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It has only been a few days since Kyosuke Hojo won the highest award in the neon mystery literature world, but the popularity in newspapers, magazines and the Internet is still brewing. This is the case with awards in the literary world. Although writers have a high social status, to be honest, not many people pay attention to these awards every day.

Usually after the awards are over, various media outlets continue to report, and then people around them spread the word in the form of "Did you hear? Mr. Hojo won the Mystery Association Award."

People who didn’t read novels at all in the past went to convenience stores or bookstores to buy magazines in the morning and saw a “dressed up” novel filled with various honors next to them. They would also pay a little attention to take a look and see that it was actually this year. When your work is rewarded by the Mystery Writers Association, you will immediately understand:

Oh, it turns out that the new king of mystery novels has ascended the throne.

Then put it together with comic magazines, or cover it up with pornographic magazines.

As early as the 1980s and 1990s, almost 99% of IT workers were readers of comic magazines. The overlap between readers who buy magazines and readers who buy other books is very large. In addition, mystery novels have their own "scientific" attributes, which are also works favored by this group of people.

In short, the popularity of the Neon Mystery Writers Association Award half a week ago has finally reached its climax until today, the second day after the release of Hojo Kyosuke’s new manga.

And because of the addition of new comics as a new event, the trend is getting stronger.

Hojo Kyosuke's mystery novel "The Dream and Death of Writer K", which caused a crazy debate between the two parties during the award evaluation period, is also being discussed by all parties.

The Asahi Shimbun, an old acquaintance with whom we had a great cooperation, did not hesitate to praise him in newspapers and its weekly magazines. He directly and clearly praised Hojo Kyosuke for creating a new genre of mystery novels:

"Quasi reasoning!"

These shocking words and titles came from an old acquaintance of Hojo Kyosuke, the ace critic of the Asahi Shimbun, a professor of the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo, and a well-known translator and novelist Futami Jiraiya.

On the day after the awards ceremony, the Asahi Shimbun’s morning paper directly published his article:

"...Congratulations to Mr. Kyousuke Hojo for winning the 68th Neon Mystery Writers Association Award, which is highly anticipated..."

First of all, there was a series of congratulations and praises. The old man said proudly that he had foreseen this day a long time ago. By the way, he also named the "Sanzai Shimbun" and their writer Matsumoto Motohiro. He commented on the other person's previous comments and angrily criticized the other person's poor cultural accomplishment.

After feeling proud and proud for a while, he began to seriously discuss Hojo Kyosuke and his award-winning works.

"...Although the winning work is Mr. Hojo's debut novel "The Devotion of Suspect X", what I want to discuss with you is Mr. Hojo's second mystery novel "The Dream and Death of Writer K". Because, we often A short-lived flash in the pan is used to describe a writer who has disappeared from the public after his debut. One-time success cannot explain anything, and the isolated evidence is unclear.

At that time, there were many discussions on whether Mr. Hojo could win the Mystery Association Award. They also say that he lacks sophistication, and that his novels are too good to be compared with serious literature. But those who know the inside story will know that the real difficulty, what the judges who hold the right to vote really consider, is actually the nature of the work "The Devotion of Suspect X" itself.

Is this novel based on character reasoning? Or social reasoning? Or is it simply not a mystery novel?

Or is it that Hojo Kyosuke actually has a true heart, but he really doesn’t have the strength, so he has to become a socialist, so he comes up with such nondescript things?

The judges' perspective on things is naturally different from that of ordinary readers. If they cannot see a person's official face clearly, they will not easily cast their votes..."

Futami Jiraiya is worthy of being his own critic. As he is a university professor and a well-known cultural figure, he can tell some secrets of the judges. He knows what readers like to see. If we honestly analyze the advantages of Hojo Kyousuke's opponents' works, and how he should win the prize... Who would like to see this kind of thing?

There has to be something explosive, either shady or shocking and endless.

"...But we know that when public opinion and the situation were very unfavorable to Mr. Hojo, he directly and resolutely released his second mystery novel "The Dream and Death of Writer K"

I don’t know what other people think about this, except myself. I stood at the door of the bookstore and looked at the poster of this new book. I seemed to hear Teacher Hojo’s voice in my ears, “Come on, don’t you want to know who I am? Want to know what my book looks like? How can just reading one book be enough? Read one more book! 』

As I said at the beginning, to evaluate a writer, you must not just look at one of his works, because that will only get a short-lived evaluation at best.

