If the diary entries of the past few days were something Kasumigaoka Utaha could face with the mood of reading gossip, and even secretly delight in a little—
"Thankfully, my story doesn't start until next year. Before that, the mysterious person probably won't take the initiative to write about me."
However, today, when Kasumigaoka Utaha opened the diary, she felt something was wrong with just a brief glance.
Today's diary entry was quite long, but why did the layout and format look like a light novel?
Most importantly, with just a casual glance, she saw her own name, "Kasumigaoka Utaha".
Her gaze moved slightly upward.
And then she saw a line of text describing her personality and appearance.
"Her expression remained calm throughout the journey, but she was unrestrained with her words, with a considerably sharp tongue.
She has extremely glossy black hair. Although the expression on her face has hardly changed, from an objective point of view, she is indeed an out-and-out beauty.
A senpai who is one year older than me and Eriri, Kasumigaoka Utaha."
In an instant, Kasumigaoka Utaha's scalp tingled. She couldn't help but shiver and almost flung the diary out of her hand.
She hurriedly started reading from the beginning, then continuously stomped her feet, an unpleasant look on her face.
The light novel that the mysterious person had written in the diary today seemed to be the prologue.
Four characters appeared in it.
Besides herself, the other three characters were the blonde, half-Japanese, half-British girl who was good at drawing and had won awards, Sawamura Spencer Eriri;
The male protagonist who was an otaku and the founder of a doujin pretty-girl game production circle, Aki Tomoya;
And Katō Megumi, who appeared at the end of the prologue, with an indistinct personality and not much of a presence, but who, for some reason, was chosen by the male protagonist to be the heroine of his game.
After finishing today's diary, Kasumigaoka Utaha's first reaction was that she should have tweeted yesterday.
In yesterday's diary, the mysterious person had specifically said that if any "light novelists" wanted to adapt the stories he had mentioned, they could tweet "I want to be Miss Makima's dog," and the mysterious person would randomly DM them to provide a detailed outline.
Kasumigaoka Utaha was indeed very interested in those stories, especially the story of Suzumiya Haruhi and that campus mystery story, both of which made her hands itch.
If the mysterious person had really contacted her, she could have also tactfully asked about her own future story.
But in the end, she suppressed her feelings.
After all, for a girl to post that kind of tweet was somewhat shameful. And since she couldn't see anyone else online posting this tweet, she didn't want to be the one to stick her neck out.
Who could have thought that today, that mysterious person, on the grounds of being bored because no one interacted with him and not wanting to use his brain, would directly copy her story out.
And what was the name of this story? Passerby Heroine.
In other words, she, Kasumigaoka Utaha, was not even the main heroine of the story, but just a stepping stone in the story to serve as a foil for that Katō Megumi who had no presence?
She, the number one student in her grade at Toyogasaki Academy, the unattainable flower in the eyes of all her classmates, the genius young girl Kasumigaoka Utaha whose light novel was about to be officially published, would be fighting with two other girls over a man next year, and in the end, she wouldn't even win?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
"I don't know myself to be a sharp-tongued woman. This must be an error in the diary's refresh."
Kasumigaoka Utaha closed the diary, then opened it again. The text inside had not changed at all.
Alright, it seems this really is her original story.
A story about three women gathering together because of an otaku's sudden whim to make a game.
She read this prologue again, carefully.
Kasumigaoka Utaha was beginning to hate this diary that couldn't be torn no matter how she tried.
Thinking that at this very moment, who knows how many people all over Japan were watching her future story, Kasumigaoka Utaha couldn't help but start to ravage the diary in her hands.
From a certain perspective, the indestructible diary could also be considered a stress-relief toy.
After finally managing to calm down, just as Kasumigaoka Utaha was preparing to go online to search for these names she had never heard of, she was surprised to find that a few more lines of text had been updated in the diary.
[What do you mean by this, diary? Bro worked his ass off copying a book for half a day, and when it's done, you just give me a manga of the Senpai IF route?
Although the Senpai IF route manga only lets senpai succeed by completely cutting out the roles of Katō Megumi and Eriri, at least it was a completed series in my past life.
If you're so capable, why don't you get me the sequel to the Eriri IF route manga, the one where she was a loser heroine in the main story and whose side-story IF route was canceled because of poor sales?
Oh, there's no such thing in the diary's prize pool. Then never mind, everyone disperse. If you're watching, Eriri, you should go to bed too. If you can't fix that tsundere habit of yours, you'll just be hugging your little eromanga and drowning for the rest of your life.
Also, one more thing, not trying to start a flame war, going anonymous. To be honest, the lewd pictures Eriri draws are indeed a bit lewder than what Eromanga Sensei draws.]
Kasumigaoka Utaha quickly finished reading these few short lines of text.
After reading them, she looked like she wanted to laugh, but she couldn't.
What did he mean by "she can only succeed by completely cutting out the roles of Katō Megumi and Eriri"?
It would have been better if this so-called IF route manga hadn't come out at all. Doesn't this completely mean that she, Kasumigaoka Utaha, was scared of that Katō Megumi?
On the other hand, the description of that Eriri girl seemed to have a strange sense of heartache to it.
A loser heroine in the main story, her side story canceled. Unfindable in the diary. This was truly the loser of losers.
She suggested that this Miss Eriri be granted the title of Loser Heroine Sage.
Through that prologue and this supplementary explanation, Kasumigaoka Utaha could see that in her original story, because of this "Aki Tomoya," she and that Eriri had a relationship of mutual dislike.
But now she didn't know the other person, so naturally, she wouldn't be prejudiced against someone just because of some text.
She even felt a little desire to meet the other person, to see if she really had such a strong loser heroine aura about her.
As for that Aki Tomoya...
She was actually very busy right now.
Her light novel was about to be published, and the subsequent outline had to be kept up. The daily diary session was even more unmissable.
And then she had to practice Hamon. Her talent in this area didn't seem to be very good. She had spent four Reading Points and was still some distance away from being able to guide the ripple energy.
In addition to that, she also had to pay a little attention to her schoolwork. She still had no intention of giving up her number one rank in the grade to anyone else.
She couldn't manage her time, and she really had no thoughts of fighting with people over a man.
Fighting over a man?
I'd rather spend a little more time practicing Hamon. This thing can keep me young and beautiful even when I'm 50. Can those men do that?
Anyway, that Aki Tomoya ends up with Katō Megumi in the end. Then it's better for her, this supporting character who can only score a fluke win in an IF route, not to have any contact with him from the beginning.