Kasumigaoka Utaha finished writing the answers for them and left in a hurry. She no longer wanted to stay in Eriri's room and waste time. If they wanted to talk about doujinshi, they could go ahead; she still had an empty stomach.
"Phew~ That scheming woman is finally gone." Eriri let out a soft sigh, her whole demeanor appearing much more relaxed. "I was really worried she would just stick around here and refuse to leave."
"She hasn't eaten breakfast yet; how could she not leave?"
"Speaking of which..." Eriri held her chin, sizing Jhin up suspiciously. "You don't seem to have any reaction to her identity as an author?"
"What kind of reaction do you think I should have?"
"Hmm... Shock? Disbelief? Something like that?"
"Should my eyes also contain three parts coldness, three parts mockery, and four parts disdain?"
"What kind of weird look is that? Can a human actually make that face?" Eriri found it hard to imagine a person's eyes could display so many emotions at once. She estimated she couldn't even draw it; perhaps only the medium of text could describe it.
"We're getting off topic. Didn't I tell Kasumigaoka-san a long time ago? She's so interested in love stories, maybe she's writing a novel herself."
Eriri nodded. "There was something like that. So... you guessed she was a novel author back then?"
"Sort of." Jhin couldn't exactly say that the moment they walked into the classroom, he already knew everything about everyone—that would be too scary. He knocked on the table to pull the topic back. "Let's discuss the doujinshi."
Eriri gripped her pen. "Oh, go ahead. I'll take notes."
"Let me think. Let's put aside the specific character settings for now and focus on the plot."
"OK."
Jhin cleared his throat and narrated the plot he had conceived. "One day, the male protagonist wakes up on a park bench. A newly installed hypnosis app pops up on his phone. He has been secretly watching a girl for a long time, tailing her every day. obtaining the hypnosis app, he can no longer suppress the impulse in his heart and calls out to her on her way home from school."
"Wait!" Eriri raised her hand to stop him, her eyebrows jumping up and down with a strange expression. "You call this Pure Love?"
"Don't rush... I've only just started the story."
"Fine, continue."
"I'll go pour a glass of water first. I spoke so much answering those questions earlier, my throat is a bit dry."
"I'll get a drink; you sit there." Eriri pressed down on Jhin, who was preparing to stand up. She sprinted to the fridge at breakneck speed, took out a Coke, ran back, and threw it to Jhin. "Hurry up and tell the plot!"
"Gulp, gulp!"
Jhin downed the entire can of Happy Water in one go. They say the first sip of Coke accounts for ninety-five percent of its value, so wouldn't drinking it all in one breath mean capturing its entire value?
I really am a logic genius!
Although drinking Coke when thirsty didn't seem quite correct, neither of them cared about these details and continued discussing the doujinshi.
"Where was I just now?"
"Got the hypnosis app and called out to the girl."
"Right, right, right. After the male protagonist calls out to the girl, he takes out his phone with unease and uses hypnosis on her. To his surprise, he finds it actually succeeds. Then he takes her back to his own home. Hmm, you know the plot that follows."
"Understood. After that comes the home run and PLAY. And then? It can't just end like that, right?"
"Of course not. Once there's a first time, there will be a second. The frequency of the male protagonist calling the girl to his home becomes more and more frequent. Then, starting from a certain day, the girl doesn't come to his home according to the hypnosis command. The male protagonist thinks the hypnosis has worn off and is even a bit worried he'll be arrested. As a result, he waits honestly at home for half a month, but no police come to arrest him."
"Another week passes like this, and the girl comes to his door again. She says she went back too late last time and was required by her family to go straight home after school, which is why she didn't come over during this period. Then the two continue to get entangled. The story is approaching its end here."
"Hmm..." Eriri felt that this story didn't seem different from those ordinary hypnosis plots, just with a suspenseful interlude of the girl disappearing added in the middle. Her pen tip tapped incessantly on the notepad, and Eriri's golden twin tails swayed along with her shaking head. "I feel this story isn't very interesting. The Pure Love hasn't been reflected either."
Jhin smiled faintly. "That's why I said it's approaching the end. The finale of the story is the girl's personal recollection. She actually knew for a long time that the male protagonist was tailing her. Although she was a bit scared at first, he never made any move to hurt people, so she got used to him secretly following behind her.
"One day, she was targeted by delinquents and forcibly dragged into an alley. It was this male protagonist who acted in time and saved her, although he got beaten unconscious by the delinquents.
"Later, the girl secretly ran back to the alley, placed the male protagonist on the park bench, took out his phone, and downloaded a prank hypnosis app. Then she whispered in his ear: 'If you use this hypnosis app, you can do whatever you want to the girl you like.' Story end."
"That twist is good!" Eriri clapped in praise. This story was indeed Pure Love, yet it mixed in hypnosis and training elements. The beginning might make people think it was a cliché hypnosis plot, but the twist at the end was the finishing touch.
It echoed the beginning, explaining why the male protagonist woke up on the bench at the start of the story. The hypnosis relationship between the male protagonist and the girl was swapped; the hypnotist became the hypnotized. It looked like the girl was being trained by the male protagonist, but in reality, the girl was training the male protagonist into the form she liked.
Who dares to say this isn't Pure Love? This is completely one hundred percent sugar content Pure Love, okay!
The action scenes between the two didn't limit Eriri's room for creativity either. She was equally skilled at drawing training plots—after all, humiliation and training go hand in hand. She planned to draw that part a bit more thrillingly so the shock of the twist at the end would be even greater.
Eriri's notes filled one sheet of memo paper after another. It wasn't until she felt she had recorded all the important points that she stopped, satisfied.
"Jhin, your stories are as brilliant as ever."
"Thanks for the compliment. If there's nothing else, I'm leaving. I still have to go out and buy ingredients with Amane later."
"Mm, sorry to trouble you this time too."
Jhin waved at her without turning his head. "What trouble? Helping the artist I recommend—I'm a hundred percent willing, okay."
"This guy..." Eriri's pretty face blushed. Looking at the door that had already closed, she muttered softly, "Always saying such cool things."
Jhin walked downstairs. Before he could go find Suou Amane, Komine Sachi found him first. Her words were so familiar they made him want to laugh.
"Jhin, I have something I want to ask of you!"
Speak. Whose room are we going to this time?
____
New Story: Danmachi: But I am a God, time to make a family!
🔥 25% off something at the funeral parlor... care to take a look? 🔥
✅ New releases are dropping, plus get exclusive content & updates.
✅ Help us unlock community rewards:
🎯 100 Powerstones = +1 Bonus Chapter for everyone
🚀 140 MEMBERS = +5 extra chapters of ALL STORIES!
👻 P - Walnutchan