But with the appearance of "The Dream and Death of Writer K", when I read it for the first time, I had only one thought in my mind:

"Great, it's Mr. Hojo, the neon reasoning world is saved!" 』

This is Mr. Hojo's reply to all criticisms, and it is also the best proof of his own literary level.

Next, I will solemnly introduce to you a new school that was born from the corpse of the Honkaku sect and emerged from the exclamations of the Socialist sect—"Hojo Mystery"! !

It has the most original plot, but at the same time reasoning is used as a tool to portray characters and advance the plot. The focus is on the social level.

Before I explain the content of "Hojo Reasoning" to you in detail, I have to emphasize that although this is a new school, it is by no means a school that everyone can easily get involved in learning. Because both the requirements for conspiracy and the design of plot characters have very strict requirements. To put it simply:

If you can already write the excellent tricks in Mr. Hojo's two works, then there is no need to go to all the trouble of character design and plot. Vice versa, if you can portray such excellent characters and design such a profound plot, there is no need to write mystery novels at all.

I have a sentence that may offend some people, but I really don’t feel comfortable saying it:

Hojo Kyosuke, genius is his first name and willfulness is his middle name.

These two mystery novels, especially the second one, have three perfect tricks in a row, so willful and reckless, they are simply showing off their skills..."

Even though the neon people without advertising laws have long been accustomed to various "world first" gimmicks and are no strangers to various exaggerated nicknames, nonsense like Futami Jiraiya There are really not many words.

A new genre of mystery novels, the founder of which is comparable to Matsumoto Seicho...

If readers hadn't watched TV Asahi's program and knew that Futami Jiraiya and Hojo Kyousuke did have a good personal relationship with such wild talk, they would have thought it was despicable flattery.

Fortunately, this article was published after the award ceremony. If it had been before, Hojo Kyousuke would have sent Kisaki to kill the opponent immediately. After all, this is what the neon society despises the most. Don't look at how everyone respects Matsumoto Seicho now when they mention him. Time goes back to when the other party debuted.

Futami Jiraiya seemed to have expected this scene a long time ago, so he ran out with a shocking bomb that day, and after explaining "Hojo's reasoning", he didn't speak again. Until today, the third chapter of Hojo Kyosuke's new comic "Detective Conan" was released The next day, he appeared on an evening program on TV Asahi.

The program started with an interview with a passerby, and the interviewee’s pseudonym was “Xiao Lin.”

Xiao Lin: I was sleeping this morning, but it wasn’t actually morning. I remember it was already one o’clock at noon. Speaking of which, it is really comfortable and completely enjoyable to sleep at home instead of going out to play during the holidays. On the contrary, those who go out to play look like their kidneys are exhausted every time they return to the company after taking a vacation. It's really...

Reporter: Well, Kobayashi-san, Kobayashi-san!

Xiaolin: Ah, oh, I forgot to talk about the real thing. In short, I am enjoying my nap at one o'clock during the Golden Week. In fact, I have been sleeping since last night until now!

Reporter: Kobayashi-san! Everyone knows that no one asked you to go out during the Golden Week, and you have been bored at home and slept. Now please get down to business!

Xiao Linsang, who was confused by the mosaic, was obviously stunned, and then immediately started yelling. He had so many friends. Although he never left home, everyone was playing together on the Internet. In fact, there was a huge gap between them. The distance is thousands of miles, just saying a word is equivalent to a trip, okay!

Then he talked about a lot of happy past events between him and netizens, which made the reporter apologize repeatedly and almost caused a broadcast accident. Actually no, this kind of interview is very relaxing to begin with, it is just the effect of the program. Maybe the passers-by being interviewed are played by TV station staff.

After making a fuss for a while, Xiao Lin finally started talking about business.

Xiaolin: Anyway, last night I was exhausted from fighting with my friends all night in Wild Wolf Valley. I was sleeping happily when I was suddenly woken up by a phone call. You will never guess who called me!

Reporter: Is this the company’s overtime call?

Xiaolin: ...No way! It’s Xiao Mei-san, the cutest girl in our department!

Reporter: Oh, did Xiao Meisang call to ask you to go back to the company and work overtime?

Xiaolin: I know you, you bastard, are trying to understand me, thinking that an ordinary person like me would never receive a call from a beautiful woman in the company during the holidays for personal matters.

