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"Who's more handsome than me? Of course."
Can't read back.
However, Eriri did agree, and Yuto Itsuka nodded in satisfaction. He sent a message to editor Machida to inform him.
……
Volume 1: Chapter 63: Senior, don't you know you have to show your chest when you thank someone?
"If you understand, you understand; if you don't understand, you don't understand. Don't you know to ask? Have you memorized all these formulas?"
This is a math teacher.
"The author of The Tale of Genji is Makoto Shinkai? Kamigo, your teacher is very worried about your Japanese language grade next week. Please go back and copy this text three times and hand it in to me before class tomorrow."
This is a Mandarin teacher.
"Sato-kun, this is the second time this grammar error has occurred today. Is the record being updated?"
"If the monthly test results next week are not ideal, then we'll probably have to hold a three-way meeting."
This is Yoshiko Hasumi, an English teacher and homeroom teacher.
With the monthly test approaching, teachers have all sped up the pace of their lessons.
During the first PE class in the afternoon, Yoshihiko Uego complained while doing warm-ups: "We just finished our exams last month, why do we have to take exams again this month?!"
"This is so unfair to us slow learners!"
“Uesugi, even though you say that, you must be secretly studying behind the scenes, right?” Onodera Kohei said.
"Damn it, aren't you two the same!"
“I didn’t,” Yuto Itsuka declared.
He's been busy brainstorming plot ideas for his light novel for the past two weeks, and he's definitely neglected his studies.
"I won't believe anything the top student in the grade says!" Yoshihiko Uego shouted, picking up his badminton racket.
Yuto Itsuka also picked up his racket, and the two looked at each other across the net.
"Itsuka, I can already hit the other side." Yoshihiko Uego stroked the racket in his hand with a melancholy expression.
"Want to dance too?" Yuto Itsuka sneered, tossing the shuttlecock high into the air with his left hand. He leaped the instant the shuttlecock fell, slashing with his right hand, "Spiral Flash Super Wheel Dance Roar Three Style!!"
"Muda muda! Watch this! Uchiha bounce!" Just as the ball was about to hit the ground, Yoshihiko Uago gently flicked it with his racket.
The ball was too close to the block, and even with a large stride forward, Yuto Itsuka failed to catch it, letting it glide past the block and land lightly on his side of the court.
"Despicable!" Referee Kohei Onodera, who was cheering from the sidelines, disagreed with the call and lit up the scoreboard, giving Yuto Itsuki a 1-0 lead.
"Damn it! You're not a Japanese referee at all! You're clearly a South Korean referee!"
Yuto Itsuka gave Onodera a thumbs-up, indicating that he appreciated this kind of fair and just refereeing.
The final score of this fair and just badminton match was Yuto Itsuki defeated Yoshihiko Ueto 8-1.
After school.
"Wuhe, are we going again today?"
"No, you guys go ahead, I have other things to do."
Yuto Itsuka arrived at the clubroom.
I saw the girl sitting by the window, her toes, encased in stockings, unconsciously tapping the air, her slender, alabaster fingers gently pinching the edge of the book, her eyelashes trembling slightly as she focused on reading.
He instantly understood why this girl in front of him had consistently ranked No. 1 on the list of "most desired girlfriends" among all the boys in the school.
He didn't go in directly, but first knocked on the open classroom door to indicate that someone had arrived.
The girl turned around when she heard the noise, and her charming eyes lit up slightly when she saw who it was.
"Should I call you junior or beautiful teacher?"
Hearing the girl's teasing words, Itsuka Yuto felt a little embarrassed.
He didn't intend to deliberately hide his identity, but he hadn't had many interactions with this senior student, and he couldn't very well say at the autograph session on Saturday, "So you're Ms. Kasumi Shiko? I'm the beautiful knight!"
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide anything." Although I don't know why, an apology is enough.
"Hmm... If Editor Machida hadn't brought this up, I wouldn't have known that we had a bestselling author in our club."
"Aren't you the same?" Yuto Itsuka thought to himself.
"What did she say?"
"Ah, she said the beautiful teacher is coming to my autograph session on Saturday."
"So, senior guessed it was me?"
"Hmm... Editor Machida told me that the beautiful teacher is also a student at Toyosaki Academy."
You're something else, Machida Sonoko...
I attended an autograph session, and it was Toyosaki's again. I practically gave her his ID number.
Kasumigaoka Utaha rose from her seat and bowed slowly to Itsuka Yuto.
Seeing this, Itsuka Yuto quickly tried to stop her: "What are you doing, Senpai?"
"Thank you, beautiful teacher. It was thanks to your promotion of 'Love Metronome' on your author account that this child was not lost."
Kasumigaoka Utaha felt quite grateful to Itsuka at this moment.
When the first volume of "Love Metronome" was first released, sales were very average, showing no signs of becoming a bestseller. The publisher also indicated that it would not be reprinted, and the editor even predicted that the third volume would be canceled.
She was disheartened at the time and only wanted to finish writing Sayuka's story before stopping.
Unexpectedly, when the second volume of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was released, a well-known bestselling author, whose first volume was a bestseller, actually took the initiative to recommend her book on her author account.
This unexpected surge in word-of-mouth led to a sudden increase in sales for "Love Metronome," making it a popular title.
This also gave her the confidence to continue writing the story.
