There is nothing wrong with the training method of the Justice Messenger

"Your new book will definitely be ranked first on this week's sales chart...or rather, your book has already firmly occupied that position on various sales charts related to real-time data."

"Ah."

"Then I started thinking, this online popularity seems to have a greater influence on the product than I thought, can we replicate it in the promotion of our game?"

"Hmm...hmm?" Li Nian had been tired of hearing people around him bragging about the sales of his book these days, and thought that An Yi was going to start that boring thing again, so he hummed a few times perfunctorily. Now that he heard that An Yi had other ideas, he became interested.

"Copy? How do you copy?"

"Didn't we talk about asking Igusa-senpai to make an animated short film for our game? Why not just make a 20-minute short film with complete content like we did this time?"

Asking Kamijusa to help make an animation or something is an idea that An Yi had already discussed with Li Nian before, but at that time he only thought of making an animated PV of a few minutes. Now, after seeing the effect of the animated short film on increasing the sales of Li Nian's new book, he has become a little bolder and wants to directly make a 20-minute animated short film to see if he can reproduce this successful publicity effect.

Not only Aki has this idea, many companies have it. Senior Ren has received many similar commissions, and many of the calls he has received are from people who want Kamiigusa to help them make animations of the same quality to promote various products.

Therefore, the key point is whether Shang Jingcao will accept the commission... Of course Li Nian knows that as long as he mentions it, Shang Jingcao's reaction will definitely be to pat his chest and agree without hesitation in a turbulent mood.

It is even very likely that once the mood strikes, he will just start working without even thinking about the money. Of course, Li Nian does not intend to get it for free again. What he wants is to invest seriously and entrust Kamiigusa and others to produce the animation.

As for the question of whether the tens of millions of dollars would have to be spent and whether it could be earned back from sales, Li Nian didn't think much about it.

"Well, I'll tell Kamiigusa about it, but you know, it's very likely that Phoenix Library will start the animation production of my book "Magic Contract" in the future. I don't know if Kamiigusa will have the free time to do other things."

"I understand... Actually, I've been thinking that after such a successful cooperation experience, you, Anian, can further deepen your relationship with Senior Umiigusa... No, to put it more bluntly, how about getting that person in your hands right now?"

"… Ren-senpai will try to kill me."

"That's not what you think!"

"I know, I'm just kidding. I'm not interested in an alien with a nice body, so I know that's not what you mean, but I still don't know what you mean. Speak clearly, don't be like those riddlers next to you."

"Didn't you say you wanted to start a company in the future? I thought the business would involve animation, art, games, and programming. I think we can start with the animation department."

"…You mean, I'm the one taking the lead right now and asking Ueigusa to start a company that does animation production?"

"It's better than this famous freelance animator being taken away by another animation production company, which makes our beautiful vision directly lack an important piece of the puzzle. If the production of the animation of "Magic Covenant" is a sure thing, it will be suitable to be your first business?"

"…When did you become so clever, An Yi?"

"Maybe it started when you said you wanted to start a big-name company?"

"Understood. I will discuss this with Senior Ren."

Chapter 498: The Correct Position of Holding Hands

Do it when you think of it. Although you can wait until you return to Sakurasou and talk to Senior Ren at the dinner table in the evening, Li Nian plans to go find him now.

There was no need to make any phone calls. Senior Ren was in the school right now. To be precise, he was in the stairwell on the first floor. The reason why he knew about him was that at this distance, Li Nian, who wanted to find him, could clearly lock onto him by sensing his breath as soon as she thought about it.

Seeing Li Nian stand up and make a gesture to leave, knowing that this person might not come back after leaving, two voices suddenly rang out.

""etc.""

It was Gogen and Kasumigaoka who spoke at the same time.

Li Nian looked back blankly, wondering what these two people wanted from her, but after they called Li Nian, they remained silent for a while and looked at each other.

Gogen coughed and said, "Ahem...senpai speaks first."

"It's okay, Gogen-san can speak first, because I guess what you want to say to this guy is also what I want to say."

Gogen narrowed his eyes and stopped repeating to Kasumigaoka what was going on. He turned to Li Nian and said, "...Then I'll go first. Hey, Mr. Li, I guess someone has forgotten that he said he would accompany me at the school festival. He needs to be reminded so that he can remember it."

