My daily life in various anime crossovers can't possibly be this sci-fi.

"Because my science is terrible ╮(╯﹏╰）╭, so I didn't go. Also, Kotori's dad is a classical magician at the Clock Tower. Although he doesn't say it, he still has some prejudice against the Foundation, so he didn't let Kotori go to the school funded by the Foundation. In addition, all three of our families have close ties with Otonokizaka, so we studied at Otonokizaka."

The Clock Tower... that building in London seems to be the mecca of classical magicians worldwide today. In an era where classical magic has gradually fallen out of fashion, only the Clock Tower school can still be considered a respectable force of classical magicians.

"I see. But then, how do you usually learn magic?"

"For classical magic, Kotori's father will teach her. Actually, although he's a very old-fashioned person, he's quite interesting when he teaches, but unfortunately he's not a teacher. For modern magic, you'll have to enroll in tutoring classes or find some relevant textbooks and books to learn on your own."

"You're really amazing. Someone like me, who received systematic education at a professional institution, still couldn't even pass the third-tier certificate exam. And the Foundation's exams have always focused on modern magic, right?"

"Oh, it's nothing."

"Oh dear, it's all your fault! The topic veered off course like that (╯°Д°)╯! Weren't we just talking about other dimensions?"

That seems to be true indeed. Jiang Jinghua thought.

"Then let's continue talking about alternate dimensions. Speaking of which, Kousaka-san, have you ever been to the Ship-Walker Dimension before?"

"I haven't been there, but I have some experience with anime and related things. Don't worry, as long as it's a dimension that students can go to, it's generally quite safe. If it's that dimension, I think a student like you could probably write one or two reports on the use of ship equipment..."

"Isn't that thing supposed to be off-limits to men?"

"Foundation products don't exclude men, while the native ship equipment excludes men purely because of technical issues."

"Besides the trial report on the ship equipment, I should also be able to write one or two technical articles on the structure of the ship equipment, and finally one or two articles on the customs and culture of other dimensions. This way, I will definitely earn a lot of credits."

"And what about you?" Jiang Jinghua asked.

"Me? I'm just going on vacation! (o?▽?)o!"

Oh, I see.

After that, Jiang Jinghua chatted with Honoka about some random things, such as recent rehearsals and the popularity of the new song, until around 9:30 when Honoka finally logged off, saying she was going to wash up and go to bed.

However, Jiang Jinghua still has a lot of club activities to attend to, and he hasn't finished his homework yet. Hopefully, he can fall asleep before midnight tonight.

……

Although it was already past nine o'clock, the street lighting was still quite good. Therefore, the parents of the three families felt at ease letting Umi and Kotori, who were leaving Honoka's house, walk alone at night.

Of course, such reassurance was completely unnecessary. Let alone walking at night, even if these two were sent to a war zone in Syria for two weeks, they would return victorious, both physically and mentally intact. Two third-tier spellcasters combined could hold their own against a company of ordinary soldiers in urban warfare, let alone a mere street thug.

"Umi, I heard the seascape in dimension 1721 is absolutely gorgeous!" Although it's been quite a while since she received the news, Kotori Minami is still incredibly excited. "Umi, in that kind of environment, you'd definitely have an abundance of inspiration flowing out like a tap, right?"

"Maybe. When was the last time the three of us went to the beach together... back in the third year of junior high?" A thoughtful expression appeared on Sonoda Umi's exquisitely sculpted face.

"Yes, it was during my third year of junior high." Minami Kotori smiled. "I remember, back then, Kai, your chest was only this small..."

"Ugh! What kind of rubbish have you memorized?!"

Having known each other since kindergarten, and with other members of both families also quite familiar with each other, Sonoda Umi and Minami Kotori have an unusually close relationship. Umi's parents are collateral descendants of a declining magic family in Japan, while Kotori's father is an Englishman of half-French descent who is now a respected senior magician at the Clock Tower.

Perhaps due to their family background, both girls possessed remarkable magical talent. However, since their parents were relatively open-minded, they did not allow them to dedicate their lives to the path of magic, but instead let them grow up like ordinary girls, as they are today.

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Chapter 21, Section 21: The Three-Man Team (Land, Sea, and Air)

While overall, Kotori Minami resembles her mother more than her father, the difference in her ancestry—one-quarter Saxon and one-quarter Latin—is still very evident in her face. Compared to Umi Sonoda, whose facial features are generally softer and more natural, possessing a natural Eastern beauty, Kotori Minami's exquisitely sculpted face, with every detail refined to perfection, exudes a refined beauty akin to a fine watch, carrying a stronger exotic charm.

"Hehe, although I've grown quite a bit since then, the feel of it is still as great as ever!"

"Hands, what do you mean by 'feelings'! Don't do this kind of thing in the street, you pervert!"

