Chapter 5: Tricking Tomoya Aki
Editor Toki had already made his demand clearly, so Shido nodded and agreed:
"Well, I'll be here after school..."
As for what Toki wanted to talk about, he didn't quite know.
Maybe it was about asking about the next story development of the novel, or maybe it was because the sales were too bad and he wanted to cut the series down.
After talking to Toki for a few more minutes, Shido hung up the phone, and then immediately sent a short message to Kotori at home. The content of the short message was as follows:
"Kotori, let's go on a date!"
'白い雪が街に优しく积もるように...'
The familiar telephone ringing rang again, Shido took a look, this time it was indeed his little sister Kotori.
After lightly swiping and connecting to the phone, Shido heard Kotori questioning loudly on the phone a little shyly:
"Shhhhhhiiiiito, what did you mean about going ooooon a date?"
Shido chuckled lightly and said:
"It's nothing, it just feels that we haven't been dating for a long time! It's rare for you to come here, so let's have a date!"
"Time and location?!"
Kotori asked directly.
"It's about five o'clock! As for the location..."
After thinking about it, Shido asked:
"Rabbit Hill Shopping Street, do you know where it is?"
"I know! I've been there myself before when you were in school..."
Kotori answered without even thinking about it.
"There is a white building next to the Rabbit Hill Shopping Street, which belongs to the Fushikawa Bunko. If you can't find the Fushikawa Bunko, you can go to the pastry shop "Tamaya" in the shopping street and wait! "
Shido said softly.
"Fushikawa Bunko, right? I know!"
Kotori earnestly wrote down the information. As for Shido becoming a light novelist, the Spirits all knew about it and supported him.
As a matter of fact, those illustrations of Shido's light novel were drawn by Nia. Thanks to the great quality artworks, Shido's light novel sales had increased dramatically.
For some people, the light novels written Shido may be just toilet paper given away by buying illustrations.
Of course Shido didn't care about it. He didn't write this novel, he just copied it...
"Tingling bell~"
The school bell suddenly rang, and the happy lunch time for Shido was over.
Shido sighed, and then explained to the Kotori on the phone with a little quick tone:
"Kotori, I'm going to class, contact me when that time comes!"
"Okay! Shido, see you later!"
Kotori replied softly, and then hung up the phone.
Kotori stared blankly at the mobile phone in his hand, which was bought by Shido for these Spirits, and each had a mobile phone of this world to facilitate communication between them.
"A date? Looks like I have to get ready..."
Kotori nodded seriously. For her, dating was the same existence as war!
As a result, Kotori came to a room in the corner of Itsuka house, and saw a large number of female costumes hung in it. It was a dressing room dedicated to the Spirits.
They bought these in this world, and because they couldn't take them back, they simply set up a dressing room in the Itsuka residence, where the Spirits could change their clothes when they needed to.
Of course, if Shido was interested in wearing it, the Spirits wouldn't mind!
Kotori tried many different pretty clothes, but she was still not very satisfied. Finally, she decided to go out and buy a new beautiful set, which would give Shido a surprise...
"Since it's a long-lost date, I have to dress up better!"
This is what Kotori thinks.
On the other hand, although Shido was also looking forward to the next date with his sister, he didn't have much time to prepare.
After all, he still had to go to class, and after school, he would have to go to the publisher again. Therefore, he could only go on a date in school uniform.
Coming to the door of the classroom, Shido unexpectedly saw Utaha Kasumigaoka walking out of her classroom.
He hesitated for a moment, and then nodded politely, but Utaha did not look at him, leaving without paying attention.
Shido didn't care either. He didn't want to talk to the other party anyway. The nod just now was just out of the response that ordinary students pay to their senpai.
Back in the classroom, the classroom was unusually quiet, with only a few people whispering in low voices. Shido observed it and found that their eyes were on the embarrassed Tomoya.
Normally, it was impossible for Tomoya, who was a public otaku, to receive such attention. But, seeing that Utaha had just walked out, Shido probably understood what was going on.
If there was anything more shocking than the goddess coming to his class, then it only be the goddess coming to his class and then looking for the most unpopular boy in the class.
Tomoya knew Utaha well, and Shido was not surprised at all. After all, this was how the novel was written.
And he also knew that if Utaha continued to be with Tomoya like in the original work, there would definitely not be a good ending. After all, it would be impossible for the two to be together.
In this way, Utaha was destined to lose to another heroine because of this fruitless love affair. Shido wanted to stop all of this, but did not want to talk with Utaha about it. Therefore, he had to think of another method, and that would be talking to Tomoya...
Although the other people in the class were also very curious about how Tomoya met with the goddess Utaha Kasumigaoka, because they usually had no contact with him, they were too embarrassed to ask him directly.
However, Shido had no such worries. After he returned to his seat, he looked at Tomoya who was sitting next to him, and asked with a curious smile on his face.
