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

As the landlord, Si Ji politely escorted him out of the courtyard.

"It may seem strange for me to ask this, but Mr. Yamada, are you trusting me too easily and leaving the child's safety to me so easily?"

Before leaving, Si Ji couldn't help but ask the other party out of curiosity: "After all, I am also an adolescent male living alone. You can't be sure of my character based on such a short time together, right? Even what I said now may just be a green tea tactic of playing hard to get."

"No, I don't believe you," Yamada Chris gave him a deep look, "but I believe Emily."

"What did the fairy say to you?" Si Ji was stunned.

"Even the name is told to you, which speaks for itself."

Chris Yamada instantly judged from Shiki's expression that he already knew the fairy's real name, and a faint smile appeared on his face, which originally looked a little serious and old-fashioned.

No, I actually know the fairy's real name from the system. Si Ji, who was trusted by the other party, said in his heart with some embarrassment.

"Don't be fooled by her carefree appearance. In fact, Emily is very sensitive and meticulous due to her past experiences. She has a very good eye for people. She is so defenseless in getting along with you. I guess she has already recognized you. And the facts have proved that she was not wrong, right?"

Chris Yamada added.

In fact, today was not his first time to come to Washimiya Residence. He had previously asked nearby residents about Washimiya Shiki's personality, but because Shiki seldom appeared, the information he obtained was somewhat vague.

However, judging from the regular contacts from her younger sister Yamada Fairy, the other party is indeed a very nice person. After only a few days of getting along, Fairy mentioned the other party several times in the contacts, and it was obvious that they were already quite familiar with each other.

Although she herself might not have noticed it, but judging from what she said at the time, Yamada Chris even felt that his arrogant sister actually had some sense of dependence on the boy named Washimiya Shiki.

That's why he showed up today specifically, intending to observe the other party closely.

As a professional who has been working in society for a long time, and as an editor who has seen countless people, Chris Yamada was originally very confident in his vision and felt that a teenager who had not yet graduated would definitely not escape his eyes.

But in actual contact, it is completely different.

The boy named Washimiya Shiki appears to be gentle and honest on the surface, and looks like an ordinary boy who is slightly introverted, but his behavior is very perfect. From beginning to end, he does not have the restraint that an "ordinary introverted boy" of his age should have when facing adult society. In fact, this perfection does not stop there. He seems to be incompatible with Washimiya Shiki, as if he is a natural aristocrat, and his every move is the most standard posture in etiquette class.

Moreover, this posture is not the kind of deliberately pretentious one, but everything is engraved in the body, becoming as natural and elegant as muscle memory. Most people cannot even notice this, and will only subconsciously feel good about him who seems polite.

But Chris Yamada did not sense any desire from Washimiya Shiki to use the fairy. Even when he tentatively asked the fairy Yamada to go back to the hotel, the other party showed a sincere act of hoping that the fairy would stay. If he really wanted to use the fairy, he could not have been unaware of which choice would be more likely to get high praise from himself as the editor.

With such excellent qualities, this humble young man with unlimited future, who is also honest and reliable, and whose sister also has a fondness for him, Chris Yamada can't think of any reason to stop the two from being together.

The only thing that worries him is that although his sister is very cute and talented in writing, she has many advantages in various aspects, but she also has a lot of disadvantages. If Washimiya Shiki, such a hidden gold mine, is discovered by other outstanding girls, this guy may not be able to compete with others...

So even though he could contact the publishing house by phone, he still chose to go there in person so that the two of them could have more time alone.

"With the 'crisis' of me taking Emily back this time, I think this boy will also realize his feelings for Emily."

Chris Yamada wiped the corners of his eyes from under his sunglasses with a look of self-admiration, said goodbye to Shiki and left.

Shiki looked at Chris Yamada, whose expression suddenly became very masculine, with a confused look on his face. He felt that the Yamada family's train of thought was indeed a bit strange...

After returning to the fairy's house, the girl was now lying on the table with a distressed look on her face, racking her brains to type on her laptop.

"Brother, has he returned?"

