What's wrong with a novelist opening multiple pseudonyms?

23-25: Shades of Grey

Chapter 23 Chapter 23

[Besides, I originally had nothing, and there is no stronger weapon than this. ]

This sentence has always been deeply imprinted in Zenin Kenichi's mind. The sentence

comes from the serialized manuscript that Matsumoto Seicho just sent him, a new work called "Black Leather Manual".

Judging from the current manuscript, it probably tells a story about a villain who eats villains.

The heroine blackmails with a mysterious leather manual that records the dirty secrets of the powerful, and fights her way out of a society where the rich and the poor are unequal and male power is supreme.

Those complicated financial terms should give some readers a headache, but the settings and plots will keep them. Women who are in a disadvantaged position use cruel means other than the common flesh trade in the market to get to the top.

If you only look at it from this perspective, I have to say that it is very enjoyable to watch.

However, Zenin Kenichi always feels that it is not that simple. Without seeing the ending, no one knows what kind of story Matsumoto Seicho wants to write. According to the teacher's habits, it should not be that simple.

——But what is presented now is dark enough.

None of the characters are "good guys" in the broad sense. Even the heroine is a monster who is influenced by ambition and transforms from a little white rabbit into a grassland lion.

Just as readers have commented on the Internet, Matsumoto Seicho... is an absolute "anatomist of social filth."

"But didn't Seicho say that he wouldn't write mystery novels in the short term?" Zenin Kenichi saved the manuscript and asked.

The young man on the other end of the phone said confidently: "I have to find some confidence to get out of failure. I want to regroup!"

"When did you fail? You didn't mean the previous serialization? That's not the case at all. Even when the news of your temporary suspension was announced, there was no accusation. Everyone is waiting for you to continue writing."

"...Kenichi-kun won't understand." Seicho said while sighing.

After returning to the identity of Matsumoto Seicho, Seicho discovered two problems.

One is that the time flow rate of the main body and the vest seems to be different.

From Seicho's perspective, only two and a half days have passed since he became Irino Kazumi. In these two and a half days, he disappeared directly from the newly purchased house in Tokyo, without any trace.

It is still unclear what the specific speed of time is. Perhaps after returning from the next vest, we can infer the conclusion based on the sample.

Second, there is no published book of "Thought Criminal" on the market.

This book was a bestseller more than ten years ago, but it suddenly disappeared from one day.

Qing Zhang asked about it at the publishing house of Zen Temple Kenichi. It seems that something happened later, and the book was banned. More than ten years have passed, and the Internet has been occupied by the younger generation. Those former readers have also disappeared in the crowd.