"Tomoya-kun, I didn't expect you to know the Kasumigaoka-senpai from the third grade. She is the goddess of all the boys in the school! By the way, aren't you only interested in 2d girls?"
"Of course! Only the 2d girls are my true love!"
Tomoya also yelled very seriously, then lowered her head embarrassedly and explained:
"Utaha and I... Kasumigaoka-senpai and I just happened to know each other because of some …"
"What's the matter? Speak it out and listen, I also want to get to know Kasumigaoka-senpai!"
Shido asked, and seemed to be very interested in Utaha.
And some of the boys sitting beside them also pricked their ears at this time, because they also wanted to know more about Utaha!
After all, a goddess like Utaha, any boy would be interested...
Of course, except for Shido, he just wanted to put a little pressure on Tomoya in front of the whole class!
"Well..."
Tomoya also smiled awkwardly. He and Utaha met at a signing event. The other was a light novel writer who had just debuted, and because they were in the same circle, they were relatively familiar with each other.
But these couldn't be mentioned without Utaha's consent!
Seeing Tomoya didn't speak, Shido pretended to nodded suddenly and said:
"So that's the case, Tomoya wants to keep her all to himself."
Hearing Shido's astounding statement, the other boys immediately glared at Tomoya, and everyone seemed to understand what was going on.
Why was Tomoya so hesitant?
Naturally, it was because he didn't want other people to come into contact with Utaha, so his chances of pursuing Utaha would greatly increase!
Tomoya was also startled when he felt the glaring of the classmates, and saw that he denied a little nervously:
"No! I have no interest in Kasumigaoka-senpai."
"Really?"
Shido looked at him suspiciously.
"Really!"
Tomoya responded without hesitation.
Shido suddenly thought of Tohka, and wanted to say 'really, really?' But luckily he stopped himself.
He didn't let Tomoya have time to breathe, so he asked in a hasty tone:
"Then you dare to say, you will never like Kasumigaoka-senpai?"
"I will never like Kasumigaoka-senpai!"
Tomoya also yelled affirmatively. Although he was obviously misguided by Shido, he did think so in his heart.
"Really? Then I'm relieved..."
Shido chuckled lightly, and did not continue to question. This made Tomoya breathe a sigh of relief, but what he didn't know was that the purpose of Shido had been achieved.
To make Utaha give up on Tomoya without talking to her, the easiest way was to let her know that Tomoya would not like her either.
But with Tomoya's character, it was naturally impossible for him to take the initiative to explain to Utaha, so Shido thought of a way, that was, to let Tomoya also openly reject Utaba in the class.
In this way, the boys who were jealous of Tomoya will definitely spread the word, and it would be only a matter of time before the rumor reached Utaha's ears.
Being publicly dumped by Tomoya by such a shameful thing would definitely make Utaha dislike him, so she wouldn't have to waste time and energy on this guy.
And Utaha would not know that Shido had intervened between them. He was just a little jealous of Tomoya, so he asked him a few questions. This was a very common thing. So, nothing was questionable.
As for what Utaha might encounter in the future, Shido didn't have to worry about it. Anything would be better than liking Tomoya!
...
In the afternoon class, Shido took the class very seriously, even writing notes down. After all, his character set at the school was an excellent student who studied hard, but his grades were not excellent either.
Such an identity was naturally good, that ws, to further avoid being noticed. People with bad grades would think that he was a nerd, and those with good grades would think that his grades were too low. Therefore, studying with him would be a waste of time.
In this way, he would become the most inexistent person in the school.
However, what Shido didn't know is that there are people in the class who wee less existent than him!
He knew so much about Tomoya and Utaha and other "Passerby Heroines", but he forgot the main heroine of this anime.
"Itsuka, Hikigaya, come to my office after school!"
Shizuka Hiratsuka, the teacher standing on the podium, suddenly declared. Shido was sure that other than him, no one else in the class had the surname Itsuka, so the teacher could only be calling him.
Shido glanced at the teacher on the stage, and saw that everyone liked her. At this time, he naturally remembered. Isn't this the story of Shizuka Hiratsuka asking Hachiman to join the Service Club?
But what did this have to do with him?
Shido was just a very ordinary high school student, he did not want to and would not join the Service Club!
"I hope it's just the business of the class…"
Shido thought this way, but even if Shizuka Hiratsuka really didn't know what was going on and wanted him to join the Service Club, he had 10,000 reasons to refuse, so he didn't worry much.
Of course, he could also choose to ignore Hiratsuka and leave school directly after school, but after thinking about it for a while, he knew he could not do this.
One was because rejecting the teacher's request would make him the center of attention in class, and the other was because of Hiratsuka's character: If you defy her, she will definitely give you trouble.
So after thinking about it, Shido decided to go to her office after school, but in this case, his date with Kotori would be delayed.
But he didn't have any good solutions, so he would have to compensate for Kotori a little bit when he finally started his date with her.
