I'll give my daughter one more second.

"Hmph, of course I don't mind using you at all."

"Hehe, to be honest, I should thank you. Because I have to do these tasks for you, I have a legitimate reason to increase the time I spend with Mashiro and let her teach me these techniques for applying black and halftone dots."

Eriri, you're my ultimate wingman!

"Damn it, did I miscalculate? I clearly wanted to keep you busy so you wouldn't have time to bother Mashiro!" Eriri clicked her tongue.

Eriri, is it really okay for you to reveal your true intentions?

The two bickered and chatted for a few minutes as usual. Wu Shen seemed to suddenly remember something and paced back and forth in front of Eriri's table, looking as if he was looking for something.

"What are you looking for?" Eriri couldn't stand Wu Shen wandering around in front of her any longer, so she couldn't help but look up and ask.

"What about the part you've already finished? I'd like to see what that part is about first." Wu Shen rubbed his palms together.

"The completed part?" Eriri waved her pen, glancing at her scattered file folders and pencil case around her. "Ah... speaking of which, that part was in my schoolbag in the classroom, I didn't bring it with me. If you really want to see it, I'll show it to you when we go home after school."

"Shall we go home together?" Wu Shen asked thoughtfully.

"What's wrong now? You look so thoughtful." Eriri rolled her eyes.

"It's nothing, just 'going home together' and stuff. Eriri, you're making it sound like we're living together," Wu Shen said half-jokingly.

"W-What!? I don't want to live with you!"

"Ahem, just kidding. If we were to live together, I'd prefer to live with Mashiro."

"Don't worry, with me here, your plan is doomed to fail."

"Eri, aren't there more important things than spying on me? Is it really okay to leave your manga in the classroom?"

What problems might there be?

"What if someone finds out? Didn't you say before that otaku hobbies can lead to ridicule and ostracism? Especially for a girl like you who draws hentai/erotic comics," Wu Shen analyzed.

"Don't worry, don't worry, I put all the comics in file folders and hid them in a compartment of my backpack. Even if the teacher does a surprise inspection to check if anyone has brought any contraband to school, they won't be able to find out. Everything is foolproof," Eriri said nonchalantly.

"Are you sure it's okay? I have a feeling that Eriri is setting a flag for herself." Wu Shen complained.

Meanwhile, in Mashiro and Eriri's class, Hiratsuka-sensei was standing on the podium, looking down at the students below.

Halfway through the class, Hiratsuka Shizuka suddenly stood in the center of the podium without saying a word, and the students all sat up straight, quietly waiting for the teacher to speak.

"We're conducting a surprise inspection for contraband today! Everyone, open your bags and put them on the table!" Hiratsuka Shizuka slammed her hand on the table.

"Eh!?" Upon hearing Hiratsuka-sensei's words, the students reacted in various ways. Some appeared calm, some tense, some flustered, and others tried to appear indifferent while their eyes darted around as if searching for a solution.

Checking for contraband is a routine procedure that every class in the school performs. However, because the teachers hadn't done it in a long time, everyone had become somewhat complacent, and this time they were caught red-handed.

"Game consoles, comic books, lighters, prank toys, MP3 players... Looks like I've got a lot of stuff today." Hiratsuka Shizuka had only walked past the first row of desks when she amassed a huge pile of contraband she was after.

What remained were the students, beating their chests and stamping their feet, their faces filled with disappointment.

"Damn it! I was so careless! I didn't expect the teacher to do a surprise inspection today!"

"Haha, we deliberately don't check on ordinary days, and then launch a surprise attack when you're off guard. You think you can outsmart your teacher? You're still too green." Hiratsuka Shizuka revealed a knowing smile.

"Teacher, what are you planning to do with these contraband items?" asked a timid college student who had just been inspected and had all his belongings confiscated.

"How should we handle this? It's too much trouble for me to contact each parent individually with so many prohibited items. I don't want to make things difficult for you. How about this: we'll exchange every 500-word apology letter for one item."

