'Kasumigaoka Utaha!!!' Eriri shouted in her heart. She must be against me, right?!
"Let me go! Just let me die!" Eriri struggled immediately.
Homura tightly hugged her, afraid that she would slip away if he wasn't careful. What if Eriri, who had thin skin, couldn't bear it and really had an accident?
"Since she wants to die, just let her die! Can you stop her forever, Homura-kun?" Utaha changed her approach decisively and began to pick at Eriri's nerves through gritted teeth.
Eriri was so angry that her twin tails swayed, and she wished she could bite Utaha to death!
She was so angry that she didn't care about staying in Homura's arms and jumped out directly. "How could I go to die if I don't beat you yet, WOMAN!!!"
Utaha immediately laughed contentedly and agreed, "Ara? That's great then!"
Eriri was petrified... She was tricked by this woman again. It was so difficult to have a chance!
"You..."
"Editor Iida, hello, I'm Kasumigaoka Utaha, just call me Utaha." Ignoring Eriri, she greeted Ayano and said mentally. 'Sawamura-san, please don't interrupt me when I'm greeting her, okay?'
"OK! I'll call you Utaha!" Ayano smiled. It seemed that Kasumi Utako-sensei was quite to her taste.
Eriri: "..."
"Grrr, Sawamura... Spencer... Eriri. You can call me Eriri too." Eriri gave up on herself.
"OK, just like Utaha, I'll call you Eriri too!" Ayano hurriedly said.
At this time, Nanami asked carefully, "Um... can I ask who Kashiwagi Eri is?"
"... That's my pen name when I draw doujinshi," Eriri answered herself, and everyone was stunned. Homura felt that Eiiri might be able to face the name "Kashiwagi Eri" later.
"Is it... that "kind" of doujinshi?" Nanami blushed even more.
"Yes, it's exactly the "kind" you're thinking of, the hentai doujinshi."
Eriri, are you exposing yourself too much?
"Um... this..." Overheated, Nanami was about to faint. This girl was too shy!
Ayano felt that the club led by Homura was super interesting, and she felt that their future life would be very exciting!
Seeing Nanami about to faint, Homura immediately said, "Come on, Ayano, let me continue to introduce other members to you."
"This is Kato Megumi, who is now my assistant, focusing on game script and programming, and has helped me a lot in other aspects as well."
"Iida-san, I'm Kato Megumi."
"Ah, hello, Kato-san." Ayano was taken aback and whispered to Homura, "Uh, Homura, is it just my illusion? I always feel that this Kato-san is..."
"Is very cute, right?" Homura seemed to have seen through Ayano's doubts. "If it were a week ago, I bet you wouldn't have noticed her; she could easily assassinate you without anyone noticing."
Megumi: "..."
"Homura-kun, I heard everything you said," said Megumi, feeling emotional.
"But now, you don't need to work hard to find her anymore. Isn't it cute that her "gap-moe" is so strong compared to before?" sighed Homura.
'What the heck? Is she a ninja or something? And is this how a "gap-moe" works? Besides, are you actually complimenting her or insulting her? Why does it sound like you're criticizing her?' Ayano really doesn't know how to criticize this, because there are just too many flaws! Hmm...although she is really cute, the more you look at her, the more you like her and the more she enjoyed it.
'Amazing person.' Ayano thought.
"Finally, it's this girl who is about to faint, Aoyama Nanami-sama, the first voice actor to join us," said Homura grandiosely.
Nanami was about to faint.
"Ho-Ho-Ho-Homura-kun! Why are you introducing me like that!? It's so embarrassing!"
"Who made you so shy? How about now, is it much better?" Homura said playfully.
Nanami touched her hot face and said angrily, "Really... did you do this on purpose, Homura-kun? You're awful!"
"Oh, just a voice actor? but this girl is so cute, both in appearance and personality." Ayano observed Nanami carefully and said something that made Nanami feel even more embarrassed.
"Eh! Cute? Where? I'm not cute at all!" Nanami was about to faint.
Homura felt that Nanami was really about to faint, and helplessly said to Ayano, "Are you doing this on purpose too? Is it really okay to tease her like this?"
Ayano smiled and said, "Do you think she's not cute, Homura?"
"How is that possible!? It's just... you know she's still shy, so let's wait until she's not shy anymore to say how cute she is?" Homura blurted out without thinking.
*POOF!*
Nanami completely smoked and fainted from the heat...
Homura, who was already prepared, picked her up and sent her back to her own room in a princess carry, under the envious gaze of the other girls.
After he came back down, Ayano looked at him knowingly and said, "Homura, I'm sure now that you're a black-belly person."
Homura shrugged. "It takes one to know one."
Mashiro asked worriedly, "How's Nanami?"
"She's sleeping soundly," Homura replied.
Megumi also said, "Homura-kun, is this really okay? You actually made Nanami-chan faint."
"It's just the right time for her to get a good rest anyway. Her body has been under too much pressure."
Yes, it was necessary to let Nanami rest well, and the only way to do that was to let her faint.
The girls nodded and put down their envious feelings. After all, Nanami had overworked her body too much... but they were still envious! That was probably Homura's first princess carry! And he gave it to Nanami who had just joined?
'Next time, it'll definitely be mine!' They all thought unconsciously.
It seemed like his action had triggered something very serious?
Suddenly, Sagiri felt like she had missed something.
Rubbing her nose, she continued to draw happily.
===
After Homura signed the contract, he asked, "What was the good news you mentioned yesterday?"
"There are two pieces of good news, do you want to hear?" Ayano smiled.
It seemed that she was very happy about the good news.
'One of them should be "Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun" which was about to be published, right? What about the other one?' Homura thought in his mind, then he said decisively, "I want to hear the one other than "Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun"!"
"... I thought you would want to hear both! I didn't expect you to guess one," Ayano said, slightly surprised.
"After all, it's not hard to guess," Homura said.
"Then why don't you guess the other one?" Ayano raised her eyebrows.
Homura closed his eyes and began to recall what could make both himself and Ayano feel it was good news.
After a moment, he opened his eyes and said, "Is it about the previous manga plan about Otonokizaka's School Idol?"