Tokyo life starting with painting

For Higashinoji, he doesn't have to worry about whether all his identities are exposed.

After all, he had done nothing wrong, so there was no need to hide it.

If it needs to be exposed, let the media reporters expose it.

As long as it doesn't interfere with their normal lives with Higashino Chihaya, they can be exposed as much as they want, and Higashinoji has nothing to do with it.

Compared to such trivial matters, Higashinoji was more concerned about the good news reported by Hosokawa Koharu.

""The Lonely Gourmet" received 724 votes on "Green Leaf"? It surpassed the record of "Midnight Ring" with 696 votes? "The Ring" sold 150,000 copies this week? The cumulative sales in two weeks were 25,000. Ten thousand copies? Ranked third in comics sales last week on the Oricon list?"

When hearing these two pieces of news, Higashikata was quite surprised.

A bit surprised indeed.

The first is "The Lonely Gourmet". It is shocking that it surpassed the previous record set by "The Ring" and received 696 votes.

You must know that the readership statistics before "The Ring" directly broke the record in the publishing history of Urashima Publishing House, and this is equivalent to Higashino breaking the record again.

"The Lonely Gourmet" is in the monthly "Green Leaf", and "The Ring" is in the weekly "Chill". Although the two works are not in the same magazine, even so they are already terrifying.

Because the maximum number of support votes counted for each comic, whether it is "Abominable Cold" or "Aoba", is only one thousand votes.

This is equivalent to 72.4% of readers who read "Green Leaves" supporting "The Lonely Gourmet".

This is already a terrifying proportion.

After all, it’s not for nothing that it’s difficult to agree with others. 72% of readers support it.

"What I didn't expect was that "The Lonely Gourmet" actually broke the original record and climbed even higher."

But Higashino tried to look at the problem from another angle.

As a horror comic, "The Ring" will drive away some readers in a sense.

"The Lonely Gourmet" is basically very popular among young people and young adults.

Even if a high school student cannot understand the difficulties of social animals in "The Lonely Gourmet", he will still be attracted by the food.

As for whether "The Lonely Gourmet" can break through 700 in the end, even Higashino has no idea if the support rate reaches 800 votes.

Because in my impression, there seems to be no comic that can get 800 votes.

On the other hand, "Midnight Ring" directly ranked third among comics in terms of weekly sales. In other words, according to last week's stand-alone sales statistics, "Midnight Ring" was weaker than one or two old classic comics.

There is nothing we can do about it. Those classic comics are often serialized for one or two years and have a large fan base. Once a single volume is released, many fans buy it. It is normal that "Midnight Ring" cannot compare for the time being.

However, since "Midnight Ring" has achieved the third best sales result of the Oricon manga single line this week, Higashino estimates that "Midnight Ring" has already been marked by Akamaru.

The so-called Akamaru is actually a feature of Japan's Oricon. If the sales of a topic or a work increase rapidly, there will be a sign of Akamaru's rapid rise.

"Chief Editor Urashima originally planned to visit Mr. Higashino at your home, but I decided to inform you of the news directly considering that you are still in Kumamoto Prefecture, so I had no choice but to give it up."

As Hosokawa Koharu spoke, he looked at the Kumamon peripherals brought over by Higashinoji.

The black, chubby Kumamon looked particularly cute, and she fell in love with it at first sight. She also lamented Higashinoji's talent. She really didn't know how his brain grew. When Kumamon was designing, "Midnight Ring" 》The update has not been interrupted.

"It is indeed good news." Higashinoji smiled and nodded: "All of this was made possible by the help of Editor Hosokawa. I am very grateful to you for the front page."

After hearing Higashinoji's words, Hosokawa Koharu's first reaction was to open his mouth, and then he glanced to the left and right. After not noticing the editor, he whispered, "Please Higashino-sensei, please stop saying that."

Yes, she didn't like Higashinoji saying this.

Perhaps Higashinoji doesn't know that not only reporters, but also many colleagues have invited her to dinner recently, all wanting to know from her how she cultivated a talented writer like Higashinoji.

Seeing the curious expressions on the faces of those particularly qualified seniors, Hosokawa Koharu almost choked to death.

