There are always people chasing me for the Akutagawa Prize

early morning.

A refreshing wind blows the curtains through the glass windows, and along with a ray of sunlight, the room is painted a light golden yellow.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke was lying on the desk with his arms pillowed, the lamp in front of him was still on, and the scraps of paper on the desk were blown to the ground by the wind.

"Om - hum -"

The phone on the table had been ringing for a while, but the vibration wasn't enough to wake its owner.

After not knowing how many times it rang, the person sleeping soundly on the table finally responded.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke frowned slightly, blinked his eyes, and slowly sat up straight.Rubbing his sore eyes from staying up late, Akutagawa Ryunosuke got up and walked into the bathroom.

After taking a hot bath, Akutagawa Ryunosuke was much more energetic.

He boiled a pot of hot water to make tea and turned on the TV. The sound of things colliding with each other filled the whole space with the smoke and fire of life and became vivid.

[Yesterday, a school in Tokyo was attacked by an unknown object, and the teaching building was extensively damaged. Fortunately, there were no casualties.This is already the third recent case, and the relevant departments attach great importance to it, and a comprehensive investigation has now been launched.The next news item is]

"It's really not peaceful recently." Ryunosuke Akutagawa sighed to the news.

After the tea was brewed, Ryunosuke Akutagawa returned to his desk with his breakfast.

The mobile phone, which had been ignored by the owner, rang again stubbornly and tenaciously.

This time, Akutagawa Ryunosuke finally noticed it.

The caller ID on the screen reads Edit Yamaguchi.

"I'm Akutagawa—"

"Ancestor! My ancestor! You finally answered the phone!"

On the other side of the phone is a boy's voice with a bit of crying, it sounds like he shouldn't be very old.

"I just woke up." Akutagawa Ryunosuke explained.

"It's all right! Are you free now? The publishing house wants to discuss some details with you." Editor Yamaguchi's tone can be described as cautious, as if he was afraid of saying something wrong.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke looked at the calendar at hand, there was a date circled in red pen on it, it was today.

"I need to go to the airport this afternoon, maybe—"

"It doesn't matter! It's only a short while to discuss things. I'll pick you up in a car now, and I'll take you to the airport after I'm done, okay?"

"OK then."

"I'll be there soon!"

At the end of the call, Ryunosuke Akutagawa discovered that Editor Yamaguchi had made more than 60 phone calls to himself, with various text messages mixed in between.

But it really made the other party anxious, Akutagawa Ryunosuke chuckled in his heart.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke, 15 years old, is now a student at school, and writes some books on weekdays to earn extra money.

Editor Yamaguchi did as he said, and arrived downstairs at Ryunosuke Akutagawa's house in a short while.

"Good morning, Mr. Akutagawa." Editor Yamaguchi greeted Ryunosuke Akutagawa with a smile.

Editor Yamaguchi's full name is Junichi Yamaguchi, 26 years old, a young man who has just entered the society, and now works in a half-dead publishing house.

Normally, an editor does not need to be so respectful to the author, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa is much younger than him, but Ryunosuke Akutagawa is special to him, and even to the entire publishing house .Yamaguchi Junichi respected and admired Akutagawa Ryunosuke from the bottom of his heart.

"Sorry for worrying you." Akutagawa Ryunosuke's first words after getting into the car were an apology.His new work has just been submitted, and now is the time when there are many trivial matters to be discussed. It is indeed his fault that the phone is put on vibrate mode. "Haven't had breakfast yet, here's for you."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke handed Yamaguchi Junichi a beautiful box, which contained his favorite small cakes.

Junichi Yamaguchi was already flattered by Ryunosuke Akutagawa's apology, and now he got another breakfast: "I dare not bother you to think about it, it's my fault for disturbing you so early."

"It doesn't matter, this is your job." Akutagawa Ryunosuke is not an indiscriminate person.

Yamaguchi Jun put away the cake that Akutagawa Ryunosuke gave him: "Let's go to the publishing house first, it won't be good if it delays your afternoon work."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke nodded.

The publishing house is very close to Akutagawa Ryunosuke's house, and it takes only ten minutes by car.

