Daily life in Zongman

Fujiwara Haru was a little puzzled to find that Kasumigaoka-senpai hadn't come to pick it up either. This didn't make sense. Kitagawa-san liked gaming light novels, so it was understandable that he didn't read this one. It was also normal that the student sitting behind him was reading another light novel and didn't come to exchange it.

But why doesn’t senior Kasumigaoka come to see it?

"Kasumigaoka-senpai, don't you want to watch?"

"Um……"

Kasumigaoka Utaha thought for a moment and replied, "It's time for lunch. I have to go eat lunch first. Goodbye, Fujiwara-kun!"

After saying that, she left in a hurry.

Feeling a little strange, but unable to figure out why, Fujiwara Haru took a copy and prepared to read it. He had previously thought of being humble and letting everyone else read it first before he read it.

The third volume begins the story that connects to the second volume. As the story progresses, the protagonist Naoto realizes his two emotions. He has feelings for both Sayuka and Mayu, but he cannot make a clear choice and cannot respond directly, so he can only subconsciously choose to escape.

This also led to the rejection of Sayuka's first date invitation, and a series of events happened afterwards, which made Sayuka reveal her slightly dark side.

Teacher Xia Shizi's story is as wonderful as ever~

With such emotion, Fujiwara Haru took the two glasses to have lunch and then came back to continue reading.

In the middle of the third volume, the protagonist Naoto realizes that it is fruitless to keep running away, and it will only make both Sayuka and Mayu more and more miserable until everything falls apart.

So he began to study hard, exercise, and actively participate in club activities, starting with the most basic things a student can do, trying to make himself better, hoping that he would be able to choose a better path in the future.

Fujiwara Haru was originally not very interested in the protagonist. He read this book mainly for the delicate psychological and emotional descriptions of the heroines. Now, seeing the efforts of the protagonist Naoto in the book, he has developed a sense of identification with him.

That's the right thing to do. After realizing your own shortcomings, you should work hard to make up for them and become better. Instead of standing still, constantly worrying about this and that, wasting a lot of time, and ending up with a bad outcome, or relying on deus ex machina to reach a happy ending.

Teacher Kasumi Shiko is so talented~ Maybe she deliberately portrayed the protagonist like this in the first and second volumes, just to bring about a change in the third volume and let everything lead to the ending she had already arranged.

In the second half of the third volume, the protagonist Naoto has undergone some minor changes after a semester of hard work and struggle. Not only in terms of grades, but more in terms of personality, he has become more confident. Based on his own efforts, he has gained confidence in himself.

He is no longer just the regular male protagonist with Yasashi, but has become more three-dimensional.

In the book, Sayuka invites Naoto on a second date, and this time he accepts.

Fujiwara Haru flipped through the book carefully, his brows gradually furrowed. He felt that this dating plot...

Why does it seem so familiar? Has he seen it in a book before?

Wait, this scene... why does it look so much like the scene when he was on a date with Kasumigaoka-senpai?

Kasumigaoka-senpai said she's been writing... She'd called me Naoto before... There was always something strange about Kasumigaoka-senpai when she talked about "Love Metronome"... And the names Kasumigaoka Utaha and Kasumigaoko were just missing a few characters... Plus, her strange behavior just now...

There is only one truth.

Kasumigaoka Utaha is teacher Kasumigaoka Utaha!

Chapter 177 Opening the Box Kasumi Shiko.

If you want to verify the speculation that Teacher Kasumi Shiko is Senior Kasumigaoka, it is very simple. You can just go and ask Senior in person.

But Kasumigaoka-senpai never came back after she went to have lunch. Maybe she was hiding somewhere and I felt embarrassed to meet her.

Forget it, I'll continue reading. If senior sister Kasumigaoka is really teacher Kasumi Shiko, I should at least ask her to sign these three books.

Fujiwara Haru continued to read the third volume of "Love Metronome". After a day's date, the two people in the book took the subway home.

Seeing that there were many people in the carriage, the protagonist Naoto took Sayuka to the wall and protected her in a corner. Then, the gentle and somewhat naughty Sayuka lay in Naoto's arms and whispered: "Naoto-kun has become very reliable. I am very happy. My heart is beating faster than before."

"Hey~ Do you want to listen to my heartbeat~"

“Plop~Plop~Plop~”

Sayuka leaned close to the protagonist's ear and playfully puffed air into his neck.

The protagonist of the book trembled all over, his face flushed, his hands froze and he didn't know where to put them. He lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Sayuka.

After the subway arrived at the station, he was still pulled out by Sayuka. At this moment, the heroine's gentle yet somewhat naughty character came to life, which can be said to be an excellent description.

But there's a problem.

Fujiwara Haru read it carefully again. Sure enough, it was the protagonist, Naoto, who blushed. Then there were some psychological descriptions of the protagonist, feeling very shy and very happy. Meanwhile, Sayuka's psychological descriptions showed her feeling very safe, and her affection for Naoto grew even stronger after teasing him.

