Don't get carried away. Stay steady!
Humans drew wisdom from fire, then seized greed from wisdom. Greed made humanity lose its fear. They banded together to seek profit; because they were all equally greedy, they relied on one another to preserve the dignity of their class.
Humans were also animals with genes that drove them upward through greed etched deep into their DNA.
But what was one supposed to do in a country where class divisions had essentially solidified? The answer was to constantly draw closer to the class one aspired to join. In Japan, this tendency was especially severe.
Sogo Doma simply did not like the way they went about drawing closer.
Think about his previous life. Martial arts novels had initially been looked down upon as well, but after the masterful antics of Wen, Gu, Liang, Yong, and the like, hadn't the status of martial arts fiction risen again and again?
Editor Yamagami understood Sogo Doma's views particularly well. The reason was that—Yamagami had once seen Sogo Doma reading a light novel with a grin on his face. "The protagonist is pulling off ridiculous stunts again. This author's pretty good."
Because of that, Yamagami had once asked, "Does Gyojin-sensei actually read light novels? Don't you think those authors are disgrac—"
Yamagami did not say the rest, but Sogo Doma more or less understood. "Hey, Yamagami, we all work with words. Why do we have to rank ourselves as high or low, noble or base? Besides, it's not as if the works of traditional serious writers necessarily sell better than light novels, right?"
"But..." Yamagami had still wanted to say something.
Sales were sales, but could the status of traditional literary masters really be the same as that of light novel authors? The former were called national educators, while