The editor develops the writer, and the editor answers the confused author's questions and tells him what to do.

This is a common occurrence in any publishing house.

Everyone felt normal.

In fact, an author who has not asked the editor, and an author who is not confused, is called abnormal.

Therefore, the editors of Urashima Publishing House who were present felt that Hosokawa Koharu estimated that the credit was not small, so the 'cub' of Higashino Tsukasa would be so competitive and directly cut down the first reader's praise rate of "Bad Cold".

But—

I have trained Higashino-sensei?!

Hosokawa Koharu was dumbfounded.

Is it not clear whether she has cultivated Higashino Tsukasa or not?

There is nothing to do at all!

Tsukasa Higashino didn't ask her anything about the creation of the manga, she felt like a big salted egg, forcibly carried by the fighter jet Higashino Tsukasa to fly in the sky.

After the work was done, others still felt that it was her as a fighter pilot to the credit.

But in fact, Tsukasa Higashino has already realized the unmanned automatic navigation function, where can I use her!?

Hosokawa Koharu only feels like a simple pendant!

"Hosokawa editor? What's wrong? What is your experience in cultivating Higashino-sensei? ”

The editor next to him continued to ask curiously.

"Uhh

This... How does that make her answer?

She felt that her greatest success was the discovery of "Midnight Bell", and there really wasn't much else to brag about.

"You can do that later." Naturally, the editor-in-chief of Urashima would not let the editors under him continue to discuss with each other, and after he reminded him, he announced the next result-

"Mr. Kuronomiya's "Between the Dolls" ranked second in readers' praise."

This result was not unexpected by the editors below.

After all, the reader's praise rate of "Bad Cold" has always been like this, basically "Between Dolls" is in the front, since it was won by "Midnight Bell" this time, then the second must be "Between Dolls" by Mr. Kuronomiya.

Next, the editor-in-chief of Urashima announced the reader's praise rate, and nominated several comics in the series to be on the list of halved observation periods, so he coughed and continued:

"Here's how much more this issue of Chill has sold."

Here it comes!

All the editors were inexplicably nervous.

The sales of each issue of "Bitter Cold" have continued to decline from the glory days of 3 million copies per issue to 1.9 million copies per issue, and this number continues to decline.

I don't know what the situation is like this week.

If the editor-in-chief of Urashima does not speak, no one below dares to speak.

It's like a classroom that was originally noisy after class, and suddenly someone comes to say, 'The teacher is here,' and then the whole classroom is quiet.

Under this oppressive silence, the editor-in-chief of Urashima finally spoke:

"The sales of this issue of 'Bitter Chill' are 1.92 million copies, a slight increase from last week."

Quiet –

First there was a deathly silence.

Then came the indescribable cheers and surprises of the editors.

"One million million copies?"

A full 20,000 copies?

It's not a big achievement, but—

"The downward trend has stopped? Even a small improvement? ”

None of the editors, including Koharu Hosokawa, thought of it.

They were even ready to be scolded by the editor-in-chief of Urashima.

But when they learned that the downward trend had stopped, and even the overall sales had increased slightly, they were inexplicably happy in their hearts.

It seemed that the big stone in the heart that had been pressed all this time was suddenly moved in half.

Because when the editor-in-chief of Urashima announced the sales of the weekly "Bad Cold", they would always be depressed, and it was difficult to have the feeling of holding their heads up and holding their chests high.

In this piece of excitement, there are still relatively calm people.

This person is Isamu Sanada.

As a veteran editor with 30 years of experience, he was not as excited as other editors, but asked the question that everyone wanted to know most:

"Editor-in-chief Urashima, may I ask why this issue of "Bad Cold" has not continued to fall?"

As soon as he asked this, the others sobered up a lot, and they turned to look at the editor-in-chief of Urashima, and they all wanted to know the answer.

The sales of "Bad Cold" have been declining, which is something that many practitioners in the industry know, why did it suddenly stop?

There must be a reason for this.

And if you want to talk about the reason, the excellent comics serialized in the heart of the recent "Bad Cold"... That's just...

"Could it be the reason for Mr. Higashino's "Midnight Bell"?" Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help but ask in a whisper.

Yes, the biggest difference between "Bad Cold" and previous issues is that "Midnight Bell" is being serialized.

But she didn't dare to say it again halfway through her words.

After all, it's just a matter of saying it, and it's too fantastical.

That's the weekly magazine "Bad Cold"!

One of the three major magazines of Japanese comics, even if it has gone down, it is impossible to be affected so much by one comic, right?

But—

"That's right! It's "Midnight Bell"! ”

This time, the editor-in-chief Urashima answered without hesitation.

"I deliberately collected the readers' replies this time, and the vote replies on it were 20% 'I hope to see the latest episode of 'Midnight Bell' soon. And 13 percent of the readers' replies were 'recommended to watch Midnight Bell'..."

As soon as the specific data was laid out, the editors below had nothing to say.

It seems that the readers of "Midnight Bell" really love and hate this comic...

This is the first time they have seen a comic with such a large readership.

"I seem to have seen what it was like in the glory days of "Bitter Cold" before..."

Sanada listened to these data and couldn't help but sigh.

Once upon a time, "Bad Cold" actually had several pillar horror comics, and readers bought "Bad Cold" for those pillar comics...

Later, the excellent works of "Bad Cold" were discontinued, and sales continued to decline... Taizhu comics can't find it...

And now "Midnight Bell" suddenly appeared, and in just two words, it carried the banner of "Bad Cold"...

Sanada still sighed a little.

"Therefore, I and the senior management decided to give Hosokawa Koharu, the editor in charge of "Midnight Bell", a salary increase, and I hope that Hosokawa editor can make persistent efforts to guide Higashino-sensei to create better works."

Urashima, the editor-in-chief, logically announced the decision to give Hosokawa Koharu a salary increase.

But this made Hosokawa Koharu even more dumbfounded.

What does it mean that I will continue to work hard and guide Higashino-sensei...?

I want to guide you too... But Mr. Higashino doesn't need me to guide him at all...?

But...

The salary increase is too fragrant.

No one doesn't like money, Hosokawa Koharu is also a woman, and the expenses are quite large.

So even though there are a lot of things to say, when it comes to her mouth, it still honestly becomes-

"Yes, thank you Urashima, editor-in-chief, I will definitely keep up the good work."

No way...

It's so fragrant.