1983 Past Life Manga King

Chapter 314

“uh? Are you here too?”

The young man tilted his head.

Already heard the same thing at the third bookstore.

“Is it strange? Everywhere I go today, there are no boy heroes.

With a troubled expression on his face, he left the bookstore, scratching his head.

“Please find me again.”

The female employee who said that to the outgoing man turned around. Then another female employee came and asked.

“Have you already had such a number of guests?”

“Yeah. Quite a lot.”

“Looking at what you just said, it seems like no other bookstore has books.”

“I see. Because the guest who came before said the same thing.”

“Then the people who came this morning bought all the boy heroes from other bookstores as well. What the hell are these people?”

“Isn’t the same publishing house employees buying it on purpose to make it a bestseller?”

At that, another female employee crossed his arms and shook his head.

“This is no ordinary book. It doesn’t make much sense to do that. It’s a magazine.”

“Then what are those people?”

“How would I know that?”

Just as they gathered and talked, someone shouted at them.

“What are you doing together? Come over here and help me clean up!”

“Ah yes!”

“Yeah!”

With that in mind, the female staff rushed out.

A few staff members are picking out the right amount from among the piles of postcards. And on the other hand, the things written on the postcards are handwritten one by one.

It’s just a questionnaire survey.

However, one of the employees who was researching the questionnaire tilted his head.

“Uh, are you surprised?”

“Why?”

“The ‘Devil Virus’ that started serialization this time. More names appeared on postcards than I expected. It’s more popular than I thought.”

The staff member who was looking at the postcards also nodded in agreement.

“So are the postcards I see. But, maybe that’s why readers liked it that much? I also had quite a bit of fun.”

“That’s right, but…”

The employee who spoke first scratched his head and tilted his head.

“Why again?”

“That’s it. It’s a questionnaire to choose three works.”

“By the way?”

“Something is strange.”

“What are you talking about? What else is weird?”

“that······. There’s no Machine Gun Jack that’s holding the unrivaled number one spot right now.”

“No?”

“There is no machine gun jack on the first postcard with the Devil Virus on it.”

A colleague, startled by that, rummaged through the postcards he had just picked and looked again, and his eyes widened.

“uh? Really? Well, sometimes there are, but rarely. By the way, some postcards with Machine Gun Jack written on them have the devil virus and some don’t.”

“Isn’t it strange?”

“Yeah. It’s very strange.”

At that moment, an employee who was listening to their conversation in the vicinity spoke up.

“uh? So, a few days ago, some of the big bookstores in Tokyo sold out all the books on the same day.”

“Oh, I heard that. The bookstores who suddenly asked me to send them all the books out, right?”

“right. But it was said that people in black suits came and swept up all the boy heroes on display.”

“What? black suit? Did the people at the nearby funeral home tell you to buy a magazine as a group?”

“It wasn’t that they were all young people. Somehow, when people like that came in as a group, my eyes jumped.”

“Wow, just imagining it must have been overwhelming. But is it true? It seems like a lie.”

“Because it’s real, I heard it directly from the staff who work there.”

“It’s a special thing, it’s a special thing.”

“When I first heard that, I thought it was nonsense. They took all the magazines, and only our magazines, so it was the work of some rich psychopath.”

Upon hearing this, one of the staff applauded and said:

“The rich psychopath makes sense.”

“okay. Otherwise, it cannot be explained.”

“Anyway, there are all kinds of weird people.”

When Yajima heard the story of the gathering, she tilted her head.

“He’s a rich psychopath…. Devil Virus…….”

He frowned for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders.

“What a nonsensical idea I am.”

He said that and just laughed.

The lawn of a large mansion.

A white round table and chairs are placed in the center of it.

There is a woman wearing a white dress and coat, drawing her in her elegant posture. What she is drawing is her cartoon.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

He is working hard with a pen on a white blank manuscript without a pencil drawing. However, from a distance, she looks dignified and full of her dignity.

Her true identity is Izumi, the cartoonist of Devil Virus.

As usual, she liked to paint outdoors.

The old man in her suit, who was watching her near her, opened her mouth with a worried expression on her face.

“Girl, it’s cold here too, so please come in. And if you catch a cold.”

“It’s okay, Guroda. The sun is warm today, so it’s perfect for painting. Well, it’s a bit dazzling, but it’s not bad to draw in such natural light.”

Izumi said so with a very relaxed expression on her face, but the old man’s face was still worried.

“Then, even just the gloves…”

“It’s difficult when you wear gloves because your senses are dulled.”

“But, lady….”

