Kaguya: "The list of the others is still under investigation, but the Shiina Mashiro You Know Who mentioned tonight is indeed famous overseas. I've uploaded her information to the group, so everyone can take a look."
As the girls in the group gathered to look, a wave of astonishment soon erupted in the chat group.
Bocchi: "S-so amazing... She was already qualified to hold a solo exhibition in middle school?"
Classic Club Girl: "She even shook hands with the British Prime Minister and took a photo with him. She's known as the brightest pearl among future painters."
The group was basically marveling at Shiina Mashiro's extraordinarily dazzling life résumé, even though she was also only a first-year high school student this year. A few people even said they had seen her name in some news reports before today.
Black Cat: "So this world-class painter doesn't plan to stay in the art world? She wants to return to Japan to draw manga, and even plans to turn Kashiko Kasumi's story directly into a manga?"
Kashiko Kasumi: "...That should be right. She already got permission from Kato Megumi and me."
Looking at the information on Shiina Mashiro before her, Kasumigaoka Utaha was the least calm of them all.
At first, she had not taken Shiina Mahiru's claim that Shiina Mashiro was very skilled at painting too seriously. After all, how good could a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old girl really be?
At most, she had assumed Mashiro was on Eriri's level, or perhaps that Eromanga Sensei Miyauchi Hiyage had mentioned in the diary.
Who could have known she was a world-class painter?!
Kasumigaoka Utaha carefully read through Mashiro's profile.
With Mashiro's skill, becoming her oil painting model might genuinely offer someone the chance to leave their name in history.
So why would a painter