As an editor who has worked in a publishing house for nearly two years, Hosokawa Koharu often experiences overtime.

For example, if the author cannot deliver the original manuscript temporarily, he has to find a replacement work, including the already designed catalog, and the cover must be re-do these things.

After all, the privilege of Japanese publishers to relax authors is indeed very high.

In other words, it is more common to work overtime for the author to lack manuscripts.

But this is indeed the first time I have seen Koharu Hosokawa overtime for simple form statistics.

But this overtime is meaningful.

After all, we need to compare the achievements of "Hashi" with those of "Chyo".

And the consequence of this overtime is

Hosokawa Koharu rubbed his sleepy eyes and got up from his desk, and at the same time he did not forget to pick up cups, toothbrushes and other things.

Because she often works overtime, she also prepared a set of teeth tools in the publishing house.

After walking into the toilet, brushing her teeth and washing up, she bought a can of coffee and walked towards her desk while rubbing her slightly swollen face.

Today is the day to announce the number of readers' praise and approval ratings, and she has to fight again no matter what.

"The form sent by the data department should be at eight o'clock, right?"

Hosokawa Koharu opened the computer in front of him, pinched the coffee can, and took a look at the time.

It's just seven o'clock now, and there's still an hour before the data is released

"Well, I don't know what the grades will be like this time."

The first thing that can be confirmed is that the readers' praise for this work "Hanzawa Naoki" will definitely not be bad.

After all, it caused a certain amount of discussion yesterday, which is enough to show that his new work is very popular with readers.

The key is the welcome level

"If it were Teacher Higashino here, what grades would he predict? "

Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help but substitute his thoughts into Higashinoji.

If it was Higashinoji, he would definitely be very confident. If he spoke, he would definitely have more than 800 votes to say it?

Thinking of this, Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help laughing.

Indeed, people like Higashinoji who are confident in their works will definitely not have a comment on "Hanzawa Naoki" this time.

So what will happen to the actual result?

Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help but continue thinking.

In this process, the editors who worked overtime together last night woke up one after another.

Some people went downstairs to find a convenience store to buy something full, while others, like Koharu Hosokawa, were guarding in front of the computer screen with a serious face.

The next data statistics table is something that all Toshima editorial department pays attention to.

Not only the Toshima editorial department.

Even some comic authors from the Old Fuji Publishing House and the Old Urashima Publishing House are very concerned about today's statistics.

Hojo Nagaya, who had some disagreements with Suzuki Ha, was one of them. This time he met with another comic author from the Ohurashima Publishing House.

The manga author is named Ueda Hisaku.

Unlike Hojo Nagaya, Ueda Hisaku didn't really care much about the introduction of Higashinoji's work on the cover.

"Hey? Teacher Ueda doesn't care at all?"

Hojo Nagaya was a little surprised when he listened to Ueda Hisaku's words.

He originally thought that someone among the comic authors of Urajima Publishing House had the same idea as him.

As a result, Ueda Hisaku didn't care at all?

"Teacher Hojo, you haven't serialized it in Urashima Publishing House, so you don't know."

Compared to Hojo Nagaya's surprise, Ueda's performance seemed calm and calm.

"Is there anything inside?"

Seeing that he was calm and lit a cigarette, Hojo Nagaya couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

"There is no inside story, just Mr. Hojo, you haven't experienced that feeling."

Ueda's eyes are like a dead fish.

His appearance made Hojo Nagahiko even more confused: "What does it feel?"

Listening to Hojo Nagahisaki's question, Ueda Hakusaki couldn't help but sigh and explained slowly:

"It's the feeling that no matter how serious you draw comics or practice how much you practice to strengthen your shortcomings, you just can't catch up with Teacher Higashino."

Well

Listening to Ueda Hakusato's self-renunciation speech that was like being held down by Hirosato Hirosato for centuries, Hojo Nagaya was stunned.

He had heard of Ueda's name when he was at Fuji Publishing House.

