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

Chapter 114 Won another grand prize?

As a writer of mystery novels, Hikigaya Hachiman has only published three novels, but the honors he has received exceed almost 90.00% of his peers.

First of all, just one Japan Mystery Writers Association Award is an elusive dream for countless mystery novelists, but Hachiman won it less than a year after his debut.

In addition, at the end of last year, Hikigaya Hachiman unprecedentedly ranked No. 1 on the three year-end lists of "This mystery novel is so awesome!", "Shukan Bunshun Annual Mystery Novel Ranking" and "Honya Grand Prize".

However, even though Hikigaya Hachiman has received so many honors in a short period of time, there are still some award groups who are unwilling to be left alone, as if awarding Hikigaya Hachiman has become a task.

"Basic reasoning award?"

Hikigaya Hachiman was reading an important email that his assistant had screened out for him. The text of the email was signed "Original Mystery Writers Association".Hikigaya Hachiman heard Arisugawa introduce this association before. Compared with other writers associations in Japan, this is a relatively short-established association, and the "Honkartori Prize" hosted by them is also a relatively young literary award. .

However, the short time does not mean that there is no gold content.In fact, through its excellent selection vision, the Honkaku Mystery Awards has developed into a mystery award second only to the Edogawa Ranpo Award and the Mystery Writers Association Award in only more than ten years.

Hikigaya Hachiman received an email from the Mystery Writers Association, which informed him that he had won this year's Mystery Grand Prize and invited him to attend the award ceremony in early June.

"I understand all the principles, but why "Malevolence"? The novel "Malevolence" is a pure social reasoning, which has nothing to do with the original character."

Hikigaya felt a little confused, so he called Mr. Arisugawa to ask.

"Haha, Hikigaya-kun, you are too dogmatic."

Arisukawa couldn't help laughing when he heard that Hikigaya came to him for confirmation for this reason.

"Teacher Arisukawa, I'm still very curious. "The Causes of Disintegration" is supposed to be pure true reasoning. Why would they choose to be malicious?"

"To put it bluntly, Hikigaya-kun. This Identity Mystery Award is just a name. It doesn't really mean that it only awards awards to Identity novels. In that case, the popularity will not increase at all. You can look through the previous award-winning works every year , social reasoning often wins awards.”

Arisukawa explained.

"Is that so...I understand, thank you for your answer, Mr. Arisukawa."

"Hikigaya-kun, to be honest, the current reasoning world is a bit strange. Logically speaking, they shouldn't be too concentrated on awarding heavyweight awards to you, but that's what happened. There is no doubt that the current reasoning world If they want to create a god, they urgently need a new mystery writer who can lead the times, and now only you, Hikigaya-kun, can be the candidate."

"Mr. Arisukawa, if you put it this way, I'm really under a lot of pressure."

"This is a good thing, Hikigaya-kun, you live in sorrow and die in happiness. When everyone wants to push you to this throne, you can't refuse. All you can do is write better works. To respond to their expectations, your current achievements have reached an age where others can ignore you."

Arisugawa decided to make Hikigaya Hachiman realize this: although he is only 16 years old, the industry will no longer treat him as a child or teenager, and he will have to shoulder the high expectations of the entire mystery literature industry.

The next day, the Mystery Writers Association announced the winners of the latest Mystery Awards on its official website.Among them, the most important novel category was won by "Malice".

As soon as this news was sent out, Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House quickly organized an online publicity offensive, which was also part of the momentum building for the "Clock Museum Incident" in July.

Hikigaya Hachiman himself asked his assistant editor to send out a very formal tweet, with cliches to the effect that he did not expect to win the award, thanked the association, and would work harder in the future.

"Teacher Hachiman is really amazing. In less than two years since his debut, he has won two heavyweight reasoning awards. This is the rhythm of becoming a god."

Not surprisingly, readers started a heated discussion on the Internet. They all had a sacred feeling of witnessing history.

"These awards are too impatient. "The Clock Museum Incident" has not been published yet. There will be no other awards left for it."

Some netizens lamented that literary awards are basically not awarded to a certain author repeatedly.

"Next step, Mr. Hachiman might be able to win some awards other than the Mystery Literature Award. Don't forget, Mr. Hachiman was nominated for the last Naoki Award."

"Winning the Naoki Award for mystery novels or something... still feels a bit far away."

"Believe in Mr. Hachiman, he is a writer who can create miracles."

Netizens are also full of confidence in Hikigaya Hachiman. In their eyes, Hachiman’s career as a writer is the process of turning impossible things into reality.

"As for the novel "Malevolence" itself, there is actually not much room for sales improvement. The publisher's previous expectation for the book was that by July this year, which is one year after publication, a total of 90 copies will be sold. Just register."

Naho Imamura revealed to Hikigaya Hachiman on the phone.

"90, isn't this a bit low..."

Hikigaya Hachiman said with some dissatisfaction that "Confession" sold 150 million copies in a year.

