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

Chapter 43: Adolescents will not meet in the library

"Do you recognize...do you know me..."

Matsueda Kiko's sudden interruption made Takeda Akane stunned for a moment.

Finally, she glanced at Longchuan Tetsu's ordinary attire and said firmly:

"do not know!"

"Then let me."

As soon as Matsueda Muko finished speaking, she interrupted the two of them while the other was sighing, and pushed Takeda Akane to the side.

It wasn't until now that Takeda Akane realized what the other person's name was: Ryukawa Toru.

"You called him... Archer?"

The level of intimacy of this kind of address is far beyond that of Mr. XX.

Takeda Akane's pupils widened instantly as she looked at the two people's hands half-hugged together.

"You guys are dating?!"

Some of the broken voices made things that were just known to only a small number of people spread widely.

Everyone at the party was attracted to this side, and after seeing Ryuukawa Tetsu and Matsueda Muko in the center, they began to whisper to each other.

"Ah, Matsueda-san really did find a boyfriend before graduation."

"I'm sure Genki-senpai will be very angry."

Similar words were heard constantly, and after being a little rude, Takeda Akane covered her mouth and apologized to the people around her, then looked at the two of them subtly.

"Muzi, how can you date him..."

The girl's voice was strange, as if Ryukawa Toru was a piece of sticky dog ​​shit.

"Handsome."

Matsueda Muko pinched Longchuan Tetsu's hand and shook it, and the boy rolled his eyes helplessly.

He was now quite sure that Matsueda Muzi had no good intentions towards him, and that there must be something fishy about that senior Yuanmu who appeared so frequently.

"Is it the original lover, or the pursuer?"

Longchuan Che was having some bored and random thoughts, and the originally lively atmosphere suddenly became quiet.

It was more of a tea party than a school gathering, as everyone was chatting about their future lives in Tokyo.

Sky Tree, Meiji Shrine, and Furaimon.

The conversation was lively and cheerful, and then the cheerful atmosphere seemed to suddenly pause.

Ta-ta-ta.

At the end of the rows of bookshelves, with the door opened in the afternoon sun, a girl walked step by step along the straight corridor towards the gathering place.

She was wearing a black kimono with gold embroidery, and her black hair was tied up with a red sash.

The golden belt knot highlights her slender waist, and the moment she appears, people can't help but calm down.

Her face was like a peony drawn with a few light strokes. The two or three short strands of hair on her forehead were like stamens blowing in the wind. The profile of her face had extremely flowing lines, and her nose was shiny and slightly greasy, making her look like the bronze statue in the fountain at the street corner.

"Sorry, I'm a little late."

The girl covered her chest and apologetically greeted everyone who had arrived earlier. The quiet scene finally became lively again.

"Isn't this too exaggerated?"

Looking at everyone, including Matsueda Muko, surrounding the girl, Longchuan Che muttered something strange.

Small furisode, Kyo-Yuzen dyeing technique, the price of this set of clothes is probably equivalent to the contract royalties for ten copies of "Snow Country".

Isn't this a class reunion? Where did this super young lady come from?

"That's Imamura Natsuko. Her family is the richest here."

Seeing the girl Takeda Akane curling her lips while being surrounded by the crowd, Ryukawa Toru squinted his eyes carefully and realized that the gorgeously dressed girl was the novelist he had met twice.

The other person put on makeup and changed clothes.

If it weren't for that small flat chest, I wouldn't be able to recognize her.

Long Chuan Te didn't notice that when he was thinking this, the girl in the center of the crowd glanced at him. The three words "small flat chest" seemed to be installed on the other party as if she had installed a small GPS radar even if it was a thought in her mind.

The people who came to say hello slowly dispersed, and Natsuko Imamura, led by Muko Matsueda, walked towards Toru Ryukawa.

"Let me introduce you. This is Natsuko, Imamura Natsuko, and this is my new boyfriend, Ryuukawa Toru."

He had heard the word "boyfriend" so many times today that he was almost numb to calluses. Long Chuan Che nodded to the girl, whom he had met twice before. They only officially met today.

"Congratulations on signing the contract."

The girl sat down one seat away from Longchuan Che. Songzhi Muzi went around greeting and chatting with everyone like a socialite, leaving Longchuan Che alone there.

"Sign a contract? Will Shinchosha notify the entire company when signing a new author?"

Longchuan Tetsu looked at the other person strangely. The only connection between him and the other person was that they were both authors of Shinchosha.

The girl in kimono did not answer. She took a sip of the tea before continuing:
"Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji and Sei Shonagon's The Pillow Book were once considered representative works of Japanese aesthetics of an era.

In your work "Snow Country", you like to use personification, suggestion, and symbolism to project subjective feelings onto the object. "

The girl turned her beautiful face towards Longchuan Tetsu.

“Is it a new genre of writing?”

Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country is actually one of the representative works of the "New Sensational" school in modern literature. This school is opposed to the communist literature in the world that Ryukawa Toru now lives in. Communist literature attempts to achieve political goals through writing.

The New Sensationalism pursues the supremacy of art.

This is also the reason why Taro Ono insisted on finding a backer for Toru Ryukawa.

The release of "Snow Country" in Xinchao is bound to cause a sensation and will also arouse dissatisfaction among some people from the mainstream school.

"In order to freely express my subjective feelings, I destroy the traditional style and the existing order in the language. My works can be fragmented or stream of consciousness. This is my "New Sensationalism."

There is no Yasunari Kawabata and no Ryuichi Yokomitsu in this world, and Ryukawa Toru shamelessly claimed the "New Sensationalism" as his own.

Natsuko Imamura stared straight at Ryukawa Toru, and after a while she nodded and looked away.

The gathering was mostly spent among students chatting about their January exams and the preparations they needed to pay attention to afterwards.

Ryukawa Toru, who had no plan to go to Tokyo, was a little bored. While he was eating delicious pastries, his girlfriend handed him a sour candy.

"If you eat too much cake, you'll get sick of it."

The girl had a smile on her face and her eyes were curved like a crescent moon.

Longchuan Tetsu nodded and rolled the sour candy in his mouth.

"Who is Yuanmu-senpai?"

Longchuan Che asked curiously about the name he had just heard from others.

The girl's expression froze when she heard the name.

Longchuan Che saw her dark eyes rolling.

"I don't know the senior named Yuanmu."

The girl took Longchuan Che for a walk with her hands behind her back.

There are quite a few people here today, including students and teachers.

In the lively atmosphere of college entrance examination, Longchuan Che feels a little out of place.

He doesn't really need the social relationships and knowledge that university brings.

He had no plans to go to college or even leave Yamanakako Village.

"My goal is to study sports science at Waseda University, what about you, Toru-kun?"

As expected, my girlfriend, who I had been dating for a day, asked me this question, and when Ryukawa Tetsu was about to answer.

The door opened with a bang.

Someone shouted in a rough voice.

"Where is Songzhi Muzi?"

(End of this chapter)