Who would sit still and wait for death unless there was no other choice?
So, even though they knew the chances of buying off Erina Nakiri were minuscule, the many chefs still clung to their hopes. After all, they did not dare actually threaten her...
Thus, when the chefs saw Erina Nakiri recommending it on Twitter, they were thrilled. After agonizing for so long over how to win Miss Nakiri's favor, they had finally seen a glimmer of hope!
They just had to buy—buy, buy, buy like mad! How much could a single light novel cost? Inviting Erina Nakiri to review the food at their restaurants would cost at least several million. How many light novels could they buy with several million?
More importantly, even if they spent millions to invite Erina Nakiri to taste the food at their restaurants, there was no guarantee they would receive her praise. They might as well cater to her tastes instead!
Of course, they would not actually spend millions just because of a single recommendation. But even if they spent only a tenth—or a hundredth—of that amount, its sales would still soar rapidly.
Utaha Kasumigaoka understood this all too well. Sogo Doma had only just sent the promotional copy she had written to Erina Nakiri when her book's sales surged. Well, when Sonoko Machida reported the good news, she had been quite excited, thinking that what she had written had finally been recognized by the public...
But thinking back on it afterward, those people had not even read her first volume, so how had they made the second volume such a bestseller? Utaha Kasumigaoka was not stupid, so she knew perfectly well that the second volume's success was not because she had written it so well, but because the person who recommended it