Zongman: A Second Dimension Girl Comes to Me

Utaha Kasumigaoka picked up her phone and took a look. It was a call from her editor, Sonoko Machida.

"What's up?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha answered the phone, her tone of voice was quite heavy and there was a hint of dissatisfaction in it.

Disturbed by the ringing of the phone, the inspiration she had finally grasped slipped away again.

"Xiao Shi, I have great news to tell you!" Machida Yuanzi's cheerful voice came from the other side, seemingly not noticing Kasumigaoka Utaha's bad tone at all.

"good news?"

"Guess how many copies of 'Love Metronome' were sold today?" Machida Sonoko said with a smile.

Kasumigaoka Utaha was stunned for a moment, and then she vaguely realized a possibility from Machida Sonoko's words.

But her reason told her that she shouldn't be delusional. After all, "Love Metronome" had been on sale for more than ten days. According to common sense, sales would only continue to decline and eventually be removed from bookstore shelves.

"At least 1700 copies!"

Without waiting for Kasumigaoka Utaha to answer, Machida Sonoko said it herself.

"This is a statistic made by the Fuzugawa sales department. Two bookstores in Setagaya are almost sold out!"

1700 copies!

Hearing this number, no matter how calm she was, Kasumigaoka Utaha couldn't help but get excited.

You should know that "Spy Classroom", which ranked tenth on Oricon's weekly light novel sales list, only sold more than 5000 copies.

It is incredible for a new writer like her to sell so much in just one day.

"Yuanzi, what happened?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha calmed down and asked Machida Sonoko.

She wanted to know why the sales of "Love Metronome" were rising against the trend.

"Just search for the popular tweets for 'Love Metronome' on Twitter and you'll find out," Machida Sonoko kept the topic a secret.

With doubt in her heart, Kasumigaoka Utaha opened Twitter, typed in the words "love metronome", and pressed the enter key.

In the first place of the popular category, a tweet that had received 25,000 hearts and 8,000 retweets in one day caught her eye.

"The newly released light novel "Love Metronome" is really good... I highly recommend it to everyone!"

The tweet was followed by an illustration of a beautiful girl. The author, Utaha Kasumigaoka, quickly recognized that the painting was of the heroine Sayuka based on the character's features.

"Kashiwagi Eri?"

Kasumigaoka Shion read out the nickname of the account that posted this tweet and took a look at the self-introduction on the account.

Could it be that the 27.6x doujinshi artist with 18 followers was the one whose promotional tweet led to the sales of 1700 copies of "Love Metronome" today?

"That's right, Xiaoshi, you are really lucky to have this great artist in the fandom actively promoting you and increasing your exposure." Machida Yuanzi sighed, and then said, "The first volume of "Love Metronome" has been printed with 1700 copies. With the 2000 copies sold today, half of it has been sold. According to the situation at the bookstore, it will not be a problem to sell another copies within a week.

Not to mention that "Love Metronome" is of very good quality. After it has a certain number of readers, its reputation will inevitably ferment and form a new purchasing trend. By then, it may even be on the Oricon light novel sales weekly list, and its exposure will continue to increase.

In this way, sales will definitely reach the sales target set by the editor-in-chief. I estimate that it won’t be long before our editorial department will formulate a new volume plan for “Love Metronome”.”

After Machida Sonoko finished speaking, Kasumigaoka Utaha's heart trembled.

The new volume plan means that "Love Metronome" will not be cut short at a maximum of three volumes as previously planned, and a fourth volume or even more volumes can be written.

Originally, she was planning to rewrite the main storyline outline and trigger the plot climax in advance in the second volume, sacrificing some quality in exchange for the popularity of the work, so as to increase the sales of "Love Metronome" as much as possible and avoid it being cut short.

Now, she doesn't have to be so anxious and has plenty of time to polish the plot and write it step by step.

All this is thanks to Eri Kashiwagi.

Kasumigaoka Utaha silently looked at Kashiwagi Eri's Twitter, and a feeling of gratitude surged in her heart.

She added Kashiwagi Eri's account to her follow list, and she would definitely thank this famous doujin artist in person when she gets the chance in the future.

At this time, in her own villa, Eriri, who was racking her brains over how to draw the new issue of Summer Comic Market, didn't know that her favorite teacher Kasumi Shiko, also known as Kasumigaoka Utaha, had already followed her on Twitter.

In this way, the two of them established a wonderful bond through Duanmu Che, a third party who knew that they were a light novel writer and an 18x doujinshi artist.

Saturday, October 6st

Duanmu Che walked into the Tokyo Central Bank.

It was this bank that had processed a 50 million yen mortgage for the Duanmu family a year ago. However, because Duanmu Yong and his wife died in a car accident, the original owner was unable to repay the loan and eventually committed suicide by burning charcoal.

He came here today to pay off the five months' loan and penalty interest totaling more than 2.2 million yen.

It was also thanks to the joining of Tanomo Kei that Tsukishimaken's turnover increased significantly. Otherwise, it would take him two days longer to deposit enough money in his account.

In the credit management department, Duanmu Che was received by a dedicated man named Hanzawa Naoki.

After understanding the reason why Duanmu Che came to the bank, Hanzawa Naoki did not do what those bank staff who just wanted to save trouble did, by simply operating a few times on the computer and directly deducting money from the account, completing the business indifferently.

Instead, he first asked Duanmu Che to go to the district office to apply for a household registration certificate. He then took the household registration certificate to discuss with his department superiors on the grounds that Duanmu Che was the only minor left in the Duanmu family and this met the mortgage exemption policy introduced last year.

The final result was that all the penalty interest on the Duanmu family's mortgage was waived, and Duanmu Che only paid 2 million yen to pay off his debt.

"Mr. Hanzawa is such a nice person."

With such emotion, Duanmu Che walked out of the Tokyo Central Bank.

In the slightly dazzling afternoon sunlight, I suddenly felt relaxed.

He has now fulfilled his original obsession of protecting Tsukishima Xuan.

From then on, he only had to repay the loan of 400,000 yen every month.

With Tsukishima Xuan's earning rate, he could pay off all the mortgage in half a year at most and completely terminate the loan contract with the bank.

By then, Tsukishima-ken will belong completely to him.

Back in Ikebukuro, Duanmu Che walked into the mall.

I bought an Alienware m15 laptop at a Dell store for 299530 yen.

Since Kato Megumi didn't want the salary she deserved, he could only give her the laptop she wanted and give her the salary in the form of a gift.

The reason why she chose the Alienware laptop is because the Alienware brand has good after-sales service, and there happens to be a Dell after-sales service point near Kato Megumi's home. For a computer novice like Kato Megumi, after-sales service is often the most important thing.

If he buys the computer himself, he will definitely buy the accessories himself, and DIY assembly is more appropriate.

Carrying a laptop, Duanmu Che came to Kato Hui's house, a two-story house, and rang the doorbell.

Ding Dong!Ding Dong!

Accompanied by the sound of brisk footsteps, the door opened and Kato Megumi, wearing home clothes, appeared in front of him.