Chapter 457 - Author (9)

"Is the ancient artifacts club doing something again?" A person murmured.

"Let's go and see," her friend elbowed her.

Both of them came to the stall, wondering what we were selling this time. Heavily blushing when they took a glance at the covers, they gulped. Lowering their voices while elbowing one another, they resembled the rest of the people in this crowd.

"Would you like to purchase a book?" I lifted the book beside my face.

"Please give each of us a copy," she ended up paying for the books.

"Give us a copy as well!" Other people in the crowd joined them.

I smiled when I closed the stall for the day since we sold all the books. I didn't think they would be this successful as we ended up pulling some of the books from our inventories. Each of them had to sign another pledge again to prevent Luke and Alex figuring out. If this operation really became successful, maybe I could make more money by making some merchandise. Half of the team were busy with producing more books and the others were with me, helping to sell them.

"I told you it would sell out," Delia teased me.

"We should make some merchandise soon," I stretched my arms.

"Merchandise?" Sienna wondered.

"Like some fans, clothes and pens with their pictures on them," I explained.

"This will become risky," Cillian disagreed.

"Then maybe with just the book's name on them," I shrugged.

The next day, more people were gathered around the stall. I guessed they must have heard the rumors about the book. Even some of my teachers privately pulled me over before my break started, asking if a sequel would come out soon. I sighed as I would have to work on writing the next volume after classes finished. It was almost a sin to be such a popular author.

"Can we purchase the shirt?" Some fans came up to me.

"Would you like a signature with it?" I pulled out a pen.

"We would," they nodded their heads.

Writing my pen name on their skirts, they happily skipped back to the club building. The mana research club had joined in making some of the merchandise since they wanted some profits from this operation as well. This made both the decoration and design clubs to join in, saying they would produce better merchandise than them. Meanwhile, the food and agriculture research club had switched to helping us produce more of the books.

After classes finished, I quickly finished the second volume in the series. Passing the draft to Delia, I didn't think she would get a nosebleed. Since I kept the romance very light and fluffy, I didn't think anyone would get nosebleeds from them. Was it because I included some sadist and m.a.s.o.c.h.i.s.t components into them?

"This is more intense than the other ones," she pressed a handkerchief against her nose.

"Should I change it?" I wondered.

"No, you shouldn't change it. The shift in romance works!" Delia frantically waved her hands.

"I never read something like this before," Oili found them interesting.

"What's even inside your mind?" Henry was almost dying from laughter.

"Then I'll make the next volume more hardcore," I decided from their reactions.

"More hardcore?" Ethan almost yelled.

"I think this is already hardcore for most of the people here," Cillian agreed with Ethan.

Maybe this was a chance to work on the third volume in the series as well. I didn't think that everyone's reactions would be so positive. I already had an idea where to place the kissing scenes inside, something I never had put in the prior volumes. Their relationship had to go one step up as the characters got closer to each other after surviving through another fight with the world. Passing the first chapter to Delia, her nosebleed got even worse.

"Where do you get these ideas from?" She got another handkerchief out.

"I used to live with one of them," I finished another chapter.

"I can offer you more ideas as reference," Shelly wickedly grinned.

"Do you want to work on the chapter after this one?" I offered.

"We can make a plotline and assign each other to write a certain chapter," she came up with a better suggestion.

This was how I finished up to the fifth volume with Shelly's help. Shelly had read an BL manga before when I passed some of my supply to her to hide for me. After editing some volumes to help us, Delia had already fainted, laying down on a sleeping bag. Ethan heavily blushed around the fourth volume, telling us he can't help us anymore while asking if he could read the one after it once it was finished.

"You may want to add some more details at this part," Henry accepted an extra handkerchief from Cillian.

"I'll make it even smokier!" Shelly smiled.

"You can make Alex do a hand slam against the wall Luke is leaning against," I suggested.

"We already used too much of that," Shelly pointed out the cliché.

"Or you can make Alex gift Luke a necklace to show the ownership of their love," I threw out another idea.

"That works!" She went with it.

"Why is Delia on the floor?" Sienna came into the club room after coming back from a study session with Alex.

"After reading the fourth volume," Cillian explained.

"Can I read after everyone is done?" Sienna's eyes sparkled.