“Because it’s okay. More tea than that…?”

At that time, a woman in a maid’s outfit often walked up to her with a teapot and a cup on her tray. Then her Izumi puts her cup in front of her and carefully pours her tea.

Then she said another hello after the car, turned around, and she often returned to her footsteps.

Immediately, Izumi picked up her teacup, drank her somewhat, and nodded her head.

“Today’s tea tastes excellent, and the condition is good, so I think the story will unfold well.”

“Is that so? If that’s the case, I’m happy.”

“Kuroda worries too much.”

“I’m sorry, miss. I just.”

“I know, I know. It was because of my dead brother.”

“·················ogue.”

“But, I am different from you. Even Kuroda knows.”

“Yeah. That’s right.”

Saying so, the old man smiled faintly.

Then she stopped drawing Izumi to see if anything came to mind, and she turned her head slightly to look at her old man, she said.

“Oh, that’s Guroda.”

“Yes, miss. Please speak.”

“How did it go?”

The old man thought for a moment at Izumi’s question, and then immediately answered something after thinking about it.

“Are you talking about the questionnaire?”

“Ok.”

“I will check now. Please wait a moment.”

Having said that, the old secretary picked up the phone lying on the nearby table. It is a new cordless phone that I recently bought, and it is slightly smaller than a brick.

However, the price is high enough to be equivalent to the monthly salary of an ordinary office worker.

I took it carefully and dialed it somewhere. And the old man who was talking on the phone immediately hung up and hesitated for a moment.

“How did the results turn out?”

Izumi continued to draw, as if he wasn’t interested, and asked me questions, but the old man didn’t answer right away.

“Guro. Come on.”

“Ah yes. miss.”

Her startled old man approached her cautiously and said in a low voice.

“Hey……, unfortunately, it’s said to be in second place with a difference of 3 votes.”

At those words, the woman’s pen, which was moving quickly, stopped.

“Three votes…”

A blood band appeared on Izumi’s forehead as he muttered like that, and then quickly disappeared.

Taking care of her expression straight away, she smiled again at her.

“It seems that readers still don’t quite understand the greatness of my comics.”

“Yes, miss. It’s only episode 1 now, isn’t it? Soon she will be number one.”

“Guroda.”

“Yeah?”

“When Kuroda says that, it seems like I’m obsessed with number one.”

“Ah, sorry. miss. It looks like bullshit came out of this old man’s mouth.”

“No, Guroda. Everyone makes mistakes.”

As she said so, she quickly moved her hand again and went out to fill out her manuscript.

“Thank you. miss.”

In response, the old man bowed his head.

Then Izumi jumped up from her chair.

“I’m going to do this today.”

Saying so, she immediately turned around and walked to her mansion. Then the old man hurriedly put together a picture of her that Izumi had drawn, took it, and ran after her in a rush.

Kido shouted loudly with a surprised expression.

“What? Ranked 3rd? So, Nishida is second?”

At those words, Tegoshi clapped her hand.

“No, Esper John was pushed to fourth place.”

“Then, what is second?”

“The Devil Virus.”

At Tegoshi’s words, Kido put on a puzzled expression.

“What? The little girl’s cartoon?”

“Yeah.”

“Was that so much fun? No, it’s fun, but in one episode, you get 2nd place at once?”

Then the other fishermen opened their eyes and joined the conversation.

“Wow, Devil Virus is number two?”

“I found it fun, too.”

“Me too. But, second place. That’s a bit surprising. I expected it to be in the top spot, but I didn’t expect it to rise to second place at once.”

Most of the fishermen agreed that the Devil Virus was fun, but they were surprised that the rankings came out higher than expected.

“Look at that. Kids say that too. And how popular is the man with sincerity lately, to be honest, these days, even I think it’s fun as if it was written in a story ghost.”

Despite such self-congratulations, Tegoshi nodded his head.

That’s because the recent Tall comics were so much fun.

The new episode of The Man of Sincerity was gaining huge popularity because of that. A drama was also in production, and a new episode of the anime was going to be aired soon, so it was clear that the popularity would rise sooner rather than later.

Anyway, it was only natural that Kido was shocked because he pressed such a sincere man in the first episode.

“How many votes is the difference between you and Sunny?”

“Probably a difference of 3 or 4 votes?”

“What? Was it that close?”

“Yeah.”

“Huh.”

Kido’s expression turned into an absurd expression.

“Is this what readers like these days? It’s so different from before.”

“I do not know. The editorial department also had some talk about this.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. There are also reports that something strange was found in the reader’s postcards.”

“Is that strange?”