"You're here, Inoue."
The owner was a slightly plump middle-aged man. When he saw Inoue arrive, he smiled and spoke as he took a brand-new, still-wrapped magazine from the shelf.
Inoue was a frequent customer, so he was already completely familiar with her.
"Boss, one copy of Weekly Shonen Sunday."
"Two hundred and ten Japanese Yen in total. Thank you for your patronage."
The owner handed the weekly magazine to Inoue.
After paying, Inoue eagerly tore off the wrapping.
"Huh? Lucky Clover hasn't updated? Talam got canceled too? It was clearly so good..."
Inoue's gaze swept over the table of contents. She wanted to read the manga she had been following, only to discover that most of them seemed to be missing.
"After all, the manga world is cruel. Talam had always been at the bottom of the rankings, so it was normal for it to get canceled. Take a look at the new serializations. One of them, 'Jigoku Shoujo,' is quite interesting. The two authors are both famous painters in the traditional art world, and this is their first serialized manga collaboration. More importantly... they're both only seventeen."
As he put the money into the register, the bookstore owner spoke casually. He had looked through it earlier as well. The first serialized work by underage genius traditional artists was certainly a strong selling point, making people unable to resist finding out more.
"Seventeen? Then they're only one year older than us. Just one year older, and they're already genius painters in the traditional art world, and now they've started serializing in a weekly magazine. That's amazing!"
Hearing the owner's words, even Fujiwara, who had not been very interested, was drawn in.
"Isn't that the truth..."
"Fujiwara, Ji... Jigoku Shoujo..."
At that moment, Inoue stared at Jigoku Shoujo in the