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

"Come on, you bastard... Ugh!"

The screams of the male protagonist and the smug commands of the female artist echoed in the audiovisual classroom.

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Section 16, Chapter Sixteen: Jiang's Unfortunate Daily Life

"hiss……"

Eriri Sawamura is truly a terrifying woman. Even now, Jiang Jinghua's lower body still aches faintly.

Logically speaking, pinching an area like the thigh, where there's a lot of fat, shouldn't hurt this much...

In short, Eriri Sawamura is a truly terrifying woman. I have no idea what I did to offend her just now...

Lunch break is almost over, and it's almost time for class.

The first class in the afternoon is math, the kind where being late is a disaster. Jiang Jinghua is currently in the non-undergraduate classroom area, so he must hurry and get to the undergraduate classroom area before class starts.

Ignoring the pain in his lower body, Jiang Jinghua started jogging down the corridor.

Jiang Jinghua dashed through the unassuming corridors of the luxurious teaching building, through the European-style courtyard, and finally into the undergraduate teaching building that resembled a military fortress.

My classroom is almost there; I just need to turn this corner...

However, in the next second, the harsh reality made Jiang Jinghua understand a principle: you must slow down when going around a bend.

Because of the wall, the other side of the corner is in the runner's blind spot, so if someone is rushing towards you at the same speed as you on the other side of the corner, you will never see them.

Therefore, Jiang Jinghua, who did not slow down when turning, collided head-on with another student who was running at full speed.

"Woo-hoo!"

The student who collided with Jiang Jinghua was a blonde woman with braided pigtails, but that wasn't important. What was important was that this girl clearly had just transferred from another dimension, and therefore wasn't wearing a school uniform, but rather her own familiar clothing from that dimension. Now, this girl, carrying a large white flag rolled up on a flagpole on her back, was wearing a simple women's armor…

Therefore, Jiang Jinghua is now essentially running at twice the speed when he crashes into a large block of iron.

Huh? You're saying bumping into a girl will bring benefits? You can get to touch her soft, warm body to your heart's content? Maybe you can even steal her first kiss or something?

Are you kidding me?! What benefits could you possibly get from crashing into a giant block of metal?

"I'm sorry! Are you alright?" The girl quickly stood up and helped Jiang Jinghua, who had fallen to the ground, up.

"It's nothing..." Jiang Jinghua said with a mournful face, "It's just that your elbow armor poked my kidney... It's nothing... It's alright..."

"How can it be alright!" the girl exclaimed anxiously. "Should we go to the infirmary?"

Jiang Jinghua stood up, rubbed his lower back, and said, "It's nothing. You must have something urgent to do if you ran so fast, right? Don't worry about me, I'm in a hurry to get to class too."

"Okay, goodbye then." The girl hurriedly ran away.

……

Ugh, what bad luck.

Fortunately, Jiang Jinghua managed to get into the classroom before the first class in the afternoon.

"Ahem, um." The math teacher cleared his throat as he walked up to the podium. "Class representatives, please come up to collect your test papers."

Wow! A math unit test every two weeks! And they chose this time to release the results!

Honestly, what heinous things have I done today? Why is the Holy Spirit of the Galaxy causing me continuous harm, both physically and mentally?

Jiang Jinghua received the exam paper with a feeling of unease.

"...Sixty-six points... Hmm, it's even worse than I imagined..." Jiang Jinghua sighed.

"Yes, it's sixty-six points." Kato Megumi leaned over from the side. "I'd say eighty-seven points."

"It's really not easy for you to get 87 points on this kind of test," Jiang Jinghua sighed for the second time, "unlike someone like me who's not even worth the effort..."

"Don't give up on yourself, Jinghua-kun's grades are actually not bad," Kato Megumi said. "Speaking of which, Tomoya-kun's grades..."

"Yoshi!" Somewhere ahead, Aki Tomoya, who had just received his test paper, let out an excited shout, "Great! This time I finally scored over fifty points!"

"..." Jiang Jinghua didn't know what to say. "Well, I guess you could call this being neither the best nor the worst."

