Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 319 I Can't Accept It (8000 words)
As an editor who has worked in the publishing house for nearly two years, Hosokawa Koharu often experiences overtime.

For example, if the author cannot hand in the original manuscript temporarily, he has to find a replacement work, including the catalog and cover that have already been designed. These things are definitely not uncommon.

After all, Japanese publishing houses are indeed very privileged to authors.

In other words, it is relatively common for authors to work overtime for lack of manuscripts.

But like this, it is indeed the first time I have seen Hosokawa Koharu working overtime for pure form statistics.

But this overtime is meaningful.

After all, it is necessary to make a horizontal comparison between the results of "Heshi" and the results of "Chiyo".

And the consequence of this overtime is
Hosokawa Koharu rubbed his sleepy eyes and got up from his desk, but at the same time he did not forget to pick up the tooth cup and toothbrush.

Because of working overtime, she also prepared a set of dental kits at the publishing house.

After walking to the toilet, she simply brushed her teeth and washed, bought a can of coffee, rubbed her swollen face, and walked to her desk.

Today is the day to announce the number of readers' positive votes and approval ratings, so she has to fight again no matter what.

"The data department sent over the form. It should be at eight o'clock?"

Hosokawa Koharu turned on the computer in front of him, held the coffee can, and glanced at the time.

It's only seven o'clock now, and there is still one hour before the data release
"Well, I don't know what will happen to Mr. Higashino's grades this time."

First of all, what is certain is that the readers of Higashinoji's "Hansawa Naoki" this time will definitely not be bad.

After all, yesterday already caused a certain degree of discussion, which is enough to show that his new work is very popular with readers.

The key is the size of the welcome.
"If Higashino-sensei is here, what grade will he predict for himself?"

Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help substituting his thoughts into Higashino Division.

If it's Higashino Division, he must be extremely confident, and if he speaks, it must be praised by more than 800 votes, right?

Thinking of this, Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help laughing.

Indeed, someone like Higashino Tsukasa who has confidence in his own work will definitely not be less than [-] votes for this "Hansawa Naoki".

So what will be the actual result?

Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help but continue to think.

In the process, the editors who worked overtime together last night woke up one after another.

Some people went downstairs directly to find a convenience store to buy something to fill their stomachs, while others, like Hosokawa Koharu, stood in front of the computer screen with a serious face.

The following data statistics table. It is something that the entire editorial department of Fushima pays attention to.

Not even the entire Fushima editorial staff.

Even some manga authors from the old Fuji Publishing House and the old Urashima Publishing House are very concerned about today's statistics.

Hojo Nagayasu, who had had some disagreements with Suzuki Yu before, was one of them. This time he met with another manga author from the former Urashima Publishing House.

The manga author's name is Hisaku Ueda.

Unlike Nagayasu Hojo, Ueda Hisaku didn't really care much about the fact that Higashinoji's cover squeezed out the introduction of his works.

"Huh? Ueda-sensei doesn't care at all?"

Hojo Nagayasu was a little surprised when he heard Ueda Hisaku's words.

He originally thought that some of the manga writers at the old Urashima Publishing House would have the same idea as him.

In the end, Ueda Hisaku didn't care at all?
"Hojo-sensei, you haven't serialized it in Urashima Publishing House, so you don't know."

Compared with Hojo Changyasu's surprise, Ueda Hisaku's performance seemed calm and calm.

"Is there something inside this?"

Seeing him calmly lighting his cigarette, Hojo Changyasu couldn't help but asked in a low voice.

"There's no inside story. It's just Mr. Hojo, you haven't experienced that feeling before."

Ueda's eyes are like dead fish.

His appearance made Hojo Changyasu even more puzzled: "How does it feel?"

Hearing Hojo Changyasu's question, Ueda Hisaku couldn't help sighing, and explained slowly:
"That's the kind. No matter how hard you draw manga, no matter how much you practice to strengthen your shortcomings. But you just can't catch up with Higashino-sensei."

Uh.
Hearing Ueda Hisaku's self-defeating speech as if he had been held down and beaten by Higashino Tsukasa for centuries, Hojo Nagayasu froze in place.

He had heard of Ueda Hisaku's name when he was at Fuji Publishing House.

In my impression, the other party should be a manga author with a very hot temper.

Why is it that now that we actually met, he didn't have the violent temper that was rumored, but instead looked half-dead, with a feeling of doubting life?
Hojo Changyasu didn't understand at all, he could only touch his head.

"Give it up, Hojo-sensei."

