A Group of Psychos Around

Chapter 16

It had been three years since Sanchū Ming started writing.

At first, she only wrote a few short scenes in elementary school or was responsible for the class's performance during the school festival.

It wasn't until she was praised by everyone and won the best screenplay award that Sanchū Ming had the idea of "writing".

In her first year of elementary school, after she finished reading the theoretical works of William Zinser and Shirley Alice, she went into seclusion for a few days and came up with a novel about magic and swords. Before submitting it, she gave Akashiji Seijuro some advice.

In fact, before Sanchū Ming came, Akashiji Seijuro had specially studied contemporary Japanese novels for a few days. He flipped through the booklet that Sanchū Ming handed to him several times and put one hand on his mouth to think. Finally, he said to Sanchū Ming:

"Don't you think it's a waste to write your plot and characters into a light novel?"

This sentence paved the way for Sanchū Ming to write a mystery novel.

Under Akashiji Seijuro's influence and education, Sanchū Ming was able to independently write a complete logical story. Moreover, her writing style was bold and bold, and her language was delicate and concise. It didn't seem like the writing of a child at all.

However, there was one thing that Akashiji was very concerned about: He didn't know if it was because of the trauma caused by her family's upheaval, or because he had given her a lot of realistic and social novels to read early on, but Sanchū Ming's descriptions of emotions were twisted and extreme.

Just look at the melodramatic story that she wrote in the guise of magic: The male protagonist, who came from a small town, met a mysterious magician who accompanied a dragon and learned necromancy from the magician.

But in a country that worshipped light, necromancy was despised.

So, the male protagonist painstakingly hid his identity and became one of the magicians under the king's command. He also fell in love with the gentle queen.

One day, when he left the palace, the male protagonist's identity was exposed and he was wanted by the king.

After he painstakingly killed the king and kidnapped the queen — —

The queen wept and told the youth that the king he killed was his biological father.

The queen was his mother and the necromancer who taught him magic.

The King of the Kingdom of Light fell in love with the Necromancer and used all his love to build a palace for his queen and her dragon that could completely conceal the traces of Necromancy.

This was also the reason why the queen did not realize that the young man was also a Necromancer.

In the center of the kingdom of light, the palace of glory and glory completely accepted the darkness.

In despair, the young man asked the queen why she had abandoned him. The queen told him the curse of the Light Mage she had once killed.

"My husband will be killed by our son."

Despite being extremely careful, the king and queen, who had a child, could not bear to kill their child. Thus, they handed the child over to a family in the most remote village in the kingdom. However, the king and queen did not know that the family had moved away from their original village.

Therefore, without the knowledge of both parties, the child embarked on a tragic fate.

He met the queen who had left the palace to look for food for the dragons.

Akaji was speechless.

This guy could even write a fantasy story with an Oedipus plot. If he were to write a normal story, he would definitely not be able to read it.

He would be stabbed to death by the readers.

Therefore, Akashiji Seijuro tactfully reminded Sanchū Ming to pay attention to the theme and restrain herself.

In the end, Sanchū Ming, who did not understand the meaning behind Akaji's words and thought that it was a compliment, happily decided to test the waters of the reasoning theme. She felt that only reasoning could bring out her talent that even Seijuro praised.

Therefore, Sanchū Ming practiced for nearly two years. After using up the drafts and inspiration books, she took out "Going Home."

Although Akaji ridiculed this as a "melodramatic story of a man who had an affair and decided to take revenge after his wife's depression and attempted suicide," he had to admit that Sanchū Ming's extreme understanding of emotions and twisted presentation methods could produce amazing chemical changes when combined with the reasoning theme.

Just like the hardworking wife in "Going Home," the husband who indulged in debauchery.

"Going Home" opened with the husband dying in his lover's house. The wife was listed as a suspect by the police and controlled. A righteous but slightly paranoid young policeman was extorting a confession from the wife.

The young policeman asked his wife, "Is murder a sin?"

The wife smiled and said, "Not at all."

Sanchū Ming submitted the first 40,000 words to Guangwen Sha's reasoning magazine "GIALLO." At that time, editor Hidesuke Koike, who had just parted with the previous author on bad terms, received her submission. After reading it, he decided to meet this newcomer with the pen name "Mochizuki Linn."

