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The white-haired person in charge of the judging committee, after confirming that all the judges had read the manuscript, said to the five judges in the audience: "Every judge, please fill out the form and hand it over to the staff."

Immediately afterwards, a man in a suit handed the form to five people.

After Akihara Yuto and others finished writing, they returned the form to him, and the latter handed it to the person in charge after collecting all the forms.

The person in charge counted the number of people, and then announced the results, "This time the voting was not anonymous. "Dead Mother" was voted by three teachers, Akihara Hiroto, Seto Tamae, and Takada Tomohisa. "Death Duo" was voted by Wada Nobu, Morioka Yuho the vote of the two teachers."

"That's why the work that won the Newcomer Award for Modern Reasoning Literature is "The Dead Mother."

At this moment, there was a "pop" sound in the meeting room, which attracted everyone's attention.

Hiroto Akihara looked up and found that Nobuo Wada's hand had slapped the conference table heavily, and even knocked over the teacup.

The person in charge was about to continue, but he was interrupted like this.

He hesitated for a while, and said in a polite tone: "Teacher Wada Shin, do you have any objections?"

After all, Wada Nobu is a judge, and he is also the oldest writer among the judges, so he can only ask this question in a polite manner.

Wada Nobu was about to say something, but Ms. Morioka Yuho, who was sitting next to him, coughed lightly.

After hearing the cough, Wada Shin seemed to realize something, and waved his hand, "Sorry, I'm sorry."

The person in charge breathed a sigh of relief before continuing to speak.

After some official polite words, the selection of this newcomer award officially came to an end.

After being bowed and watched by the person in charge and the staff, the five judges including Hiroto Akihara stood up and left the meeting room one after another.

Hiroto Akihara and Tamae Seto are going to a nearby izakaya for a drink.

The fact that his disciple was able to win the reward this time is inseparable from Seto Yuzhi's crucial vote.

Another socialist writer, Takata Tomohisa, would definitely not vote for "Duet of Death" which promotes negative human nature.

But it was a bit abrupt to invite Takada Tomohisa, after all, the other party didn't know that the work he submitted was written by his disciple.

Just when the two were about to leave the gate on the first floor, Akihara Yuto found that Wada Nobu and Morioka Yuho were standing at the gate together.

Akihara Hiroto realized that the other party was not kind, but he walked up with Seto Tamae and simply said hello.

Wada Nobu did not respond to Hiroto Akihara's greeting, but asked.

"Akihara-san, why don't you vote for "Death Duo"? Is this different from what we agreed?"

Akihara Hiroto's attitude also cooled down, and he said, "Wada-san, I don't seem to have promised anything, right?"

The other party didn't call himself a teacher from the beginning to the end, so he didn't bother to call himself to maintain this superficial etiquette.

Wada Nobu made a "hum" when he heard this, then cast Akihara Yuto's eyes arrogantly, said "I can do it myself", and left with Morioka Yuho.

Seto Yuzhi glanced at him worriedly, and then asked Akihara Yuto: "Mr. Akihara, what happened between you?"

Akihara Hiroto didn't hide anything, and told everything that happened completely.

But he didn't worry too much, after all, although Wada Nobu had a lot of experience, he belonged to the old-timers in the industry.But it is also impossible to do anything to oneself like Mandanshe, and it is even more impossible to block oneself.

But to his surprise, Seto Yuzhi said, "Mr. Akihara, you'd better pay attention."

Hiroto Akihara frowned and thought about it, remembering that Chairman Kawai also reminded himself to pay attention to this person, is there anything special about him?

He raised his own doubts and asked, "Mr. Seto, I remember Wada Nobu. He hasn't had any outstanding works in recent years. It seems that he debuted relatively early."

Seto Yuzhi shook her head and explained: "Mr. Akihara, debuting early is a huge advantage."

Then, she began to explain, and this also gave Akihara Yuto a deeper understanding of Wada Nobu.

Wada Nobu himself has made his debut for more than 50 years and has served as a visiting professor at many universities.Because of this relationship, many writers in the literary world have a teacher-student relationship with him.

Not only that, but through strategizing and establishing good relations with various associations and politicians, he has considerable influence in the political and cultural circles.

In order to be able to publicize and promote the works of the Benge School, he not only served as a column book reviewer for several major newspapers, but also frequently participated in the selection of various awards, and only awarded the awards to the works of the Benge School.

This also makes some of the works of the Socialist School and other factions, no matter how excellent they are written, they cannot win the grand prizes of these awards.

Hiroto Akihara frowned, "Mr. Seto, isn't this just a student?!"

The so-called school lords refer to individuals or groups that rely on power to control and monopolize interests.For their benefit, the school lords can often use any means to make exclusive choices.

Seto Yuzhi nodded, and then sighed, "Mr. Akihara, remember when you were invited to join the Mystery Writers Association, what Miyagawa-sensei said was not all good things?"

Hiroto Akihara frowned and recalled, as if he had indeed heard this statement at the time.

But I didn't take it lightly at the time, after all, in my opinion, this kind of dispute between factions was still far away from me.

Seto Yuzhi continued: "After you were recommended by the three of us to join the association, you have been labeled as a moderate faction. And the radical faction to which Wada belongs, for the recent time that the Hehe Society has promoted the development of works of various genres. Very dissatisfied."

She paused, and then added: "So, asking you to vote for "Duet of Death" this time is a test for you."

"Testing?" Hiroto Akihara wondered, and then reacted, "Mr. Seto, what do you mean, they want to see if I will stick to Chairman Kawai's point of view?"

Kawai Shinta’s point of view is to treat works of all genres equally.But the point of view of the radicals is to only promote the Benge faction and suppress other factions.

I rejected Wada Nobu's voting proposal, and naturally rejected the radicals' proposition.

Seto Yuzhi said worriedly: "Mr. Akihara, you still have to pay attention later, I guess Nobuo Wada will not let it go."

Hiroto Akihara thought about it, and found that he didn't regret it.

After all, this award is related to his disciple's debut, and he also has a big difference in philosophy from the radical faction represented by Wada Nobu.

And now I am not that newcomer writer with no famous connections, what can the other party do to me?

He waved his hand with a smile, comforted Seto Yuzhi, and proposed to go to the izakaya now.

The two of them got into the high-end business car that came to pick them up.

But to Akihara Hiroto's surprise, Wada Nobu's revenge came faster than he imagined...

[Chapter 222.221 Jealous of newcomers? ]

A week after the judging of the Modern Mystery Literature Newcomer Award, Hiroto Akihara returned to his normal work and life, including participating in the signing event and going to Fuji TV to discuss scripts and other miscellaneous things.

But just when he was about to forget Wada Nobu, he received a call from Oshiro Lixiang.

"Teacher Akihara, I have something to tell you."

Hiroto Akihara was stunned, and asked, "Editor-in-Chief Oshiro, what happened?"

"Have you read the news? When Mr. Wada Nobu was interviewed, he thought that because you were jealous of the talent of the newcomer Okinawa Masakazu, you promoted the Modern Reasoning Literature Award to be awarded to worse works."