Is it a problem to have a harem in a stranger heroine?

"Yes and no, you guys are petting cats, I want to pet something too."

Shiyu pointed at his hand, indicating that he should not touch her hair without washing his hands, and then she and Eriri went upstairs and opened the door.

Bai Ye breathed a sigh of relief and followed everyone into the house.

'Second level, get√!'

Not long after they entered the house, hurried footsteps were heard in the corridor, followed by Bingtang and Chuhai pushing the door open.

"Senior ヽ(≧Д≦)ノ!"

Bai Ye turned around and hugged Chu Hai who was jogging towards him, but was forced back two steps by her soft impact.

"My little girl~Oh——the pressure is so strong——!"

"Senior, you're already throwing away your moral principles as soon as we meet!" Chu Hai pinched his nose.

"So who took the initiative to open my bottle of morality?"

After taking two deep breaths of the rich fragrance, Bai Ye reluctantly let her go from his arms, and then hugged Bingtang who was waiting beside him.

Compared to Going to Sea, Hugging Rock Sugar feels more fleshy, and the reason is simple.

"Bingtang, aren't you cold?"

Winter school uniform, wool vest, scarf, above-knee skirt, thick black stockings, this is what Bingtang wears in temperatures close to 0℃, which is really scary to look at.

"There's heating in the school. I run to Aye's place after school and don't feel cold at all."

Bai Ye held her hand tightly and felt the warmth in her hand.

It’s warm, not cold at all.

Gu~~

"Well, I just get hungry easily." Bingtang scratched his face embarrassedly.

"If you eat little, wear little and still resist the cold, you're not a human being." Bai Ye took the opportunity to pat her thigh.

Well, the thick black stockings feel good, I’ll have a great time tonight!

At this time, Kato Megumi brought afternoon tea and placed the newly bought cake on the table.

"Everyone come for afternoon tea, it's too cold outside."

He exhaled a breath of white air into the sky and wiped his arms in the sea room.

"It's still so cold even though it's sunny... Did you just get home, Senior? The room isn't very warm."

"I just went to see the cat. I just went upstairs a while ago."

"Oh, I'll go see Xiao Tao later too."

Everyone had just sat down to drink some hot tea when the doorbell rang again.

"I'll open the door."

Seeing that it was Shiyu who stood up, Bingtang made a cute puzzled sound.

"Hey, Shiyu-senpai, go open the door?"

Bingtang’s doubts are not unreasonable.

Because Bai Ye and Xiao Hui are usually responsible for opening the door, this is the first time that Shi Yu has taken the initiative to get up and open the door.

The one who solved the mystery was Chu Hai, who was the person in the harem who knew rouge on rouge best besides Zhu Yin.

"Because Akane-senpai said there would be a surprise today."

"Oh, about the competition!" Bingtang suddenly realized.

"Kasumigaoka was pretending to be nonchalant before, saying that the result was irrelevant, but she was actually the most nervous one."

Eriri glanced towards the door and put the cake into her mouth while talking, but she didn't notice that her crooked hand had smeared a large amount of cream on the corner of her mouth.

Xiaohui handed her a tissue, her eyes wondering who was the most nervous one.

"good afternoon everyone."

Zhu Yin greeted him, quickly got into the kotatsu, and moved the oil heater closer to her. She said in a trembling voice:

"It's freezing... It's freezing... What kind of weather is this? It's already so cold before the sun even sets..."

Bingtang couldn't help laughing when he saw this.

"Aye said I was wearing too little, but it turned out that Akane-senpai was wearing even less."

"So Senior Akane is the one who cares the most about grace?" Chu Hai also teased.

Zhu Yin wore the same thick black stockings as Bingtang, but the dress-style OL outfit had nothing to do with "keeping warm". The only thing that made people not shiver was a ladylike down jacket.

Bai Ye took out a thick blanket and covered her with it, and Xiao Hui also brought hot tea.

"The sun is out today. I'm curious about how you spent yesterday, Akane. It was raining and snowing."

"I'm in bed. I can't bear to ask everyone to work overtime in such a cold day."

"Isn't there an option to get off work on time?" Bai Ye complained.

Zhu Yin looked sideways.

"You have no conscience. Don't you think about who I'm working overtime for?"

Bai Ye naturally understood, and quickly cut a piece of cake for her, then wrapped his hands around Zhu Yin's soft hands, conveying his body warmth and care.

"Is there any result?"

"What if not, please let me go?" Zhu Yin said deliberately.

"I'm afraid you'll take the kotatsu with you, and then I won't be able to see the sun tomorrow, in every sense of the word."

"Hum~"

Shiyu sat next to Zhuyin, eating the cake in small bites, her eyes never leaving the latter.

She also knew the purpose of Zhu Yin's coming here, and understood that the outcome of the competition would not have any impact on the ownership of "Flash Girls", but this did not mean that she did not care about the outcome of the competition.

If you want to have a place in the light novel industry in the future, you must win over many people, and this time is no exception.

The same goes for Eriri. Although she doesn't have the same competitive spirit as Shiyu, she also wants to know the extent of her abilities.

Zhu Yin drank the hot tea, warmed herself up, and regained her composure as the leader of Rouge on Rouge.

