No Matter What, It'll Be Exposed! In That Case, There's No Need to Keep Insisting!

Late at night.

His younger sister had long since fallen sound asleep beside him.

Natsume Chikage held his phone, planning to continue writing after replying to a few messages.

After opening LINE and briefly responding to some people, he focused mainly on messages from Furukawa Ayuo, Matsuo Yuka, Takahashi Jun, Akita Sana, Fujiwara Aoi, and the others.

[Furukawa Ayuo: o(TT)o Big brother, why aren't you coming to my place this weekend? Ayuo wants to learn shogi from you.]

[Natsume Chikage: I have a lot going on this weekend, so I don't have much time. How about I make time to visit you next week?]

The reply came quickly.

[Furukawa Ayuo: (V) Mm-hmm, it's a promise!]

[Natsume Chikage: It's already pretty late, isn't it? Why are you still awake?]

[Furukawa Ayuo: I was waiting for a message from you, big brother!]

[Natsume Chikage: Silly girl, you don't need to wait for my messages. I usually only reply at night anyway, so you can respond when you see them in the morning. It's late now. Go to sleep.]

[Furukawa Ayuo: Mm-hmm, good night, big brother.]

Then.

Natsume Chikage opened the messages Matsuo Yuka had sent.

[Matsuo Yuka: (><) Natsume-kun, your Snow Country is absolutely incredible this time!]

[Natsume Chikage: Incredible? What do you mean?]

The reply came instantly.

[Matsuo Yuka: Your Snow Country sold nearly twenty-five thousand copies on its first day!]

[Natsume Chikage: Twenty-five thousand copies? Is that considered good for a new book by a non-rookie author?]

[Matsuo Yuka: Of course it's good! More like, it's too good!

There are barely any authors who can switch genres like you and still get sales like this!

Around twenty-five thousand copies on the first day would be considered outstanding even in the publisher's history!

Oh, and there's something else I haven't told