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"Sherlock, what do you think that thing is?" Roman asked Holmes as he walked out, swiping his tablet.
"I don't know, but it's definitely not a natural product. Cu Chulainn was able to find Shuichi in time because he sensed the magic power, but unfortunately he couldn't investigate further in order to save him."
"I have tried with both of them, but we can't see any information at all. It's obvious that the other party came prepared. Either they knew about the three of us and deliberately avoided the clairvoyance, or they made special cover to prevent being spied on."
Holmes didn't respond. He looked at the ceiling for a while and then said to Roman, "Tell the old man hello and have the Cursed Arms watch Kyosuke in the dark for 24 hours starting today. Don't tell anyone about this, not even Camelot."
PS1: Thanks to a book friend for the friendly guest appearance as Shuichi Majima.
PS2: emmm, seeing that the Heisei Era is about to pass, I will be kind enough to help a certain elementary school student who is a god of death. Let you become the Sherlock Holmes of the real Heisei Era (funny)
PS3: Unconsciously, this book has grown a lot. It has been with you for a long time. Well, as long as you allow, we will continue to go down together in the future——by Cos Medusa's Mi Jiang
Interlude: His encounter with it (her)
Kirino leaned against the train window, looking at the scenery passing by outside the window and exclaiming in admiration. It was her first time riding a high-speed train and she seemed very excited.
"Wow, that's awesome. Onii-chan, come and take a look, it's super cool."
"I don't want to be so childish." Kyosuke supported his chin with his hands on the armrests, looking like he had lost all hope in life.
"Kyosuke, you should be happier. We are going to visit your grandfather who loves you the most." Kanao was extremely dissatisfied with her eldest son's dead eyes that kept rolling up.
Kirino gave a sly smile and raised her hand to tell Kanano: "Mom, Kirino, I know why Onii-chan is like this. Onii-chan has no money!"
When Kyosuke heard what Kirino said, he quickly looked back at his parents' expressions, and was relieved to find that they didn't care much. Yes, who would have thought that their 9-year-old son would use his savings to gamble on football.
Kyosuke glared at Kirino with a ferocious expression, and Kirino responded by making faces at Kyosuke.
She is already 6 years old and has started elementary school. To the rest of the family, she is an angel from heaven, but to her brother Kyosuke, she is a little devil from hell. Kyosuke doesn't know how Kirino got the news that she lost money in football betting, but his sister is holding this handle on him and will tell his parents about it whenever he doesn't do what she wants.
Daisuke was sitting in his seat reading a newspaper. After hearing what Kirino said, he snorted at Kyosuke: "Don't spend money carelessly, it's not good to develop such a wasteful habit. Kirino has told us several times that you have no money, and you are not short of pocket money. Why can't you save a little?"
It seemed that he just thought his son was too young and spent all his pocket money without restraint.
"I see..."
Kyosuke was too embarrassed to say that he didn't have no savings, but that all his savings were squandered this time. Every time he recalled the faces of the Sawamura family who wanted to laugh but were afraid of hurting their young hearts after the result of the game, Kyosuke felt that he might as well die again.
In order to stop the loss, Kyosuke had no choice but to agree to the unequal treaty that Eriri offered him, and to be the scriptwriter for her CM book this summer. As a reward, Kyosuke could get a small share of the profits after the holy war. Although he had doubts about the Sawamura couple agreeing to a primary school student drawing a restricted book, he was penniless and could not care so much. Fortunately, compared to other things, Kyosuke, who had read thousands of books before crossing over and claimed to have seen all kinds of "states" in the world, could do it easily in the matter of writing the plot of the book script.
He quickly created a series of storylines and provided them to Eriri.
"'My Sister Can't Be King'? The noble boy Kai falls in love with his stepsister, only to find out that his stepsister is the king's illegitimate daughter. In order to let his sister inherit the throne, he resolutely becomes a knight. Is this old-fashioned plot of knights and princesses okay? Also, the heroine is actually the younger sister. Are you a sister complex?" Eriri was a little skeptical after reading the script outline and Kyosuke's personal character.
"No problem, no problem. As long as the role of the younger sister is well drawn, no one will care whether the plot is old-fashioned or not. Besides, this story is adapted from the famous British novel "The Death of King Arthur", and the feminine King Arthur will definitely be very popular. Just believe me."
Didn't you lose all your money the last time you told me you believed in me? And is it really okay for me, a British person, to draw a book about a feminized King Arthur?
"It's no problem, trust me. We will definitely start a trend of sissyization, and then we will be the founders of the sissy school."
I don't want to start such a weird genre.
However, since she couldn't think of a better script, Eriri had to adopt Kyosuke's script.
Kyosuke originally planned to go to the Holy War with Eriri to help sell the books, so that he could see the popularity of the plots he designed from the reactions of customers on the spot. Having lost the two good opportunities to make a fortune in football betting and comics, Kyosuke has turned his attention to the light novel industry, which can make money just by writing.
After much persuasion, the Sawamura couple agreed to help let their two elementary school students enter the venue. However, Kyosuke's plan was disrupted because the Kousaka couple wanted to take advantage of their children's summer vacation to go back to the countryside for two weeks to deal with some things.
I remember today is the first day of sales, I hope we can sell half of it in half a day this morning.
Kyousuke was a little worried about the sales of the book. Although they only printed less than 500 copies as a test (Eri's funds were limited), it was still difficult for a newcomer like them to sell all the books on their first appearance. Kyousuke estimated that if they could sell half of the books at the venue, they would pass the test, and then they could sell them in a used store for a long time.
I'll call Eriri to ask about her sales performance when we get to the station. I thought to myself as I watched the scenery passing by outside the train window.
···
"What? They're all sold out?"