It seems to understand what Hojo Changyasu asked him to come out to meet this time.

Hisaku Ueda looked far away and said, "I used to be like you. I was young and not very sensible. I felt that if I had a little talent in manga, I would be invincible. But since Mr. Higashino officially came to "Aversion to Chill"."

When he said this, Ueda Hisaku's tone paused, and a particularly frightened expression appeared on his face:

"You don't understand, Mr. Hojo, no matter how hard you work, and no matter what kind of promotional resources you get. Higashinoji's works will always occupy the top of the list of readers' praise."

Uh.
Looking at Ueda Hisaku's expression, Hojo Nagayasu has no idea what this manga author known for his "temper tantrum" has experienced under Higashino Tsukasa.

But before Ueda Hisaku had finished speaking, his expression became even more excited.

"Mr. Hojo, think about it, regardless of season, summer, autumn and winter, or whether you are on hiatus from serialization, the number one in "Bad Chill" will always be one person, with a name that will never change for thousands of years. Higashinoji. Especially. You Do you know how big the vote gap is?"

Ueda swallowed hard, and stretched out his finger: "My best score was 350 votes from readers, which means this best score is more than 400 votes behind Mr. Higashino."

What is despair?
This is called despair.

People have more than twice as many votes as you.

"It's not that I don't want to work hard! It's that hard work is useless! What's the use of hard work!"

Ueda Hisaku covered his face, feeling really tortured by Higashinoji.

"But... Ueda-sensei, aren't Higashino-sensei's works all novelettes or short stories? You can always get first place during the break after he finishes, right?"

Hojo Changyasu had never experienced the feeling of being dominated by Higashino Tsukasa, so he asked.

"The end...? The end may give me a moment of happiness, but Mr. Higashino's apprentice, Mr. Hei Gong, will take the opportunity to dominate the rankings. I have no chance at all."

Hisaku Ueda stood up in a daze, his face was like a dead fish, and he seemed to have a feeling of "already figured it out":

"So Mr. Hojo, hurry up and figure it out, don't struggle."

He even persuaded Changkang Beitiao next to him to be a salted fish.

This made Hojo Changyasu completely unacceptable: "I will never be like you, Ueda-sensei!"

Hojo Changyasu patted his chest vigorously: "Maybe there is a gap between me and Higashino-sensei, but that gap can definitely be filled with my efforts! We can't have so many negative emotions! Ueda-sensei!"

"Trust us, we will definitely surpass Mr. Higashino! No matter how powerful he is, he is only one person!"

He cheered Ueda Kusaku on the side. If it was a normal manga, animation, or Japanese TV series, Ueda Kusaku might have been excited by what he said.

But unfortunately, as the active manga author of "Aversion to Chill" who has been tortured by Higashinoji for two full years, he has completely lost the spirit of "Okay, let's go and defeat Higashinoji" before.

Ueda Hisaku just looked helplessly at Nagayasu Hojo and muttered to himself: "It's useless, whatever you do is useless, as long as the readers' positive comments are counted, Mr. Hojo, you will know what despair is."

"how is this possible!"

Hojo Changyasu was obviously excited by what he said. He felt that he was still young and older than Higashinoji, and while he was more experienced than Higashinoji, he still had a lot of time to surpass Higashinoji, so for his own stock , he still has a lot of confidence.

"Then let's wait for the reader statistics notification at eight o'clock."

Ueda Hisakuku stopped talking and just focused on eating.

Hojo Changyasu didn't continue talking.

He felt that instead of playing lip service here, it would be better to show the result to Ueda Hisaku.

It is precisely in this situation that both the editor and the author pay great attention to the statistics of the favorable rate.

The time of eight o'clock came in time.

"The statistics are out! I will issue a list to everyone now!"

The staff of the administrative department holding a large stack of forms and materials spoke.

But before he finished speaking, the printed materials in his hand had already been taken up by a bunch of editors in an instant.

Yes.

It's an instant light up.

It can also be seen from here how long the editors of Fushima Publishing House have been waiting.

They flip through the form, and—

At a glance, I saw "Naoki Hansawa" ranked first.

"As expected, "Naoki Hansawa" is indeed number one."

This ranking is normal, and none of the editors were surprised. After all, the popularity of "Naoki Hansawa" was already amazing yesterday.

"I see the number of favorable votes for "Hansawa Naoki" is...uh."

The editor who was mumbling to himself couldn't help but wiped his eyes, and then he looked at the other editors, a little in disbelief: "Is there a data error in my printed materials?"

