482 Gold Award winner (1/2)

When Shoutarou Rinura heard this clapping, he finally felt a tangible sensation of glory.

He felt like he had now reached the most glorious peak of his life.

The fact that he won the top-ranked Gold Award the first time he ever tried writing a light novel from the illustrious Thunderbolt Literature meant that he could doubtlessly consider himself a genius with this achievement!

While his idiotic peers in middle school spent so much wasted effort on learning useless things, busying themselves with joining meaningless social and club activities, pretending to be interested in things they weren't in order to maintain hypocritically fake relationships… he was already on the way to becoming a professional! Soon, he would be able to quit school which he hated so much and start a free life of his own as a genius author… That was what Shoutarou Rinura believed.

Rinura was quite satisfied with his current moment of glory as well as the beautiful future he envisioned for himself. However, he was still rather aggrieved at what'd just happened in the waiting room.

That Koushi Nomura was just a guy who spouted nonsense! That Seigo Harano was handsome on the outside, but merely a violent hoodlum on the inside!

Rinura bore a grudge against these two fellow authors of his. However, there was nothing he could do. After all, apart from being a light novel author, he was simply an ordinary middle school student.

As for why he began writing, it was actually because of his dreams.

One day, Rinura was resting at home with a cold. He hazily had a dream on that day, and after he woke up, he was seized with a strong urge to express what he witnessed in his dream. And so, he picked up his pen, and began writing a story despite his inexperience… a story about someone taking revenge.

The main character of his story was the prince of a small kingdom. The prince's kingdom was invaded by a powerful kingdom, and his father, the king, personally went out into battle and died in combat. The prince obeyed his father's secret dying message to him to surrender to the powerful kingdom.

However, he didn't expect that after the powerful kingdom accepted the surrender, the powerful kingdom instead publicly went against the terms of capitulation and executed all the royalty of their small kingdom, including the prince!

The main character witnessed all of his relatives being cruelly executed, and died as well while wallowing in the depths of despair.

The main character's soul came into contact with an unknown existence in the void, and signed a contract with it so that he could possess a corpse and have a new life for himself.

After coming back into the world, the only thing he wanted was revenge. He wanted to kill all the royalty of the powerful kingdom!

He tried over and over again, experiencing death many times over, to the extent where his pain became numbness, and his hatred and desire for revenge hardened his heart into ice… only after he died more than ten times, jumping from corpse to corpse, did he finally succeed in killing the first target from the enemy's royal family.

This story took Rinura an incredibly long time to write. Although he knew what he wanted to write, it was quite difficult for him to express the content using words.

It was similar to recalling the contents of an excellent movie. That would be quite simple. However, writing the movie's storyline down and doing its scenes justice through the power of words alone would be an incredibly difficult task. For some people, it would be impossible no matter how long they had. They just wouldn't be able to express such detailed scenes using the power of words.

Rinura kept thinking about giving up after he experienced how hard it truly was to write a story. However, that dream of his kept repeating over and over again, and it always made him impulsively want to continue writing. And so, he barely managed to keep persisting.

Why did he keep having that dream? Why did that dream make him feel so strongly that he wanted to write it down?

Although Rinura wondered about such things, he never told anyone about it.

And after he entered his story into Thunderbolt Literature's Newcomer Author Awards, and got chosen as a potential candidate after the first round, Rinura started treating his novel as being a product of his own talent.

After his novel was announced as being chosen to win the top-ranked Gold Award, Rinura now believed himself to be a genius.

'No matter what that Nomura says, I'm the Gold Award winner, the most glorious person at this award ceremony!' Shoutarou Rinura was currently quite proud of himself.

”Please welcome Head Editor Souzo Hattori from Thunderbolt Literature to the stage for his speech.”