"Huh!? 500 words per piece?" The classroom erupted in groans of despair.

"Is there anything else you're not satisfied with? I think I've been merciful enough. I've been lenient with you all. But this is the only time. If I find any contraband next time, I'll have to have a serious talk with your parents," Hiratsuka Shizuka said with a smile.

"Sigh..." The students all sighed.

The teacher's inspection continued, and when they reached the third row, the teacher happened to walk to Eriri's empty seat.

"Speaking of which, was Eriri sick and left early? I remember she was here this morning. If she left early, why didn't she tell me?"

Hiratsuka Shizuka frowned slightly and bent down a little. She then saw the schoolbag hanging on the hook next to Eriri's desk.

"Strange, my backpack is still here, I didn't take it. Could it have gone to the infirmary? I guess I'll have to go there after class to ask about it..."

As for the inspection, let's wait until she returns. It's not right to search her bag without her knowledge. Hiratsuka Shizuka thought to herself as she continued towards the back of the room.

However, because the aisle between the desks was quite narrow, Hiratsuka Shizuka accidentally brushed against the side of Eriri's desk as she moved forward, knocking her unbuttoned schoolbag to the ground.

The bag was wide open, and textbooks spilled out one by one, along with folders from the inner compartment.

"Oh no, oh no, I have to pick it up quickly."

Hiratsuka Shizuka crouched down to pick up the scattered papers and books, but she was slightly taken aback when she saw the drawings that had fallen out of the folder and were scattered all over the ground.

"Teacher, I'll help pick them up too."

Several students nearby bent down to help pick up the books and papers that had fallen to the ground.

"Wait a moment!"

Hiratsuka Shizuka snapped out of her daze and hurriedly called out. However, she was too late. Several students picked up the scattered drawings, glanced at the papers instinctively, and then froze.

The students reacted in different ways. The shy students blushed and quickly turned their drawing paper over and put it on the table. The mischievous students couldn't help but whistle when they saw what was in the picture. A few others turned their heads slightly and glanced at the drawing in their hands from time to time.

The other students noticed the strange reactions of the people around them and curiously looked over, lowering their heads slightly to look at the scattered drawings on the ground.

"Alright! Don't move around. Don't think I don't know you're trying to hide something. Anyone who tries anything will have to write another 1000-word self-criticism! Continue the inspection!"

Hiratsuka Shizuka clapped her hands sharply, using her status as a teacher to quickly quell the commotion among the students. Then, taking advantage of the moment when everyone was too scared to make any small movements, she quickly picked up all the scattered papers and books from the ground and put them back into Eriri's schoolbag.

The inspection continued, and just as everyone was finished, the school bell rang to signal the end of get out of class. Hiratsuka Shizuka, carrying a large bag of contraband, looked slightly worried.

"I'll take the contraband for now. You can redeem it for every 500-word apology you write. Just don't bring it to school again. And those whose names I'm calling, please come with me."

Although she wanted to leave a message for the student, asking Eriri to come find her as soon as she returned, she thought that it was better not to alert the other person and let others notice anything unusual.

"I handled it quickly enough, so probably not many people saw it," Hiratsuka Shizuka thought to herself.

Then, Hiratsuka Shizuka read out the names of several students, all of whom were relatively close to Eriri. These were the few people Hiratsuka Shizuka had observed who had clearly noticed the contents of the drawing. As for whether there were any other people who had noticed the contents of the drawing, Hiratsuka Shizuka was not sure.

After saying that, Hiratsuka Shizuka led a few students and left the classroom directly.

Back in her office, she began reminding several people not to spread the previous incident and make a big fuss, but even Hiratsuka Shizuka herself wasn't sure how effective it would be.

In the other classroom, the moment the teacher left, the once quiet classroom instantly became chaotic.