"You want to know now? I plan to wait until dinner is over."

"why?"

"So that you won't be too excited to eat." Zhu Yin smiled.

Shiyu's expression brightened, and every word Zhu Yin said led to an answer.

"we won?"

"Yeah~" Zhu Yin tapped the table, but the smile on her face suddenly changed.

"But you also lost."

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Won, but also lost?

What's the meaning? !

Shiyu looked at everyone's faces but couldn't find the answer. Everyone was in the same situation as her and couldn't understand Zhu Yin's ambiguous words.

"Can you please stop being a riddler like Kei?" Eriri put her hands on the table and straightened herself up. "Winning is winning, losing is losing. What's the difference between winning and losing? A draw?"

Xiaohui took a sip of tea, remained silent, and then Bai Ye touched her head.

"It shouldn't be a tie. It's unlikely that so much data will be exactly the same when integrated together." Shi Yu has a lot of experience in this regard.

"What does that even mean?!" Eriri pouted.

Seeing that everyone's appetite was satisfied, Zhu Yin no longer hesitated.

"Announce the answer. Iori and his team are eleventh, and you're tenth. Your scores are about the same. Do you understand?"

Shiyu: “…”

Yinglili "..."

The others were equally shocked, so much so that the room fell silent for a moment.

Finally, Chu Hai, a fellow member of rouge on rouge, cautiously broke the silence.

“Is that really the case?”

"You don't know?" Ying Lili asked back.

"I don't know, uh..." Chu Hai's mouth twitched, "I was asked not to interfere. I would be very grateful if senior and brother don't cause any more unpleasantness."

Before this, everyone gave excellent reviews to the works of Shiyu and Eriri, believing that even if they were not in the top three, they would definitely be in the top five.

Tenth place, that's pretty bad.

"I remember there were 15 comic novels participating in the competition?" Xiaohui asked.

"Yes."

"Maybe the data was calculated incorrectly? I remember that the proportion of readers' letters was low." Bai Ye asked tentatively.

Zhu Yin put down the teacup and glanced at Bai Ye as she spoke.

"What Ye Jun said is correct, but readers' letters don't include love letters. There's someone who has been sending a love letter to both Kasumi Shiko and Kashiwagi Eri every day since the publication."

"I won't go into the details of how cheesy the content is, lest you all be so disgusted that you can't eat dinner. With the frequency of the love letters and how well they know you two, anyone reading this would scream 'Hentai' and call the police right on the spot."

"Teachers, please be careful when you go out in the future. Maybe this Hentai is hiding in some dark corner and will lock you up in a dark room and make you untouchable when you are not paying attention."

Seeing everyone's attention gradually focused on his face, Bai Ye was suddenly possessed by the spirit of drama, his expression brightened, and he turned into an Oscar-winning actor.

"This kind of hentai really exists! It's too dangerous! Shiyu, Eriri, you should stay at my place for now. Try not to go out. If you do go out, I must accompany you!"

"Still crying thief!" Ying Lili raised her little foot and kicked him mercilessly ten times.

Shiyu pinched the soft flesh on Bai Ye's waist to make him calm down, and tried her best to make her tone sound less lost, unwilling, and dissatisfied.

"Does Akane-senpai know the reason?"

"There are two rankings," Zhu Yin raised her finger. "Most Popular and Most Anticipated. You're seventh on the Popularity list, and nowhere on the Anticipation list. Combining all the other data, you're tenth. Ultimately, no one is looking forward to your next work."

"Are you so heartless?" Eriri puffed up her cheeks. "I think my drawing is pretty good. Look, everyone gave me high ratings. Why don't you look forward to my next work?"

Xiaohui had a flash of inspiration and thought of a suitable way to say it.

"Is it because everyone's works are short stories and the stories are all finished, so they are not expected?"

Shiha and Eriri both looked at Akane for confirmation, but the latter shrugged, hiding the slight smile on her lips.

"Hmm...it seems, it seems, that this is the reason."

Shiyu: “…”

Yinglili "..."

They understood that Zhu Yin was taking the opportunity to do PUA.

"Don't look at me with that 'taking advantage of someone's misfortune' look. Trying too hard in a short story will inevitably make readers think you've burned out your potential. And Ye Jun isn't the only reader, so of course they can't understand you that well."

Shiyu knew that the other party wanted her to serialize the work in a paperback edition.

"Let's be frank. My primary target is the Fuzugawa Bunko. To serialize it with Akane-senpai, I need to check the contract. Besides, Xiaobai-kun sometimes needs my help."

Akane turned her gaze towards Eriri.

"I, let me think about it. I originally drew this just to get 'Flash Girl' back..."

Zhu Yin didn't force it, stretched, and took the orange from Bai Ye.

"Please think about it. If we weren't all Ye Jun's women, I would have to add some more rhetoric to my words, but since Ye Jun is here, forget it."

"Thank you for giving me face." Bai Ye said flatteringly, "You didn't forget to drag me down with you even at this moment."

"You're welcome. It's my duty~"

Bai Ye raised his hand and tapped her forehead, then felt the urge to go to the bathroom.

"I'm going to the toilet."