In this country where high school students saved the world, it was hardly unusual for them to take part-time jobs. Working part-time as a light novel author or manga artist was also common enough. But to juggle other work while still keeping a student's primary responsibility—studying, in other words, exam results—at the very top level... that was another matter.
Upon hearing that Utaha Kasumigaoka also wrote light novels, Yukino Yukinoshita tightened her grip on the paperback in her hands. That big-breasted brute was not only running a side business, but her grades had even surpassed Yukino's. She really had been slacking off. But still—
"So Kasumigaoka is busy because she's entering some kind of literary prize? I still cannot approve. While I do not read light novels, I know that these so-called writing competitions are held at regular intervals. I cannot approve of setting one's friends aside for a competition that comes around so frequently. Of course, if it were a prize on the level of the Akutagawa Prize, I would have nothing to say..."
"Um, Utaha isn't entering it. She was forced into becoming one of the judges," Sogo Doma explained.
"A judge? That big-breasted... Kasumigaoka?" Yukino Yukinoshita froze. Even if she had never read light novels, she knew that anyone qualified to be a judge had to be a prominent figure in the industry—someone it would not be inappropriate to address as a teacher. That made this difficult for her to accept—
Yukino had originally thought Utaha Kasumigaoka was still a dream-chasing girl waiting to submit her work, but in the blink of an eye...
"Mm!" As the young lady stood there in a daze, Sogo Doma continued, "Utaha had already prepared herself to tutor Mashiro, but then the editor in charge of her recommended her as a