“I genuinely felt that the emotions in ‘Love Metronome’ were very delicate and helpful to my writing at the time, which is why I actively recommended it,” Yuto Itsuka explained.
"No matter what, thank you, beautiful teacher." Kasumigaoka Utaha looked up and smiled.
"No, senior, just call me by my name."
"Then, Itsuka-kun?"
"Ah."
"So, Itsuka-kun, you're here to read too? There aren't any club activities today."
Today is Tuesday. Club activities are on Wednesday and Friday, as Yuto Itsuka knows.
"I promised my senior on LINE that I would exchange writing skills about love with her, no, I mean learn from her."
"Oh dear, with Itsuka-kun's current abilities, he shouldn't need my help, right? Editor Machida did tell me that."
"...Yue~Yi Emu Lingren Eryi Shanqiu Ba..."
Why does Machida Sonoko tell everyone everything?
However, Yuto Itsuka could understand, since Kasumigaoka Utaha was a bestselling romance novelist, so it wouldn't hurt to have her give her feedback.
The second volume was released ahead of schedule, so there was no risk of any backlog being exposed.
"To be more precise, I really hope to receive guidance from Itsuka-kun."
"Me? My mentor?" Itsuka Yuuto pointed to himself and asked in surprise.
"Well... or rather, I'd like to show you the contents of Volume 3 and hope you can give me some feedback and thoughts."
"As you probably know, I write isekai farming stories, and I'm not really good at romance. This time it was just a lucky coincidence that I got to write it again, and I can't guarantee I can write it as well as I could."
"Personal experience?"
"It was all a dream, I suppose."
"It's okay. Even if you have no opinions, I still hope you can take a look."
"That's...ok."
……
Nighttime, in Kasumigaoka Utaha's room.
"Beautiful teacher, I've found you." The girl rolled around on the bed with a pillow between her chubby legs.
……
[P.S.: The bounty has ended. The results have been rounded up, resulting in five extra chapters. I expect to finish writing them next week.]
[That's strange. When the simulation ended, I told everyone to support the book, but the number of subscribers has actually increased instead of decreasing.]
[Is something wrong? Did everyone turn on auto-read? That's really unnecessary. Let's wait until it's around 300,000 to 500,000 words before reading it all together. I'm a reader too, and I feel that reading only one or two chapters a day of slice-of-life stories is like not reading at all; the experience of following along is quite unpleasant.]
I write books part-time and don't rely on royalties for a living. Don't worry about me running away if the book flops; it won't happen.
[Also, the extra chapters will start tomorrow, and there will be no more bounties after that. There's no need to offer three or five chapters as a bounty. I will decide whether to add extra chapters on my own, and next week I'll try to manage six chapters a day and eight chapters a week.]
[The pacing is slow and the story is a bit slow-paced, so I'll try my best to update more often to make up for the lack of subscriptions and support from all you readers. Thank you! (P.S. This won't be counted in this chapter's word count.)]
Volume 1: Chapter 64: When our swords unite, we are invincible.
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, how many tomorrows there are! I live waiting for tomorrow, and all things are wasted..."
"What are you muttering to yourself, Wuhe?"
During a break on Wednesday morning, Onodera came to Itsuka Yuto's desk and asked curiously.
Yuto Itsuka shook his head, adopting an expression that said nothing.
'Ah, how lazy I am!'
The thought of finishing the most difficult emotional storyline instantly killed my motivation to write.
Last night, Yuto Itsuka spent the whole night at home playing Galgames without even opening any documents.
He thought to himself that although the deadline for submitting the manuscript was earlier, given his ability to update 20,000 words a day the night before, it shouldn't take him too long to finish writing the rest of the story.
Thinking about it this way, time just slipped away in the game.
Wuhe, you can't do this again tonight!
……
During the lunch break, Itsuka Yuto said goodbye to his two friends who were going to the cafeteria and went to the rooftop of the senior high school building alone.
Sure enough, a beautiful blonde girl with twin ponytails had already reserved a seat here.
"Yo, Eriri." Itsuka Yuto greeted her.
"Why did you call me here!"
"Ah, it's about the online live stream on Saturday. It's not as convenient to talk on Line as to talk face-to-face."
“I know you don’t want to appear in public as Kashiwagi Eri. I was inconsiderate before. Even if you just cover your head, your classmates at school might still recognize you.”
"So I thought, if you're not willing, I'll talk to Editor Machida and it shouldn't be a problem if it's just me doing this kind of pre-announced online live stream."
Yuto Itsuka thought that Eriri would yell things like "Mind your own business" or "But you promised me that before" when she heard this.
Unexpectedly, Eriri lowered her head and whispered, "You idiot Yuto, aren't you the same way, not liking to show your face?"
Yuto Itsuka was somewhat surprised: "How did Eriri know?"
"I just know it!"
"Okay, actually I did tell the paperback company before that I didn't want to show my face or have anything else affect my school life after I got into the University of Tokyo."
"However, for this level of online live streaming, it shouldn't be necessary to take precautions," Yuto Itsuki explained.
"Whatever you want."
"So Eriri, just tell me your true thoughts. If you want to go, go. If you don't want to go, I'll help you refuse. With me here, no one can force you."
It was only then that Yuto Itsuka belatedly realized that the reason he treated Shoko like a little sister during the first simulation was not entirely because Shoko was the subject of the simulation, but may also have been influenced by Eriri.