I Am a Light Novel Master in Japan Chapter 317

[Ahem... The Summer Doujinshi Fair is about to start in late June, and I'm still preparing the works for the exhibition... But I always feel that there are not enough people at that time, and I don't know if I can fully recover from the cold, so at that time you Come over and help me... Also, what's more urgent is tomorrow. There will be a gathering of cartoonists and illustrators in Tokyo tomorrow. It is an exchange meeting jointly organized by major comics clubs and libraries. I was invited , Shiina must have also been invited. As a cartoonist who has just started in the industry, it should have been more appropriate to go there, but now I have a cold like this... So, Otaku Li, you are my partner, in my name, help me go there Take part. 】

Ying Lili said to Li Yan while coughing.

"...Is this possible? Can I use your name to help you attend?" Li Yan was silent for a while and asked.

[Yes, I'm sorry. Please help me participate tomorrow, Sunday... By the way, remember, when asked who will replace me, I will use the pen name of Eri Kashiwagi. Don't tell me my real name, okay? ? 】

After Li Yan chatted with Ying Lili for a while and roughly understood the address and program, he put down his phone.

Tomorrow, I will go out to attend the cartoonist's banquet on behalf of Eiriri who has a cold. Although I feel that as a novelist, it is a bit abrupt for him to enter and exit that occasion, but Eiriri's works have finally gained a good reputation, and it is necessary for him to show up as a newcomer, otherwise in the Japan, a country that pays attention to seniority and formal etiquette, may be considered arrogant by the comics club and other cartoonists, so there is nothing wrong with leaving him as a partner to attend instead.

Chapter 186 [Ghost] Uesugi Yan

In the early morning, with the light rain that fell last night, although it was already sunny, the streets were still a little wet.

However, bustling crowds are all over the streets and alleys of this city, and the exquisite buildings are filled with a dazzling array of shops and restaurants. This is the Shibuya District in Tokyo. As one of the most famous holy places for Japanese pop culture, it is also a As a place where food, leisure, department stores and other major businesses gather, outsiders will be overwhelmed by this bustling scene once they come out of the subway.

Therefore, many important banquets will be held in Shibuya.

When he walked out of the subway entrance, the first thing Li Yan saw was a group of exquisite see-through high-rise buildings, as well as tourists from all over the world, and office workers walking in a hurry. No matter when they come, here It's all a busy scene.

After a good day's rest, Li Yan went out and headed to a hotel in Shibuya to attend a cartoonist exchange event as a representative of Eri Kashiwagi.

However, this was also his first time in Shibuya. After all, most of the luxury goods or commercial areas where he visited were not places where he had the financial ability to spend money.

"Let me see how to go..."

Standing next to the subway entrance, Li Yan wore a mask and searched the name of the hotel where the banquet was held on his mobile phone. After all, he was just a foreigner who had never been to many places.

Among the people coming and going, there was a figure looking left and right, realizing that this young man who seemed to be contactable was not far away.

"Sorry, senior!"

Suddenly, a lively and polite female voice came from beside Li Yan while he was still conducting a GPS search.

"?"

Li Yan was slightly startled and looked over, only to find that it was a short-haired junior high school girl whom he did not recognize.

This junior high school girl is quite pretty. She is wearing summer casual clothes and carrying a blue backpack on her shoulders. Just from the sense of sight, you can feel the lively temperament emanating from her body, which makes her People feel smart and cheerful.

【Beep beep beep~~】

Suddenly, the editing system in the consciousness suddenly reacted, and the emotions were like those of a person in an illusory world, but in this world, they were real.

"Hello, what's the matter?" Li Yan asked curiously, facing her.

"Haha, hello, this is actually my first time here. Excuse me...do you know there is an international hotel called [Delite]? I know this hotel is located in the Shibuya area of ​​Tokyo, but I came here After Tokyo, when I was locating my location, I discovered that there didn’t seem to be a hotel named Dellite in Shibuya area. Now my phone is dead because I was playing games on the road... Aha, so, can I ask if there is a hotel with this name in this area? ?"

The junior high school girl smiled politely, took out her turned off mobile phone, showed it to Li Yan, and asked.

It seemed that she had just come out of the subway. Like Li Yan, she was completely unfamiliar with this area. Judging from her local accent, Li Yan always felt like he had heard this accent somewhere.

"Delite... let me check, um... no, there is indeed no hotel named Dellite in this area. Little sister, are you sure the hotel you are looking for is called this one?"

After Li Yan searched back and forth on his mobile phone, he determined that there was no such hotel and continued to ask.

"Ah...that...it seems that I may have remembered it wrong. After all, I heard it from my classmate. I don't know if she said it correctly..."

The junior high school girl hesitated and scratched her cheek at first. After she felt more and more that she had heard wrong, she stuck out her tongue slightly in embarrassment and spoke frankly.

"Then maybe I heard it wrong, or maybe the location is not in Shibuya. Do you have any other clues that I can search for, such as which hotel has iconic decorations?" Li Yan looked at her, asked.

When the junior high school girl heard this, she immediately smiled and said: "Actually, I came here to see my favorite cartoonist. I heard that there was a cartoonist's party held in Tokyo, so I came over to take a look, but it seems that the information is online It hasn’t been made public very much, and I only found out about it from her father’s classmate who works in a comic club, so I rushed over to see if this could be a clue.”