In my impression, the other party should be a comic author with a very hot temper.

Why did he actually meet now? Instead of the rumored temper, he looks half-dead and feels like he is already doubting his life?

Hojo Nagayaki had no idea at all and could only touch his head.

"Give up, Hojo teacher."

It seems that I understand what happened to Hojo Nagahiko asks him to come out to meet this time.

Ueda Hakusaki said with a distant look: "I used to be like you, young and not very sensible. I feel that I have a little talent in comics, so I am invincible in the world, but since Mr. Higashino officially came to "Aversion to Cold""

When he said this, Ueda Hisaku's tone paused, and an expression of extra fear appeared on his face:

"You don't understand, Hojo teacher, no matter how hard you work or what kind of publicity resources you get, Higashinoji's works will always dominate the horror of the readers' praise list."

Well

Looking at Ueda Hisaku's expression, Hojo Nagayaki had no idea what this manga author, who was known for his "rare temper", had experienced under Higashiji.

But before Ueda Hakusaku finished his words, his expression became even more excited.

"Teacher Hojo, think about it. No matter whether it is spring, summer, autumn and winter, or whether you are serializing and quitting the publication, the number one in "Aversion to Cold" will always be a person, and the name of Higashinoji is unchanged for thousands of years. Do you know how big the difference in votes is?"

Ueda Haru swallowed vigorously and stretched out his finger: "When I got my best grade, I had 351 votes from readers, which means that this best grade was worse than Teacher Higashino's 400 votes."

What is despair?

This is called despair.

The number of votes is more than twice yours.

"It's not that I don't want to work hard! It's useless to work hard! What's the use of working hard!"

Ueda Hirasaki covered his face and felt like he was tortured by Higashinoji.

"But Mr. Ueda, aren't Mr. Higashino's works all medium or short works? You can always get first in the rest time after he finishes, right?"

Hojo Nagayaki didn't feel the feeling of being dominated by Higashinoji, so he asked.

"End? Ending may make me happy for a while, but Teacher Higashino's apprentice, Mr. Kurokumiya, will take the opportunity to dominate the list again, and I have no chance at all."

Ueda Hakusaku stood up in a daze, looking like a dead fish, and he looked like a 'already figure':

"So Teacher Hojo is quick to figure it out, don't struggle."

He even advised Hojo Nagaya next to him to be a salted fish.

This made Hojo Nagaya completely unacceptable: "I wouldn't be like you, Mr. Ueda!"

Hojo Nagaya patted his chest hard: "Maybe there is a gap between me and Mr. Higashino, but that gap can definitely be filled with my efforts! We can't have so many negative emotions! Mr. Ueda!"

"Believe us, we will definitely surpass Mr. Higashino! No matter how powerful he is, he is just a person!"

He cheered Ueda Hikasaku next to him. If it were ordinary comics or animations or Japanese dramas, Ueda Hikasaku might have been excited by his words.

But unfortunately, as the active comic author of "The Cold" who has been tortured by Higashinoji for two years, he is no longer as sharp as before, "Okay, let's fight and defeat Higashinoji".

Ueda Hakusaku just looked at Hojo Nagaya helplessly and murmured to himself: "It's useless, anything you do is useless. As long as the readers comment and count it, Teacher Hojo, you will know what despair is."

"How is that possible!"

Hojo Nagayashi was obviously excited by his own words. He felt that he was still young and older than Higashinoji. While having experience in Higashinoji, he also had plenty of time to surpass Higashinoji. So he still had confidence in his own stock.

"Then let's wait for the 8 o'clock readers' statistics notification."

Ueda Hakusaki stopped talking and was just concerned about eating.

Hojo Nagayasu didn't continue talking either.

He felt that instead of talking here, it would be better to show the result to Ueda Hikasaku.

It is precisely because both the editor and the author pay close attention to this positive review rate statistics.

The time is also coming at eight o'clock.
To be continued...