Although she likes to socialize, you have to ask me how I raised Toyoshi

Then I don't understand it at all.

But she couldn't say that she completely let Higashinoji go - if she said that, other editors would definitely think that Hosokawa Koharu was perfunctory with them.

But if you don't say that

So what can be done?

It is true that Hosokawa Koharu has never trained Higashinoji. No matter whether the other party delivers the manuscript or the quality of the completion, Hosokawa Koharu does not need to worry about it.

Even if Hosokawa Koharu was sometimes slow to receive manuscripts, Higashinoji would take the initiative to come to Urashima to publish social manuscripts, looking more anxious than being an editor.

It is simply the conscience of the industry.

Hosokawa Koharu sometimes feels an inexplicable sense of crisis because he is too ambitious.

Maybe Higashinoji doesn't know, but now Urashima's editorial department has secretly nicknamed him Higashino Printing Machine.

Some people joked that Tonoji was a printing machine that would spit out high-quality manga manuscripts from its mouth regardless of whether it was there.

Some editors also teased Hosokawa Koharu, telling her to pay close attention to Higashinoji's movements and not to cultivate a pillar author only to be poached by others.

After all, the current "Abominable Cold" and "Aoba" are inseparable from Higashinoji.

Maybe something like a tree vine will happen.

Of course, Tonoji didn't know about the joke about the editor of Urashima Publishing House. When Hosokawa Koharu asked him not to say it again, he just thought that the other party was a little embarrassed, so he smiled and brushed it off casually.

After chatting in the editorial department for five or six minutes, Higashinoji left.

Hosokawa Koharu also has something to do, and Tonoji is of course embarrassed to continue disturbing him.

Before leaving, Hosokawa Koharu also suddenly asked Higashinoji: "Teacher Higashino, since you don't care about your identity being exposed, would you like to contact the news media in the name of our Urashima Publishing House and give you an exclusive interview?"

After all, this is also good for the reputation of Urashima Publishing House. The name of Kumamon designer Higashino Tsukasa has spread throughout Japan.

"Okay." Higashino nodded. He never cared about this kind of thing. It has already been exposed, so it is better to burn the fire even brighter.

"Then how about Saturday next week?" Hosokawa Koharu thought for a while and determined the specific time.

Higashinoji doesn't have to go to school on Saturdays and Sundays, so he is naturally free to give interviews.

Higashino agreed to this request and then left Urashima Publishing House.

This time, because of Hosokawa Koharu's reminder, Higashinoji really felt some eyes on him.

Presumably these are the reporters she was talking about.

But Higashinoji didn't care, and he quickly left Urashima Publishing House with his shoulder bag.

Anyway, I have to be interviewed by Urashima Publishing House on Saturday, so there is no point in paying attention to them anymore.

Back to Tokyo for the second day.

Today Higashinoji plans to go to Kita Gymnasium for classes.

Although Higashinoji had Ryuichi Yoshimine's approval, it would be difficult for Ryuichi Yoshimine if he kept putting off going to school.

Higashinoji's emotional intelligence is not that low yet, so he has to go to school today anyway.

As for why he didn't go directly to Kitajuku yesterday, it was because he had just returned home and there were still many chores at home that needed Tonoji to solve.

For example, it is not easy to find a place for those Kumamoto Prefecture specialties and toys that Higashino Chihaya likes.

Yesterday, Higashinoji was busy until seven or eight o'clock in the evening.

"Then I'm going to school." Higashinoji said hello to Higashino Chihaya, then closed the door and left for Kita Gym.

After two weeks of busy work, Higashinoji felt that going to school was quite comfortable. After all, when he was studying, he only had to think about studying, but when he was working, he had to think about all kinds of things.

However - this idea completely changed when Higashinoji walked to the door of Kitajuku.

Looking at the door of Kita Gym ahead of me, it said, "Congratulations to our student Higashino Tsukasa for winning the Kumamoto Prefecture mascot design!" ’ Dabai Banner, Higashinoji just felt that the whole person was a little bit bad.

The Japanese regard white as a symbol of solemnity, so when celebrating, they usually give a white banner, a white vertical banner, but when Higashinoji looked over, the black text on a white background looked very much like an elegiac couplet.

