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Chapter 224 Can we kill everyone in front of us (4000 words)

"Lemon" has been recorded, so I turn my attention slightly and focus on Higashinoji's "Unnatural Death" again.

After five episodes of warm-up, the sales volume of the third volume of "Unnatural Death" by Higashinoji has remained at around 1.56 million.

This value did not surprise the publisher or those in the industry. They have already admitted that "Unnatural Death" is indeed a phenomenal comic, so it is normal for its average volume sales to remain at more than 1.5 million. of.

But on this basis, some people have come up with new ideas. Can Higashinoji maintain the sales of "Unnatural Death" and continue to increase the average volume sales?

Many people rejected this point just after thinking about it.

The average sales volume of 1.5 million volumes is already phenomenal. Is it a bit too much for you to continue to climb higher? Do you not take other publishing houses seriously?

Many people in the industry agree that unless "Unnatural Death" has something hidden, it will be impossible to continue to move forward.

And even if you climb up, what will happen?

The sales history of Japanese comics is there. The average sales volume of 1.5 million volumes is just enough to enter the top ten. If you go further, the average sales volume of 2 million volumes will be the ceiling of Japanese comics. Do you want "Unnatural Death" to create That record?

There are some who are positive and some who are negative. Of course, the majority are negative.

But this is just a very ordinary discussion, and not everyone in the industry is staring at "Unnatural Death".

At this time, the incident of the Happy Cake Factory that Higashinoji carefully prepared finally began to be officially serialized.

The plot of this episode is actually relatively straightforward compared to the previous three episodes, and the reasoning process is relatively simple.

Since the reasoning process is relatively simple, in turn, in this episode, the number of scenes about human emotions and how people survive in society has greatly increased.

This is also the most important reason why this sentence is so sensational.

Sano is an employee of a factory called Happy Honey Cake. However, because Happy Honey Cake is very popular both on the Internet and on TV, various orders are constantly coming in. He often works until midnight before going home to rest.

One day, Sano suddenly died in a traffic accident. However, because the motorcycle insurance had expired, and Sano did not purchase life insurance, the Sano family could not file a claim with the insurance company, and this also made Sano's wife Kanako She was desperate. She was a housewife with two children and had no financial resources. It could be said that she was desperate.

To help. In order to help the family, Misumi Mikoto's mother hopes that the Institute of Unnatural Death can investigate the real cause of Sano's death.

Because according to Kanako, her husband often works until midnight. There is a possibility that Sano died from fatigue driving due to overwork at the Happy Honey Cake Factory.

During the investigation, the director of the Happy Honey Cake Factory felt that working overtime was empty talk and unreasonable, and mentioned that Sano's death was caused by brake failure.

However, the motorcycle shop stated that the brakes had been completely repaired and that the cause of Sano's death was an accident that occurred due to physical discomfort while driving due to illness and had nothing to do with him.

After hearing this, the hospital responsible for examining Sano's body stated that there were no abnormalities in the examination and that Sano's death was due to simple overwork.

The three parties were quarreling fiercely, and no one was willing to pay tens of millions of yen in compensation.

The sixteenth episode of "Unnatural Death" ends here. At the same time, Higashinoji also quietly put the song "Lemon" into the list of online distribution downloads.

This is a paid website. Downloading a complete digital version of a song on this website will charge 400 yen. The authenticity of the download volume is naturally beyond doubt.

Higashino just put "Lemon" on and continued to work on the plot of the next "Unnatural Death".

After all, any song has a period of word-of-mouth fermentation. Although Higashinoji shamelessly added an "Unnatural Death" theme song at the end, it was not like most novels, which became popular on the first day and then became popular the next day. So exaggerated all over the world.

Of course, there is also a reason why Higashinoji has not promoted "Unnatural Death" yet.

Another week has passed, and the seventeenth episode of "Unnatural Death" has been released!

After repeated evidence collection by Misumi Mikoto's mother, she finally received a report from the Happy Honey Cake Factory. She learned that overwork did exist within the factory, and had a heated debate with the director of the cake factory.

