I am a writer in Tokyo

"Maybe it's time. I think the whole scene has created a very good atmosphere. Let's start a real fight!" Takao Hiroyuki said to all the editors while standing in the office. He swung his fist down heavily, and to everyone it was like the sound of a war drum. The warriors who heard the drum began to charge.

The editors of Bungeishunju were all holding back on anger, and now they needed to release it completely.

In fact, the most exciting thing is to witness the gradual rise of a legend; but people are born full of contradictions. While witnessing a legend, they also desire to destroy a greatness because of their inner desires.

Basically everyone will call the consequences of these two behaviors a sense of accomplishment, and they can't help but feel complacent and enjoy it.

Just as the editors of Bungeishunju are thinking now, they will use all their abilities. It is impossible to pull Xiaoyuan Yishu down from the altar, but they can try to use this momentum to reach a place that they could never reach before, and stand there with Xiaoyuan Yishu to look at the scenery below.

Of course, they were not completely blindly optimistic. Countless previous failures had taught them that what they fantasized about was very difficult. But this time was different, completely different.

Because Mr. Miura's book gave them strong confidence.

Dating back to ancient times, there would always be things happening in the dark that would threaten life and safety, and the darkness was the best cover. Some predators would choose to move out at night. Over time, the thick night sky that was like a pool of stagnant water began to make people fearful, as if something very bad was brewing under the darkness.

Bungeishunju is different from Shinchodō. They have their own channels to announce some decisions. When they knew that "The Book of the Boat" could be put on the shelves for sale, there is no doubt that apart from the editors, the bookstore clerks were the happiest.

They like this book, they like it, not that kind of distant awe.

This liking comes from their hearts. During this period, the more they read, the more they like the book. They like it so much that if someone asks them to recommend a book, they will resolutely reject Xiaoyuan Yishu's book and choose "The Boat Compilation Notes".

If you ask them why they chose The Adventures of a Young Boatman, the shop assistants won't say anything formal as if they had been trained. Instead, they will use their own words to summarize the book: "Because this book tells the story of a group of clumsy but persistent people. Those people are not us, but we can see their efforts."

There is a sentence on the promotional leaflet that the bookstore wrote for "The Story of the Boat": To make a boat is to make a leaf that can be used to cross the sea of ​​​​words. This boat is used to convey inexpressible emotions such as longing and love. These emotions are intertwined and entangled on the ocean, and finally form a bridge between people's hearts.

When the store opened in the morning, the clerks were much more attentive than before, and they looked at the people walking towards the bookstore with smiles on their faces.

People who came to buy books also felt it was strange. In the past, the smiles on their faces seemed to be more stiff and stereotyped, as if they had to complete a certain request, but today they seemed to have more of a welcoming feel.

Before they got close enough, they saw the shop assistants pointing at a poster that had been posted for a long time and saying, "Miura-sensei's "The Boat Trip" is now on sale."

"Mr. Miura?" This name is unfamiliar to many people. Then he took a close look at the words on the poster and thought of what Bungeishunju had said before: they wanted to kill Shincho and Koin Kazuki.

"Is it the one from Bungeishunju?" After getting a positive answer after asking knowingly, he instantly became excited and felt like rubbing his hands in anticipation: "I heard that Bungeishunju has been preparing for this for a long time, and it has not been online for a long time. Could it be that they are preparing to officially start the war now?"

There are not many things that can be talked about in the entire literary world. Ever since Xiaoyuan Yishu came into the world through the introduction of a security guard, there seems to be little that can be used as a topic of conversation.

At the moment, a very grand duel has occurred, which makes the people who can only read books feel very interesting. From their perspective, they are not against such competition. They have become the favorites of those publishing houses. In order to seize the market, they continue to come up with better works.

Naturally, they would be happy to see such a thing happen.

What they are curious about is, is Bungeishunju so confident in its massive publicity this time?
After moving his eyes away from the poster, he jumped back and forth in the air several times and finally landed on the clerk. He asked with interest, "Can Bungeishunju win this time?"

“After all, it seems like we lost pretty badly before.” Someone thought of the initial sniping and used a work by a writer who came out of nowhere to hedge against "Snow Country".

That’s “Snow Country”. If this neon winter and this era can be given a name, it’s this.

The clerk hesitated for a moment. They had not expected to be asked this question. After thinking it over, they said something conservative and ambiguous. However, their words implied that if the customer still planned to buy books, he could buy one and take a look at it.

They can't say much, even if they like the book "The Compilation of Boats" very much; if they promote the book of Bungeishunju at the point of sale, they will be reported by the trendy people. Most likely they will complain about affecting market competition, and in serious cases they may be sued. These literati are not as busy as they think, but they are much more stubborn than they can imagine.

Bungeishunju and Shincho are of the same level, so they can naturally provide what Shincho can provide to Xiaoyuan Yishu. The book "The Book of the Boat" was placed in the exhibition area at the door with the word "best-selling" on it, and the clerks were waiting by the side with carts piled with books waiting to be put on the shelves.

"What does this...write?"

Everyone knows what Xiaoyuan Yishu's "The Passion" is about, but they are a little less familiar with the book "The Boat Trip".

"Um……"

The clerk hesitated for a moment and tried to organize his words concisely: "It's about a group of unknown people working hard for their ideals." But as soon as they finished speaking, they began to regret it, as if they had summarized a very interesting book into a very boring thing.

