Hosokawa Koharu has been working with Higashinoji for nearly a year, and I thought I had already gained some understanding of his steady and calm personality.

But when she heard his indifferent tone today, she realized that... she still underestimated Higashinoji's psychological tolerance.

No wonder I can win the Science Minister Award of the Ministry of Literature and Culture... This kind of big heart is much more stable than some comic writers in their thirties and forties?

"Teacher Higashino, do you know? I just learned about this from the editor-in-chief...you are..."

Despite his sighs, Hosokawa Koharu was still a little curious and asked.

"It was told by Mr. Ozawa from Iwakao Publishing House."

"Ozawada...no wonder..." Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help but nodded, but was still a little confused.

As the No. 1 thug of Iwakao Publishing House, Ozawada was the first to know about this, but why did he tell Higashinoji about this? Didn’t this give him the opportunity to prepare in advance?

Could it be that it was because of the fact that Higashinoji was digging the corner?

This is really possible.

After all, Iwakatsu Publishing House and Mochi Bookstore have long been jointly operated, essentially wearing pairs of pants. In addition, they are rich and powerful, and have a very influential presence in the industry. Maybe Ozawada really wanted to play the emotional card to dig out the corner of Higashinoji.

But consider it... Higashinoji is not the kind of person who surrenders to the enemy without fighting... and if he wants to surrender to the enemy, he will not be able to contribute to her again.

Hosokawa Koharu is indeed more mature in her thoughts, but she is also a woman, so she is naturally prone to thinking about everything.

"It's true that Mr. Ozawa told me on his own initiative, but he had no other intentions. He wanted to make friends with me." Higashinoji explained to Hosokawa Koharu again what Ozawada said to him at that time, and finally made Hosokawa Koharu accept it.

Many people may think that this is a trivial matter and there is no need to explain it.

However, when working in teamwork, the most important thing is mutual trust, and there is no need to hide such trivial matters.

"So that's how it is..." Hosokawa Koharu nodded, and after expressing his understanding, he threw this matter behind his head: "Compared with this matter... Mr. Higashino, have you already had a countermeasure? Have you figured out what to do?"

"There is no countermeasure." Higashinoji replied with a smile: "If you insist on saying that, you will rely on your own abilities."

"But...Teacher Higashino, do you really matter? The opponent is not like last time, only Ken Komori... This time he is in a group fight." After all, Koharu Hosokawa is a Japanese workplace woman, and it is easy to think about weakness in this regard.

The two major societies are rivals... This is not a joke.

But it doesn’t matter if the sales volume of a single volume is reduced a little. The most important thing is that Higashinoji should not be hit so hard that he even has his sharp energy smoothed out.

As for Hosokawa Koharu's concern, Higashinoji laughed and replied calmly: "It's okay."

This is actually a very ordinary answer, but for some reason, it left Hosokawa Koharu speechless, and then she laughed: "That's right, after all, it's Teacher Higashino."

Just like Higashinoji and Ken Komori single-on-one competitions... Higashinoji's results always surprise Hosokawa Koharu for a long time.

He never let himself down.

This time it must be the same.

This is not the idea that a mature editor should have. Hosokawa Koharu is not mature, but it also means that she is more motivated than a mature and conservative editor.

Many times, Higashinoji's request would have been rejected if another editor had done so, and only she would try to understand Higashinoji's ideas and stand behind him.

Moreover, blindly retreating will only be beaten by people as a turtle, and people will only step on people who are more weaker than him.

Hosokawa Koharu doesn't want to be a trampled turtle soft egg, so even if the performance of Higashinoji's single-volume sales this time is not very good, she will support him with all her strength!

Competition is competition, there is nothing to be afraid of. When I saw it, I chopped my head or I chopped your dog's head.

Teacher Higashino, who I am in charge, has set a lot of records! Compared with your pillar authors, there are advantages! Since that is the case, why am I still afraid?

She swallowed the thought-out persuasion lines into her stomach and then got to the point: "Teacher Higashino, you just said you wanted me to read the storyboard draft of the new comic...had you already drawn it?"

"I've indeed drawn it, I have prepared the storyboard draft for the first five chapters." Higashinoji answered without hesitation.

The storyboard draft of "Unnatural Death" is not difficult to draw, but it is a bit difficult to determine the character and learn common sense of forensic medicine, otherwise it would not have been completed until now.

"I understand... Then let's do it now. Does Teacher Higashino have time now? I'll go there now."

"Well...I'm at home now." Higashinoji replied.

I have to say that there are still quite a lot of high school holidays in Japan, including spring break, summer break, winter break, and three consecutive holidays, such as May Day Golden Week.

The spring break of Kitayo High School is now on, almost two weeks. From April 5 to April 6, Japanese high school students taking the exam will go to the general entrance test, and after passing it, they can directly enter university to study.

"Then I'll come here."

Do it as much as you want. Hosokawa Koharu is barely considered an action-oriented person. After packing up her makeup and clothing, she left the editorial department and headed towards Higashino's house.

Higashinoji obviously didn't expect Hosokawa Koharu to be so proactive. He looked at his phone and smiled in a daze, then turned to look at the storyboard draft he placed on the desktop.

Unlike the last time "The Winner is Justice", Higashinoji has mastered the skills of using shadows and colors this time, and is in a very good state when drawing draft storyboards... In a slightly more cheesy way, it is "hand heat".

If nothing unexpected happens...it is likely to happen this time!

