nChapter 105: Drawing

nTranslator: imperfectluck Editor: vb24

n‘This probably counts as a direct and polite rejection,’ Seiji thought to himself as Kaede Juumonji left his room.

nShe didn’t formally confess to him, but she admitted her feelings, while he rejected her with sincerity… The result was okay like this, wasn’t it?

nSeiji felt like he had made the right choice by responding truthfully to her feelings.

nKaede’s future actions were up to her.

nIf she gave up, then that was that. If she didn’t give up… since she had just been rejected, she probably wouldn’t do anything immediately. Even if she continued living in the apartment building, her actions probably wouldn’t be too proactive… probably.

nIf Kaede wasn’t proactive, then Mika would be calmer, and she wouldn’t explode or anything. This way everyone could get along… at least for the time being.

n‘Forget it, I shouldn’t think about it anymore.’ Seiji sat down in his chair; now all this was over, he thought that he could finally rest.

nAfter he relaxed for a while, he opened up the gifts option in his system.

nThe dinner at the Uehara family gave him 15 points, and as for the moving-in present cake that Kaede gave him…

nStat increase card—

"Admiring Heart!

"

nThis card contains the pure feelings of admiration a girl has towards you. For a girl in love, the target of her affection seems perfect in her eyes. After using this card, you can choose a specific stat and increase its value permanently. The lower the stat you choose, the greater the increase.

nSeiji was rendered speechless by this.

nEven though he just rejected her politely, he had received such a good gift. No, he should reverse what he just said; he just received such a good gift, but rejected her.

nOkay, whatever it was, he felt guilty… as if he hadn’t done right by her!

nSeiji clutched his face.

nHe didn’t really want to use this card… But according to the explanation attached, it had a greater value if used while his stats were lower. Wasn’t this just asking for him to use it right now!?

nHe felt that his system was toying with him!

nHe didn’t want to use it, but if he let it sit there, its value would decrease, and he would feel like he was ignoring Kaede’s feelings, which seemed even worse.

n‘System, you’re making me feel so conflicted inside… You’re enjoying this, aren’t you? Answer me!’

nNaturally, there was no response from his system.

nSeiji imagined a devilish fairy chuckling at him behind his back, and after that he imagined beating up the fairy with his own hands.

nAfter deliberating for a few moments, he came to a conclusion. The card reflected Kaede’s true feelings, so he should accept them by using this card.

nIn that case, which stat should he increase?

nHe instantly eliminated physical ability and charisma as they were too high. Academics could be eliminated as well, so he was left with communication, music, and art.

nFrom these three choices, communication wasn’t terribly low, while music and art were both about the same. Those two were his lowest stats, so he decided to pick one of them.

nSo, art or music?

nSeiji considered it for a while.

nIt surely had to be art!

nConsidering his increase in writing ability after activating the writing card, as long as he increased his art stat and activated the drawing card, he could create his own manga! Manga! Manga!! Important things should be repeated three times.

nAlthough it also sounded nice to improve his music stat and write his own songs, Seiji was more interested in manga, and he wanted to create his own awesome manga in the future!

nAnd improving his drawing ability would come in handy for the game he promised to create together with Hisashi Juumonji.

nAfter all, if they were unable to come up with their own original music for the dating sim they planned on creating, they could draw heavily from popular songs on the internet to create a soundtrack.

nThe art for the game had to be absolutely unique, though, since it would affect the first impression the user received from the game!

nAlthough Hisashi promised to find an artist, Seiji believed that it wouldn’t be a bad thing to make his own preparations.

nOkay then, art it was.

nHe’d barely focused on this stat at all, so his art stat was currently at a paltry 19 points.

nSeiji chose the Admiring Heart card, and a shining card of light appeared and floated up in front of him. A certain blonde-haired girl was depicted on the card. Her hands were clasped together in prayer, but the image could also be construed as her thinking of somebody.

nSeiji looked deeply at the card before choosing to use it as he selected art.

nThe card of light instantly disintegrated into motes of dust, which promptly entered his brain.

nSeiji’s head felt slightly heavy as a warm feeling spread through his brain. It didn’t hurt; on the contrary, the process was quite comfortable.

nHis mind stopped working, and he was unable to make conscious thought as he fell into a trance-like state…

nAfter a long while, he recovered his senses.

nWhen he checked his system again, his art stat had increased to 27 points!

nAn increase of 8 points.

n‘Pretty nice…’ Seiji nodded to himself. ‘I should exchange for the drawing card now, but before that…’

nHe slowly looked towards the reward he had been trying his best to ignore for all this time.

nThe reward his system gave him for Hoshi Amami’s

"love confession!

"

nUntil he opened up his gifts option, he had completely forgotten that such a reward existed…

nWhen the system opened up the friendship option, it had informed him that whenever a male character with friendship rating of over 60 points gave him a present, he would also be rewarded.

nSince Seiji had been so shocked by the rewards he’d received from the twin sisters as well as Hoshi’s character card, he completely forgot about this

"love confession.

"

nOr perhaps it should be said that he was unconsciously trying not to think about it!

nBut his system was just and fair (and evil!). A reward was a reward; no matter how he felt about it, it would be in the system.

nSeiji was destined to face the dark shadow which had loomed over his mind since the morning.

nThat’s right; it was a dark memory! How could receiving his first ever confession from a boy dressed in female clothing be anything otherwise!? It didn’t matter even if this boy was cute enough to pass as a girl!

nMaybe some people would be happy about receiving such a confession, but Seiji definitely wasn’t included in that category.

nBe sealed away forever, dark history!

nSystem:

"I won’t allow you to forget it!

"

nSeiji failed to come up with a response to his own imagined words for his system.

n‘Fine, I’ve even already inspected the character card! I can handle some gifts!’ Seiji steeled his resolve as he checked the rewards.

nI’m willing to do anything for you; Forbidden Love; Promise to meet after reincarnation…

nTurn off!

nSeiji instantly decided to stop looking at his system.

n‘I saw nothing, I saw nothing, I saw nothing!’

nSeiji tried his utmost to self-hypnotize himself into forgetting everything he just saw.

nHoshi Amami! Just what were you thinking in your head at the time!?

nSeiji’s mind was filled with forceful comments for his junior. He even felt a sense of fear from what he had just witnessed in his system.

nHoshi had given him even more rewards than Rion and Kotomi Amami…

nSeiji definitely had a dark memory within his heart now.

nHe wondered what the three siblings would think if they were aware of their information in his system.

nHis self-hypnosis attempt… was ineffective.

nHow could such a hopeless self-deceiving effort possibly work!?

nSeiji imagined the system fairy evilly cackling at him again.

n‘Okay, bastard system! I’ll take a look eventually… but not now!!’

nHe’d wait till his mental resistance was improved before checking out the details of those rewards.

nSeiji attempted to banish these harmful thoughts from his mind as he opened his system again and exchanged 35 points for the drawing activation card.

nA card of light appeared in front of him once more. A shadow drawing something swiftly was depicted on this card. Various life-like pictures appeared in front of the shadow as its hands moved dexterously.

nSeiji lay down on his bed before activating the card.

nThe card turned into a bright light which drilled into his brain, and just like the previous few times, he had to endure a somewhat painful learning process.

nAfter he woke up, Seiji rubbed his temples as he got out of bed.

nHe walked towards his desk, opened up a notebook, and picked up his pen…

n‘Hmm… What should I draw?’ he contemplated, rubbing his chin thoughtfully.

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