Did You Use My Diary as Scrap Paper? / A Major Crisis of Trust

In a moment of impulsiveness and confusion, the person seemed to have forgotten what they were saying.

Chapter 112 Did you use my Diary as a draft book?

"Are you a ghost...?"

Miss Kushida lay there like a lump of mud, completely unconcerned about her image, her breathing rising and falling with soft moans.

"I'm saying, short duration is a problem, but that doesn't mean long duration isn't a problem." She turned her head and said, grumbling, "You really need to see a doctor."

"Otherwise, I think I'd die here."

He got up, pulled the blanket over Kushida Kikyo, who looked like she was about to catch a cold, and then pulled her into his arms, covering himself with the blanket as well. Asakusa Toru his head and whispered in her ear:

"Sister, you're too weak!"

Miscellaneous fish, miscellaneous fish~

Asakusa Toru Tetsu thought that Kushida Kikyo would get angry again and beat him with her little fists, or at least twist his thigh off before she would stop.

But unexpectedly, the beautiful girl in his arms didn't react at all.

I looked down and saw that he was asleep again.

... It's probably due to overwork.

Never mind, I won't bother her anymore.

Let's go back and look at the notification sound we just ignored.

In fact, ever since he finished writing in his diary, Asakusa Toru had been hearing that long-lost notification sound in his ear.

"You have a new message."

That's right, it's a message.

A long-awaited message.

Besides the Little Princess and Ms. Kushida, finally someone else left him a message.

Moreover, one shot contained two!

He suspected that one of them was probably Horikita, and the other... might be the fourth person he had never found and who had never come forward, someone who was well hidden.

He was a little too busy to check earlier, but now that he has a bit more free time, he naturally wants to see who left the message.

So, Asakusa Toru pulled out his Diary and quickly flipped to the message page.

But what appeared before my eyes was not text.

Instead... comics?

With its sharp strokes and clean drafts, the comics, which immediately reveal the artist's skill, come alive on the page of the Diary in my hand.

A quick glance revealed a seemingly ordinary plot.

Going to school, biting into bread, bumping into someone, and then... falling in love.

Judging from this page alone, it seems like nothing special, just a typical romantic comedy unfolding.

But as Asakusa Toru turned the pages and continued reading the comments...

But the plot started to take a turn for the worse.

No, rather than saying it has changed its flavor, it's more accurate to say that the development constrained by the most common template and reasonable plot has been released, and the illustrator has begun to freely draw the extremely dry and lacking plot in his mind.

There's no romantic atmosphere, no youthful storyline, and no intense love triangle.

The rival who appeared once has vanished, and the awkward feelings of the male and female protagonists have completely disappeared.

From the moment the confession page was drawn, the whole story was like a roller coaster reaching its peak and then plummeting downwards.

Confessing your feelings, starting a relationship, shaking hands, your heart racing.

And then... END.

"... What the heck?" Asakusa Toru didn't understand.

Is this a comic?

While it may not be considered a comic book, it does have characters, panels, and dialogue.

But calling it a manga, Asakusa Toru feels, might be a bit of an insult to the storytelling format of manga.

It's inexplicable.

... No, the point isn't whether it's a comic or not. The point is, who the hell sent me a comic as a comment?!

Or is someone using the Diary as a draft book?

Asakusa Toru's logic is a bit hard to understand.

"..." He couldn't help but reach under the covers, rubbing his hands as he began to rethink things.

Are there any cartoonists in this run-down school?

Or rather, a character who dreams of becoming a cartoonist?

Hiss...

Cannot find it.

If anyone is even remotely related, it would probably be Shiranami Chihiro.

At least she's in the Art Club.

But he wasn't unaware of Shiranami Chihiro's skill level...

The artwork is nowhere near as good as this comic.

Puzzled, Asakusa Toru flipped through a few more pages.

This message is exceptionally long. Although it's in comic book format, its length and presentation are very similar to Kushida's previous twenty-plus-page message.

They all looked like they were just leaving random comments in his Diary as if it were a draft.

A huge number of messages, spanning multiple pages, were sent at once.

In Asakusa Toru's understanding, a normal comment should be like Little Princess's —a short message, at most no more than one page.