"Mr. Akutagawa!" The editor-in-chief of the publishing house is a middle-aged uncle. After he learned that Akutagawa Ryunosuke would come over today, he stood at the door and waited a long time ago.

What he welcomed was not some writer, but the savior of their publishing house!

The publishing house that Akutagawa Ryunosuke contributed is called Sky Publishing House. Before Akutagawa Ryunosuke came here, this publishing house was on the verge of bankruptcy. It was Akutagawa Ryunosuke who saved the publishing house by himself.

Six months ago, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who tried writing for the first time, brought his manuscript to Sky Publishing House. Before coming here, he had been rejected by many well-known publishing houses.Those people didn't even glance at Ryunosuke Akutagawa's manuscript, thinking that a child could write something.

With the mentality of trying again for the last time, Akutagawa Ryunosuke opened the door of Sky Publishing House.

Sky Publishing House is basically a small company with no such company in the industry. Almost all the books it has published have lost all their money. When it was about to close down, the boss of the publishing house saw the manuscript of Ryunosuke Akutagawa and read it at a glance. on.The boss felt that this was a turning point for their publishing house, so he signed it without saying a word.

The boss's vision was not wrong this time. They didn't have the money to do any publicity at all, but Ryunosuke Akutagawa's book climbed up the bestseller list of the bookstore step by step shortly after it was put on the shelves, becoming a group of dark horses in the current quarter.The name Akutagawa Ryunosuke has also become one of the most popular search terms on the Internet. Everyone wants to know if this author has any other works. After searching, they found that this "Otsutsuki" was really written by him first book.

For a while, everyone's curiosity about the author reached its peak. Some TV talk shows did not hesitate to pay high prices to invite Akutagawa Ryunosuke, but they were all rejected by the other party.Ryunosuke Akutagawa never wrote books for fame, let alone money, but just to express some inner thoughts.

"Good morning." Akutagawa Ryunosuke opened the door to greet the staff of the publishing house, showing no arrogance at all.

"Mr. Akutagawa's new work this time is really great. Both the plot and the emotions of the characters are just right. I believe this time it will definitely be a hit!" Praise for Ryunosuke's new work.

They received Akutagawa Ryunosuke's new work a few days ago. The boss read it back and forth several times, and tears of excitement came out.

"Really, thank you." The book I wrote is like my own child. Akutagawa Ryunosuke is very happy when the child is praised by others.

Akutagawa Ryunosuke followed the editor-in-chief into the conference room.

It hurts——

In the ward of the Port Mafia, a man covered in plaster and bandaged slowly opened his eyes while lying on the hospital bed.

Osamu Dazai felt that this was the most serious rollover of all his missions.

It's just a simple mission to exterminate the traitors. I didn't expect that the information they investigated before had errors and omissions. The group of people stole hundreds of catties of explosives/powders. The report didn't mention a single word, which almost caused him to die in the sea of ​​flames. .

Thanks to everyone, he can now be regarded as a third-level disabled.

"Mr. Dazai!"

"Mr. Dazai is awake! Call the doctor!"

Seeing that Dazai Osamu woke up, the man in black at the door rushed to report.

After a series of examinations, the doctor concluded that Osamu Dazai would have to rest for several months due to his injuries.

After seeing everyone off, Osamu Dazai remembered that there was one person he hadn't seen all this time——

"Akutagawa." Osamu Dazai lay on the bed and called to his subordinate and student.

It's really abnormal that he hasn't seen Akutagawa after being awake for such a long time, every time he will be the one who rushed in for the first time.

"Akutagawa?" The first call had passed for a while, but there was no sound coming from the door, and Osamu Dazai called again.

After a while, just as Osamu Dazai was about to shout for the third time, the door of the ward was opened.

"Does Mr. Dazai have any orders?" It wasn't Akutagawa who entered, but a blonde girl in a suit.

Osamu Dazai knew this girl, she seemed to be Akutagawa's subordinate, her name was Higuchi Ichiyo.

"Where's Akutagawa?"

Ichiyo Higuchi had a puzzled expression: "Akutagawa? We don't seem to have anyone named Akutagawa here."

Osamu Dazai: "Huh?"