Li Nian thought about it, understood what she meant, and immediately revealed a malicious smile: "...If you feel lonely and want to find a handsome guy to play with, just say so."

Wu Geng blushed and argued, "What do you mean I want you to play with me? And you call yourself a handsome guy? With your face? Forget it, don't be so narcissistic, okay? I'm just very upset that some people broke their promises! Just a reminder, understand?"

"Yes, I understand. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten. I meant to let you have a happy school festival different from the usual ones, right?"

"Do you really remember it, or did you just remember it reluctantly after I reminded you?"

"of course I remember."

"But I saw that you were quite decisive when you left me here. You ran off to find your little fangirl and enjoy the school festival together. I didn't see that you thought of me."

Facing Wu Geng's cold and resentful eyes, Li Nian knew that she was really angry that he hadn't brought her along before, so he explained with a smile, "Isn't it because you have become the backbone of the class? The costume group of the class actually needs you to shine, so I was embarrassed to snatch it away."

As he said that, he greeted Ebina who had walked to Gogen's side without knowing when, "Right, Ebina-san, my Gogen can help you there, right?"

"Oh! Li Nian, your girl Gogeng's deft hands really helped the costume team a lot. It's not easy to find a girl who is so good at sewing in JK these days. There are only Gogeng and Kawasaki in the class who are good at sewing. We can't let you take away this precious fighting power."

He was really startled by Ebina who suddenly appeared behind him, but Gogen quickly calmed down. Hearing that he was praised as a valuable fighting force in the clothing group, he was not modest and snorted coldly: "As for your clothing group, it is true that only Kawasaki's craftsmanship is okay. The sewing skills of the others are terrible and can't help at all. What did you learn in home economics class? It really won't work without my help. Also, what do you mean by your family's and my family's Gogen? Don't call me that, I'm not this guy's... So, why did you come here? Are you going to conscript men to help your clothing group again? Did you ruin the things we sewed before?"

When she was called to help in the costume team before, Gogen helped with a lot of things. This class's costume team was really unreliable. The two conscripts, she and Kawasaki, were the ones who could really get things done efficiently. Gogen thought that Ebina came here to ask her to help again.

In that case, although it would be very unpleasant, Wu Geng had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​following Li Nian and return to the costume team to help.

When Gogen thought this, Ebina smiled and shook his head.

"No, no, no, it's just a small problem. We can handle it ourselves. We won't tire you out like before. I'm here to tell you that you don't have to worry about the costume department today. Just go and have fun with Li Nian."

Although this was the original plan, Wu Geng was still a little worried when he heard that there was still a small problem: "Minor problem?"

"It's just a very small situation. We can handle it."

"…This is something you should handle on your own."

As for Li Nian, although he was going to talk to Senior Ren about matters related to starting a company, there was not much to say. After the talk, Li Nian planned to continue enjoying the school festival, so it didn't matter if Gogen followed him.

"Let's go, I visited this place yesterday, I know where the good food and fun places are, just follow me... And is there anything else that Senior Sister needs?"

Before, Kasumigaoka and Gogen called out to her at the same time. After Gogen finished speaking, it was her turn. At this time, Kasumigaoka smiled and said a simple sentence.

"How about making an appointment with me if you are free... I wanted to say that, but it seems that it is difficult to monopolize you, so I can only say take me alone."

This was also to invite him, Li Nian, to attend the school festival together... As for the mention of a date, Li Nian just took it as a joke.

"Then let's go together... or why don't everyone in the club form a sightseeing group together?" Li Nian looked towards Kato and Aki.

An Yi shook his head decisively. If he just wanted to go out and play with his brothers, he would certainly not refuse. But in the current situation, he felt that something was not right no matter how he looked at it, so he knew better than to go and act as a light bulb.

Kato's eyes moved back and forth between the three people, and finally nodded: "Okay."

An Yi looked at her in surprise. How could this person, who was obviously much more observant than himself, not see the relationship between these three people and their little thoughts, and choose to join this group at this time? ...Or was it simply that An Yi was thinking too much?

