Chapter 825

"Hello! Excuse me!"

His voice sounded a bit hurried because of the urgency, but he tried to remain polite.

The female clerk was startled, looked up, saw Niigaki Shoji, and then saw Takahashi Jun and Uda Ayaka following behind him, a look of realization and a hint of familiarity appearing on her face.

"Ah, it's the editors from Midnight Publishing House."

She clearly recognized these editors who often came to the bookstore to communicate business, especially Takahashi Jun and Uda Ayaka.

After all, one looked quite pathetic, and the other looked beautiful.

"Is there anything I can help you with?"

Niigaki Shoji took a deep breath and said quickly:

"Hello, I am Editor Niigaki from Midnight Publishing House, this is Editor Takahashi, Editor Uda, we come here often."

He pointed to the two people behind him, and then asked urgently:

"I would like to ask, our Midnight Publishing House should have a new book on the shelves today, the book title is 'The Devotion of Suspect X', the author is Sanken Li."

"According to the plan, it should be displayed on the Midnight Publishing House bookshelf in the Suspense and Mystery Zone."

"But... we just looked around and didn't find this book."

"Even the trial copies that are usually there are gone."

"May I ask... is there a problem with logistics and transportation, and the books haven't been delivered to the store?"

"Or... is it some other reason that caused this book not to be normally put on the shelves for sale today?"

The female clerk listened, and a look of sudden realization appeared on her face.

"Oh—! You mean that 'The Devotion of Suspect X'!"

Her tone was relaxed, even carrying a hint of a smile of "so that's why you are in such a hurry."

"The books arrived at the store a long time ago, and they were put on the shelves for sale as soon as we opened today."

"What?!"

The three editors said in unison, their eyes widening even more.

Takahashi Jun leaned forward half a step in a hurry, his voice even a bit distorted:

"Then... then where are the books? How come I can't see even one?!"

"What about the trial copies? There should at least be trial copies, right?!"

The female clerk blinked, looking at their anxious appearance, feeling a bit funny, and a bit understanding.

She spread her hands and said in a matter-of-fact tone:

"Because... they are sold out."

"Not long after we opened in the morning, someone read it, and it was quickly bought, and then customers came to ask and buy it one after another."

"Before noon, the batch allocated to our store was all sold out."

"So that position was emptied, and of course we had to fill it with other books, otherwise how ugly would the bookshelf look if it were empty."

She paused and added:

"As for the trial copies... haha, it's quite rare to say."

"Those three trial copies were also bought by customers."

"We were stunned at the time; it's still very rare to encounter customers who are even willing to spend money to buy trial copies."

"After all, this kind of situation is a treatment only very famous authors have."

"This time, it was actually a new book by a newcomer author, how could we not be surprised."

"However, our store manager later took one of the reserved copies to read, and just finished reading it."

A look of admiration appeared on the female clerk's face.

"The store manager said that this novel is really well written, the plot and characters are amazing!"

"So he is already preparing to significantly increase the order quantity in the order data to be transmitted to your publishing house tonight."

"It's just that it hasn't reached the time for data transmission yet, so your publishing house might not know the situation here yet."

Sold... sold out?

Sold out... in the morning?

The trial copies... were also bought?

These three pieces of information were like three heavy hammers, smashing hard into the minds of the three editors.

Uda Ayaka was the first to react.

Her exquisite and beautiful face instantly lost its expression management.

Her mouth opened slightly, and her beautiful eyes were filled with extreme disbelief.

"Sold... sold out in one morning?!"

Her voice was a bit sharp, repeating this fact that she felt was absurd and shocking.

Niigaki Shoji took a sharp breath, feeling a rush of hot blood rushing to the top of his head.

"Even... even the trial copies were sold?!"

This simply exceeded his cognitive scope of "the first day of new book release"!

And Takahashi Jun...

After the initial dullness and blankness of his brain.

A burst of indescribable, volcanic-like ecstasy and shock instantly crushed all his tension, panic, and self-blame!

"Great—!!!!"

He almost unconsciously roared out with all his might!

His hands even waved in the air excitedly!

"Really great!!!"

"Unbelievable! Simply unbelievable!! It was actually sold out in the morning!! Even the trial copies weren't left!!!"

The paleness on his face was replaced by an excited flush, and his eye sockets were even a bit hot.

This sudden low cheer and somewhat funny action immediately attracted the surprised gazes of several customers who were choosing books nearby.

Takahashi Jun then realized his loss of composure, and his old face instantly turned red.

He quickly lowered his head, put his hands together, nodded continuously and slightly toward the direction where gazes were cast, and said "sorry, sorry" with his mouth.

But the smile that reached his ears could not be retracted no matter what.

And just at this moment.

Two or three customers walked over from the side, and they went straight to the female clerk and asked:

"Hello, do you still have this novel 'The Devotion of Suspect X' in your store? I've turned to several bookstores nearby and haven't found it. Someone online said your store should have stock."

"I also heard a friend's recommendation, saying this newly released mystery novel is particularly good, but I looked for half a day and didn't see a shadow, could it be that it's sold out too?"

"I saw several people discussing this novel on Twitter, the evaluation is very high, I came here specifically to buy it, but there isn't even one..."

Their faces were all filled with confusion and a hint of disappointment at not finding it.

Facing these successive inquiries, the female clerk showed a helpless smile mixed with apology and a hint of professional pride.

"I'm really sorry, dear customers."

She handled it skillfully.

"This 'The Devotion of Suspect X' is indeed sold out in our store."

"After it was put on the shelves this morning, the sales situation was very hot."

She paused and gave a professional suggestion.

"If you really want to buy it, you can choose to make a reservation at our bookstore."

"After the books reprinted by the publishing house arrive, we will notify you to come and buy them according to the order of reservation."

"If you need to make a reservation, please go to the service counter over there to handle the procedures."

Hearing this answer, the customers showed expressions of "as expected" and "what a pity."

They talked in low voices and walked toward the service counter.

"It seems it's really good, even this bookstore doesn't have..."

"In this situation, I can only make a reservation..."

"What's the background of this author? A newcomer? So fierce?"

The female clerk sent the customers away, turned back, and gave a "see, I didn't lie to you" expression to the three editors who were still digesting the shock and Natsume Chikage who was watching quietly.

At the same time, she also secretly clicked her tongue in her heart.

In her many years of bookstore work experience, a new book by a newcomer author, on the first day of release, and only in the morning, was completely sold out, and even the trial copies were bought by people... ===== CHAPTER 826 =====