Seeing Shiki walk into the study, Yamada Fairy, as if he had found a legal excuse to slack off, immediately shifted his gaze from the laptop screen with a relaxed look, looked at Shiki and asked.

"Yeah," Shiki answered vaguely, then asked, "By the way, what's your real name?"

"Didn't you see it in the rental contract..."

The girl paused typing on the keyboard and spoke as if a little embarrassed.

"Didn't you forbid me to look at it at that time?" Si Ji answered with a clear conscience: Yes, he did not look at the other party's real name on the rental contract, and he knew the other party's name simply because of the system.

"Kukuku! If you want to know my real name, you are not qualified now. You need to sign an eternal contract with me and become my servant, ai... cough, slave!" After the Yamada fairy coughed dryly, he said in a rather middle school tone.

But judging from her blushing cheeks, her mood didn't seem as calm as her words.

Shiki thought for a moment and said, "But slavery in Japan ended in 646 when Emperor Kotoku issued the Reform Edict, officially starting a reform known as the Taika Reform. After that, it became a feudal society. This is something you learn in junior high school."

"This is totally different!" A light novel writer who dropped out of school in junior high school and only has an elementary school education almost stumbled and fell off his chair.

Give me back the girlish heart I had just now!

The girl shouted to the straight man in front of her with tears and blood in her heart.

Chapter 46: Struggle, You Can Struggle

"What's wrong? You still have no ideas for writing?"

Si Ji looked at her suddenly listless appearance with amusement, and asked her about the business.

“It’s not that I don’t have any ideas at all,” Yamada the Fairy muttered, “but I just feel like I can’t just write something and hand it in…”

"Haven't we discussed this just now? Even if you write carefully, the sales of the latest volume have nothing to do with quality." Si Ji reminded, "Unless you find a super famous person to sign it."

"I won't do that! Exploding Dark Fairy is mine, and if I do that, even if I win, it won't make any sense!"

Yamada Fairy said seriously, "I just don't want to have the regretful feeling of 'Oh, I should have taken it more seriously' after losing!"

It seemed that even though her chances of winning were slim, she had no intention of giving up struggling.

To be honest, Shiki quite admires her fighting spirit.

So he smiled and expressed his appreciation for it.

"Hehehe, then just try your best to struggle in despair!"

"Why did Assistant-kun suddenly make such a villainous statement?!"

The girl's heart was greatly shocked.

"I felt that ordinary compliments were too boring and unrealistic, so I decided to give a breakaway a try," Si Ji explained seriously.

"That's not a breaking ball at all. It's a really bad ball that's going at a speed of 130, right at the batter's head!"

"Shouldn't it be considered a great hit from the perspective of getting the batter out without a strikeout?"

"It's not good to let others lose out in terms of life! So why do you have to praise me in this way..." At this point, Yamada Fairy suddenly came to his senses: "Hey, Assistant-kun, could it be that you are just embarrassed to praise me directly, so you go through such a big circle?"

"..."

"Haha, even though you kept saying that I was tired of you, but you are the one who is really arrogant! You want to care about others but it's hard for you to say it out loud. That's too lame," the blonde girl started to tease Si Ji happily as if she had discovered a new world: "Trash? Trash?~"

"If you keep talking in such a sarcastic tone, I will put wolfberries in your dinner." Si Ji threatened in a deep voice.

"Don't be so frivolous. Don't use wolfberry as a threat. Those who like wolfberry will cry!"

"In any case, just work hard," Si Ji waved his hand, "In return, you can look forward to tonight's dinner."

The Yamada fairy took a look at Shiki's expression and found that there was neither shame or anger at being teased by him nor gloating on his face, but just the same gentle calm as always.

At the same time, the girl also noticed that her heart was no longer the same anxious and confused state as before. Although she still felt powerless, the anxiety and uneasiness had dissipated a lot because of chatting with Si Ji.

Yamada Fairy thought thoughtfully: Could this be why he was deliberately playing a joke on me?