Of course, the sales volume this year seems to be a bit low compared to Hikigaya Hachiman himself. In fact, it has crushed most of his fellow writers.

"Teacher Hachiman, please don't say such things when you are outside. People will be very jealous if they hear you."

Imamura Naho was shocked by Hikigaya Hachiman's Versailles and quickly reminded her.

"Don't worry, Editor Imamura, I am quite confident in my emotional intelligence. By the way, the publishing house said that I would like to mention the deputy editorship to you. How is it going?"

"Oh, that's the thing. They just gave me a symbolic salary increase. It's probably too early for me to get the position of deputy editor. It's just the routine of capitalists."

Naho Imamura sneered and said, of course, she didn't have high expectations for this matter.

"Is that so... But I heard from Editor Machida that after she assisted Kasumi Shiko in completing "Love Metronome", she would be promoted to deputy editor immediately, and the relevant procedures have been prepared."

"Don't compare a literary magazine with a long history like ours with a light novel library like that woman's! Mr. Hachiman, I don't even want to be a deputy editor like that!"

There was a certain amount of sincerity in Imamura Naho's voice, and a certain amount of defence-breaking.

Chapter 115 The big group is coming

"You're totally asking for trouble, Hikigaya-san."

"I...just...don't...believe it!"

Hikigaya Hachiman used all his strength to finish the last sit-up that his body could bear, and then lay back down, breathing heavily.

Yukinoshita Yukino released her hands holding Hikigaya's ankles, and looked at Hachiman who was lying on the ground in pain with some amusement and some distress.

Today's physical test included a 1-minute sit-up session. After Hikigaya Hachiman learned that his score was almost doubled by Yukinoshita Yukino, he had a mental problem and insisted on trying again after returning home. The result Naturally, he was killed again.

"Your abdomen will definitely be very painful tomorrow. If it's too uncomfortable then, you can stop your morning run for a day. Don't force yourself too much."

Yukinoshita Yukino gently stroked Hikigaya's abdomen, trying to help him relieve the pain a little.

"Uh, don't look down on people... everything will be business as usual tomorrow."

Hikigaya Hachiman said harshly.

"Tsk, I'm really worried about your physical condition, Hikigaya-kun. Too much is never enough. You must understand this."

"I'm not trying to be brave. I know my own body very well... Please pull me up, Yukinoshita-san, I can't get up."

Hikigaya Hachiman, who was lying on the ground, stretched out his hands and said as if he had given up thinking.

Fortunately, it started to rain early the next morning, so the morning run plan had to be cancelled.

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"In short, the student union is such a process. We will vote to decide the class representatives and issues at the class meeting three days later, that is on Friday. In the days before the class meeting, the class committee members will be responsible for mobilization and issues statistics."

At the class meeting on Monday morning, Hiratsuka Shizuka arranged matters related to the student general meeting to be held next week.

The so-called Student Union is attended by the heads of various departments of the Student Union and student representatives of each class. The members of the Student Union must report to the representatives on their work progress and future plans; the student representatives must raise questions and collect information from the class. Proposal presentation is essentially an activity to promote student autonomy.

However, in public high schools like Sobu High School, which has strict academic standards, the student union does not have much power. This also means that the school's student union cannot actually solve many practical problems.However, after all, this work is one of the key points of the school assessment by the superiors, so every year Sowu High School will seriously prepare this useless student association.

At three o'clock in the afternoon that day, Hikigaya Hachiman did not leave the classroom immediately and go to the service department. Instead, he stayed and started explaining exercises to some classmates. This was also part of the class's mutual aid work.

Hikigaya Hachiman, as the well-known No. 1 in the class entrance exam, was naturally asked by the class committee to tutor his classmates.Although he felt that this was a waste of time, he did not refuse. After all, if it were not for Teacher Hiratsuka's protection, he himself would be the class committee member.

After the after-school tutoring, Hikigaya Hachiman left the classroom amidst a chorus of thanks.

"By the way, Hikigaya-san may seem a bit taciturn on weekdays, but he is still a very reliable classmate."

After confirming that Hikigaya had completely left, the female classmates he had just tutored began to discuss.

"Don't you know? Hikigaya-san and Yukinoshita-san from the international education class seem to have a very good relationship. They go to school together every day."

"Yukoshita-san? Is it Yukinoshita Yukino? Isn't she the student representative of our class when the school starts?"

"Is there such a thing? No wonder Hikigaya-san is so taciturn every day. It turns out that he is already famous and has a master. And we go to school together every day. It sounds like he doesn't want to hide it at all."

"Hey, hey, I'm talking about you guys. Just after receiving tutoring from Hikigaya-san, you turn around and start gossiping about others. Isn't that not good?"

After a female class committee member listened happily, she decided to come out and perform her duties as a class committee member.

"What's the matter? We didn't say anything bad about Hikigaya. Besides, his relationship with Yukinoshita-san isn't exactly a secret."

"No matter what, your behavior is rude. Anyway, please leave the classroom quickly. Don't you need to participate in club activities?"

