Tokyo: The life of a literary giant begins with home self-defense!

Chapter 135: Young and Famous
At the entrance of Kodansha, a large group of young people gathered under the dazzling skylight.

It's noisy and the serious company atmosphere of the past is no longer there.

"what happened?"

Takeda Shinki walked to the company gate, frowned and asked Mrs. Takeda who was surrounded there.

A large group of young people, dressed strangely, all around 17 or 18 years old, were surrounding Miss Takeda who had just been fired and asking her all sorts of questions.

"It's not clear yet."

“The specific plan has not yet been released.”

"Isn't it in every magazine?"

Takako Takeda was so busy that she had no time to take care of her sister.

"what's the situation?"

There was a lot of noise, like thousands of ducks quacking. Takeda Maki grabbed Tanabe Chiyo who was helping her sister.

The girl also explained in a lot of words, but few of the young people outside paid any attention to her.

Most people were saying, "Where is that guy?" and "How irresponsible."

It's always just some complaints.

Takeda Maki frowned. Some controversial articles about teenagers had been published in Kodansha magazine before. Could it be that this bunch of young people who looked like bad boys were here to cause trouble?

You have to know that before she left Tokyo, these people were graffitiing on the streets of Tokyo.

"Hey, old lady."

Seventeen or eighteen years old is the age when children are disobedient to discipline, not to mention the group of young people in front of them who are obviously rebellious.

Seeing Takeda Shinki walking out surrounded by the security department, a young man with earrings and a small tattoo on his arm in the crowd shouted.

"Are you the person in charge here?"

"O! Ba! San!"

The vein on Takeda Shinki's forehead twitched.

No matter how old a woman is, she always has weak spots.

"If you want to cause trouble, the Bunkyo Police Station is less than five kilometers away."

The woman was still very dignified, and her cold words silenced the noisy young people around her for a moment.

"No, General Manager."

As soon as the woman opened her mouth, she wanted to send these young people who were disrupting the order to the police station. Tanabe Chiyo anxiously tugged at Takeda Maki's sleeve.

"They are here to ask Teacher Shefu."

Before Chiyo Tanabe could finish her words, she was interrupted by several hot-tempered young people in the crowd.

"Too arrogant, isn't it?"

“We are consumers.”

"Are you arresting us for asking about the release date of the sequel?"

There was a rumbling sound, even louder than before, and Takeda Shinki was stunned.

"Publish a book?"

"It's 'Pinball 1973' and 'A Wild Sheep Chase'."

Chiyo Tanabe explained reluctantly.

Did Longchuan Che's book cause people to block the door?

Takeda Maki looked towards the entrance of Kodansha. "Hear the Wind Sing" had just been published two days ago, and now there were dozens of young people blocking the entrance.

Longchuan Che is disgusting. He left a "To be continued" sign in the sequel of "Hear the Wind Sing".

It is understandable that young people come to block the door after reading a book, but...
"Why so many?"

Today is Monday and Kodansha has just opened.

Nearly a hundred young people gathered from all directions in Bunkyo District. It was expected that this noisy atmosphere would last for a long time. Takeda Shinki took a deep breath.

"Ask colleagues from the publicity and operations departments to come over and complete the planning for Snake Man's subsequent works as soon as possible."

Takeda Maki admitted that she had indeed underestimated Ryukawa Toru.

"Hear the Wind Sing" has changed the previous obscure and difficult-to-understand pure literary writing style, and has entered the hearts of young people with a relaxed and humorous tone, and has been recognized by them like a trickle. At a time when the whole society is facing up to the problems of young people, the young man said.

"Compared with the complexity of the universe, even our world is just the brain of an earthworm."

Thanks to the loneliness of "Hear the Wind Sing", its resonance with teenagers, and the huge circulation of Kodansha's magazine, Ryukawa Toru quickly attracted a large number of young readers.

The readers were appeased by their own subordinates, and Takeda Maki took her sister into her own luxury car.

"I'm exhausted."

After getting in the car, Takako Takeda collapsed.

She had never experienced the exhaustion of explaining things to others.

Thinking about the young man blocking the door today, the woman laughed foolishly twice.

"Takeda-senpai is awesome!"

Takeda Takako's assistant, Chiyo Tanabe, also got on the car.

Since the publishing plans for "Pinball in 1973" and "A Wild Sheep Chase" have been finalized, they, as employees of the publishing house, must finalize the publishing details with the authors as soon as possible.

Before this, Toru Ryukawa and Mrs. Takeda had only reached a verbal agreement, and the specific publishing contract for the sequel had not yet been signed.

“Now we have our first sales result.”

"Pinball in 1973" and "A Wild Sheep Chase" are basically certain to be big sellers, and young people have always been the main consumers of popular works.

"So cool, Takeda-senpai, did you know that "Hear the Wind Sing" would be a big hit during this Akutagawa Prize?"

"Hear the Wind Sing" was inspired by the fact that young people are excluded by society, but it takes a lot of courage to use all of one's space to bet that a pure literary work can be accepted by young people.

"Of course, it's all under my control."

The collapsed Mrs. Takeda raised her eyebrows as she listened to her subordinates' flattery.

Although she herself was confused and had her hand held by Longchuan Tetsu to sign the contract, but now
"Is there a problem with the manuscript I signed?"

Takako Takeda raised an eyebrow at her sister who had remained silent since getting in the car.

The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit, and the sales volume in the company speaks for itself.

Takeda Shinki glanced coldly at this silly and arrogant woman.

"Hear the Wind Sing" is good, but its current popularity is also inseparable from Kodansha.

You can let that bunch of bad young people read some popular literature, but they won’t even look at "Hear the Wind Sing" if it is published in a pure literature magazine.

70% of the magazine circulation contributed to the popularity of "Hear the Wind Sing".

"Even if you sell it to him one day, you still have to count the money for him."

Takeda Shinki poked her sister with her finger in anger.

"Hear the Wind Sing" made money, but the young man also expanded his influence through Kodansha.

Her sister still looked down on her. Takeda Takako snorted and said nothing, then turned her head to look out the window.

The streets that were bustling a few days ago are now much quieter.

Under the slanting sunlight, graffiti such as "Go to hell" and "Sex" on the street were erased piece by piece.

"Hear the Wind Sing" is very good, but Ryukawa Tetsu's short sentence "Seaside Cemetery" is also powerful.

Perhaps no one will ever translate the phrase "The wind rises, the only thing left is to survive" as inspiringly as he did.

Looking at the street, the words "Never give up" were wiped over some dirty words.

Mrs. Takeda smiled.

The wind blows through the treetops and the sun is scorching.

The wind from Yamanashi dispelled the continuous rain that had shrouded Tokyo for several days.

Perhaps it is a pipe dream for the young people of the Heisei generation to get out of confusion with just one work.

but
"It's different after all."

She watched as the young man who whistled at her last time took a big board and wiped off his previous graffiti.

Mrs. Takeda was glad that she signed the contract.

(End of this chapter)