"So, Aragaki-san, the problem is solved, right?" Kato's brisk voice came, but Kazuya felt that this sentence and the last sentence he heard from Kato seemed to be a century apart, and he had never met such a Kato before.

"Well, it's sort of—solved, right? At least one solution was found. Looking at Kato, who was obviously deliberately adjusting his emotions, Kazuya suddenly didn't know what to do, Kato Megumi has never been expressionless, so, Kazuya also knows what it means when Kato's emotions can be easily detected.

However, he can't do anything - identity, although he is still a friend, but the identity of Ying Lili's boyfriend, who has an increased heart, has created an insurmountable gap between him and other girls. Although he actually lived for nearly forty years, he actually didn't mature much after repeating the life of the previous 20 years, but even so, it can make him clearly realize that desperate to solve everyone's problems will only lead to the collapse of the overall situation.

Therefore, in the current Kazuya, the best way to solve the problem is to stop disturbing Kato's emotions too much about this matter, and let her calm down slowly.

Even if you really have the hot-blooded energy of the male protagonist of the brainless harem, you can't have a seizure at this time, understand? Talking to himself, Kazuya was so wary of himself.

"Aragaki-san is such an interesting person!" Kato's words continued, but this sentence made Kazuya a little confused.

"Uh, what do you mean?"

"Because, Aragaki-san, I thought I was weird just now, right?"

"That's not what you mean?" Kazuya looked at Kato in shock, he didn't know what the other party wanted to express, obviously he pretended not to find the other party's abnormality, and wanted Kato to adjust slowly by himself, so that he could finally blur this matter, but now Kato himself has brought the whole thing in front of him. Therefore, he can only use this vague sentence to try to test Kato's thoughts.

"It would be fine if Aragaki-san could pretend like this just now, but my appearance just now is really different from usual, right?" Kato sighed and said.

"It's really surprising that you said that, and in every way I know Kato should be a little more stable than just now." I can't figure out what the hell is for Kato to sell, and Kazuya can only admit his thoughts in the end.

"So, it's still a hassle to meet your requirements, isn't it? If the facial expressions are not rich and unnatural, you will be said to be a girl who has a weak sense of existence and can be ignored at any time, but if you are emotionally rich and noticed by other people, you will look at me like a monster. ”

"Well, that's not the case."

- Because that's not your normal state at all, right? Anyone can tell that you became abnormal because you couldn't control your emotions at that time, right?

"I just seemed to have caught the feeling of being an emotionally rich girl, but looking at the surprised expression of Aragaki san and thinking that that feeling might not be suitable for me, I gave up that feeling."

Kazuya finally understood Kato's thoughts, or rather, he thought that he should have understood what Kato wanted to express more accurately - the other party was also fooling, but trying to explain his previous actions with a more reasonable reason.

Kazuya Aragaki Kato, the two are like co-acting in a lame play, obviously if the drama accidentally goes out of the loophole, it will cause unimaginable results, but the two are still working hard to perform the play until the final curtain call. So, in order to cooperate with the actor opposite who is usually highly skilled, but now he is obviously very poor, Kazuya replied.

"What do you want me to say, 'Ah, sure enough, Kato is still in a somewhat speechless state like this!' Again, 'Hey, you guy, what the hell are we working so hard for you for?' if you have a preferred answer, I wouldn't mind saying it. ”

"I think Aragaki-san's true thoughts are the former, but in order to prove that he didn't make a mistake, he may choose the latter interpretation."

"Then you can just do what I thought before!"

"But I never said I would listen to Aragaki-san's thoughts, did I?"

"Hey, you guy!" Half of it was sincerely speechless for the current Kato's words, half of it was out of sadness for Kato's dramatic way of dealing with it, and it was also a little helpless to complain.

"Okay, then let's follow Aragaki-san's true thoughts!" Kato nodded and said, "I think Aragaki-san, I should be more comfortable with the original Megumi Kato, is that so?" ”

"It's not really important to adapt or not?" Kazuya shook his head with a wry smile.

-- Because, as long as the other side is revealed, then the original impression becomes history.

Dividing line-

The discussion with Kato brought the idea of solving the problem of the relationship with Eiri, but at the same time, it also brought the hidden worries about the relationship between Kazuya and Kato, but for Kazuya, all he can do now is to do his best to get rid of some complicated thoughts in his mind and devote his energy to the matter of his novel debut.

"Mr. Aragaki seems to be very energetic lately, has something happened?" Kazuya's editor, Kiyotake, looked at Kazuya, who had been in frequent contact with him recently to revise manuscripts and had repeatedly appeared in the editorial office, and asked.

That's right, with the decline of Kazuya's use value, Mr. Bald, who has been qualified as editor-in-chief after Machida's departure, no longer regards Kazuya as his important bargaining chip, of course, he is still planning to let Kazuya's novel be published as cannon fodder for a showdown with Shiyu, and Kazuya still got an editor of his own, and even an exclusive editor in a sense, a newcomer who has just entered the Fantastic Library.

"It's true that something has happened, so I need to work the publication of the novel." Kazuya just nodded, continued to look at the sample book in his hand, and said.

