The next day.
Early in the morning, Ito arrived at Sagiri's house after Sagiri's brother left for school.
He opened the door with his key. The house was quiet and he couldn't hear any sound, and the lighting was good. The curtains in the living room weren't drawn, which proved that Sagiri was still sleeping.
If Sagiri came out to take a shower or look for food, the first thing she would do was to draw all the curtains in the house... Sagiri's psychological shadow area was quite large.
The house had a yard wall outside, so even if she didn't draw the curtains, no one would be able to see her, but the first thing she did when she left her room was to draw all the curtains.
He came to the door of Sagiri's room. Ito first knocked on the door. Seeing that no one responded, Ito carefully opened the door. The cold air from the air conditioner immediately rushed in, bringing coolness. In the dark room with the curtains drawn, the petite Sagiri was curled up in a blanket.
The deadline was almost here, but she was still sleeping in!
This wasn't the first time Ito had entered Sagiri's room while she was sleeping. Sagiri was very resistant the first time, but now... she was used to it.
The computer screen on the desk was already black, and only the hard drive indicator light was still flashing.
Ito didn't turn on the light to wake Sagiri up, but sat on the carpet and moved the mouse to wake up the screen. The light from the screen was a little dazzling in the dark room, but Ito didn't adjust the brightness of the monitor.
The screen of a painter who draws on a computer can't be moved randomly. It's okay if it's just published online, but Sagiri's paintings are going to be printed in light novels, and each screen is more or less different.
In order to keep the effect seen on the screen consistent with the effect printed out, the painter's screen has to be adjusted by a professional colorimeter. Those who have money will even spend hundreds of thousands of yen to buy professional screens and color calibration equipment and software. The real screen is more expensive than the computer.
Although the screen of Sagiri's notebook was very ordinary, she must have adjusted it, otherwise it would be impossible to look at it when it was printed on the novel.
Even the brightness, which is easy to restore, Ito didn't dare to move it randomly.
After a simple look, Ito confirmed Sagiri's progress. The content in front of the book had been drawn and even refined. Now, only the ending was left to be drawn.
If she really started drawing, she could probably finish it completely in a day, but... why didn't she even have a storyboard for the ending?
Ito flipped to the first page and looked through it again carefully.
The plot of Sagiri's book was very simple... The plot of a short book of more than twenty pages couldn't be too complicated, and it was even a bit old-fashioned.
The heroine was a slave loli cat girl who had been locked in a cage since she had memories. Every time she tried to escape, she would be caught back and beaten all over. Gradually, the disheartened heroine no longer tried to escape, but because she was flat-chested, no one bought her... This world was so hostile to flat chests!
Sagiri only used one page to explain this plot, and with Sagiri's exquisite and erotic painting style, the heroine looked pitiful, making people want to bully her hard.
Until one day, the heroine was bought by a passing male protagonist and brought back to his home. Coming to the male protagonist's home was just a place for the heroine to stay, from a small cage to a big cage.
The male protagonist wanted the heroine to go out, but the heroine, who had a psychological shadow of walking out of the cage, collapsed on the ground and pissed all over the place as soon as she took a step out of the house.
The male protagonist kept training the heroine and doing some erotic things, buying a plug-in cat tail for the heroine to wear and COS as a cat with two cat tails, etc. After the heroine became addicted to eroticism, the male protagonist said that if she didn't try to walk out of the house, she wouldn't get eroticism, not even masturbation.
Using eroticism as bait, the male protagonist gradually let the heroine try to walk out of the house. During this time, the heroine understood the male protagonist's intentions and gradually fell in love with the male protagonist. This plot was the longest in the book.
After a series of inch-stop training, the heroine finally took the first step out of the door in order to get an orgasm. The last panel of the last page she drew was the heroine stepping out of the door, and then it stopped abruptly.
Humans can't imagine things they haven't seen. Even the aliens in their imagination are pieced together from known fragments. Although the heroine in the book doesn't look like Sagiri at all, she must have been putting herself in her place.
What happens after stepping out of the house? She didn't know; for Sagiri, it was an unknown territory.
