Chapter 13 : Machida sonoko

Currently the first lesson was over and lunch time had arrived, seen there in class 2B Yuki who was sitting in his seat as usual, he began to take out the lunch box that utaha gave his this morning, staring at the sparkling food in front of his yuki began to eat it slowly.

'This! Delicious' yuki thought calmly before he started to put the fried egg into his mouth.

But just as yuki was eating his lunch, he took out his Smartphone and started visiting the Library World website once again.

Logging in to his account, yuki started to do some light revisions once again on all the draft novels that he had written yesterday to make sure that there were no typos in each chapter.

And after being sure that there were no typos on every word in the chapter that he was about to send, Yuki decided to upload it and would just wait for time to take care of the rest.

"I leave all my future hopes to you, Overlord!" finishing his work, Yuki put down his smartphone and continued his lunch.

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Meanwhile elsewhere, in the main office of Library World, many editors were busy with all their work.

Given that Library World is currently holding an awards event for newcomers, a large number of novels from newcomers have been submitted over the past few weeks.

And at this moment, after a day's work, Machida Sonoko who had dark circles in her eyes, with her sleepy eyes, began to click the mouse on her computer to look at the works that had been submitted by the newcomers.

"Ha~" with a heavy sigh, Machida Sonoko let out her breath slowly.

"Why aren't there any good stories lately? Why do they all use the same template and routine for every novel they write?" Machida Sonoko complained in a tired-sounding tone.

"Machida-San, would you like to join us for lunch at the cafeteria?" asked a beautiful woman who was Machida Sonoko's co-worker.

Turning her head to see where the voice was coming from, Machida Sonoko saw his co-workers gathered in front of her.

"No, you guys go ahead, I still have to read one more novel that was just sent before returning for lunch" Machida said tiredly.

"Machida-san you're the senior editor here, just leave the work to the newcomers, no need to bother like that"

"It's fine, I'm used to doing all this alone, so you guys can go first and I'll catch up with you after I finish reading this" Machida spoke with a somewhat forced smile on her face.

Which was an indication that she had been experiencing fatigue from working for too long.

"That's...fine but we hope you don't work so much that you forget about your own health" advised her co-worker with a worried expression.

"Yeah yeah yeah I'll keep that in mind"

With that said, Machida finally managed to drive away all of his co-workers which made her the last person in this room.

Opening this newcomer novel, Machida sighed before muttering.

"I hope you don't disappoint me, newcomer"

With that, Machida Sonoko opened the novel that had just been delivered, seeing the name of this newcomer, Machida Sonoko smiled slightly amused.

"Shadow? Isn't this name a little... Chuuni?"

Stopping her laughter, Machida began to read the synopsis of the novel sent by the shadow.

"This... Isn't this a clichéd isekai story that was popular a few years ago? But it seems that this time the protagonist is not human plus the protagonist doesn't have a harem? hm~ interesting, but no matter how good the synopsis of a novel is, the most important thing about the novel itself is the content." With that Machida Sonoko began to read Overlord carefully.

The bored expression that was originally seen on Machida's face now began to disappear as she began to read Overlord further.

As if fascinated by every word and sentence in this Overlord story, Machida unknowingly read this novel for a long time.

"This! Did I really read this novel 5 times in a row" As if she couldn't believe what she had done, Machida opened and looked at the clock on her smartphone.

There the clock showed 12: 55, which indicated that she had been reading this novel for 40 minutes.

And as if he had been sucked into the story itself, Machida almost missed his own lunch hour.

"This novel... How should I put it, hm~ although it has an interesting story and can suck the reader into the story, I'm still a bit doubtful if the author can maintain this kind of situation for much longer"

Well, although overlord has a very interesting story, Machida himself still has to be professional, considering that there are a lot of newcomer writers who stop their stories halfway, Machida feels a little doubt about this shadow.

In addition, although Machida is still a little doubtful about the future development of the story, Machida himself has seen the potential of the first 20 chapters of Overlord.

Roughly speaking, she could make a guess that if a novel like this was adapted into a light novel, it would without a doubt sell up to five hundred thousand copies in a single year.

Also if he remembers the number of sales of one of Library World's biggest novel titles in a year, it can reach at least up to one million copies, and the number of five hundred thousand copies in a year alone is already a very remarkable thing.

And Machida himself had a feeling that in just one week this novel would explode with millions of people reading it.

Thinking about that, Machida can only put this novel in the recommendation section for now, because the decision of who wins the event is not her but the readers themselves.

But even so, Machida was quite confident that Overlord would get first place in the competition this time.

"I hope this novel will bring about a new change in the light novel industry" With a final mutter, Machida exited her study and walked towards the cafeteria.

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