The Maid Café in Akihabara / Calling All Netizens: Miss Yotsuya Miko, Did You See Any Ghosts Today?

Then she saw several lines describing her personality and appearance.

"Her expression remained calm throughout the journey, yet she had no filter whatsoever—a vicious tongue to an almost excessive degree.

"She possessed lustrous black hair. Though the expression on her face barely changed, objectively speaking, she was undeniably a beauty.

"A third-year student one year older than Eriri Spencer Sawamura and me: Kasumigaoka Utaha."

In an instant, Kasumigaoka Utaha's scalp went numb. She shuddered involuntarily and nearly flung the Diary out of her hands.

She hurriedly began reading from the start, stomping her feet again and again, her expression turning rather unpleasant.

The light novel You Know Who had written in the Diary today appeared to be a prologue.

Four characters had appeared in it.

Aside from herself, the other three were Eriri Spencer Sawamura, a blonde Japanese-British girl skilled at painting who had won awards;

Aki Tomoya, the male lead, an otaku and the founder of a doujin bishoujo game development club;

And Kato Megumi, who appeared at the very end of the prologue. Her personality was unremarkable and she had little presence, yet for some reason, the male lead had taken a liking to her and wanted her to be the heroine of his game.

After reading today's diary, Kasumigaoka Utaha's first reaction was that she should have posted on Twitter yesterday.

In yesterday's diary, You Know Who had specifically said that any "light novel author" who wanted to adapt one of his stories could post "I want to be Miss Makima's dog" on Twitter, and he would randomly send them a private message with a detailed outline.

Kasumigaoka Utaha was indeed interested in those stories, especially the Haruhi Suzumiya story and that school mystery story. Both had made her fingers itch.

If You Know Who really contacted her, she could even tactfully ask about her own future story.

But in the end, she suppressed the urge.

After all, having a girl post something like that was rather embarrassing. Besides, she had not seen anyone else posting it online, and she did not want to be the first to stick her neck out.

Who could have guessed that today, You Know Who would directly copy out her story just because no one had interacted with him, leaving him bored and unwilling to think?

And what was this story called? Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend.

In other words, she, Kasumigaoka Utaha, was not even the heroine of the story. She was merely a stepping stone meant to serve as a foil for that utterly unremarkable Kato Megumi?

She, Kasumigaoka Utaha—the top-ranked student of Toyonosaki Academy, the unattainable flower in every classmate's eyes, a genius girl about to make her official light novel debut—would fight two other girls over one man next year, and still lose?

Impossible. Absolutely impossible!

"I had no idea I was such a sharp-tongued woman. This Diary must have refreshed incorrectly."

Kasumigaoka Utaha closed the Diary, then opened it again. The words inside had not changed at all.

Fine. It seemed this really was her original story.

A story about three women gathering together because an otaku suddenly decided he wanted to make a game.

She carefully read through the prologue once more.

Kasumigaoka Utaha was beginning to dislike this Diary that could not be torn apart no matter what she did.

Thinking about how many people throughout Japan might be reading her future story right now, Kasumigaoka Utaha could not help kneading the Diary in her hands.

From a certain perspective, an indestructible Diary could be considered a stress-relief toy.

After finally calming down, Kasumigaoka Utaha was about to search online for those names she had never heard before when she was surprised to find several more lines appearing in the Diary.

What do you mean, Diary? I worked my ass off copying a whole book here, and once I'm done, you give me a manga for the senior's IF route?

Sure, the senior only managed to win in the IF-route manga because Kato Megumi and Eriri Spencer Sawamura had their roles completely cut, but at least it was fully serialized in my previous life.

If you're so capable, why not get me the continuation of Eriri Spencer Sawamura's IF-route manga? In the main story, she was a losing heroine, and in the IF-route spinoff, it got axed because the ratings were too poor and nobody read it.

Oh, there isn't anything like that in the Diary's prize pool? Never mind, then. Everyone disperse. Eriri Spencer Sawamura, if you're reading this, hurry up and sleep. If you can't fix that tsundere problem of yours, you'll drown clutching your little yellow manga for the rest of your life.

One more thing, not trying to start a fight, going anonymous, but honestly, Eriri Spencer Sawamura's lewd art really is a little lewder than Eromanga Sensei's.

