Rin Ito: [Sure.]
Rin Ito: [Being your sugar daddy is fine.]
Rin Ito: [But why do you want me to be your sugar daddy?]
After seeing Little Bocchi's message, Rin Ito sent a string of messages, but he didn't receive a reply from Little Bocchi for a long time.
Being Little Bocchi's sugar daddy was completely fine. Little Bocchi had no needs other than her guitar. She even had her own instruments and didn't need clothes or bags. Little Bocchi could even earn money by posting her guitar covers online; her guitar skills were unquestionable. It was a sure-fire way to profit!
Rin Ito was curious as to how Little Bocchi dared to send such a request, but since she wasn't replying, he guessed she was probably violently hitting her head against the floor.
He would ask her tomorrow at the material-gathering session... or rather, the script meeting. Speaking of which... where should the script meeting be held tomorrow?
Frankly, there weren't many places to hold a script meeting. Rin Ito hadn't rented a studio or anything. Besides his own house, there was only... The Fairy's house!
...
The next day, Saturday.
Early in the morning, Rin Ito rang the doorbell at the Fairy's house. Soon, the Fairy, dressed in a pink and white Gothic Lolita dress and white stockings with garters, appeared before Rin Ito.
"Why is your script meeting being held at my house?! Hmph... I bet you're going to have another party, right? What do you take my house for?"
A sex den? Rin Ito didn't dare say it out loud. Rin Ito had already talked to the Fairy last night. Although the Fairy complained, she still agreed to let them hold the script meeting at her house.
"I brought friends over because I was afraid you and Sagiri would be too lonely," Rin Ito smiled.
The Fairy's house was indeed very convenient. The Fairy lived alone with no one else to interfere, it wasn't far from Rin Ito's house, and it was very spacious—even bigger than Rin Ito's bedroom—allowing for many interesting 'plays.'
"Hmph~ You confessed to me and still dare to bring other women back. You really are a womanizer."
"???" Rin Ito was confused. "When did I ever confess to you?"
"Haaah!?" Her pink eyes widened in shock. She knew Rin Ito was openly a womanizer and had even seen him throw parties, but... how could such an openly womanizing party-thrower confess and then deny it!? Am I not as cute as Sagiri and the others!?
"You..." The Fairy glared furiously at Rin Ito. "Didn't you tell me your idea about the goddess reincarnating into another world... Didn't you say the chuunibyou, tsundere Arch-Wizard won in the end? I've already written the first volume!"
"Uh... ah?" Rin Ito paused. The confession? That was a plot point he copied from KonoSuba... Wait. Hearing the Fairy say this, Rin Ito finally understood.
She had equated the flat-chested, chuunibyou, tsundere Arch-Wizard Megumin with herself. After all, she knew she was also flat-chested and chuunibyou. If viewed from a romantic angle, it did sound like a confession. If he had known about the Fairy's interpretation beforehand, Rin Ito would have played dumb and pretended not to know, but since it had been brought up, Rin Ito couldn't pretend ignorance anymore.
"Although it wasn't a confession, the flat-chested, chuunibyou, tsundere Arch-Wizard was indeed based on you." Rin Ito spoke after a slight pause. "You finished the first volume in a week?"
"You're a man who carelessly plays with a girl's heart! The Moon Goddess will punish you... Hmph!" Although her face was flushed, the Fairy still sent the manuscript to Rin Ito's phone. "I am a genius, you know. Writing a volume is easy as long as I have inspiration... After you read it, go draw the illustrations!"
Eiri and the others hadn't arrived yet, so Rin Ito sat on the sofa and started reading the manuscript the Fairy had sent. Rin Ito didn't focus on the plot at first but looked at the character designs. The Fairy had changed Aqua's image to a clumsy, big-breasted girl with short blue hair, and Eris was changed to Aqua's younger sister... clearly based on Kaede and Suzu. And the male protagonist—Rin Ito read the original text and then looked at himself in the phone screen... The male protagonist was completely based on him.
And Megumin—Megumin had been changed to a flat-chested, blonde girl with pink eyes, obviously modeled after the Fairy herself. Aqua clearly came first, but Megumin won in the end... It surprisingly aligns with reality; Kaede came first but is the 'loser' (Haikyo).
As for the masochistic knight Darkness, the Fairy didn't keep her original design. Although she still had long hair, the color was changed to brown... Could it be Orihime?
If she truly considered herself Megumin, was she planning to snatch the male protagonist away from everyone else? Well played, Rin Ito exclaimed mentally.
As for the plot... only the names were the same; the storyline was completely different from what Rin Ito remembered. The Fairy had only used the character designs and worldview Rin Ito provided; how to fill in the rest was up to the Fairy. The same worldview could result in vastly different stories in the hands of different authors. In Rin Ito's opinion, the Fairy's novel was no less impressive than the original novel he had once read.
"Hmph hmph hmph... What do you think? My novel is great, right?" The Fairy looked at Rin Ito triumphantly. "With your illustrations, it'll be even better!"
"Who should be on the cover for the first volume? And which scenes should I illustrate?" Rin Ito asked the Fairy for details, clarifying the passages that needed illustrations.
"The first scene? Aqua, of course!" The Fairy smirked, sticking out her chest, her eyes filled with malicious mischievousness. "Let all the readers think Aqua is the heroine, only to have Megumin steal the victory later."
"If we get flamed, I'm not taking the blame. I'm just a crappy artist, and don't send any hate mail to my house."
"It's fine. As long as you make Aqua a comedic character, it's normal for her to lose in the end... Why are you looking at me like that?" The Fairy noticed Rin Ito putting down his phone and continuously looking her up and down.
"Uh..." Rin Ito was hesitant to speak. Is she really planning to get ahead of Kaede? Just as Rin Ito was debating whether to come clean, the doorbell rang again.
"I'll get it." Rin Ito, whose conversation had been interrupted, stood up and walked to the entrance.
Opening the door, Eiri and Megumi Kato, who were classmates and must have arranged to come together, stood there. Not long after, Utaha Kasumigaoka also arrived at the door, followed by the late Nanami... Since she had to take care of Mashiro, she hadn't come with Rin Ito.
As for Kessoku Band's three members... Rin Ito hadn't seen them yet. Just as Rin Ito was about to call, Nijika called him.
"President-san, we're actually nearby, but Little Bocchi is too scared to come in, and Ryo and I can't pull her!!!"