Chapter 38

Becoming an animated author can be regarded as a milestone for light novel writers. Not only can it increase the sales of novels, but it can also earn enough copyright fees.

At that time, he will be more confident to be independent.

"I don't know what the animated version of "Summer Returns" in this world will be like..."

He is very curious.

...

The next time Hikigaya Hachiman saw Gokou Ruri was the day before the comic exhibition. Her eyes were like a magic to destroy gods, and she exuded an unapproachable coldness.

"I don't think I have offended her?"

As for why this happened, he didn't figure it out for the time being, and could only think that the girl had reached a certain period.

Even if the tone changed slightly, the two sides still maintained a normal conversation.

"Hikigaya, comic exhibition, are you going?"

Gokou Ruri made the first invitation.

"If there is nothing urgent, I should go there. I can occasionally buy some interesting doujinshi there."

He replied.

"However, I won't help you with the stall this time."

Hikigaya Hachiman said it first.

"I don't need you! He's just a mortal. I can handle him easily."

Feeling a little embarrassed, Gokou Ruri retracted some of his chuuni power.

"By the way, how's the Newcomer Award?"

He suddenly thought.

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"Well, I was ranked ninth some time ago, and recently a work called "Love Metronome" suddenly jumped over my head."

Gokou Ruri answered while opening the website of the Newcomer Award, and saw the work "Love Metronome" at first sight.

"Is it already third? It seems that this person is also submitting for the first time. It's really good to have talent. You can easily write good works."

There is a sour taste in her words.

The more you experience, the more you can understand. There are too many unfair places in life!

Seeing the girl's appearance, Hikigaya Hachiman can probably guess what the girl's expression would be if she saw how Nayuta was treated.

At this time, of course, he would not talk about such things in front of her without emotional intelligence.

"I do agree with that."

He nodded and continued, "If you are ranked tenth, it will be a bit dangerous to debut. Although whether you can win the award in the end is mainly determined by the editors, data is still the basis."

"I know, if you can't pass, then wait for the next time."

Gokou Ruri sighed.

Reality is gradually smoothing the edges of the self-reliant girl.

"Even if you don't pass, you are close enough."

Hikigaya Hachiman comforted.

"Yeah."

Gokou Ruri looked up at him and nodded.

The atmosphere was inexplicably awkward.

On the first day of the comic exhibition, Hikigaya Hachiman and Gokou Ruri made an appointment to go out.

However, today's Gokou Ruri was different from usual. She wore a dark Gothic Lolita outfit and gray stockings on her feet, which was closer to the two-dimensional style.

"Cosplay?"

He raised his eyebrows.

"This is the costume of the Night Demon Queen."

Gokou Ruri answered the question irrelevantly.

"It doesn't matter, but are you going to wear this to the comic exhibition? It should be very hot."

He looked up at the sky and blocked the sun with one hand.

"It's okay, I will open the demonic curtain to protect myself from light and heat."

The girl said.

"Oh."

He looked indifferent.

It was midsummer, which was the hottest time of the year. Even in the morning, you could feel the sun shining down from the sky was quite hot.

But such an environment still couldn't stop the enthusiasm of the otakus. They flocked to the Tokyo International Exhibition Center and lined up in a long queue early in the morning.

"Fortunately, I can take another road, otherwise my demonic curtain might not be able to withstand such heat."

Goko Ruri glanced at the long queue and said faintly.

After all, it was not the first time for the two of them to come here, so they just sighed that there were so many people and then came to the rental booth.

"I'll go for a walk and come back later."

After the official start, Hikigaya Hachiman left the booth and let Goko solve the problem himself.

Last time, he was busy selling doujinshi, but he didn't really visit the comic exhibition, which caused him to miss a lot.

In fact, the comic exhibition is very large, with many areas. In addition to selling personal doujinshi, there are also special game clubs showing their latest games, company exhibitions, and places for COSERs to take pictures.

Hikigaya Hachiman was dazzled by the sights along the way, because he hadn't seen many things.

Half an hour passed quickly.

He accidentally came to another area, where the game club sold games.

Soon, he noticed a doujin game club called egoistic-lily.

In Hikigaya Hachiman's impression, this was a club specially set up by Eriri's mother for Eriri.

"That's great."