"About that bet..." Seeing Shiki was about to leave the room, the girl said abruptly, "I will go alone to meet Kasumi Shiko to fulfill the bet. Assistant-kun, you were just dragged into this by me, so it's okay if you don't go."

In her opinion, it was a losing situation, so for the sake of Shiki, Yamada Fairy planned to take the responsibility of the loss on herself alone.

"What are you talking about? As the initiator of the bet, it would be a pity if I can't witness it to the end." But Shiki shook his head: "Besides, my voice is not so cheap. It's not certain who will win or lose. You should also have a little more confidence. When we first met, didn't you say that you wanted to become a great light novel writer?"

After hearing what Shiki said, the Yamada Fairy, who was originally a little depressed, patted his face lightly and said, "You're right. If even I despair from the beginning, then it will really be over."

"I need to spend three days to finish writing the latest volume, and make the plot so interesting that no one can criticize it! During this time, can I ask my assistant to check out the remaining candidates and find teacher Kashiwagi Eri?"

She looked at Shiki and said seriously, "If there is still a chance to turn defeat into victory, then Teacher Kashiwagi Eri is the biggest possibility!"

Si Ji looked at her determined expression and it was difficult to refuse, so he could only nod and agree.

While leaving the study so that the girl could concentrate on writing, Si Ji couldn't help but feel a little distressed about her instructions.

Honestly speaking, from his perspective, it was extremely easy for the girl to win in the end.

A more normal one, for example, is to have in-depth cooperation with FULLDRIVE Library in the name of Maple Leaf Library, and put one of the representative works in its library, "The Exploding Dark Fairy", into the cooperation list. Simply maximizing the publicity and promotion can increase sales by a huge margin, not to mention that Maple Leaf Library's overseas distribution channels are also fully utilized because of Natsume Makuru's masterpieces. It is not impossible to double the sales directly with overseas distribution. Crush a love light novel that is not very well-known in the island country can only be regarded as beating a child.

A more insidious person could also attack the Fushigawa Bunko from the market, hinder their publishing plan, and make it impossible for Kasumi Shiko's "Love Metronome" to be released on time this month. In this way, her initial sales this month would be 0 copies, which would be higher than hers even if the fairy's novel exploded, so it would be a glorious victory.

Apart from this, there are as many ways as one can to help the fairy win, after all, his position and that of Kasumi Shiko are completely unequal.

It was because he was invincible from the very beginning that Si Ji never took the bet to heart.

On the contrary, the fairy's commission made him feel a little distressed.

To be honest, if he really wanted to know Kashiwagi Eri's identity, he didn't need to investigate it alone. It would just take a phone call.

The reason why he went with Yamada Fairy to look for them one by one was because he thought it was very interesting and had the youthful feeling he imagined. It also allowed him to build good relationships with the sheep that were producing wool and create more opportunities for himself to get the wool.

Now that the sheep were gone, there was no need for him to continue looking for those people...

"No, let's follow the established plan." Si Ji thought for a moment and finally made the decision.

Apart from giving up on the initial direction of the investigation, directly asking for the answer over the phone always gave him a subtle feeling of giving up halfway - or like halfway through the main storyline of the game, when Feng Ling Yue Ying suddenly opened up, which directly made the game lose its original fun - he could also take this opportunity to see if there were other people who could fleece the sheep, after all, he couldn't always rely on the fat sheep at home...

Chapter 47: Rikka Takanashi

Rikka Takanashi carefully shuttled through the green belt of the park, looking back from time to time, as if she was fighting wits and courage with an invisible enemy.

After a while, perhaps because she was a little tired of this kind of fun, the girl came out of the bushes awkwardly.

The black Lolita dress she was wearing was obviously not suitable for this kind of thing. Many places were hooked by thin branches, and there were also a few leaves mixed in her short hair. Combined with the girl's slightly dull expression, she looked a bit silly and cute.

"Sass, rustle..."

She made up onomatopeia for herself and walked quietly along the forest path in the park, accurately avoiding the mottled sunlight cast from above the treetops. She was probably playing a game like "you lose if you walk to the sunny place".

