Daily life in Zongman

With winter officially upon us, the second semester was drawing to a close. Sitting in the last row, leaning against the wall, a girl with a ponytail rested her head on one hand, staring blankly at the empty seat in front of her. After a long pause, she looked out the window. Snowflakes were slowly drifting across the sky, and all was tranquil.

As expected, going to school is not worth looking forward to at all...

When will Fujiwara-kun come back to school? She didn't know, she only knew that he had something to do recently and couldn't come to school anymore. This was the news that Nishimiya Glass told everyone in the club activity room.

Is he busy with something like before?

It really makes me angry. They don't discuss everything with everyone. Obviously, we are all friends...

The next time they meet, if he comes to chat again, she will definitely ignore him. Even a good talker will get angry, so she has to let him know that she is angry.

But before that, let me briefly record what happened while he was away from school.

After all, if he apologized sincerely, she could forgive him.

Just like before.

【sorry. 】

"I forgive you."

The girl spoke softly, shaking the pen in her hand, and wrote down some interesting things that happened recently in the school. She hoped that the student in front of her would not be too confused when he returned.

The year 2018 came to an end amid heavy snow.

Chapter 212 Fallen petals are not heartless.

Kitagawa Umi has been a bit lazy lately. She finished making her favorite Kuroe Shizuku cosplay costume, but hasn't worn it once. She also skipped the Winter CM Expo, instead staying in her room to catch up on anime. But she wasn't the only one who skipped the Winter CM Expo.

To be exact, none of the club members went to the Winter CM Exhibition. After discussing it in the group, everyone decided to wait until all the members were gathered before carrying out club activities.

When will the Minister come back?

Kitagawa didn't know this, but when she visited the shrine on New Year's Day, she made a wish: "I hope the minister can sort things out as soon as possible and return to school soon."

Draw: Xiaoji.

It should bring good luck, she heard that this Inari Shrine is very effective.

Not long after she left the shrine, the Nishimiya family also came here. They all worshipped and prayed together, drew lots together, and played together.

The first day of the new year begins with a sense of ritual.

Yuzuru Nishimiya followed behind his sister, Nishimiya Shoko. Her hair had grown back down her back, giving her the look of a typical middle schooler with long, straight, black hair. His grades were average at school, neither good nor bad, and he had a few friends with whom he would hang out on his days off.

She rarely worried about her sister recently. To be more precise, she hadn't worried about her sister since she started junior high school. Her mother and grandmother also stopped worrying about her sister's situation in school.

However, recently, Yuzuru noticed that her sister smiled less often. She was a little worried and was looking for topics to talk to her sister.

"What wish did you make, sister?"

"I can't say it. If I say it, the wish won't come true."

Glass's words were already very fluent, without any wrong notes or pauses, and full of emotion.

"Anyway, it's related to Fujiwara-san, so you can guess it."

Glass did not refute. Her New Year's wish was indeed related to Fujiwara Haru, and it was the same every year.

"Come to think of it, I haven't seen Fujiwara-san come to our house to play much lately."

Yuzuru appropriately brought up the topic she wanted to discuss. She wanted to confirm whether her sister had had a fight with her lover. She hadn't seen them going to and from school together recently, and her sister's smile had become less frequent.

Glass stopped and Yuzuru also stopped. She wanted to look at her sister, but the moment she turned her head, she felt a pair of cold hands on her neck.

"Hey!"

She exclaimed and quickly moved away from her sister.

Glass was very happy. She really liked playing this kind of "startle" game with her sister. She chuckled and put her hands, which were a little cold after just visiting the shrine, back into her pockets.

She also noticed her sister's worry, so she explained to Yuzuru: "Haru-kun has been having some problems recently. We didn't have any quarrels or anything, Yuzuru, don't worry."

"Woohoo! Sis, don't run!"

Yuzuru relaxed a lot and then prepared to retaliate.

The two sisters were playing and fighting on the street, while Nishimiya Yaeko and Nishimiya Ito were watching from the side, both with smiles on their faces.

Today, their family's life is slowly getting better. Both daughters have grown up healthily and have not encountered any bad things. Although their childhoods were a bit bumpy, they have mostly been happy times so far. The daughters' laughter makes them full of joy and anticipation for life.

A new year, a new beginning, the Nishimiya family returned home.

After dinner, Glass said, "I'm going out for a while and will be back in half an hour."

Yuzuru was curious. Her sister had been going out for half an hour every night recently. At first, she thought she was going for a run to exercise, but now she thought about it, her sister didn't seem to be panting or sweating when she came home, so she probably wasn't going for a run.

