After all, Mashiro had been rejected several times before she went from nothing to getting a manga published...
Just think about the plot she had initially come up with: the male and female leads met for no reason, the heroine got hit by a car for no reason, and then she died for no reason?
It could be said that when Mashiro first arrived, her drawing skills were exceptional, but her storytelling ability was practically nonexistent—she was even worse than Eriri when she had first started drawing doujinshi!
However, through her own efforts, Mashiro had achieved the feat of getting her manga published...
By comparison, how could Eriri, a doujinshi artist, not want to go mainstream? But she couldn't. She didn't have the ability. Although Mashiro had learned things like panel composition from her, when it came to storytelling, Eriri fell short by who knew how much!
That was why Mashiro seemed so lacking in common sense. It wasn't because she was an idiot, but because she had put all her thoughts into drawing...
Eriri, on the other hand, had been exposed to the two-dimensional world since childhood, yet even now, she had not drawn a manga that could be released on the market. Although the name "Kashiwagi Eri" was hugely famous among... otaku, did she need that kind of fame? How could Eriri not want to go mainstream? How could she not want everyone to know the works she drew?
Meanwhile, in just a few short months, Mashiro had gone from being a genius artist who gave publishers headaches but whom they couldn't bear to give up on, to a genius manga artist capable of independently publishing manga...
Under these circumstances, surely no one still thought Mashiro was an idiot, right?
In truth, Mashiro only looked airheaded and adorable