During the debate, the factory director collapsed with emotion. Only then did everyone realize that it turned out that the factory director was the employee who had been working the longest. Like other employees, he was forced to work overtime under pressure from the president and was unable to get paid. to any overtime charges.

The peace talks and compensation are at a deadlock, and there is no progress in Misumi Mikoto's autopsy, because the final result of the autopsy showed that Sano died of traumatic vertebral artery dissection, but that was an old injury thirty days ago. If you want to investigate, then It must be investigated thirty days ago.

They learned from Sano's wife Kanako that Sano did have an accident a month ago. At that time, the president of the Happy Honey Cake Factory asked Sano to send a cake. This discovery made Misumi Mikoto and the others excited, because as long as they confirmed that it was If the president asks for a job, he can claim compensation from the Honey Cake Company based on the overtime overwork accident.

But the previous question was put back in front of everyone. It was an old injury thirty days ago. If it is to be used as evidence, it must be confirmed where and when Sano encountered the accident. At least there must be surveillance. Just video.

The incident came to a standstill again, and everyone was a little helpless because it was an old injury from thirty days ago.

With this sense of helplessness, episode seventeen of "Unnatural Death" ends.

Unlike the previous episode which ended so smoothly, the content of the episode "Unnatural Death" aroused heated discussions among many people.

In Japan, there are many social workers who work overtime until early at night and don't go home until early at night. They are also called company slaves.

Some people have really never received overtime pay, and they also dare not ask for overtime pay from the company - Japan has just emerged from the economic crisis, and there are many unemployed people in the society. One more person in the company is not more, and one less you is not a lot. .

Someone posted this: In fact, regardless of whether there is overtime pay or not, I actually understand Sano. For him, he still has a wife, son, and daughter at home who need living expenses. Even if he is not willing, he has to become a slave of the company. I actually agree with him. Likewise, if I simply work along the line and process along the line, maybe one day I will really die from overwork.

As soon as this post was posted, many people responded below.

Because anyone who has been in the workplace for a period of time has basically worked overtime. Companies with a little conscience will pay overtime, while companies with unscrupulous intentions do not care about the life and death of their employees.

This makes many people continue to look forward to the next plot of Higashinoji's "Unnatural Death".

A week has passed quickly, and the eighteenth chapter of "Unnatural Death" has officially begun to be serialized on "Cold".

Misumi Mikoto and the others finally found a breakthrough.

After confirming the asphalt composition and the color of the bruises on the edge of the motorcycle, everyone set their sights on Nishimusashano City.

Because only the sewer manhole covers there have such green, yellow, and blue colors. As long as you pass through the manhole covers, you can find the location of the incident.

But this is undoubtedly a particularly difficult matter. You must know that there are two thousand manhole covers in the entire Seimusashano City. Just relying on the number of people from the Unnatural Death Research Institute to confirm them one by one will take several months of work.

It was at this desperate moment that the director of the Happy Cake Factory appeared.

He didn't want his subordinates to die unjustly, and he was unwilling to accept the unfair terms of long-term overtime work. He asked more than a hundred workers to go on strike and took the initiative to help the Sano family find evidence. He must defeat the black-hearted president of the Happy Honey Cake Factory. !

This is an extremely passionate development.

There were two thousand manhole covers, and the factory director, who was not afraid of power and decided to go on strike even if he was fired, all worked together as one.

Discussions on the Internet are gaining momentum again - although this kind of thing does not exist in real life, this does not prevent them from imagining it in comics.

It is worth mentioning that Higashinoji discovered one thing, that is, at some point, the number of downloads of the song "Lemon" he uploaded before has gradually increased on the Internet.

There are now 5,000 downloads, and if you just look at the background data, you will find that this number is not rising in a diagonal line, but is skyrocketing almost like a straight line.

Today there are 5,000 downloads, and tomorrow there may be 10,000 downloads.

After deducting the website's handling fees and tax fees, Tonoji will probably get one to two million yen.

