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Chapter 200 "Unnatural Death" and Koharu Hosokawa (4000 words)

Hosokawa Koharu has been working with Higashino Division for nearly a year, and he thought he already had a little understanding of his steady and calm temperament.

But when she heard his indifferent tone today, she realized that she still underestimated Dongyesi's psychological endurance.

No wonder you can win the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award! This kind of big heart is much more stable than some comic authors in their 40s and [-]s, right?

"Mr. Higashino, do you know? I just learned about this from the editor-in-chief. Are you?"

The exclamation is the exclamation, but Hosokawa Koharu still asked a little curiously.

"Ms. Ozawa from Yanjiao Publishing House told me."

"Ozawada, no wonder" Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help nodding, but he was still a little confused.

As the No. [-] thug of Yanjiao Publishing House, Ozawada was the first to know about this, which did not surprise Koharu Hosokawa, but why did he tell Higashino Division this news?Didn't this give him a chance to prepare in advance?

Could it be that they poached Dong Yesi's corner?

This is really not sure.

After all, Yanjiao Publishing House and Mozhu Bookstore have long been a joint venture. They are essentially wearing a pair of pants. In addition, they are rich and powerful, and they are also very influential in the industry. Division this corner.

But thinking about it, Dong Yesi is not the kind of person who surrenders to the enemy without saying hello, and if he wants to surrender, it is impossible to contribute to her again.

Hosokawa Koharu's thinking is indeed relatively mature, but she is also a woman, so it is easy to think about things.

"It's true that Mr. Ozawa told me, but he didn't have any other intentions. He wanted to make friends with me." Higashinosi explained to Hosokawa Koharu what Ozawada said to him at that time, and finally let him know. Hosokawa Koharu could accept it.

Many people may think that this is a trivial matter and there is no need to explain it.

However, when working in a team, the most important thing is to trust each other. There is no need to hide such trivial matters.

"So that's the case." Hosokawa Koharu nodded, expressing his understanding, and then put the matter behind him: "Compared to this, Mr. Higashino, do you have any countermeasures? Have you thought about what to do?"

"There is no countermeasure." Dong Yesi replied with a smile: "If you insist, it depends on your own ability."

"But Higashino-sensei, are you really okay? The opponent is not like last time, only Komori Ken is fighting in a group this time." After all, Hosokawa Koharu is a Japanese working woman, and it is easy to think of weakness in this regard.

It's no joke that the two major clubs are rivals.

It's just that it doesn't matter if the sales volume of a single volume is reduced a little, the most important thing is that Higashino Si should not be hit so badly that even his vigor has been smoothed out.

As for Hosokawa Koharu's worries, Higashino just smiled and replied calmly: "It's okay."

This is actually a very common answer, but for some reason, it left Hosokawa Koharu speechless, and then she laughed dumbfounded: "That's right, it's Mr. Higashino after all."

Just like Higashinoji and Komori Ken's one-on-one arena, Higashinoji's results always surprised Hosokawa Koharu for a long time.

He never let himself down.

It must be the same this time.

This is not the thinking that a mature editor should have. Hosokawa Koharu is immature, but it also means that she is more aggressive than mature and conservative editors.

Many times Higashino's request would have been rejected by other editors, so she was the only one who would try to understand Higashino's thoughts and stand behind him.

And blindly retreating will only be beaten as a shrinking turtle, and people will only step on people who are weaker than him.

Hosokawa Koharu doesn't want to be a soft-boiled tortoise to be trampled on by others, so even if Higashino Division's single-volume sales will not be very good this time, she must fully support him!

Competition is competition. There is nothing to be afraid of. Let's see if you chop off my head or I chop off your dog's head.

Mr. Higashino, who I am in charge of, has set many records!Compared with your pillar authors, it also has an advantage!That being the case, why should I be afraid?

She swallowed the persuasive lines she had thought of, and then got to the point: "Mr. Dongye, have you finished the draft of the storyboard for the new manga you just said?"

"It's indeed finished. I've prepared a draft of the storyboard for the first five episodes." Higashinoji replied without hesitation.

The storyboard draft of "Unnatural Death" is not difficult to draw, but it is a bit difficult to set up characters and learn the common sense of forensic medicine, otherwise it would not be completed until now.

"I know, let's do it now. Does Mr. Dongye have time now? I'll go there now."

"Well, I'm at home now." Higashinoji replied.

