"Mashiro, it's getting late. Time to go up, take a bath, and sleep," Sorata said to Shiina Mashiro after seeing Kamimura Yuriko off.
"Clothes," Shiina Mashiro raised her head.
"Alright, alright, I'll go prepare them for you."
"Panty color should correspond to tomorrow's weather."
"Uh... what kind of request is that?" Sorata was taken aback.
However, after Shiina Mashiro finished taking a bath, she came to Sorata's room in her pajamas, holding her sketchbook, and quietly stood in front of him, looking at him without saying a word.
"What's wrong?" Sorata asked strangely.
"Draw together," Shiina Mashiro pointed to the floor.
"Aren't you going to sleep tonight? You have school tomorrow."
"It's okay, sleep later," Shiina Mashiro just quietly looked at Sorata.
"Alright, but after you finish that drawing in your hand, you're going to sleep," Sorata said, shaking his head helplessly, knowing that if he didn't say so, she would definitely draw through the night.
"Sorata is so nice."
"Yes, so nice." Looking at the girl sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of his bed, Sorata thought for a moment and took out a pair of earphones for her.
"...?" Shiina Mashiro raised her head and looked blankly at Sorata. With the earphones on her head, she looked adorably dazed.
However, Sorata ignored her, turned on the computer, and began to recall the content of the second volume of Toradora!. Then, the sound of his fingers rapidly hitting the keyboard filled the room like a sudden downpour.
Today, he didn't feel like drawing manga. After thinking about it, he decided to just copy out the next two volumes. After all, he had told Kamimura Yuriko that the writing progress was good, and he had to write them anyway. Most importantly, Sorata was an honest person.
By the time Sorata had copied out more than 80,000 words of the second volume of Toradora! and then meticulously revised it according to the literary development of this society, it was already past midnight.
Actually, based on Sorata's experiences in countless worlds, writing a novel in another world based on the memories of one world would definitely become a huge hit, without needing to copy anime and novels from his memories. However, there was a prerequisite: he had to be able to write it well.
This "write well" wasn't just a dry narration of events, but a vivid, precise use of words, with a smooth writing style that made the story very interesting. And this was precisely Sorata's weakness. He wasn't good at the so-called literary foundation, even though he had once dominated countless worlds.
Some shortcomings couldn't be compensated for no matter how high you stood. Among ordinary people, some were good at sports, some at science, and some at humanities. In the cultivation world, it was like comparing a person with a mixed spiritual root of three elements to someone with a single thunder-element heavenly spiritual root. Could effort make up for it?
Plus, with novels and anime that didn't exist in this world due to historical reasons readily available to copy and become popular, he would be a fool to bother studying and improving his writing skills. In the Nightmare Space, he didn't have the time or energy to pay attention to such useless things. Now, he was equally lazy. It was much better to sleep and daydream with that time.
Great ambition? Don't be ridiculous. What was the use of becoming the strongest person in this world, the richest person, owning the entire world? Could he eat it? Could it make him eternally invincible? No.
Then why bother putting in the effort?
As for desires, the greatest freedom and living unrestrained had already been achieved.
"What's wrong?" Sorata asked, opening Kamimura Yuriko's mailbox and clicking send, while Shiina Mashiro had been standing behind him for a while.
"Sorata is so amazing," Shiina Mashiro tilted her head, looking at Sorata, her calm tone devoid of any emotional fluctuation.
Sorata retorted, "If you showed a little admiration on your face and your tone was a bit more excited when you said 'so amazing,' it might be more convincing."
The next morning, when Sorata woke up, Shiina Mashiro was asleep on his bed again, still lying on his chest, her pure and beautiful face radiating peace and serenity.
By the time Sorata and Shiina Mashiro, who had been drawing for half the night and was still groggy from lack of sleep, had gotten ready, they were going to be late again.
Walking side by side with Shiina Mashiro at a leisurely pace on the cherry blossom-covered street, Sorata noticed, as they passed a small bookstore at the intersection, that the advertising signboard at the door had been replaced with the cover illustration Mashiro had drawn for Toradora!.
The handsome but sharp-eyed and fierce Takasu Ryuji, and the petite, cute, doll-like Aisaka Taiga, who exuded a tiger-like violent and oppressive aura, stood back to back.
The picture was exquisite, and the people in the drawing looked so real it was shocking.
The most promising light novel of the year, Toradora!, is coming with a shocking impact, offering a 30% discount on the release date of May 1st.
The first online submission newcomer author from Dengeki Bunko to sign an A+ level contract for their new book, Teacher Kamiya's heartfelt creation, the ultimate campus youth love novel.
Various promotional slogans were written very conspicuously on the poster. Clearly, this was Kamimura Yuriko's so-called comprehensive channel promotion.
