What does it have to do with me if they hate vests?

The originally dreamy filter was shattered in an instant. The blonde girl in front of her was still sweet and lovely, but compared to the princess, Kasumigaoka Utaha felt that this girl seemed more like a golden Chihuahua.

She thought of another girl with blonde twin tails, who looked like a young lady but was often out of touch, and she couldn't help but come to this conclusion.

Are all you golden retrievers stupid?

Chapter 22: Explosion

"That's a pretty standard villain statement." Si Ji applauded.

"You're so long-winded! At a time like this, momentum is the most important thing!" Yamada Fairy put his hands on his hips, very dissatisfied with Shiki's weird attitude, but then he asked in a low voice with great curiosity: "By the way, how did you guess that Kasumi Shiko would come?"

"Just like I said before, because the editor's attitude was weird."

Shiki glanced at Kasumigaoka Utaha who was looking at them with strange eyes, and then started biting the ear of the Yamada fairy in a very open and aboveboard manner.

"At first I guessed that Kasumi Shiko didn't like you very much, so the editor rejected you so harshly for the sake of her own author. But after thinking about it carefully, it's still too strange. That attitude is just like deliberately driving you away. It's obvious that she doesn't want you to see something. If you take into account the previous point that 'Kasumi Shiko hates you', then she probably did this because she didn't want you to have friction with the upcoming meeting with Kasumi Shiko. This logic makes sense."

After all, if a quarrel really breaks out, whether it is that the big-name author Yamada Yaojing is criticized on the road and looks for an opportunity to retaliate in the future, or her subordinate Kasumi Shiko is wronged, it will not be a good thing for Machida Sonoko. In the end, she, the employee, will definitely be the one who suffers. That's why she would decide to drive away Yamada Yaojing, an outsider, even if she offended her slightly, to prevent the situation from getting worse.

"I see... No, this means the other party might hate me?" Yamada Fairy finally came to his senses.

"Yes."

"Don't make such an annoying guess with such a cheerful face!"

Looking at the two people who stopped her and then whispered to each other inexplicably, Kasumigaoka Utaha finally couldn't hold back anymore.

"So who are you? What do you want from me?" She (168cm) looked down at Yamada Fairy (154cm) from above, flicking her long straight black hair, her scarlet eyes full of impatience: "If there is no special reason, then I can only treat you as stalkers and call the police."

"Now that things have come to this, how about we just make up an identity to fool people..." Si Ji tried to act roundabout.

But after hesitating for a moment, the blonde girl crossed her arms over her chest, looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha with a proud expression and said, "I am a novelist, Yamada Fairy!"

The two people's gazes intersected in the air as if they were real. The heavy atmosphere made the air stagnant. If this were an animation, sparks might have already started crackling in the air.

After a while, Kasumigaoka Utaha spoke in a deep voice with a serious expression.

"……who?"

The Yamada fairy staggered and almost fell to the ground.

"It's Fairy Yamada, Fairy Yamada, the book 'The Exploding Dark Fairy' which has been on the bestseller list for many years is my masterpiece!" The blonde girl took a deep breath and tried to hold herself together, then she stroked her chest proudly and said.

"Oh, that book."

Kasumigaoka Utaha glanced at her meaningfully and said, "I'm sorry, I'm not interested. If you have nothing else to do, please get out of the way. I have work to do at the Fuzugawa Library."

“What! That arrogant attitude!” Yamada the Fairy shouted angrily at Kasumigaoka Utaha who was about to leave: “I’m a senior who has sold 220 million copies. I’m much better than you!”

"Is it a great thing to sell a lot?" Kasumigaoka Utaha stopped.

"Sorry, selling a lot is great~" Yamada Fairy replied as a matter of course: "Sales volume is the standard to measure the power of light novel writers! Light novel writers with low sales should unconditionally obey the strong ones with high sales!"

"Hey, you're exaggerating." Shiki pulled Yamada Fairy's collar and said, "If you say something like this, you'll be killed by someone else."

It is true that sales are one of the criteria for measuring whether a book is good, but it is a bit too much to only focus on sales. Just like the masterpiece wall in animation, many excellent animations that cannot cross that chasm are really worse than the masterpiece wall? That is obviously wrong.

Moreover, such tough words can easily lead to resentment and counterattacks from others.

"Unfortunately, I never thought that toilet paper, which sells well by relying on illustrations and skirting the line in content, would be more noble than my novels."

As expected, Kasumigaoka Utaha's expression suddenly turned cold.

"Whose novel did you say is toilet paper!" Yamada the Fairy, whose sore spot was touched, suddenly stood up like a cat.

"I didn't name any names. The fact that they had a reaction just shows that some people have this level of self-awareness in their hearts." Kasumigaoka Utaha showed an indifferent and sarcastic smile.

"You're just a guy whose total sales volume is not even a quarter of mine, and you dare to say such things!"

The angry Yamada fairy suddenly jumped up, but Shiki, who was well prepared, grabbed her by the back of the collar and lifted her up. No matter how the girl struggled with her arms and legs, it was useless.