I have to say that there are quite a lot of high school holidays in Japan, such as spring vacation, summer vacation, winter vacation, scattered and three consecutive holidays, and May Day Golden Week holidays.

Beiyijuku High School is now on spring break, which lasts for almost two weeks until April [-]th and [-]th. Japanese high school students who are taking the exams have to take the general entrance test. After passing, they can directly enter the university.

"Then I'll come over here."

Just do what she wants, Hosokawa Koharu can barely be regarded as an actionist, after packing up her makeup and clothes, she left the editorial department and headed for Higashino's house.

Higashino obviously didn't expect Hosokawa Koharu to be so proactive. He stared at the phone and smiled, then turned his head to look at the draft of the storyboard he had placed on the table.

Unlike the last "Victor Is Justice", this time Higashino has mastered the skill of using shadow painting and coloring, and the state is particularly good when drawing the draft storyboard.

If there are no accidents, there is a high probability that it will be successful this time!

Higashino Division just sat at home and played games with Higashino Chihaya for about half an hour, and Hosokawa Koharu had already come to the door.

"Where's Mr. Higashino's manuscript?" Hosokawa Koharu asked as soon as he entered the door.

"It's on the stove table over here." Higashino Tsukasa touched Chihaya Higashino's head, got up and walked to the stove table.

His game character had long since died, and he had just been watching Chihaya Higashino playing.

"I'm sorry." Hosokawa Koharu said some polite words, then picked up the draft of the storyboard on the table, and looked at the title first.

"Unnatural death?"

I don't know what the title means.

Hosokawa Koharu spread out the storyboard draft and began to look at it frame by frame.

She looked at it and sighed inexplicably.

Perhaps Higashino Division has a background in drawing, and the storyboard draft he submitted is actually very complete. The thin lines of the characters are outlined concisely and vividly, and they look very comfortable at first glance.

Like other manga authors with a little less drawing skills, you can see his manga storyboard drafts are simply torture, and he can only barely figure out the relationship between the characters. It is definitely not as comfortable as Higashinoji.

Some people may question this, saying that weak drawing skills can still be a comic author?But this is a fact. A standard example is ONE who has drawn "One Punch Man". His "minimalist lines" comic works are really impressive.

But this is not the time to keep praising Higashinoji's painter.

Hosokawa Koharu focused, and began to look at it bit by bit, with extra seriousness.

Forensic doctor Misumi Mikoto works at UDI (Unnatural Death Institute).Here, they receive many corpses of unknown causes every year.

some murder, some poison

It is the job of Sansumi Mikoto and UDI to find out the reasons for the unnatural death of these corpses and speak for the dead.

This is a very standard reasoning manga opening.

First pull the character out for a walk, and then enter the first case at a fast pace.

Hosokawa Koharu's vision is very venomous, and she can see at a glance that the heroine Sansumi Mikoto looks like a forensic doctor, but she should play the role of a "detective" in this comic, and besides that, there are Other roles in UDI are clinical examination technician Lin Xizi Donghai and recorder Kube Rokuro.

The stage and characters are all ready.

"Forensic detective comics, this feels a bit niche." Hosokawa Koharu muttered to himself.

Likewise, the role of the detective as the heroine is a little off.

Although this is not very good for her to say, it is more appropriate to define the role of forensic doctor and detective as a male role. After all, which Sherlock Holmes have you ever seen is a woman?Coupled with the fact that Japanese women are already in a disadvantaged position in the workplace, this is also an important reason why women are not well defined as the protagonists of detective comics.

But I can't draw a conclusion directly just by watching a little bit, so Hosokawa Koharu continued to read.

In the first chapter, Higashino explained the meaning of the comic title "Unnatural Death"-referring to the dead who were cremated without anatomy.Similarly, Hosokawa Koharu also learned that the autopsy rate in Japan is the lowest among developed countries.

But she didn't pay attention to this sentence. The dissection rate has nothing to do with whether the storyline is interesting or not.As an editor, she only values ​​storytelling.

The Takano couple who came to visit the Unnatural Death Institute expressed their intentions. Their son Takano Shimato was found to have died suddenly at home, but the cause of death was hastily attributed to ischemic heart disease by the police, but the main patients with ischemic heart disease For middle-aged and elderly people who are already weak, the police's perfunctory attitude made the Takano couple unacceptable, so they commissioned UDI to conduct an autopsy on Takano Shimato's body.