"Huh? What a coincidence, I also think I made a mistake, otherwise how could it be possible?"

"You too?"

"No way?"

In this situation where editors look at each other and cannot believe each other.

Hosokawa Koharu saw the positive votes of readers of "Hansawa Naoki" at a glance.

The reader survey ranked first in praise, "Naoki Hansawa", with 865 votes.

"865???"

Looking at this terrifying number, Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help opening his mouth.

The first "Naoki Hansawa" 865 votes.

Exceeding the 503 votes of second place Meisa Kuroko's "Island of Desolation" by a full 362 votes?
This.?

This is too scary, right?
"Naoki Hansawa" really just wrote the word "invincible" on the face?
Who can fight "Hansawa Naoki"?

Whether it's all the manga works of "Heshi" or all the manga works of "Chiyo".
These more than 40 comic works.
It is estimated that none of them can catch the punch of "Hansawa Naoki", right?

"This is horrible," murmured softly to several editors from the old Fuji Press.

When I was working at Fuji Publishing House, I fought with this kind of monster?
Isn't this what we are looking for?
Can you pick a work that fights monsters with 865 votes?

They looked at each other, wanting to talk, but they didn't know what words to use to describe the emotions in their hearts.

But soon some editors shook their heads and continued to read below.

After all, this is the number of favorable votes from readers. Next is the number of votes for the protagonist's approval rating.

then
The names of Hansawa Naoki and Hansawa Hana directly hang at the top of the list, with Hansawa Naoki 854 votes and Hansawa Hana 697 votes.
The first place in the double list is firmly won.

And when they looked down, they found that most of them were characters from the manga works of Shiniwazuki Publishing House's "Chiyo", and only the characters from the works of Kuromiya Meisa and Suzuki Ha made it into the top ten.

Fushima Publishing House really only relied on "Naoki Hansawa" to beat the manga magazine "Chiyo" next door.

This result not only made this group of editors feel lucky, but also made them feel full of crisis.

The overall quality of "Heshi" is still not as good as "Chiyo" next door.

But this time "Naoki Hansawa" won the first place, it can't be said that they lost, it can only be said that they had a 4.5-[-] split with the opponent-of which "Naoki Hansawa" accounted for at least [-]%.

Now that the readers' positive votes have been counted, the next step is of course to notify the author.

Hojo Nagayasu and Ueda Hisaku who were serialized in "Heshi" were the ones who were notified.

Hojo Changyasu, who had been waiting in the coffee shop for a long time, finally received a call from the editor.

He became excited all of a sudden, and at the same time showed it to Hisaku Ueda on the other side: "Mr. Ueda, I will turn on the hands-free right now, let's work hard together!"

"." Hisaku Ueda.

His editor hasn't called yet, so he probably went to notify others.

But he doesn't really care.

Anyway, No.1 must be Higashino Division.

Thinking of this, Ueda Hisaku squeezed the handle of the coffee cup, glanced at Changyasu Hojo again, and signaled that he could get on the phone.

"Okay." Nagayasu Hojo pressed the switch button on the phone.

then
"Mr. Hojo, your work ranks seventh in this reader survey, with 260 votes. The situation is not bad, please continue to maintain it."

260 votes.

This result is indeed not bad. After all, "Heshi" is no more serialized in Fuji Press than before. This magazine contains high-quality works.

But Changyasu Hojo was not very satisfied. The most important thing was that he hadn't heard about Higashinoji's results yet.

So before the editor wanted to hang up the phone, Nagayasu Hojo took the initiative to stop and asked: "How about Mr. Higashino's reader survey? Is it number one?"

"Huh? Ah, Mr. Higashino's "Naoki Hansawa" is indeed number one."

The editor over there weighed his words and answered.

"I want to ask how many votes Mr. Dongye got?"

Hojo Changyasu had already prepared for Higashinoji's first result, so it was not too surprising.

Compared with that, he wanted to know the number of votes for Higashino Division.

As long as you can know the number of votes for Higashino Division, it doesn't matter what the result is.

he!Hojo Changyasu can readily accept it!
"Huh? The number of votes. This is because it is information from other authors. Well, if you want to know, Hojo-sensei."

The editor over there originally wanted to decline a little bit, but he couldn't hold back Changyasu Hojo, so he let go.

"Ms. Higashino's "Hansawa Naoki" received 865 positive votes."

"865?!!!!"

Hojo Changyasu opened his mouth wide, his eyeballs almost bulging out.

He now has one sentence written all over his face——

I can not accept.

(End of this chapter)