Reporter: No, no, no, I definitely didn’t mean that.

Xiaolin: But it doesn’t matter, because you guessed wrong! After Xiaomei called me, she didn't say anything about the company at all.

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Reporter: Could it be...?

Kobayashi: Mei has been talking about Mr. Hojo.

Reporter: Hahahahahaha——

Xiaolin: Are you laughing at me? I won’t do interviews anymore, and I don’t want supermarket shopping coupons anymore. You bastard, go do the interviews yourself!

Reporter: No, no, no, Kobayashi-san, please rest assured. We reporters have professional ethics and have received professional training. Even if we really want to laugh, we will not laugh unless...

Kobayashi: Unless?

Reporter: Unless a cute female colleague from the company called me on the weekend, but ended up talking about another boy. Hahahahahaha...

Xiaolin: Post it! You're looking for trouble, you bastard!

The two of them were having a bit of a fuss. That's what this type of TV show is. It's not prime time in the first place. It relies entirely on bad work to attract ratings and sell ads. Like the content of this issue, maybe the advertising slogan later will be "Want to be invited by female colleagues to go drinking on the weekend? xx perfume, a perfect scent that will never be rejected by women!"

Integrity has nothing to do with media people.

After the reporter promised to add another shopping coupon, Xiaolin returned to the camera.

Xiao Lin: After getting through the phone, Xiao Mei asked me directly if I was a mystery fan? I was ecstatic at the time, thinking that Xiaomei might also like me secretly, otherwise why would she know that I like mystery novels? But just when I wanted to show off my profound knowledge of reasoning, I heard Xiaomei ask me, "Xiaolin-kun, if you are a mystery fan, you must have read "Detective Conan"! Ahhh, I have never known mystery comics before. It’s so beautiful!”

I was immediately stunned. When I heard "Detective Conan", I was still wondering why I hadn't heard of this mystery novel? But...mystery comics? What is that? Can mystery comics also be considered mystery?

As a mystery fan, my dignity and persistence made me unable to bear Xiaomei's tarnishing of "reasoning", and I was immediately ready to reprimand her severely.

Xiao Lin on the TV was waving his arms and speaking in an impassioned tone. The audience can also understand his mood, after all, this is what the circle is like.

Reporter: But...?

Upon hearing this question, Xiao Lin immediately lowered his head and his tone became a hundred times weaker.

Xiaolin: But... Xiaomei is so cute! Let me tell you, it’s not that I have no integrity, it’s that you have no idea how cute Xiaomei is! Since Xiaomei joined our department, I have never bought my own coffee! Because every morning the delivery man will bring more than ten cups of coffee from Xiaomei’s suitor!

So, when I listened to Xiaomei's voice over there, I unconsciously thought that compared to mystery novels, the orthodoxy of mystery is indeed in comics.

While listening to Xiaomei's excited discussion of "Detective Conan", I quickly turned on my computer and started searching, but found that it was a comic that was serialized not long ago. There wasn't much specific content on the Internet, so I immediately ran downstairs and bought a copy of "The Weekly" "Youth high" is coming.

Finally, I can happily chat with my little sister.

Reporter: Congratulations, Kobayashi-san. Shared interests and hobbies are the first step in establishing a relationship!

Kobayashi: Yes, that's what I thought at the time. While I was watching "Detective Conan" quickly, I thought that with all the mystery novels I had read and the many murder techniques I knew, Xiaomei would definitely be able to impress me.

Reporter: But...?

Xiao Lin: You bastard? Are you laughing at me again? How could there be so many twists and turns? Did you think you were writing a novel? Will there be more twists and turns? I'm going to kill you. Do you really look down on me and think I'm not good enough for Xiaomei?

Reporter: Yes.

Xiaolin: Okay, I know you don't look down on me, but you are not allowed to talk anymore... huh? etc? What did you say?

Reporter: I asked you to continue.

Kobayashi: After reading "Detective Conan", I actually feel that it is a pretty good mystery manga, and it is indeed the work of Mr. Hojo. Then I asked Xiaomei what she thought looked good. And do you know what Xiaomei said?

At this time, Xiao Lin's voice took on a crying tone:

She said: Kudo Shinichi is so handsome, Xiaolan is so beautiful, Conan is so cute, and even Mouri Kogoro is so handsome. (End of chapter)