Tokyo Girlfriend Guide

Chapter 646: Shifting the blame

"Ah! OK! I got it!"

Eriri looked at Hojo Kyosuke's face, put her two little hands together and clapped them gently, her face beaming with joy.

That cute and lovely look made everyone at the table laugh, except for Mrs. Sayuri, whose smile was a bit forced. If it weren't for the fact that her daughter was grown up and she had to give her some face, she would have immediately used her iron fist to inject spirit into her.

Hojo Kashiko beside him hurriedly dropped the bread in his hand and clapped his hands:

"Ah! OK! I got it!"

The voice was full of milk foam, but it imitated Eriri's silliness vividly. This instantly made Eriri look at this little kid with a new look, and she leaned over the long table to clap hands with Kashiko. The little girl was stunned at first, then raised her hands and cheered again.

"Is this a new record awarded by the Mystery Association?" Mrs. Yukinoshita said with a smile.

"Ah? Really? I didn't understand that."

Hojo Mikiko smiled carelessly, and the smile on her face never faded today.

Yukinoshita on the side pursed her lips, clenched her fists tightly, and tried her best to suppress the urge to popularize science. She was about to speak, but when she opened her mouth, she saw the half-smile of the sister opposite her. It was really half-smile, and obviously no matter how the corners of her mouth turned up or the protruding apple muscles showed that she was smiling happily, but the pair of shining eyes were not smiling.

This calmed Yukinoshita down immediately, and she figured out everything with her smart head. Her mother was not a fool like Eriri, and the information about Hojo Kyousuke at home could probably fill up two cabinets. How could she not know what his winning the award meant and what records he could break?

Saying this now, it is obvious that he is using the doubt to praise Hojo Kyousuke and to make Aunt Mikiko happy.

The girl pursed her lips and felt that Eriri was even more adorable.

That kind of clear-eyed stupidity is so precious in today's world.

Thinking this in her heart, Yukinoshita turned her head, wanting to see the clear Eriri and purify her soul. As a result, as soon as she turned her head, she immediately saw Eriri holding her chin high like a rooster crowing, looking around, and being proud.

"I told you a long time ago that with me taking action, there is no way he will fail!"

Sakura, Nozomi and others around her applauded, and Eriri became even more proud.

Hmm... being too clear isn't a good idea either, I feel like it might be contagious.

The corners of Yukinoshita Yukino's mouth curved up, and she smiled very easily.

Yang Nai, who was always paying attention to her sister on the opposite side, also smiled, and her smile was very malicious.

After chatting with the girls for a while, Hojo Kyosuke went to the other side. His fathers-in-law and friends from all walks of life were waiting for him. Although he was very unhappy, he had to go through with it.

Although the fathers-in-law were also excited and their cheeks were red, they were still reserved and only said some words of congratulations. Hojo Kyousuke's friends were more direct.

"You are really great, Hojo. From today on you are no longer a new writer!" Wancheng Yaji said while raising his glass.

"What do you mean by a newcomer? Have you ever seen such an amazing newcomer? No matter what award he wins, it will break the record. He is a complete history destroyer!" Misaki Mugaku also said exaggeratedly.

"After I win this award, and then compete for other awards, no one will use Hojo's age as an excuse anymore."

Akamatsu Yuki has more to think about. He is already thinking about what award to win for Hojo Kyosuke's new work. Shimomura Tetsuya beside him is also not in a good mood. The old man is now thinking about how to convince Hojo Kyosuke to mention the new manga at the award ceremony later. The Neon Mystery Association Award can be said to be the highest honor in the mystery world. In Neon, anyone who likes mystery will pay attention to it. Even if they don't read comics originally, they will pay for it just for Hojo Kyosuke's name.

Hojo Kyosuke's ultimate fans, Kusaka Hideo and Hanada Taito, who entered the venue later, were already clamoring to get drunk, and after they died drunk, they would become Buddhas and comfort all the predecessors in the literary world. The people around them persuaded them to wait until after the award ceremony if they wanted to die, otherwise they would not be able to say anything else when the dead asked them.

Congressman Daisuke Yamaguchi took the opportunity to invite Kyosuke Hojo to participate in several events after the award ceremony, saying that he had already contacted several congressmen and they wanted to discuss the issues of homelessness and women together.

