Chapter 125

The next morning, Akiwara Yuto sat up from his bed and touched his slightly aching head.

Yesterday, after receiving the payment, he took the initiative to invite President Anjiu and five other employees to a high-end restaurant nearby for a high-class kaiseki meal.

Although he spent a lot of money, it was just a drop in the bucket for his current net worth.

However, at this banquet, everyone from Anjiu Bookstore kept toasting him frequently, even Satake Maki, who had always appeared very gentle.

For the sake of his business partners, Akiwara Yuto could only drink them one by one until he was unconscious.

He had no memory of what happened next.

He stood up and patted his face to sober himself up. Just then, he was surprised to find that his bedroom looked as if it had been cleaned; it could simply be described as spotless.

It seems that the person who brought him back last night was probably Satake Maki?

In any case, he would thank her properly next time.

Akiwara Yuto stood up, walked down the stairs, took a bag of bread from the refrigerator, and hurriedly finished his breakfast. Immediately after, he put on his outdoor clothes and walked toward the internet cafe.

20 minutes later, he sat in front of a cubicle and opened that detective forum.

To be honest, after receiving a large amount of traffic from the book review, he didn't think much of the 1,000 or so weekly visitors brought by the forum.

And after this update ends, the popularity will quickly fade, and he estimates the post will soon sink to the bottom.

But Akiwara Yuto thought about it and decided to see it through to the end; after all, if he left before the work finished serialization, he would feel too sorry for the readers who had been waiting for his updates on the forum.

After making this decision, he clicked the "Edit Post" button, started typing on the keyboard, and entered the final installment of "The Death of a Detective Novelist."

According to the detective's account, the female caregiver had been proven innocent, but the hospital suddenly received a phone call.

The detective gave the female caregiver a look, signaling her to answer the phone. After listening, the female caregiver told everyone that it was news about the butler—he was still alive.

Upon hearing this, the eldest grandson suddenly became panicked.

A memory began to surface in his mind.

After he swapped the morphine and the medication, he had expected the detective novelist to die of a morphine overdose, but unexpectedly, the novelist died by suicide, which left him very confused.

Because he had anonymously hired a detective to solve the case.

Besides that, his act of sneaking upstairs to swap the morphine and medication had been discovered by the butler, who had also taken the blood report and other evidence, using them to write a blackmail letter to him.

After learning the truth from the female caregiver, the eldest grandson decided to go all the way: first, he burned down the hospital office, destroying the evidence that proved the female caregiver's innocence; second, he severely injured the butler, leaving him near death, and stole the documents he had; third, he fabricated an email to lure the female caregiver to the scene of the butler's death and frame her.

But to his surprise, the female caregiver, facing the butler who might have blackmailed her, chose to call an ambulance and save him, and the awakened butler would inevitably become the key witness to testify against the eldest grandson's crimes.

The detective looked at the eldest grandson's shocked expression, smiled, and told him that he had already deduced everything and suggested he turn himself in early.

Realizing he had been completely defeated, the eldest grandson became furious and stood up to threaten the female caregiver: "So what if I killed someone? The person isn't dead anyway, and you have no evidence!"

Just then, the female caregiver suddenly vomited; it turned out she had just lied.

Due to a physiological reaction, she would vomit whenever she lied, so she had been holding it in just now.

The detective smiled; he had already recorded the audio with his phone, and the lie the female caregiver just told was also something he had specifically arranged, with the purpose of making the eldest grandson confess his crimes.

Upon learning all this, the eldest grandson could only kneel on the ground in despair, covering his face with his hands.

After entering all this, Akiwara Yuto stood up, ready to leave.

After this serialization attempt, he plans not to serialize on the forum next time; after all, the traffic he can attract is far less than the effect brought by a single book review.

So it could be considered a failure.

Before closing the webpage, he thought for a moment and added a line at the bottom of the final installment: "Author of this book: Akiwara Yuto."

Then he shut down the computer and left the internet cafe, preparing to do other work.

Tokyo, Adachi Ward, "Adachi News" editorial department.

Sakaguchi Keito was sitting in front of the computer, constantly scrolling the mouse, reading the serialization that Akiwara Yuto considered a failure—"The Death of a Detective Novelist."

Sakaguchi Keito is a social news reporter, but besides being a reporter, he is also an Ainu.

The Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan. Many historians believe they originated from the Ezo in northern Honshu, and as of today, there is a population of about 200,000, mainly distributed in Hokkaido.

Because they are not the dominant ethnic group, the Ainu in Japan suffer from political, institutional, and cultural discrimination.

During the Meiji period, the shogunate forcibly renamed "Ezo" to "Hokkaido" and moved in a large number of new immigrants from the Yamato clan. For this, they even confiscated a large amount of land belonging to the Ainu and allocated it to the new immigrants.

Later, under the protests of the Ainu, the government's attitude improved somewhat, but it still defined all Ainu as "former natives," distinguishing them from the mainstream Japanese group, the "Japanese people."

This distinction has caused the Ainu to be marginalized by Japanese society to this day, to the point of being classified as "Burakumin," considered the Japanese untouchable class, and they face severe discrimination in job hunting and daily life.

Sakaguchi Keito sighed. As a graduate of Tokyo University, his life plan should have been to enter a larger newspaper, but as a result of background checks, he was repeatedly rejected during job hunting, leaving him with no choice but to come to "Adachi News," the worst newspaper in Tokyo.

After a moment of silence, he calmed his mind and continued reading "The Death of a Detective Novelist" on the screen.

This morning, another Ainu compatriot told him that a novel featuring an Ainu protagonist had appeared on the internet.

This surprised him very much!

You must know that because of the status of the Ainu, in recent years, one can't even find a shadow of Ainu existence in any cultural work.

So could the author of this article be an Ainu?

Sakaguchi Keito frowned and began to think. Just for this point, no matter how well the other party wrote, he had to support this author.

After all, as a vulnerable group in Japanese society, huddling together for warmth is the way to survive!

Having made this decision, Sakaguchi Keito started from the first installment and read it carefully.

But as he read, he found that the brilliance of this story exceeded his imagination!