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

"Eh?"

"Have you heard of the name Kashiwagi Eri?" Seeing Washimiya Shiki's confused look, the girl tried to persuade her.

"No, is he a famous person?"

Shiki searched the celebrities in his mind, but didn't find anyone with the last name Kashiwagi among them.

That person should not be a figure in the literary or business circles.

"Hmph, you are so short-sighted!" The girl looked very proud for some reason.

She took out a thin booklet from her bag and handed it to Shiki: "Please enjoy the masterpiece of Teacher Kashiwagi Eri!"

Si Ji held the broom under his armpit and opened the booklet with a mosaic cover in confusion.

After a moment, his expression became even stranger.

"How is it? Isn't the painting very good?" The girl saw his strange expression and immediately asked with great interest: "This is carefully selected by me, the best of the best!"

"Let's not talk about the painting skills...Isn't this a book?" Ji Si rubbed his temples: "You are a girl, showing me a book on the street? And it's a heavy-mouthed book?"

Si Ji closed the book and fell into deep self-doubt: Was it because his ideas were too traditional, or was there something wrong with the world? Would anyone normally do something like this on the street?

"It's okay!" the girl didn't care.

“I think it’s very relevant…”

"Because if a girl does that to a man," the girl put her hands on her hips, sticking out her not-so-outstanding breasts, and continued to argue, "it's not considered sexual harassment!"

“…Sometimes I want to call for gender equality.”

Si Ji held his forehead helplessly and said, "But what does this have to do with you renting a house?"

"That's because if I'm not mistaken, Teacher Kashiwagi Eri should live nearby!" The girl smiled meaningfully.

"…stalker?"

“No way!” The girl lost her composure in a second, facing Si Ji’s suspicious gaze, she loudly defended herself: “I just want her to draw illustrations for me!”

"Illustration? So, you are..." Washimiya Shiki was a little surprised.

As a result, his question seemed to hit the girl's sore spot, and the girl's expression became even more smug: "Well, let me introduce myself... My name is Yamada Fairy, and I'm a light novel writer!"

"Eh……"

"Don't look so unconvinced. My work is very famous. Even someone like you who doesn't seem to read light novels very often may have heard of it!" The girl continued proudly, "It's called 'The Exploding Dark Fairy'!"

"Ah," Shiki hammered his palm and said suddenly, "It's the toilet book that lowered the average level of light novels on TV..."

"Shut up!" The girl immediately shouted at Si Ji to stop him. Her face flushed red and she stamped her feet in frustration. "It's all that damn bastard Natsume Makuryu's fault. He must be jealous of my achievement of selling 220 million copies!"

"But didn't his debut work, 'Sword and Demons Online', sell nearly 2000 million copies in China alone?" Si Ji said with a pure look on his face.

“Damn it—!”

Chapter 4 Blank Resume

"Listen carefully, all light novel writers except me have become the dregs of the times! Then the novels written by me, which are easy to read and understand, will open up a new era!"

In Room 101 of Washimiya Dormitory, a blonde lolita girl stepped on the low table with her cute little feet in white silk stockings that looked like cream ice cream to emphasize the force of her words, and shouted at the owner of the room: "In other words, I am the savior of the light novel industry! No, I am the light novel itself!"

“Is black tea the only option?”

"Just listen to me!"

"I'm listening, I'm listening. Tuesday is the non-combustible garbage recycling day, right?" Si Ji walked slowly into the living room from the kitchen, holding a cup of tea.

"Not only was he not listening, but he even got the garbage collection day wrong!"

The Yamada fairy stomped her feet on the tatami angrily.

"Don't worry about such trivial matters. Since Yamada Fairy-sensei is a light novel writer with such high sales, shouldn't it be easy for him to change illustrators? The publishing house and the like should try their best to meet your requirements."

Washimiya Shiki placed the tea in front of the girl and said perfunctorily with a fake smile: "There is absolutely no need for Mr. Yamada to come out and look for someone, right?"

"That's different. Mr. Kashiwagi Eri has only sold his works in comics and has not really debuted in the industry. It's difficult for ordinary people to contact him. I only got his contact information by chance."

I don’t know if it’s because his way of thinking is too single-threaded, but when asked this by Shiki, Yamada the Fairy actually forgot to be angry, and instead started to show off proudly.

"Him? Is Kashiwagi Eri a man?" Washimiya Shiki continued to talk, not giving the other party the chance to remember that he was still angry.

"Kashiwagi Eri's drawings are full of juicy lines, and the story content is also quite radical and humiliating. The combination of the two must be a man. Could it be that the person who draws such a thing is a tsundere girl with blonde hair and twin ponytails?"

The Yamada Fairy answered as a matter of course, and then she picked up the exquisite teacup and took a sip of the black tea. Her watery eyes widened slightly, and an expression of enjoyment appeared on her face: "It tastes good, it's high-end Earl Grey tea, right!"

"No, just tea bags from a nearby convenience store for 500 yen a box." Shiki answered honestly, "The cheapest kind."

"You actually used such cheap tea bags to entertain the distinguished lady!" The girl holding the teacup that looked very fashionable and expensive was shocked.

