That’s when I knew something wasn’t right, he thought. Then I started asking myself, “was this what it’s like to be an author? What it’s like to be a pro? Wasn’t I supposed to be... a genius?”
“Atsugi, huh... He’s the kind of editor that doesn’t actually do any editing in the slightest. It’s all about the numbers when it comes to him. Some people really have it out for him because of that,” a seasoned author that went by the pen name Reiku Umikawa explained. Soukichi had been at a party held by the publishing company at the time and asked a veteran in the industry for advice as a last resort. That was the reply he’d received.
Reiku was an old-timer who had been writing for 10 years for multiple publishing companies. He didn’t just settle on writing novels, but also dipped into a wide ran
