Iruma-san wants to win the Akutagawa Prize

The club activities at Xiagao are just like Xiagao itself: boring, rigorous, and filled with all kinds of games and competitions.

It's like high school students have to win those awards.

For Hibiki Iruma, who has already debuted as an author, these club activities are boring, but the utilitarianism and competition they exude make him feel disgusted.

He's the kind of guy who likes to collaborate rather than compete.

It's not that we can't win.

But I don't like it.

He doesn't like to compare.

I don’t like being compared to others.

Of course, these are all afterwords. When facing the troubles of the club, Hibiki Iruma was also very clear about one thing: the troubles of club activities were troubles that he had to face himself, and no one could help him.

After all, hadn't he also been looking forward to club activities while being overly introverted in his studies?

Could it be that at that time I just loved the person and loved everything about him?

What you actually like is the interaction and getting along with the heroine, rather than the campus activities?

When you think about it, it's true.

Iruma Hibiki roughly confirmed what he was thinking.

However, wherever he looked, even in Shimokitazawa, there was no heroine he had seen before. It was as if he had just traveled to a place called the second dimension, and everything here was unfamiliar to him.

Instead, it feels more like traveling to a very similar parallel world.

Iruma Hibiki was about to sigh.

But instead of sighing and complaining, the deadline for the teacher's life path table was after school. Ijichi Hongxia, who had finished it in the front row, seemed to have heard his sighs and kept looking back at him with concern.

Ichichi Hongxia is a good woman.

She might even be the kind of good woman who would impress Hibiki Iruma.

Unfortunately, she is not the heroine...

Hibiki Iruma thought with a hint of regret, but after experiencing the incident with the Santa Bear and the salmon, no, it should be said that after experiencing the incident with Goto Ichiri, Hibiki Iruma's mood also changed.

Rather than finding the heroine, the people around you are equally important.

Instead of participating in the story and going to the princess, the squirrel should also have its own friends and tree house.

Hibiki Iruma's transformation during that past spring break was not only about becoming an author, but also about finding a way to live in this world and reaching some reconciliation with the established fact of time travel.

And after all, the atmosphere in the class has changed quite quickly recently.

It's better to say that this is just a matter of course.

During the period when school starts, the topics that high school students can talk about are actually regular. At first, they talk about things they like and self-introduction, and later they talk about games, silly things, favorite works, gossip and other topics.

By today, the topic has reached the level of one of the top ten rumors on campus.

It's a classic horror story.

Hibiki Iruma was not afraid.

It's just that the story that came from the side during the study class seemed to make Ijichi Hongxia a little scared. She listened very carefully, even though she was not a participant in the conversation.

But when the story is particularly scary, such as when the cadaver teacher suddenly moves, Ijichi Hongka will tremble.

Iruma Hibiki looked at Ijichi Kouka's back and couldn't help but feel a little playful.

He held up his wooden pencil and listened to the story on the other end.

"Did you know? If you stay in the old school building after school, you'll encounter a terrifying ghost! It's the reincarnation of the senior who died there last year. When you first meet her, she's harmless, but when she puts her hand on your shoulder—"

"what!"

With a soft cry of surprise, Ijichi Nijina jumped up when Iruma Hibiki poked her shoulder lightly with the tip of her pen.

Such actions naturally attracted the attention of people around.

"Feel sorry!"

Helpless, Ijichi Hongxia could only apologize quickly, and then immediately looked at Iruma Hibiki and his blank career path survey form behind him with a puffed face.

Of course, saying that it is a blank is also prejudice.

Iruma Hibiki still filled in the author in the ideal column and explained the story of Santa Bear and the salmon.

"You did it on purpose, didn't you, Iruma-kun?"

Ijichi Hongka was angry for only a moment, and then all that was left was a lovely helplessness.

"Because you're cute, Ijichi-san, I did it."

"That's not fun at all!"

"Really? Sorry sorry."

Iruma Hibiki's smile widened.

"So, Iruma-san, you want me to help you? Regarding the investigation? Let me see..."

In fact, the fact that Ijichi Hongka would come over was completely beyond Iruma Hibiki's imagination.

He had never thought that Ijichi Hongxia would be such a gentle and kind person. Just now, he actually just wanted to experience something and temporarily dilute his inner uneasiness.

For the way out questionnaire.

"So, Iruma-san, your dream is to become an author! That's amazing."

"People without dreams or abilities always fantasize about being authors."

It's unclear whether he was serious or self-deprecating, but Iruma Hibiki said something regretful.

"But Iruma-san, you've been working really hard on your writing, even in a place where no one can see. I think that's quite remarkable."

"And the story of Santa Bear and the salmon is really interesting! I wish the hero and heroine in the story could meet on Christmas Day when I'm 16."

Ijichi Hongxia showed an expectant expression.

It was beyond Hibiki Iruma's expectations.

To be honest, we have been apart for more than two months.

Hibiki Iruma missed Ichiri Goto a little.

That girl who was always there but rarely spoke and was like a figurine might not be dispensable to him.

Maybe it's that kind of -

The heroines he liked very much in his previous life were not as important as her, but he had never realized it and was only looking forward to Shimokitazawa's story.

