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

After the meal, Kasumigaoka Shiu and Hikigaya Hachiman exchanged emails and phone numbers naturally.Out of politeness, Kasumigaoka also made an exchange with Yukinoshita Harano, who looked very happy.The four of them said goodbye at the door of the restaurant and went back.

"Junior, I didn't expect that you are also a layman."

On their way back, Yukinoshita Yono suddenly got angry and said something to Hachiman without any end.

"???"

Hikigaya Hachiman was naturally confused, but he was not in a hurry to refute, but was prepared to listen to Haruno's next words.

"Hmph, what's wrong, junior, don't you know what I'm talking about? Or are you just pretending to be confused? Whether it was when we were queuing or just eating, your eyes glanced at that teacher Xia Shizi from time to time. Bar."

Yukinoshita Harano has never had such low-level emotions as jealousy. She is just a little annoyed that her breast development is being compared to that of a girl two years younger than her.Wait a minute, why does this emotion sound a little lower?

"Uh...Senior sister, I thought you wanted to say something. Let me say it first. I did glance at it, but I didn't have any hesitant thoughts. Simply because, well, it was really too big. I can't control it. Can’t stop looking at myself.”

Hikigaya Hachiman said righteously, but all he got was Yukinoshita Harano's heartless eye roll.

"Forget it, if I accuse you for this kind of thing, it would make me look a little less confident."

Yangono thought of her dear sister Yukinoshita Yukino. Little Yukino was 16 years old this year, and the period of rapid physical growth had passed.However, her body is still flat. From this aspect, her figure has been finalized.

"Senior sister, we still have a long time to go back. Do you want me to tell you a new story from "The Disintegration of Causes"?"

Hikigaya Hachiman rudely diverted his attention, thinking that the other party must not be able to resist the attraction of the new story.

"No - no! You'd better send it to me via email later. I'm afraid that after listening to what you have to say, my hand will unconsciously strike at you, junior."

Yukinoshita Harano smiled and measured her delicate palms.Hikigaya Hachiman chose to remain silent. He knew that children from traditional families like Haruno would learn some martial arts from an early age, and this blow would not be uncomfortable anyway.

Hachiman and Harano chatted every now and then during the rest of the journey until they parted ways in front of Yukinoshita's house.

Sometimes good friends are like this. We don't always have endless things to say, and aimless chatting is also an important part of getting along.

Hikigaya Hachiman's first book signing trip has ended successfully here.

After returning home, Hikigaya Hachiman threw himself on the sofa in the living room, feeling extremely lazy.Just at this time, Komachi walked out of his room and went downstairs to see his literary brother trapped in the sofa.

"What's wrong, brother? You've been out on a date for a long time, are you so tired?"

Komachi poked Hikigaya Hachiman's ancestral dull hair and said playfully.

"What's a 'date'? Komachi, don't let it happen."

Hikigaya Hachiman's face was buried in the sofa, and his voice was very dull when he spoke.

"Speaking of which, brother. Would you like Komachi to help you relieve your fatigue?"

Upon hearing these words, Hikigaya Hachiman immediately stopped feeling sleepy.

"Okay, okay, Komachi, how can you help me relieve my pain? If you don't have any ideas, my brother has a good method here. It's just that no one can help me."

"What is the solution? Brother, please tell me. Komachi will try his best."

Hikigaya Komachi said innocently.

About half an hour later, the Hikigaya couple returned home and saw their son, Hikigaya Hachiman, lying on the floor of the living room, humming comfortably.And their precious daughter, Komachi, was stepping on Hachiman's back with her bare feet.

Hikigaya Hachiman returned to the room, holding his butt. He didn't dare to sit down, so he had to lie down on his bed again.At this time, Naho Imamura called.

"Teacher Hachiman! I have two pieces of news here. One is good news and the other is great news. Which one do you want to hear first?"

Imamura's voice is full of energy, as if he is ten years younger.

"Is there any bad news? Too much good news makes it feel unreal."

Hikigaya Hachiman said gloomily. In fact, the hot pain from his butt made him feel real all the time.

"Then let me tell you in order. The first good news, Mr. Hachiman, the sales volume of your "Confessions" library has officially exceeded 120 million copies today! You have created the fastest sales record of the library in Japan's history. . Including single volumes, Confession has sold nearly 140 million copies, and it is certain that it will exceed 150 million this year."

Naho Imamura said excitedly.This really did not surprise Hikigaya Hachiman. It seems that "Confession" will break the sales record of Japanese novels next year.