This book must have been written by Kasumigaoka-san, right? The date details are pretty much the same, and the ending is incredibly similar, with only the final reaction being inconsistent with reality.

Thinking back, I remembered what I was thinking when I saw Senior Kasumigaoka blushing.

[Senior sister's face is so red, are you sick? ]

This kind of idea of a clumsy protagonist was exactly what Fujiwara Haru was thinking at the time.

At that time, he did not realize that Kasumigaoka Utaha was blushing because she was shy. From his perspective, he had no contact with senior Kasumigaoka before entering school, and their relationship was very ordinary, just senior and junior, with no ambiguity.

The date was also a simulated date, simply to help a senior student who wanted to write. During the date, we just went shopping, bought things, and watched movies. There was no ambiguity at all.

Because of this, when the mock date was about to end, his first reaction was not to think of anything ambiguous. He simply said, "Senior, your face is red." He was about to ask if you were feeling unwell, but then he was stepped on by a black silk foot.

Now looking at the description in the book, Naoto's reaction and psychology, combined with Sayuka's psychology, should be the real reaction of the senior at that time. She was very shy, but also very happy, and felt at ease at the same time, and her good impression of "Naoto" increased a little.

It turns out that the senior is an experiential writer when it comes to writing books. Come to think of it, Sayuka is actually quite similar to the senior. Is she a projection of her in the book?

So, can we say that Kasumigaoka-senpai actually has a very good impression of me?

Maybe, I can only say maybe. It's also possible that the senior was so engrossed in her book writing that she mistook him for a straight person during the mock date, unconsciously lost in her own world, and thus developed these emotions.

This shy feeling may not be directed towards him, but towards the straight person she fantasizes about in her mind, so it can only be said as a maybe.

But in the final analysis, even if the characters in light novels have prototypes, after artistic processing, they have long since become independent entities separated from their prototypes and cannot be equated with reality.

Moreover, it is too arrogant to guess whether others like you without authorization. Fujiwara Haru does not want to speculate too much.

He decided to continue reading and wait for senior sister Kasumigaoka to come back and praise her writing.

Afterwards, he saw the protagonist Naoto in the book and said the line: "Today's wind is so noisy."

Very good, it is confirmed, Kasumi Shiko is senior Kasumigaoka Utaha!

Fujiwara Haru held back his complaints, and finally caught Kasumigaoka Utaha when he came to add records to the record player the next day.

She was sitting in the corner of the activity room, further improving the prop Penglai Jade Branch. She walked over and slammed the table: "Excuse me, is this Kasumigaoka Utaha, a second-year student at Private Fengzhiqi School?"

Kasumigaoka Utaha froze for a moment, guessing what was about to happen, but thankfully she'd prepared herself yesterday. So now, as usual, she leaned back in her chair, crossed her black silk legs, and acted like a senior student. "You better add 'senior', Fujiwara-kun."

He slammed his hand on the table and continued to ask, "Excuse me, is this Kasumi Shiko from 'Love Metronome'?"

After failing to interrupt, and being directly questioned, Kasumigaoka Utaha was a little flustered: "Um...that...how should I put it..."

He slammed the table: "Still want to escape! Kasumi Shiko!"

Kasumigaoka Utaha took a deep breath, feeling she couldn't be suppressed. She continued to act like a calm senior student: "Yes, I'm Kasumigaoka Utaha. You should add 'teacher'! Stupid junior, if you're a little respectful, I can give you some autographs."

Looking at her: "Sure enough, I guessed right. It's so abominable, Teacher Xia Shizi, hiding it from me for so long. I feel embarrassed when I think about recommending her to read her own book in front of the original author. This is too stupid."

Feeling a little embarrassed about this, Kasumigaoka Utaha turned her head away, not daring to look at him: "I'm sorry... I didn't intend to hide it at first, I just didn't know how to start."

He nodded and said, "I don't mind hiding this matter. Everyone has things that they can't say out loud for the time being. I understand."

"but."

Fujiwara Haru unleashed the rant she'd been holding back yesterday: "Why is it Naoto, the protagonist, who blushes in the light novel? If I remember correctly, it wasn't like that during the mock date."

Kasumigaoka Utaha was originally trying hard to act like a senior student, thinking that she must not be suppressed. At least she had to be calm in front of her junior, not be shy, and be brave and bold!

Then she was struck by these words, moved her lower lip, did not speak, and her face quickly turned red.

How should I answer? Tell the truth or make up an excuse?

She couldn't really tell the truth, saying that she got home from a date and became increasingly embarrassed and annoyed by the behavior of a certain stupid underclassman. So she took out her shyness on the underclassman, making him embarrass himself in the book while she maintained her gentle and elegant image.

This truth must never be spoken out.

In the end, Kasumigaoka Utaha simply replied dryly: "It's just artistic processing."

