The Fourth Period Is Modern Chinese (Continued)

This had started because of me alone, and Yukino Yukinoshita joining in was incredibly reassuring. Considering her exceptional abilities, it was practically an express ticket straight to wrapping things up.

However, Yukino sometimes wanted to make everything perfect. At least for this job, her perfectionism was unnecessary. No matter how hard you tried to prepare ingredients that were fundamentally inedible, they would never become miso. In that case, it would be better to turn a blind eye to the quality and simply aim to produce a result.

An outsider would submit something to the Literature Club's magazine, thereby bringing this relay novel to an end. That way, it would not count as supporting either the suspension faction or the continuation faction.

As for quality, I did not mind at all blaming the drastic drop in quality on accepting a manuscript from an outsider. In fact, I intended to advertise it that way. That would preserve the dignity of the skilled writers worried about the Literature Club's reputation being ruined. And with the average quality of the work declining, the less skilled members probably would not feel quite so embarrassed. Of course, things could not possibly go that smoothly, but that was where the honest intermediary, Hiratsuka-sensei, needed to coordinate things. She had called this the Hiratsuka case, so she would surely be willing to help with something this minor.

That was my countermeasure for this request.

Yukino probably already understood it too.

"You get it, right? Quality isn't important."

"Even so, if we do not maintain a minimum standard, it will create many problems."

Ugh, you had a point... But where exactly was this minimum standard? That was far too vague, and it made me deeply uneasy.

"Then let's confirm the most basic part first."

Yukino arranged the manuscript pages