What Era Is It, Still Writing Traditional Diaries

Eriri Spencer Sawamura became flustered.

"My parents couldn't have... could it really be Aki Tomoya? But why would he do something like this?" she muttered, "Is it because of something that happened before... No, it couldn't be him, he's not that kind of person."

Seeing Eriri Spencer Sawamura lost in confusion and distress, Kasumigaoka Utaha held up a finger. "There's something I can tell you. I've never met that person in person; we've only communicated online."

"And I'm not the only one who knows your identity. It's just that we're at the same school, so I wanted to come confirm things."

"Don't worry, I won't leak your identity. Besides, we might have opportunities to cooperate in the future."

Kasumigaoka Utaha placed her hand on her chest and shared her "secret" as an aspiring light novel author with Eriri Spencer Sawamura.

Despite receiving Kasumigaoka Utaha's assurance and learning her "secret," Eriri Spencer Sawamura's mood didn't improve much.

She let out a dissatisfied scoff and turned her head away.

"Don't you know that Eromanga Sensei too? And you like her work even more. Why don't you just ask that guy to draw illustrations for you?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha shook her head with genuine regret this time. "Unfortunately, my friend never told me Eromanga Sensei's identity. He actually just told me, 'I think Eriri Spencer Sawamura's ecchi drawings are more ecchi than Eromanga Sensei's.'"

"Oh right, do you know Eromanga Sensei? Since you're not willing to cooperate with me, you wouldn't mind giving me Eromanga Sensei's contact information, would you?"

Hearing this, Eriri Spencer Sawamura, who had been feeling a little smug, instantly exploded again.

"I don't know Eromanga Sensei! Go find her yourself!"

And that was the last thing Eriri Spencer Sawamura said to Kasumigaoka Utaha yesterday.

Even after school today, Eriri Spencer Sawamura still hadn't figured out who had leaked her identity online.

She had asked her parents. She had even, uncharacteristically, gone to Aki Tomoya herself to tell him about it.

In the end, Aki Tomoya wasn't the leaker either.

So, was she supposed to go ask that annoying woman for clarification again?

Eriri Spencer Sawamura instinctively resisted.

That woman seemed to have a way of suppressing her in every sense of the word.

She had originally planned to go to the art club, but now she didn't even feel like filling out the application. She should just hurry home and work on her manuscript.

As for that woman... she'd just wait until that woman approached her first.

With that thought in mind, Eriri Spencer Sawamura walked to her shoe locker.

When she opened it, she was taken aback.

Inside wasn't a love letter, but a manga?

Who put a manga in my shoe locker? It's not going to be something weird, is it?

Thinking about the things she drew, Eriri Spencer Sawamura subconsciously glanced around.

No one was paying attention to her.

Only then did she turn her gaze to the manga.

As soon as she could vaguely make out the title and the characters on the manga cover, who looked somewhat familiar, she felt a wave of "killing intent" emanating from behind her.

She even thought she heard a faint buzzing sound.

Before she could react, the next moment, a fair and flawless hand suddenly appeared before her eyes, pressing down firmly on the manga in her shoe locker.

She was startled by this action, instinctively leaning back, and then found herself embraced in a broad chest.

At that moment, Eriri Spencer Sawamura looked up, completing a bizarre eye-to-eye encounter with Kasumigaoka Utaha behind her.

Chapter Forty-Five: That Day, Eriri Spencer Sawamura Had a New Idea

Time seemed to stand still at that moment.

Feeling the warmth on the back of her head, Eriri Spencer Sawamura felt her own mind go blank.

It wasn't until she heard some whistling sounds from around her that she regained consciousness.

She quickly stood up from the embrace and turned to face Kasumigaoka Utaha directly.

However, Kasumigaoka Utaha's hand was still resting on the manga in her shoe locker. From an outsider's perspective, it looked more like Kasumigaoka Utaha was pinning her against the lockers.

"What are you doing?" Enduring the curious stares of passersby, Eriri Spencer Sawamura felt like she was going crazy.

Kasumigaoka Utaha also noticed the surrounding gazes, but her prestige at Toyonosaki Academy was no joke.

With a calm sweep of her eyes around the area, those who wanted to watch the commotion immediately dispersed.

Then, she quickly took out the manga and briefly scanned its cover.

An IF route manga starring her? It would be strange if the cover didn't feature her.

Quickly tucking the manga into her bag, Kasumigaoka Utaha looked back at Eriri Spencer Sawamura.

"Let's have a proper chat, Teacher Eriri Spencer Sawamura."

After struggling for about ten seconds, Eriri Spencer Sawamura finally responded: "...You can call me Sawamura-san or Eriri-san, whatever you prefer, but please don't call me Teacher Eriri Spencer Sawamura at school."

A few minutes later, in a coffee shop not far from the school.

While waiting for their drinks and snacks to arrive, Eriri Spencer Sawamura anxiously watched Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was sitting opposite her with a slightly ferocious expression on her face.

Kasumigaoka Utaha was replying to the guys in the group chat who were tagging and teasing her.

Quite a few of them were even planning to come to Toyonosaki Academy right now to find the mysterious person.

Kasumigaoka Utaha took a deep breath before putting down her phone and said to Eriri Spencer Sawamura opposite her, "I know you have a lot of questions right now, but I can explain everything clearly to you."

She organized her thoughts and decided to explain what that bastard mysterious person had done to Eriri Spencer Sawamura in a way that would be more easily accepted.

