Original God, But It's a Chat Group

The moment Kasumigaoka sat down, Eriri, sitting beside her, started firing away. The two of them could practically be counted on to trade barbs whenever they met.

Yet this time, seeing Eriri baring her teeth after not seeing her for several days, Kasumigaoka only found her pitiful and had no desire to snap back at her at all.

"Sorry. Something came up on the way here, so I was late. I kept you waiting, Eriri."

"Y-You actually... apologized!"

Eriri's eyes widened as she stared at Kasumigaoka in shock, as if she had seen a ghost.

"Well, you said I kept you waiting for a long time. Since I was in the wrong, apologizing is only proper, isn't it?"

"Ah... ah... right. It is."

Clearly, Eriri was the one in the right, yet her voice was not loud at all. Looking at the smiling Kasumigaoka before her, she vaguely felt that something was off, but she could not put her finger on what it was.

The war that should have broken out vanished outright because Kasumigaoka had taken the initiative to yield.

"Alright, let's hear it. Didn't you say the game proposal was finished?"

Putting on a businesslike expression, Kasumigaoka directly urged Akise Tomoya to get to work.

"Ah, right, senpai. Here's the completed proposal!"

When it came to games, Akise Tomoya was extremely enthusiastic. He pushed the stack of A4 papers in front of him toward Kasumigaoka.

"Please take a look!"

Kasumigaoka reached out, picked it up, and began flipping through it.

But the further she read, the tighter her brows drew together. Her page-turning grew faster and faster, until by the last page, she merely swept her eyes over it before flipping it away. Then she straightened the stack and tossed it directly onto the table.

"Gulp."

Kasumigaoka's action made Akise Tomoya swallow nervously.

"Senpai, is there something wrong with my proposal?"

"You should be asking me what in this pile could possibly be called a proposal."

Kasumigaoka crossed her arms again.

"Do you remember what I told you before?"

"Uh... you mean..."

"If you don't have a complete and feasible proposal, don't call me. Do you think this qualifies as a complete and feasible proposal? It's exactly the same as before from beginning to end, nothing but all sorts of ideas floating around in your head. Every time you think of a setting, you write down another setting. This is nothing but a collection of your random fantasies, and none of it connects properly. It cannot be called a proposal at all. How am I supposed to write a scenario from something like this?"

"Sorry."

Akise Tomoya lowered his head and admitted his mistake.

"I was too impatient. Senpai, next time I'll properly finish the proposal before coming to you."

Seeing Akise Tomoya lower his head, Eriri could not help speaking up for him.

"Hey! Kasumigaoka, even so, there's no need to—"

"Sawamura Spencer Eriri!"

Kasumigaoka loudly cut Eriri off, startling her.

"What! Why are you suddenly shouting so loudly? And I told you not to suddenly call me by my full name."

"Eriri, it's your business if you have the free time to answer his summons whenever he calls. I don't have time to be at his beck and call. I have my own things to do, unlike you, who have nothing to do every day!"

"Wha—"

"If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving first."

Ignoring Eriri, Kasumigaoka stood up to leave.

"Sen—"

Akise Tomoya raised his head, intending to stop her, but another voice drowned him out.

"Well, well~~ if it isn't Shiyu-chan. Long time no see."

Kasumigaoka turned her head as well, and her entire body froze.

Akise Tomoya, Eriri, and even Kato Megumi, who had been quietly hiding her presence all along, all turned to look.

A blond man in a floral shirt, baggy shorts, and flip-flops was walking toward them with both hands in his pockets, leaning forward as he swaggered along. He grinned as he walked, revealing neat, gleaming white teeth. Behind him was a youth dressed in green with white stockings and black sunglasses, swaying from side to side as he walked. Behind the two of them was a small green-clad girl, also wearing sunglasses, her little arms and legs swinging as she strutted along in a way that made people want to punch her on sight!

"This is...!"

Akise Tomoya's eyes widened as he watched the trio approach. The blond man at the front went straight up to Kasumigaoka, his face nearly pressed against hers.

"My, my, it's been so long. Shiyu-chan is as cute as ever."

After saying that, Blondie opened his right eye wide and narrowed his left, making one large and one small. With his mouth crooked to one side, he looked exactly like a standard throwaway villain from an Otherworld transmigration anime as he looked toward Akise Tomoya and the others.