Perhaps, every ordinary encounter with an ordinary person around us is a miracle like the encounter with the heroine in the story.

06 Kasumigaoka Utaha and Iruma Hibiki

In the Newcomer Award of the Fuzugawa Bunko, a light novel called "I Don't Want to Travel Through Time" is rapidly dominating the list.

Most time-travel works tell the story of someone who travels through time and then succeeds by pretending to be cool and then getting slapped in the face, but this story goes the other way around.

For professional editors and screenwriters, such stories are actually perfect formulas.

Yes, for those who have not received professional training, they will not fully understand the rules of Hollywood's golden screenwriters, that is, when the protagonist faces a change in life, he will always go through a process of resistance, major events, and then acceptance, and finally fill in the story with a handsome ending.

If you combine it with the methodology mentioned in "Save the Cat", such as the "Dark Night of the Soul", and add some standard "Golden Fleece" story prototypes, then a standard and beautiful work will be born.

After that, it’s just a matter of coming up with a one-sentence story to hook the reader.

And this one-sentence story was perfectly completed by Hibiki Iruma: "I don't want to travel through time."

A regretful boy fell in love with a girl at first sight on the street, and was then sent to another world by a FAW heavy truck. Finally, after accepting that he could not go back, he decided to start his adventure in another world.

A completed work.

It’s obviously a popular theme about another world, but the other world is not mentioned at all throughout the film.

The protagonist's activities are limited to the tavern and the Adventurer's Guild.

The only female protagonists are the tavern owner and the girl who appears in the beginning, the rest are just extras.

The standard script structure is combined with a novel story structure, as well as the kind of faint adolescent sadness that most people experience when they miss out on love at first sight.

Anyone can be moved by such a story, right?

In fact, this time's dominance of the charts exceeded everyone's imagination. Machida Sonoko is actually more optimistic about the other two works. After all, Iruma Hibiki's works are really unique in style. They are more like literary works than light novels, but lack authenticity and depth compared to literary works.

You have to know that the so-called light literature was popular only a few years ago. It was an era created by Ms. Kasumi Shiko, the woman she wanted to introduce to Iruma Rengen, who was about to become an older single woman like her.

If you count carefully, Ms. Kasumi Shiko is almost 23 years old, and more than 5 years have passed since her shining debut.

That guy is about to graduate from college.

Machida Sonoko felt a little emotional as she watched her long-lost teacher Kasumi Shiko prepare a draft of her new work.

Will Iruma Rengen-sensei be the second person to open up light literature after Kasumi Shiko-sensei? Machida Sonoko doesn't know, but so far, his achievements have qualified him to make Fuzugawa Bunko take a risk on him.

The process of materializing the bonus for royalties has been prepared.

The only thing left is the release stage when the promotion reaches its climax.

The idea of letting Kasumi Shiko and Iruma Rengen meet still lingered in Machida Sonoko's mind. She always felt that something interesting would happen when these two people collided.

After all, Teacher Kasumi Shiko once said to her in high school:

“All I have left is writing.”

In this case.

And what Iruma Rengen-sensei said to her was:

“A twenty-something without a job will always call himself a writer.”

Machida Sonoko has no emotions. Machida Sonoko just wants to see rivers of blood. It would be best if these two guys fought each other. It would be best if they became great friends after their souls collided through their works, and then suddenly realized that they had different ideas and started fighting.

Get along well with others in the editorial department.

With a slap, Kasumi Shiko slapped teacher Iruma Rengen in the face.

Then, with a puff, Mr. Iruma injected a dent into Kasumi Shiko's chest, which was filled with excess fat.

"Hey hey hey-"

Machida Sonoko's terrifying smile scared her colleagues.

By the way, for Machida Sonoko, the happiest thing she has ever experienced in her life is her teacher Kasumi Shiko. Although she is beautiful, successful and full of talent, she has never experienced any love throughout high school and college. She even had no contact with men because she attended an all-girls high school.

When she thought of this, Machida Sonoko was overjoyed.

The guy in the mud will only laugh in two situations: either someone saves him or someone falls down again.

This is the cruelty and reality of the adult world.

As for Iruma Hibiki, who had no idea what kind of cruel future he had avoided, he was currently staring at Ijichi Nikka who was sitting in her signature reverse position.

"Iruma-san, are you planning on continuing your studies? Or are you planning on becoming a full-time writer after graduating from high school?"

"Hmm... probably for further studies."

"So, among colleges with literature departments, the one with the highest aspirations must be the Department of Literature at the University of Tokyo, right?"

"Well, this one then."

With the help of Ijichi Kouka, Iruma Hibiki fills out his own life path questionnaire.

The seemingly perfunctory attitude actually made Ijichi Hongxia a little worried. After all, her original intention was to assist and not to help Iruma Hibiki lie.

"Iruma-san, are you sure?"

So she asked cautiously with some worry.

But what followed was Iruma Hibiki's determined gaze.

"Well, it's confirmed. Let's take this as our ideal."

Iruma Hibiki was not lying, she really felt that way, and at this moment Ijichi Nikka confirmed it.

"That's great."

Then she smiled as bright as the sun.