So, the question came up yet, yet, yet again:
Did girls really never like Kashiwagi Eri's... works?
Of course not. In fact, Kashiwagi Eri had quite a few female fans. Setting everything else aside, wasn't Eriri herself a girl? And there was her mother, Sayuri, too!
Utaha Kasumigaoka might tease Eriri at every turn, but in truth, she highly recognized Eriri's talent. In fact, if Mashiro hadn't already amazed her beforehand, then the moment she saw Eriri's drawings, she probably would have been won over by them.
Even Utaha Kasumigaoka was like that, so wasn't it perfectly normal for some girls to like Kashiwagi Eri's works?
After all, once girls got pervy, boys basically had no place in the equation...
Still, liking Kashiwagi Eri was a secret that couldn't be spoken aloud. Girls wouldn't say it, and even boys wouldn't make something like that public—unless they had completely let themselves go.
Obviously, for someone as absurdly tsundere as Eriri, completely letting herself go... Well, it wasn't that it was absolutely impossible; it was just that as long as she retained even a shred of reason, it had nothing to do with her—excluding, of course, accidents like getting drunk out of her mind or being delirious from illness...
And Eriri still had her reason, so in the face of Utaha Kasumigaoka's teasing, even though she had countless reasons—even facts—to refute her, when the words reached her lips, they still became:
"W-Why do you keep talking about her? Isn't it boring!? You just keep going on and on; aren't you afraid of annoying people...?"
"Tut, tut..." Little Golden Retriever had no idea that the more she acted this way, the more amusing Utaha Kasumigaoka found it. "Would it be annoying? I thought that since Golden Flash and Kashiwagi Eri are both artists..."