Then the mocking smile on Kasumigaoka Utaha's face became even more unscrupulous.

This made Yamada the Fairy extremely angry: "Let me go, who are you in league with?"

"Of course I am on the side of love and justice." Shiki answered seriously.

"you you you……"

Because of her excitement and excessive movements, the Yamada Fairy even started spinning in Shiki's hands, which made her look even more ridiculous and made her feel embarrassed and angry.

But in addition to this, she was more disappointed with Washimiya Shiki - she had always thought that Shiki was on her side, and thought that she finally had a friend, but in the end, not only did he not help her, but he also controlled her.

Why? Is Kasumi Shiko as pretty as me?

The Yamada Fairy took a closer look at Kasumi Shiko's appearance, and suddenly felt uncomfortable: even if her own subjective opinions were mixed in, the other party was undoubtedly a beautiful girl, and in some ways she was indeed better developed than herself...

Is it because of those places that the landlord was captured?

This kind of sorrow and bitterness, as if being betrayed, made Yamada Yousei feel mixed emotions.

For a moment, countless messages from readers who unscrupulously vented malice towards her flashed through her mind.

"How stupid! What on earth was I expecting..."

"Although my fairy lady is indeed a little wrong, but teacher Kasumi Shiko, your words are a bit too extreme."

Suddenly, Shiki's voice reached the girl's ears again. She looked up blankly at Washimiya Shiki, who was negotiating calmly with Kasumigaoka Utaha, and found that there was no sign of hormones on the other's face, just like when they first met in the courtyard yesterday.

Serene and calm.

"Light novels are not serious literature. Their essence is to give readers interesting stories, rather than using stories as a vehicle to promote certain core ideas. Even if your writing style is much better than that of my Fairy Lady, the essence has not changed. You are still just showing the stories that you find interesting in your heart and want to show to others. In a sense, Fairy Lady's novels can make more people feel interesting, right?"

"That's just your point of view." Kasumigaoka Utaha disagreed.

"Well, I can probably understand that Miss Kasumi Shiko is a rather stubborn type. You have already set up a moral high ground for yourself. No matter what we say, you will condescendingly veto our words and arrogantly close your ears and shut your ears."

"Oh?" There was an ambiguous emotion in Kasumigaoka Utaha's wine-red eyes, as if she was somewhat dissatisfied with Shiki's accusations.

Si Ji didn't care about her condescending look at all, and just said calmly: "How about we make a bet?"

Chapter 23 Gambling

"Although it may not sound nice to say this, why would I want to bet with a man I've only met once and don't even know his name?"

The corners of Kasumigaoka Utaha's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a hint of mockery.

"Of course I'm not the one you're betting with. It's not equal when it comes to writing. It's bullying." Washimiya Shiki said with a harmless smile, "What I mean is, let Teacher Kasumi Shiko make a bet with the fairy, and the winner can make the loser do something or something."

"Eh?" The Yamada fairy, who was still being carried like a kitten, made a surprised sound.

Kasumigaoka Utaha pursed her red lips without commenting.

Of course, she didn't know that what Shiki meant by 'inequality' was that he was much stronger than her. She just subconsciously thought that the other party was very self-aware and just mistakenly trusted the Yamada fairy.

"A new issue of Fairy-sensei's light novel is released every two months. Last month was a bye, so this month will definitely have the latest issue of "The Exploding Dark Fairy". And Kasumi Shiko-sensei must have come to the Fuzugawa Bunko for the new issue, right?" Seeing that Kasumigaoka Shiko didn't refuse immediately, Shiki went on to explain the content: "In that case, let's compare the sales of your latest issue this month?"

"Oh, are you serious?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha showed a playful expression.

The Yamada Fairy said anxiously: "Stupid, this bet is not in our favor!"

That’s right, although the sales of Yamada Youki’s works are far higher than those of Kasumigaoka Utaha’s “Love Metronome”, that is the total sales of twenty volumes of the novel combined. On average, the average sales per volume is actually similar to that of Kasumigaoka Utaha’s novels.

But the problem is that Yamada Fairy's works show a typical right-shoulder trend, that is, the sales of the first few volumes are much higher than those of the later volumes. So in fact, if we only talk about the sales of each volume, Yamada Fairy can no longer sell more than Kasumigaoka Utaha.

What's more, Kasumigaoka Utaha's novel is coming to an end. Her work is not a long novel of more than ten volumes. As the plot moves towards the climax, readers' stickiness will be stronger than before. The number of initial sales in the month of release can account for about 80% of the total sales of that volume. However, for Yamada Fairy's isekai adventure harem light novels, which are similar in every volume, this proportion is only about 50%.

So if we really use this condition to bet, the winner will definitely be Kasumigaoka Utaha, there is almost no suspense.

The Yamada fairy explained the key points and the four seasons in a low voice with a hint of shame.

After she finished speaking, Kasumigaoka Utaha said with certainty: "She is right. Do you really want to make such a bet with me that you have no chance of winning?"

