"Shido, I like ..."
Eriri seemed to be speaking a little nervously.
Shido took a deep breath, and he was ready to reject her.
"I like you..."
Shido was about to say something, but was interrupted by the other party.
"I like your illustrator Mr. Souji Honjo. Can you arrange for me to meet him?"
Eriri shouted loudly. This was what she wanted to ask.
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Shido stared blankly at the other party, but did not respond for a while. What about the confession?
It turns out that Eriri had always felt a little itchy in the heart since she met Shido last week, and she hoped to get to know Souji Honjo through Shido.
But she was worried that she might have made a mistake. After all, there was no direct evidence to prove that Shido was related to Mr. Souji Honjo. It was possible that Shido deliberately imitated Mr. Soji Honjo's style of drawing.
However, during her lunch break last Friday, she went to the dining hall with her classmates for lunch, and accidentally saw Shido.
Shido was eating ramen by himself. At first, Eriri didn't pay attention to him, but when Shido left the dining hall, he left a blank piece of paper. Eriri checked it out of curiosity, and found that it was an illustration by Mr. Souji Honjo!
Eriri yelled in Shido's direction, but he seemed to be thinking about something at that time, and he didn't hear it.
As a result, Eriri took the illustration home, and planned to return it to Shido when she saw him again. After all, it was an important drawing.
But when she got home and looked at this illustration, she suddenly recognized that the four girls in it seemed to be students of Raizen School, two were her senpais and two were classmates.
Was it safe to assume that Mr. Honjo was also a student of this school?
With such a presumption, Eriri couldn't help but invite Shido out and ask him to let her meet the famous illustrator!
Shido naturally didn't expect that a random drawing by Natsumi had caused Eriri to have such a misunderstanding. This also proved that Natsumi's art was comparable to Nia's.
Then, Eriri seemed to have given him a letter because of this. Although it looked like a love letter, it was actually not a confession, but just an appointment to talk about Nia Honjo.
If it wasn't a confession, then it should be fine, and Shido smiled relaxedly.
So Eriri wants to meet Nia...
Shido thought about it for a while, and then believed there was no problem. However, it should be at the right time!
"Next Saturday, Souji Honjo will hold an autograph signing event with the light novelist Shinji Takamiya. You can go and see her when the time comes!"
Shido chuckled. He didn't want other people to have too much private contact with the Spirits. After all, Spirits were in a special situation and could only come to this world once every ten days.
If Eriri suddenly wanted to find Nia one day but couldn't find her at all, it might cause trouble.
Therefore, before the Spirits could stay in this world for a longer period of time, it was better not to let them have too much contact with people in this world.
"An autograph signing event?"
Eri nodded thoughtfully. She hadn't heard the news yet, but since Shido said it with such certainty, he shouldn't be lying.
Although the form of the autograph signing event was not what she expected, it was still acceptable!
"By the way, you are the author of "Smartphone Man", Shinji Takamiya, right?"
Eiri asked with certainty.
"Well, yes. It's me."
Shido did not deny it either. Since the other party guessed that Nia Honjo was related to him, it was a matter of course to guess that he was the author of the light novel.
"In the beginning, I should have been your illustrator..."
Eiri calmly revealed a secret that Shido didn't know.
"For real?"
Shido looked a little surprised.
"Well, when I went to the publisher to submit a sketch, I wanted to try to become a book illustrator. They said that there was a new light novel work that I could try out on, which was your 'Smartphone Man'."
Eriri continued.
"And because I found an illustrator myself, you didn't get hired?"
Shido frowned and guessed.
"That's right! Although I don't want to admit it, Mr. Honjo's drawing skills are indeed better than mine, so I'm also convinced that I lost."
Eriri nodded disappointedly.
"Well..."
Shido wanted to say that no matter how good she was at drawing, he would've still chosen Nia.
But because he didn't want to hurt her feelings again, Shido didn't say those words.
"It's fine, you don't have to comfort me. In fact, the publisher also said that I was still a little out of depth, and I needed to practice more..."
Eriri smiled bitterly, knowing that she was full of confidence at the time. After all, as a famous artist in doujinshis, she was still somewhat famous in the circle.
Unexpectedly, her skills were looked down upon by others when she went to the publisher!
"Really? Eriri... Sawamura-san's level should be pretty good!"
Shido also looked a little surprised.
"Please, just call me Eriri."
Eiri smiled and said a little suddenly.
After all, it was convenient to let him call her first name.
Also, half of her family was from foreign countries, and there was not as much emphasis on name-calling as the locals.
"Okay...Eriri."
Shido nodded. He wouldn't necessarily call other girls by their first names like that. Like Utaha Kasumigaoka, he always insisted on calling her Kasumigaoka-senpai.
But the name Eriri had been familiar to him, nevertheless, her surname Sawamura was never easy for him to pronounce.
Anyway, the other party had half European blood, and should not care much about this aspect, so he would just call her name directly.
Eriri nodded with satisfaction, then asked:
"Where was I? Oh yeah! How did you know the level of my light novel illustrations? If it refers to the school's art works, it should be quite different from light novel illustrations!"