Tokyo, Akihabara District, an X bookstore under Fujimi Bunko.
Umaru Doma: (^_^)
Once again, the facts proved that Onii-chan hadn't done anything wrong. Still, this material could be used to scare Onii-chan a little.
Sogo Doma: (￢_￢)
He glanced at the Aki Tomoya who had been thrown out. That kind of idiotic performance could make him the male lead? This world had nearly been beyond saving...
Sogo Doma failed to consider that if an ordinary high school student had been accused by the victim, even if he did not panic, he would at least feel guilty and have to force himself to speak. Especially when the victim was a blogger with hundreds of thousands of followers online—most people would have crumbled under that sort of pressure and confessed long ago.
That alone would have been one thing, but if Love Metronome had not become a massive hit, or if Utaha Kasumigaoka had not been spoiled by him, then Tomoya Aki's speech would certainly have caught Sonoko Machida's attention. For the sake of sales, Sonoko Machida would have been more than happy to introduce an obsessive, popular fan like Tomoya Aki to Utaha Kasumigaoka.
Without the prerequisites of explosive sales and malicious spoilers, if an ordinary person had encountered this, Tomoya Aki's scheme might really have succeeded.
But there were not so many what-ifs in this world.
Sogo Doma turned back to look at his thoroughly satisfied little sister—so many people had testified for him, so his image as the perfect Onii-chan had been preserved. What a relief.
Sonoko Machida also felt deeply helpless when it came to Sogo Doma. As for being his editor, she had later learned that the loaded cake had been a tool Editor-in-Chief Yamagami used to pick—pfft, assign—an editor to this guy. Or rather, an assistant