"Forehead……"

Li Yan was stunned for a moment and stared blankly at this junior high school girl.

This hotel is indeed easy to identify. It is almost the only one in Shibuya area, and it is also the destination of Li Yan's trip. However, what surprised Li Yan was that this time it was a coincidence that the girl who was a junior high school student who asked for directions happened to be going to the same place as him.

"...I know this, but you probably heard the name wrong."

Li Yan hesitated for a moment and replied: "Although the Japanese and English are somewhat overlapped... That hotel is called [Margarita] International Hotel, not Dellite. It is located near Shibuya 117 Building, probably Just start from here. After walking one mile that way, cross the traffic light and go north. After encountering the second intersection, go right for about 300 meters, and then take the third fork to 120 meters. , keep walking to the right, and you can probably see it.”

"..."

The girl who was a junior high school student was stunned for a moment. Li Yan also found the best route just now by checking the map. In terms of the time it takes, it is better to take a ride than to walk there, but this is a route that is too easy to remember. Li Yan is very I almost remembered it, but this teenage girl was completely lost in Li Yan's gestures.

"...Um, I, I probably remembered it, eh...it turned out to be called Margaret Hotel. No wonder I can't find it. It's a little embarrassing." The girl who was born in junior high school seemed to be hiding something, afraid of disturbing this person. Strange passers-by, she said with a shy smile.

"Isn't this an expression that I haven't remembered at all?" Li Yan looked at her reaction. After having been in contact with Satania and other juniors for a long time, he could tell at a glance what this girl was thinking.

After a moment of silence, he finally compromised. It was somewhat inconvenient to lead the way to a strange girl who was a junior high school student. After all, the other party was more or less wary of him, but he still couldn't bear it and lowered his head. Looking at her, he asked: "If you don't mind, if your phone happens to be out of battery, can I take you there? I don't mean anything else. I can only say that it's a coincidence. I happen to have someone to go there on my behalf." some things."

The junior high school girl blinked her eyes in surprise. Li Yan originally thought that he had been misunderstood when he was chatting up, but he did not expect that the girl immediately smiled happily and nodded and said: "Ah... is it true?! I won’t bother you, it will be a big help!”

Li Yan was slightly stunned. This girl actually agreed, and he was slightly relieved. After all, it is very common in Japan for such behavior to be misunderstood as chatting up. It is a good thing that the other party is not so glass-hearted.

"Well, I understand what senior is worried about. After all, I'm worried about others misunderstanding. It's okay. I'm not a fool. Since it's an international hotel, it must be on a very conspicuous street. It's very safe, so senior doesn't have to worry so much. of."

This girl noticed Li Yan's concerns and comforted him with a smile.

Out of politeness, she put her hands behind her waist and said with a smile: "Let me introduce myself. My name is Hikigaya, from Chiba Prefecture. Please give me your advice, senior."

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The crowded streets were filled with blond-haired, blue-eyed tourists, or tourists speaking Chinese and Korean. Among them were Japanese people who went out for shopping during the holidays, making the originally wide streets seem a bit crowded.

"Senior, did you go to that hotel to see your favorite cartoonist? I met many fans along the way who planned to go there to get autographs from the cartoonist."

This junior high school girl named Hikigaya asked curiously while looking left and right while following Li Yan in the somewhat crowded street.

After all, he was a passerby. As a junior, Hikigaya briefly introduced himself and found out that the senior who looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old had the surname Uesugi. When she was at the subway entrance, she took the risk of coming to Tokyo alone to ask for an autograph. But when he realized that he might have misremembered the name of the hotel and was helpless, he noticed this young man with a mask who was similar in age and had sharp eyes. He was well-dressed, especially his eyes that were not likely to be approached by others. But this girl who was born in junior high school felt a sense of intimacy with her, probably similar to her brother's dead fish eyes, so she went over to inquire about him, and found out that he was indeed a good person.

Although she is still a junior high school student, she has always had a good eye for seeing people.

"I also like to read comics, but this time I went there on behalf of a friend. Hikigaya, did your favorite manga artist attend that party?"

After Li Yan had been in contact with her for a period of time, he seemed to like a junior high school student with such a personality, and asked about her a little bit.

"Yeah, there are many, such as Hoshino-sensei who drew "The Exorcist", Sai-sensei from "Harano-kun Does Not Need a Partner", Aoyama-sensei from "Devil Detective Agency", Wataru from "Shiki Sword" Teacher Bian, and... Teacher Kashiwagi who came out from the book market and whose comic is called "Soul Eater" are all my favorite cartoonists!"

Hikigaya nodded, and then mentioned the works and names of many cartoonists, his eyes sparkling a little, as if he really liked these works, so much so that he came all the way from Chiba to see the author.

Li Yan discovered that this junior high school girl liked mostly male-oriented current comic books, and the author of the comic book "Devil Detective Agency", Mio Aoyama, seemed to be the pen name of Shiina Mashiro, and Aoyama's surname was taken from Roommates Nanami Aoyama, and Mio, imply the meaning of zero, which is blank. Mashiro's name also shows how important Nanami is to her in Mashiro's mind.

And the comic book "Soul Eater" is naturally the work of Ying Lili.