high entry requirements, Sobu High School has become the only way for local students in Chiba to enter top universities.Almost all of the new local Chiba students recruited by Chiba University every year come from Sobu High School.

"Eh——? It turns out, Hikigaya-senpai, are you planning to take the Sobu High School exam? Although I believe you will definitely pass the exam, if you have any questions about the course, please feel free to come to me, senpai."

Yukinoshita Harano, who was sitting opposite Hikigaya Hachiman, said this. They were in a restaurant whose name Hikigaya Hachiman had never heard of before, and he had no way of knowing the price. Yukinoshita Harano said He just needs to enjoy the food.

After the New Year holiday, Yukinoshita Haruno had been asking Hikigaya if she had time to have a meal together so that she could formally express her gratitude.However, Hikigaya Hachiman was either busy writing books or reviewing during this time, and was never able to keep the appointment.Finally, at the end of February, the weekend before the exam, Hikigaya Hachiman chose to accept Yukinoshita Harano's invitation after thinking that his review could no longer improve.

"Is that okay? Thank you very much, Yukinoshita-senpai. After I was admitted to Sobu High School, my senpai has already gone to college. It's a pity that I can't go to a high school."

Hikigaya Hachiman thought this sentence was just polite, but the other party seemed to hear some non-existent voiceover and became a little embarrassed.

"Hikigaya-senpai, if you exude charm without realizing it, there must be no shortage of female classmates in school to like you."

Yukinoshita Harano quickly changed the topic in order not to let the other party see her embarrassment.

"Stop kidding me, senior, I barely socialized at school, and I'm not dressed like this now. Do you want to see me take off my glasses?"

As he spoke, Hikigaya Hachiman took off his glasses, revealing his dead fish eyes.

"Oh...I really didn't expect this, junior, it turns out that a pair of glasses can bring such a big change to you."

On the contrary, Yukinoshita Harano is more interested in this junior student. If Teacher Hachiman doesn't wear glasses, it will indeed become difficult for people to get close to him.She suddenly thought that this must be the reason why she was looking for Teacher Hachiman but could not find him.She didn't take into account that Mr. Hachiman was actually a complete transparent person in the school.

"Speaking of senior, how is your sister doing lately?"

Hikigaya Hachiman remembered the Yukinoshita family's youngest daughter who had a conversation with her on the balcony, and asked casually.

"Yukino? She has gone back to school in the United States a long time ago. She has been studying there throughout the junior high school period, and you can't usually see her. Thanks to you, our family has been quite happy this New Year, and we even went together on New Year's Day. There are really many people visiting Chiba Shrine this year.”

Yangno quickly brought up the topic of her sister.

After their steaks were brought to the table, the meal began.Since both of them are underage, they can only drink juice, which Yukinoshita Yono deeply regrets.

"I'm very happy today, senpai, Hikigaya-san. If there is a chance in the future, I hope I can come out and chat with you again."

"If you want to chat, you can contact us directly via email, senior."

Hikigaya Hachiman can't tell the other person that he wants to write a book, don't always make appointments with him, he won't be free.

"Chatting via email is not as interesting as meeting in person, so that's it for now, bye, junior."

Yukinoshita Harano said goodbye to Hachiman.She was not in a hurry to reveal Hikigaya Hachiman's identity, but it seemed that she had some bad intentions.She needs a suitable occasion to "encounter" Hikigaya Hachiman, who has to appear as "Teacher Hachiman", in order to achieve the best effect.

"Confession" will soon be on sale for a month, according to statistics from bookstores and warehouses in various places.In the first month, the sales volume was 43 copies of the single volume and 50 copies of the library volume, totaling about 50 copies.This sales volume caused Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House to announce the start of additional printing with a wave of its hand. The number of additional printings is still [-] copies of the single volume and [-] copies of the library volume. However, the period when such popular books sell most crazily is often right after they are released. In the near future, these additional copies will be sold out slowly, and it may take about the first half of a year to sell out.

Hikigaya Hachiman was naturally very happy to learn that the printing was about to be completed, which meant that another income would arrive in his account.

“Isn’t this money a little too easy to come by?”

Hikigaya Hachiman was a little dizzy. He seemed to understand the thoughts of those prolific writers in his previous life.The masterpiece you wrote with ten years of hard work will sell well, but on average you will find that your royalties are far less than those of other writers who write one book a year.Moreover, the more you write, the greater your guaranteed income will be in the future. When the craze for a book's release has passed, although sales will drop sharply, there will always be people who keep buying and printing more copies. Quantity wins.

As for the royalty rate for the second printing, it is no longer the 13.00% for the first issuance.According to the unspoken rules of the industry, when a book sells more than 50 copies, the royalty rate will increase to around 20.00%. Although this has never been reflected in the contract, it has always been done.

Chapter 28 Hikigaya Hachiman’s final exam

In mid-March, middle schools across Japan began to conduct final exams.This will be a very important exam for the students of Chiba Municipal Harumori Junior High School where Hikigaya Hachiman is located, because after the school is promoted, classes will be reassigned based on the final exam results, except for those who have already decided to directly accept careers after graduation. Except for students in technical education, most students and parents still hope to study in classes as early as possible in the new school year.

For Hikigaya Hachiman, being promoted to Class A in the last year of junior high school is just the beginning. In the end, only about one-third of the students in Class A will be able to enter Sobu High School, but Hachiman believes that this is not difficult. .

