Real teaching, but diary flow

Chapter 112: Did you use my diary as a draft book?

"Are you a ghost...?"

Miss Kushida lay there like a lump of mud, completely unconcerned about her image, her breathing rising and falling with muffled sounds.

“I’m saying, short duration is a problem, but that doesn’t mean long duration isn’t a problem.” She turned her head and said, cursing, “You really need to see a doctor.”

"Otherwise, I think I'd die here."

He got up, pulled the blanket over Kikyo Kushida, who looked like she was about to catch a cold, and then pulled her into his arms, covering himself with the blanket as well. Asakusa Toru lowered his head and whispered in her ear:

"Sister, you're too weak!"

Miscellaneous fish, miscellaneous fish~

Asakusa Tetsu thought that Kushida Kikyo would get angry again and beat him with her little fists, or at least twist his thigh off before she would stop.

But to everyone's surprise, the beautiful girl in his arms didn't react at all.

Looking down, I saw that this guy was asleep again.

...It's probably due to overwork.

Never mind, I won't bother her anymore.

Let's go back and look at the notification sound that we just ignored.

In fact, ever since he finished writing his diary, Asakusa Tetsu had been hearing a long-lost notification sound in his ear.

"You have a new message."

That's right, it's a message.

A long-awaited message.

Besides the little princess and Ms. Kushida, finally someone else left him a message.

Moreover, they fired two at once!

He suspected that one of them was probably Horikita, and the other... might be the fourth person he had never found and who had never come forward, who was well hidden.

He was a little too busy to check earlier, but now that he has a little free time, he naturally wants to see who left the message.

So, Asakusa Tetsu pulled out his diary and quickly flipped to the message page.

But what appeared before my eyes was not text.

Instead... a comic book?

With its sharp strokes and clean drafts, the comics, which immediately reveal the artist's skill, come alive on the page of the diary in my hand.

A quick glance revealed what seemed to be a fairly ordinary plot.

Going to school, biting into bread, bumping into someone, and then... falling in love.

Judging from this page alone, it seems like nothing special, just a typical romantic comedy unfolding.

But as Asakusa Toru turned the pages and continued reading the comments...

But the plot started to take a turn for the worse.

No, rather than saying it has changed, it's more accurate to say that the development that was constrained by the most common template and reasonable plot has been released, and the illustrator has begun to freely draw the extremely dry and lacking plot in his mind.

There's no romantic atmosphere, no youthful storyline, and no intense love triangle.

The rival who appeared once has disappeared, and the awkward feelings of the male and female protagonists have vanished.

From the moment the confession page was drawn, the whole story was like a roller coaster reaching its peak and then plummeting.

Confessing your feelings, starting a relationship, shaking hands, your heart racing.

And then... END.

"...What the heck?" Asakusa Tetsu didn't understand.

Is this a comic?

While it may not be considered a comic book, it does have characters, panels, and dialogue.

But calling it a manga, Toru Asakusa feels, might be a bit of an insult to the way manga is used to express this story.

Inexplicable.

...No, the point isn't whether it's a comic or not. The point is, who the hell sent me a comic as a comment?

Or is someone using the diary as a draft book?

Asakusa Tetsu's logic is a bit hard to understand.

"..." He couldn't help but reach under the covers, rubbing his hands as he began to rethink things.

Are there any cartoonists in this lousy school?

Or perhaps, you dream of becoming a cartoonist?

hiss......

Can't find it.

If anyone is even remotely related, it would probably be Chihiro Shiranami.

At least she's in the art department.

But he wasn't unaware of Chihiro Shiraha's level of skill.

The artistry is nowhere near as good as this comic.

Puzzled, Asakusa Tetsu flipped through a few more pages.

This message is particularly long. Although it is in the form of a comic, its length and presentation are very similar to Kushida's previous twenty-plus-page message.

They all looked like they were just leaving random comments in his diary as if it were a draft.

A huge number of messages, spanning multiple pages, were sent at once.

In Asakusa Tetsu's understanding, a normal comment should be like a little princess's—a short message, at most no more than one page.

That's what you call leaving a comment.