Because she is quite petite, at first glance she looks like a cute little kid who doesn't like to be sociable and is playing alone. However, if you consider her behavior to be a sophomore in high school, almost an adult, you get the feeling that she is childish or just a little silly...

As a fan of lolita skirts, unlike Yamada Fairy whose clothes are more like daily wear, Rikka Takanashi, who is wearing a medical eye mask, is obviously a cosplay costume, and the quality is not very good.

At this time, the girl was jumping on the path in a hopscotch-like motion, imitating an agent walking through an infrared corridor. However, because she was a little clumsy, she accidentally stepped on the bricks covered with sunlight, which she defined as dangerous.

The girl's movements froze for half a second, and then for some reason she put her hands on her hips in a proud manner, with a smug look on her face saying "I just ate a colorful mushroom so now I'm invincible", and just like that gave up the difficult way of moving, walked directly through the mottled forest path, and found a bench on the side of the road to rest.

Although the temperature was not yet high enough to be called summer, the rough material of the Lolita skirt itself was not very breathable. In addition, the girl had been jumping and playing by herself for a long time, which made her look a little stuffy.

She first unzipped her collar without any ladylike manners and fanned the air inside with her hands. Then she took off her round-toed leather boots, and her little feet in black stockings swayed in the breeze in the woods.

A few young children ran by not far away. They saw Rikka Takanashi in strange costumes and ran away laughing while whispering to each other.

This behavior, which was not malicious in itself, was simply because she thought her behavior was strange, causing the girl to pause for a moment. She pouted a little sadly, but still whispered to herself to comfort herself: "It doesn't matter, this is also a trial of the 'invisible boundary'..."

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound coming from the bushes not far from her.

The girl was startled and looked towards the source of the sound cautiously.

"A cat? A dog? ...Ah, could it be that they are pursuers sent from the invisible boundary?"

Just as the girl was mumbling to herself, a figure emerged from the bushes.

He was a young man who looked a little thin, or even sickly.

He had short white hair that looked unhealthy, tied into a short ponytail at the back of his head. His deep eyes were a bright wine red, and his skin looked so white that it was even a little sick. He looked completely different from the energetic Rikka Takanashi, and he looked listless.

When Rikka Takanashi saw him, he also saw her.

"Have you seen the aftermath of the transformation?" the young man asked loudly without any context.

"what?"

Rikka Takanashi was suddenly addressed and was unable to react, looking confused.

"Huh, I see." The young man nodded meaningfully: "There are three people, it seems that you are not the one chosen."

After saying that, he no longer paid attention to the girl and walked towards the exit of the park.

Rikka Takanashi first looked at his back in a daze, and after a moment the girl was startled - although she didn't know what was going on, she felt that he looked so powerful and impressive!

It seems that the other person is the same as me, and is also a senior on this path!

If I miss this opportunity, I may never meet such a person again!

So Rikka Takanashi hurriedly put on her shoes and quickly followed.

On the other side, Washimiya Shiki - or 'Fuyuo Kishihisa' was walking on the road, organizing his thoughts thoughtfully.

"If we exclude Rikka Takanashi, the only person left is Shiina Mashiro... From the information, she is a genius in drawing. According to the system level, she is about level 7, which is a first-class existence even in the profession. If she continues to develop step by step, she will be able to reach the level of level 8 'master' sooner or later. And recently there are indeed rumors that she will be involved in the comics industry..."

"Oh, by the way, there's also Sawamura Spencer Eriri. But she's just there to make up the numbers. That Kashiwagi Eri is most likely Shiina Mashiro."

"Since the other party has seen 'Transformation', it would be most appropriate to use this identity to get close to him and test the waters first. Then, use my real identity to discuss cooperation. This will also prevent the negotiation from collapsing right at the start, leaving me with no chance to salvage the situation..."

After organizing his thoughts for a long time, Dongwei Anjiu stopped and turned back helplessly.

The figure that was originally following him quickly hid behind a tree on the roadside, leaving only a very personal alopecia visible.