Real teaching, but diary flow

This is an unfounded competitive spirit.

It's an underhanded tactic used to prolong a battle that should have ended until now.

Even if being called out like that wouldn't really change anything, for no reason, Kikyo Kushida just wanted to take this opportunity to manipulate someone.

However, from the side that Kushida Kikyo couldn't see, Asakusa Tetsu had a slightly strange expression on his face.

No, sis, do you really want to hear someone call you "mom"?

Do you know what state my mother is in right now?

"If you don't mind taking my place as my mother who died young, then to be honest, I might as well call her that." Releasing Kushida Kikyo, Asakusa Toru put away his playful attitude.

Titles are just pronouns. They might be useful for increasing attack speed on the battlefield, but if you continue to use such titles after leaving the front lines, their meaning changes.

Clearly defining the boundaries between the bed and the outside world is key to maintaining a relationship.

“…Huh?” Kikyo Kushida paused, taken aback: “Your mother who died young…?”

She was a little dazed.

As her brain gradually began to understand the meaning of her words, Kikyo Kushida suddenly realized that she might have said something she shouldn't have.

Let alone a fake goodwill ambassador, even someone who takes off their alias knows very well that this is not something to joke about.

but......

"Don't worry about it too much." Asakusa Toru shrugged as he looked at Kikyo Kushida, who had turned her head and was staring blankly. "It's nothing serious."

"Who hasn't lost two mothers these days?"

"Don't worry, I'll protect you, Kikyo-ma~" With a smile, Asakusa Tetsu patted Kushida Kikyo's shoulder and took the folded sheets and dirty clothes from her hands.

He opened the door first.

"I'll go first, then you come over. If we split up and are careful, we shouldn't be seen."

With that, Asakusa Tetsu walked out of the dormitory.

Only the echo of his words remained in Kikyo Kushida's ears.

'Platycodon grandiflorus, grandma, grandma—'

She heard the address she wanted to hear, but her feelings at that moment were exceptionally complex.

Chapter 118 [Hiyori Shiina]

The next day.

Although the midterm exams ended yesterday, the grading process wasn't fast enough to release the results on the same day.

So, although everyone was very eager to know their scores, they could only patiently attend classes.

...According to some senior members of the club, midterm and final exams are usually scheduled for Fridays, so that teachers can work overtime on the weekend to finish grading the papers and release the results before Monday.

However, perhaps due to the confirmation meeting at midnight for Class D and the incident of Chabashira Sae fainting, the midterm exams were scheduled for Monday.

This means they need to attend classes for several days before they know their grades.

However, Asakusa Tetsu wasn't too concerned about grades. He had no chance of failing, and the other students in the class didn't need him to care about their grades either.

He felt it would be better to continue thinking about the changes in his diary that he hadn't figured out yesterday.

The phrase "the prize pool has increased" can be understood literally; it's a final conclusion from the diary that the scope of previous reward draws was indeed limited.

His guess was correct.

The phrase "spoiler fluctuations have increased" can be interpreted in two ways. One is that he no longer needs to worry about saying too much like he did when he scolded Chabashira, and can freely reveal spoilers.

Another option is that he doesn't necessarily have to focus solely on increasing the training speed; he can also criticize other people who have obtained the diary or are related to it.

Both are possible, but considering that 'emotional scoring will include more characters' is coming up next, Asakusa Tetsu is likely to choose the former.

As for the last point, 'increased rating cap'...

No, if you raise the upper limit, why don't you raise the index as well?

What's the point of just raising the rating cap?

Does not having an index mean you can't achieve high ratings?

Asakusa Tetsu wasn't too surprised that there was an upper limit to the rating; he had already guessed that 'S' was the previous upper limit.

The key is not in the evaluation, but in the index.

Even if the evaluation cap is raised to SSS, it's useless if the index is only E.

Unless spoiler index and sentiment score can free the evaluation from the influence of index, this update is just for show.

After a brief review, Asakusa Tetsu quickly realized the most important issue.

His strategy for keeping a diary needs to be slightly changed.

Now that the distribution of dungeons is no longer limited to highly trained individuals, but also includes those outside the school in the scoring, he should 'provoke' some other people.

but......

"Has the story scoring not started yet?"

This time, he received a response very quickly.

Not counted.

The scoring and reward expansion are limited to the unfolding storyline; storylines that have not yet started will not only not score points, but will also not expand the reward pool.

...Then why the hell are you going to give me a list of dishes?