When he saw the luxury car (Akaji's) parked in front of the agreed coffee shop, he was shocked. Junior high school girl who walked up to him and called herself "Mochizuki Linn."

Finally, when he received Sanchū Ming's outline, Hidesuke Koike fell silent.

"Excuse me, Mochizuki Sensei," he asked tentatively, "What is your relationship with Mochizuki Sensei, who drew" Pandora's Heart "in the manga world?"

These two Mochizuki Sensei were both evil in their respective fields!

Couldn't they just draw shoujo manga and write reasoning plots properly!

When he saw the first 40,000 words, Koike thought that Mochizuki Linn was a reasoning writer for the Bunge. After seeing the outline, he realized that the girl with short stubble hair in front of him was a dangerous reasoning writer.

Unlike the Bunge writers, she was more willing to destroy emotions and completely overturn the previous inferences in the middle. Compared to the Bunge writers, she was more inclined to realism and thriller.

It wasn't that the reasoning system was dangerous, but because "Giallo" magazine was inclined to the Bunge reasoning. Famous writers such as Kurashi Jun, Kuroda Kenji, Kondo Shie, Zhu Chuan Tsujin, Higashino Keigo, Michio Hidesuke, and others who had been published in the magazine for a long time were all very orthodox Bunge writers.

In "Giallo", there was no place for evil reasoning.

Choosing to submit to "Giallo" was a very risky decision.

"Why don't you go to" Mephisto Book "? Koike asked Sanchū Ming.

"It's not enough," said Sanchū Ming, who had been repeatedly warned by Akashiji Seijuro not to talk about money as soon as they met, "I want to be famous." Mephisto Book "is not enough." He wanted her to make a lot of money.

Hidesuke Koike, who had terminated his contract with several authors because he was too conservative, looked at Sanchū Ming, who was too young and full of thoughts of fame. He decided to throw away the damn risks and uncertainties and take a big gamble.

The second chapter of "Going Home" revealed the wife's direct motive for the murder.

The husband, who had brought his lover home, covered the baby's head with a flannel cloth, causing the baby to suffocate. The lover and husband drove the car and put the baby in a bag. They put a heavy object in the bag and threw it into the river. After that, they faked a burglary scene and told the wife, who had just returned from the company, that the baby had been taken away by a thief.

Hidesuke Koike made the right bet. When the readers thought that the wife was a murderer, the motive for the crime was very sufficient. The police only needed to find the murder weapon in the following chapters to prove the means of the crime. Even the editorial department thought that "Going Home" was a very orthodox Bolognese Bunge inference. However, the third chapter of "Going Home" broke everyone's understanding.

When the wife was arrested and locked up in the police station, the brother of the husband who had abused the wife died.

The knife wounds that caused his death were highly similar to the knife wounds on the husband's body. It was identified that they were caused by the same knife.

The murderer was not the wife, and the murderer was still at large.

"Going Home", which originally had mediocre results and relied on Koike's turnaround, rushed into the top five of the readers' voting in this issue.

"Isn't 'Giallo' a proper Bunge inference?

What is' Going Home '? "

"This is evil!

Evil!

Who is the murderer!

Someone is stuck here!!! "

The readers' letters were full of such cries.

Teacher "Mochizuki Linn" became famous in the clean Bunge inference from then on.

"A pure literature newcomer's award …" Sanchū Ming, who was called evil by the readers, frowned. "This genre can't be like 'Going Home' with a big twist and suspense …"

After the murderer was not the wife, "Going Home" had two big twists. Including the ending in the softcover single volume, there were a total of four twists. Sanchū Ming was confident that she could make a lot of money with "Going Home".

After all, her talent had been praised by Seijuro!

However, the June newcomer's award gave Sanchū Ming, who had been praised by Akaji for her talent, a headache. She did not know what to do.

Pure literature, short stories, were not her field at all.

"Material, material … I need material …" She lay on the blank draft book, her empty eyes wandering and falling on the clock on the wall.

"Wow, it's six o 'clock!"

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