So you have a little secret? What did you do?

She followed quietly, curiously leaning out the door to see where her sister was going.

Then I saw my sister walk to the next room, take the key, open the door and walk in.

What? So we're going to Fujiwara-san's house. That's boring. She thought the little secret was transforming into a magical girl and guarding the city at night, a very common setting in anime, right?

Yuzuru Nishimiya returned home bored. After entering junior high school, she also became a little bit immature.

On the other side, Nishimiya Glass pushed the door open and entered, greeting the figure in the living room: "Ms. Yukino, sorry to bother you."

After a few pleasantries, she walked to a bedroom, opened the door and went in.

She completely closed the window that had some gaps, drew the curtains, then sat down beside the bed, quietly looking at the figure on the bed.

She would come and sit for a while every night. There was not much meaning in it. She just wanted to come and watch. Just watching made her feel calm and comfortable.

She likes to be accompanied like this, or rather, to be accompanied.

Glass had always been like this. She watched the guy she liked interact with the intellectual girl, watched him interact with the cute girl sitting behind him, watched him interact with the energetic cosplayer, watched him interact with the writer senior, and watched him interact with the VTB idol. Most of the time, she was there, but she never said anything, just quietly standing by and watching.

She never stopped him, nor did she feel jealous or envious. From the beginning to the end, Glass's biggest wish was only one: to be by his side.

The bedroom was very quiet, with only the sound of their breathing. She liked this peaceful atmosphere.

When did this kind of companionship begin? Glass thought about it and realized it was about a month ago.

More than a month ago, on the first day of the new school week, she, Futaba, and Hoshino Ai waited for a long time at the intersection. When they didn't see Haru-kun coming, they went to his house to check on him.

Later, I learned from Miss Yukino that Haru-kun had entered a state of retreat for cultivation. The duration was uncertain, but nothing would happen, so all he had to do was wait.

After that, they had to go to and from school as a group of three, and no one could help with this matter.

But even if she couldn't do anything, Glass still wanted to do some small things. For example, she would come to help clean the room in the morning, open the curtains and windows for ventilation, and close them in the evening to prevent it from being too cold at night.

She would occasionally chat with Miss Yukino, hoping that she could relax. Recently, she felt that Miss Yukino's mood was becoming more and more unstable, and she often took deep breaths to suppress her irritability.

Finally, it is quiet companionship.

It was the same today. After staying in the bedroom silently for half an hour, Glass said goodbye to Miss Yukino calmly and returned home.

Take a shower, change clothes, drink a glass of milk and go to sleep.

Her New Year's wish today was to still be Qingjun's deskmate this year.

The result of the lottery: good luck.

It seems that Qingjun should end his retreat within this year.

-

Hoshino Ai is preparing for the New Year's Day live broadcast. Recently, with the assistance of her life assistant Ogihara Sayu, her live broadcast has become much more convenient and easier.

According to the operation plan, she will be doing an exclusive live broadcast on Bilibili tonight, learning Chinese and saying some New Year's greetings. After saying the blessings, she will continue playing the extremely difficult game. During the game, she will replace her screams when she is startled by monsters with "Happy New Year!"

The operator from China said that this would definitely be a hit, and that no one understood patriotism better than her. She assured him that she would also follow this path of learning Chinese in the future.

Hoshino Ai doesn't know much, but she followed the management's guidance and has gained 29 followers on YouTube since the show started. On Bilibili, she has even more followers than on YouTube, with 56 followers and has won a medal.

She decided to follow the arrangements of the professionals and conduct the New Year's Day B-limited live broadcast tonight.

But before that, Hoshino Ai went out for a while, came to the next door, rang the doorbell and entered.

After a break of more than ten minutes, I came out feeling refreshed and full of energy.

After replenishing her energy, she went home and continued her live broadcast! She is now in the top tier of VTB. Hoshino Ai wants to become the real number one and find an opportunity to broadcast a concert live so that Ah P can watch the whole thing.

After the concert, he closed the live broadcast room directly, then went to the next room and pushed Ah P on the spot.

She just couldn't believe it. With her crush on him and a top idol's concert over, she went to see him, and he still rejected her?!

nonexistent!

Hoshino Ai is very confident in her plan to bring down Ah P.

Not long after she returned home, a car stopped nearby and an elegant lady with black and purple hair got out of the car. She was wearing a black Leisa collar and rang the doorbell.