In particular, the Kumamon logo designed by Higashinoji was added to the back of the white cloth, which made him feel even more weird.

But forget it.

Tonoji shook his head.

He had already understood some of the propaganda methods of Kitajuku, so Tonoji didn't pay much attention to it and walked directly to the school.

As soon as he walked in, Higashinoji could clearly feel the crowd of people looking at him from time to time.

As soon as many students saw him, their eyes lit up and they gathered together to discuss in a low voice.

This was within Higashinoji's expectations.

He had previously thought about his reputation in Kitajuku after Kumamon became popular, and in addition, he had won a double gold medal at the Tokyo Youth Art Award before, so it was not surprising that it only caused discussion among students.

Just like this, he stumbled back to his class. Tonoji sat down at his desk with his shoulder bag.

Then he was stopped by Hou Yuanzhong, who was considered his only friend in the class.

"Hey! Dongye! You are famous this time."

"That's not the case." Higashino smiled and slapped away Goharazaka's hand on his shoulder.

"What's wrong! Do you know how famous you are now? Some of my classmates when I was in junior high school heard that I was studying in Beiyi Junior High School, and they all asked me about you! There are a few that I thought were special before. The beautiful girl asked me for your contact information. Do you know how exaggerated it is?"

Hou Yuanzhong gestured exaggeratedly: "In just a few days, my circle of friends suddenly expanded. My former uncles and aunts - even my mother is a little curious about your Kumamon designs. When can I get out of the peripherals?"

Yes, Hou Yuanzhong has been depressed these days.

In the past, parents compared him with the children next door, but now they simply compare him with Higashinoji.

Even if he does well in recent exams, his parents will say, ‘Can’t you just be like your classmate Higashikata? It doesn’t matter what other people do. Anyway, Hou Yuanzhong was really tortured and his face was blank.

But these are not the most important.

There are also quite a few women who want to know when Higashinoji's "Kumamon" will be released as peripheral products, such as keychains and the like.

They really liked that stupid and cute little bear so much that they almost broke out of the circle.

The Japanese rice circle is different from the rice circle in Higashinoji's previous life. Japanese people are particularly motivated.

He asked Hou Yuanzhong whenever he got the chance. These days, girls who had some connections came to ask him, ranging from his aunt in her thirties to girls of the same age in their teens.

It made Hou Yuanzhong feel that his romantic period was coming.

"Is it that exaggerated?" Looking at Go Yuanzhong's face full of doubts about life, Higashino just laughed twice.

"You're still laughing?" Hou Yuanzhong shook his head speechlessly.

"Sorry, your experience is indeed quite interesting." Higashinoji smiled and waved his hands, then took out a large bag of Kumamon peripherals from his shoulder bag.

He had already considered this situation, so he brought plenty of people around Kumamon.

"This is a trial work of Kumamon made by those manufacturers. I took some back. Anyway, I don't want to pay you any part of it, Gohara-san."

"Really?" Hou Yuanzhong's expression became excited. Without saying a word, he crossed part of the way, still thanking him on his mouth: "Dongye! You are indeed my good brother! I will never forget you!"

Then he clasped his hands together and prayed with a funny look on his face: "Whether it's asking God Bodhisattva or God Jesus, I'm not asking God Higashino for help!"

"That's what you said." Higashino glanced at this guy: "Are you going to take so much?"

Goharazhong took a lot of Kumamon peripherals. Although it was nothing compared to Higashinoji's big bag, it was still enough for more than a dozen people.

So Tonoji was also a little curious.

"Of course it works. My girlfriend has always been thinking about Kumamon peripherals, and there are also Sato, Kusakabe, Nakagawa and the aunts my mother knows from the school next door."

He said it like a treasure trove, which made Toyoji feel amused, so he joked: "You are indeed in your prime, there are aunts in their thirties."

"Tsk, don't say that." Goharazhong glanced at Higashinoji in displeasure, then whispered to him, "Look around you and you will know how popular 'Kumamon' is recently."

Um?

Higashikata was stunned for a moment after hearing what he said.

Then he suddenly looked around.

The classmates around him seemed to be looking at the pack of Kumamon peripherals in his hand.

And the expression——

Are you all quite eager?

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