The Me Who Became a Spirit in Date A Live Refuses to Go on Dates

"Could you change the character description? She doesn't have to be the Strongest Spirit."

Zhongsheng: "Honestly, I want to! But I've already called Lingmeng the Strongest Spirit several times in the story. It's too late to change it now.

"Lingmeng's abilities really are absurdly overpowered. I've said before that I only started writing this book because I was bored out of my mind during the pandemic, so I came up with her name and abilities on a whim.

"To this day, I still don't know what Lingmeng's personality is supposed to be.

"If the Date A Live setting weren't so small, with its strongest fighters only operating at a planetary-surface level, Lingmeng's normal power would far surpass planet-busting!

"That's why I have to keep coming up with reasons to hold her back, which makes her look kind of clueless.

"It makes her supposed genius-level IQ of 250 seem more like she's just a complete idiot...

"Sure, other fanfic protagonists are incredibly strong in Date A Live too. Some can interfere with Realizers; others have the ultimate defense.

"But even among protagonists, Lingmeng is in a class of her own. Pretty much any ability another protagonist or canon Spirit has, she has at least a little of it too...

"Other writers can make fights go back and forth. But if I seriously tried to write one, I can't think of anything beyond having Lingmeng instantly beat her opponent.

"So every time a fight comes up, it gives me a headache."

Lingmeng: "So you cobbled my whole character together on the spur of the moment? And you claim you care about me.

"If writing fights gives you such a headache, you shouldn't have made me so powerful in the first place!"

Zhongsheng: "But don't you think controlling every element, plus time, space,