"Could these be Shiyu-chan's friends? Why don't you introduce them to me?"

"I'm—"

Akise Tomoya tried to speak, but the instant the words left his mouth, he suddenly felt an overwhelming pressure descend upon him. Even breathing became difficult, and his voice cut off abruptly.

"B-Blondie!!"

Eriri, seated beside Kasumigaoka, looked at Blondie's appearance. As a doujin artist, her DNA was instantly activated.

Floral shirt, baggy shorts, and blond hair—there were simply too many doujin elements here. All he lacked was tanned skin!

And he even had two strangely dressed youths and a loli following him. Why did Blondie bring a loli with him when he went out?

Puzzled, Eriri turned her gaze to Kasumigaoka.

Why did that fat woman know Blondie? And ever since Blondie started talking, the fat woman had kept her head down without saying a word. Could it be...?!

As a doujin artist, Eriri's mind naturally began producing scenes involving Blondie **, like on a train, in Kasumigaoka's apartment, even in a public restroom.

After imagining a whole string of scenarios, the way Eriri looked at Kasumigaoka changed into pure shock.

That fat woman had been suffering so much without her knowing? She must have some sort of weakness in Blondie's hands, which was why she had become like this. And from what Blondie said, he had not seen the fat woman for a long time. In other words, after being toyed with by him, the fat woman had finally managed to escape him, only for him to run into her again today!

As though to confirm Eriri's guess, Blondie spoke again at that moment.

"Hey, Shiyu-chan, you wouldn't want to—"

"Enough. I have something to do, so I'll be leaving."

Kasumigaoka interrupted Blondie through gritted teeth, then turned and walked away. After she left, Blondie gave Eriri a meaningful look.

"What a cute girl."

Eriri shrank her neck at those words, and her imagination immediately began running wild.

It's over. Blondie has his eye on me. Will he start investigating me, then use my identity as a doujin artist to threaten me?!

As Eriri thought about it, her little face gradually turned bright red. Seeing her flushed face, Li Yue immediately understood that she was letting her imagination run wild again, and he nodded in satisfaction.

"Well then, everyone, we'll stop bothering you now."

With that, he grinned and led the green-clad youth and the small green-clad girl behind him, swaying after Kasumigaoka as they left the café.

From beginning to end, Akise Tomoya's group did not dare say a word. Only after Kasumigaoka and Li Yue left the café did Akise Tomoya dare take a deep breath. At the same time, he felt rather miserable inside, as though he had lost something. The moment the two left, Eriri pressed her face to the glass and nervously watched the figures walking away along the sidewalk outside. She watched Blondie and his group follow Kasumigaoka, then turn at an intersection and disappear.

She remembered there was a hotel not far from that intersection. Which meant the next part of the plot would be...

Oh no, a scene from a doujin was actually happening right before her eyes, and it was happening to that fat woman she knew!!

No, Blondie had his eye on her too. That meant it would happen to her as well in the near future!

Spending Senpai's Money to Make a Film?

While Eriri was wildly imagining what would happen next between Blondie, Kasumigaoka, and herself, Blondie and Kasumigaoka, having left the café, crossed an intersection and waited at a traffic light. The green-clad youth and the small green-clad girl wore sunglasses and excitedly looked around in every direction, curious about everything. They attracted plenty of attention from passersby, since their outfits stood out easily outside Akihabara. Blondie, meanwhile, leaned close to Kasumigaoka and listened to her gritted whisper.

"So, Li Yue-kun, you can actually come to my world? And the moment you arrived, you gave me such a huge surprise!"

"You specifically dyed your hair blond, then acted like you knew me in front of those people. What kind of image do you think I'll have in their eyes from now on?"

"Probably a fallen young beauty with some weakness in my hands, forced to submit to me. Especially since Eriri is a doujin artist—she has probably already imagined an entire storyline."

Li Yue naturally said exactly what Kasumigaoka had wanted to say.

This blond trio was naturally Li Yue, Venti, and Nahida. Li Yue's Bankai had cut open a spatial gate leading to the world of Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend with its very first strike, and he had brought Venti and Nahida directly to the modern society familiar to him.

Though it was Japan, with Japanese spoken and written everywhere, Li Yue found that he could understand it. The words he spoke were also automatically translated into Japanese before being conveyed. That was probably one of the Chat Group's hidden powers. After all, no one had any language barriers in the Chat Group.

