Urashima Publishing House warehouse.

This is where the author's original manuscripts from the series are usually kept.

After all, as a comic author, these original manuscripts have preservation value, and from time to time, you can also give readers a benefit, such as printing the author's design draft or original painting album into a book... This is a lot of money.

In addition to the author's original manuscript in the serialization, the rest are the readers' replies, letters from readers, and gifts from readers after miscellaneous statistics.

What Hosokawa Koharu showed Higashinoji were the letters and gifts sent to him by his readers.

"Originally, we were responsible for delivering readers' letters and readers' gifts to you, Mr. Higashino, but Mr. Higashino, you also saw it..."

Hosokawa Koharu's voice sounded lacking in confidence.

Higashinoji looked in the direction of Hosokawa Koharu, and then he saw the gift that his readers had sent to him behind her.

Those are clearly TV sets.

At a rough glance, there are about a dozen of them, some have been smashed, and some have just been bought brand new.

"this...?"

It was also the first time for Higashinoji to encounter this battle. He glanced at Hosokawa Koharu with some strangeness.

"This is a letter from a reader, Mr. Higashino, please read it."

Hosokawa Koharu handed a thick stack of letters from readers to Higashinoji.

This must have been selected. Although it looks thick, it is only about ten letters.

Higashinoji read each letter one by one.

Some of these readers praised his "Midnight Bell" for being very scary and realistic.

This type of reader is the standard die-hard fan reader. Even if the TV at home is gone, they are still very positive and optimistic.

Some of them wanted to kill Higashinoji with a knife in order to sacrifice the spirit of their TV set in the sky, but at the end of the letter, they still added awkwardly, "The painting is really good. I smashed the TV just to watch you."

This comic, don't let me down'.

So arrogant.

Among them, there are quite a few readers who think he draws very well, but they are a bit obsessed with TV.

Most of these readers are very rich. The brand-new TVs displayed here were sent by them. They said, 'I am very rich. If the TV at home is smashed, I can get another one, so you can

Work harder and it will look like there's no problem.

Higashinoji obviously didn't expect this to happen. He looked at the letters from readers and then looked at the TV in front of him, laughing happily.

It seems that he still did not disgrace the reputation of "The Ring" and really tortured Japanese readers to the point of becoming physically and mentally disabled.

Speaking of which, Japanese fans are indeed like this, with extremely high mobility. Higashinoji once heard of a story about a fan who found the address of his favorite idol through the reflection in her eyes.

Now it seems that that may not be a rumor.

"...Ahem... Mr. Higashino, it's another thing to laugh. It's impossible to keep these TVs in the warehouse of Urashima Publishing House all the time. You have to find a way."

Hosokawa Koharu reminded me from the side.

"It's nothing. The old TVs will be disposed of directly, and the new TVs will be given as gifts to the readers of the Midnight Ring... I don't need so many TVs."

Higashikata quickly thought of a way.

This is called taking it from the people and using it for the people.

He doesn't use TVs at all. It's better to give these TVs back to the readers who have already smashed them.

"This is a good idea. I will propose it to the editor-in-chief... But there is a TV, Mr. Higashino, you still have to accept it."

Hosokawa Koharu took out a greeting card from his pocket, which was a very common postcard: "This is what Mr. Kuromiya, the author of "Between Dolls", wants me to give to you."

"The author of "Between Dolls"?" Higashinoji was stunned, and then he remembered the manga author who ranked first among his readers last week.

Is it him? And the last name Kuromiya sounds familiar.

Higashinoji took the postcard from Hosokawa Koharu, and there was only one sentence written on it——

""Midnight Ring" is very interesting, and I hope we can support each other."

This is not like traditional novels that leave provocative words.

Since they were colleagues and it was a gift from a senior, Higashinoji thought about it and nodded: "I understand, then I will accept Mr. Kuromiya's gift."

Now the matter of readers' replies and gifts has been settled for the time being.

But Hosokawa Koharu seemed to be hesitant as he probably had something else to say.

"If there is anything else you want to say, please ask Editor Hosokawa to say it directly."

Higashinoji took advantage of the situation and gave Hosokawa Koharu a step down.

"Actually it is..."

Hosokawa Koharu hesitated for a while, then brought Tonoji back to the office area, and then pulled out a stack of paper materials from next to her desk:

"These are the recent reviews of "The Ring" by some outside newspapers and magazines."

Tonoji put the readers' letters he had received into his shoulder bag, and then he freed his hand to take the information, which was composed of newspapers and magazines.

He continued to look at it.

Hosokawa Koharu did not hesitate and simply explained to him: "I did not select these newspapers and magazines deliberately, so Mr. Higashino, you can completely trust their objectivity."

As she spoke, she sighed and glanced at Higashinoji.

Hosokawa Koharu sighed, not because these magazines and small newspapers slandered "The Ring", but because they praised "The Ring" too highly.

It's so high that it's rare to see it.

A new star in the horror comic industry, a genius comic script writer, and realistic and superb painting skills will draw you into that world...

Anyway, just do whatever you want.

Including the magazine "Asashin" owned by Fuji Publishing House, a publisher that Urashima Publishing has always been at odds with, gave it a five-star rating and called on everyone to read it.

This gave Hosokawa Koharu a sense of crisis.

Because for her, this kind of excessive praise is very detrimental to the growth of creators.

And if you think about it further...these magazines and newspapers actually have the intention of praising Higashinoji.

After all, the first episode of "Midnight Ring" is so good, even if they want to find a place to criticize, they can't find it, so they can only praise it - what if the second episode of "Midnight Ring" is mediocre?

Hosokawa Koharu could even imagine how these magazines and newspapers would criticize Higashinoji if the quality of the second episode was not good.

Higashinoji quickly read through all the information, still looking cheerful and smiling.

How long has this happened? You are still laughing! Is it possible that Tonoji hasn’t understood the seriousness of the problem?

With this in mind, Hosokawa Koharu asked: "Teacher Higashino, do you understand the current situation?"

"Ah? The situation? Oh... Editor Hosokawa, are you referring to the fact that these media are deliberately praising me?"

"That's right...Don't you understand Higashino-sensei?" Hosokawa Koharu looked at Higashinoji's smile in confusion.

Everyone already knows that these people are flattering him, and they all know that others are laughing at him.

Why is Higashikata still looking cheerful?

"Is it really okay with you? Mr. Tono?"

Hosokawa Koharu asked subconsciously.

"It doesn't matter." Higashinoji still smiled: "My "Midnight Ring" is even better than they advertised, why should I worry?"

As soon as these confident words were spoken, Hosokawa Koharu was stunned.

This...why is Higashino so confident?

But she quickly thought of the quality of the second episode of Higashinoji's "Midnight Ring".

In an instant, she felt relieved again.

yes.

Mr. Higashino's "Midnight Ring" is even better than these people's praise.
Chapter completed!