So far the story has officially begun.

Sansumi Mikoto, who received the task, performed an autopsy on Takanojima Toto's body and found that his kidneys had symptoms of acute insufficiency. Sansumi Mikoto suspected that poison was the cause of death, but routine testing methods could not detect what was poisonous. Just as the investigation was deadlocked, news came that the female colleague who had worked with Takano Shimato also died unexpectedly, and the cause of death was also unknown.

These two cases with the same suspicious points attracted the attention of the heroine Sansumi Mikoto. She led her Sansumi team to Koye Island Du's home to investigate, and then met the first discoverer of Koye Island Du's body. Cheng Meiqin later learned that Machang Luzi did not have an alibi, and she worked in the chemical department of a company, so she could easily get some poisonous drugs. She is very likely to be the suspect who killed Takano Shimato

The first chapter of "Unnatural Death" ends here.

After reading the first episode, Hosokawa Koharu rarely felt any fluctuations in his heart.

Because how should I put it, this reasoning process is too flat and too sloppy.

It was the heroine and the forensic workers of her Sancheng team who asked casually and found the suspicion of the horse farm.

This conviction is too fast, but it makes people think it's a joke.

It is really disappointing that a lot of very compelling foreshadowings are left in such a hasty way.

This kind of quality is definitely not as good as those comic authors of the two major publishing houses. This comic is not very good.

But what to say.

Mikoto Sansumi's character creation is quite successful, at least it makes Koharu Hosokawa feel very substituting.

And the conviction was so fast in the front, and it feels like there should be a reversal later.

Hosokawa Koharu has unconditional confidence in Higashino Division!

Hosokawa Koharu opened the second chapter of "Unnatural Death", and read it carefully.

Mikoto Sansumi, who found that something was wrong, launched a series of investigations on Miko Baba, but these investigations did not have any effect, and then there was a reversal that Hosokawa Koharu was interested in!

Machang Luzi is innocent, Gaoye Daodu's death is related to some acute infectious disease in the Middle East!

Sensing the seriousness of the matter, Sansumi Mikoto announced the fact to the public immediately, and at the same time told the director of UDI about the deduction, but it was too late, the infectious disease had already spread, and 80 people died in just a few days. Multiple admissions

The second chapter has a total of 21 pages, which are packed to the brim, and the deduction process can be said to be well-founded, which made Hosokawa Koharu nodded in satisfaction.

It turned out that there was no real culprit at all, but Takano Shimato himself went to the Middle East and contracted some kind of infectious disease

This unexpected reversal made the whole plot much more comfortable. At the same time, it also aroused Hosokawa Koharu's curiosity about the next plot.

How will it end next?

Takano Shimato has died, but the infectious disease is still spreading. Takano and his wife soon suffered cyber bullying and even received death threats.

Mikoto Misumi is responsible for this dire situation. How can she help the Takano couple?

Hosokawa Koharu picked up the third chapter of "Unnatural Death", and felt that Higashino's manga was different from manga such as "Winner Is Justice" and "Midnight Bell". , but like a TV series.

At least when Dong Yesi drew the unit drama "The Winner Is Justice" before, he solved a unit drama in three episodes very directly, unlike "Unnatural Death", and even made a special preparation.

The evaluation of this comic has also changed from 'not very good' to 'okay, it should be very good'.

She opened the third chapter and glanced at it.

This remark is about the helplessness of the Gaoye couple who have been bullied by the Internet. They are old and lonely and can only suffer overwhelming abuse and accusations.

The atmosphere of this sentence is a bit heavy, sweeping away the relatively gentle and relaxed atmosphere of "Unnatural Death" earlier, it is so depressing that Hosokawa Koharu is a little out of breath.

But at this time, Bachang Luzi, who was suspected of being the suspect's killer, stood up and said that Takano Shimato was not that kind of person, and he must have been checked at the airport before returning.

The words of Bachang Luzi brought the dawn of hope, and also made Hosokawa Koharu's eyes brighten!

And reverse? !

Hosokawa Koharu remained silent, but his evaluation of "Unnatural Death" went up to a new level in his heart, from 'not bad' to 'it's a good work'.

Because of this repeated reversal, she was a little out of breath.

She had just turned to the next page in anticipation when her face fell—

Tonoji

Just stuck here.

(End of this chapter)