Chapter 28: Self-Promotion

Leaving the family restaurant, Akiwara Yuto did not return home directly, but turned a corner, preparing to find an internet cafe to go online.

If it were the Japan of his past life, the internet cafe was not a new thing yet; after all, the internet only started commercial promotion in Japan in 1991, which was a new thing for ordinary people.

But the IT development of this world seems to be a few years faster; not only have some specialized web pages appeared, but even the number of netizens has reached hundreds of thousands.

Akiwara Yuto searched the street for a long time and finally found an internet cafe named Internetcafe. After paying at the counter, he walked in, found his cubicle, and pressed the power button; the display screen lit up with blue light in the dim environment.

At this time, he heard a strange sound, suspected to be from the "long-term residents" in the next cubicle.

In addition to going online, Japanese internet cafes also serve as accommodation. Like the cubicle he is in now, there is a bed that can be laid down and slept on.

Even if needed, one can use the public shower room inside the internet cafe.

Such a full set of services can be compared to a hotel, but compared to a hotel, the cost here is very low.

The cost of staying for one night is about 2500 yen, which is about 164 yuan, which is nearly double cheaper than a hotel.

It is precisely because of the cheap and good quality that the internet cafe has become a place for many people to stay, attracting many "long-term residents." Japan in the past life specifically filmed a movie describing this type of "internet cafe refugee" group.

Just now, he walked in all the way and saw many groups of people suspected of being in this category: single mothers with daughters, young corporate slaves wearing suits, and middle-aged men suspected of being JK walkers.

But these have nothing to do with him; his purpose today is to see if he can find some scripts on the internet as a reference; after all, many materials cannot be found in the library, and he can only look online to see if there are any ways and channels.

He stared at the screen, started typing on the keyboard, then held the mouse, and clicked on a forum—there are many posts inside, a bit like the Mizuki bbs of his past life...

He finally found the search box and entered the keyword "script."

As a result, the website froze.

It wasn't until he was almost impatient to smash the table that the webpage loaded slowly.

As he thought, there are some stage play enthusiasts on the internet discussing relevant content, but most of them are discussing which stage plays are good or boring, and only a very few are professional insights into stage plays.

He studied for a while and silently remembered these contents in his heart, so as not to make mistakes when he writes the script.

After remembering, he held the mouse and pulled it down, and found that there was no more... he felt a bit speechless in his heart; compared to his past life, now it is like a desert of the internet.

Forget it, let's look at other discussion content.

He entered "New Novel" again to search, and after the result page loaded at a turtle's speed, he looked at it carefully.

The result disappointed him a bit; there were only a few dozen related posts, basically all cold ridicule, laughing at when it would stop publication or change to a monthly magazine.

He felt a bit suffocated, but didn't intend to be a keyboard warrior; even if he scolded these people on the internet, he couldn't change the existing sales of "New Novel," and some people inside really had a point, such as the fact that many articles were too boring...

At this time, he suddenly saw a post with "Highly Recommend 'Little Ornament and Yoko'" written on it.

He clicked on it immediately and found that there were a full hundred related comments. He was a bit surprised and looked at it carefully from top to bottom.

The title of this post was edited by a user named "ArrayCats"; looking at the name, it felt like a female. The content of this post she published basically told the whole story of Little Ornament and Yoko simply.

In the end, she highly recommended everyone to buy "New Novel," saying that the original content was more thrilling and terrible.

The following replies were a bit varied—some replied that they had read the original version and it was indeed very good, some were confused about why the author's brain hole was so big, some hoped that this story would be adapted into a movie; however, some questioned that the author was a pervert...

Seeing the reply that he was a pervert, Akiwara Yuto was a bit speechless and could only comfort himself that this could be considered another degree of recognition.

But when the story "Seven Rooms" is released, I guess there will be more people scolding him as a pervert...

He pondered for a while and decided to do some promotion for himself, so he registered an account named "Maple," started "shamelessly" promoting himself, claiming that the article "Sofar" in "New Novel" was very good, and strongly urged everyone to buy the next issue of "New Novel."

After sending this, he prepared to write a short article to attract more fans, so he changed to a vest called "Ichijo Manrika," claiming that he was Akiwara Yuto's high school classmate, and had read an article "Detective Taxi" written by the other party, and posted it for everyone to see.

Immediately afterward, he spent about 5 hours typing and put the whole text up.

After finishing all this, he felt a bit tired, stood up, pressed the shutdown button, and left...

Although he didn't know if these actions were useful, trying them didn't take much energy.

In short, he hoped to increase sales a little bit.

While Akiwara Yuto was shutting down and leaving, Uesugi Sonoko was sitting in front of the computer, browsing the same page.

She is a student of the Faculty of Literature at Yokohama National University; due to academic requirements, she often browses various magazines and book reviews on the market.

In a club activity, she was recommended Akiwara Yuto's "Little Ornament and Yoko" by a classmate; she was skeptical and took a copy to read, but was shocked after reading it.

She had never thought that novels could be written like this; she read it three or four times in a row and was completely addicted to it.

Since then, she became Akiwara Yuto's fan, not only highly recommending his articles in reality but also sparing no effort to post and promote them on the internet; the post that Akiwara Yuto saw was exactly what she published before.

At this moment, she was browsing the post she sent, and suddenly received a site notification of new replies, feeling a bit happy in her heart, thinking that she had added another "fellow fan" who liked Mr. Akiwara.

She couldn't wait to click on the reply content and read it; the content surprised her a bit; this user named "Ichijo Manrika" is Mr. Akiwara's high school classmate? This is really a low-probability event?

And this article called "Detective Taxi" is also written by Mr. Akiwara?

She clicked the mouse, slid and read it, the more she read, the more surprised she was, and her whole person was addicted to it.

As expected of Mr. Akiwara, he could actually write such an article!? ===== CHAPTER 29 =====