At this time, many pedestrians stopped after seeing it, mainly appreciating the spiritual drawing skills unique to Mashiro's illustration cover before noticing the promotional words.
Even such ordinary small bookstores had begun such obvious and vigorous promotion. Sorata didn't need to think to know that the promotion efforts in the large bookstores on commercial streets would definitely be even greater.
"Sorata," Shiina Mashiro pointed towards the bookstore.
"Mm," Sorata nodded, indicating that he had seen it.
Then, he thought thoughtfully. It seemed that Kamimura Yuriko wasn't just the editor-in-chief of an online section. Being able to accomplish all this overnight was not something an ordinary person could do. It represented very strong action and execution.
Just as Sorata was taking Shiina Mashiro to school, at the most prosperous commercial plaza in the Adachi district, banners were hung on both sides of the entrance of the large bookstore under Dengeki Bunko Publishing.
Kamimura Yuriko stood on the second floor, watching the bustling crowd below pointing and commenting on the exquisite cover illustration and content, very satisfied with the promotional copy.
This was only offline. Online, on the internet, a large-scale promotion for Toradora! would also begin today, with the expectation of pushing this heat to its peak in two weeks.
However, just then, her assistant editor, Wada Kyoko, jogged up, looking somewhat anxious. "Senior Kamimura, this is bad."
Kamimura Yuriko frowned. "Kyoko, why are you so flustered? Speak, did those old guys cause trouble again?"
"Yes, and no," Wada Kyoko took a breath.
"What do you mean, yes and no?" Kamimura Yuriko's sharp eyes showed displeasure.
Knowing her editor-in-chief's personality, Wada Kyoko answered, "Just now, the physical publishing department of the Bunko announced that they will hold a 'Light Novel Number One Martial Arts Tournament' event three days later."
"And they released news that the million-selling author Senju Muramasa will also release a work at the event, and many new promising authors will join, such as Teacher Izumi Masamune, the author of Reincarnated Silver Wolf, who had his next month's publication slot snatched away by Senior Kamimura."
"It seems the newcomers are not friendly," Kamimura Yuriko's eyes narrowed, a cold light flashing within. "If I'm not mistaken, they want to divert the heat with the event first, and then quickly publish after the event ends, releasing their works on the same day as ours to snipe the market, right?"
"They want me to fail that much, those old fogeys," a cold smile appeared on Kamimura Yuriko's face.
"Speak, what else is there?"
Wada Kyoko said somewhat angrily, "Also, they announced a campus youth novel celebration event in conjunction with Fujimi Shobo, inviting famous campus romance authors from both publishing houses to submit manuscripts, commissioning campus romance short stories. The winning works will also be released on May 1st."
"It's said that Teacher Kasumi Utako, a promising campus romance novelist whose fourth volume was just released last month and whose fifth volume is scheduled for June, has also joined the event and will release her fifth volume early."
"The campus youth market is only so big. With two consecutive highly anticipated events, the release of Teacher Kamiya's work will definitely be greatly impacted, Senior," Wada Kyoko said with worry in her eyes.
"Heh... as expected of those old fogeys' methods, but do they think that's all it takes?"
Kamimura Yuriko looked down at the manuscript in her hand and sneered. "Don't worry, Wada. Sometimes, in the face of absolute power, everything will turn to ashes."
What Kamimura Yuriko held in her hand was the content of the second volume of Toradora! that Sorata had sent her late last night. After printing it out this morning, she had read it three times in one go.
Compared to the first volume, which had a brilliant plot, well-developed characters, and complex intertwined relationships, and was clearly a work that would become popular upon reading, in the second volume of Toradora!, with the addition of Ami Kawashima, it was like a catalyst that completely made the fire burn fiercely, so much so that it was impossible to extinguish after reading.
With the face of an angel and the figure of a devil, Ami Kawashima, seen by others as a perfect beautiful girl, was actually spoiled, cunning, and sharp-tongued, liking to squat alone in the shadowy corner of vending machine gaps.
Every day, she bickered with the heroine Taiga Aisaka, and after experiencing a series of events, she fell in love with the male lead of the book, Ryuji Takasu, who was actually quite repressed.
In the early to mid-stages of Toradora!, the male protagonist, Takasu Ryuji, had a crush on someone but lacked the courage to confess. The female protagonist, whom he looked after daily like an old father, was in love with his best friend, the second male lead. With a single-parent background and fierce eyes that led to few friends, he was quite tragic.
Such a male protagonist, in the later part of the second volume, received a hint of special affection from the beautiful Ami Kawashima. This immediately gave the readers, who had been subtly suppressed for two volumes, an incomparably comfortable feeling of release.
Just one word: satisfying.
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Need More Chapters
Every 300 Power Stones
2 Bonus chapter
Every 500 Power Stones
4 Bonus chapter.
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