My girlfriend is Saiki Kusunoki

Because the book is gone.

"No, what about our 200,000 books?! Where are they?! How could they just disappear like that? It's only been three days!"

"No, we've been robbed? How could the books be gone in just three days?"

"I don't know! By the way, who robbed the comic book?"

This situation left not only the editors bewildered, but also the readers who were planning to buy the comics.

What happened? Didn't you say there would be a new comic? Where's the book? It's gone!

"Boss, what's going on? Where's the 'Bloodline' comic?"

"Uh, sold out. Sir, would you like to take a look at this copy of 'The Ninth Heaven'? It's a work by Sunday's rising star author, Amo."

"Who is that? I've never even heard of him! I'm here to buy ONE's work! Do you even have it?!"

"Uh, really, there aren't any left. Not a single one. I even sold the ones I kept for myself."

"Damn! It's only been a few days! And there's not a single book left?"

"Well, I don't know. I'm also quite puzzled. We had a lot of stock when we bought it, but it was all gone in just a few days."

"No way, I've already been to four or five stores!"

"Uh, I'm sorry, sir, you should go to the place where you married her."

Although the shop owner had said these words to more than one customer, he was still in great pain as he watched the endless stream of customers coming and going. He could only put up a sign in front of the bookshelf that read: "The Bloodline is sold out."

Amidst urgent reprints and the statistics department's frantic overtime work, roughly half a month later, the final results of the Bloodline manga were finally released.

"1.56 million copies in half a month? Have you no shame?!"

When the other writers saw this achievement, they couldn't hold back their excitement.

Why is this? We're all comic book artists, so how come there's such a big difference?

1.56 million copies? All the authors from the same period as Naoto combined don't even have as many copies as him, which is pretty outrageous.

Such a large number is enough to make one despair just by looking at it!

What are we going to do now? Other comic artists' works are also slowly starting to be released, and the gap is widening even further.

If Naoto is a trump card, then Eiji Niizuma is at least a bomb.

In order to catch up with Naoto's pace, Shinzō has really gone all out this time, with even more outrageous moves coming one after another.

Even with the formidable presence of the straight vampires, this person showed no weakness and even went so far as to engage in a fierce rivalry with the vampire sales force.

The authors of JUMP shook their heads in disbelief.

Of the remaining 1,500 votes, the new wife took half, about 700 of them.

Even in terms of sales, Naoto was taken aback; the sales volume in the last half month was an astonishingly high one million.

While the following teams didn't reach the same level as the two, their performance was still quite impressive.

In the end, he almost completely overwhelmed the rest of the comic book artists.

At this point, MAGazine and SUNDAY were completely out of the question.

They had no choice but to give up.

Let these lunatics do it; they won't be doing anything else in the future anyway.

As long as Naoto is still in JUMP, they will never say another word.

And looking at Naoto's impressive results.

The two editors suddenly had some wicked thoughts.

If there is an enemy that you really can't defeat.

Wouldn't joining them be a better option?

Chapter 57: Naoto Wants an Ending

"Thank you all for your hard work this past month! It is thanks to everyone's help that this training camp was a great success!"

"No, no, we should be thanking Naoto-sensei. If it weren't for you, we probably would have lost this time."

"No, no, no, this is the result of everyone's joint efforts."

After a month of intensive training, life can finally get back on track.

Although they will probably still be rivals after this.

However, it must be said that after the training camp, everyone has gradually become true friends.

Moreover, this intensive training allowed the authors to have ample opportunities to exchange ideas, understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and learn about the true abilities of others.

Only after recognizing one's shortcomings can one strive to catch up.

Just like taking an exam, beyond knowing your score and ranking, what's more important is understanding where you and others fall short.

The bottom-ranking elimination system is like an exam, but it doesn't allow authors to have any interaction.

Therefore, comic artists who are at the bottom of the pack often find it difficult to catch up with the authors ahead of them. They can only rack their brains to come up with plot ideas, and in the end, they collapse first.

This outstanding result made the senior management of Shueisha see the advantages of this activity.

As a result, many senior executives are now discussing whether to make this team-building activity an annual event in order to motivate the participants.

However, many people also know how difficult it is to find a manga artist like Naoto to lead the way. If they can't win people over, it might backfire.

We can't leave everything to Naoto from now on.

Therefore, this matter remains only in the discussion stage, and it is unlikely to be implemented in the first place.