With the warning function of the diary, she didn't have to worry about the other party posing any danger to her.

"Didn't I tell you yesterday that I learned about you from a 'friend' I met online? He's the one who put this manga in your locker."

Kasumigaoka Utaha's tone was almost gritted teeth when she said the word "friend."

Remembering yesterday's events, Eriri Spencer Sawamura's face stiffened. Then, she got straight to the point of today's discussion: "What's inside that manga? If I'm not mistaken, the cover of the manga is you?"

"Your friend put your manga in my locker. What does he want?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha clasped her hands, resting her elbows on the table. "I only found out about this this afternoon. I don't know what's drawn in this manga either."

Seemingly noticing Eriri Spencer Sawamura's concerned expression, Kasumigaoka Utaha decided to drop a bombshell.

"A while ago, I coincidentally met a group of people online, and one of them was a... very mysterious and extremely malicious hacker."

"He casually mentioned your information during a chat. Yesterday, I wanted to verify if what he said was true when I met you."

The profession of hacker, to ordinary people, was basically a legend, and with the development of modern technology, it was constantly exaggerated and even deified.

As expected, upon hearing "hacker," Eriri Spencer Sawamura conjured an image in her mind of a super hacker who could do anything he pleased in the digital world.

Kasumigaoka Utaha continued, "Ahem, I might have been a little sarcastic towards him in my words before, so the malicious guy pulled this stunt on me."

"He probably found out that we're in the same school, so he might want you to use this manga to... cause trouble for me."

Hearing this, Eriri Spencer Sawamura found it a little hard to comprehend.

A super hacker... were they all this bored?

After being mocked online, he pulled off so many elaborate schemes?

And a manga could make her go find trouble with someone else?

Really? I don't believe it.

Eriri Spencer Sawamura didn't think she was that kind of person.

Kasumigaoka Utaha's answer was that she was.

"I'll check the contents of the manga first. If there are no problems, I can let you see some of it, but don't take what's inside seriously then."

Eriri Spencer Sawamura proudly flicked her ponytail, stating that she had been reading manga since she was little, and now she was drawing doujinshi herself.

After so many years, what kind of big scenes hadn't she seen?

Then, just by seeing the content on the second page of the manga, Eriri Spencer Sawamura immediately lost her composure and slammed her right hand heavily on the table.

What was this "This is how I met my goddess"?

No, why was Aki Tomoya in this manga?

How much did that hacker know about her situation, and how much did he want her to cause trouble for Kasumigaoka Utaha, to the point of creating such an outrageously absurd manga?

What was next? Wouldn't it be about the two of them living a sweet and loving life?

Then what about her?

Where was she?

Eriri Spencer Sawamura wanted to keep reading, trying to find any trace of herself in the manga.

But Kasumigaoka Utaha immediately took it back.

"You're already like this after just two pages. I'm worried you'll have a cerebral hemorrhage and collapse in the coffee shop if you read any further, so let's talk about it later," Kasumigaoka Utaha calmly took back the manga.

This thing had already caused quite a shock to her mental fortitude, let alone to Eriri Spencer Sawamura, the "underdog."

If Eriri Spencer Sawamura kept reading, it would truly trigger the warning.

Fortunately, she had emphasized earlier that all of this was the "conspiracy" of the mysterious person, but judging by Eriri Spencer Sawamura's appearance, she was still showing clear signs of getting hooked.

In short, there was only one thing left to say.

You really deserve to die, mysterious person!

After putting the manga away, Kasumigaoka Utaha patiently waited for Eriri Spencer Sawamura to calm down.

"It was my carelessness," Eriri Spencer Sawamura admitted in a low voice a few minutes later, her face still flushed red.

She admitted it. That mysterious hacker was indeed an extremely, exceptionally malicious guy, to think of using such a method to drive a wedge between them.

It was fortunate that Kasumigaoka Utaha reacted quickly enough to avoid the worst outcome...

Although, when she thought about it carefully, the current situation was also quite bad.

About ten minutes ago, many people saw her being "wall-slammed" by Kasumigaoka Utaha. She guessed that rumors would be flying around the school tomorrow.

How was she going to explain this to her parents?

Oh, her mother was a fujoshi, and her father was a yuri fan. They probably wouldn't care about this sort of thing.

As for Aki Tomoya...

Thinking about Aki Tomoya's reaction to Kasumigaoka Utaha in the manga, Eriri pouted and carefully examined Kasumigaoka Utaha's appearance.

She's really beautiful, more voluptuous than me, more mature than me.

If Aki Tomoya were to see Kasumigaoka Utaha, maybe something like what happened in the manga would really occur.

Eriri pondered for a moment and suddenly felt that things were fine as they were.

If this rumor spread around school, that guy probably wouldn't develop any strange ideas about Kasumigaoka Utaha!

Chapter 46: The Utterly Ordinary You Know Who

Kasumigaoka Utaha truly couldn't fathom Eriri's peculiar thought process.

Kasumigaoka Utaha's current idea was simple.

Since You Know Who liked to stir up trouble, she would develop Eriri into an outer member of the Diary Club and have her become an assistant.

She believed that Eriri must currently "despise" You Know Who quite a bit.

Furthermore, after finding out Eriri's identity yesterday, Kasumigaoka Utaha spent the night investigating Kashiwagi Eri's works.