After hanging up, Kasumigaoka Utaha closed her laptop, a pleased smile on her face.
"It's that tsundere after all, isn't it? Mu-kun is really not honest."
Thinking that Lin Mu would be arriving soon, Kasumigaoka Utaha quickly took a shower and then changed into a blue top.
She put on her signature black stockings, which accentuated her long legs, and then a skirt that covered her absolute territory.
After spraying a light perfume and securing her white hairband to hold her hair in place and make her bangs appear more Stereo, she was ready.
After happily getting dressed, Kasumigaoka Utaha quietly waited for Lin Mu's arrival.
In fact, when she first saw Lin Mu's novel, she felt a sense of familiarity.
No one knew that she and Eiri had attended the same junior high school, though Eiri was in her first year when she was in her second.
As popular figures in the school, both were admired as school beauties, and it was inevitable that people around them would compare them.
Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eiri had contact in private, after all, Eiri was the one who drew the illustrations for love metronome.
It's just that she didn't know how it happened.
Ever since she started drawing doujinshi, that tsundere's drawing skills became increasingly exaggerated, always drawing female characters with those ridiculously large breasts, making her afraid to ask Eiri to illustrate the second volume.
As for Lin Mu contacting Eiri, Kasumigaoka Utaha had long anticipated this.
Anyone who had read his light novel would understand.
The male protagonist liked both the senior and that tsundere.
Moreover, Lin Mu's light novel had a perfect happy ending for all three, which was as obvious as Sima Zhao's intentions!
"Do you want to be the protagonist of a real-life light novel, Junior Lin? You're making things very difficult for me."
She mumbled to herself, but it didn't stop Kasumigaoka Utaha from getting dressed, presenting her best self to him.
About ten minutes later, Lin Mu rang the doorbell of Kasumigaoka Utaha's apartment.
Yes, she lived alone, in a room in an apartment building.
"Utaha Kasumigaoka, are you there? I'm Lin Mu, I'm at your door."
As he spoke, the door opened, and a captivating, delicate fragrance wafted out.
Kasumigaoka Utaha's stunning figure appeared before his eyes, her fair skin, delicate features, graceful figure, coupled with an alluring scent.
Lin Mu couldn't help but swallow.
This was simply tempting him to commit a crime!
(bdab) Seeing his stunned expression, Kasumigaoka Utaha felt satisfied, but her cheeks couldn't help but flush.
This was her first time actively dressing up to tempt a boy.
She felt inexplicably shy.
However, she had to maintain her mature demeanor; she needed to properly educate this junior that being a playboy was wrong.
And she didn't think she would lose to that flat-chested Eiri.
With a confident smile, Kasumigaoka Utaha held her small purse and extended her fair, soft hand to him.
"What are you still standing there for, Junior Lin? Aren't you going to take me home?"
"Oh, oh!"
Lin Mu nodded with difficulty, taking her small hand.
As they left, passersby instinctively looked at them; the combination of a handsome man and a beautiful woman drew an unusually high number of glances.
Lin Mu even felt the envious, jealous, and hateful gazes of many boys.
Holding Kasumigaoka Utaha's small hand, they walked along the street, both feeling a little subtle.
Kasumigaoka Utaha glanced at her held hand, her lips curving slightly upward.
"Junior Lin, can you explain? About that tsundere?"
Lin Mu tightened his grip on her small hand, gave an awkward smile, and then said seriously:
"It's like this, Miss Sonoko was looking for an illustrator, wasn't she? So she contacted Kashiwagi Eri-sensei for me. After meeting her, I found out that she was actually Eiri, my elementary school classmate."
"Well, she's having trouble with her illustrations. When drawing character designs for girls with good figures, she always tends towards that exaggerated style found in doujinshi."
"She said she couldn't draw things she hadn't seen, and relying solely on imagination would lead to distorted drawings. That's when I thought of Utaha Kasumigaoka… After all, Utaha Kasumigaoka is not only beautiful, but her figure is also superb, almost identical to Tsukimi Miyabi in the book."
"Utaha Kasumigaoka would be the most suitable model for Tsukimi Miyabi's character design, so I brazenly came to ask for your help. Please, Utaha Kasumigaoka, please help Eiri, this is my lifelong request!"
Hearing this, Kasumigaoka Utaha's mouth twitched, and she couldn't help but retort.
"That's the line your book's protagonist says most often, isn't it! Just how many 'lifelong requests' do you have?"
"Well, who can say what will happen in a lifetime? Anyway, please, Utaha Kasumigaoka, can you help me?"
"If I don't submit the illustration drafts in two days, Miss Machida Sonoko will scold me."
Kasumigaoka Utaha pouted, glancing at him, "But I seem to remember that you were the one who asked Miss Sonoko to contact that tsundere?"
"Junior Lin, you're not being honest. Explain to me in detail, did you plan to ask her to be the illustrator all along?"
Lin Mu sighed at this, only able to nod.
"I can't refute that, Utaha Kasumigaoka. I once dreamed of you and Eiri, and then based on that, I created Tsukimi Miyabi and Hoshino Nagi."
"Perhaps to fulfill that dream, I shamelessly approached Utaha Kasumigaoka and specifically asked Miss Machida Sonoko to help me contact Eiri."
"If Utaha Kasumigaoka refuses me, I won't say anything, after all, I'm so despicable and shameless… Mmph!"
Kasumigaoka Utaha covered his lips, a gentle smile on her face,
"Don't talk about yourself like that."
"You're being quite honest, aren't you? I was still guessing how you'd try to gloss over it, trying to trick me with excuses."
"But you still told me, didn't you? For your honesty alone, I'm quite satisfied with Junior Lin."
Lin Mu looked at her with burning eyes, saying earnestly:
"Because I don't want to deceive Utaha Kasumigaoka. In my dream, the harm caused by deception was irreparable."
"And also, Utaha Kasumigaoka, you must have heard me talk about the plot of White Album, right? The male protagonist's indecisiveness ended up hurting everyone."
"I don't want to hurt Utaha Kasumigaoka, so even if my despicable self is disliked by you, I will still show my truest self."
Hearing this, Kasumigaoka Utaha raised an eyebrow, "So, Junior Lin, you admit you want to be the protagonist of a real-life light novel?"
"Aren't you afraid of being 'stabbed' (betrayed)?"
"A boy having romantic relationships with multiple girls, that's the behavior of a scumbag, isn't it!"
Lin Mu tightened his grip on her small hand, smiling.
"How will I know if it won't work if I don't try? At least, I'm still holding Utaha Kasumigaoka's hand now."
Kasumigaoka Utaha pouted, instinctively struggled twice, then let him hold her hand.
"Let's put aside your philandering for now. First, let's go see that idiot. I don't know what's wrong with her, she always draws things distorted. I don't even dare to give her the illustrations for the second volume of love metronome."
"Eh? Does Utaha Kasumigaoka mean...?"
Lin Mu looked at her in surprise.
Kasumigaoka Utaha's lips curved slightly upward, "It's not hard to guess, is it? She was the illustrator for the first volume of my light novel.".