As they were extremely nervous, the reader who was buying the book raised his head to glance at the bookshelf on a tree in the courtyard not far away, then turned his head to glance at the bookstore's promotional slogan for "The Boat Rider", then looked down at the two books on the same table, suddenly laughed and muttered something interesting.

It is highly likely that "The Adventures of a Ship" is not very attractive to them, except for those readers who came for the book in the first place.

The tree in the courtyard was still the scorching and dazzling sun hanging high in the sky, but there was something moving under the light.

Compared with the incredibly terrifying sales of Xiaoyuan Yishu, "The Story of the Boat Brigade" seems so weak. It may be because it is placed at the same height, so those who come to buy books don't mind buying an extra book to read at home. So invisibly, "The Story of the Boat Brigade" has become like the bowls bundled on yogurt during discount promotions in supermarkets.

And the fact has proved that this is what Bungeishunju needs, whether it is a small figure's counterattack or becoming the villain who wants to stab Xiaoyuan Yishu in the heart, these boring definitions have no meaning to them. They define themselves at this time as a strategist with only one goal, which is to narrow the distance and continuously increase sales.

In this respect, they succeeded.

Because when this night came, "The Adventures of the Captain" lay quietly on the tables of most people who had purchased "The Passion".

"Didn't you say you wanted to buy Koin Yishu's book The Passion today?" Mrs. Yoshino came out of the bathroom and was drying her hair in the room when she suddenly saw the book on the desk.

She remembered her husband telling her that the book under the tree in the courtyard was called "The Passion", but now it has become "The Boat Chronicle"?
Yoshino Kamishin leaned out from the living room and waved the "The Passion" in his hand: "It's here with me."

"What is this one?"

"I bought that book by the way. I heard that it was the book that Bungeishunju used to assassinate Xiaoyuan Yishu. I was curious about what kind of book I could compare with Xiaoyuan teacher, so I bought it."

"Is the Koin Isshu you mentioned really that magical?" Mrs. Yoshino could not fully understand her husband's thinking. She always felt that he had over-mythologized the writer named Koin Isshu. If this continued, there was a high probability that the person named Koin Isshu would become a god in Takama-ga-hara.

She tensed her body slightly to prevent the towel from slipping off.

"It's clearly a matter between intellectuals, but they actually use a word like sniping that seems violent." Mrs. Yoshino finally failed to keep the bath towel on her body. But the bath towel was not a kind person. When it fell, it grabbed the light floating in the air, and with a scratching sound, the light illuminated Mrs. Yoshino's body.

Mrs. Yoshino took a look at her body, sighed that time flies, and picked up the book "The Story of a Boat" to pass the time.

Yoshinoya has a habit, or to be more specific, Mr. Yoshino has a habit of reading before going to bed at night. At first, Mrs. Yoshino was moved by his habit and thought he was a man of substance, but later she didn't like this unshakable habit and hoped that reading would become something she had to do every day before going to bed.

After they spent a long time together, Mrs. Yoshino also began to develop the habit of reading, but she could not concentrate on reading papers covered with densely written words, nor did she want to spend too much time studying which of the essences of human thought those words represented.

So instead of reading some pure literature books, she prefers to read those gossip magazines with pictures or some of the social mystery books that are very popular recently.

She didn't want to be a philosopher who thought about human social life, she just wanted to relieve the loneliness and emptiness caused by her husband not doing what he should do that night.

"The Adventures of a Boatman" didn't seem to tell her some lofty truths at the beginning; she let out a soft "eh". She originally just wanted to flip through it casually, and when she got bored, she would look at the fashion magazine she just bought today and think about her future outfits, but...

She suddenly felt that the story told in this book might be quite interesting. At least the author's storytelling style was very friendly to her. She had happened to have read the words of Xiaoyuan Yishu before, and they were so straightforward and bright that they scared her.

"Honey." After a long time, Mrs. Yoshino twisted her sore neck. When she came to her senses, she found that Mr. Yoshino did not come to sleep. Instead, the wall clock showed that it was already late at night.

While lamenting that she had spent so much time reading a book, she began to get angry at her husband for not coming to sleep yet. After calling him a few times, she found that there was no movement in the living room.

Mrs. Yoshino felt a little panic in her heart. She remembered that her colleague told her mysteriously this morning when she was at work that the security in Ichi-chome was not very good recently, and there were many home robberies and so on. So she hurriedly walked straight to the living room without even putting on her slippers.

"husband?"

Mr. Yoshino in the sight looked a little dull, staring straight at a certain place, his mouth opening and closing, and it seemed that he was saying something, but Mrs. Yoshino couldn't hear clearly.

After another shout, Mr. Yoshino finally responded. His expression returned to normal, and he sighed with a little fear: "After all, it's Mr. Koin. I've seen the ups and downs of life."

He thought about it for a moment, then raised the book in his hand with great pride: "This book is really powerful, you know? It's..."

Mrs. Yoshino didn't want to give him the chance to continue. It was no exaggeration to say that this book was an evil book that could destroy the readers to such an extent.

She had never seen anyone, except this small courtyard and this tree, who could use words to make people express their emotions freely.

She didn't believe it, and for some reasons of her own, she felt a little...indescribable aversion to Xiaoyuan Yishu.

"I think The Boat Riders is quite interesting." She pursed her lips and urged her husband to go to bed quickly.

"Have you read a book?"

"Don't I read books?"

"No, aren't you supposed to be reading magazines?"

"But I really think that book is very good. In my opinion, Xiaoyuan Yishu's book has become mysterious and a little scary."

"..."

"husband."

"Ok?"

"I recommend the Boat Story to you!" (End of this chapter)