"How do you think my little sister cosplay looks, Feather Teacher?"
"Oh, and not just the cosplay outfit, I also brought some treasured merchandise..."
Eriri Sawamura watched her mother pull out a pile of merchandise from who knows where to show Kuzeha, and she was completely dumbfounded.
She hadn't noticed that Sayuri Sawamura had brought all these things when they were in the car!
Sonoko Machida looked on from the side and said in amazement.
"Sayuri-chan really is a devoted fan. These merchandise items were released seven or eight years ago—buying them secondhand would cost quite a bit!"
"Not really, I managed to find some good deals..."
Hearing her mother directly admit this, black lines appeared on Eriri Sawamura's pale forehead.
What secondhand!
This woman had frantically bought a bunch of these items when they were first released and had been treasuring them for who knows how many years!
Eriri Sawamura was afraid that if she kept watching, she'd end up exposing Sayuri Sawamura's identity.
She cleared her throat and said.
"We should get to the main topic and discuss the character designs..."
With that, she reluctantly pulled Sayuri Sawamura away from Kuzeha's side.
"I won't disturb your discussion then. If you need anything, just call me—I'll be next door!"
Sonoko Machida glanced at Kuzeha, then left the conference room.
Eriri Sawamura then shot a dangerous look at Sayuri Sawamura.
"Mo... little sister, you should go out too!"
She said fiercely, then pushed the reluctant Sayuri Sawamura out of the conference room!
Bang! The door closed, and Eriri Sawamura finally felt some relief.
"If you want to play little sister, then don't blame your big sister for being harsh!"
She snorted softly and sat back down.
Then she took out a stack of drafts from her backpack.
"These are the sketches I refined last night..."
The first one was clearly the protagonist's character design.
It would have been fine not to take it out, but presenting it in front of Kuzeha like this—anyone who didn't know better would think it was a portrait sketch drawn from him!
Eriri Sawamura's expression immediately stiffened.
Looking up, she met Kuzeha's meaningful gaze.
Especially when Kuzeha took the drafts and carefully looked through them.
This made the girl so embarrassed that even her ears began to turn slightly red.
"Should I call you Eiri Kashiwagi-sensei, or Eriri Sawamura-san?"
Kuzeha's first words almost made Eriri Sawamura's scalp explode!
"Huh?"
She suddenly looked up, looking at Kuzeha with some disbelief.
"You, you know me?"
"The art club's ace artist, the school's popular beautiful girl—it wouldn't be strange to know you, right?"
Kuzeha shrugged.
Only then did Eriri Sawamura, whose thoughts had been disturbed by her mother's actions, realize that the Feather Teacher in front of her was a student from the same school!
This meant that her identity as a doujin artist was completely exposed to this young man.
It's over!
Everything is over!
Eriri Sawamura's face went pale, her eyes vacant!
As if seeing her own tragic future.
Kuzeha would use her doujin artist identity as blackmail to make her work for free, make her be a maid, make her work like a slave...
And finally, he'd covet her infinitely beautiful body!
"Eiri Kashiwagi-sensei, if you don't want your doujin artist identity to be known by the whole school..."
The classic line seemed to already be echoing in her ears.
As a doujin artist herself, scenes of being manipulated at will immediately floated through her mind.
Gentle arms pressing her against a firm chest, a handsome face intimately close to hers...
As the fantasies in her mind progressed, Eriri Sawamura suddenly realized—it actually seemed pretty good?
"Eiri Kashiwagi-sensei?"
Kuzeha's voice entered her ears.
The girl, whose face had somehow already flushed with a rosy tint, suddenly snapped back to reality.
She crossed her hands and tucked them between her tightly pressed thighs, turning slightly away from Kuzeha.
"I, I won't let you manipulate me!"
A flash of bewilderment crossed Kuzeha's eyes.
He hadn't said anything yet!
However, from the girl's expression, he could vaguely guess what Eriri Sawamura had been imagining in her mind just now.
He could only say that as expected of a doujin artist—once she put on colored glasses, everything she looked at had color.
But since Eriri Sawamura was already looking at him through colored glasses, wouldn't it be a waste if he didn't do something to make her fantasies worthwhile?
"So Eiri Kashiwagi-sensei isn't worried about her doujin artist identity being exposed?"
Kuzeha said calmly.
When these words reached Eriri Sawamura's ears, she was stunned again.
Wait!
How did her fantasy become reality?
Things were really proceeding according to the plot in her mind?
Looking at Kuzeha's deep gaze.
Thinking about how her carefully maintained school persona would be ruined if her identity was exposed, Eriri Sawamura's heart tightened.
In comparison, Kuzeha had already had extremely intimate contact with her before.
His appearance was completely in line with her aesthetic preferences—otherwise, how could she have drawn an identical protagonist design?
Office play scenes were already floating through Eriri Sawamura's mind as she turned her flushed face away and said softly.
"If, if you're gentle about it, it's... it's not impossible..."
Then she squeezed her eyes shut, even using too much force that her eyelashes trembled slightly.
She vaguely felt that the next moment, Kuzeha's hand would fall upon her body.
This appearance of waiting to be picked made Kuzeha feel like he was the prey being taken advantage of.
Kuzeha glanced up at the camera mounted high in the conference room and didn't make any moves.
"Then it depends on your performance at school from now on."
Hearing Kuzeha's voice, Eriri Sawamura's tense body suddenly relaxed.
In her heart, there was even some inexplicable disappointment.
"He prefers doing it at school?"
This thought flashed through Eriri Sawamura's mind.
At this moment, Kuzeha put down the character design drafts and said.
