Chapter 333: National Treasure

On the TV screen, Funehiki Kuji faced the camera and continued in a tone of shame.

"In fact, after Shimochiku Kazuo published that Teacher Akiwara hired a ghostwriter, someone contacted me and instructed me to do so. Not only that, but also let me..."

After 15 minutes, he told all the ins and outs of his experience clearly.

The female host cooperated very well and expressed surprise, asking: "Who was that person?"

"Sorry, I don't know," Funehiki Kuji said with his head lowered, "But I guess it might be some interest-related person."

After finishing everything, he immediately knelt down and did the "dogeza" posture.

"I apologize to all the citizens, this is not my original intention..."

Bang!

A water cup smashed onto the TV screen, smashing a crack in the screen.

Even so, Funehiki Kuji's voice still echoed in this room.

Honda Kohei put down his hand, and a look of anger appeared on his face.

As the President of the Keihan Society, he never expected that his carefully arranged foolproof plan would be solved by Akiwara Yuto in such a way again.

And the other party also used this method to give his three books an "advertisement."

There was no doubt that once the works were on the market, they would inevitably be enthusiastically sought after by the public.

By that step, the market share of the Keihan Society's detective single-volume books would continue to be squeezed.

"President, I'm coming in."

Following the sound of pushing the door, a woman wearing a professional suit walked in; she was the specialist of the Business Intelligence Department, Hosome Reiko.

Honda Kohei suppressed his anger and said in a voice that couldn't be heard clearly.

"What is the evaluation of your Business Intelligence Department regarding the public opinion later."

"Very pessimistic," Hosome Reiko hesitated, "After Funehiki Kuji's explanation this time, many people will inevitably feel that they have been fooled. Not only that, they will also have sympathy for Akiwara Yuto."

"I know all this," Honda Kohei waved his hand, "But is there any possibility of leading it to us."

Hosome Reiko shook her head.

"When contacting Funehiki Kuji, I asked someone else to do it, and only contacted the other party unilaterally, but..."

"Hmm?"

"Professor Shimochiku's side might be a bit troublesome."

Honda Kohei frowned, and after a while, said: "He is a smart person, you wait and make it clear to him, I will compensate him for everything he lost. But the only requirement is for him to honestly shut up and not say any nonsense."

"Understood, I will contact him later," Hosome Reiko nodded.

Looking at the president who was pretending to be calm, she felt a sense of sadness in her heart now.

Since when did the Keihan Society, as one of the four major publishers, have to be forced to use this means to deal with a writer.

More importantly, it even failed.

Although relying on the current ability, it could make some insiders shut up.

But in the eyes of many people, the Keihan Society was the mastermind behind this Akiwara Yuto ghostwriting scandal.

After all, once Akiwara Yuto was labeled as "ghostwriting," his market share would drop sharply. By that time, the biggest beneficiary was undoubtedly the Keihan Society.

This point could not be hidden no matter what.

On the day Funehiki Kuji spoke, public opinion on the internet exploded again, and everyone felt angry.

Even deeply felt a sense of being fooled.

Especially the "Anti-Akiwara Faction" who believed his speech at the beginning and expressed sympathy for Funehiki Kuji, the reaction was even more intense.

For a time, countless related posts were one after another "go to die," "go to die" words.

Even someone exposed his home address and phone number.

It was conceivable that if Funehiki Kuji still lived in the original place, he would inevitably be found.

However, after a series of angry public opinion posts, there were also many people asking who the mastermind behind Funehiki Kuji was.

After all, according to Funehiki Kuji's confession, the other party didn't know who was doing this from beginning to end, and could only guess that it was some interest-related person.

Therefore, many netizens left messages to discuss under a certain post on 2ch.

"Is it the traditional honkaku writer Wada Shin? It is said that he had a conflict with Akiwara Yuto before, and was even humiliated by Akiwara Yuto during the award ceremony."

"Unlikely, Wada Shin wouldn't do this kind of thing."

"I think it might be the Mantan Society."

"Why?"

"You all guessed wrong, it's the Keihan Society."

"Why?"

"Although there were no reports of direct conflict between the Keihan Society and Akiwara Yuto, Akiwara Yuto is now snatching a lot of their market share."

"But there is no evidence, let's wait and see what that Shimochiku Kazuo says?"

As the other party of public opinion, Shimochiku Kazuo, who accused Akiwara Yuto of hiring a ghostwriter, was also nailed to the shame pole this time.

Although there were still a very small number of die-hard fans who believed he was innocent, the reason was that Akiwara Yuto's writing style was very different, so Shimochiku misjudged and thought Akiwara Yuto hired a ghostwriter.

But for this method, most people didn't recognize it.

After all, he and Funehiki Kuji attacked Akiwara Yuto one after another.

Since one was instructed by others, but the other wasn't?

However, even facing the criticism from the outside world, Shimochiku Kazuo didn't intend to stand out and accept an interview.

On the contrary, Kyushu University, where he was located, gave him a certain punishment.

On the evening of the seventh day at 11:00 PM, which was the last day Akiwara Yuto promised, he finally completed the creation of the last work "Journey Under the Midnight Sun."

And after this news came out, whether it was the public or the public opinion circle, they couldn't help but sigh.

Especially in the book review circle, some critics even called him a "national treasure" writer, believing that he alone was worth more than half of the detective world.

After all, there had never been such a writer who could write so many works in such a short time.

And these works were all recognized by the Detective Writers Association.

This meant that these three books were all good works!

Immediately after, according to Tsutaya Bookstore where Akiwara Yuto was located.

These three books would also be listed and sold in various places one after another within the following month.

By that time, the public would naturally be able to see the specific content in the books.

It was just that before these three books could be sold, a piece of news from across the ocean was linked to Akiwara Yuto.

Akiwara Yuto won the Dublin Literary Award! ===== CHAPTER 334 =====