Kasumigaoka Utaha quickly finished reading these few short lines.

Afterward, she looked as though she wanted to laugh, yet could not.

What did he mean by "she only managed to win after Kato Megumi and Eriri Spencer Sawamura's roles were completely cut"?

This so-called IF-route manga might as well never have existed. Wasn't it outright saying that Kasumigaoka Utaha had chickened out against Kato Megumi?

Still, the explanation regarding that Eriri Spencer Sawamura girl somehow carried an inexplicable sense of melancholy.

A losing heroine in the main story, axed in the spinoff, and absent from the Diary's records. She really was the loser among losers.

They should give Miss Eriri Spencer Sawamura the title of Immortal Loser.

From the prologue and this supplementary explanation, Kasumigaoka Utaha could tell that in the original story, she and Eriri Spencer Sawamura did not get along because of this "Aki Tomoya."

But she did not know the other girl now, so naturally she would not form a prejudice against her based solely on a few words.

She even wanted to meet her and see whether she truly had such an overwhelming Aura of a losing heroine.

As for that Aki Tomoya...

She was actually very busy right now.

Her light novel was about to be published, and she needed to keep up with the outline for the rest of it. On top of that, she could not miss her daily diary sessions.

Then there was Ripple Chi Kung training. Her talent for it did not seem particularly good. She had spent four Reading Points and was still some distance away from guiding Ripple Energy.

Besides that, she also needed to pay a little attention to her studies. She still had no intention of giving up her first-place ranking.

She did not have enough time to arrange everything, and she truly had no interest in fighting someone over a man.

Fight over a man?

She would rather spend more time training Ripple Chi Kung. It could keep her young and beautiful even at fifty. Could those men do that?

In any case, Aki Tomoya ended up with Kato Megumi. As a supporting female character who could only sneak a win in an IF route, it would be better for her not to interact with him from the very beginning.

Akihabara's Maid Café

Although Miyauchi Hiyage's diary entry had merely copied out a novel, his gains were enormous.

Because when he woke up the next day and habitually browsed the internet, he found someone had posted, "I want to be Miss Makima's dog," from an alt account.

The account had a default system ID, and all its account details were listed as unknown. However, beneath that comment, the person had added, "Can you stop posting this?"

Seeing that tweet, Miyauchi Hiyage smiled brightly.

He had been writing in the Diary for five days since obtaining it. On the sixth day, he had finally received feedback.

He had previously kept an eye on Hoshino Ai's Twitter and occasionally lurked in her fan group.

Unfortunately, during those first few days, he had practically refreshed Hoshino Ai's Twitter every day, yet no suspicious comments had appeared beneath it.

Over the following days, he continued checking the comments under her social media account before bed and after waking up, but still found nothing.

He did not know that on the day he taught his family Ripple Chi Kung, a chuuni girl who was not particularly skilled at online searching had spent several days before finally discovering Hoshino Ai's identity.

By the time he taught Renge Ripple Chi Kung that afternoon, organized his diary at night, and then taught his parents, the chuuni girl's comment had already been deleted by Hoshino Ai when he returned to his room late at night and checked his phone before bed.

It could be said that only today did Miyauchi Hiyage finally confirm that other people could see the diary he wrote.

Just as expected. He knew diary-style web novels could not exist without readers, just like the 3D section could not exist without Jerusalem.

Although only one person had responded so far, everyone knew that when you found one cockroach in your house, there might actually already be dozens hidden in the dark.

Uh, that analogy sounded a little strange, but that was the general idea.

From the looks of it, this tweet had clearly been posted by one of the three heroines of Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend.

"So, was it Eriri Spencer Sawamura or Kasumigaoka Utaha who got the Diary?"

Kato Megumi's personality had indeed not been very distinct in the early parts of the anime. The current her probably could not say something like that.

Though theoretically, he could not rule out the possibility that Aki Tomoya had gotten the Diary, if it were really him, he would probably have posted a tweet about wanting to be a dog the day before yesterday.

Miyauchi Hiyage did not reply to the tweet. He would let the bullets fly a little longer and see whether anyone else showed up to respond.

"Just in time. This morning, I was planning to take my family to Toyonosaki Academy first and have a look around the school and its surroundings."