Fujiwara Haru watched Kasumigaoka-senpai change from sitting cross-legged on the chair to sitting upright with her head lowered and a blush on her face, and she noticed something was amiss. It seemed that as a writer, Kasumigaoka-senpai didn't separate the characters in her books from real life, otherwise she wouldn't have become so embarrassed by a single comment.

This time I can confirm that she is not feeling unwell, but is just simply shy.

Could it be that...she really likes me? !

Fujiwara Haru was a little confused. Senior Kasumigaoka didn't look like a flower maniac, so why did she have such a strong liking for him when they hadn't experienced anything before?

He couldn't figure it out, so he decided to give up thinking about this problem and put it aside for the time being.

Now we should think about how to deal with this matter.

The fact that the idol writer he promoted liked him made the usually rational Fujiwara Haruya a little confused.

He had actually had a good impression of Kasumi Shiko, a teacher he had never met before. He had even imagined that the talented Kasumi Shiko might be a quiet, literary girl wearing glasses, writing in a warm and quiet bedroom, expressing the world in her heart through words.

She is not disillusioned now. Senior Kasumigaoka fits the image of a "talented woman, literary girl". It's just that the idol she recommended before suddenly appeared in front of her, making Fujiwara Haru a little at a loss.

How to get along?

The two of them were silent for a moment, and Fujiwara Haru decided to fulfill his previous wish first. He went to the bookcase, took down the three books he had bought, and handed them to Kasumigaoka Utaha.

"Now that things have come to this, Teacher Kasumi Shiko, please give me an autograph."

Kasumigaoka Utaha also tried to regain her calm senior demeanor: "Since you, silly junior, have asked so sincerely, then I will mercifully grant you an autograph. You know, I've never held a book signing before, so this is exclusive."

"Thank you very much."

Fujiwara Haru was quite happy to get the autograph of his idol writer.

As for how to get along afterwards, he chose to leave the club activity room first after putting on the record.

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Fujiwara Haru is not a clumsy person, and he doesn't like muddled and ambiguous ways of getting along. Rational, he wants to clarify his true feelings and how to get along with Kasumigaoka-senpai in the future. So after returning home, he fell into a long period of contemplation.

First of all, one thing must be made clear: Kasumi Shiko is Kasumigaoka Shiwa, and Kasumigaoka Shiwa is Kasumi Shiko.

The writer he had recommended before was Senior Kasumigaoka, so his feelings for that writer were naturally also his feelings for Senior.

There is some admiration, and also some good feelings caused by the work.

Originally, Fujiwara Haru didn't care who Kasumi Shiko was, or what she looked like. His feelings for Kasumi Shiko as a writer were more of a yearning for beauty.

But now, this beautiful fantasy has become a real person, and is somewhat similar to his previous fantasy.

Once emotions have soil, they begin to grow.

Fujiwara Haru discovered that he really had feelings for Kasumigaoka Utaha. He was very happy that she was Kasumigaoka Utaha, and he was also very happy that she liked him.

In the future, should I try to get closer to her and then confess my feelings to her?

He found that he wanted to do this and confess his feelings to the senior.

Therefore, he discovered one thing: he was thinking about confessing his feelings to Kasumigaoka-senpai at this moment, but his feelings for Kasumigaoka-senpai were obviously not at the level of love.

To be more specific, if Kasumi Shiko came to confess to him now, he might not agree, but he would definitely not refuse.

It's a bit contradictory, but this is what Fujiwara Haru is thinking at the moment.

This emotion that makes him not refuse the confession is not love.

Fujiwara Haru had vaguely realized in the activity room just now that it was this emotion that made him not know how to face Kasumigaoka Utaha and how to get along with her.

He had too much possessiveness towards her.

He was very happy when he thought that the super popular writer Kasumi Shiko liked him, and he was even happier when he thought that he could possess the idol writer he had admired before.

But the education he received in school made him realize that his feelings were unhealthy. He just wanted to possess Kasumi Utahara, not that he liked Kasumigaoka Utaha.

What to do?

I remembered that night, that unforgettable night, the night when my ignorant knowledge about sex was completely filled after that day.

Sister Shen Dong said: "It is normal to have desires. Don't worry, don't blame yourself for it. As long as you don't actually do it, just thinking about it is not a bad thing."

A gentleman does not care about his deeds.

If there is something dirty in your heart that cannot be eliminated, then so be it. As long as you don't force it to occupy it, there's nothing wrong with that.

Fujiwara Haru, originally feeling conflicted and somewhat bewildered, stood up and stretched his body, ending his long contemplation. He felt much more relieved, and the feeling of having figured something out made him feel refreshed.

From now on, just be normal with Kasumigaoka-senpai. Don't try to get close to her, and don't hide from her either. Try to control your desire to possess her.

——August classmates chatting about daily life (12)——

The day before the CM comic convention, Fujiwara Haru came to the school's club activity room, ready to take back the black and white Yukata and Zanpakutō he had made earlier, so that he could wear them at home the next day and go to the comic convention.

When I opened the door, I saw only one person in the activity room.

"Kato is the only one in the activity room today."