9.Curse of a masterpiece
Next day
After completing his paperwork in the office. Akira's shadow clone took the scroll containing his disciplines clothes went to the mission office while he himself went to the manga store.
Entering the shop he saw the manager sitting leisurely on the sofa reading newspaper enjoying tea.Although he looked calm on the surface But Akira could see a imperceptible smile on his face. "You look energetic today something good happened" Akira asked jokingly.
"Ah! It's Akira-kid. Good things did happen. I got news from the headquarters the last volume of one piece sold a record 1,000,000 copies ten times the average. In celebration the headquarters offered a bonus to every store manager, " he happily told.
"That is good news. Who held the previous record? " He asked curiously sat on the sofa opposite to manager. To be able to hold a record the manga should be pretty amazing. "Of course It's held by Kurama-Sensei. I remember it was around when Zoro fought Mihawk the sales was around 600,000. Before him It was held by Uzumaki-Sensei for Tokyo Ghoul, but tsk... tsk before he could finish it, he fell for the damn curse" he shook his head dejectedly.
"Can you tell me more about this Uzumaki-Sensei and curse, " he never thought a transmigrator was already dead.
"The curse is considered to be a rumor among editors. Every time a ninja writes a manga that is a masterpiece they will suddenly change their mentality. Some become arrogant, some starts hating people they never met. Some even go as far as to say daimyō is the root of all problems and after killing daimyō himself becomes king and blabber about red revolution. The same was for Uzumaki-Sensei. He was an elder of the Uzumaki clan in the Land of whirlpools near the land of waves. During the second world war mist,sand, rock and lightning Shinobi attacked Uzumaki clan. He awakened Kekkai Genkai of blood control and defeated the attacker. But I don't know what happened, he starts attacking everyone other than his own clan even the Konoha rescue forces were attacked while he start spouting nonsense like Uzumaki Mito is a traitor, third Hokage is a coward, Konoha betrayed them and then send death threats to daimyō of land of whirlpool. In the end he got killed."
"Who killed him?" Akira asked, his interest had peaked."Well, he fought second mizukage and died, " he replied.
"There must more cases for you to proof this curse of yours exist." Akira questioned.
"Well, there are many mangas that are left unfinished due to this curse like no game no life, Hunter X Hunter, Fullmetal Alchemist brotherhood, Jojo Part 2.This even happened to some novel writers like the authors of RE: Zero, A Certain Magical Index. All of them went crazy and got killed fighting unnecessary battles" manager said while shaking his head dejectedly.
'Looks like this world is being invaded by transmigrators' Akira thought. He felt even he might just be an invader in a long line of invaders. He shook his head to clear up distracting thoughts and handed his manga "Here I wrote this, I wanted to get this published".
The manager took it and read the manga seriously. After reading for a while he took a deep breath to calm his mind. Although he first thought it will just like another biography of Uchiha Madara but after reading it, he felt only one thing 'Madara and Hashirama are true legends'.
"I am going to honest opinion, your manga is second only to the newest volume of one piece in quality.It will be 100% successful. Now on a serious note, at the end of the manga we have to write a warning that it is only fictional in small words. Second, you have to take permission from the village office for this since it involves ninja business. Third, I would suggest using a fake name as author. You don't want a Konoha ninja to know you wrote a betrayer as a hero. At worst they might threaten you for money for using their Hokage as a character " he warned Akira.
'Talking about money isn't the legendary sucker in debt she might ask for money.Well, I will cross the bridge when I get there' he thought.
"Well, I already have the permission from the village as for the author name just write "The Jet Black Wing " " he replied jokingly and handed him the contract. Apparently people in ninja were able to understand both Japanese and English. Some who were literate could even speak in English.
"I will submit these to the headquarters in the land of Fire. According to normal process it will take about a week till gets in bookstores to be sold. After that depending on the number of books sold you will get 10% of the cost.The money will take another 2 weeks to reach back. So don't expect any money before 3 weeks time" manager told. He has seen many authors who want to become rich as early as possible.
Akira: "Ok! About the second volume...."
"You already have the second" Manager was astonished as he only gave some advice yesterday.
"No No " Akira replied while making an 'X' with his arms pouring cold water on manager dream. 'As if, a writer submitting his work before time. Wouldn't it drive my name into the mud if I do that' Akira thought.
"I was just saying this series will have a second volume, which will be based on Hanzo" he told.
"Did you get Lord Pain permission for that " he questioned seriously. Anything related to Hanzo was a serious matter in the village.
"Yes"
"Then it's okay" he heaved a sigh of relief.After doing some paperwork about the contract. He went ahead and bought all the manga that were unfinished due to the death of its author. After that he went to the Village intelligence department to get information about Hanzo's adventure and fighting style. After taking all that home, he went ahead and started his next manga volume.
'Ah! Tomorrow I will take a break from all this and I will go train the kids' he promised to himself.
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