On the deserted street, the two of them playfully bickered and joked around as usual.

"More than that, there's something that's been bothering me." Having finally escaped Kotori's clutches, Sonoda Umi said, "For the interdimensional exploration two weeks from now, it seems there's another boy in the team besides the nine of us from μ's?"

“Yes, yes, there is indeed a boy,” Kotori Minami said. “But that boy is definitely an honest person, both Honoka and I think so.”

“Yeah, after all, he’s the kind of guy who talks like a letter on LINE…” Sonoda Umi shrugged helplessly. “He’s a year younger than me, but in some ways he’s even more old-fashioned than me.”

"Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I went to an all-girls school and haven't had any interaction with boys." Minami Kotori put her hands behind her back and looked at the night sky where the stars were invisible due to light pollution. "It's strange, but since I started high school, it seems like I encounter fewer strange men in my daily life. It's even more so since I became a school idol; I basically only see boys a few times a week."

“Yeah, yeah, logically speaking, an idol should have a lot of male fans, right?” Umi said. “This situation is just too strange.”

"Haha! Umi is really looking forward to something happening with a handsome guy, isn't she!"

"N-no, I wasn't! I was just stating the facts!" Umi's face turned red as easily as the timer on the chest of a giant of light. "Kotori-chan, can't you think a little healthier?"

"What? It's perfectly healthy for high school girls to date." Minami Kotori said, then suddenly changed the subject, "That boy who was assigned to the team, I think his name is Jiang Jinghua, right? He's studying at... um, that foundation-sponsored academy, right?"

Kotori Minami's expression changed noticeably when the word "foundation" was mentioned.

“Yes, it’s St. Christina International Academy,” Sonoda Umi said, covering her face. “I heard it’s a place that’s famous for adult games, all sorts of explosives, and ███…”

"Yeah, yeah, I heard that academy is full of all sorts of ███s, both teachers and students." Minami Kotori started indulging in strange fantasies. "Do you think that Jiang-kun might also be a ███ who's hiding his true abilities..."

"W-what?! If it really is ███, aren't we in big danger?"

"Perhaps, as ███, he has already successfully used ███ to make Honoka ███, which is why she has such a high opinion of Jiang-kun..."

"Stop talking! It's too scary!"

The two talked about Jiang Jinghua, the foundation, and various other things until they had to part ways at the crossroads.

"Goodbye then, Umi-chan! Be careful not to get ███!" Kotori Minami said goodbye to her friend with a big smile.

"Definitely not!"

Watching Umi's retreating figure as she ran quickly away, Minami Kotori couldn't help but chuckle.

Teasing Xiao Hai is definitely the most fun activity in the world! Oh, by the way, the second most fun activity is teasing Xiao Guo, right?

A few minutes later.

"Mom, I'm home!" Nan Qinli pushed open the door and returned to her home.

"Kotori, it's so late, hurry upstairs, wash up and go to bed!" It was Kotori's mother, Hiwako, calling from the living room.

From 9 PM to 11:30 PM was Minami Hiyori's unwavering soap opera time; only something as serious as a Trisolaran invasion could possibly pull her off the sofa at this hour. So Kotori didn't disturb her, and simply headed towards her room on the second floor.

I'm going to another world in two weeks...

Overwhelmed with mixed feelings, Kotori went to the bathroom and began preparing toiletries and a change of clothes.

Although it happened a long time ago, I still can't calm down when I think about that foundation.

It has been almost eleven years since that incident, when Kotori was only five years old. At the time, her three families were traveling on Manhattan Island on the East Coast of the United States, and it was on that island that one of the most serious containment breaches in the Foundation's history occurred.

The experimental subject codenamed "Zeus" unleashed a catastrophic riot on Manhattan Island, infecting approximately 76% of the island's population and causing immeasurable direct and indirect economic losses. The US government was ultimately forced to use tactical nuclear weapons to raze the entire island to the ground. The Foundation's Mobile Task Force sealed off the island for over a year after the crisis subsided. Even now, the radiation-laden Manhattan Island remains a no-man's land.

In fact, the economic crisis that broke out in 2009 and spread from the United States to the world had already been triggered at that time.

Although the three families who received intelligence on the first day of the disaster successfully evacuated the crisis site, Kotori's illness originated from that time. Since then, even though Kotori has been receiving treatment from the Foundation, and eleven years later her symptoms have lessened to the point where they almost never flare up, Kotori's illness has not yet been cured, even though the containment object that caused the disaster has now been recoded as an "identified" item.

No matter how you look at it, the foundation has done everything it could to handle the aftermath of the crisis perfectly and has been providing free medical support. However, for Kotori Minami herself, the name of the foundation is still inevitably associated with fear.

