Have You Finally Decided to Stop Being Human?

Aki Tomoya only shows that kind of attitude when discussing ACG topics with people.

The girl in front of me dares to express her opinions boldly, regardless of the topic, and her firm stance on her opinions is even more unwavering than that of Aki Tomoya when talking about anime.

However, Eriri Spencer Sawamura herself doesn't dislike this personality trait; in fact, she's somewhat envious of it.

After all, she couldn't be so frank in expressing her opinions; as Kasumigaoka Utaha put it, "She deserves to be called a blonde loser."

Eriri Spencer Sawamura certainly wanted to object to Kasumigaoka Utaha's assessment, but after reading that novel, didn't she know that if the plot really developed that way, she might actually act according to the actions in the novel?

That's why she wanted to change her fate of becoming a "loser" and made a change in her first year of high school.

It's just a habit formed from childhood; changing it isn't easy.

She was thinking frankly, but when she actually said it, it was just like always—insincere, a classic example of a tsundere character.

Just thinking about this made Eriri Spencer Sawamura subconsciously turn her gaze to the other side.

"So, is that Sawamura's crush?"

Haruhi Suzumiya's words sent a chill down Eriri Spencer Sawamura's spine.

Oh no, because Haruhi Suzumiya's personality reminded her of how her relationship with Aki Tomoya broke down because she wasn't frank enough, and she subconsciously glanced in that direction.

Perhaps it was that look in his eyes that made the transfer student realize something.

But is it really appropriate to ask this kind of question directly in this place?

As if by instinct, Eriri Spencer Sawamura waved her twin tails and vehemently retorted, "How could that be? How could I possibly like that guy!?"

Who knew that Haruhi Suzumiya didn't care about any of that at all, and instead turned to ask Kato Megumi for advice.

"So, Kato-san, do you know that boy?"

Kato Megumi nodded calmly. "It should be Aki-kun. Guanghua... is a friend of mine who told me about Sawamura. He is Sawamura's childhood friend."

As the "heroine" of the manga "Saekano: How to Raise a Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend", Kato Megumi agreed to let Shiina Mashiro draw herself as the model for the manga's heroine. Even though she didn't think she was qualified to be the heroine at all, she would still keep an eye on the manga's progress.

Shiina Mashiro wouldn't bring these things up, but Miyauchi Kouka valued the manga highly, and thus learned about the characters and plot.

That's why she knew the reason behind Eriri Spencer Sawamura's rather subtle reactions when she encountered her recently, but she didn't take it to heart.

After all, it's just a story created based on a real person.

She wasn't interested in Aki Tomoya, who spent all his time promoting ACG in class. If he were to invite her to join a game club and make games with him, she would probably refuse.

After all, she was quite happy at first working in the News Club with Miyauchi Kouka.

This was actually a club that Miyauchi Hiyage recommended to Guanghua.

After all, Miyauchi Kouka is interested in everything. When they were filming videos in Asahigaoka, she liked to squat behind him and ask him all sorts of questions.

Now, having her join the News Club can at least satisfy her strong desire to gossip, and since she has some experience in photography and appearing on camera, joining the News Club is quite reasonable.

Although Kato Megumi herself didn't have any particular ideas, she joined the News Club as a news duo with Miyauchi Kouka at Miyauchi Kouka's invitation. Their usual club activities consisted of exploring various novel things after school, driven by Miyauchi Kouka's curiosity, and writing news articles to fulfill club assignments.

Kato Megumi was quite content with this slightly unconventional school life, so naturally she wasn't thinking about playing any games with others.

Moreover, she now prefers lying in bed, both frightened and excited, to watching the case analysis videos produced by Miyauchi Hiyage, rather than playing games.

Especially the Yuko from the Seikyou Academy, which dates back half a century, combined with the local ghost stories about Yuko on campus, she has read it several times.

Forget about the audience, she even wanted to interview Miyauchi Hiyage to find out if Yuko's ghost really existed.

