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Chapter 104 "Green Leaf" "Midnight Bell" Released! (Fourth update!)

A week passed in just a trance.

On September [-]th, after school in Beiyi School in the afternoon.

"Hurry up! Aoi! Today is the day when the booklet of Higashino-sensei's "Midnight Ring" is released!"

The girl with ponytail carrying a shoulder bag said to the girl wearing glasses behind her.

"What are you in a hurry for? Haven't you already arrived at the bookstore? Besides, you've finished reading "Midnight Ring" by Mr. Higashino, right? Why do you still need to buy a booklet?" Fujiwara Aoi wiped the sweat from her face and asked Gao Hashi Yumi.

She didn't know what the publishing house was thinking, why the booklet of "Midnight Ring" was chosen to be released in the afternoon.

It stands to reason that it should be easier to count the data when it is released in the morning?If it's on sale in the afternoon, won't it be night when you actually get the actual product?

"That's definitely different!" Takahashi Yumi turned her head confidently: "The booklet is the main source of income for manga authors. How can they support their families only with the money earned from manuscripts?"

She stretched out her hand and carefully calculated: "Just hiring assistants during the serialization will cost at least [-] to [-] yen a day, and some assistants will even ask for full board and lodging, so if you can support them, please support them. A booklet is not expensive."

Fujiwara Aoi also nodded.

A single volume of manga in Japan is indeed not expensive. Urashima Publishing House sets the price at [-] yen, and Higashino can make a profit of [-] yen per volume.

Then she looked at the overcrowded student bookstore in front of her eyes and the booklet of "Midnight Ring" that was constantly on sale.

This is like the frenzy of emptying warehouses at the end of the year, which made Fujiwara Aoi unable to help worrying.

I don't know if I'll get a copy when it's their turn

After queuing for about ten minutes, it was finally Aoi Fujiwara and Yumi Takahashi's turn.

Takahashi Yumi's eyes were quick and quick, and he pulled down two volumes of "Midnight Ring" from the few bookshelves at once. Fujiwara Aoi didn't say anything when she saw it.

After all, it was only [-] yen, so it would be great to support Higashinoji's sales.

but--

"Don't forget Urashima Publishing's new monthly magazine "Aoba". Didn't Higashino-san have new manga on it?"

Fujiwara Aoi asked.

Yes, I don’t know why Urashima Publishing House is so excited that they actually put the new monthly magazine “Aoba” on sale together with “Midnight Bell” in the afternoon. Readers who get these books will probably be free in the evening read it.

Could it be that the editors of Urashima Publishing House were expecting "The Ring at Midnight" to scare them again tonight?

Or are they counting on Higashinoji's new manga to scare them hard at night?This is also unlikely.

Higashinoji's new manga is a gourmet manga, which the two of them knew.

How can food comics achieve the same effect as "Midnight Bell" at night?

"You don't need Aoi, let's see what this is." Takahashi Yumi took out another publication from the paper bag.

That was Urashima Publishing's flagship youth monthly manga magazine "Aoba".

The main target groups are young people, college students and newcomers in the workplace. Most of the above are occupations, such as doctors, lawyers, detectives and other comics, and occasionally there are horror comics.

"it is good."

Seeing that her friend got everything, Fujiwara Aoi took a look at the release site of "Midnight Ring", which is still hot.

I don't know how much money Higashino can make this time, anyway, looking at it like this, it won't be less

At this time, Urashima Press.

"How many times has "Midnight Ring" been released? The quick report statistics should be out?" A male editor asked another editor in a low voice.

"It seems that [-] copies have been sold. This is too amazing. The total circulation is only [-] copies. It feels like "Midnight Ring" will be reprinted."

The other editor was somewhat dumbfounded, and answered in astonishment after reading the data several times and found that there was nothing wrong.

'Reprint' is what is commonly referred to as reprinting by a printing factory. If the sold manga booklets are sold out ahead of time and the supply is in short supply, the editorial department will send a request for reprinting to the printing department.

But "Midnight Ring" has already sold [-] copies in the initial release, and [-] copies have been sold in just a few hours. If it is a week, what will be the statistics?Has the sales volume exceeded [-] copies a week?

This is just the result of the first volume!

As long as Higashino Division can stabilize the quality, the number of individual volumes sold in subsequent volumes will basically only increase, and it will be difficult to reduce.

While the two editors were still surprised, a hoarse voice of explanation came from behind: "The reprint of "Midnight Ring" is basically confirmed. The next reprint should be 20 copies."

"Editor Urashima?"

When the two editors turned their heads, they saw the editor-in-chief Urashima with thick dark circles under his eyes.

In the past two days, the editor-in-chief of Urashima has worried a lot about the release time of "Midnight Ring" and "Green Leaf".

For this reason, he deliberately chose the afternoon as the sales time, and talked with the company's superiors for a long time, until his throat became hoarse, so he barely managed to get this afternoon's sales time.

The purpose is to maximize the effect of "Midnight Ring" and "The Lonely Gourmet"!

That's right!

Tonight, readers will be accompanied by not only the chilling Sadako, but also the teeth-gnashing but unstoppable "The Lonely Gourmet"!

As for why the editor-in-chief Urashima has to worry so much about "Midnight Bell" and "The Lonely Gourmet"

That's because——

"This is indeed what Higashino-sensei and Hosokawa deserve"

The editor-in-chief Urashima drank tea to soothe his throat, and looked at Koharu Hosokawa, who was excitedly reporting the data of the "Midnight Ring" pamphlet to Tsutomu Higashino.

He couldn't help shaking his head.

The requirement of "satisfying all editors" to Higashino and Hosokawa Koharu was not because he wanted to deliberately make things difficult.

It's that he doesn't want to see an up-and-coming horror comic writer wasting his time on gratuitous food comics.

However, Higashino has proved with facts that he can indeed draw very good food comics.

Now that Higashino has fulfilled his request, as the editor-in-chief, it is natural to fight for more for him in response to this young manga author.

So he tried his best to set up such a late-night stage for Higashino Division.

"It's rare for me to be passionate."

Editor-in-Chief Urashima took another sip of tea and touched his throat.

It takes a lot of time and energy to convince those old guys at the top to allow their own judgment.

But in the end he succeeded.

Because the editor-in-chief Urashima believes that Higashino Division will surely bring him a surprise this time.

Whether it's "The Ring" or "The Lonely Gourmet"!

(End of this chapter)