She couldn't get in, but she chatted with the hostess of the house for a few words and then drove away.

That night, Hoshino Ai's B-site follower count skyrocketed. Coupled with the livestream, it continued to soar for a week! Simultaneously, her YouTube follower count also surpassed 30, officially entering the top ten of the VTB rankings.

However, the gap between her and the first place is still enormous. VTB, who popularized the concept of "virtual YouTuber," boasts a staggering 2 million followers on YouTube, a significant lead over the second place's 800,000 followers.

As the third semester was about to start, Hoshino Ai finished her live broadcast again and continued to edit text messages as usual.

["Virtual Idol Cultivation" January 2019.1.8, ]

[Name: I miss A-P so much]

【Net name: Hoshino Yuai】

【Followers: 31 million (YouTube) + 66 (Bilibili)】

Pressure: 70/100 (needs kissing, tongue entwining for ten minutes)

[Favorability: 1000/100]

Darkness: 5/100 (My fans really like me, and I’m happy to be praised. But Chinese is so hard to learn)

[It's the 51st day since Ah P was gone. I miss you. Ah P definitely won't be able to come over right after he wakes up, but at the very least, you should be free to come over the next day after seeing the message. Ai-chan really misses Ah P, so much...]

Well, this shouldn't be considered a lie, after all, she just didn't mention the small matter of visiting him every day.

Hoshino Ai clicked send, and the unread mark was displayed. There were 50 messages with the same unread mark above this text message.

Turn off the screen and study hard in the new semester. She also wants to go to the same university as A P.

Although the hope is slim, we still have to try our best!

——2019——

A month after the release of the fourth volume of "Love Metronome," total sales of the series exceeded 200 million, making Kasumi Shiko a well-deserved bestseller. However, she lost the titles of youngest and bestseller, as these went to a super-popular author under the pen name Senju Muramasa.

It is said that the author is only 14 years old, and the sales of his books, after the animation, reached a terrifying 1450 million. This is an extremely exaggerated sales setting rarely used in daily light novels, and it is an outrageous one among the outrageous ones.

Kasumigaoka Utaha recently received the news that her work would be adapted into an animation. During the winter vacation, she has been confirming this with the publishing house and editor.

Perhaps after the animation, its sales will usher in explosive growth. After all, many people buy the original work to watch after watching the anime and don't want to wait for the production of the next season.

The writing of the fifth volume was also suspended due to the animation issue, which made Kasumigaoka Utaha feel relieved. She picked up her pen and wrote the beginning of the fifth volume, but she could not force herself to continue. The fifth volume was stuck again.

According to the outline she revised after the second volume, the fifth volume is the final volume of the book. After the protagonist Naoto has experienced a series of events with Sayuka and Mayu and grown up himself, he will make a choice in this volume and put an end to the story.

However, at this moment, she was not sure about the choice of the protagonist Naoto.

No, to be more precise, it was Kasumi Shiko who could no longer control the protagonist Naoto's choices. She knew very well that if she wanted to write the story logically, Naoto would either choose neither of them in the end, or choose to make both Sayuka and Mayu his girlfriends.

This is the natural result after Naoto's struggle for two volumes.

But at this moment, as a writer, Kasumi Shiko does not want to see this result. She wants Naoto to choose Sayuka, or even if he doesn't choose Sayuka, he can choose Shinyu, because Shinyu is also a part of her.

It's very contradictory. Sayuka and Mayu are both parts of her, but she only wants one of them to have a happy ending.

Kasumigaoka Utaha hasn't yet decided to be a lifelong backup, playing with ambiguity for the rest of her life. Simply put, even though hope seems slim, she hasn't given up on her relationship with Naoto, and there's only hope for a happy ending for the two of them.

If possible, she hopes that in her book, Naoto and Sayuka live happily together. As for Shinie, she can let her continue to cling to her, but there will be no further development of the subsequent plot.

Kasumi Shiko wants to write her own happy ending.

Spring 2019

Graduation season ends with the cherry blossoms flying.

Kasumigaoka Utaha was promoted to the third grade, and at the opening ceremony, she went on stage as a representative of the grade.

Following her was the second-year representative, Futaba Rio, who achieved full marks in science subjects and became the top student in the grade with an absolute lead.

Finally, there is the representative of the first-year freshmen, who was admitted with an extremely high deviation value and caused a sensation as soon as she entered school. She is an extremely elegant and beautiful girl with long black hair, Kotonoha Katsura, who is known as the perfect successor to Kasumigaoka Utaha.