Of course, this little money is secondary!

The most important thing is - the song "Lemon" really did not disappoint Higashinoji!

And there are already some comments below.

Because many people have seen that the lyricist, composer and singer are Higashinoji.

He is now the author of the phenomenal comic "Unnatural Death", and of course many people have heard of his name.

but

Isn't this too exaggerated?

When did comic book authors extend their tentacles into the field of music?

Two-thirds said the song was a good song! Worth a listen!

About a third of the people left messages in the comment area asking if it was Higashinoji himself. This group of people had the most intense discussions.

They felt that it couldn't be Higashinoji himself. They probably didn't know which internet singer came here to play in Higashinoji's name. However, using the name "Unnatural Death" has already infringed the copyright. I hope the author will pay attention.

When he saw these comments, Higashinoji just smiled happily and didn't pay too much attention. After closing the distribution download website, he began to continue drawing the next plot of "Unnatural Death".

With the help of striking factory employees, the location of Sano's accident was finally discovered.

Everyone also saw what happened to Sano that day in the surveillance video.

Sano, who was riding a motorcycle, felt relaxed because he had finished his work today, and he only needed to hand the cake to the president to complete the day's heavy work.

He smiled as he thought of the delicious and warm meals cooked by his wife at home.

Because it was a cake for the president's party, he was in a hurry. After stopping his motorcycle, he hurried upstairs and handed it to the president of the Happy Cake Factory.

"Really, it's too slow!" In a sentence with a strong sense of complaint, the cake was taken away by the president, the door was closed, and Sano's original smile slowly disappeared from his face.

He couldn't help but shrink his neck at the cold look from the other party.

"Okay, let's go home."

He took a deep breath, finally nodded, murmured to himself, went downstairs, and drove away on his motorcycle.

Getting in the car again, Sano narrowed his eyes several times. The sleepiness of being forced to work overtime continuously made his body heavy, and the exhaustion made him crumbling.

Finally, he fell heavily to the ground while driving his motorcycle.

"it hurts"

With a look of extreme pain, he groaned and struggled to get up.

But during the struggle, he raised his head and looked at the night sky, as if something was attracting him

Those are festival fireworks.

At this time, in the president's apartment, the cake that Sano tried so hard to deliver was only pushed to the ground and shattered. The two scenes were intertwined, making the comic scenes of "Unnatural Death" full of irony.

Only when he was in an accident and lay weak on the ground, Sano could take a breather and take time to look at the fireworks in the sky. But on a high building, the president of the Happy Cake Factory could have a carnival of wine and meat between men and women.

Sano's wife and young son and daughter seemed to be feeling something and looked out the window. They smiled contentedly, as if they were looking forward to tomorrow.

In this case, Sano could only look at the fireworks and take a deep breath: "I have to go back."

Yeah gotta go home.

Until this moment, Sano still didn't know that this was the cause of his death a month later.

When Sano returned home, he smiled and stroked his children's cheeks. There was hope on his face, and he said softly but stubbornly: "I hope they can live happily, become happy, and become happy when they grow up."

This is the story of a factory called happiness and a family that encounters misfortune.

It can be said that this sentence really made a lot of people cry back then, and when paired with the sound of "Lemon", it made people taste the "bitter aroma like lemon".

This chapter belongs to a special issue, a thicker one, and it is published as two chapters in one, divided into (Part 1) and (Part 2).

At the same time as the release, Higashinoji also disclosed the fact that the theme song "Lemon" of "Unnatural Death" has been released on the side page of the comic and the cover of "Cold".

This time he used the skill of tracing sounds and recording sounds.

Higashinoji can indeed hear the singing of "Lemon" at the end of the manga.

This made Tonoji very satisfied, and he began to wait for the specific statistics of "Unnatural Death" this time.

The theme song "Lemon" is also equipped. Let's see how far "Unnatural Death" can go!

Can we kill all the people in front of us? How about jumping directly into the sales ceiling of Japanese comics?

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