Some walked out of the classroom in twos or threes, while others gathered in small groups of friends to chat, each talking about their own things. The only thing they had in common was that everyone's topic of conversation was the drawings that had been scattered after Eriri's schoolbag fell down.

Just as Hiratsuka Shizuka had worried, she missed several students who had noticed the content of the drawings without even realizing it herself.

They are like sparks; once they come into contact with the flammable substance called "collective," they will quickly ignite a raging fire.

"I was too far away to see clearly just now. Among those of you sitting close by, did anyone see what was on those papers? Why did those people react so strongly?"

"Hehe, you've come to the right person. I was sitting close to the new transfer student when a drawing slipped down next to my chair. The content was absolutely explosive!"

"How exciting is it?" Everyone crowded around.

"Have you seen those pornographic books? The drawings that were scattered earlier had adult content on them!"

"Really? I remember that seat belongs to the new transfer student, right? A girl with a porn book in her bag!?"

"Absolutely true! And these aren't just ordinary pornographic books. They're clearly original manuscripts, meaning they were drawn by the transfer student himself."

"Speaking of which, aren't these the kinds of people who watch this stuff? Are transfer students like that too?"

The truth will out. With each "eyewitness," the contents of the little yellow book that Eriri had drawn in her schoolbag quickly spread throughout the class and even began to spread outside.

Even worse, to make the information more attractive and sensational, some people started embellishing it. Suddenly, the content of the erotic novels became increasingly graphic and explicit, resulting in many different versions.

"Have you heard? That transfer student's erotic comic seems to be about male-male relationships. Is she some kind of legendary fujoshi (female fan of male-male romance)?"

"Nonsense, it's clearly XXXX. You can know a person's face but not their heart. I never thought the transfer student would be this kind of person."

“Beep beep beep beep beep.”

"What the hell are you babbling about?"

"Because it was too explicit/violent, what I just said was automatically censored!"

Mashiro sat in her seat, quietly listening to the conversations around her for a while. Then she stood up and walked out of the classroom without saying a word to find Eriri.

Although Mashiro looked no different than usual, her face was frighteningly gloomy.

She didn't expect that just as she turned the corner to go to the art room, Eriri came up the stairs from the other side and returned to her classroom.

The chatter was in full swing when Eriri walked in from outside the classroom. The noise instantly subsided, and everyone's eyes secretly turned to Eriri. Some of the bolder students even stared at her openly.

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Chapter 1033 Weak, pitiful, and helpless

Eriri returned to her seat, and after a moment of quiet, the classroom chatter resumed sporadically.

At first, she didn't notice anything unusual about her surroundings, but Eriri was already feeling a little guilty for skipping class without permission, and she soon realized that something was amiss.

"W-What's going on? Was my truancy that obvious?"

Eriri looked around and noticed that many people hurriedly looked away, while out of the corner of her eye, she saw a few people pointing and whispering at her.

The entire classroom was filled with a strong sense of incongruity.

Although she really wanted to find out what had happened, she didn't have any familiar classmates or friends since she had just transferred back to school and Mashiro wasn't around.

Eriri sighed and took a folder out of her handbag, intending to put it in her backpack.

This folder contains the drawings she just finished in the art classroom and the ones Wu Shen just handed over to her.

When Eriri took out another folder similar to the one before, her classmates all looked at her with undisguised curiosity.

The girl sitting next to me was quite bold. Unable to contain her curiosity, she leaned slightly towards Eriri and asked, "Your name is Eriri, right? Can I see what's in this folder?"

"Huh? Of course not! Cough cough... I mean, this contains some rather private information, and I don't really want to show it to others, sorry!"

Eriri's voice suddenly rose high, but she calmed down halfway through her sentence and rejected the other party in a very tactful way and tone.

"Really? What a pity." Seeing Eriri's reluctance, the girl didn't press her further.

"Tch, it is indeed a rather private matter. After all, how could you possibly show something like a pornographic book to your classmates?"