He envied such family affection, which was something he had never really felt.

He waited for a while and bought the doujin game that egoistic-lily was selling.

Of course, this was just a reward, not for generating electricity!

Of course, he really liked Kashiwagi Eri's paintings.

After buying some games and doujinshi, Hikigaya Hachiman felt bored and returned to the stall.

The pile of books on the long table was much less than before he left, indicating that Gogen had indeed grown up and was not as unkind as before.

"You did a good job. It seems that you have adapted to it."

He entered the stall and casually placed the plastic bag filled with things on the table.

"It's just to seduce a mere mortal."

Gogen Ruri looked down on him.

Just as Hikigaya Hachiman returned to the booth, a familiar customer arrived.

Eriri was still the same as the last comic exhibition, disguising her beautiful appearance with a hat and glasses.

"Is it you?"

Gokou Ruri also had an impression of this kind of person.

"I'll see how your new work is."

Eriri acted indifferent, reaching out to pick up the fan fiction for a trial reading.

"This time, it's okay."

She gave her true evaluation, then took out 1,000 yen and bought two copies like last time.

"Could this guy's subtext be that I wrote it very badly last time?"

Although she made money, Gokou Ruri felt a little unhappy.

On the first morning, near noon, a total of 400 fan fictions were sold out.

This time, the sales of Gokou Ruri's fan fiction increased exponentially compared to the last time, which was higher than the two had expected.

"It's probably because readers spread the word after returning."

He judged it.

"There are indeed many familiar faces among the people who come to buy books."

Gokou Ruri thought about it.

"Let's keep up the good work next time."

He gave a blessing.

In the evening, Hikigaya Hachiman logged into the Fuzuigawa Bunko Newcomer Award website for the first time in a long time.

He was somewhat interested in "Love Metronome" mentioned by Gokou Ruri, of course, because he had an impression of the creator of this work, Kasumigaoka Utaha.

The protagonists of the first volume of "Love Metronome" are only Naoto and Sayuka. The plot tells a short story about how the two met and fell in love. The content is full of adolescent girls' imagination of love. The dreamlike description makes people feel unreal and beautiful. It can be completely defined as a "science fiction" novel.

If it is defined in a simpler way...

"It's a complete YY article, and it's full of loopholes."

Hikigaya Hachiman made a comment after reading it.

As a light novel writer with a solid foundation, he can see that the impression of "Love Metronome" is just supported by the literary talent of Kasumigaoka Utaha, but it is easy to encounter bottlenecks if this is done.

The reason why it is so popular now is that the first volume is indeed well written, but that's all. If you want to continue this impression in the second volume, the difficulty will increase sharply.

He can't help but feel a little pity, this is clearly a waste of his own talent.

In his opinion, although Kasumigaoka Utaha's creative acumen is inferior to Ms. Yamada, her writing style is quite outstanding, absolutely at the level of "super high school level", and the two are similar in comprehensiveness.

Don't think this evaluation is very bad.

You know, although Ms. Yamada's combat effectiveness is a bit inflated, relying on the advantages of some themes and the full assistance of Elmi, as a best-selling writer with sales of over one million, she is already a rare existence in the industry.

It is worth mentioning that Ms. Yamada's talent has not been fully exerted. If she works hard enough, her combat effectiveness will not appear inflated.

"Da Da Da..."

Hikigaya Hachiman thought for a while, typed out a paragraph, and sent out his suggestions.

At present, this is all he can do.

Since his account has been verified, the comments he sent quickly attracted everyone's attention, and everyone worked hard to push his comments to the top.

"Look who this is! We caught you, old thief Yuese!"

"You are secretly reading love novels, right? Fortunately, I took a look at the comment area, otherwise I would have missed it."

"Everyone, please help push Yuese teacher to the top so that the author can see this message."

"Why don't you go and write the seventh volume! Who told you to read novels secretly!"

"No wonder I always feel something is wrong after reading "Love Metronome". Now that I hear what Yuese teacher said, I roughly understand."

"Who are you? Do you like to teach people?"

"The author has achieved good results and will most likely make his debut in the future. I hope he can listen to Lao Zei's advice, otherwise it would be a pity if his debut is cut short."

Just a few days later, the author of "Love Metronome" logged into his own writer account.

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