The last two pages were Ito's drawings from yesterday, which Sagiri had only just seen.
Sagiri had previously thought of escaping by delaying the manuscript, but under Ito's threat of cutting off her internet, she could only compromise. However, she didn't draw the aftermath of stepping out of the house; perhaps Sagiri herself hadn't truly made up her mind and was still struggling.
Ito turned around, his gaze falling on Sagiri...
"Holy crap!" The silver-haired girl lying on the bed was staring at him eerily, startling Ito. "Are you trying to scare me by not saying anything after you woke up?"
Hearing Ito's words, Sagiri immediately sat up and stared at Ito, hugging the blanket in front of her as if Ito's gaze could penetrate her pajamas and see her body.
"I told you not to come into my room when I'm sleeping!!!" Sagiri, her hair still messy, glared at Ito. "H! Pervert! Peeping Tom! Hentai protagonist!"
"I knocked properly, you know." Ito blinked, asking pointedly, "Have you thought of the ending?"
Invading someone's room without permission was indeed very impolite, and Ito wouldn't normally do such a thing. But Sagiri was different; she needed someone to forcefully push her. If he let her do everything her way, she would never leave her room in this lifetime.
"Ugh..."
Hearing Ito say that, a short whimper escaped Sagiri's lips. Her eyes, which had been glaring at Ito, shifted away due to guilt, and her ten small toes curled up.
"N-not yet, the ending... I haven't thought of it yet."
Sagiri gently bit her lower lip. She hadn't thought of the ending for either the manga or herself.
"Haven't thought of the manga's ending or your own ending?" Ito looked at Sagiri with a half-smile. "So... want to try edge play like in your hentai?"
Ito wasn't just suggesting it casually. Aoi had already listed Sagiri in the female NTR list. Once on this list, Aoi could view some basic attributes.
Although it wasn't like Hana Ren, where wearing a collar allowed him to see even how much breast milk she had, basic physical data was fine... for example, how many times she had masturbated.
Ito didn't know the previous data, but after Aoi listed Sagiri in the female NTR list, Ito could see from the system data synchronized on the phone app that Sagiri's masturbation frequency had increased and the number of times had grown since the day they were honest with each other.
Basically once a day, sometimes two or three times a day when the mood struck.
"I... I don't want to, H! Pervert! Sexual harasser!"
"Didn't we usually talk about much more explicit things than this?"
Ito stifled a laugh.
Even when Ito used to think Sagiri was an old man, they often talked about lewd pictures. Now, their conversations were all about hentai. They discussed all sorts of positions and play styles, and Ito knew all of Sagiri's fetishes inside out. Sometimes, for reference, she would even pose for Fairy to take pictures.
However, Sagiri was ultimately just an illustrator, not a professional hentai artist. Her tastes for various plays were relatively mild, falling within the scope of normal sexual fetishes, with nothing special.
Or rather, they hadn't been developed yet, as Sagiri hadn't encountered many 18+ manga.
The plot of edge play in her hentai was actually suggested by Ito. Although Sagiri's art style was very erotic and refined, if it were just pure romance, it would be a bit monotonous. Adding some pure romance play would greatly enhance the viewing experience.
Moreover, the heroine of Sagiri's hentai was a cat girl, and edge play for a cat girl in heat was a very common trope.
It's a pity, if only Hana Ren's collar could be worn by Sagiri, then he could directly control her orgasm, making it impossible for her to practice judo even if she wanted to.
"Talking... talking is talking, actually doing is actually doing!"
"Otherwise, you can do it yourself. I'll watch you and tell you to stop at the crucial moment. Don't you masturbate often?"
Hearing Ito say that, Sagiri's face instantly turned bright red.
"Peeping Tom! Did you install a camera in my room?! Pervert!"
"I'm not that greedy. Your face looks like you masturbated twice last night."
"Huh?" Sagiri subconsciously ran to the dressing mirror and carefully examined her face, but after looking closely for a while, Sagiri didn't feel anything abnormal about her complexion.
"How did you even tell... you tricked me!"
"Hahahahahahaha."