Hojo Kyosuke readily agreed. Anyway, he would be busy at that time. Both the publisher and Kisaki would have to arrange a lot of things. It doesn't matter who he agreed to. Being on the show is a good opportunity to promote the new comics. Only focusing on homeless people and women's problems and not elementary school students' problems? This won't do!

Look, even high school students are taking drugs and becoming elementary school students to pick up girls. There are murders all day long. The easier ones are bombing buildings and amusement parks, and the more serious ones are counterfeit money gangs and serial killers. The safety of today's elementary school students is worrying!

Xisakito was no longer there, and the news confirmed that he had many things to arrange. Apart from other things, there was an assistant to a famous Hollywood director staying in the hotel, who came here specifically to see if Hojo Kyosuke could win the award. If he won the award now, he would have to hurry up if he really wanted to sign the contract.

There would have been a huge wave of traffic after winning the award. If the film was announced to be remade by a big Hollywood director and broadcast in America, then its popularity in Japan and possibly in China might be even higher than the award itself. The two sides could just cooperate to make the matter even more popular.

Speaking of the origin of Hojo Kyosuke and Hollywood, it is not because of the good sales of "The Devotion of Suspect X" in the United States that it attracted attention, but earlier. Hojo Kyosuke participated in the Olympic Mathematics Competition when he was in junior high school. The champion of the International Mathematical Olympiad that year was taken by the Korean Mingguo.

The relationship between Japan and Daewoo is also very strange. The two countries are sworn enemies, and they want to beat each other's brains out. But they are both arrogant and honest. When running for election, members of parliament can even publicly boycott the other country as their governing philosophy, but in reality, Korean dramas are very popular in Japan, and various Korean idols are also very popular in Japan. On the other hand, if the children of those national leaders have not studied in Japan, they are embarrassed to go out.

The Japanese were immediately in an uproar when they were shouted that they had won the championship. Yes, they had never won the championship, but that was not because they were too bad but because the enemy was too strong, it had nothing to do with them. But that time was different, they were shouted that they had won the championship. This made Japanese social critics unhappy, and they began to criticize domestic education, scolding teachers, schools, the Ministry of Culture, Education, Science and Technology, the education system and the prime minister...

As for scolding students as useless, they dare not do so, after all, they still need the support of parents. The parents also cooperated and started scolding, saying that the failure of their children must not be their own problem, but the country's problem! The officials of the Ministry of Education were also numb, how could they not know that their students were useless? Don't you have any idea why you didn't win the award before? Are you excited now?

But there is no other way. If someone is scolded, they have to ask someone to go out and kowtow and apologize. But this kind of apology must not be done by an ordinary bureaucrat. The people will not be satisfied if someone is just pushed out to take the blame. Then who should go? Of course, the Minister of State of the Ministry of Education should go to scold the Ministry of Education. You can't let the Vice Minister go? He is a serious bureaucrat, not a politician, and he will definitely not be happy.

The Minister of State was not happy about it either. It was not his fault. It was just that the competition happened to be held during his term. So he consulted with his think tank. After everyone came together, they decided that they could not take the blame and had to pass it on. Then they figured out how to pass it on. The subordinates did not want to take the blame, but they could not pass it on to their superiors. This required some skills.

Let's clarify the main contradiction. Now, the National People's Congress and the Republic of Korea have won the championship, and then our people are angry and ashamed, wondering why our children are not as good as others? Well, the contradiction is clear, and the question has changed from how to explain why there is a problem with our education system to why our students are so useless.

First of all, this certainly cannot be because of the poor childbearing skills of our citizens. Secondly, this certainly cannot be because the quality of our children themselves is poor. Finally, everyone is actually fine!

Why did everyone have no problems and be so good but didn’t they win?

Hey! Your question is very professional! That's because the really talented people in our family didn't come on stage!

The person he was talking about was none other than Hojo Kyosuke.

Those who can enter the cabinet and become Secretary of State may have no other abilities, but they are sure to have a lot of bad ideas.

The group found Hojo Kyosuke right away. It was no surprise that they found him. As long as you can see and read, it will be fine. After all, Hojo Kyosuke was a killer in the Mathematical Olympiad in Japan. While others were still looking at the questions, he had already handed in his paper, and he got an unprecedented full score.