"While we're there, I'll figure out the surveillance situation inside and around the school. Then I'll decide whether to stuff the Kasumigaoka IF-route manga into her shoe locker... Hmm, maybe I should put it in Eriri Spencer Sawamura's shoe locker instead. That would be more entertaining."

Toyonosaki Academy's location was indeed excellent. It took a little over half an hour to walk there from Beika Town, while driving took less than ten minutes.

The moment Miyauchi Kouka saw the school's front gate, she knew listening to her little brother had been the right choice.

No matter how she looked at it, this school was her dream high school.

It was new, spacious, and had a great environment. She just did not know what clubs it had.

Would she join an athletic club or a cultural club?

When she saw the luxurious facilities of the kendo and archery clubs, she immediately grabbed Miyauchi Hiyage and declared that once school began, the siblings would join the kendo club and conquer it together, despite never having touched either activity in her sixteen years of life.

"I plan to be a member of the Go-Home Club for three years. But if you really want to learn, I can find you a proper dojo first and let you try it out."

It would be good to find something for his second sister to do now that she had arrived in Tokyo and had nowhere to vent her energy. That way, she would stop obsessing over her mansion-and-aristocrat dream.

Miyauchi Kouka was not surprised to hear that her little brother wanted to join the Go-Home Club.

Her little brother was good in every way, except that he was too career-driven.

Sister Kaede had been getting prettier and prettier over the years, yet he had never been tempted.

Now that he had come to Tokyo for high school, he was still thinking about developing a new career. At this rate, when would the Miyauchi Family ever have a next generation?

It looked like she, as his older sister, would have to find a way to introduce some girls to him.

Miyauchi Hiyage instinctively sensed that his foolish sister was plotting something.

She could not even manage her expressions. Everything she thought was written all over her face. With a personality like that, she wanted to trick people? It would be a miracle if she did not get conned into having her kidneys stolen in northern Myanmar.

Still, thanks to Guanghua's habit of running around everywhere, Miyauchi Hiyage spent the entire morning naturally touring every open area of the school.

Though the school had been established less than ten years ago, its surveillance system was basically just for show. After all, a school with a free-spirited atmosphere needed to protect teenagers' privacy.

The surveillance outside the school was even worse than the surveillance inside.

With Ripple Chi Kung's ability to let him cling to walls and water like a ninja, Miyauchi Hiyage could easily avoid every camera, sneak into the school without leaving traces, and complete his prank mission.

After successfully finishing his reconnaissance plan, they casually found a restaurant for lunch. In the afternoon, the entire family went shopping in nearby Akihabara.

Don't misunderstand. Other than him, no one in the Miyauchi Family had much interest in anything related to anime or manga.

Although Akihabara was famous around the world as an otaku paradise, it had actually first become renowned as an electronics district.

Even now, Akihabara remained one of Japan's largest electronics districts. In this world, its title as an otaku district had only gradually spread over the past decade.

Miyauchi Hiyage had something to say about that, since he had investigated Akihabara long ago.

Compared to his previous life, the biggest change to Akihabara in this world was that this electronics district had an owner.

The Akiba Family had managed this land since the shogunate era. The reason Akihabara had become an otaku district in this world was entirely because of a decision made by the current head of the Akiba Family ten years ago.

When Miyauchi Hiyage learned this, a work from his previous life immediately came to mind.

While his parents and eldest sister were choosing a new-model air conditioner, Miyauchi Hiyage excused himself and took Guanghua and Renge to rest at a nearby, highly popular maid café.

The moment he entered the café, he saw a cute pink-haired girl in a maid outfit and cat ears warmly greeting them.

"Welcome home, Master, meow~ Feiris NyanNyan will be at your service~!"

Having never seen such a scene before, Miyauchi Kouka instinctively hid behind her little brother and even covered Renge's eyes.

"Ah, there's even a cute little master. But please rest assured, Masters, the maid service here is extremely professional, meow~"

Looking at the enthusiastic maid before him, Miyauchi Hiyage quietly muttered to himself.

Was I really this lucky? I got a welcome from Akihabara's biggest landowner the moment I arrived.

Calling Out to Miss Yotsuya Miko Across the Internet: Did You See a Ghost Today?

Feiris NyanNyan, the top maid of Akihabara's most popular maid café, "Mayqueen+NyanNyan."