"This is indeed good news. In this way, the film and television adaptation rights of "Confession" will be more valuable."

Hikigaya Hachiman said this, the better "Confession" sells, the more confidence he will have in negotiating.

"Yes, Mr. Hachiman, I think so too. In addition, the second good news is that according to reliable information, your "Malevolence" will be announced as a candidate for the next Naoki Award in December this year. oh!"

This is something Hikigaya Hachiman did not expect. A writer who debuted a little more than a year ago and is only 16 years old, can his works be nominated for the highest prize in Japanese literature?

"Editor Imamura, this really surprised me."

"I'm surprised too, Mr. Hachiman. But as you know, it's very difficult to win this award for mystery novels, so being a candidate is already very impressive."

It’s okay to be happy, but don’t have expectations. This is what editor Imamura meant.

"Well, I understand Editor Imamura, if I want to win the Naoki Award, I have to write for at least another 20 years."

Hikigaya Hachiman said mockingly.

"Twenty years is too exaggerated. The youngest winner of the Naoki Award is only 20 years old. I believe you, Mr. Hachiman, will win the award earlier than him."

"For your good advice, if I win the award, I will definitely thank you at the award ceremony, Editor Imamura."

"Just saying this to you, I will continue to work hard, Mr. Hachiman."

Naho Imamura's motivation to work overtime has been boosted again.

Chapter 62 Hikigaya Hachiman’s new writing method (fifth update completed)

The temperature in Chiba is getting cooler day by day, and Hikigaya Hachiman also puts on his signature white windbreaker.

Chiba Municipal Sobu High School held a relatively important event at the beginning of this winter, which was the student council president election.

For nearly two years after Yukinoshita Harano entered the Sobu High School Student Union, she has been maintaining various tasks of the student union with her personal authority. She has been very successful in doing so, treating the student union members purely as her tools. exist as humans.

But when Yangno enters her third year of high school, especially after the summer vacation, she needs to put aside her work in the student union to prepare for the college entrance examination.Even if she thought she could do both, the school wouldn't allow it

Due to Yukinoshita Yono's abnormal control over the student union in the past two years, the other junior members are basically in a state of "we don't recognize anyone except President Yukinoshita."

Everyone can live in harmony on weekdays and work together to make President Yukinoshita happy.This resulted in the fact that no one among the remaining junior students could convince the others. As long as Yukinoshita Yono left, the student union would undoubtedly become a mess.

"You are so good...Senior. You remind me of a former leader of a country that no longer exists."

This was the comment made by Harano's junior classmate, Hikigaya Hachiman, after listening to Harano talk about her troubles.

"In the final analysis, the position of the student council president of the school has never been filled by one person like you, senior sister, relying on ability and authority. I would even say that he can be a vase, as long as he has affinity and makes people It’s okay if it’s not easy to refuse. After all, Sobu High School is a public school, so the student council doesn’t need to worry about most things.”

Hikigaya Hachiman continued.In fact, Hachiman doesn't care about boring things like campus student politics, and he avoids various expansion activities organized by the school.These activities were a complete waste of time for him, both before he started writing and after he started writing.

Regarding Hikigaya Hachiman's character, Yukinoshita Haruno also sharply commented on him, saying that it was impossible to make friends with such a person.To this, Hikigaya Hachiman originally wanted to respond by saying, "Isn't it enough for me to have you?", but this sentence was too conflicting with his own character, so he swallowed it back.

"You're saying that the candidate for the student council president only needs to be someone who is approachable enough, and the requirements for his own abilities are not very good, right?"

Yang Nai was thoughtful under the snow.There is indeed one such student among her descendants, her name is Cheng Huixuan, she has a gentle temperament and is kind to others.He is the only member of the student council who can maintain good relations with other members even without Harano's instructions.Her only shortcomings are her lack of assertiveness and lack of organizational skills, but these two shortcomings were enough to make the previous Yukinoshita Harano not consider her directly.

Moreover, if it is the city tour as the new president, even if others are dissatisfied, the conflict will not be brought to the table. At least it will be ensured that the activities assigned by the school to the student union can be carried out normally.As for opinions and organizational skills, they are really not that important. Any activities organized by Yukinoshita Yono are strictly based on full marks. The city tour only needs to achieve sixty points.

