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The shonen manga editorial department of the Otee publishing house "Juxiansha".

"Jingle Bell ......"

A quick phone rang, and Torishima picked it up.

"Hey, this is the editorial department of the 'Juxian Society' juvenile comics, and I'm Bird Island. You are ......"

"Oh, you're Aoyama-san. Thank you for visiting us last time! You have already bought this issue of the Shonen Manga Weekly on the market? The sample book we sent you is probably still on the way, so I'm sorry to keep you waiting. ”

Judging from the results of a random questionnaire conducted by the publisher, the new serialization of "Detective Kenan" is still very popular. Those who are very willing to continue reading and those who have time to do so account for 68 percent of the total population surveyed. ”

"Is that the confirmation of the sketch correct? I'll ask Miura to send me a calendar of my schedule to your email...... Yes, yes, as long as I am free, I will receive you first. ”

"Okay, let's keep in touch with the channels at any time! Please continue to work hard to create, try to save as many sketches as possible, I believe in your story and painting power here!"

"Please also convey my greetings to Lin Sang! Okay! Then let's leave it like this? Bye-bye! Then I'll close the line!"

"Bang!" the microphone was snapped on.

The other editors and editorial assistants in the editorial department of Shonen Manga are whispering at the moment:

When did our "big ghost editor" Torishima answer the phone so gently?

Where is this still a "fanged demon"? The whole "jade-faced bodhisattva"!

Did he get stimulated by something? Or did he fall in love again? The tone was wrong—it was so sweet!

Hey, don't you know? In this issue of the weekly magazine, a new mystery cartoon called "Detective Kenan" was serialized, and the market response was very good! The "Aoyama" who called was the author and painter!

I've read it too, it's really a rare masterpiece of fairy grass! No wonder Bird Island is so interested!

I heard that the editor of Bird Island did not reject the manuscript this time, and did not redraw it, it was a "one-time pass"!

According to the character of our Bird Island editors, how is that possible?

But it really happened, I heard that it was the last train that was delivered to the printing house at that time, and the editor-in-chief even counted him down for this!

But now that the results are so good, no one should have any objections, right?

Of course, when did the editor of Bird Island look away? He will be popular in our publishing house for at least another twenty years!

"Jingle Bell ......"

It's the phone ringing on Bird Island's editing desk again. Everyone immediately stopped chatting and discussing, and all set up their own receiving antennas, ready to continue listening to the latest battle reports of the popular editors.

"Hey, I'm Bird Island. Oh, it's a printing house. Judging from the sales situation this time, it is estimated that the existing number of printed copies in this issue is far from enough, and I have already reported the expected estimate of the number of additional copies to the editor-in-chief, so you can just listen to his orders!"

"If you make a conservative estimate, you can choke on three more tons of recycled paper! Well, listen to me, there is no harm in making more preparations! Why did I let go of the empty cannon? Okay, that's it, I've got another call!"

Bird Island couldn't wait to grow Nezha's three heads and six arms to answer the phone at this moment, and he opened another internal line:

"Hey, I'm Bird Island, what's so urgent?"

"Hmm, the Metropolitan Police Department's detectives, Okay, I'll be there right away!"

Torishima put down the microphone and hurriedly walked out of the door of the editing room.

As soon as he left, the editing room exploded.

Do you hear that? It's the Metropolitan Police Department's criminal police! Why are you looking for our big editor, Torishima?

There's definitely something strange about this!

……

When Torishima arrived at the living room on the second floor of the publishing house, a middle-aged man in a black suit was already sitting inside, with a neatly folded black trench coat beside him.

He's the one who wants to see me?

"First time we met, the contemptible Torishima Shuhiko. You are ......"

"When we first met, I was Yoshiharu Nishida from the Iidabashi Police Station of the Metropolitan Police Department. Sorry for the delay, I have something to confirm. ”

Torishima motioned for the other party to sit down and talk.

"Do you have an editor named 'Miura Mitoku'?"

"yes, did he do something?"

"Ah, no, no. In this issue of "Youth Run", which one do you remember was sent to the printing house by him?"

"Huh?" Torishima put a question mark in his heart, how could this criminal policeman named "Nishida" know everything about this matter?

Did something happen to Miura that day?

In any case, he could not connect the work of the editorial office with the work of the criminal police......

Wait a minute!

If you insist on saying that it is related, this new serialized "Detective Kenan" is indeed a criminal investigation reasoning theme, but this kind of virtual overhead work will not alarm the criminal police of the Metropolitan Police Department.

It's an exaggeration!

I've used Miura's list of audit rules to do a check during the internal audit before.,The work is decent.,The content doesn't involve the part of the "taboo minefield".

In addition to targeting male and female comics by the gender of the readers, Neon's comic industry is strictly divided into different classes for adult, youth, and juvenile classes according to the age range of the audience. The level of censorship progresses from the former to the next, with juvenile manga having the highest level of censorship. Therefore, all kinds of "taboo minefields" involving socially sensitive issues must not appear in the content of the work.

Although "Detective Kenan" involves reasoning and criminal investigation, it is inevitable that there will be a murder scene, but the comic author has done the maximum treatment, the relevant scenes are only for the needs of the plot, and the motive for the crime is not anti-human or anti-social, and the whole article is still full of positive energy.

Is there anything wrong with the first article of "Akihabara Video Game Killing Incident"?

Probably not!

Torishima did not answer Nishida's question directly, he asked worriedly: "Forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, does this have anything to do with your investigation?" I know that in your capacity, our editorial department should fully cooperate with your investigation, but we also have relevant confidentiality agreements, so ......"

That Nishida didn't have any expression on his face, and looked at Torishima's face with a difficult face, and refined the question again: "We are only in the intelligence gathering stage, and there are no major cases." Let me ask you another way: On April 15th, did your editor, Mitsutoku Miura, send the manga "Detective Kenan" to your company's printing plant in Wako?"

Unable to avoid the "YES/NO" question, Torishima had to nod.

"So when did this manga first come into the attention of the editorial department?" Nishida continued to ask.

Torishima felt that he was walking more and more into an unfathomable fog, what was his true intention when this criminal policeman raked in the east and broomed in the west?

"It was April 15th. You can't go wrong with this. Torishima was quick to answer.

On April 15th?!

A flash of lightning flashed through Nishida's mind, but his face was still as calm as water.

There was a huge labyrinth in his mind, and there were many rooms in the labyrinth, each of which was a clue or a deference. Those colorful rooms are connected by passages, and the doors of the passages can be opened to walk from one room to another. After the conversation with Torishima's editor, he opened the passage between the room that connected the "manga's excellent mystery story and wonderful plot" and the room where "the manuscript was reviewed and delivered on the same day", and then walked from the room where "Torishima's Miura is a newbie" to the room where "Torishima's editor is experienced and leaky", and finally led the passage connecting these rooms to a corner room - "The author of "Detective Konan" is a good master"!

The passage between this room and the entrance room of the entire labyrinth, "Miura collected scattered drawings in a short time", must have a door that has not been seen until now!

The author column of "Detective Konan" reads "AKBS Planning Studio", "Hayashi Tatsuya", and "Aoyama Minatoma"!

Nishida put down the hand touching his chin, took out a business card from his suit pocket and handed it to the editor of Torishima:

"Thank you for your cooperation!

Torishima took it and took a look, only to see that it was written: Metropolitan Police Department Iidabashi Police Station......

Scientific Search Laboratory - Yoshiharu Nishida!