These thoughts flashed through An Yi's mind. When Li Nian looked at him again, he did not intend to change his decision. He waved his hand and said with a smile, "Let's go. I'll leave it alone. Someone has to stay in the class to help."

Li Nian thought that if they wanted to play together, they might as well find Sawamura to form a club for team building, and take everyone out for a day of eating, drinking and having fun. But if the president didn't come, then the group couldn't be formed, so forget it.

"Let's go." The one who gave the order was not Li Nian, but Xia Zhiqiu. While speaking, she had already walked to Li Nian, took his arm as if nothing had happened, and led him to the door.

Li Nian followed her footsteps. Yesterday, Nayuta also held her arm and walked with her like this for a whole day. She was used to Kasumigaoka's teasing approach. At this time, she still reminded him helplessly, "…Kasumigaoka-senpai? If you want to visit the festival, it's really not easy to walk like this."

"But that's how boyfriends and girlfriends go around the festival hand in hand, right? I want to experience it." Kasumigaoka had already thought of a reason.

If there is a chance, they can pretend to be in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship to experience the feeling of love to help with writing - this is something Kasumigaoka had proposed a long time ago, and Li Nian had agreed to it. After being told this reason, Li Nian didn't know what to say.

This kind of sudden physical contact can be said to be an old trick used by Senior Kasumigaoka to tease people. Just think of it as a pendant on your hand - Li Nian thought so.

But when he felt the softness pressing against his arm, felt the close breath, and smelled the faint fragrance coming from the girl's body, these were things he had experienced before, but at this moment, Li Nian had some strange feelings in his heart that were different from before.

Because of Nayuta's confession, he began to feel that he should control the distance between himself and girls, so he has been avoiding getting close to Kasumigaoka recently. It has been a while since he had such contact with her. After such a long time, Li Nian always felt weird being so close to her again, and he could no longer take it as calmly as before.

Even though Nayuta was so clingy to him, Li Nian wouldn't have too many thoughts. But now that Kasumigaoka was getting closer to him, Li Nian felt a little uncomfortable.

Wu Geng frowned when he saw this, thought about it, and quickly followed, leaning to the other side of Li Nian and grabbing his sleeve.

"...What are you doing again?" Li Nian turned around in confusion.

"You want to start a harem, don't you? You like the feeling of being held by girls' hands, so I will be merciful and help you complete the scene of being hugged by girls on both sides, so that people who see it will be able to recognize the nature of your scumbag."

So you're here to help me die, right? Then you should hold my other hand... Well, it would be really hard to walk that way.

It seemed that Wu Geng did not want to sacrifice himself to the point of sticking his barren chest against Li Nian's just to make him, Li Nian, die, so he compromised and chose the method of grabbing his sleeve... But Li Nian didn't know whether this would make him, Li Nian, die. It was just that being grabbed by Wu Geng's sleeve like this, being so close to him, was no longer the usual sense of distance, and Li Nian did find it quite strange.

Kasumigaoka gave Gogen a deep look, and the latter noticed it, avoiding her gaze and looking elsewhere.

An Yi looked at the three people who seemed to be carrying their families (?) from behind and became more convinced that it was the right choice not to follow them.

Kato didn't change his mind, but just followed him silently.

Li Nian forced himself to dispel the inexplicable feeling in his mind, and walked towards where Senior Ren was with both hands held. However, he was not in a hurry to find him, but just walked slowly. Along the way, he introduced some places he had played before to the girls and bought some snacks he liked again.

To be honest, this combination did attract attention, but it seems that Li Nian was not identified as the scumbag who was hugged by women on both sides as Wu Geng wished. It is true that he was mistaken for a couple with Kasumigaoka who was hugged by women on the left, but Wu Geng did not seem to be considered as the one hugging by women on the right.

I heard someone say, "Oh my... what a young couple, but isn't it too early to have a child?"

Li Nian didn't mind that level of attention, but with so many girls around, he naturally couldn't free his hands to eat.

"...Can you let go and let me have a bite of the takoyaki, senpai?"

Even after being told this, Kasumigaoka did not let go and continued with a grin.

"No, I can feed you. Come on, open your mouth."

Without saying anything, he picked up a takoyaki with a skewer and fed it to Li Nian's mouth.