"What kind of expectations do you have for the landlord to entertain a tenant? And Miss Fairy, you didn't drink it either."

"It's just that my Divine Tongue isn't in good condition today! And I haven't decided to rent the house here yet!"

"Really? I wonder what this fairy lady is dissatisfied with about the apartment? As the landlord, I am very curious."

“To put it simply, it is everything above the landlord’s eyebrows and below the landlord’s eyebrows.” The blonde girl said seriously.

Washimiya Shiki raised her eyebrows: It seems that the only thing she is satisfied with is her eyebrows.

"Okay, so what does your desire to find teacher Eri Kashiwagi have to do with your desire to rent a house here?" So Shiki once again glossed over the girl's protest.

"Of course it's a very important relationship..." Yamada Fairy answered subconsciously at first, and then he put his finger on his chin and muttered stupidly, "Ah, I always feel like I'm being perfunctory..."

"Your illusion," Si Ji immediately took out several bottles and cans: "Would you like some sugar or milk with your black tea? I also have honey here."

"Some milk, please."

The girl, whose train of thought was interrupted, honestly placed the teacup in front of Shiki and continued, "I tried to contact Mr. Kashiwagi Eri, hoping to invite him to draw illustrations for my novel, but he refused. This is the time to test my perseverance! I'm not the kind of person who will pester you, so I only contact him twice an hour!"

"Generally speaking, we call this kind of behavior stalking..." Si Ji complained.

"Anyway, Kashiwagi Eri, who was moved by my perseverance, finally responded to me and promised me 'I'll be your illustrator if you find me before the end of spring break'!" Yamada Fairy pretended not to hear Washimiya Shiki's complaints and continued, "So I came over here!"

Washimiya Shiki: ...

I didn’t expect that the Yamada fairy, who looks sweet and cute, is so active... It’s really a miracle that she has not been treated as a perverted stalker and invited for tea by the police even though she has done this.

Washimiya Shiki felt quite sympathetic towards the comic artist who was entangled by the Yamada fairy.

In any case, since the other party's target is the book artist, even if he moves into the apartment, it should not have any impact on my bad vacation life, so it is worth tricking the other party into becoming my tenant.

Washimiya Shiki didn't care about the other rewards from the system this time, but the blank resume made him excited.

A blank resume can create a new vest character, and a level 5 skill will be given with the vest, and that skill will grow at a very fast rate even if you don't purchase subsequent levels - in fact, according to the system, the skill that was given with the vest should have been a full-level skill, but because instantly instilling a full-level skill into a person will place a huge burden on the brain and body, and even directly change a person's personality, the skill is limited to level 5, and gradually "rehabilitated" to the full level through exercise.

Therefore, the novel written by Shiki's first alias Natsume Makuryu at first was the half-made-up and half-plagiarized "Sword Art Online". After finishing this light novel, his writing skills were improved to level 8 at an incredible speed. The subsequent essays, novels and scripts were all his own original works. At most, he just played with the jokes in the book titles that only he understood.

It is precisely because of this that "Sword Online" has become the black history of the Natsume Makuru alias. Even though it has a total sales volume of 20 million in Japan, Natsume Makuru will not mention it casually on any occasion.

In short, as long as you have a blank resume, it is equivalent to being able to stably obtain a level 5 skill. Even if you don't work as hard as in the previous two years, you can improve your skills to the maximum level of human art in three to five years at most.

Even if you have made up your mind to have a lazy life for the whole year, you cannot let go of such a generous reward.

Otherwise, if he suddenly woke up in the middle of the night, he would slap himself in regret.

So he cleared his throat and said to the Yamada Fairy who was mumbling something like "the room is too small", "there is no piano", "it's inconvenient to escape", "Since Mr. Kashiwagi lives in this area and mentioned spring break, he must be a student nearby, right? As an active student, I can get you a list of students from the past two years."

The Yamada Fairy, who was still complaining about something, immediately grabbed Shiki's hands with shining eyes and said, "Really?"

"That's true, but since Miss Fairy is not my tenant, why should I help you?" Si Ji said with a pure face, supporting his cheek with his right hand, in distress.

The Yamada Fairy was stunned for a moment, then she let go of her hand, brushed her golden hair, and said in a standard tsundere tone: "Anyway, there are no other houses nearby that I like... In this case, it's not impossible for me, the number one genius on the ORICON rankings, to live here... With a house like my greatness living in it, the rent will definitely skyrocket, you should be very grateful to me!"

Chapter 5 Planning

"I am the only one living in this dormitory now. You can choose any of the remaining five rooms."

Shiki took out the contract, seal and ink that he had prepared long ago from his locker. After filling in the rent and date on the blank space on the contract, he handed it to Yamada Fairy.

The latter quickly flipped through the contract and signed his name at the end. His casual look always gave Si Ji a feeling that this kid might be easily cheated of his money and sex.

"…Let me confirm, your real name is Yamada Fairy?" Shiki took back the contract, looked at the signature, and asked the girl.

"Of course not, that's just a pen name!" The girl brushed her hair disapprovingly and said proudly, "I will only tell my name to those who I recognize~"

No, actually I already know your real name is Emily Granger...

