A Smash Hit! Just as Expected!

Natsume Chikage had just passed through the literature section when he asked in surprise, "Why isn't Snow Country displayed here?"

"Of course it isn't here. It's at the very front of the bookstore!" Matsuo Yuka muttered. "You're not some ordinary author anymore. How could it be displayed there?"

"Oh, right."

They had entered through the bookstore's back entrance, so it was no wonder Natsume Chikage had not noticed the books displayed at the front.

At that moment,

the two arrived at the entrance.

They saw many readers gathered there, directly picking up Snow Country and Yukimura Suzune's other work, Moon's Tear.

Both works were immensely popular.

There were many people buying them, as well as many flipping through the previews.

Some, however, were mainly waiting and watching.

They waited for the people ahead of them to finish previewing the books before deciding whether to buy them.

But most people chose to purchase them after reading.

At first, the sales of the two books showed almost no difference, with both selling in large quantities.

The clerks nearby were also busy restocking the shelves.

Witnessing this,

Matsuo Yuka was thrilled.

"Natsume, did you see that? So many readers actually approve of your work! You know, it's being sold alongside a new release by Yukimura. Even with your readers being drawn away, people are still buying it!"

From a business perspective,

if two novels of the same genre were released at the same time,

one would inevitably draw attention away from the other.

And Yukimura Suzune had already been famous in literary circles for quite some time.

Natsume Chikage, on the other hand, had only gained fame in the mystery and detective fiction section.

Yet his sales were actually on par with Yukimura Suzune's?

No matter how one looked at it, that