After putting the items in the duffel bag, Gu Shuiquan took the package and took it apart.

Um?

To Tani Mizuin's expectations, it was not a trophy or something like the Edogawa Ranbu Award, but a prize and certificate from the Japan Society of Reasoning Writers Award.

The winner was the "Secret" which he recently submitted, which is also a work by Keigo Higashino.

It was just not long after the book was submitted, and the certificate was sent, and he didn't even inform him of attending any award ceremony. The Luanbu Award, which had long been reported, has not been reported yet.

Is this also a timeline choice?

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

Instead of thinking about this little thing, Gu Shuiquan changed his clothes, sat at the desk, took out the third novel and continued to copy it.

...

evening.

"Clang clang~ I'm here."

Suzuki Yuanko rushed to the coffee table, and the youthful and active atmosphere seemed to fill the entire coffee shop.

Gu Shuiquan took a leisurely put down the book in his hand, looked at her, and said gently:

"I looked very energetic today. Did you encounter something good?"

"Hehehe, there is indeed a good thing, but it is your good thing. Dangdangdangdangdang~ What do you think this is?" Suzuki Yuanko took out a piece of paper like a treasure.

Gu Shuiquan took it and opened it. It was the certificate of Luanbu Award, and said with some amusement:

"Is this worthy of your happiness?"

"Of course! Now you have won the Edogawa Ranbu Award, next year you have won the Mystery Writers Association Award, and the Naoki Award the next year, so you will be one of the rare Triple Crowns~ By then you will be a well-known Mystery Novelist, and I will be a well-known Mystery Novelist..." Suzuki Yuanko was stuck.

"What is the famous mystery novelist?" Gu Shuiquan looked at her jokingly.

"Oh...girlfriend."

"No, start over."

"...lovers?"

"Start again."

"Oh...madam..." Suzuki Yuanko sounded like a mosquito.

"Speak louder, you can't hear it."

Bang ~

Suzuki Yuanko patted his arm angrily.

"Mrs. The wife of a well-known mystery novelist, you don't have to wait for that long. I have received the Mystery Writers Association Award. I am in the room and the third novel is almost completed. Then I will submit the articles to the Naoki Award, so there is no need to wait for the next year."

"So, you can claim that soon."

"Hey? So fast? So awesome! I heard that these awards are hard to win?"

"It's really difficult, but it's not very difficult for me to steal a novel that I could win the award."

"steal?"

"Well, steal novels that will win awards in the future."

"Why do I think you are boasting about it when you say that?"

"Hmm? Why do you feel this way?"

"Aren't you just saying that you are sure that your novels will win awards, so you wrote them out?"

“…”

This understanding... seems to be fine.

"By the way, there are already classmates in your class reading "After School". The review is very high, but they admire you very much~"

"That's it, just be happy."

"Hmm? Why did you react so dull?"

"Doesn't my appearance fit my usual image?"

"...It seems to be right." Suzuki Sonoko was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

"By the way, there are already forums online discussing your book, a mystery novel forum."

"That's how it is."

"I remember you have a computer, I'll show you, hurry up."

Tani Mizuto was helplessly pulled into the room by Suzuki Yuanko.

The door closed with a click, and the sound made Suzuki Yuanko shudder. Only then did she realize what she was doing.

A girl hurriedly pulled the boy into his room...

"Why are you blushing? It shouldn't be hot today, right?"

"Nothing." Suzuki Sonoko said in a pretentious manner, then sat at the desk and turned on the computer.

"I'll show you."

"Um."

Tani Mizuto sat down beside the bed and stared at Suzuki Yuanko's side face.

“…Is there anything on my face?”

“There are flowers.”

"Hate……"

After being rolled, Gu Shuiquan smiled.

The speed of the computer booting made Suzuki Sonoko a little anxious. She didn't think it was, but now she felt that the speed was particularly hateful.

Finally, the familiar interface appeared, and Suzuki Yuanko breathed a sigh of relief. She skillfully operated the keyboard and mouse, opened the browser, and entered the URL.

"It's this website. I saw someone discussing your book in it, and it's all very good reviews."

Tani Mizuto didn't look at the computer, but kept looking at Suzuki Yuanko.

"Don't look at me, look at these comments."

Gu Shuiquan smiled and moved his eyes to the computer.

"The ending is really powerful~ It's very satisfying~"

"It's amazing, I like it, the amazing reason for killing and neat tricks."

"I don't know the truth, maybe I'll be happier."

“…”

Suzuki Yuanko slides the progress bar and let Tani Mizumizu look over one by one.

"There are still long reviews, I'll look for them."

She was busy again.

"Look at it, that's all."

"At 2 o'clock in the middle of the night, I finished reading the book "After School" in bed, and I felt a chill in a chill. Half of it was for the hardship and determination of youthful feelings, and the other half was for Higashino's fine and vigorous style and powerful tension.

Keiko's words, we are at this age. Yes, they are at that fragile and sensitive age, at an age that is so pure that they cannot withstand a little blasphemy.

...

...

When the last motive was revealed, we couldn't help but feel heartbroken and sighed. With an inadvertent glance, the girl's heart turned into a whirlpool of revenge. In this cold story, Higashino's motive for committing the crime was extremely patient and suppressed to the last moment.

In other words, Higashino's methods are not only that, and the last two pages also play a card that hits the nerves. Compared to the struggle for fame and fortune in the adult world, the idea of ​​high school girls is straightforward and pitiful.

What makes people more likely to kill, and what makes people feel cold as ice. I was in bed and thinking hard in the night of silence."

There are still a few comments down, and Gu Shuiquan has not read them again.

"Speaking of this pseudonym you used has any meaning? Keigo Higashino?" Suzuki Yuanko asked curiously.

"Nothing special, I just think these books should be named."

"So that's it." Suzuki Yuanko nodded, looking like she suddenly realized, and didn't know what she understood.

"Look at it again, there are many more behind it, all of which are saying that you wrote well~" She looked very happy.

But suddenly, the smile on Suzuki Yuanko's face froze, and Tani Mizumi, who had been looking at her side, immediately noticed it.

"What's wrong?"

"No, nothing, it's just someone is talking nonsense and smearing your works." Suzuki Yuanko's eyes were red in anger.

"let me see."

"No, don't read it anymore. This is all about deliberately slandering you. If you read it, you have no effect except to make you angry." Suzuki Yuanko looked angry and swiped the mouse to turn off the web page.

Gu Shuiquan held her hand, stood up and stood behind her, and let her head rest on her chest.

"It doesn't matter. I can't say that this book was won by the Suzuki family's power, right?" Tani Mizuin joked easily.
Chapter completed!