After being told this by the class committee, the remaining girls knew they were in the wrong and left the classroom one after another, planning to change places to continue gossiping.

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Before Hikigaya Hachiman opened the door to the service department, he vaguely felt that there was some noise inside.This is very abnormal. Logically speaking, there should be only one Yukinoshita classmate waiting for him to come back in the activity room. Why are there other sounds?

With doubts, Hikigaya opened the door, and the sounds in the room stopped instantly. Three pairs of eyes looked at him at the same time. Two of them were very familiar to Hikigaya Hachiman. They were classmates Yukino and Hayama Hayato. As for the last one...

"Ah, hello. Are you Hikigaya-san? I am Yuigahama Yui from Class D, first grade. Hayama-san brought me here."

Hikigaya Hachiman thought that the Yuigahama-san in front of him might be the kind of female high school student he often sees who likes to sing about her youth.Her plump thighs were exposed under her shortened skirt, two buttons of her short-sleeved top were unbuttoned, and there was a shiny necklace hanging around her neck.All in all, it was an outfit that made the student union's ethics department furious on the spot.

"This Yuigahama-san has been in some trouble recently, so she found me. I heard that she hadn't joined any club yet, so I brought her here. You should have one more member to officially become a full member, right?"

Hayama Hayato explained.He was absolutely right. The service club has not yet been officially recognized by Hiratsuka Shizuka. They need to attract a classmate who really wants to join the club.

"But before you came, this Yuigahama-san said a lot, but she didn't mention a single word about what problem she needed to solve."

Yukinoshita Yukino said looking a little tired, rubbing her temples with her fingers.

She was originally happy that a student from the Service Department finally came to consult, but she didn't expect that Yuigahama-san had been chatting happily for more than 40 minutes after entering the door.Her innate affinity made Yukino a little embarrassed to interrupt her, so she had to endure it silently until Hikigaya Hachiman entered.

"I'm sorry, Yukinoshita-san, I accidentally said so many words..."

Yuigahama Yui scratched her cheek in embarrassment.

Is he a natural idiot?Hikigaya Hachiman raised a question in his mind. After all, this kind of personality is indeed easy to get into trouble at school.

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"Then, Yuigahama-san, come and tell us your problem. It's been a long time since today's club activities, we have to hurry up."

Hikigaya Hachiman came to his seat and sat down. He subconsciously took out his laptop from his bag and immediately put it back.

"Well, actually my question is very simple. You know that the student general meeting will be held next Monday, and I will speak as a representative of the class. But I have never spoken in front of many people before, and I am very I am afraid that I will be too nervous and may not be able to express myself clearly, so that I will not be able to properly present the proposal my friend told me to the student union. It is precisely because of this that I came to ask for help.”

Yuigahama Yui stated her request, and then looked at Hikigaya Hachiman expectantly.

"I see. Maybe I can really help you, Yuigahama-san, because I happen to have had such an experience, but I have to sort it out first..."

Hikigaya Hachiman was thinking about how to help the other party, but was interrupted by a voice from the side, it was Yukinoshita Yukino.

"Hikigaya-san? Can I...ask Yuigahama-san a few questions first."

Yukino's voice was very soft and her expression was very cautious, as if she was seeking Hikigaya Hachiman's opinion. If Hachiman didn't allow it, she wouldn't speak.

"Well, you go first."

Hikigaya Hachiman had a bad premonition, because Yukino turned to look at Yuigahama, and her expression became obviously serious.

"Yuigahama-kun, what you just said was very clear, but I still have a few questions that I need to hear your answers to, is that okay?"

Yukinoshita's voice was still very soft, but it no longer felt like asking for advice.

"No problem, Yukinoshita-san."

Yuigahama, who seemed to be naturally dazed, did not feel the change in the atmosphere.

"First of all, if my information is correct, each class has not yet officially decided on the representative of the Student Union. Today is Monday. The class teachers just announced the matter first. Wouldn't the formal voting be held on Friday? Really? Yuigahama-san, why have you confirmed that you are the representative now?"

Yukinoshita-san started to ask questions.

"Ah... Actually, our class has already decided on these things. Everyone should be like this. After all, no one would rush to speak as the class representative, so it was decided like this. "

Yuigahama scratched the base of his ears and said with some embarrassment.

"Then it's still a little strange. The class committee should be responsible for this matter privately. Every class teacher held a class meeting in the morning and talked about it. Did the class committee directly decide it in the afternoon? Could it be that, Yuigahama-san, you volunteered? Of?"

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Yukinoshita Yukino continued to ask.

"Forget it...let it go. They came to me, so I... agreed by the way."

Yuigahama said somewhat covertly.

"So this is what you volunteered for? Can I ask, Yuigahama-san, are you friends with the class committee members?"

"Well, yeah. We were friends on the first day of school."

Yuigahama admitted very simply.

"So, in your request for help, when you said 'the proposal your friends told you', do the friends here refer to the class committee members of Class D? Have you already received the proposal?"