Hikigaya Hachiman's reputation in his class has undergone earth-shaking changes in the past six months. Thanks to the drastic change in personal image, improvement in academic performance, and increasingly confident mental outlook, the students began to re-recognize this person who had never known him before. An autistic boy who communicates with others.Of course, he still doesn't communicate with others very much now, but people no longer speculate about him with malicious thoughts.

On the morning of the exam day, Kaori Orimoto, who had not communicated with Hikigaya Hachiman for a long time, came to Hikigaya's side.

"Good morning, Hikigaya-san. How are you preparing for the exam?"

Orimoto still had that bright and generous voice, and Hikigaya even felt a little nostalgic for it.

"Good morning, Orimoto-san. Just be so-so, as long as you can perform normally."

"Eh——? In the last stage test, Hikigaya-san, you were already in the top ten of the division. Isn't this what you mean by normal performance?"

Orimoto Kaori also turned into the same dead fish eyes as Hikigaya, as if she was a little speechless by the other party's pretentious behavior.

"Well, no matter what, after entering the third year of middle school, Hikigaya-san will go to Class A, and we won't be in the same class by then."

Orimoto Kaori continued, as if he was still a little reluctant to give up.

"Orimoto-san, I think you are still very smart, if you could spend more time studying."

"Wow, this is a standard speech from a good student, Hikigaya-kun."

Orimoto Kaori stuck out her tongue, waved goodbye to Hikigaya Hachiman and walked towards the exam class.

"Unknowingly, it has been almost a year since I came here. I have indeed changed a lot..."

Hikigaya Hachiman sighed as time flew by and entered the examination room.

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The exams in junior high school ended quickly, and the test papers were marked equally quickly.Two days before spring break begins, the final exam rankings for each division are posted on the corresponding bulletin board.Hikigaya Hachiman huddled with a group of people, looking for his name.

"Sixth... As expected, my math score is still low."

He was ranked sixth in the whole grade. Although he could not see the results in any single subject, as expected, his liberal arts scores were still the first in the grade. Others could catch up or overtake him only by relying on math to score points like crazy.After returning to the class, as the new and last number one in the class, Hachiman received strong praise from the class teacher. This class has never had a student ranked so high in grade.

After returning home, Hikigaya and his wife held a celebration party for him and Komachi (mainly Komachi) to enter college at their home.

Hikigaya Komachi will officially become a junior high school student after the spring break, and the school he will enter will naturally be the same Harumori Junior High School as Hachiman.Hachiman, who thought he could finally go to school with Komachi, was not happy for a while when he learned the sad news that starting from the next semester, in order to reduce traffic congestion near the school, the third grade of junior high school will have staggered school times with the first and second grade of junior high school.I couldn't help but put my head in my hands and start escaping from reality.

"Don't be sad, brother, at least you can see me in school, right?"

Komachi comforted Hachiman while gently stroking his head.

After Hikigaya Hachiman made a lot of money, his family's life did not change much.In addition to the food that was often put on the table that I couldn't afford before, it was still time to go to work and go to school. The account password of the bank card was known to both parents, Hachiman, but the money in it just lay there quietly. Interest accrues there.Thanks to the relatively stable performance of the Japanese yen over the years, Hachiman has no plans to invest.

"But you still have to buy a house..."

Hikigaya Hachiman plans to move out after entering high school. Junior high school is nearby, so commuting to and from school does not take much time.But after he entered Sobu High School, he couldn't ignore the time on the road. He didn't want to waste two and a half hours every day on the way to and from school.In fact, he has long been interested in an apartment building very close to Sobu High, but now only the top floor is left, so he is still hesitant.

Municipal Sobu Takasen is located in Mihama Ward, Hayashi City, next to the seaside.Housing prices nearby are neither high nor low, about 35 yen (8 yuan) per square meter.The apartment building Hikigaya is interested in is one kilometer away from Sobu High. The apartment has an area of ​​[-] square meters. The only two remaining apartments are located on the [-]th floor. Apart from being a bit high, Hikigaya Hachiman can't fault it. .

"Forget it, let's think about it during the summer vacation."

The unit price of these apartments is as high as 3000 to [-] million yuan, and Bikigaya is not worried that the remaining two units will be sold quickly.

"You are in the sixth grade? You are very good, Hikigaya-senpai. It seems that you can easily pass the Sobu High School without my help, senpai."

Yukinoshita Harano was on the phone with Hikigaya Hachiman. She knew that Hikigaya's exam was over, so she came to ask about the results.In her understanding, Hikigaya would be unable to do what he wanted both to write a novel and to take time to prepare for exams.However, she discovered that the other party's academic performance was also very good, and her painstaking plan to help Teacher Hachiman with tutoring went bankrupt.

"It's okay, senior. I think my grades can still be improved. My liberal arts scores are very good, but math is my weakness. Maybe I still need some help from you, senior."

"Hmm, if you need anything, you can always ask me, senior. By the way, Hikigaya-senpai, there is a very popular novel recently, have you read it?"

Yukinoshita Yangno suddenly started to tease her again.

"Huh? I haven't studied much recently. Senior sister, you probably haven't heard of it. Please tell me your name."

Hikigaya does not read much. He has been writing books recently and has no time to read, but he can probably guess what Yukinoshita-senpai, who is a fan of Mr. Hachiman, will say.

"The name is "Confession". You should see it prominently in any bookstore you go to."

"..."Confession"? Hahahaha, it sounds like a sweet love novel. Girls like you, seniors, should especially love reading it."

Hikigaya Hachiman could only pretend to be dumbfounded, but there was no voice from his senior sister on the other end of the phone.

Yukinoshita Yono was covering her mouth at this time, fearing that she would laugh out loud and even her body would tremble.