248 Do You Have Time Tomorrow? (1/2)

On the third night after the magazine was published with Seiji’s story.

Seiji had accumulated 133 points and five [Random Draw Shards] as a reward from his novel. He combined these five [shards] into a [Random Draw Card], wanting to try his luck.

He wanted to shout out a line from some popular game... but decided against it.

He would entertain himself like this if he were alone, but Shika-chan was in the room adjacent to his, so she would definitely hear him if he shouted anything.

Seiji didn’t want his adopted sister to look at him strangely, so he could only choose to [use] the card.

He really wanted a card that would let him learn a spell! Although he didn’t feel like it was likely, he felt that life was all about hoping.

The [Random Draw Card], a card with a golden question mark depicted on one side, transformed into white light and rearranged itself into a new card—[Stat Reassignment Card]!

Wasn’t this the card that he had wanted before to reassign some stats to his [art] stat, but didn’t exchange for because he felt it would be a waste of his points?

Seiji’s cheek twitched slightly. At the time, he had been wanting to raise his [art] stat, but the incident with Shika happened right after, so he had decided against it.

Right now, he wanted to focus on writing his story as well as learning spells, so he didn’t have time to improve his [art] stat.

He had actually received such a prize... It wasn’t bad, though, and he felt as if the imaginary system fairy was getting some payback.

To be honest, he did consider loading and drawing again, to see if he could draw something different and more desirable.

However, Seiji didn’t want to abuse his save and load ability like this.

Where did the save and load ability originate from? His dating sim system. What about the [Random Draw] reward card? Also his dating sim system.

Would such a strong system—one that could even turn back time—have such a design flaw which would allow him to repeatedly try drawing for different rewards? Impossible.

At least, Seiji felt it was impossible. And he had a faint premonition that if he tried to toy with his system like this, something bad would happen.

So he decided to just accept whatever it was that he drew. Seiji closed his system and was about to continue practising [Astral Vision] when he heard his cell phone ring.

The caller was Yukari Asamiya.

”Hey, good evening, Harano-san.” When he picked up, she greeted him politely.

”Good evening, Asamiya-san.”

This week, Seiji occasionally saw Yukari in the hallways at school, but they only greeted each other and didn’t have any conversation.

”Have you already finished reading the light novels we were discussing previously at the bookstore?” she asked.

”I have.”

During his recreation time, Seiji had finished reading Reincarnated Golden Eagle, Record of the Demon Sword, and I Can’t Sleep When I’m Sleeping Together with My Younger Sister.

The first two were fine, but... Shika was also reading the third!

He felt rather awkward about borrowing a light novel with such a name from his adopted younger sister.

”What did you think of them?” Yukari asked.

”They’re all pretty good. All three have very different styles, but they’re all excellent stories with their own selling points.” Seiji gave his review.

”I know!” Yukari exclaimed in a obviously excited voice. ”I’ve been following these three for quite a while now, and I can’t stop reading them at all.”

”I agree. Especially Demon Sword; the story is just too thrilling. I actually wanted to finish reading all the volumes in one go, but I barely managed to restrain myself.”

”Yeah, I’m the same as well! I think that the story of Demon Sword is just amazing, and I ended up reading all the volumes when I first started. I even pulled an all-nighter to finish them.”

She pulled an all-nighter reading light novels... Seiji found it difficult to imagine the purple-haired girl doing that, but he could tell that the passion in her voice was genuine.

She truly loved to read light novels. Seiji realized this and now had a better impression of Yukari.

The two of them chatted passionately for a while.