Tokyo Soft Rice King

And then the hell begins...

Chapter 70: Creation is Hell

When a hobby becomes a job, the happiness will be completely eliminated, and all that remains is painful struggle.

Kuroba Ming's brain began to work rapidly. Fortunately, with the blessing of "Academic A" copied from the class monitor, his thinking became much more flexible.

The first thing to determine is the relationship between the protagonists of the novel, the brother and sister, because the beginning is the most important. There is also a saying that there are three golden chapters in online novels. In an era of increasingly fast reading pace, a good beginning can determine the life or death of a novel.

There are relationships like the Kousaka siblings, who start with a negative favorability, and there are also sibling relationships like Blank, where they were lovers in their previous life and therefore have a full favorability from the start.

Setting the initial favorability is a very important step.

After much thought, Kuroba Akira decided to define the relationship between the siblings as 'they used to have a very good relationship, but later due to various reasons, they became a little distant'.

This way, the sister's emotional transformation can be more natural, and later on, you can write a flashback between the brother and sister to create the climax of the plot.

The next step is to determine the sister's attributes and cute points. What kind of sister is likable?

Anyway, it’s definitely not tsundere.

Although the voice actor's shouting of "Baka! Hentai! Wulusai!" is very cute, if it is written into the novel, just reading the text, it is too offensive and cannot be cute.

Moreover, Kuroba Akira doesn't want to write about tsundere, mainly because he himself doesn't like tsundere characters.

It's hard to write about the essence and cuteness of something you don't like.

Moreover, the feeling that the plot was being advanced by forcibly creating misunderstandings because of his sister's stubbornness also made Hei Yuming feel very uncomfortable.

If he really wanted to write a tsundere character, Kuroba Akira would prefer to write a plot where the tsundere character regrets being humiliated and cries bitterly, begging the protagonist to change his mind. That would be more satisfying.

But since we want to highlight the subtle feeling between brothers and sisters, the sister, the soul of the whole work, must have subjective initiative.

A proactive personality...hiding the yandere side.

She seems not to care about her brother, but actually she cares about him to death. All her actions are to cheer her brother up. This gives her character driving force, and also paves the way for whether she will choose the orthopedic route in the end.

Then there are the gimmicks. In fact, Kuroba Akira thinks that the gimmick of "yellow butter" in "Oreimo" is great. Fushimi is really good at finding gimmicks. The later "Eromanga Sensei" also writes about a sister who draws erotic pictures, which is full of borderline feelings and makes people imagine a lot.

So what should I write about? About the emperor's uncle's sister?

No, if the protagonist finds out that I'm obsessed with my brother, it will go straight into a straightforward plot like "my brother lent me a dictionary", and it will become an R18 erotic novel.

So it’s still butter, but instead of playing with butter, it’s making butter, so the beginning is also revealed.

The elder brother was playing with butter and was about to generate electricity by himself when he discovered that the maker of the butter was actually his own sister...and so the story began.

Well, not bad.

Once the opening is decided, the next step is to expand on it.

It is not enough to just have a gimmick. What is important is whether the subsequent characters and developments can support the tone of the work.

But at this stage, Hei Yuming was stuck. He frowned and scratched his head, unable to think of how to continue.

I found my sister making butter...and then what?

its stuck.

Hei Yuming only felt his stomach churning and burning.

I have to use my own abilities to make a living again, and the huge pressure at work hits me like a heat wave.

The pressure is so great that I want to vomit. If it fails, it will be a waste of time and I won’t make a penny. The voice actor training plan of Murasaki Palace will come to a standstill.

He was also ridiculed by Shiori Shirai, ran naked on the playground, and became socially dead.

Damn...why is there no relevant proficiency in creation?

If I can see the proficiency, it will give me some confidence...

Damn it... No matter how much I write, I'm still afraid of failure.

Kuroba Akira gave a bitter smile from the bottom of his heart.

He was reminded of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "Hell Transformation".

The father in the article was 'forced' to sacrifice his daughter to complete his life's masterpiece, the bloodstained Hell Screen.

In order to create, he gave up everything, including his beloved daughter, and threw himself into hell.

Creation is hell.

"Mingjun?"

Zi Zhigong's voice brought him back to his senses.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Hei Yuming found that Zi Zhimiya had sat next to him at some point and was looking at him with a worried look on his face.

"I'm fine, but you... look very distressed. Did something happen?"

"what……"

Maybe it was because I looked constipated that made Shizumiya worried.

Hei Yuming said with a forced smile.

"I'm fine, just worried about how to unfold it."

"Unfold?"

"Well, I'm writing a novel and I'm going to submit it to a publishing house."

"Writing a novel..."

Zizhimiya blinked and wanted to look at the laptop screen to see the novel that Kuroba Ming was writing, but she was afraid that doing so would disgust him, so she forced herself to suppress her curiosity.

