Hikigaya wants to be a novelist

During the rest of the journey, Hikigaya and Arisugawa briefly discussed the content of the new work "Malice". Hikigaya has already written 100,000 words and it is estimated that the book will be officially completed in another half a month.

Arriving at the destination, XXX Building Materials Company, Arisugawa parked the car in the parking lot. At this time, the company's main entrance was already decorated with lights. Passersby would only think that this was just an annual meeting of the company. If they went to the parking lot and took a look at the brands of the cars that came tonight, they probably wouldn't think so.

Arisugawa and Hikigaya entered the banquet hall one after the other. The waiter at the door only took a symbolic look at their invitations. The hall was naturally decorated in a magnificent manner. There was an artificial fountain in the center of the venue, and next to it was the band area responsible for today's performance, but the musicians had not yet arrived.

" The banquet hasn't officially started yet. Representatives from the families that are planning this banquet will come on stage and say a few words. It won't start until they finish speaking. "

Arisugawa said to Hikigaya .

" Mr. Arisugawa, are there many powerful families in Chiba City? "

Hikigaya asked curiously. As a native of Chiba, he rarely sensed the existence of these families.

" No, Hikigaya-kun. Not in Chiba City. These families are scattered throughout Chiba Prefecture. There is only one big family in Chiba City, the Yukinoshita family. The company we are in now is their property. Their family representative, Mr. Yukinoshita, is a son-in-law of the family. In fact, the entire family is led by Mrs. Yukinoshita. However, you can probably only see Mr. Yukinoshita on the stage today ..."

As Arisugawa spoke, he started gossiping.

" Come to think of it, Mr. Yukinoshita is my schoolmate. We both graduated from Doshisha University, but I graduated many years earlier than him, so we didn't have much interaction. By the way, Hikigaya, you can also apply to Doshisha University in the future. Then my alma mater will have another famous alumnus, hahahaha. "

" I haven't even taken the high school entrance exam yet ... and I don't want to go to a place too far from home to study, so I'll just take the Chiba University entrance exam. "

In fact , Hikigaya Hachiman didn't want to go to Kansai, but saying this seemed a bit regionally biased, and Arisugawa was also from Kansai, so he changed his statement to a more euphemistic one.

" You kid! What you said is true. Chiba University is even harder to get into than Doshisha. If you can't get in in the future, just come to Doshisha. Wait, stop talking, the representative is going to go on stage to give a speech. "

Hikigaya looked towards the podium and saw representatives from several families already lined up ready to speak.

The content of the speech was boring, but Hikigaya discovered one thing: the family representatives on the stage were only in their 40s or 50s, in their prime. This did not fit his stereotype that the representatives of Japanese big families and companies were all old men who were about to die.

Soon, the speeches of several family representatives ended, and the banquet officially began with applause. Hikigaya followed Arisugawa to meet with the writers. Although the conversation after the meeting was still very routine and polite, these writers gave people a much better impression than those old hands in the political and business circles.

After being praised for a long time, Hikigaya said goodbye to Arisugawa a little bit in a daze. He took some food and walked to a corner to fill his stomach. Arisugawa was right. People came and went in the venue, but no one would take the initiative to talk to him, a child who looked very young. There were indeed many people who looked the same age as him in the venue, but in Hikigaya's opinion, there were probably only a handful of people of his age studying in Japan, and even if there were, they would be in schools with tuition fees so high that Hikigaya could not imagine it before.

Now that Hikigaya has started to make money, his feelings about money have changed a lot. For example, the rented dress he is wearing costs as much as most office workers spend on an ordinary suit for one day, but he doesn't think it's a big deal. Another example is his watch, the IWC Pilot Mark XX series, which he bought at a lower price through his mother's client relationship, spending nearly 500,000 yen. This makes Hikigaya Hachiman feel a little pain, but only a little.

This confidence in spending money comes more from the fact that he knows that he has a stable income every month. When he considers it a normal thing to spend tens of thousands of yen to rent a dress for a day and half a million yen to buy a watch, he has already qualified to enter this banquet. After all, even if he lives within his means, his income is much greater than his expenses, so what else can he say?

" Hello, are you here alone? "

Hikigaya looked up and saw a handsome young man walking towards him. He was wearing a white suit, had blond hair which felt like they radiated the sun. Hikigaya shouldn't have used bad intentions to speculate about someone he just met for the first time, but this young man just didn't seem real enough to him.

" Hello, there is another person accompanying me. He is greeting people he is related to. I am not good at dealing with that kind of situation, so I will avoid it for now. "

" I see. Let's get to know each other. I'm Hayato Hayama, currently studying at Sobu middle School. May I ask you something? "

This guy named Hayato Hayama has an irresistible affinity.

" Was this guy some sort of succubus in his previous life? "

Hikigaya complained in his mind.

" Hello, Hayama-san, I'm Hikigaya Hachiman. Are you alone, Hayama-san ? "

Hikigaya didn't intend to tell him which school he attended, so he directly asked a question in order to divert Hayama's attention.

" That's right . Actually, I didn't receive an invitation. My parents are lawyers who provide legal services to the Yukinoshita family, so I have known the Yukinoshita family since I was a child. I was able to attend this banquet because of this relationship. I'm afraid my parents are still working now, haha. "

Hayato smiled and told the story of his situation.

'Why are you talking so much? Who asked you that? If I don't tell you anything about my experience, wouldn't it be rude?'

Hikigaya Hachiman thought dejectedly that if he said that their family was just an ordinary working-class family in Chiba City, this little angel Hayama would probably be very embarrassed.

" Hayama-san? You are here. I was looking for you ... Oh, so you were chatting with someone . "

Just as Hikigaya was thinking about how to respond, a cry for help came. Hikigaya looked in the direction of the voice and saw a girl who looked like a high school student. She was wearing light makeup, had neat shoulder-length hair, and wore a gradient blue long skirt. Her figure was even more well-proportioned. If her face was not too serious at this moment, she might be perfect.

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