After arriving, Li Yue immediately began looking for Kasumigaoka. After all, he was not a local and needed someone local to show him around.

Although this world had no Elemental Power, Venti could still gather information here by using his Anemo Authority. With Venti's help, they found Kasumigaoka based on the characteristics Li Yue had provided. What surprised Li Yue was that Kasumigaoka was less than a hundred meters away from him. Kasumigaoka was his only connection in this world, so did crossing over place him very close to the person he was connected to? That was something worth considering.

When they found Kasumigaoka, she happened to be meeting with Akise Tomoya and the others in a café. So Li Yue immediately had Venti and Nahida cooperate with him, had Venti use an illusion to give him blond hair, and walked right over.

And that led to the current situation. Hearing Li Yue's words, Kasumigaoka's face darkened. She knew Li Yue was a transmigrator. When he first introduced himself, he had said he had transmigrated from modern society to the Teyvat continent. But she had never expected Li Yue to transmigrate from the Teyvat continent to her world again—and give her such a surprise the moment he arrived!

"You knew that, yet you deliberately came to cause me trouble?"

"No, I wasn't here to cause trouble for you, Shiyu-senpai."

Li Yue repeatedly shook his head.

"Oh? You're not calling me Shiyu-chan anymore? Now you're calling me Shiyu-senpai again?"

"I can't help it. Shiyu-senpai is the affectionate name I like to use, but with how I look right now, it wouldn't be appropriate to call you senpai in front of outsiders. How old would that make me look?"

Li Yue helplessly spread his hands, while Kasumigaoka crossed her arms.

"Heh. Then tell me, Li Yue-kun. If you weren't here to cause me trouble, whose trouble were you here to cause?"

"Akise Tomoya's, of course!"

Li Yue spoke with a perfectly serious expression.

"I was directly announcing to Akise Tomoya that Shiyu-senpai is already in the palm of my hand! See? Akise Tomoya did not dare say a word the entire time. Didn't you just tell him not to come looking for you unless there was something important? I guarantee that Akise Tomoya will never dare casually disturb you again."

Kasumigaoka was stunned for a moment at Li Yue's words, then gave a cold laugh.

"Heh~~ so should I thank you?"

"Senpai, there's no need to stand on ceremony between us. Just use those seduction tactics you use on Akise Tomoya on me instead. I can take his place!"

"Heh. Dream on!"

With that, she took advantage of the green light to quickly cross the crosswalk.

Li Yue hurried after Kasumigaoka.

"Hey~~ senpai, wait for me!"

"Come on, you two. Hurry up and catch up!"

Calling out to Venti and Nahida, who were still looking around, the three followed behind Kasumigaoka and crossed the street.

Although Li Yue had given Kasumigaoka a huge surprise the moment he arrived, as a local of the Saekano world, Kasumigaoka was still very accommodating. These were extraordinary people from another world, after all, so she voluntarily offered to treat Li Yue and the other two.

Then...

"I'll take this one. Please wrap it up, and help me get a card too."

Inside a mobile phone store, Li Yue put down the smartphone in his hand and told the clerk across the glass counter to ring it up.

The clerk happily took the phone and asked with a smile.

"Certainly, sir. Will you be paying by card or cash?"

Li Yue did not answer. Instead, he turned to look at Kasumigaoka behind him, and she took out a bank card.

"Card."

She took a bank card from her pocket and handed it to the clerk. The clerk froze for a moment before reaching out to accept it.

"Certainly. Please wait a moment."

Li Yue nodded in satisfaction, both hands in his pockets and his head tilted back slightly, while Kasumigaoka helplessly crossed her arms.

In Japan, it was common for female high school students to be kept by salarymen, and it was also common for hosts to make wealthy women spend money on them. But a female high school student keeping a host was, honestly, somewhat rare. Rare did not mean nonexistent, however!

Now, as the clerk swiped the card, he kept secretly glancing at them. Wasn't he clearly thinking exactly that?

Kasumigaoka could only sigh helplessly. She had just gone through the blond N*R incident, and now she had to go through an incident of keeping a host. This was simply absurd!

"Sir, here is your phone. The SIM card has already been installed inside."

After processing the payment, the clerk handed the phone back to Li Yue.

"Here is your bank card. Please keep it safe."