"An Yi, please keep quiet during class." Although the math teacher sounded calm, his voice was surprisingly loud, drowning out Tomoya's shouts.

A few minutes later.

"Now that the test papers have been distributed, let's begin the review." The math teacher stood on the podium and meticulously began writing on the blackboard. "First up is the fifth multiple-choice question, which has a very high error rate. This question is a typical combination of trigonometry and solid geometry. Although it's not very difficult because it's a multiple-choice question, there are many factors to consider, resulting in a high error rate. The key to solving this type of question is..."

Ugh... damn math class.

It's already the kind of thing that's hard to understand, and now with the added pain in my lower back and thighs, it's even harder to concentrate.

"...Therefore, we can deduce that the monotonically increasing interval of the function is 2kπ-π≤x＜4kπ-π, and from this, along with the given conditions, we can obtain..."

I don't understand, I want to sleep.

Ugh, this is so annoying! Math isn't mental gymnastics, it's practically mental torture!

Damn it, I'm not very bright, so I'd better give up on the science route and just obediently learn the three major systems of magic in the Evocation system and become a field agent, or learn practical illusion magic and work in the public opinion stabilization department!

Although such discouraging thoughts kept replaying in my mind, the pen in my hand continued to move obediently.

After all, failing to score below 60 in math can have a huge impact on academic credits, which in turn will significantly affect future college admissions and even more so, job placement. Whether Jiang will become a respected Level 3 or higher-level researcher or end up as an unloved, unwanted armed security guard in the site's defense department, potentially becoming fodder for dangerous containment objects at any moment, may very well depend on his current math score.

So, even though it's a form of slow slicing, the person who's supposed to be executed still has to suffer the pain of being cut...

Jiang Jinghua sighed and continued copying the dense, indescribable symbols on the blackboard into his notebook.

……

Holy crap! What the hell? This... this pen nib is broken?

Jiang Jinghua stared in disbelief at the stain on his notebook, which was several fingernails in size and was still expanding at a visible rate, and at the tip of his fountain pen, which was constantly leaking liquid.

Okay, go right after you leave, walk straight for 100 meters, then turn left and walk straight for 200 meters. It's a stationery store to the right of a vegetable market. I'll remember you! If I ever go to you to buy a pen again, I'll write "Jiang Jinghua" backwards!

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Section 17, Chapter Seventeen: How to Raise a Passerby Ottoman

night.

Because the only fountain pen in his pencil case that still had ink suddenly exploded after he read through the notes of one of his math teachers, surnamed Lu, Jiang Jinghua had to buy a pack of pens at the nearby convenience store while also going to get dinner. Right now, Jiang Jinghua is cursing the Malaysian manufacturer of the ill-fated fountain pen while frantically consuming fried wheat products, MSG, soy sauce, salt, and various chemical additives from his cup noodles.

Today's homework is overwhelming; I have to finish it quickly and then take care of the club matters. This time, I absolutely cannot be busy until 2:30 in the morning like last time.

After finishing off all the cheap-smelling convenience food, Jiang Jinghua casually tossed the empty bucket into the trash can, then wiped his face and rinsed his mouth before rushing to his desk.

First up is a mind-numbingly complex brief history of the First Galactic Empire... Is that really something high school students should be learning?

After history class, there's a chemistry class on "Basic Chemical Reaction Principles," and an enchanted chemistry class on "The Application of Common Magic Potions in Handicraft Production." Then there's physics, mathematics, Russian, German, and professional English... It's truly despairing.

Pushing Arcane Intuition to its limit, Jiang Jinghua began a near-nightly grind.

……

This kind of daily life is so despairing that I'm speechless. I should have known better than to get involved in Tomoya's game development project with such confidence.

Speaking of Aki Tomoya, he really lives a pretty "comfortable" life. Unlike Jiang Jinghua, who spends every night [edited] to the point of almost reaching heaven, he basically spends his days slacking off, watching anime, playing games, and occasionally keeping up with club activities and his blog. As for homework... he basically doesn't do any of it.

