Rice Flower Town, 4-chome, a residential building.

Hidden in the depths of the high-rise buildings and opulence of Rice Flower Town, this residential building has four floors and looks like an architectural building from the mid-Showa period, and even from the eyes of the 90s, the residential building looks a little old.

However, even if it is such a rental house, Mito Moon can barely afford to rent a house with the financial support of his family and his own part-time job.

Sitting at the table, Mito Moon tapped the manuscript with a pen.

Write novels.

Writing a mystery novel, this is the idea that Mito Moon came up with in the first week of traveling to this world.

As I thought before, mystery novels in the world of Conan are the first in the entertainment industry in terms of earning power and fame, and unlike other industries, there is no need for cooperation or start-up capital, and mystery novels can be achieved even with Mito Tsuki's alone.

As long as there are thoughts in the brain, there is a flash of spirit in the brain.

It's like having a mine in your head, and every idea that strikes a flash of inspiration is a mine, and whether it's a rich mine or a useless waste mine depends on the writer's own ability.

Mito has a wealth of writing experience, both writing web novels and climbing lattices on manuscript paper.

He is now in Japan in the 90s, and he has no money to buy a computer or a typewriter, but the publishing houses and magazines of this era are still more or less the same, and the electronic office will not take off until a few years later.

But it was precisely because of his writing experience in his previous life that Mito Moon did not rush to start - even though he had the treasure trove of mysterious masterpieces of the Earth world in his mind as a backing.

"If you don't grasp the market context, what you write will become a dog once it lags behind the times."

In the first half of the twentieth century, Japan was born with the birth of the Benge School of Reasoning, followed by the emergence of a new school of declension, and then the serious social mystery novel took over the mainstream, but when everyone thought that the social mystery novel would be evergreen, the rebellious New Benge School was revived again......

The development of mystery fiction is like a ladder, spiraling upward.

If you don't catch the social trend, you will have the situation of the best-selling Jun / Keigo Higashino, who jumps left and right between the first-class and the third-rate, at the beginning.

After winning the Edogawa Ranpo Prize for writing "After School", Keigo Higashino decided to become a professional writer, but in the years that followed, Keigo Higashino entered a career of complete autistic writing.

He continued the style of "After School", and he wrote it for more than ten years.

But the works he wrote hit the street one after another, and the more he hit the street, the more he wrote, and at most he wrote five works directly in a year, and most of the works did not sell well, even if some were selected for the selection of mystery novel awards, they were only shortlisted.

New book - selected - unselected - new book - re-selected - re-selected - re-unselected......

It wasn't until one day that he realized that what he was good at was not the trickery in the novel, but the grasp of human nature, and after writing "Malice", he finally reversed this endless cycle.

"I can't afford to repeat the mistakes of the past."

Thinking back to the story of the best-selling kun, Mito exhorted herself.

Combined with the best-selling mystery novels that I have been reading for most of the past half a month, the popular genre of mystery novels in the world of Conan is Benge Reasoning.

The so-called ontological reasoning is the classical logic supremacy of reasoning and puzzle-based, not paying attention to the realism of the case, the criminal methods used by the murderer are rarely or almost impossible in reality, the plot is bizarre, the trick is interesting, and most of the trick types are closed room murders or closed places such as Blizzard Mountain Villa and Island.

And most of the cases that Conan experienced actually fall within the scope of ontological reasoning.

Now that it has been clear what the public's favorite work is, Mito Moon is not going to write a declension or social school against the public, after all, there is Keigo Higashino in front of him.

"The mystery novels of the Benge school must have clues in a secret room and the same conditions as the reader, and then integrate the clues one step ahead of the reader."

"As an author, I'm challenging the reader."

Whether it is the Benge, the Declension, the Society, or the Neo-Benge, these schools of reasoning pay attention to making the reader and the protagonist-detective stand on the same plane as much as possible, give the same number of conditional clues, and even "blatantly" challenge the reader at the last moment, telling the reader that "you have all the clues to solve the puzzle", challenging the reader to solve the puzzle in the same way as the detective.

For example, the famous saying - there is only one truth.

And the most taboo thing in mystery novels is to solve a certain clue to the mystery, only the detective himself knows, but the reader does not know, which is extremely unfair.

Thinking of today's experience, Mito Yue felt that it was not that he was much smarter than Kudo Shinichi, but that he had many clues that Kudo Shinichi did not know.

If both sides were on the same plane, maybe Kudo Shinichi would have solved it a little faster than he did.

This is something that no one knows.

And there are already many famous works in the world of Conan, including some mystery novelists Conan Doyle and Edogawa Ranbu, who also existed in the earth world, after all, Edogawa Conan's name is a combination of the two.

And there are also some mystery novelists that have not existed on the earth, and the reverse can also be said - some works on the earth do not exist in the world of science.

This gives Mito Moon a good material library, but it is not a complete plagiarism, there is a genre in early Japanese mystery novels called 'reversal of cases', that is, the direct translation of foreign novels into Japanese novels, to put it bluntly, is a literary copyist.

Mito Moon wasn't going to be a novelist, he wanted to write something of his own.

Moreover, in the case of mystery novels, it is difficult not to be influenced by other novels in writing, and it is no exaggeration to say that most of the things that can be thought of have been written by the predecessors......

But in light of what happened to him today, Mito discovered that there was another aspect that the mystery novelists of this world had not written about.

He has an idea.

"Just write that."

Writing down the thoughts in her head on scratch paper, Mito Tsuki's heart was as clear as a mirror.

With an idea, with an idea, the next thing to do is to write down the ideas in your head one by one.

Writing in the nineties was not as convenient as the use of computers in later generations, and Mito Moon only crawled on the manuscript paper word by word, and Mito Tsuki's writing in the previous life was good.

After traveling to Japan in this life, it took a month, and Mito Tsuki barely managed to write Japanese kanji and kana Yashu with a good feeling, although it is not comparable to the handwriting of the previous life, but at least it is neater than the ordinary person's font.

[Mrs. Sato passed away on the evening of the 16th (Thursday), and someone came to ask me to come on the morning of the 17th (Friday), but I couldn't help much, because she had been dead for several hours......]