Higashinoji just sat at home and played a game that was about half an hour like Higashino Chihae, and Hosokawa Koharu had already arrived.

"Teacher Higashino... Where is the manuscript?" Hosokawa Koharu asked as soon as he entered the door.

"It's on the stove table here." Higashinoji touched Higashino Chihaki's head, got up and walked to the stove table.

His game character has long been dead, and he has been watching Higashino Chihae play it just now.

"It's rude." Hosokawa Koharu said a polite word, then picked up the storyboard draft placed on the table, and looked at the title first.

“Unnatural death?”

I can't tell what this title means.

Hosokawa Koharu spread out the storyboard draft and began to look at it one by one.

She sighed inexplicably as she looked at it.

Perhaps because Higashinoji has a foundation in painting, the storyboard draft he handed over is actually very complete, and the thin strips of the characters are outlined concisely and vividly, and look very comfortable at first glance.

Like other comic authors with slightly worse painting skills, it is simply torture to read his comic storyboard drafts. They can only barely figure out the relationship between the characters, and they are definitely not as comfortable as Higashinoji.

Some people may question this, saying that they can still be a comic author if they have a weak foundation in painting? But this is a fact. A standard example is ONE who drew "One Punch Man". His comic works with "minimal lines" are really impressive.

But at this time it was not the time to always lament the painter of Higashinoji.

Hosokawa Koharu concentrated on his mind, and began to look at it little by little, especially seriously.

Forensic Mikoto Misumi works at UDI (Unnatural Death Institute). Here, they receive many bodies of unknown causes of death every year.

Some are murderous, some are poisoning...

It is the work of Mikoto Misume and UDI to find out the cause of unnatural death of these corpses and to speak for the deceased.

This is a very standard start to the mystery comic.

First pull the character out and walk around, then enter the first case at a fast pace.

Hosokawa Koharu's eyes are very vicious. At a glance, he can see that although the heroine Mikoto Misuma looks like a forensic doctor, she should play a role like "detective" in this comic. In addition, there are other roles in UDI, clinical examination technician Tokai Ritsuko, and recorder Rokuro Hirobe.

The stage, the characters are all ready.

"Forensic detective comics, this feels a bit niche." Hosokawa Koharu murmured to himself.

Similarly, it is a bit wrong for the detective character to be the heroine.

Although this is not very good for her, it is better to position the gender of a forensic and detective role as a male character... After all, which Sherlock Sherlock has ever seen as a female? In addition, Japanese women are already in a disadvantaged position in the workplace, which is also an important reason why women are not easy to define as the protagonist of a detective comic.

But after reading it at all, I couldn't draw a conclusion directly, so Hosokawa Koharu continued to read.

In the first episode, Higashinoji explained the meaning of the comic title "Unnatural Death" - referring to the dead who was randomly crowned with the cause of death and sent to cremation without dissection. Similarly, Hosokawa Koharu also learned that Japan's anatomy rate is at the lowest level among developed countries.

But she didn't care about this sentence. It doesn't matter how the anatomy rate is and whether the storyline is interesting or not. As an editor, she only values ​​storylines.

The Takano couple who came to visit the Institute of Non-Natural Death expressed their intention. Their son Takanoshimado was found to die suddenly at home, but the cause of death was stolen by the police to be accused of ischemic heart disease. However, the main group of people with ischemic heart disease is middle-aged and elderly people, such as those with weak bodies. The police's perfunctory attitude also made the Takanoshimado unacceptable, so they commissioned UDI to conduct an autopsy investigation on Takanoshimado's body.

At this point, the story officially began.

Mikoto Mikoto Dikanoshimado, who received the task, was dissected and found that his kidneys had symptoms of acute insufficiency. Mikoto Mikoto suspected that it was poisonous, but only routine testing methods did not add any toxic substances to detect. Just when the investigation was deadlocked, news came again that the female colleague who worked with Takanoshimado also died unexpectedly, and the cause of the death was unknown.

These two cases of the same suspicious points attracted the attention of the heroine Mikoto Misume. She led her Sansume group to investigate at her home in Takanoshimado, and then met Mabashi Luzi, the first discoverer of Takanoshimado's body... According to Mikoto Misume, Mabashi Luzi has no absent evidence, and she works in the chemical department of a company, so she can easily get some poisonous drugs. She is likely to be the suspect who killed Takanoshimado...

The first episode of "Unnatural Death" ends here.

After reading this first episode, Hosokawa Koharu felt very rare.

Because...how to say...this reasoning process is too dull and too hasty.

It was the heroine and the forensic workers in the Sancheng group under her casually asked, and they found suspicion of the road to the horse farm at a glance.

This conviction is too fast, and it makes people feel very funny.

It is really disappointing that a lot of very stylish preparations were left in a hurry.

This quality is definitely not as good as the comic authors of the two major publishers, and this comic is not very good.

But how to say it?

Mikoto Misumi was quite successful in shaping the role, at least it made Koharu Hosokawa feel very immersive.

Moreover, the conviction in the first place is so fast, and it feels like there will be a turnaround in the later place.

Hosokawa Koharu has unconditional confidence in Higashinoji!

Hosokawa Koharu opened the second chapter of "Unnatural Death" and read it carefully.

Mikoto Misume, who found something was wrong, launched a series of investigations on the Racebashi Road, but these investigations did not work. Then, the reversal that Hosokawa Koharu cares about appeared!
To be continued...