Unfortunately, even Miyauchi Kouka was unaware of what Miyauchi Hiyage was tinkering with, and he always seemed hesitant and evasive when discussing such matters, which only fueled Kato Megumi's suspicions.

However, Kato Megumi is not a very curious person, and it's normal for friends to have secrets. As long as the two can continue to maintain their current relationship, that's good enough.

Back to the present, Eriri Spencer Sawamura blushed slightly when Kato Megumi openly revealed that she and Megumi were childhood friends. This was actually a secret even at school.

However, Kato Megumi and Shiina Mashiro have a good relationship, so it's natural that Kato Megumi knows about the manga that Shiina Mashiro is going to draw, and it's not surprising that she knows about her relationship with Aki Tomoya.

Compared to the fact that Aki Tomoya someone she secretly admires, there's nothing to hide about their childhood friendship.

She lowered her head slightly and nodded gently.

"We are indeed childhood sweethearts, but we had some conflicts before, so our relationship isn't very good now."

Haruhi Suzumiya was unaware of what had happened to this guy.

But I'm a little interested in the relationship between that Aki and the two girls. Could it be that Aki has also noticed the seemingly insignificant Kato Megumi, and they've already become friends?

But when Haruhi Suzumiya pressed her for an answer, Kato Megumi gently shook her head.

"I haven't spoken to An Yi since I enrolled. He probably doesn't even know my name yet."

She looked at Haruhi Suzumiya and thought that it wasn't really appropriate to talk about the manga with this girl she had just met, even though the manga had already won the Newcomer Award and would be officially serialized in the weekly magazine next week.

However, after revisions by Miyauchi Hiyage Himekage and Eriri Spencer Sawamura Shiina Mashiro, the character designs in the manga have changed quite a bit, especially the male protagonist. Apart from his love for anime and his childhood friendship with Eriri, his other character designs have almost no resemblance to Aki-kun.

At least in Kato Megumi's eyes, it would be more appropriate to call him a scaled-down version of Miyauchi Hiyage than Aki Tomoya. Even if people noticed this after the manga was released, it would be difficult for them to associate him with Aki Tomoya.

However, Kato Megumi did not explain the reason, but there was another person at the dinner table who knew the situation better and was willing to explain.

"Actually, it's because of a novel based on us that wasn't published to the public," Kasumigaoka Utaha explained again, repeating the explanation she had given Eriri Spencer Sawamura, while also keeping an eye on Haruhi Suzumiya's attitude.

"Although that novel was just a fantasy novel based on our personalities, I have to say that the guy's description of our personalities was quite accurate, so Mashiro wanted to adapt the story into a manga."

Kasumigaoka Utaha said this, then looked at Eriri Spencer Sawamura expression was becoming increasingly embarrassed. "However, Eriri Spencer Sawamura is quite tsundere. She was recently provoked by that novel, so please ask Suzumiya-san to keep these things a secret."

Haruhi Suzumiya's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

A group chat of like-minded people, a mysterious and unknown creator, in order to mess with people's mentality, wrote the group members into a novel, which is now going to be adapted into a comic.

This sounds so interesting!

Moreover, Haruhi Suzumiya subconsciously felt that the so-called group chat and that mysterious guy might be the person she was looking for.

She suddenly stood up, her eyes shining as she grabbed Kasumigaoka Utaha's hand. "I also want to join that group chat. Kasumigaoka, Senpai, could you help me get in touch?"

Faced with Haruhi Suzumiya's extraordinary drive, Kasumigaoka Utaha realized that this girl was completely different from the girls she had known in the past.

That's way too direct.

However, she dared not add Haruhi Suzumiya to the group chat.

Because that Chat Group not only has Diary blocking mechanism, but Haruhi Suzumiya herself is too dangerous. If she were to break through the Diary's blocking mechanism and join the Chat Group, who knows what unknown impact she would have on the Chat Group by using her powers.

She could only say that the group chat is no longer accepting new members, and that any new member would need the approval of more than half of the members in the group.