"Uh, Mr. Aragaki, I'm sorry, in terms of illustrators, the artists temporarily contacted by the editorial department are also newcomers, so they may not be very satisfactory in terms of illustration, but Mr. Aragaki's story is attractive enough, so if there is a chance to publish a second book, we can go and change to a better artist." It stands to reason that the relationship between writers and editors is often that writers need to please editors, but the relationship between Kazuya and Qingwu is different, although he is actually regarded as an outcast, but Kazuya is also a highly anticipated "cutting-edge novel writer" who was in charge of the deputy editor back then, compared to Qingwu, a rookie who has not been in the industry for a long time, in fact, Kazuya's qualifications are relatively high, so the Qingwu editor still seems more respectful in the process of talking with Kazuya - although he is five years older than Kazuya.

"If you don't quarrel with Yingli Li, then you can be cheeky and ask her to help you draw, right? That doesn't seem likely now. Kazuya shook his head, sighed helplessly, and then glanced at Qingwu, who was looking at him uneasily, and muttered a little in his heart, "Shouldn't there be a beautiful editor in the fixed mode of the debut of ordinary light novels?" But apart from Machida, not to mention beautiful editors, I can't find even a young female editor, and I sent a rookie with less experience in the industry than me, plus an artist who is not famous, and he really shows no mercy to the outcast - even if you put a little more investment and make the outcast perform even better, right? ”

"Uh, Aragaki sensei, did you just say anything?" Looking at Kazuya's complaining face, Qingwu asked with some concern.

"It's nothing, I just think that Qingwu editor, your attitude towards me is not too respectful, as my editor, you should be more responsible to pick on me!" Kazuya sighed helplessly and said.

――The writer who took the initiative to ask the editor to make trouble for himself is really a legendary masochist!

"But as far as my personal opinion is concerned, Aragaki Sensei's work "I Have Few Friends" is really a very good work. Although it's a romantic comedy.,But the setting of the protagonist is very novel from the beginning.,How to say.,The hero of the remnant department.,Although there are people in the industry who want to create.,But no one can try to be as successful as Mr. Aragaki is.,If it wasn't published in the same period as Mr. Kasumi's "The Streets of That City",,It's estimated that it could become a topic of conversation in the market! ”

"If it is not published together with the work of Teacher Xia Shizi, it means that my work will still be crushed by Teacher Xia Shizi, right?" Listening to Qingwu's words that looked like praise but not like praise, He couldn't help but crook his mouth.

And Qingwu immediately realized that what he had just evaluated was a little inappropriate, and explained in a panic: "That's not what I mean, I mean, as long as the library gives enough support, it's not impossible for Aragaki Sensei's work to defeat Kasumi Shiko's work-"

――But the library won't support it, right? I can see that I was so careless about being an illustrator just by asking you to be my editor, and I didn't realize it before, this editor is more of a daredevil than a rookie! If there is a routine here, I have to wonder which pampered family will not deal with other people's eldest young masters to come to this kind of place to experience life.

"Of course, my goal is not to defeat Teacher Xia Shizi, but as long as I can occupy a place in the market through "Friends and Youth" with less support, then the library will not despise me, right?" felt that his editor was too harmless to humans and animals, and Kazuya unscrupulously said his innermost thoughts.

This instead led to a burst of silence on the part of Qingwu's editors.

"Uh, Qingwu editor, don't you don't speak, if you don't speak, I really think that you pretended to be a natural fool before, but you really tricked me."

"That, Mr. Aragaki," after a moment of silence, the Qingwu editor spoke, of course, not in a voice of "you were fooled", but in another concerned voice, "I heard that before you, you and Teacher Xia Shizi were very good friends, right?" ”

"How?" Kazuya's body shuddered a little.

"Well, in fact, when I handed over the task to the editor-in-chief, I heard him talk to himself, what's 'let Aragaki and Teacher Kasumi Shizi directly confront something, and friends who have a good relationship in private have become direct competitors because of different libraries, which is a good hype topic, but it has to wait for Aragaki little brother to show enough use value for this kind of topic to be worth hype'." Qingwu said with some caution

"Yes, it's like what the old fox said! But it seems that all of us are too relieved of you, and he has let you hear these words, and my evaluation of him is so unmistakable. Kazuya said with some amusement.

However, Qingwu didn't care about this kind of complaint against him, he just continued to ask with some concern: "So, it is actually very painful for Aragaki to confront Teacher Xia Shizi now, right?" I don't know why the library side would do this, and if I could, I wouldn't want two writers with good relationships to be direct competitors in the market - at least not for one writer to do that on a work related to debut. ”

Oh my God, why did the library send me an editor with this style of painting, boss, you shouldn't eat this at the publishing house, you should go to the service industry or volunteer work, right?

However, despite complaining like this in his heart, Kazuya still shook his head slightly and said, "But this is the reality of the industry, right?" I actually had this kind of consciousness from the moment I decided to debut.,When I knew I was going to go head-to-head with Shiyu-Eun,Teacher Kasumi Shiko, I also knew that the result would be like this.。 So, Qingwu editor, it doesn't seem like this is the time for you to care about my private life, and if possible, I still want my editor to be more responsible with my novels, understand? ”

"Okay, since Mr. Aragaki said so." The Qingwu editor looked at Kazuya's determined eyes and finally chose to compromise.