Washimiya Shiki sighed and said, "Then this contract has no legal effect. Please sign your real name."

"Why?" The girl immediately protested angrily, "Who stipulated this?"

“It’s mainly the Constitution.”

"Gulp..."

The girl certainly wouldn't overestimate her abilities and go fight for a change in the law as a Japanese female gunner. She made a sound like a frog being dissected on a test bench and looked very dissatisfied.

"Well, you said you would only tell your name to people who approve of it, but you didn't say what kind of approval it was, right?"

In the previous communication, Shiki probably understood that the other party was a rather willful guy. In order to prevent the other party from giving up the rental in anger, he suggested to the girl: "The rent of my apartment is higher than the surrounding areas, but as a benefit, as long as I am at home that day, I can provide dinner for the tenants... If you don't mind, I will cook a meal now. If it satisfies you, then I will be regarded as a 'person recognized by cooking'. In this way, telling me your real name will not violate your principles."

As the author of a best-selling novel, Yamada Fairy naturally understood that Shiki was just playing with the words and misinterpreting her original meaning. However, she was not too stubborn about it. She walked down the stairs with a smile like a female devil: "Huh? Let me be clear, my divine tongue is not so easily satisfied!"

As she said this, she stuck out her pink tongue provocatively.

"Then in order to prevent Miss Fairy from cheating, please sign your name on the contract first. I will go to prepare the food now." Si Ji stuffed the contract and pen into the girl's hand, instructed in an unquestionable tone, and immediately stood up and walked towards the kitchen.

The Yamada fairy was overwhelmed by Shiki's momentum, and subconsciously wrote his real name on the back of the contract. Then he came to his senses and realized that something seemed wrong.

"Well, the contract is still in my hands, so it's fine as long as I don't give it to him."

Thinking of this, the girl sat quietly at the low table, waiting for the other party's cooking.

But what she didn't know was that after she signed her real name on the contract, the system had already regarded her as a tenant and determined that Si Ji had completed the mission.

The mission rewards were also distributed directly - the tenant development mission and dormitory upgrade mission were directly integrated into the system's landlord page, becoming two sub-pages, while blank resumes and skill upgrade coupons were directly distributed to the inventory.

Si Ji, who had been planning to cook seriously, saw this and thought, "Since I've already taken advantage of the system, why not just cook something to drive them away and give myself some peace and quiet?"

However, after checking the two sub-pages, he immediately dismissed the idea.

The dormitory upgrade task is to recruit more tenants in a simple and easy way, which can improve the quality of Washimiya Dormitory and unlock a series of tasks with more special effects.

The tenant development task is a little more complicated: from now on the system will refresh daily tasks related to the tenants. As long as you complete them, you will get 100 influence factors. In addition, Washimiya Shiki can improve the tenant's rating in the system in various ways. When the level is improved, additional rewards will be obtained according to the difficulty of the improvement.

Putting aside the seemingly troublesome things like upgrading dormitories and raising tenant levels, daily tasks are really a good civilization for Four Seasons.

As mentioned before, the Four Seasons system charges 1000 impact factors as rent every month.

In order to gather enough impact factors for the previous four seasons, I had to work non-stop and show off in various occasions. After two years, I almost vomited.

Although 100 points of impact factor is not a lot of money for the current four seasons, and you can earn more than ten times more by just going to a talk show, but a little bit adds up.

If you can earn 100 points every day, you can make a steady profit of 3000 points a month. Even after paying the system rental, you can still have a surplus of 2000 points!

As for the difficulty of daily tasks...

Si Ji checked today's tasks.

[Daily Task: Let Me Poke]

[Task Introduction: Your tenant's face looks very soft and elastic. As a perfect landlord, you must personally check it out! ]

[Task content: Poke any tenant in the face]

Damn, it’s so simple!

In Shiki's eyes, the Yamada Fairy is no longer a willful and annoying little girl, but a well-behaved little fat sheep who is always fluffy and waiting for him to pick up the scissors and dress her up to fleece the system.

There is no way we would let such a fat sheep go.

So Si Ji decisively opened the system and bought the level 7 cooking skill that he had not been willing to buy just now, and directly spent the skill upgrade voucher to upgrade the cooking skill to level 8.

A cooking skill level of 7 already makes one a big shot in the industry. With perfect knife skills, seasoning and cooking control, one can enjoy the treatment of a chef no matter which restaurant one goes to. And when one reaches level 8, one is no longer an ordinary person. It is something that only a genius who has dedicated his entire life to cooking can achieve. One can leave his name in history and be called a master of his generation.

In a food anime, if level 7 cooking skills can only make people's clothes explode, then level 8 can directly make glowing dishes, which are so delicious that they give people a dreamlike hallucination after taking a bite.

Because there were limited ingredients at home, Siji did not cook any complicated dishes. Instead, he took out yesterday's leftovers that had been kept in the refrigerator and mixed them with egg liquid.

Next, melt the butter in a pan and sauté the onions.

Add diced carrots and peas in turn, and finally add the sticky leftover rice. Fry over high heat until the rice is golden, and finally season with a little salt, pepper and curry powder.