Naha is the largest city in Ryukyu, but in fact it is only 38 square kilometers. Compared with some cities in China, it is even worse than that of only one district.

Dari Village is only a mountain separated from Naha. Although it seems to be in two worlds in terms of prosperity, some things spread quickly.

"Have you heard it? Higashino's strongest buys a lot of novels."

"Wow, I saw the children of the Higashino family visiting the bookstore and making a very generous move."

"Ha? Why buy such a book?"

"Did you want to be a novelist? Isn't this a dream, haha..."

Higashino Qiang, the handsomest cub in Dari Village, and the strongest student in Dari Village.

The news of buying a large number of novels spread in Dali Village.

There is no way, the prices here are like this. Don’t underestimate 10,000 yen. Fukuzawa Yukiki does not appear often, it is a big ticket.

10,000 yen is equivalent to 100 US dollars. You should know that there are not many opportunities to get 100 US dollars in the United States. If you go to a convenience store and pay $100, the clerk will look at the customer with a strange look, let alone RB.

In RB's daily life, the most likely big ticket is Higuchi Ichiha (5000), a well-known female writer during the Meiji period.

The price of RB books is generally quite expensive.

Fortunately, the most expensive ones are all very professional books, such as university textbooks and art.

Novels are relatively cheaper, and the price of a single book is generally between 500 and 1,000 yen, which is relatively higher than that of comics. Small comics are usually 700 yen.

Of course, books are related to binding, typography, paper use, etc., and the price has many changes, but the single mystery novel is probably no more than 1,000 yen.

rb, no pirated version.

At this price, Higashino Kok did not spend all 100,000 yen at one time. He just spent 50,000 yen to get back 55 novels.

But a middle school student spends 50,000 yen at a time, which cannot be ignored.

When April 3rd, that is, on Monday, Dalizhong officially starts classes.

When Kokoshi Higashino came to the school, he felt a strange look and a lot of discussion behind him.

"Have you heard it? Higashino-kun actually wants to be a novelist."

"Don't Higashino-kun has no dreams?"

"Maybe it's shy and afraid to talk, it's a very difficult dream for novelists."

"That's true, but it's not only hidden from us?"

"Who knows, although I think Higashino-kun is very handsome, I feel like a weird person now."

Dali Middle School is not very old, and now it is an era of fewer births. It is said that it is Grade A Class in Grade 3, but in fact it is just one class.

Such rumors are conveyed very quickly, even...

"Saikyo, why are you buying so many books?" Jun Hirano couldn't help asking.

Fortunately, Higashino Kok was sitting in the last row of the class, and Jun Hirano was right in front of him, so it was no big deal for a chat between the two.

"This, haha..." Kokoto Higashino's response was to show his signature Buddhist smile.

"Tungno!" Obviously, Hirano was used to this smile, so he did not let Koto Hirano gonna gonna gonna gonna gonna besides it.

"This..." Kokoto Higashino had to spread his hands, "I just bought some books. Is this illegal?"

This is very correct, but Hirano stretched out her finger and shook it.

"saikyo, this is not a question of whether it is illegal or not. You have said before that you have no dreams, but now..." Hirano looked around and understood the meaning very clearly.

Then he said, "Do you really want to be a novelist? Wow, those kind of people seem to be weird people, and many of them are guys like Obasan and Ojisan. You are young, why can't you think so much?"

take things too hard……

"Hahaha..." Kotoshi Higashino laughed so much.

This attracted the attention of many students, and there was an uncomfortable feeling in their eyes.

Before Higashino Kok had heard many legends about RB, and he always said that they were like quails, and even spoke very little, but after traveling through time, after living for so many years, maybe Dali Village is in the countryside, and it is not too serious to be louder.

Now, it's a little different.

"saikyo..." Hirano was not complaining about Hirano's smile, what he wanted to say was Hirano's attitude.

But Kokoto Higashino interrupted him, "A Chun, don't worry, I won't become very strange."

"Really?" Hirano was a little disbelief.

But at this time, the teacher Dahe walked in.

“It’s time for class!”

"present!"

