"So tell me! What are you doing in my room, you old woman?!"
"Do you think I really want to go to your room? If she hadn't told me to go to your room to call you, would I go back to your room reeking of alcohol? Don't be ridiculous!"
Ellen and Nia were bickering as usual. Annoyed that Ellen had come to her room, Nia started arguing with her.
Ellen expressed her annoyance as well. If Kurumi hadn't told her to call Nia out for dinner, how could she possibly go to Nia's doghouse!
"Smells of alcohol? What's wrong with having a drink? I'm the one who has to support a family! Unlike a parasite like you! I'm the popular manga artist, Honjou Souji!"
"Honjou Souji… Heh heh~ Don't think I don't know about you. Even after you were rescued by God, DEM Industries has been monitoring you, especially your works."
Ellen looked at Nia disdainfully. This fellow completely failed to conceal herself; her works could be bought anywhere.
Ellen wasn't very interested in manga, but previously, in order to track Nia's whereabouts, she had no choice but to receive Nia's manga from her subordinates every week.
At first, it was fine; Nia's manga would continue from the ending four years ago, but then problems started to arise.
This fellow added a new character to the later stories. It's not an impossible thing for a mangaka to add characters to a story, but the character she added was a Little Loli!
And she was a Little Loli with silver twin tails who used a long sword. This was very problematic!
This character was entirely designed by Nia, using Inaba Tsukiyo as a template. And not only did she design her, Nia also designed a character based on herself.
These two characters joined the protagonist's party, but they have no relation to the protagonist.
These two characters exist as a couple in the story, even though they are both girls. Nia is truly a mangaka; she designs background stories one after another, and you can't find any sense of incongruity.
It's just that she wrote her imagined relationship with Inaba Tsukiyo into her own manga, completely exposing her hidden feelings for Inaba Tsukiyo within the manga.
When Ellen first saw the manga's plot, she felt nothing, as she had no connection to Inaba Tsukiyo.
But now it's different. Inaba Tsukiyo has become her faith, and seeing her faith portrayed like this, how could she bear it?
"Uh... you, what do you know! These are two characters I added for the story's development! You, who understands nothing about manga, what do you know!?"
"Oh? Is that so? Then can you tell me what happened in the latest chapter? Why, when the protagonist arrived at their room door, did he hear strange noises coming from inside the room?"
Ellen expressionlessly pulled out a magazine, which contained the latest manga. The page Ellen opened showed the protagonist arriving at the characters' room.
The protagonist, who was about to knock, heard strange noises coming from inside the room, and his knocking motion stopped.
Driven by curiosity, the protagonist put his ear to the door, wanting to hear more clearly.
There wasn't much description afterward, only a few onomatopoeic words, the protagonist's blushing face, and a background shot from inside the room—a scene with characters modeled after Inaba Tsukiyo and Nia on the bed, with Nia's back as the background.
Kurumi and Yoshino couldn't help but lean closer, carefully examining the manga in Ellen's hand.
They were both intelligent, and even though it was just a background shot, they had already guessed from Ellen's words what Nia had drawn.
Yoshino blushed shyly, while Kurumi watched the now sweating Nia with a slight smile.
Nia was flustered. She hadn't expected anyone at home to read manga. Yoshino liked watching dramas, Kurumi liked playing games, Inaba Tsukiyo had no interest in such things, and Ellen, being a natural airhead, shouldn't buy such things either.
Yet, Ellen knew about her manga drawing even before becoming the First Herrscher, and even bought manga to monitor her. This was too much.
"So... so what! I used my drawing talent to draw what I was thinking in my head, is there a problem with that? Is it not even allowed to think?"
"Oh? Just thinking? Well, I also have a witness to your disrespect towards the Divine One. Let's see if you were truly just thinking."
Ellen sneered at Nia. Under Nia's confused gaze, Kurumi's room door opened, and a Kurumi wearing a Spirit Dress walked out.
Those familiar with Kurumi knew that this was just one of Kurumi's many clones; her Original Body was still playing games in the room.
"Hehe~ I didn't expect to make an appearance. It's truly a surprise."
The clone couldn't help but chuckle. Looking at Nia, who was breaking out in a cold sweat, she giggled and pulled a voice recorder from her shadow, pressing the play button.
"I like you, Tsukiyo-chan. Hehe~ This is my first kiss, you know."
"Motoari Niya!!!"
Just two simple sentences, followed by a series of static, presumably from an angry Inaba Tsukiyo scolding Nia.
Nia was stunned. She hadn't expected that what she had done to Inaba Tsukiyo earlier had been discovered by Kurumi's clone, and secretly recorded.
Immediately after, Nia felt several dangerous gazes focused on her, and she couldn't help but shiver. She saw Kurumi and Ellen looking at her with ill intent, and even Yoshino showed an expression she had never displayed before.
The clone ignored the tense atmosphere, cheerfully swinging the voice recorder in her hand.
"Because I was hiding under the bed at the time, I didn't see exactly what happened between them. But it's certain that Tsukiyo-chan and Nia experienced something similar to what happened in the manga."
Because that kiss had a deep impact on Nia, that's why Nia would write such content.
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