Sagiri's eyes widened as she watched Ito burst into laughter. Although he knew through the system, seeing Sagiri expose herself and get angry was quite amusing. Sagiri didn't know Ito was working backward from the answer, only feeling that she had been tricked by him.
Sagiri rushed to Ito and started hitting him with her small fists, but Sagiri, who stayed in her room all year without exercising, had no strength. She was already out of breath and flushed after only a few punches.
Her panting breath on Ito's face was a little ticklish.
"Seriously, want to give it a try...? That feeling of extreme suppression followed by release must be similar to how you'll feel after staying home for so long and then going out. Maybe you'll get some inspiration?"
Ito tempted her.
Honestly, Ito's words made Sagiri a little tempted.
"You... you go out, I... I'll do it by myself."
Although she had been honest with Ito and even accidentally ingested his bodily fluids and got some on her from Kamino Megumi, masturbating in front of Ito... it was too embarrassing!
"That won't do. It's hard to control yourself when you get carried away with this kind of thing, so I need to be there to assist." Ito winked at Sagiri. "Want to try? It'll definitely feel better than doing it yourself."
"You just lust after my body!" Sagiri glared at Ito indignantly. "And here I thought you were my brother, but now you want to get with me!"
"You smell so good, brother."
Ito stifled a laugh, just like when they talked over the internet before meeting in person.
"Really... that comfortable?"
Ever since she met Ito and entered the 18+ world, Sagiri began to gradually explore her own body. While it was indeed very comfortable, it was still far from what was depicted in hentai.
If it really was that comfortable... No, no, no, no!!!!
"No, no, no, no!!! You already have a girlfriend!"
If Ito didn't have a girlfriend, Sagiri would really agree.
First, Ito was quite handsome. Then, they both had free jobs that didn't require leaving home, shared common interests, and could discuss fetishes and try various plays.
Finally... Sagiri didn't know anyone else.
Recently, Ito had been with Sagiri almost every day. Although she was used to being alone, a life where someone chatted with her and looked at lewd pictures seemed nice too.
These days, Sagiri had secretly observed that Ito would sometimes get aroused when looking at lewd pictures or drawing.
In Ito's words, if his own dick wasn't satisfied, how could he expect others to be?
And...
She had seen what Ito had done for her these past few days. If only he didn't have a girlfriend!
"What does that have to do with having a girlfriend?" Ito winked temptingly. "This is for your manga research, so it's fine. Besides, last time we did research, Aoi also participated. If you don't believe me, ask Mashiro."
Of course, Ito couldn't tell Sagiri that Aoi had a cuckold fetish. Leaving aside whether she was truly developed now or if it was just for a system daughter mission, even if she did, Ito wouldn't tell anyone else.
After all, Aoi also had her pride.
"Huh?" Sagiri also froze. "Really?"
Sagiri wasn't stupid. How could a normal girl participate in such a research party!?
Sagiri picked up her phone and called Mashiro. Mashiro, who was in class at school, stood up and left the classroom under the gaze of her classmates after answering the call... Only Hana Ren and Mashiro would dare to be so blatant.
"Hello."
"Mashiro, you... wait a moment." Mashiro's cold voice came through. After speaking, Sagiri covered the phone's microphone and looked at Ito. "You stay here!"
Coming out of the room and closing the door, Sagiri glanced at the door, still feeling uneasy, and walked to the entrance of the hallway.
"Mashiro, did Aoi also participate in your research party last time?"
"She did."
"Eh eh eh eh!??? Uh..." Sagiri instinctively covered her mouth to calm her surprised emotions before continuing, "Did you... did you just do it? Won't Aoi... get angry?"
"He did it with me, and with Hinata and Rika too. Aoi wasn't angry."
Sagiri's clear blue eyes widened. She wasn't angry even after they just did it!? Although she didn't know who Hinata was, Rika... Rika was her sister, right?
"She... she actually wasn't angry?"
"Angry? Why angry?" Mashiro tilted her head. "Aoi is his girlfriend, Aoi likes him and I like him. Shouldn't we be companions?"
"...?"
Mashiro made so much sense that Sagiri couldn't refute her!