That's what you call leaving a comment.

The comments about Little Kikyo and this message can only be described as a DDoS attack.

Is this some kind of sarcastic comment crammed into my Diary so I can't easily turn the pages?

Although the pages of the Diary are infinite, you can turn to any page you want with just a little thought.

But with so much junk, it's easy to accidentally flip to the wrong page.

The following pages seem to follow the same formula as other youth romance comics: meeting, love at first sight, then dating, and then ending.

Whether it's a relationship that's drawn out as foreshadowing or other characters, they all vanish the moment the romantic relationship is confirmed.

... What on earth is this guy drawing?

Just as Asakusa Toru was thinking this, he turned another page.

Finally, the next page was no longer a draft of a teen romance comic.

Instead, it's a cool black and white illustration that catches the eye.

(Picture)

The subjugated ones prostrated themselves on the ground in awe, their gazes naturally rising upwards. On the supreme throne, the incomparably noble 'it' sat casually, looking down upon all living beings.

... Absolutely the work of a master.

Upon seeing this painting, Asakusa Toru understood that it was something no high school student could have drawn.

This isn't the set of Danganronpa, so where would all these Ultra High School Level characters come from?

Which old man got his hands on my Diary? And why did he draw so many awful romance comics in it?

However, while this painting is very impressive, it has a fatal flaw.

The person on the throne has no face.

It was as if he suddenly didn't know how to draw his face anymore; the 'king' who should have been showing an arrogant gaze that looked down on everything became a Faceless Man.

Hiss...

Wait a minute, let me grill it.

Asakusa Toru had a slight headache, his brows furrowed, as he gradually pieced together the key features from the messages left behind.

He seems to be drawn to characters who fit this description...

I remember it.

Asakusa Toru stared intently at the drawing in the Diary, as if a name was about to spring to mind.

This is a terrible romance manga, but the drawing skills are so amazing that it's impossible for a normal high school student to have them; it's like a super high school level genius...

'Shiina Mashiro'

A fleeting inspiration struck; a name that perfectly matched these descriptions was locked in.

A world-class oil painting prodigy who dreams of becoming a cartoonist.

Chapter 113 A Major Crisis in Trust Relationships

No, no, no, no, no, no, wait a minute.

Asakusa Toru was startled by the name he had come up with.

He wasn't surprised by Shiina Mashiro's existence; he already knew of Shiina Mashiro.

A world-class oil painting genius like her could be discovered with just a little attention to the news.

His surprise lay in...

"Didn't your mom say there would only be Classroom of the Elite with that Diary?!"

He clearly believed so much in the power of the Diary, so much in Diary descriptions, and so much in its Diary.

It hasn't even been two months yet, and they've already given me extra Diary?

And they didn't notify me at all.

It was precisely because he initially declared that only members of the Classroom of the Elite would receive the Diary that he acted so brazenly, so ostentatiously, and so casually.

From pulling pranks and exposing others to now directly treating Kushida to popsicles.

Even if my identity is exposed, it doesn't matter. It's just a matter of dropping out of school and finding another place to write my diary.

All of this stemmed from the confidence he gained from the initial limited distribution scope of the Diary Copy.

It was precisely because he clearly understood that Advanced Nurturing students couldn't do anything for him that Asakusa Toru was able to let himself go so freely.

But now you're telling him that Shiina Mashiro is here?

Hiss...

Shiina Mashiro herself is fine; although she's very powerful in the story, she's also very harmless.

Unaware of the ways of the world, unable to take care of herself, a pure white, harmless little lamb.

If she's afraid, it's because she's afraid someone might accidentally hurt her.

The problem is that Shiina Mashiro's appearance signifies the shattering of the Diary's unbreakable promise.

A major crisis of trust!

If Diary Copy were distributed beyond those in Advanced Nurturing, if more than just Advanced Nurturing students could see every entry he wrote in his diary...

Asakusa Toru thought for a moment about the characters he had discovered existing in this world so far.

... It doesn't seem like anything special?

Hmm, that's a bit unexpected.

He had originally thought he could find a very dangerous character in his memory that he might offend.