Well, the crux of the problem has been found. The Prime Minister is fine, the Ministers are fine, the Ministry of Education is fine, and our students are even finer. We lost because our truly great students did not show up.

As for the minister, he originally just wanted to pass on the blame, but he immediately got angry when he saw it. Why didn't Hojo Kyosuke, who was so powerful, go abroad? If this guy went to participate in the competition, maybe he could really lead this bunch of losers in the country to win the championship. How could he be scolded by the time? On the contrary, he could get a piece of cake and show off his good governance.

But no matter how angry he was, he was not stupid enough to look for trouble with Hojo Kyosuke. One reason was that it was unnecessary, and the other was that he was expecting the other party to bring glory to him, no, to the country, next year and help him improve his political achievements.

I found out later that Hojo Kyosuke is actually a well-known cartoonist. This is even better, what a genius.

The main character of several newspapers that day was Hojo Kyosuke. They started to praise him as being invincible across the country and felt that it was boring to bully foreign friends, which allowed the Korean Nether Country to take advantage of him.

That year, it was not only Japan who shouted that she was unhappy about winning the award. Their common father America was also unhappy, so he saw the news about Hojo Kyosuke.

Fate is so wonderful. Later, Hojo Kyosuke's comics became more and more popular, he dominated the country in kendo competitions, and his novels began to win awards... All kinds of news were broadcast by the American media that paid attention to him.

America loves genius teenagers the most.

He is an all-round student, a superb warrior, and a man of great talent. When the University of Tokyo wanted to recruit Hojo Kyousuke, several North American universities also wanted to recruit him, and several of them offered him full scholarships.

Geniuses always receive more attention. This time, Hojo Kyosuke's novel was even released simultaneously around the world. Well, it's called global, but in fact it's only in a few countries, but this doesn't prevent America from seeing Hojo Kyosuke's popularity.

Although Japan is a major component of the world's mystery novel and mystery film market, in fact, Japan's mystery films rarely occupy the market in the United States. There are hot-selling novels, but only a few are adapted into movies.

This is not only a chain of contempt between countries, but also due to the incompatibility of local conditions. Mystery novels are imported from Japan. In Europe and the United States, they were originally called detective novels, but after they came to Japan, they became mystery novels.

Detective novels and mystery novels, the difference can be told from the name alone.

Famous detective Sherlock Holmes, great detective Poirot... readers may not remember the tricks in the novels, but they will definitely remember the detectives in the novels and their cleverness. This is what detective novels are all about.

As for detective novels, there is no need to say more. The orthodox school also focuses on detectives, but both the author and the reader are more concerned with the tricks themselves. As long as the tricks are good enough, it doesn't matter whether the detective's personality is attractive enough. Everything is attributed to the tricks. It goes without saying that when it comes to Matsumoto Seicho, who pushed detective novels to another level of excellence, tricks and detectives are not that important...

But Hojo Kyosuke’s novels are different. Although they have only been on sale for a few days, “Writer K” has already sold out like crazy!

Killing a person and asking "Are you satisfied with my trajectory this time?" This completely hits the G-spot of young people. One reason why it is so popular on Twitter is that this joke is very popular abroad, so Japan has more fun with it in China.

No one cares whether he is a super villain or an anti-hero. Readers only know that he is extremely smart and admire his decisiveness in killing and his ingenuity in scheming.

The same is true for "The Devotion of Suspect X", which is different from ordinary Japanese mystery novels. He is neither a traditionalist nor a socialist, so when Osaka Tsuyoshi helped to canvass votes at the beginning, he encountered such great resistance.

As the murderer, Ishigami Tetsuya is too smart to be human, and his ruthlessness towards himself is even more shocking. In other novels, a man as handsome as him must be a detective. However, such a perfect trick met Yukawa Manabu, who solved the case from just a small detail.

The clash of geniuses, super criminals and super detectives, this is what Hollywood wants!

Not to mention that the one who created them is the super genius Hojo Kyosuke who actually exists in reality.

How much advertising money will be left over? How much money will be laundered by falsifying accounts?

Therefore, this is the reason why Hojo Kyosuke was able to lead a group of Japanese mystery writers and be the first to land in Hollywood. (End of this chapter)