Will the plagiarism girl be a substitute for the preference for women?

You could actually say, "Sorry, I've been too busy these past few days. Please allow me a few days to finish the report."

Chika thought this to herself, but depression didn't want her to do it; instead, she wanted Chika to try her luck this time.

Can this really be fooled? This kind of AI report...

Looking at the light that seemed to say, "I'll spend the whole study period studying Chizuru's report," Chizuru felt a little apprehensive and uneasy.

However, in her depressed state, a "give up" mentality took over China's actions.

It's a bit like rushing to put together a PowerPoint presentation that doesn't meet your expectations before the annual meeting, but still submitting it anyway.

"I feel like it's all over."

During self-study, China leaned to one side, staring at the ceiling with her hands hanging down to the ground, her eyes vacant.

She thought to herself, "The lamp's affection for me has just increased so much, it's all over now..."

Then, Aiyin sent a message.

It must have been relayed by someone else.

China was a little afraid to look, so she covered her eyes with her hands when she opened the chat page, and slowly looked at the conversation through the gaps between her fingers.

Chapter 20 Rescue

"what?"

China removed her hand from her eyes and looked again to make sure.

She was not mistaken.

China felt a sense of disbelief. How could something written by an AI, a being without independent thought, be praised by Akari?

It's because she's too biased towards being a fan of Deng; she approves of everything I write...

Just now, while staring blankly at the ceiling, she imagined that the light could tell that she had written the article with AI, while she had written it with painstaking effort. She felt disheartened, disappointed, and extremely sad.

All of this was because she still suffered from depression despite taking medication, and suddenly adopted a perfunctory and indifferent attitude towards everything in the world, not even bothering to think about the consequences of not being able to escape.

If such misfortune were to actually occur, China might take antidepressants herself, even at the risk of worsening her mania, she would rather remain immersed in mania, carefree and without a care in the world.

However, the misfortune that China had imagined was highly probable did not happen.

This made China chuckle and mutter, "No, I can't laugh, hahaha... I can't."

China covered her mouth, leaned against the wall, and buried her head so low that her chin was pressed against her chest.

"He even had a manic episode, hahaha..."

You absolutely cannot laugh at something as despicable as successfully deceiving others while being perfunctory. You can't do that!

The person in the seat in front of her suddenly turned around and said sharply, "If you don't want to study, please don't disturb others."

Xiangzi actually wanted to take back his words and say something like, "If you don't study hard now, you'll regret it later." But then he thought about why he cared so much about her, so he didn't say anything.

"Ah...I'm sorry."

China took the Bluetooth earbuds out of the charging case and carefully cleaned them, even though she had cleaned them thoroughly before putting them back in the case last time.

Then, I turned on the noise cancellation mode.

They were put on Xiangzi's ears.

For a moment, Xiangzi had an urge to smash the headphones on the ground, but when she took out another pair and saw that they were Apple noise-canceling headphones, and remembered their price, she stopped herself.

She slowly removed the other earphone, intending to maintain her composure and return it to China.

But just then, deafening renovation noises started coming from the building next door.

She put the headphones back on.

"Thank you."

Xiangzi vaguely heard a reply that said "You're welcome".

Afterwards, China turned on ambient white noise on her phone connected to the headphones, selecting the sound of a river. Everyone said this helped her focus on studying and working.

"..."

This somewhat strange thoughtfulness left Xiangzi speechless.

"Please turn the volume down one notch, thank you."

She could only comply with this thoughtfulness.

China then silenced the message notifications and continued chatting.

"I didn't expect to be praised by Deng. I'm only interested in astronomy, and I've never been very confident in my writing. I wonder what aspects of my writing Deng likes?"

Aine didn't relay the message further, but instead said, "China, I'll just recommend Akari's LINE account to you directly."

China realized that the other person might be focusing on studying, so she replied "Okay" and added the lamp's account.

On one hand, Aine really wanted to study hard, after all, she was the student council president in junior high school, and if she wanted to run for president again in high school, her grades couldn't fall behind.

On the other hand... instead of adding each other on Line first, Aine became the messenger when the two friends reunited.

……

She didn't chat with Deng for long because Deng said he wanted to talk during the break.

Although I seemed to be casually slacking off in class, I was still a little worried that Deng might have made thorough footnotes and analyses of those AI articles as a surprise and a token of his sincerity to himself, a new member of the astronomy club.

"Xiaodeng, are you going to the cafeteria for lunch?"

As class was about to end, China asked Akari a question on LINE.

"Hmm, is Chizuru going to the cafeteria too?"

There were no ellipses between the lamp's reply statements.

This is normal. Except for people who use exclamation marks as commas, who are excited and like to persuade others, most people speak at different speeds and use the same punctuation marks.