Then, by suggesting that the novel could be brought over for Haruhi Suzumiya to read later, Haruhi Suzumiya was somewhat appeased.

Seeing that she had almost taken out the Diary and held it right in front of the other person's eyes, but the other person didn't seem to notice at all, Haruhi Suzumiya was still somewhat disappointed.

It seems the other person wasn't one of the other Diary owners from the same batch as me.

But the more she thought about it, the more she felt that the woman in front of her must be related to the Diary.

After all, Voldemort had said in his diary that those who possessed Diary were probably the protagonists of their respective works.

Now, Kasumigaoka Utaha has produced a novel featuring them as the main characters. Even with some explanations, Haruhi Suzumiya can intuitively guess that there's something wrong with it.

So what exactly happened between Voldemort and these girls over the past month?

Following Haruhi Suzumiya's thoughts, her long-dormant Diary finally took the initiative to send her its first request.

"The second batch of diary holders have been detected to have made offline contact with the first batch of diary holders and have become suspicious. A special commission is now being initiated."

Special Commission:

①: Keep your identity a secret and do not let the first holders of the Diary confirm your identity (the longer you hide and the more contact you have with the first holders of the diary, the higher the reward you will receive).

②: Independently discover the daily tasks of the first batch of diary holders and complete their daily requests ahead of them.

Chapter 240: Have you finally decided to stop being human?

Seeing the request that suddenly appeared in front of her, Haruhi Suzumiya's eyes lit up.

So her guess was correct; Kasumigaoka Utaha really was one of the first owners of the Diary.

Recalling the other person's initiative in approaching her, she probably suspected that she was the owner of the second batch of Diary.

However, the other party probably hasn't confirmed whether they possess the Diary yet. Instead, it was because of that group chat that their identity was exposed, which is why the Diary arranged this task for them to hide themselves.

Although she didn't know why she had to hide herself, Haruhi Suzumiya was always someone who thrived on chaos.

The fact that she could get rewards simply by disguising herself made her quite interested in the fact that she could only gain Reading Points through her Diary but had no other way to use them.

As for the target of intercepting daily commissions, she also went to take a look.

There were no hints, meaning she would have to investigate the other party's daily requests herself, bit by bit.

Fortunately, she learned from the instructions of her commission that each Diary holder who unlocks the commission function will be given a daily commission that is very easy and can be repeated, which can be considered as a safety net among the commission tasks.

In other words, these routine delegations are repetitive.

As long as she keeps an eye on Kasumigaoka Utaha, figure out what special and repetitive actions she takes in her daily routine, and then tries to figure it out, she will eventually be able to find out what her daily requests are.

Kasumigaoka Utaha, on the other hand, was also somewhat helpless.

Originally, I was thinking of using Eriri Spencer Sawamura to attract Haruhi Suzumiya's attention, but who knew that Kato Megumi, the female protagonist, was just as responsive as Shiina Mashiro, Aki Tomoya.

There was nothing she could do but explain the whole "Saekano: How to Raise Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend" thing to Kato Megumi.

These words clearly piqued Haruhi Suzumiya's interest in their Chat Group, and probably also in the You Know Who.

This is truly a case of trying to steal a chicken but losing the rice instead.

Since things have already come to this, let's just follow Shinomiya Kaguya's suggestion and confirm whether Haruhi Suzumiya is the owner of the Diary.

So thereafter she continued to probe Haruhi Suzumiya from the side.

For example, why did she transfer to Tokyo alone? What are her hobbies, such as writing a diary? What would she think if a transmigrator from another world told her that she was actually just a character in an anime?

Unfortunately, Haruhi Suzumiya didn't respond at all. Her attempts to probe her for a long time only left Kato Megumi and Eriri Spencer Sawamura, who were standing nearby, feeling somewhat confused, and had no effect whatsoever.

Even Haruhi Suzumiya showed a hint of impatience, which made Kasumigaoka Utaha give up the idea of continuing to test the waters.

