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https://kakuyomu.jp/works/16818093085137406727/episodes/16818093086881951503
Rena’s mother, Ogasawara Machiko, was a person of education.
Machiko is a picture-perfect, serious person, and Rena, who was raised by strict parents, was forbidden to have any kind of entertainment.
Machiko considers her daughter nothing more than her puppet. Her mother controls everything, from Rena’s daily schedule to her future career path.
As a result, Rena is isolated from her classmates at school, unable to talk to them at all.
Studying is certainly important. If recreation is a hindrance, it may be necessary to restrict it from time to time. However, by restricting herself to all of these activities, she would become an adult who is unable to build interpersonal relationships and communicate with others. Is that really the right thing?
Many of the teachers who have been Rena’s homeroom teachers have talked with her mother.
But her mother would not listen to any of them.
“My daughter doesn’t fit in with her classmates? I’m glad she didn’t get involved with people who were only harmful to her in the first place.
Look, I am right in everything. There is absolutely no one in this world who is more righteous than I am. My daughter will be the happiest person in the world if she grows up under my perfect upbringing without any unnecessary influences from the people around her.”
Reina’s homeroom teachers at first try to talk to Reina’s mother, but in the end they always give up and choose not to get involved.
Perhaps fed up with this educational policy, Rena’s father left.
The only thing that gives Rena a sense of purpose in life is reading books. Only when she is in the world of a story can she forget everything.
Of course, she was forbidden to read entertainment novels, but she would cheat by pretending to be reading business or self-help books. Reading books was so important to Rena that she was willing to do so.
Eventually, she began writing her own novels. In her upper elementary school years, she used the Internet to post web novels.
When she posted her novels, she received feedback, and conversely, she read the novels of those who gave her feedback, interacting with many writers.
The novel submission site was the only place for Rena to be. She used her bedtime, the only time of the day when she could be alone without her mother’s supervision, to be active.
Even when her sleep was cut short, she could get through the day by remembering the times she spent communicating with others on the site.
One day, after a while of such days, Rena finished her day.
When Rena finished her day and turned on her computer, she found a message.
[The account doesn’t exist.]
When she tried to log in to the novel submission site, such a message appeared.
The next morning, when Rena asked, her mother said.
“It’s just a waste of time to spend on that nonsense. I deleted it myself. I even gave you a computer because you promised to use it for your studies.”
(Nonsense….?)
At that moment, a feeling came over Rena that she had never felt before in her life. An emotion of anger that she had been brainwashed with since birth and had never been allowed to even think about.
It was probably brought on by the sadness of having her first place in her life and all the memories of the friends she had made there erased.
That day, Rena said to her mother.
“I will no longer be at your mercy. I will become a novelist and become independent. So don’t ever interfere with me again.”
“Pfft, pfft……”
While the daughter looked at her mother seriously, Machiko let out a mocking smile.
“Ahaha ! How stupid are you
All this time I’ve been giving you such a gratifying education, and now….this must all be due to the influence of your incompetent homeroom teacher and your harmful classmates.”
To top it all off, she starts shifting the blame like that. She never wants to admit that her own education is to blame.
“Fine. In exchange, if you fail to produce results by the end of the eighth grade, you will be required to take the entrance exam for the high school I have designated for you. And I will put you on 24-hour watch and make sure you never try anything unnecessary again.
“I understand.”
There was no hesitation on Rena’s part at that moment. Obviously, the conditions were extraordinary, but she had no choice but to do it. The situation would not be any better if she chose not to do it.
Rena created an account on a deleted novel submission site again in order to try to turn her web novel into a book.
From now on, she will not write the works she wants to write like she has been doing. She will research works just to sell and write only for that purpose.
Of course, she will not be involved with the authors with whom she used to communicate.
(Back then, I wrote the works I liked and became friends on the Internet because we shared the same tastes. But from now on, it’s different. It’s a solitary battle for my life.)
She tells herself this and musters up her fighting spirit.
She named her pen name Yukinagi Rei. As soon as she named it, Rena giggles.
(I called it a solitary battle, but I ended up giving it such a name.)
The name Yukinagi is because it is the last name of the author with whom she was most friendly on the novel posting site.
Yukinagi Kou. That was the name.
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