"This... is too hot. I need to eat it slowly. Or can I do it myself?"

“That’s true…” But Kasumigaoka still didn’t let go: “But it’s okay, I’ll help you blow it, huh~~~”

"..." Looking at the takoyaki balls that were gently blown by Kasumigaoka and then brought to his mouth again, Li Nian was silent for a while before biting it off. While biting, he thought, Nayuta and Kasumigaoka are both the same, what is the fun in this kind of feeding play?

"anything else?"

"want."·

Although I didn’t think the feeding play was that fun, the takoyaki I bought was still delicious.

Wu Geng snorted coldly and said sarcastically: "Aren't you enjoying this?"

Li Nian was speechless.

"I quite enjoyed it too." Kasumigaoka said happily, "Maybe this is what it feels like to have a boyfriend to go to a festival with?"

"It's just fake. It can't be the same as the real thing." Wu Geng emphasized.

"It doesn't matter if it's fake or real, as long as it touches your heart... If I do this, will it move you like Nayuta, Li Nian-san?"

"…Eating like this is just a hassle for me, to be honest."

"...I see. That's true. Even if you become smart, it's hard to change your slow nature."

Kasumigaoka didn't stop her attempt to get close to Li Nian after she said this. She fed him the food and continued to hold his arm. She just leaned her head on Li Nian's shoulder as if she was tired and continued to murmur, "But I'm really moved. It's really reassuring to have an arm to lean on."

She had found a reason to deliberately get close to this person, but at this moment, Kasumigaoka was just naturally enjoying the feeling of relying on someone. As she said, she was seriously experiencing "what it feels like to be with lovers."

"..."At such a close distance, Li Nian could indeed sense Xia Zhiqiu's whole body of peace of mind and relaxation.

She also holds your arm, but unlike Nayuta who seems to be pressing her whole body against you and trying to get close to you, Senior Kasumigaoka's approach is gentle. She just holds your arm lightly and leans against him to borrow a little support from him, trying to find a posture that makes her more comfortable.

What Li Nian didn't say was that, for him, feeding and playing were not fun, but the feeling of being relaxed and dependent on a girl was not bad.

Before this, he had been a little tense and always felt "weird". But seeing Kasumigaoka so relaxed and natural, he suddenly felt that there was no need for him to be tense. He relaxed a little and accepted the girl's dependence. The "weird" feeling also dissipated.

Li Nian and Kasumigaoka discussed many kinds of love, but in fact, there was only one kind of love that he truly understood and yearned for, and that was to rely on each other for a lifetime. Being relied on by a girl like this actually fits the scenario that Li Nian had imagined.

It was only at this moment that he felt that walking arm in arm with a girl was a good feeling.

Chapter 499: The one who cares more about the success or failure of the club than anyone else is Kato Megumi

For Kasumigaoka, this seemed to be an experience of "the feeling of having a boyfriend", and she was as immersed in the role as ever... no, it should be said that she was more immersed in the role than ever before, as if she no longer cared about the boundary between reality and falsehood.

Li Nian actually doesn't care much about it.

After all, compared to Nayuta, Kasumigaoka-senpai's offensiveness... is really a bit weak.

Compared to the real excessiveness, Kasumigaoka's actions all seem to be within the framework of not being excessive...

Li Nian began to think whether the feeling he had now was the so-called "feeling of having a girlfriend by your side".

Maybe this is what it feels like for a normal guy to have a girlfriend?

But it doesn't seem to match Li Nian's understanding of this feeling.

After all, when it comes to the relationship between young boyfriends and girlfriends, in his impression, it should be more heart-pounding, accompanied by emotions such as shyness and excitement. It should be an unstable mood swing, a manifestation of hormonal agitation... and now, Li Nian's feeling is closer to peace of mind and tranquility.

Rather than being a young couple, it feels more like the tacit understanding between an old couple?

This doesn't seem right.

If it were an ordinary boy, the feeling of being close to a beautiful girl would make his heart beat faster and his mind wander... Rather than being in love, it would be more of a normal physiological reaction.

It seems to be the same with girls, a typical example is Kani Nayuta. This guy's deliberate approach can definitely be associated with the word "estrus"...