According to Haruhi Suzumiya, she transferred schools on a whim. She felt that Koyoen Academy was too rigid and boring, so after discovering the free-spirited school spirit of Toyosaki, she took the initiative to apply for a transfer and also wanted to experience what it was like to live alone in Tokyo.

Unable to glean anything from Haruhi Suzumiya, Kasumigaoka Utaha wondered whether Haruhi Suzumiya genuinely didn't understand or was just pretending.

In short, a few minutes later, Kato Megumi finished her meal and left the cafeteria early to go to the infirmary to see Miyauchi Kouka, and then Haruhi Suzumiya also said goodbye and got up to leave.

In the end, Kasumigaoka Utaha Haruhi Suzumiya, and that was the end of their meeting.

Only after Haru Suzumiya's figure disappeared from their sight did Eriri Spencer Sawamura nudge Kasumigaoka Utaha's arm in annoyance.

"So why are you so concerned about that transfer student? I don't remember you being this kind of helpful."

As the only school beauty of Houtonji High School, Kasumigaoka Utaha is quite aloof when facing outsiders. The number of people in the entire school who receive special treatment from Kasumigaoka Utaha can be counted on one hand.

"If you knew what she had done, you wouldn't treat her like an ordinary person," Kasumigaoka Utaha shook her head and said the name of the middle school that Haruhi Suzumiya had attended.

Eriri Spencer Sawamura frowned. "You're being so mysterious. I'm too lazy to investigate these things. Fine, don't tell me then."

This afternoon, she was once again tormented by past memories, and she was already feeling terrible. Now, Kasumigaoka Utaha is here acting as a riddle teller. As a tsundere, she needs to find a place to properly heal her inner "wounds".

Kasumigaoka Utaha apologized to Eriri Spencer Sawamura again as she stood up. "I used you to confirm some things at noon today, and I have to apologize for that."

"But think carefully about what I said at noon today, and recall what kind of feelings you really have for that Aki classmate. Figure out your true feelings. Do you really think that what happened back then can just be left in the past?"

Eriri Spencer Sawamura's steps became somewhat heavy, but in the end she still let out a soft hum and left with her head held high.

Kasumigaoka Utaha shrugged and sighed softly.

Having read the complete novel, and also learned from the You Know Who's diary that Eriri Spencer Sawamura has never truly achieved a perfect ending, even in the fan-made comics and games that are derivative works. The best outcome is that she can only reconcile with the male protagonist and start over.

She started at the finish line, then sprinted back towards the starting line. By the time she realized what was happening, she had already crossed the starting line and was off the track.

The You Know Who's comment was that Eriri was born to be a loser, Miyauchi Hiyage's answer was that Eriri Spencer Sawamura needed a personality-correcting punch to repent and actively become Aki Tomoya's simp in order to have any chance.

This means that Eriri Spencer Sawamura has absolutely no chance of maintaining her current self.

In the original work, Kasumigaoka Utaha was considered a "loser sister" to Eriri Spencer Sawamura. Now that she has obtained the Diary and embarked on a new future, she certainly doesn't want Eriri Spencer Sawamura to struggle in this uncertain ending anymore.

Let Eriri Spencer Sawamura figure out what she really thinks of Aki Tomoya first.

The friendship was formed during elementary school, but Eriri Spencer Sawamura herself ended it when she was in the third grade.

Eriri Spencer Sawamura is attached to the friendship she shared with her boyfriend back then, and wants to rekindle that feeling after growing up, but her personality causes her to be torn between two conflicting emotions.

Aki Tomoya seems to be able to communicate normally with Eriri Spencer Sawamura now, but seven years have only made the thorn in his heart deeper. It can be said that Eriri Spencer Sawamura's nonchalant approach only pushes him further away.

After muttering these words to herself, Kasumigaoka Utaha took out her phone again and told the girls in the Chat Group that her attempt to test Haruhi Suzumiya at noon that day had failed.