I am a writer in Tokyo

"At first it was a fight between junior high school students, but the reason for their fight..." Kashiwagi could now understand how Oshima Kazuya felt when he mentioned Koma's extremely embarrassing words when he was reporting to him. He felt the same way now.

"The reason is outrageous." After wiping the lens, Kashiwagi saw Oshima's face, his small eyes were full of questions. He controlled his voice and continued, "It is likely that a boy went to watch the popular movie "The Adventurers" in order to pursue a girl. This kind of behavior to please girls is very common during adolescence.

However, there are many tricks in junior high school, and also because of the ignorance of adolescence, there are many boys who like that girl.

Some of the boys are loyal readers of Xiaoyuan Yishu. In their minds, Xiaoyuan Yishu's books are great. "Editor-in-chief Kashiwagi coughed a few times and quickly added that most junior high school students have unique self-righteous thoughts and behaviors. After clarifying this major premise, he continued: "They themselves are very disappointed that girls like to read "The Story of the Boatman"."

“Although I am disappointed, I still like her very much. It’s probably because the girl is very beautiful and has the unique temperament and purity of adolescent girls.

Male animals inherently repel each other, so they naturally dislike other rivals.

The boy was talking about "The Boat Rider" in front of the girl, and he was very enthusiastic. The girl also seemed very happy.

These two points already made the other rivals feel very hateful, and then the boy belittled Xiaoyuan Yishu, so..."

Editor-in-Chief Kashiwagi did not continue speaking here, but looked at Oshima Kazuya, wanting to see his reaction.

And Oshima-sensei always had a lot of facial expressions, so his feedback was direct and stunned.

"I guess it's just the guys who like that girl and are grossed out by it uniting."

"You forgot to mention a premise, which is that the boys who are not only disgusted, but also admire Xiaoyuan Yishu have united together."

Oshima Kazuya took a sip of tea, and the voice of Chief Editor Kashiwagi floated over faintly: "They call their organization... Guardians of the Light of the Courtyard."

"Guardian of the courtyard's light..." Oshima Kazuya was too weak to make any expression, but he heard that there was more to come.

“They shouted that Xiaoyuan Yishu was the greatest writer of the time, and then surrounded the boy.

There were supporters of Xiaoyuan in the school, and naturally there were also supporters of Miura. The person who passed the message did not spread the news of the emotional dispute, but emphasized that the school violence occurred because someone said in public that "The Adventures of Miura" was better than "The Passion".

So a corresponding group emerged.”

Editor-in-Chief Kashiwagi gave Oshima Kazuya an encouraging look, hoping that he would continue speaking along the lines of what he was saying.

Oshima Kazuya sensed this encouragement, and he asked tentatively: "Could it be the Guardian of the Light of Miura?"

Then he originally thought that no one would be stupid enough to arm their organization with such a name. If such a thing happened to him, he would probably commit suicide.

But after seeing Kashiwagi nodded heavily, Oshima Kazuya was speechless.

“The two factions started fighting, which was extremely bad in nature, but because of the large scale, the school was unable to suppress the incident.

It may be because they are divided into two camps, so the current society naturally begins to form a situation of two armies confronting each other.

Such a trend makes the current situation very confusing.”

Editor-in-Chief Kashiwagi motioned for Oshima Kazuya to stop talking before he finished speaking: "They debated the most about the quality of these two books."

Oshima Kazuya knew that Kashiwagi used more euphemistic words, because if he were to speak, he would most likely not use the word "debate" but would probably use "war of words" instead.

"There are probably many topics to discuss about the quality of the two books. People from the "A Record of a Boat Rider" side often talk about sales, and the rising data can directly explain the current situation.

Maybe there is nothing wrong with just talking about this data, but for some reason the topic started to deviate towards literary aspects.

Finally, he said that the literary level of "The Compilation of Boats" is far higher than that of "The Passion".

Maybe he was too excited to curse and didn't control his mouth. Oshima Kazuya thought so, but after hearing this, he felt that Kashiwagi had basically finished what he said.

Perhaps it is because of the final literary discussion that the current situation has become very strange, and it is this strange situation that has caused the data of "The Compilation of Boats" to fall into a very strange stagnation stage.

At first, the two books were sold to different groups, and it was said that they were put together, but in fact, the two books were completely unrelated.

But if you insist on comparing the two books, basically anyone with a discerning eye can see the difference between the two books.

This kind of thing is well known to everyone. No one will deliberately mention it and naturally it will not be brought up on the table. Even the people in Bungeishunju will not discuss this kind of thing in public.

Even those who always like to talk about "The Boat Riders" to cater to the girls' preferences, and those who claim to be literary youths will secretly brag about it in private.

But now that this kind of thing has been brought up, and discussed on such a large scale, the nature of the discussion has changed completely, as if "The Compilation of Boats" has been elevated to a height that it does not deserve at all.

Editor-in-Chief Kashiwagi was very happy. He had never encountered such a situation before, but the current situation told him that it was undoubtedly a victory that was right at his fingertips. He only needed to do a little bit of work.

He remembered the original intention of the book, which was for literary orthodoxy.

This book is not all of Xiaoyuan Yishu's work, it will only become a dazzling medal on his medal wall; but "The Boat Story" is very likely to be all of Bungeishunju.

When others are using up all their strength and spending all their property to fight you to the death, you can give way to them, because they may be facing a steep slope next, and they don’t know when they will be able to climb up again.

"Maybe this is the so-called butterfly effect." Oshima Kazuya sighed, and then he and Kashiwagi looked at each other, and then began to emphasize Koin Ikki's literary quality and status in the literary world.

Use this sharp knife to stab those damn guys hard in the heart. If possible, they don't mind stabbing themselves a few more times.

There is no shame in taking advantage of others' misfortunes. (End of this chapter)