St. Christina Academy's homework system is rather peculiar: only a small portion of the homework for all subjects requires daily checking, while the vast majority of homework is actually "optional." This means that if you are very busy (for example, busy writing, busy participating in events, busy chatting with your girlfriend, etc.), you can choose not to do it or submit it, and the teacher won't care—of course, if you do submit your homework, the teacher will definitely grade it carefully.

This homework system was like a terrifying message to Jiang Jinghua, like the news of R'lyeh. Under such a system, teachers of every subject would assign homework with all their might, completely disregarding the students' capacity (if you think it's too much, you don't have to do it). But Jiang Jinghua, a good boy raised under the exam-oriented education system of a certain country, had long since developed a compulsive disorder where he felt uneasy if he didn't finish his homework…

In short, there's nothing you can do if you're tired; you have to finish your homework even if you're crying.

However, Jiang Jinghua may now really need to consider whether he should do less homework in order to free up time for extracurricular activities.

Time flew by, second by second, without changing in the slightest because of Jiang's surname. In the blink of an eye, the clock hands pointed to 8:30.

After finishing the last multiple-choice question, Jiang Jinghua threw his newly bought pen into his pencil case and rushed to the computer.

The foundation's science and technology are world-class. While the official LINE app is still being criticized by many users for its choppy video chat and image quality comparable to some videos, the offline version of OffLINE has already officially supported up to twenty people making 4K ultra-high-definition video calls simultaneously. Jiang Jinghua opened the group chat window, and the video feeds of the club members appeared one after another in front of him.

"Huh? Where's Astolfo?" Jiang Jinghua asked.

“I’m sorry,” Eriri Sawamura said unhappily. “As for Astolfo, we suddenly received a report this afternoon that a lot of terrible things happened in his hometown, so he has been forced to take a leave of absence for the entire semester.”

"Is it really that scary?"

"So I'm sorry, but now our game only has one female protagonist left, but that seems like good news to me," Eriri said with a mischievous smile.

It's definitely good news that we have to draw one less character design.

"Alright, then the club meeting, now that one person is missing, will officially begin!" Aki Tomoya, dressed casually in a T-shirt, shouted in the video. "So, now for our club's first work... our first... uh, it seems our first work still doesn't have a name..."

"So, our first topic today is to name the game." Jiang Jinghua nodded. "In my opinion, in this information-saturated age, if a work wants to attract the most attention, it must have a name that best reflects its content. For example, I once saw Dr. Klev reading that light novel with such a tacky title..."

“You don’t need to mention the name. I’m very familiar with the book that old scoundrel Klev reads,” Eriri said. “The illustrator of that book suddenly fell ill, and I even temporarily filled in for a volume. Surprisingly, I wasn’t discovered.”

“…That’s really impressive. Okay, let’s get back to the topic of naming the game.” Jiang Jinghua said, “The theme of our game should be pretty much set now: a story about raising an unremarkable girl based on Kato into a heroine with various attributes… Is that a fair assessment?”

Everyone expressed their agreement in their own way.

"Well, let's give it a name that gets straight to the point... how about 'How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend'? What do you think?" Jiang Jinghua asked for opinions.

"...I have no objection."

"This name sounds quite catchy, so let's go with this one."

No one seemed to have any objections.

Thus, the first work by the nameless publishing house was officially titled "Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend".

However, for some reason, Jiang Jinghua always had a feeling that this name might cause a cross-universe copyright lawsuit...

"Now, it's time for our routine progress report," Jiang Jinghua said. "First up is Kasumigaoka Utaha, who is in charge of the most crucial plot script. How's your plot progressing?"

"It's alright," Kasumigaoka Utaha nodded. "Not very satisfactory. So far, I've only come up with the basic character designs for the male and female protagonists, and a rough outline of one route's plot. I'll send the file to the group in text format; you can take a look first..."

Jiang Jinghua closed the video window and returned to the text group chat interface. Sure enough, the long text that Kasumigaoka Utaha had just posted was now displayed in the chat window.

"..."

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