Chapter 55 - 55: Release Day Approaches and Rivalry Intensifies

For the casual readers who only followed the flagship magazines of the major publishers in the region, such as Crimson Maple or those who stuck to the massive national publications with distribution networks spanning all of Japan, the names "Shiori Takahashi" and "Airi" were still quite obscure.

It was much like how readers on a specific web novel portal rarely ventured over to see what was trending on a rival site. Among the hundreds of thousands of regular subscribers to Crimson Maple, a significant portion had no idea who these two newcomers were.

"Shiori Takahashi, Airi, and Red Dragon... are these three really the authors for the new serials in Crimson Maple? I know Red Dragon because I absolutely loved his novel The Shrine Maiden from two years ago. But who on earth are Airi and Shiori Takahashi?"

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