For a moment, time seemed to stand still.
Feeling the warmth at the back of her head, Eriri felt her own mind go blank as well.
It wasn't until a chorus of whispers came from the surroundings that she finally regained consciousness.
She hurriedly stood up from the other's embrace, then turned her head to face her directly.
It was just that the other's hand was still pressed on the manga in her shoe locker. From an outsider's perspective, it looked more like she had been kabe-don'd by Kasumigaoka Utaha.
"What are you trying to do," Eriri felt like she was going crazy, enduring the gossiping gazes of the onlookers.
Kasumigaoka Utaha also noticed the gazes from the surroundings, but her prestige at Toyogasaki Academy was no joke.
She swept a calm gaze around, and the onlookers who wanted to watch the fun immediately scattered.
Then she quickly took out the manga and quickly glanced at the cover.
It's an IF route manga with me as the protagonist. It would be strange if I wasn't on the cover.
Quickly stuffing the manga into her own bag, Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at Eriri again.
"Let's have another good chat, Eri-sensei."
After struggling for about ten seconds, Eriri finally responded, "...It's fine if you want to call me Sawamura-san or Eriri-san, but could you please not call me Eri-sensei at school?"
A few minutes later, in a coffee shop not far from the school.
While waiting for their drinks and dessert to be served, Eriri looked anxiously at Kasumigaoka Utaha, who was sitting opposite her with a slightly ferocious expression on her face.
At this moment, Kasumigaoka Utaha was replying to the people in the group chat who were @'ing her and making a fuss.
There were even quite a few people who were planning to come to Toyogasaki Academy right now to look for the mysterious person's tracks.
Kasumigaoka Utaha took a deep breath, then finally put down her phone and said to Eriri opposite her, "I know you have a lot of questions right now, but I can explain it clearly to you."
She organized her thoughts and decided to explain what that bastard mysterious person had done to Eriri in a more easily acceptable way.
With the diary's warning function, she didn't have to worry about the other person bringing her any danger.
"Didn't I tell you yesterday? I learned about you from a 'friend' I met online. This manga was also placed in your shoe locker by him."
When Kasumigaoka Utaha said the word "friend," her tone was almost one of gritted teeth.
And thinking of yesterday's events, Eriri's face also stiffened, and only then did she get straight to today's point. "What's in that manga? If I saw correctly, the cover of the manga was you, right?"
"Your friend stuffed your manga into my shoe locker. What is he trying to do?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha crossed her hands, her elbows propped on the table. "I only found out about this this afternoon. I don't know what's drawn in this manga either."
Seemingly noticing the concerned look on Eriri's face, Kasumigaoka Utaha decided to drop a bombshell.
"I happened to meet a group of people online before. And among them, there's one person who is a... very mysterious, and has an extremely, particularly malicious personality, a network hacker."
"The information about you was just casually mentioned by him during a chat. I came to find you yesterday just to verify if what he said was true or false."
The profession of a hacker was basically a legend to ordinary people, and with the development of modern technology, it was an existence that was constantly being exaggerated and even deified.
Sure enough, after hearing the word "hacker," Eriri immediately imagined a super hacker in her head who could do whatever he wanted in the online world.
And Kasumigaoka Utaha continued, "Ahem, I might have been a little bit passive-aggressive towards him in my words before, so that malicious guy pulled this trick on me."
"He probably just found out that the two of us are at the same school, so he might have wanted you to use this manga to... find trouble with me."
Hearing this, Eriri was a little unable to understand.
A super hacker... is he really that bored?
Just because someone was a little passive-aggressive online, he pulled so many slick moves?
And, a single manga could make her go and find trouble with someone else?
Really? I don't believe it.
Eriri didn't think she was that kind of person.
And the answer Kasumigaoka Utaha gave was yes.
"Let me confirm the content of the manga first. If there's no problem, I can let you see a little. But at that time, don't take the things on it seriously."
Eriri tsunderely flicked her twin-tails, indicating that she had been watching manga since she was a child, and now she was even drawing her own doujinshi.
After so many years, what kind of big scenes had she not seen?
And then, just by seeing the content of the second page of this manga, Eriri immediately lost her composure and slammed her right hand heavily on the table.
What does he mean by "This is how I met my goddess"?
No, wait, why is that guy Aki Tomoya appearing in this manga?
Just how much does that hacker know about the situation around her, and how much does he want her to find trouble with Kasumigaoka Utaha, to have made up such an absurd manga?
What's next? It's not going to be the two of them living a sweet, sweet love life, is it?
Then what about her?
Where is she?
Eriri still wanted to continue reading, trying to find her own tracks in this manga.
But the manga was taken back directly by Kasumigaoka Utaha.
"You're like this after just looking at two pages. I'm worried you'll have a brain hemorrhage and collapse in the coffee shop if you continue to look. Let's talk about it later," Kasumigaoka Utaha said, putting the manga away with a calm tone.
This thing had dealt a considerable blow to even her own composure, let alone to a loser heroine like Eriri.
If she let Eriri continue to look, it would really trigger a warning.
It was a good thing she had emphasized before that all of this was the "conspiracy" of the mysterious person, but looking at Eriri's appearance, she still showed a clear trend of getting carried away.
In any case, there was only one sentence left.
You really deserve to die, mysterious person!
After putting the manga away, Kasumigaoka Utaha patiently waited for Eriri's mood to calm down.
"I was careless," a few minutes later, Eriri, her face still bright red, admitted her own problem in a low voice.
She admitted it. That mysterious hacker was indeed an extremely, particularly malicious guy to be able to think of this method to drive a wedge between them.
Fortunately, Kasumigaoka Utaha had reacted fast enough to avoid the worst outcome...
Although thinking about it carefully, the current situation seemed to be very bad as well.
About ten minutes ago, the matter of her being "kabe-don'd" by Kasumigaoka Utaha was seen by many people. The rumors in the school tomorrow would probably be flying everywhere.
At that time, how was she going to explain this to her parents?
Oh, her mother was a fujoshi, and her father was a yuri moe-pig. They probably wouldn't care about this kind of thing.
As for that guy, Aki Tomoya...
Thinking of Aki Tomoya's reaction upon seeing Kasumigaoka Utaha in the manga, Eriri couldn't help but pout and carefully size up her appearance.
She really is very beautiful. Fuller than me, more mature than me.
If that guy Aki Tomoya were to meet Kasumigaoka Utaha, something like what happened in the manga might really happen.
Eriri thought for a moment and suddenly felt that the current situation was also quite good.
With this kind of rumor spreading in the school, that guy probably wouldn't have any strange thoughts about this woman, Kasumigaoka Utaha, right!