After the event, no one was in the mood for a meal or anything like that. After all the recent hard work, everyone just wanted to rest for a few days, and ideally, sleep soundly until dawn.

Lately, whenever I close my eyes, all I can think about is the plot of a comic book.

At this moment, after everyone else had left, Naoto did not leave the editorial department.

"Naoto, are you really going to do this?"

"Well, that's the only way. After all, this is the best time. Continuing any further would be pointless. Nanzi, you'll understand, right?"

Naoto looked at Nanako at this moment. Although he had made up his mind, he lacked confidence in the matter.

It's actually quite funny. He even talked to the editor-in-chief about having JUMP shut down the charts, but now he's a little scared.

"Yeah, just do it if you want to. After all, isn't that just who you are?"

Encouraged by his girlfriend, Naoto took a deep breath and, like Jing Ke preparing to assassinate the Qin Emperor, headed straight for the editor-in-chief's office.

The editors, seeing Naoto walk into the editor-in-chief's office again, assumed he was going to share the good news with the editor.

After all, JUMP's current success is largely due to Naoto.

He could be considered the primary contributor to this success.

However, they were unaware that Naoto had come to make a far-fetched decision.

"What?! You're going to end 'Vampire Clan'?!"

When the editor-in-chief heard that Naoto wanted to end the story of Vampire Clan, his first reaction was that Naoto had gone mad.

Even when Naoto previously said he wanted to stop the bottom-ranking elimination system, he only thought the idea was absurd and crazy.

But at this moment, the editor-in-chief felt that Naoto himself had gone mad.

Although in the history of JUMP, there have been manga artists who wanted to end their series even when their serialization was stable.

However, most of those manga artists are already in the later stages of their work, when their performance begins to decline significantly and they no longer have new innovations. That's when they feel the serialization is no longer interesting and simply end it. (Of course, this excludes the "Big Three" shonen manga and invincible series like Dragon Ball.)

However, the current vampires are far from reaching that point.

According to the editor-in-chief, given Naoto's current momentum, he might even break all the sales records for Japanese manga volumes later on.

In terms of popularity, the vampire clan ranks first, and is even constantly breaking its own records.

Both the visuals and the storyline have reached new heights.

In this situation, the editor-in-chief could never have imagined why Naoto had stopped.

"Could it be that you've been a bit tired lately? Why don't you take a break for a while? If you're going to take a break, three or four issues are fine too."

After thinking about the recent lifestyle of the straight man, the editor-in-chief thought that the straight man was a little tired.

After all, a high school student who spends the entire summer vacation busy with various jobs may indeed lose their passion.

The editor-in-chief is quite lenient with his department's star writers. Even in Jump, pausing for rest and revision is understandable. Even someone like Togashi, who's known for his outrageous writing style, wasn't immediately canceled by Jump after a hiatus. Let's just say, even with full-time updates, the time spent slacking off is almost longer than the actual serialization time.

"No, I just think that, given the current story, ending it for now is a good choice. To be honest, I haven't thought about the plot yet. Rather than dragging it out and making it worse, I might as well write a new story."

Despite the editor-in-chief's surprise, Naoto had already made his decision.

In fact, this is something that straight people must face.

To put it simply, the current storyline of *The Bloodline* in JUMP has already surpassed the original storyline by Ai-O. The current Italian arc is even entirely Naoto's original work.

Naoto is quite troubled by the current state of the original story. Although it's still receiving rave reviews, he can't guarantee what will happen in the future. If the serialization continues, something he doesn't want to see will definitely happen.

In this kind of story, some people are incredibly talented, while others are incredibly mediocre.

Naoto really wants to make more money, and even wants to give the vampire clan an end.

But Naoto didn't want to see everything he did end up being despised.

Now that it's over, at least there's some closure.

Of course, even a straight person wouldn't completely rule things out.

He only said it was temporarily over.

He also wanted to train with the vampires for a few more years before seeing how things went.

"Furthermore, I also want to try to fill in the gaps in the previous storyline for Vampire. So, I think Vampire has reached a perfect level now, and I want to draw classic comics, not assembly-line commercial works."

Faced with Naoto's words, the editor-in-chief looked at Naoto with an uncertain expression.

That expression was like the dark clouds before a thunderstorm, it was frightening.

However, there's no room for negotiation when it comes to this kind of thing.