Hei Yuming also noticed Zi Zhigong's wandering gaze and found it a little funny. His mood improved a little and he said with a smile.

"It's still in the conceptual stage, and it's a mess. I can't show it to you, but I'm not writing in a diary, so I don't care if anyone sees it."

"Um……"

It was not until Hei Yuming stopped avoiding her that Zi Zhigong smiled. Every time she was trusted by him, she could feel a warm current flowing through her heart.

Therefore, Zi Zhigong was a little bit "expedient" and tried to find out what Hei Yuming was thinking.

She wanted to know why Kuroba Akira wrote novels.

"Mingjun, do you want to become a novelist?"

"Well, not really... should I call it a hobby, or an activity of the literature club... Anyway, I never thought of becoming a novelist."

Hei Yuming's dream is to live off his wife, and this is unshakable.

He wrote novels just to make money. If he hadn't met Aizono Moe, who had a talent for painting, Kuroba Akira would have planned to give up this path.

And I was irritated by Shirai Shiori...

When I calmed down and thought about it, how could I really be like a teenager, competing with a high school girl?

Hei Yuming suddenly felt that he was quite childish. Could it be that physical age also affects mental age?

After regrouping, Kuroba Akira discovered that his biggest motivation for writing the novel was actually to teach Shiori Shirai a lesson.

To put it bluntly, I just wanted to slap her in the face.

Hei Yuming hates those arrogant people who don't take anything seriously from the bottom of his heart.

People can be proud, but not arrogant.

Just because I won a rookie award, I think I'm looking down on light novels? How dare you?

Even a great man named Zhou once said: "If the people like it and you don't like it, who do you think you are?"

Seeing the worry disappear from Hei Yuming's face, Zi Zhigong also said with a smile.

"If that's the case, then my Lord, why don't you be a little more willful and write something that makes you happy?"

These words dispelled the dark clouds in Hei Yuming's heart.

Yes, I’m not a professional screenwriter anymore.

Now I am just a high school boy named 'Kuroha Akira'.

Why are you so serious?

If writing novels doesn't work out, I can just find other ways to make money.

There's nothing to be afraid of if you fail. If you lose, just make jokes and get away with it. Anyway, Shirai Shiori probably doesn't want to see a boy's naked body.

And even if I fail, that doesn't mean Shirai Shiori will definitely be published. It could end up being a draw.

It turns out that I had unknowingly developed a professional baggage myself... I wasn't a remarkable person in my previous life...

He also said that Shirai Shiori was arrogant, but it turns out that he is the same.

You shouldn't expect too much from one book to make you famous. This is not a world where success can be achieved by just hoping.

"...That's right, haha, I'm just being too picky."

Novels still need to be written, but there is no need to be too demanding.

Go across hell with a relaxed mood!

The "light" in light novel... means light and relaxing!

Chapter 71 The Most Expensive Friend Fee

"I'm fine now, Ziyin, go and do your thing."

Having cheered up, Kuroba Ming is ready to continue devoting himself to creation.

However, he suddenly thought that he seemed to have not paid attention to the dubbing of Murasaki Palace, because when he entered the state of concentration, Hei Yuming could not hear any sounds around him.

He also liked to wear headphones to listen to music when he was working, but not to enjoy the music, but to put himself in a state where he could "not hear the music", which meant that he was really in a state of concentration.

So I still have to ask about the progress on her side.

"By the way, Ziyin, how's your training going?"

"Well, I've almost memorized the lines... How about I just recite them on the spot and you want to listen?"

Shizumiya really wanted to show off in front of Hei Yuming, but was a little afraid of being criticized by him. She felt both excited and nervous.

Hei Yuming shook his head and said.

"Don't bother me yet. You haven't practiced well enough yet. If you do it in front of others, your emotions will fluctuate, and the problems will be magnified."

Dubbing work is usually directed on-site by a dubbing director, and the client only needs to provide feedback. Hei Yuming has been a client before, but has never been a dubbing director, so he can only give feedback on the overall feeling and cannot give suggestions on details.

Zi Zhigong's current skills are not even at the entry level. Telling her some abstract concepts will affect her practice.

So she can only rely on herself in this regard. She should try her best to imitate professional voice actors, and then make adjustments and optimizations when the imitation is 80% or 90% similar.

"So just show me your hand. My left hand."

"it is good."

Zi Zhigong was a little confused, but still stretched out his left hand obediently.

I'm so tired, so alone

She remembered that when they first met yesterday, he also asked to see her hands, saying that he wanted to confirm her talent. Maybe this was a special skill unique to Mingjun?

Hei Yuming picked up Murasaki's left hand and looked at it carefully. The proficiency in dubbing had not yet appeared.

Well, even if it's a genius with S-level talent, it's impossible for him to achieve proficiency in such a short time.

But after looking through it for a while, he saw a new proficiency that he hadn't seen yesterday.

"Acting lv1"

"Beautiful Voice Level 1"

……Um?