The comments about Little Kikyo and this message can only be described as a DDoS attack.

Is this some kind of sarcastic comment crammed into my diary so I can't easily turn the pages?

Although the pages of the diary are infinite, you can turn to any page you want with just a little thought.

But with so much junk, it's easy to accidentally flip to the wrong page.

The following pages seem to follow the same formula as other youth romance comics: meeting, love at first sight, then dating, and then ending.

Whether it's a relationship that's drawn out as foreshadowing or other characters, they all vanish the moment the romantic relationship is confirmed.

...What on earth is this guy drawing?

Just as Asakusa Tetsu was thinking this, he turned another page.

Finally, the next page was no longer a draft of a youth romance comic.

Instead, it's a cool black and white illustration that catches the eye.

(picture)

The subjugated ones prostrated themselves on the ground in awe, their gazes naturally rising upwards. On the supreme throne, the incomparably noble 'it' sat casually, looking down upon all living beings.

...Absolutely the work of a master.

Upon seeing this painting, Asakusa Tetsu realized that it was something no high school student could have drawn.

This isn't the set of Danganronpa, so where would all these Ultra High School Level characters come from?

Which old man got his hands on my diary? And why did he draw so many awful romance comics in it?

However, while this painting is very impressive, it has a fatal flaw.

The person on the throne has no face.

It was as if he suddenly didn't know how to draw his face anymore; the 'king' who should have been showing an arrogant gaze that looked down on everything became a faceless man.

hiss......

Wait a minute, let me grill it.

Asakusa Tetsu had a slight headache, his brows furrowed, as he gradually pieced together the key features from the messages in the comments.

He seems to be drawn to characters who fit this description...

Impressive.

Asakusa Tetsu stared intently at the drawing in the diary, as if a name was about to leap into his mind.

This is a terrible romance manga, but the drawing skills are so amazing that it's impossible for a normal high school student to have them; it's like a super high school level genius...

'Shiina Mashiro'

A fleeting inspiration struck, and a name that perfectly matched the description was locked in.

A world-class oil painting genius who dreams of becoming a cartoonist.

Chapter 113 A Major Crisis in Trust Relationships

No, no, no, no, no, no, wait a minute.

Asakusa Tetsu was startled by the name he had come up with.

He wasn't surprised by Shiina Mashiro's existence; he already knew of her.

A world-class oil painting genius, anyone who pays even a little attention to the news can discover her existence.

His surprise lay in...

"Didn't your mom say that the diary would only be used for practical training?!"

He clearly believed so much in the power of the diary, so much in its descriptions, and so much in its contents.

Before two months had even passed, they gave me extra diaries?

And they didn't notify me at all.

It was precisely because he initially declared that only members of the actual church would receive the diary that he acted so recklessly, so ostentatiously, and so carelessly.

From creating drama and exposing others to now directly treating Kushida to popsicles.

Even if my identity is exposed, it doesn't matter. It's just a matter of dropping out of school and writing my diary somewhere else.

All of this stemmed from the confidence he gained from the initial limited distribution scope of the diary copies.

It was precisely because he clearly understood that highly trained students couldn't do anything for him that Toru Asakusa was able to let himself go so freely.

But now you're telling him that Shiina Mashiro is here?

hiss......

Shiina Mashiro herself is fine; although she is very powerful in the setting, she is also very harmless.

Unaware of the ways of the world, unable to take care of herself, a pure white, harmless little lamb.

If she's afraid, it's because she's afraid someone might accidentally hurt her.

The problem is that the appearance of Shiina Mashiro signifies the shattering of the unbreakable promise made in the diary.

A major crisis of trust!

If copies of the diary were distributed beyond those in advanced training, and if those who could see every entry in his diary were not limited to advanced training students...

Asakusa Tetsu thought for a moment about the characters he had discovered in this world so far.

...It doesn't seem like anything special?

Hmm, that's a bit unexpected.

He originally thought he could find a character from his memory that would be extremely dangerous if he offended them.

But thinking about it carefully, there's really nothing he can't afford to offend, right?

He's an orphan, isn't he?