A squad leader led everyone to stand up and salute, as if everything was as usual.

But Koto Higashino keenly captured Teacher Okawa's gaze.

This time, it's not sympathy, it's very complicated.

Hirano suddenly turned his head and said in a low voice.

"Saikyo, you won't buy books anymore."

"When you are in class, listen attentively."

Kokushi Higashino actually understood that he made a small mistake this time.

...

The sea breeze is mixed with a faint salty smell.

With this taste, Higashino Kok put the last piece of bread into his mouth.

It seems that this will make the red bean paste inside taste better.

“saikyo!”

The sound was very abrupt, and even scared Higashino Qiang, but fortunately, his Buddhist shell was not damaged.

"Mr. Keigo, it's so rude to you suddenly appear."

This is the roof of the teaching building of Dari Middle School. Keigo Higashino is now a spirit, and it is indeed surprising that he can appear here.

But Keigo Higashino seemed even more surprised, "Hey, don't you ask me why I can appear in broad daylight?"

Yes, this is definitely an important issue.

But Kotoshi Higashino smiled and said, "Do you still need to ask? Based on what happened before, I can completely judge that you can appear outside in broad daylight."

"Ah?" Keigo Higashino's face was very exciting.

But I heard Kotoshi Higashino say, "According to what you said, you saw that sign on April 1st, and you found me, so you followed me, right? Then doesn't that mean everything? The situation was also during the day, and that sign was in Naha. The place where you died was not Dali Village, but you followed me to Dali Village, this is not..."

Keigo Higashino gave a thumbs up, "What a great reasoning ability."

"It's too much." Kotoshi Higashino was modest.

Although the person in front of him is a resentful spirit, he should be one of the most outstanding mystery novel writers. So, how could his reasoning ability be poor?

However, next, Keigo Higashino made it clear, "saikyo, what should you do in this situation now?"

He originally wanted to say it again, but Koto Higashino asked back, "Mr. Keigo, you should have expected this to happen early in the morning, right? And you didn't remind me."

"Haha..." Ghost laughed out loud, and Keigo Higashino nodded. "Yes, I did think of it early in the morning, because this is the fate of the novelist in the rumor."

Destiny?

No matter how much Higashino Kok didn't care about it, he just smiled and said, "You want to test me, right?"

Mr. Keigo nodded again, "Smart little devil, but you obviously lack the grasp of human nature. This is the case in this country. When you see that someone is different from most people, they will target this person in a strange way.

Novelists are different from others. Others wear formal clothes when working, while novelists are very casual and casual. Others are working hard, but novelists are often very leisurely.

This difference is more like a kind of 'disorder'. In RB, the most difficult thing to accept by the public is the disorder."

Simply put, in the eyes of others, you are just a guy who is not doing your job properly.

After hearing this, Kotoshi Higashino directly extended it, "In other words, a novelist may have to endure other people's strange gazes throughout his life, no matter how great his achievements are."

"That's right." Mr. Keigo's expression also became serious. "And, this time I can do a trial. Now you are just a middle school student. The strange gaze you have to face at this time is still very ordinary. aikyo, we two work hard for the same dream, but whether we can succeed is not sure whether we can succeed. Although Keigo Higashino did not really win the Random Purchase Award, I have also taken the last step. The gaze I faced at that time is incomparable to you now. Can you bear it?"

Kokoto Higashino looked at the resentful spirit and smiled and said, "Sure enough, you are not willing to assist you so easily."

As if he had seen through his thoughts, Mr. Keigo looked at the smiling faces of the middle school student in front of him and was a little angry, "You just tell me clearly, what should I do? Or, can you hold on?!"

Koto Higashino smiled deeper at this time, but said a very strange thing, "Mr. Keigo, have you ever heard a story? A story about crabs."

"Story? Crab?" Mr. Keigo was extremely surprised.

...

Jun Hirano was a little worried about his friend. During lunch, he wanted to find Hiango, but he couldn't find it for a while.

Fortunately, he knew his friends better, so he came to the top of the building.

"Saikyo, you... are you okay?"
To be continued...