The Sword Deity in Tokyo

Chapter 245: Updated 20,000 Words!

Chapter 245: Updated 20,000 Words!

Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio

At the time when Furuhashi Sakurakyu was uncertain and baffled.

In Tokyo, an editor named Kento Nara just got off work.

When he got back home, he finally got rid of the negative emotions he had from being scolded by the chief editor. He went back to his room after having dinner.

Kento Nara could not wait to open his computer and read the new chapters that he had been saving for a week on the NICONICO website. He checked the time after he finished reading. It was 10 p.m. He quickly opened another light novel website named “Let’s Be A Light Novelist.”

Kento Nara had rarely logged onto this website previously because he used to think that the light novels published online were all rubbish.

In Japan, there was a standard procedure regarding the publishing of a novel. One needed to be acknowledged by an editor to publish their light novel. If the editor thought that your novel was flawed and lacked logical reasoning in the storyline, he would return the novel and ask you to redo it. Often, the editor exerted a significant influence on a light novel.

Unless you were already a famous light novelist, you would generally have to listen conscientiously to the editor as the publication rights still lay in their hands.

Usually, the editor would not do you any harm.

It was the same when it came to mangaka.

Most novels uploaded to the website were aberrations rejected by editors, so there was not much to look at. This was why Kento Nara disliked the site. You would probably dislike the website as well if you were the editor.

If the rejected novel became a hit on the website, that would be humiliating for the editor in question.

There were some fine works on the internet in recent years. Some examples would be “Bad Student of the Magical High School,” “Starting Life in Another World,” “Overlord” and so on. However, these novels were first uploaded online and discovered by people before they were published, remade into manga, and adapted into animations. Nonetheless, these novels were of the minority.

As for Kento Nara, he liked to log into some light novel forums and discuss the writing techniques for light novels with the netizens. Aside from increasing his knowledge, he also got a sense of satisfaction when other people agreed with his views.

However, there was now a novel that gave him many restless days and nights. It was called “Loading File of Tokyo.”

Back when it first came out, it was in popular demand. But Kento Nara looked down on it. He even thought, arrogantly, that all the readers were paid to leave good reviews because only he knew the most about light novels.

He remained indifferent when one, or even 10 people recommended it to him. But he became curious when the whole forum began buzzing about this single novel.

Although Kento Nara was never a person who followed the majority, he still felt curious about what had generated such a fuss.

As a result, he went online to search for this novel and began to read it!

He became obsessed with it after he started reading.

“Loading File of Tokyo” was a light novel where the main character could load files, substantially similar to that of 486, the main character in “Starting Life in Another World.”

“Starting Life In Another World” was an alternate universe fantasy novel, and 486 had used this ability to change everything that had happened from bad to good.

On the contrary, the main character in “Loading File of Tokyo” used this ability to flee and commit crimes!

Besides, the writer had made the introduction very suspenseful, exciting, and intriguing. The main character would die a horrible death every time before loading the files. However, the sense of satisfaction when the culprit was arrested after loading the files following his horrible death felt wonderful to Kento Nara.

He was surprised by such a feeling. There were not many highly intelligent, brave, and astute male leads in Japanese light novels. Most of them were passionate but relied too heavily on their emotions to set off their primordial energy. Many readers had criticized such novels, asking, ‘Is the main lead going to be dead if he cannot set off his primordial energy one day?’

On the other hand, internet novels on Huaxia were different. The main character was usually diligent and steadily improving his skills, pulled back from the brink of death each time by a new skill. Gradual skill improvements like this allow the readers to put themselves in his shoes as if they were improving with him together.

But obviously, Kento Nara did not know about that. “Loading File of Tokyo” was actually a novel with a similar character who gradually improved his skills. The main character became more mature, with his personality changing every time he died. Was it not odious, equivalent to hitting someone in the face every time the main character got resurrected after his death and would come back to take revenge?

This was one of the reasons why “Loading File of Tokyo” was so popular. The readers had come across many similarly weak main characters who set off their primordial energy with their passion. When they looked back at the main character in “Loading File of Tokyo,” they were amazed that there was finally a novel where the main character was of average intellect, not holier-than-thou or promiscuous.

“It’s finally updated!” Kento Nara let out a sigh of relief when he clicked into the light novel website. Miss Gentera had taken leave for almost a week, but none of the readers complained about it. After all, Miss Gentera used to write 10,000 words a day, with the readers absolutely overwhelmed by her amazing typing speed. Some novelists could not even publish two volumes of a novel in a year.

What about Miss Gentera? Her third volume was ending soon, and she was about to start on the fourth volume.

How long has it been? It’s been barely even a month now.

She has written 300,000 words in one month.

It would be an intolerable injustice if this book were not a hit.

Of course, “Loading File of Tokyo” won by its quality. With such good quality and quantity, this light novel was totally incomparable. It could easily defeat the other light novels.

So what’s the problem of taking a week off? Some readers were even hoping that Miss Gentera could write slower to ensure good quality.

But a week was still unbearable. Kento Nara was so excited when Miss Gentera updated the novel. At this moment, he was just a reader and not an editor.

“20,000 words!?”

Kento Nara was ecstatic when he saw Miss Gentera had updated 20,000 words at once.

In the previous few chapters, Miss Gentera wrote about the changes in Manatsu Hokuto’s mentality after all he had suffered and the loading of files, resulting in his personality distortion and antisocial behavior. This worried Kento Nara even more.

He was certainly not worried about whether the government would ban the novel because of the main lead’s personality. It would not matter even if Miss Gentera wrote about something outrageous like the protagonist killing the prime minister in the novel... What he was worried about was that Miss Gentera would ruin the novel. Although the changes of the main character flowed in a natural progression, Kento Nara wanted to see the main character steel himself by using the ability to load files and remain open-hearted even though his hands were stained with blood.

In that case, even though it was only a light novel, the public would be very impressed by it. It could even raise various discussions about pertinent topics in societies, elevating it to become a phenomenal light novel.

The main character had become distorted now, he was extremely savage even when he was facing the police. All he could feel was dismay.

The ability to load files was fascinating, but it drove Manatsu Hokuto, the main character, crazy. Occasionally, Chiba Shiori would describe Manatsu Hokuto’s mental instability through his suicidal ideations.

Manatsu Hokuto’s experience was very well depicted by Chiba Shiori. Many readers shared the same feelings when they put themselves in his shoes.

Thus... If Manatsu Hokuto, the main character, carries the same antisocial personality in the future chapters, perhaps the readers will feel awfully bad.

Kento Nara continued reading with this thought in mind.