But the absence of ellipses always made China feel a bit out of place.

"Yes, it's my first day at school. I really want to try the food at Haneoka Cafeteria. I heard the menu is unique. I bet Aine wants to try it too, right?" China asked again.

“She said she had already brought a boxed lunch,” Deng replied.

"That's it."

When the bell rang, Xiangzi quickly took off his earphones and gently placed them on the charging case on Qiannai's desk. He then walked briskly towards the cafeteria with a steady yet elegant gait.

"So eager to eat?!"

Chika, surprised, quickly stood up as well.

"What if some dishes are so popular that they get eaten up by the first few people?"

With that in mind, she immediately ran towards Class A.

"Little light!"

"Hmm..." Upon being called that, Deng immediately put down the article in his hand and ran out of the classroom.

Goodbye, little Aiyin.

After China greeted her, Akari suddenly realized that she had forgotten to say goodbye to Aine; she seemed to be a bit one-dimensional in her approach to things.

"Goodbye..." said the lantern before leaving with China.

"Goodbye."

Ai waved with a smile, glancing at the lamp on the table.

China's writing remained clean and neat, without any notes taken by Lamp.

It seems that Tatsumi was afraid that she would make too many corrections while doing the analysis, which would not look very neat, so she did not ask China if she could take notes on it, and just left it as is.

Aiyin stepped forward and glanced at it briefly.

"..."

"...

"!"

The more Ai Yin read, the more she felt a strange sense of familiarity.

"Am I being paranoid...?"

At this moment, several classmates who had just met Ai Yin also gathered around.

They were inevitably curious about how the class mascot was so happy because of the article sent by the new transfer student from next door.

So naturally, I'm very curious about the content of the article.

But before her classmates could even suggest that they take a look at the articles, Ai-yin exclaimed, "Oh no, I forgot to bring the lamp!" and hurriedly grabbed the articles and ran downstairs.

These articles must not be seen by anyone else in the class!

Ai Yin thought to herself, and at the same time dialed the number on her phone.

"Hey Deng, stop for a second, you forgot something!"

“Hmm… um…” the lamp responded.

Aine shouted so loudly that China heard it directly through Akari's phone.

"Is there anything I need to bring to the cafeteria...?"

China was puzzled, and at the same time a little worried that the popular dishes would be sold out, but she was also a little reluctant to leave the lamp and go to the cafeteria alone.

After a while, Aine arrived, stopped, panting, one hand on her knee, and the other handing China's article to Akari.

"Ah! Thank you..." Deng bowed after taking the article.

"I'm going back now!" Ai Yin quickly ran back.

As for Akari, although she was also eager to talk to China about these articles, she didn't think she had to bring them up in the conversation.

However, it's good to have the original source material instead of relying on memory when discussing articles over a meal.

As for China... she felt she could have a lot to talk about with Aine.

Chapter 21 So, make your choice.

There must be a reason why Aiyin suddenly sent these articles over.

However, I won't speculate on the reason for now; I can ask Aine for details later.

She still needs to figure out why the lamp likes these articles.

As for whether the lamp was hiding something, knowing that the article was written by AI, but pretending to like it, China thinks the possibility is very low.

Because she felt that Deng was someone who wore her heart on her sleeve and wasn't good at hiding her emotions.

"Little Lamp, I was actually quite surprised to find out that you like my articles."

"...But, Chizuru's writing is really good." On the way to the cafeteria, Akari held the article to her chest the whole time.

"Is that so? But... I think I already told Xiaodeng that these articles are prepared in case the teacher doesn't verify their authenticity, and are just in case we're too busy to submit reports."

"It's really unrealistic to go to so many observation sites and do activities in just two or three days."

"Therefore... the observation time, observation location, observation phenomena, and insights mentioned in the report are all fabricated."

"The lamp should know that, right?"

"Hmm." Deng nodded gently, looking quite clear-headed.

"Did you spend time over the weekend carefully observing and recording this report?" China asked again.

"Ah."

Deng smiled, holding the article in her hands in front of her lower abdomen. She kept her head down, seemingly suppressing the sense of accomplishment she felt from her serious dedication, but it still subtly showed itself.

China continued from where she left off:

"So, after seeing Deng's serious and honest report, I was really surprised and delighted that he even praised my fictional activity reports."

The lamp did not have the thought that "because I showed too much effort, the other party felt a lot of pressure because they did not respond with equal effort."

Only when I encounter like-minded people will I emerge from my closed-off state and fully express my love for my interests.

Even if it's a fictional report, I'll express everything I like about it.

"The report written by Chika is well-structured and clear, and while maintaining the report's rigor, it is also humorous..."