Thanks to Uncle Spencer's career as a diplomat, his cell phone signal is much better than that of ordinary cell phones. Even if Eriri is at the scene of the holy war, Kyousuke can still get through to her.
"Yeah, I didn't expect it either." Eriri on the phone seemed very excited. She had never thought that her and Kyosuke's book would be so popular.
"That's really great." Kyosuke felt much happier when he thought about the considerable amount of pocket money he would get after returning to Chiba.
Eriri told Kyousuke what happened in the morning in an excited tone.
"I really have to thank that white-haired gentleman. After flipping through a few pages of our book, he immediately decided to buy more than a hundred copies of our stock, saying, 'This is a good thing. I have to go back and give everyone one copy.' The remaining ones were sold out immediately due to the advertising effect of that gentleman's exaggerated purchase. That gentleman also said that he was looking forward to the plot of our second book, and hoped to see the scene of King Arthur drawing his sword then."
The plot currently created by Kyosuke and Eriri is that on the eve of the king selection ceremony, Kai and Lily sleep in the same bed, Kai expresses his feelings to Lily, and Lily tells him about her life story.
"Of course. How can I not continue drawing such a popular book? I'll tell you in detail when I come back. I'm hanging up first." Kyosuke hung up the pay phone quickly when he saw Daisuke was already greeting him.
After finishing the train journey, Kyosuke and others took a car for more than two hours and finally arrived at their destination.
"Hello, Grandpa. (Ouji-chan~)"
"Ah, Kyosuke, Kirino. Welcome." Kyosuke's grandfather stood at the door to welcome Kyosuke and Kirino.
After dropping off her luggage at her grandfather's house, Kirino immediately asked to go to the creek on the mountain near the village to play in the water. She had been looking forward to this activity for half the summer vacation.
"Hey, Onii-chan. Let's go play in the water."
Kyosuke lay on the tatami and ignored Kirino's pleas.
"Kyosuke, take your sister. It's too dangerous for her to play in the water alone."
"Hi hi."
Under Daisuke's order, Kyosuke had no choice but to bring his sister to the creek where they used to play.
“Hahaha. Onii-chan, come down too~ It’s so cool and comfortable.”
Kirino, wearing a swimsuit, was playing in the stream. The water was very shallow, just reaching the height of her calves.
"Wait for me a moment."
Kyosuke carefully put a plastic bag into the water and tied the bag to a rock on the shore to prevent it from being washed away by the river.
"Onii-chan, what are you doing?" Kirino stepped on the water and ran to Kyosuke's side. She looked through the mouth of the plastic bag and saw something black and green inside. She shouted happily: "Ah! Watermelon!"
When Kyosuke saw Kirino looking at him expectantly, he knew what she was thinking. He rolled his eyes and cruelly rejected his lovely sister.
"Don't even think about it. Watermelon is not a toy."
"Onii-chan, you're such a stingy person!"
This has nothing to do with being stingy or not. Hitting watermelons is a complete waste. Kyosuke always thought that hitting watermelons was invented by rich people who had nothing better to do. Putting aside the high price of watermelons, smashing them with a stick is a waste of watermelons. The taste of a smashed watermelon is completely different from that of a normal cut one. There is no benefit except for the pleasure of hearing the sound of the watermelon breaking.
"No means no." Kyosuke rejected Kirino again.
Angry Kirino splashed stream water directly onto Kyosuke's face.
Kyosuke was stimulated by the cold stream water. He stretched out his hand to hit Kirino back, but Kirino nimbly dodged Kyosuke's attack, and it was Kyosuke himself who lost his balance and fell into the stream.
"Haha, Onii-chan, damn it~"
"Such a noise! You little bastard!"
Kyosuke ignored Kirino who was provoking him in the stream. He climbed back to the shore, took off his clothes and pants, wrung them out, and put them on the rocks on the shore to dry. Then he sat on the shore wearing only his underwear, with his back to Kirino, sulking.
"Onii-chan, are you angry?"
Kirino felt a little flustered when she saw that Kyosuke had been ignoring her, so she walked up to him and wanted to apologize.
Kyosuke snorted and said nothing.
"Onii-chan, please don't be mad at Kirino~~"
Kirino reached out and rubbed Kyosuke's back, using her tried-and-true method of acting like a spoiled child.
Kyosuke took advantage of Kirino's unpreparedness and suddenly turned around with an "evil" smile. He threw Kirino directly into the water and tickled Kirino's armpits with his hands.
"Will you dare to laugh at your brother again?"
“Hahaha… Onii-chan… Onii-chan… hahaha… I won’t dare to do that again… Please let Kirino-chan go…”
The brother and sister played in the stream for a long time before they came ashore, panting.
"Hu-hu-"
Kyosuke lay on the shore, catching his breath. Playing with his sister was really a strenuous task.
"Haha."
Kirino seemed very happy.
"What's so funny, silly girl?"
"Because...hahahaha."
Kirino didn't tell the reason, she just kept laughing.
Rustling.
Suddenly, a sound came from the bushes nearby, which scared both the brother and sister.
"Onii-chan, what is that?"
Kirino was startled by the voice and immediately hid behind Kyosuke.
"It's probably some small animal." Kyosuke comforted Kirino, but he himself became more alert as he looked at the shaking grass.
I hope it’s not a wild dog or a poisonous snake. It would be very troublesome to be bitten by an animal in the countryside.
Rustling.
Kyosuke picked up a branch and knocked on the grass twice tentatively, but no snake jumped out of the grass.
"Chirp-"
An animal in the bush cried out softly.
Hmm? It doesn't sound like a wild dog.
Kyosuke parted the grass and looked over, and found a brown-haired fox lying in the grass with an injured front leg.
"Chuck?"