Kotori Minami shook her head violently to banish the jumbled thoughts from her mind, then turned on the faucet on the bathtub and began to unbutton her school uniform jacket.

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Chapter 22, Section 22: Eriri's Invitation

Time really flies, especially when you're having a fulfilling day. Before you know it, it's Saturday.

In the past few days, every member of the Nameless Society has been working tirelessly towards a common goal. Take Jiang Jinghua, for example; he's been so focused on the society's affairs that he hasn't even had time to do his homework.

From Monday to Friday, a total of five days, the basic framework of "Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend" has been completed, including the "raising system," which is the game's biggest feature. Thanks to a large amount of public domain materials, character illustrations by renowned adult-oriented artist Eri Kashiwagi (pen name of Eriri Sawamura), and dialogue personally crafted by up-and-coming romance light novel author Utaha Kasumigaoka (and the hastily brought in as a filler writer and male protagonist, Jinghua Jiang), the game now boasts a storyline that can last for about an hour of class time.

Of the twenty-five minutes of text in the story, about fifteen minutes were actually written by Jiang Jinghua. As a slow-burning writer who relies on inspiration, Kasumigaoka Utaha wasn't suited for the kind of word-filling, typing-based work. Therefore, the lines that appeared in the longer developmental stages of the story and didn't require high quality were written by Jiang Jinghua, whose writing was passable. Utaha herself was only responsible for writing the lines for the important scenes.

In addition to this, Jiang Jinghua also needs to act as Eriri's model, voice his character Kato Hayato in the game, and also has supervisory work to do... It is clear that Jiang Jinghua's life has been quite fulfilling this week.

Therefore, Jiang Jinghua, who had been slacking off all morning, could now say he felt no guilt whatsoever.

"What's going on here, what's going on..."

Upon hearing the phone ring, Jiang Jinghua picked it up. The caller ID showed "Eri Sawamura".

"Hey?"

"Come to my house around noon, it's about club matters. If I don't see you by 12:30, you can choose your preferred way to die on Monday. Oh, by the way, we don't provide meals here. That's all."

Eriri hung up after saying those words in a completely emotionless tone.

What's going on with this guy... Basically, he's telling me to go see her at noon, right?

Jiang Jinghua reluctantly put away his phone.

Eriri's family should be in...

After briefly confirming the route in his mind, Jiang Jinghua got on his old bicycle and rode towards his destination.

……

"Hey! Mom!" Eriri Sawamura shouted weakly, sprawled on the table, "Two classmates are coming over later!"

"Oh, I know!" The voice that came from downstairs was that of Eriri Sawamura's mother, Sayuri Sawamura. Although she appeared to be a young woman, her voice was surprisingly almost identical to Eriri's. "Is it a male or female classmate?"

“It’s a man and a woman!” Eriri Sawamura shouted.

After that, Sayuri's voice became unclear... But if it were her, she'd probably be having some strange delusions because of it now, Eriri Sawamura thought.

At this moment, Eriri Sawamura is a completely different person from her usual image at school. If she were to go through airport security in this state, she would definitely be stopped because the photo on her ID does not match her appearance.

Her slender and well-proportioned figure was wrapped in a loose light green tracksuit, completely obscuring the curves a young girl should have (although it probably wasn't there anyway); her legs, usually encased in pure white silk stockings, were slender, long, and had a lustrous, warm white color, as if carved from a single piece of fine jade. However, against the backdrop of the light green tracksuit's trousers, they looked more like two overdeveloped cucumbers.

As for those dazzling, exquisitely crafted golden twin ponytails, renowned even among the beauties of SCIC, they had been casually undone and hung down her back. Her once smooth, long hair was now a tangled mess due to her terrible sleeping posture the night before, with strands standing up like loose ends of yarn.

"Ugh... I'm so tired, so tired, so tired..."

Eriri Sawamura is currently in a state of near-complete exhaustion. The whites of her eyes, surrounded by light blue pupils, are bloodshot, and the bags under her eyes bulge like bubbles. The melanin deposits around her eyes have reached a dangerously visible level.

The artwork currently displayed in front of Eriri Sawamura is not the original artwork for the game, but rather the line art for an extremely suggestive and erotic 18+ doujinshi.

Held quarterly, it is abbreviated as CM, short for "Cthulhu Mythos"... oh no "Comic Market" is the most famous doujinshi convention in the industry, and the deadline for submissions for its autumn convention is just around the corner on October 1st.

As a renowned illustrator who never misses a single Commercial Show, Eriri Sawamura is determined not to attend this year's event empty-handed. Therefore, even while still burdened with the task of creating the original artwork for "Mob," Eriri Sawamura is still planning to create a doujinshi (fan-made comic) aimed at securing a top-three sales spot at Commercial Show.