Finally, Jōrou is Haruno's absolute crush. The two have a good personal relationship, and Yono has a good impression of this junior who always exudes the so-called "Kaoru energy."If that doesn't work, just let her contact him if she has any difficulties. After all, if you want to promote someone to the position of president, you can't ignore the follow-up.

"I think what you said makes sense, Hikigaya-senpai. Although you said you are not interested in it, you may have figured out the secrets."

Yukinoshita Harano said something like this that left Hikigaya Hachiman a little confused, and the call between the two ended.

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Back to Hikigaya Hachiman, with the sales of "Confession" reaching new levels step by step, the film and television companies are almost dying of anxiety.Many companies have even found people to adapt the movie script of "Confession" in order to start work as soon as they confirm that they can win the copyright.

However, at this time, both Bungei Shunqiu and Hikigaya Hachiman were completely refusing to see anyone.The publishing house has just reprinted "Confession" for the third time, and the book cover has added the heavyweight slogan "Japan Bunko Book Sales Record", so there is no rush to adapt it into a film and television version.

Hikigaya Hachiman is determined to discuss the adaptation issue with those companies after the sales of "Confession" exceed 200 million copies.

Seeing that there was no room for negotiation, most of these companies chose to give up directly. A small number found another way and found Hikigaya Hachiman through the publishing house, hoping that Mr. Hachiman could directly write scripts for them.

It stands to reason that the novels created by writers and the scripts used in making movies, even though the plots are not much different, the expression methods are completely different, so the profession of screenwriter exists.So why would a company ask a "layman" like Hikigaya Hachiman to write a script for them?

This is because Hachiman used a huge amount of space in the December issue of the "All Readings" magazine (the magazine was thicker for him) to publish "The Causes of Disintegration" in the form of a script. "Answer" article.

Not only does this article have a very large number of words and many characters, it is also written entirely in the form of a formal script. Hachiman not only divided the entire story into eight acts, but also wrote the credits at the beginning of each act.

When readers first read the beginning, they thought Mr. Hachiman was quite humorous, so they laughed and continued reading. As they read, they realized something was wrong.

"Holy shit, did Hachiman-sensei really write a script!?"

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"Teacher Hachiman, please accept my bow. Apart from showing your face, is there anything else you don't know how to do?"

Netizens started discussing it enthusiastically just after reading it for a while.

"Disintegration of Analogy" is a stage play script, which explains the stage settings, props, lighting and other details. The tone and movements of each character when speaking are also written in great detail, so that the crew can directly use it to perform Rehearsal level.

As for the plot, although there are too many names, it can easily cause confusion.However, the overall writing style is very tongue-in-cheek, with a strong sense of colloquialism and constant jokes, and the reading experience is excellent.This also brings readers' understanding of Mr. Hachiman's creative style to a higher level.

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Shortly after "Disintegration of Care" was published, many university and even high school drama clubs announced that they would begin preparations and rehearsals for the stage play, with the aim of performing it at a school celebration next year.

"Are the many dirty jokes in this article really suitable for high school students to perform on stage..."

Hikigaya Hachiman thought a little worriedly that if the performance had a bad impact later, he might be targeted by the PTA.It's a bit magical when you think about minors being targeted by PTA.

Chapter 63 Hikigaya Hachiman’s script selection

Since he showed his excellent script writing ability in "The Disintegration of Care", Hikigaya Hachiman was naturally targeted by many companies.Since I can’t buy the rights to adapt “Confession”, I can just ask Mr. Hachiman to write a new one.

After hearing about the ideas of these companies, Hikigaya Hachiman was indeed a little moved.Excellent mystery novels are not necessarily suitable for TV or the big screen, especially those grand new-character mysteries.

For example, "The Clock Museum Incident", which Hikigaya Hachiman has been creating for nearly half a year, has been popular for more than 20 years in its previous life, but there has never been any film and television adaptation.Another example is the large number of narrative conspiracy works. The form of narrative itself can only play its greatest role on the carrier of text, and the adaptation effect will become very poor.

In today's industry, there are very few mystery works with excellent plots and suitable for film and television.This also makes Hikigaya Hachiman feel that there is much to do.

Hikigaya Hachiman believes that as a mystery work that is put on TV or the big screen, it is best to make it into a series and an IP.Let the crime-solving character in the play become a popular character that the audience wants to watch. Even if the quality of the case declines in the end, the charm of the character can still attract a large number of viewers.

The representative work of this kind in the previous life was the best-selling "Detective Galileo" series by Keigo Higashino.The TV series and movies of the same name adapted from this series of works have a very stable fan base, and the screen CPs composed of Masaharu Fukuyama and Kaoru Utsumi have also become the sentiments of many people.