"Make some major changes to the protagonist's appearance. The other characters have no problems!"
"Oh... ah, that's all?"
After reflexively responding, Eriri Sawamura looked up at Kuzeha with some disbelief.
After all, this was her first time working as an illustrator, and for Feather Teacher's work no less—having high illustration requirements would be natural.
And having an offline meeting to discuss character designs, Eriri Sawamura had already prepared herself for all kinds of revisions.
"Eriri-san really lives up to being the art club's ace. Your skills are completely capable of handling my illustration work!"
Kuzeha praised.
This wasn't flattery—Eriri Sawamura's skills were indeed quite good!
Having drawn doujin for years, she was expert at expressing the alluring side of female characters!
For light novels, having sufficiently alluring illustrations was completely enough!
Kuzeha's unexpected praise made Eriri Sawamura slightly stunned.
Emotions of gratitude and joy intertwined in her heart.
This was recognition from Feather Teacher!
This simple sentence meant that as someone transitioning to illustration work for the first time, she would become famous in the industry!
At least in the light novel world, she wouldn't lack illustration work!
Eriri Sawamura looked up at Kuzeha, her beautiful eyes showing some special emotion.
In less than five minutes, Sonoko Machida saw Kuzeha and Eriri Sawamura emerge from inside.
She was immediately surprised.
"So fast?"
"There wasn't much that needed major changes, so naturally it didn't take much time."
Kuzeha explained.
"As long as Feather Teacher is satisfied!"
Sonoko Machida nodded.
Then she looked toward the break room and asked Kuzeha.
"Feather Teacher, there are several authors from the publishing house who want to meet you. Do you have time?"
"Oh, and Kani-sensei is also there..."
Hearing Sonoko Machida's words, the image of a cute silver-haired girl immediately floated through Kuzeha's mind.
"Nayuta is there too?"
"Then let's go take a look."
Come to think of it, it had been quite a while since he'd seen Nayuta Kani.
Speaking of which, he was also Nayuta Kani's senpai.
The two had first met in middle school.
Kuzeha had once encountered Nayuta Kani being bullied at school and had stood up for her.
Worth mentioning was that Nayuta Kani had dropped out due to school bullying, and she was blocked by those girls on her way out after dropping out.
For this situation, Kuzeha naturally made those bratty girls receive some "small" punishment.
After dropping out, Nayuta Kani spent every day hiding at home reading light novels.
At that time, the works of Feather Teacher, who had already become a well-known author, were naturally in her reading list.
And she quickly became a fan of Feather Teacher!
Later, by chance, Nayuta Kani learned that Kuzeha was Feather Teacher, and from then on it got out of hand!
She was determined to become Kuzeha's juice machine...
Kuzeha followed Sonoko Machida to a break room.
Through the frosted transparent glass, he could vaguely see shadowy figures inside.
"Just a few people?"
Kuzeha turned to look at Sonoko Machida.
This mature editor's face showed some embarrassment.
"After the news leaked, some other authors also came over..."
Sonoko Machida didn't know about the other authors, but Kuzeha's popularity was top-tier in both reader and author circles!
Fellow authors who were fans were definitely numerous!
It might be due to his writing style, but Sonoko Machida had noticed that Feather Teacher had an extremely high proportion of female fans!
Just Sonoko Machida herself knew several of Kuzeha's fanatic fans, all female authors...
"Feather Teacher, should I make other arrangements?"
Hearing Sonoko Machida's somewhat apologetic words, Kuzeha shook his head.
"Since we're here already."
Hearing this, Sonoko Machida opened the break room door.
With Sonoko Machida's appearance, the chattering voices in the break room immediately quieted!
At a glance, it was almost all beautiful women...
A group of women's somewhat heated gazes all fell on Sonoko Machida.
They all knew that Sonoko Machida was Feather Teacher's editor.
Then their gazes immediately fell on Kuzeha behind Sonoko Machida.
The upright and handsome young man made their eyes light up, but they mostly looked at Sonoko Machida with confusion.
"Where is Feather Teacher?"
Just as one female author's confused voice rang out, the silver-haired girl in the center let out an excited cry!
"Yu!"
Two quick steps.
Nayuta Kani rushed directly to Kuzeha and hugged his arm.
"Nayuta, long time no see!"
Kuzeha smiled and ruffled the girl's head.
"Don't touch my head, I'm not a child anymore!"
Nayuta Kani complained dissatisfiedly.
Judging from height and face alone, Nayuta Kani looked almost the same as in middle school.
Standing next to Eriri Sawamura, she would be at a clear disadvantage!
But the girl's changes weren't in her face and height!
She possessed peaks that Eriri Sawamura could probably never reach!
That's right!
Nayuta Kani was an exquisite girl with a loli face and mature curves!
Hearing this, Kuzeha shook his head with a smile.
In private, Nayuta Kani always called him senpai!
Now, she was calling him by name in front of so many women.
Her little scheming to become a juice machine was obvious!
That Nayuta Kani was familiar with Feather Teacher had already become an open secret.
The authors in the break room also knew that Nayuta Kani called Feather Teacher "Yu"!
At this moment, Nayuta Kani's address and actions undoubtedly directly confirmed Kuzeha's identity.
In the break room.
All the girls and mature women looking at Kuzeha fell into a daze.
In their broad understanding, Feather Teacher should be a mature and extremely charismatic middle-aged man.
Even if younger, he should have reached his thirties!
But racking their brains, they couldn't imagine.
"Feather Teacher is still a young man?"
At the same time.
The most shocked was undoubtedly Utaha Kasumigaoka sitting in the corner!
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