"Of course I have to fight!" Si Ji answered without hesitation, "It doesn't matter if I lose and even my self-esteem is cruelly taken away!"

It was the first time that Kasumigaoka Utaha looked at the gloomy and introverted boy in front of her with some surprise: Could it be that I had misjudged him -

"Anyway, I'm not the one who's betting with you! I don't care how badly I lose!" Si Ji continued.

“I care, ahhh——!” Yamada Fairy cried.

Kasumigaoka Utaha rubbed her temples and felt a little pain in her head: She must be too tired, which is why she felt that the boy opposite seemed to be somewhat extraordinary at that moment.

She lost interest in continuing the conversation and said coldly, "I don't have time to play this kind of house game with you."

After saying that, she wanted to bypass the two of them and go to the Fuzugawa Library.

"Faced with a situation where you are almost certain to win, are you going to run away?" Si Ji asked casually.

Kasumigaoka Utaha stopped and looked at the other person's half-smile.

"I think you can remove the 'almost' in the first half of your sentence," she said. "I'm not interested in doing such meaningless things."

"That's not necessarily true." The smile on Shiki's face became more obvious. He said meaningfully, "Aren't there still 'miracles' in this world?"

"Miracle...huh?" Kasumigaoka Utaha narrowed her wine-red eyes slightly, as if she was thinking about something.

As for the Yamada Fairy, he seemed to be publicly executed, and said in a somewhat autistic tone, "Too much, is it a miracle that I can beat this guy..."

"Creating miracles with your own hands, don't you think this kind of development is exciting?" Si Ji lied seriously.

"You can talk without any worries just because you won't lose anything even if you lose!"

"Yes."

"You actually admitted it, you bastard!" The angry Yamada fairy bit Shiki's palm.

However, unlike her seemingly unscrupulous appearance, the girl actually knew her limits and did not really bite hard. Si Ji felt that the part that was bitten felt a bit like being held in her mouth. It felt warm and itchy, and he could even feel her soft and moist tongue. In short, it was very wonderful.

"Yoshi yoshi~ Let go~"

“Wu-lu-wu-lu (Don’t touch my head)!”

Looking at the two of them playing around as if no one was around, Kasumigaoka Utaha sighed, feeling that her seriousness just now was completely meaningless.

She even reflected on it a little and felt that although Yamada Fairy did produce toilet paper, it was not about the person, but the matter, and there was no need for her to be hostile to him.

And I heard that the other party's novel was going to be made into an animation. There might be a time in the future when I would need to communicate with him. If I acted too unkindly, maybe when Machida Sonoko found out, the editor would have a stomachache again.

"Well, if it's limited to this month," she finally agreed to the bet: "Like this gentleman said, why should I refuse a victory that comes to my doorstep?"

"Wait a minute, I want to change the bet! At least I can't let this guy get away with it!" Yamada Fairy opened his mouth, pointed at Shiki and said, "You have to pay the bet too!"

"Hmm," Shiki wanted to refuse, after all, it sounded like a lot of trouble, but after thinking about it, it didn't seem like a big deal, so he said, "Okay, then let's do this, the bet is that the loser must answer one of the winner's questions, no matter how difficult the question is to answer."

This not only reduces the risk of the bet of "doing one thing", but also makes the bet easier to accept - the worst thing in this case is being asked for your bank card password, but you have a total of fifty-four bank cards in your prop column!

What's more, Yamada Fairy's side may not necessarily lose. If they win, they can ensure that they get the information they want. It's like killing two birds with one stone. Why not do it?

As expected, after thinking for a moment, Kasumigaoka Utaha nodded and agreed. At the strong request of Yamada Fairy, she pinky-pinched with her, and Shiki secretly took a photo of the photo as physical evidence.

Chapter 24: Searching for Him in the Crowd

Although Shiki wanted to discuss the new book with Yamada Fairy, after separating from Kasumigaoka Utaha, Fairy-san had been in a trance. When she returned to Washimiya Dormitory, she staggered upstairs without saying anything. It seemed that she still needed some time to accept the reality.

Si Ji didn't feel any burden about this. Whether it was his real body or the two aliases, he had too many ways to influence the outcome of the bet. There was no need to worry at all.

So he simply went back to his room. It was still early for dinner, so he planned to catch up on some sleep.

Only after lying down on the bed did Si Ji remember that he had not yet checked what products had been refreshed in the system mall today.

As soon as the thought came to his mind, a translucent screen appeared in front of him.

[Wag the Tail (Reduces the target's defense by 1 level) 1000 points]

four seasons:"……"

In his impression, this seemed to be a Pokémon move, but it didn't seem to be very useful in reality.

"Sometimes the system will refresh something of unknown meaning..."

He muttered and turned his attention to the next item.

[Tail (butt plug type, can open the door to a new world) 50 points]

Are your upper and lower parts still connected?

Why is the price of a butt plug the same as a high-tech combat power detector? Saiyans will cry, okay?

Si Ji took a deep breath to calm himself down, then turned his gaze to the last product of the day.