However, Hikigaya Hachiman is eyeing another famous IP - the "Furuhata Rensaburo" series.The reputation of this series is much higher than that of the "Detective Galileo" series, and it also has good ratings.The most important thing is that the script of this work is easier to write, and the crime-solving part is all one-on-one questioning between Furahata and the prisoner.

In addition, under the performance of Tamura Masakazu, the previous life of Rensaburo Furahata has undoubtedly become one of the most charming police detective images in film and television dramas.If you can find an actor of equal caliber in this world, success is inevitable.

However, Hikigaya Hachiman only listed this work as one of his future plans.He must go back and do it, but not now. The top priority is to complete "The Clock Museum Incident" properly.

Therefore, Hikigaya Hachiman did not refuse or promise anything to the film and television companies who came to ask for manuscripts. He just told them that he did have this intention, but he had no time to create now.

Hikigaya Hachiman now has to prepare for the entrance examination, so naturally he has no time to create more.And just like the copyright fee for "Confession", the better Hikihachiman's books sell, the greater his reputation will be, and it will naturally cost more to find him to write a script.

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After everyone was surprised by the script writing form of "Disintegration of Anaphora", they began to focus on its plot.Compared with other short stories, this story is much larger in scale. There are eight victims alone, and each victim also corresponds to at least several relatives and friends.

This directly resulted in the number of characters appearing in "Disintegration Care" reaching an outrageous level.When Hikigaya Hachiman was writing, he couldn't make up so many names, so he had to use a random name generator. As a result, he could hardly distinguish the characters.

The author's creative process is quite painful, and the reader's reading process is very painful.Fortunately, fans of mystery novels generally have strong reading concentration, and most of them are willing to take the trouble to read the previous plots.What's more, he will hold a pen and notebook while reading and taking notes, making people think that he is studying seriously.

Since everyone is studying this serial carefully, the account homepages, forums, and discussion threads that have already begun to discuss the plot enthusiastically in the past are all quiet and a bit strange.

At this time, the Mystery Literature Department of Chiba University no longer had the lively discussion atmosphere of the past. Instead, everyone had a copy of the "All Readings" magazine and studied it as if they were reading literature.

The freshman girl who had become the backbone of the Literature Department was frowning at this moment.

This story is actually very simple to summarize: the police discovered four corpses within four days, all of which had their heads chopped off. However, their heads were not discarded, but were packed and placed next to the body of the next victim. When a new body is found, the head of the previous one is also found, and so on.

"Maybe it's a trick from "Astrology Killing Magic", which creates the illusion of death by changing the body parts of the body."

This thought flashed through the schoolgirl's mind. She would not jump to conclusions about any work, especially Mr. Hachiman's.

The story continues: Next, on the fifth day, three victims appeared at the same time. Based on the order of the heads placed next to the bodies, they were identified as the fifth, sixth, and seventh deceased respectively.

Regarding the investigation of this case, the seven deceased persons did not know each other at all, and it was difficult to find any contact among relatives and friends. Only the boyfriend of the first deceased person on the fifth day was a private detective who ran through the clues of multiple deceased persons.But the private detective was soon found dead by the river with his body intact and the head of deceased No. 7 beside him. It seemed that the murderer had just been punished.

"I have no clue. In "Astrology", the detective identified the faked death routine through the unequal number of corpses and heads. In this article, the number of corpses and heads is exactly the same, so faked death is not established. Then it can only be... .”

During the decryption process, the core trick of the case was also revealed, which was to mislead the police into determining the order in which the deceased was killed by placing the head of a deceased person next to a body.

"I see... If it weren't for the way of placing the head of a deceased person next to the deceased, the police would have carefully checked the time of each person's death. If so, they would have been involved."

"But in this way, the murderer made the police subconsciously determine the order of death according to the order instructed by the murderer. This made the murderer the fifth victim instead of the seventh victim in the real situation, thus directly getting rid of Suspicion."

A junior student in the mystery literature department recorded these contents in her notebook. She also has the idea of ​​​​creating mystery literature, but she understands that she still needs to learn a lot.

"The motivation for this serialization is still very nonsense. Just because I couldn't fulfill my wish to be on TV, I found a group of people whose families would appear on TV to kill them, and even killed myself to frame the blame. It doesn’t matter if everyone else is dead.”

Discussions on Twitter gradually increased.