Asakusa Tetsu was speechless, but then he thought that the diary might have come from the hedgehog cat, and suddenly it seemed to make sense.

Fine, it all came from the hedgehog cat, so I'll just go along with it.

Let's go back to the last update change.

message.

Replies are allowed, but only fifty characters in the groove.

You can remove the label, but you can set it to transparent.

So what exactly is transparency?

With a blink, Asakusa Tetsu quickly received another answer.

This comment will only be visible to the commenter.

...Isn't this just a damn selection of comments?

Only selected comments will be displayed, wasn't that how it was always? You changed your name and are now posting like an update, right?

Even after using transparency, the commenter can still see your reply. Using transparency effectively can better protect the commenter's privacy.

"...?"

If he were on a different system or something, he might actually believe the claim about protecting privacy.

But how can you say such a thing when your diary is designed to let me spoil other people's privacy for your own amusement?

Protect privacy (X), One-way blasting (√)

The comments are the shortest and easiest to understand, and Asakusa Tetsu doesn't need to change his recording routine for them. He can just respond to one or two more 'questions' from others.

So... without further ado, let's try replying with the last two lines?

He checked Shiina Mashiro's message, but he remembered there should have been another message.

He took out his diary, casually flipped to the comments page, and behind that magnificent throne mountain, Asakusa Toru opened the second comment from yesterday.

From the perspectives of the past, present, and future, Mr. Diary, who is your favorite person in this school? Please tell me why.

"..."

Who are you?

Asakusa Tetsu blinked, revealing clear eyes.

...Is he a highly trained student?

The fact that they would use a relatively respectful tone like "Mr. Diary" to ask a question suggests that they haven't been mentioned by me before.

But why ask who you like?

Are you planning to find me based on my personal preferences?

A straight hook and salty bait—will those who are willing take the bait?

He casually pulled out the pen from his diary, but Asakusa Tetsu hesitated to write a reply.

He was still thinking.

He couldn't figure out the identity of the person who left the message. Even if he limited the scope to highly developed individuals, he still couldn't find the answer to such a simple question, let alone now that the scope of the diary copy has been expanded and increased.

So what troubled Asakusa Toru was the reply.

I'll definitely try to reply, the problem is, how should I reply?

Should I reply with content unrelated to the question? Should I write about 12 purple sweet potato puddings to reach the 50-character limit?

...It feels a bit inexplicable, after all, Japanese people probably wouldn't understand the pun that 'purple sweet potato pudding = word count patch'.

Or perhaps it's better to just answer the question directly, since no matter how you look at it, the question doesn't seem like there's a trap involved.

If you're worried that others might see your reply and start analyzing your preferences, or that it might affect the name they wrote, then you should set your comment to be transparent.

This way, the name of the reply won't be known by too many people, the other party probably won't be bothered too much, and you can also determine who sent the message based on the people you've been in contact with recently.

What? You're asking why he seems so kind?

Um, do you need a reason to show concern for a character you like?

First, he casually set the comment to a transparent one, and Asakusa Tetsu quickly found the area to reply to the comment.

Reply to this comment (within 50 characters)

The dim, gray text drew small boxes around him in the diary.

Without hesitation, Asakusa Tetsu wrote down his answer.

Among the highly developed characters, this is his favorite.

In the chaotic battle between geniuses and vocational school students, he is the only 'normal person'.

Hiyori Shiina

Chapter 119 I Want to Go to Vocational School

United Kingdom.

"Rita."

A girl, curled up like a kitten under the table, peeked out and blankly called out her owner's name.

It was like a hidden service bell being pressed; even such a gentle and calm call still made the blonde, blue-eyed beauty fling open the door.

"—Mashiro?" A beautiful girl named Rita Einzworth rushed to Mashiro's side, grabbing the chair that was tilting to block most of the sunlight for the cave creature Shiina Mashiro, and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

Shiina Mashiro raised her head, her beautiful hair falling gracefully down her cheeks.

"What does 'censoring ghost images' mean?" she asked.

Rita: "...?"

Rita's breath hitched for a moment, then she relaxed, letting out a long sigh before letting out a helpless sigh:

"Where have you seen that weird thing again...?"

To be honest, Rita has almost gotten used to all the strange things Mashiro has done in the last two months.

First and foremost is the most terrifying declaration.

She wants to become a cartoonist.

It wasn't about wanting or hoping; it was about needing.

As a world-class oil painting genius, she decided to abandon the path of oil painting and turn to depicting comics, a medium that is almost entirely 'commercial'.