99 99. The Audacity To Draw Such a Hideous Nine-Tailed Fox

Yae Publishing House.

Most people would assume that it is the number one place where one can find stories, imagination, and wonder come to life. But now, everything has changed since Ryūhei opened a Shueisha branch in Inazuma City.

Even though the Shueisha store doesn't provide as many books as the Yae Publishing House, the stories published in that place are mind-blowing.

That doesn't mean the novels at the Yae Publishing House are bad. Of course, there are many interesting novels that can be read. A romantic novel, Princess Mina of the Fallen Nation is an example. A story about the princess who was prophesied to bring destruction and witnesses the imminent fall of her nation, and it is at that moment that a wandering warrior descends from the skies, ignorant of the truth.

Then, there are Teyvat Art of War, Literature Club, Legend of The Wind Knight, The Rockeater, and so on. There is even a novel with a sentence-like title, The Good Thing About Being Reincarnated as a Hilichurl Is That I Only Need to Eat Sunsettias to Become Stronger.

Well, the extreme length of some light novel titles usually got noticed by people in the industry and it became an in-joke most of the time. But, readers are also aware of this, and having an absurdly long title is a selling point as if they know that the author is 'hip' and in on the joke. And perhaps, a novel with the title 'Don't You Love Your Mom And Her Multi-Target Area-Of-Effect Attacks?' will appear soon enough.

Even with the many interesting novels available, the appearance of the manga at the Shueisha store seemed to give the novel authors a bolt out of the blue.

Manga works with drawings to convey the situation and the outward look of characters, and words to convey thoughts, conversations and an occasional fourth wall breaking. Light Novels use 99% words, and have the occasional drawing for visualization of a specific scene or character.

And more importantly, manga is easier to understand. Just like saying, a picture is worth a thousand words, or so it seems.

Yae Miko, an Editor-in-Chief of the Yae Publishing House, announced that she had made an agreement with the Shueisha shop owner, and there would be several novels adapted into manga in the future. This made the novel authors sigh in relief since they still had the opportunity to shine after knowing the prospect of manga.

The day when 12 new manga were released, Yae Miko visited the Shueisha store around 2 PM.

"Huh? That brat went back to Liyue?" Miko said while furrowing her brows.

"Yes. After preparing all these new manga, he immediately left and entrusted this store to me."

With Shinobu's confirmation, she wondered how he got the manga since he didn't work in this store at all. It was as if the manga came out of nowhere. Moreover, she did say that Ryūhei went back to Liyue. That means, Ryūhei has an unusual way to cross the ocean without having to deal with the Shogun's army.

'He really is a mystery. Maybe I'll find out later.' She said inwardly.

Since he wasn't here, perhaps she should try to read the new manga that the people have been talking about since this morning. She refrained from asking anyone since it would spoil her interest.

She walked toward the shelf nearby, then picked up a manga with the title That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime on the cover. And the moment she saw the cover, a surprised expression couldn't be hidden from her face.

'This is… Rimuru?' No matter what, she couldn't hide her astonishment when the slime called Rimuru introduced itself like a proper intelligent being. Ryūhei said he found it somewhere and tamed it. But still, a slime that can talk is akin to the story of a monster from a fantasy world, which is unbelievable.

Although she suspected that he summoned the slime from another world, she found no proof that the slime was being summoned. Moreover, knowing that the slime wasn't a creature from the Abyss, a slight worry didn't appear in her mind at all.

Besides, there was something more important than to think about such useless stuff.

'This is worth reading. This one is good. And this… and this.'

Although Miko checked the manga one by one at first, she eventually bought them all. Even Nozoki Ana was not spared from her collection. Other than that, she also bought the games. She knew that the shrine maidens in the Narukami Shrine would feel bored sometimes. Therefore, she planned to let them get some of their free time to play the games.

Around an hour after Miko bought the manga and returned to the Narukami Shrine, she relaxed in her own sanctuary, a place where no one dared to bother her.

She read The World God Only Knows first since the title was rather intriguing. Yet, the main character she expected to be a god turned out to be a pro in conquering any dating games. In the first place, she also didn't expect that there was such a game that could be played with such a device. After reading the sixth chapter, which was the last chapter of the first volume, Miko commented.

"Such a unique concept. He is forced to capture wandering spirits by using his experience in dating games. The heroines are also differently portrayed. I can't wait for the next volume."

Then, Miko read the next manga. She picked Naruto first since it was a story about a ninja kid. However, the moment she read the first chapter.

"The audacity to draw such a hideous nine-tailed fox. I need to teach him a lesson later." There was a glint in her eyes as she said.

After she read a little more, she summoned a Shuumatsuban ninja, Sayu, a talented lazy ninja who likes to sleep. Sayu is a ninja girl who is 130 cm tall. She wears ninja-style clothing with a hoodie. Sayu has a height that makes her anxious because, in reality, she is already 17 years old. As long as she sleeps long enough, she can definitely grow taller! She came to believe this ever so firmly, seizing every opportunity to sleep as much as possible, creating every opportunity and circumstance, even when there were none.

"Sayu-chan, look at this? Why don't you learn this technique?"

Miko knew that Sayu mastered all kinds of ninjutsu to run away and hide (AN: Ninjutsu in Teyvat), and two of them were called the Substitution Jutsu and Transformation Jutsu similar to ninjutsu in the manga. She wondered if Sayu could learn the Shadow Clone Technique like Naruto.

"Ugh… So troublesome." Sayu wanted to curse the one who made the story since Yae Miko forced her to throw away her sleeping schedule.

While forcing Sayu to read the manga Miko read Tensura because she wanted to know what kind of story with slime as the main character.

'A world similar to the one in the Shokugeki no Sōma manga, huh? He was stabbed. And as an ordinary human being, it's natural that he died after losing too much blood. And by a sort of coincidence, he was reincarnated as a slime in another world with a system in his head to assist him in becoming stronger. I wonder if his Rimuru is the same as in the manga. Well, probably not.'

Not just Miko, even the others who read those new manga were a little bit hyped.

One of them was a girl from The Steambird who wanted to interview Ryūhei previously as she bought almost all of them. Her favorites were Dr. Stone, Detective Conan, Death Note, The World God Only Knows, and Shokugeki no Sōma.

"Ah, the suspense is killing me. Why these stories are so good?"

All of the stories above were so good.

Especially when she read Dr. Stone. She expected that the alchemist in the story was similar to the people in Teyvat who studied alchemy by combining certain elements to craft some gadgets, materials, potions, perfume, etc. But, to think that the alchemy in the Dr. Stone manga was so different.

"But, is the alchemy in this manga real? And, is it possible to travel in the sky with alchemy? Hmmm, perhaps I should interview him. I hope I'm not bothering him since he just came back with a lady who should be his lover."

She wanted to ask a lot regarding the world background of the manga that was somewhat similar to the other manga. Instead of using Teyvat as a world background, Ryūhei would rather use the Earth. And besides that, he would use other worlds as well.

This definitely piqued her interest as there might be a reason why The Shueisha Publishing Company used foreign worlds in the manga.

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AN: I don't plan to add romance. But I want to ask you guys.

If the MC is liked by several women even though I don't add romance or relationship, can that be considered a Harem?

Btw, I won't upload tomorrow since I lack inspiration for the chapter after the next one.