Volume 2 Chapter 69: Eromanga-sensei and Fighting Fire with Fire
A few more days passed, and Lin Lin felt uneasy the whole time.
The streams were still going, and the art competition was already over, but the results were not out yet.
Every time she thought about the possibility of failing and not getting any ranking, she felt nervous. If that really happened, she would only be able to stream using stick figures in the future…
Yeah… what would she do then?
Or maybe she could kidnap her little brother and use his body to stream, while she just did the voice acting on the side?
Ahem… that probably wouldn’t count as her streaming anymore, right?
Could she go back to using the Little Vampire model then?
After thinking about all kinds of nonsense, Lin Lin sat in the classroom, resting her chin on her hand and spacing out. The last class today was the weekly class meeting. Usually, nothing special happened. Teacher Zhu would talk about school announcements, and then everyone would have self-study time.
But today…
Something felt a little different.
The girl leaned forward and looked curiously at the rather nice-looking paper in Teacher Zhu’s hand.
Seeing his deskmate’s curious face, Gao Liang couldn’t help but smile.
Lin Lin turned to look at him and saw that strange mix of happiness and “proud satisfaction” on his face. She was confused.
Why is this guy smiling so stupidly?
The “melancholy prince”… no, the “cool show-off dog” image in her mind was about to fall apart.
Did something happen to her?
She quickly tried to check if something was stuck on her face, but after digging around for a while, she couldn’t even find a small mirror.
But it didn’t matter, because Teacher Zhu walked up to the podium. After tidying up the chalk and eraser, she smiled happily and looked at the class.
“Today’s class meeting will cover two things. After that, you can do self-study. Ah, today is really a great day~”
It was obvious that Teacher Zhu was in a very good mood. She couldn’t hide her smile while speaking, and her eyes were full of pride and happiness as she looked at the students.
Wow, something good must have happened!
The students started guessing among themselves.
Could it be… that Teacher Zhu won the lottery?
Teacher Zhu looked excited. After calming herself down a bit, she decided to tease them.
She cleared her throat twice and said, “Today I’m announcing two pieces of good news. And coincidentally, both of them are related to one student in our class~”
As she spoke, her eyes moved toward Lin Lin.
Uh…
Lin Lin looked left and right in confusion. Who is the teacher looking at?
“Lin Lin, Teacher Zhu is looking at you,” Gao Liang said with a mischievous grin.
Lin Lin immediately shook her head.
Liar. Her rival was trying to trick her again.
If she believed him and actually got her hopes up, that would mean she completely fell for his trap!
How could she possibly have done something that made Teacher Zhu this happy—two things, even?
But…
Lin Lin looked back toward the podium and realized that… yes, she really was making eye contact with Teacher Zhu.
Uh oh…
“Alright, first good news,” Teacher Zhu said. “In the last school-wide hand-copied poster activity, our class won an Excellent Award. Only two classes in the whole school got this top prize! You all did great~”
“Ooooooh—!”
The class immediately burst into applause. Then a boy, who didn’t really help much with the posters but was always very loud, stood up and shouted,
“Teacher, can we have no homework tonight?”
“Yeah, give us a reward!”
“Hahaha, that’s right! No homework today, teacher!”
The classroom instantly filled with laughter. Even Teacher Zhu was amused by the students. But then she changed her tone and said,
“If we’re going to give rewards, we should first reward the main planner of this activity. Lin Lin worked very hard this time~”
Eh?
Hearing her name, Lin Lin froze.
Wait… if that’s the case…
Does that mean the person who did two good things… was actually her?
Then…
“Ahem. As for the second piece of good news, it’s also about Lin Lin,” Teacher Zhu continued. “We just received the news today, Lin Lin from our class won First Prize at the city level in the art competition! Everyone, give her a round of applause!”
“Whoa—”
“C-City first prize?!”
“That’s amazing!”
“Lin Lin… you’ve been hiding your skills!”
Clap clap clap—
The classroom immediately filled with gasps and applause. Many classmates looked at Lin Lin with envy and admiration.
Gao Liang smiled softly as he looked at Lin Lin, who was clearly shy under everyone’s attention. He leaned closer and said quietly,
“When I contacted the head examiner a few days ago, he already told me you were very likely to get first prize. He even asked if you want to join the provincial competition.”
“Hey, you knew and didn’t tell me earlier…”
The girl puffed out her cheeks. Because of her social anxiety, she could only turn her head toward Gao Liang.
At least… looking at her rival’s face made things a little easier.
Before she could say anything else, a system notification suddenly sounded.
【Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the mission. Reward: 50,000 popularity points, Top-Level Drawing Skill!】
Lin Lin froze for a moment. After a while, she came back to her senses and suddenly realized—
Her head felt… fuller, like something new had been added.
This…
Top-level drawing skill?
She grabbed a piece of paper and casually drew a few lines. She immediately noticed that her skill was completely different from how it was just a few days ago during her stream.
At this level… who needs special powers anymore?
With just a few simple strokes, she could easily sketch a beautiful picture.
‘Drawing like a god’—this must be what it meant.
“Hey, Lin Lin,” Gao Liang said. “So, do you want to join the provincial competition? If you want, I can take you there. You don’t need to worry about hotels, the examiner leader said he’ll arrange everything. He really believes in you.”
“Provincial competition…”
The girl was silent for a moment, then shook her head.
With her streaming career going on, traveling back and forth for a provincial contest would take too much time. And she didn’t have any other tasks anyway. Better to skip it.
But still—
With such powerful drawing skills now, she couldn’t just waste them!
She began to think seriously. How should she use this ability?
Hmm…
Suddenly, a bold idea popped into her head.
B-becoming Eromanga-sensei?
In her imagination, she saw herself dressed tightly, hiding her face, arriving at a deserted place. After exchanging secret signals with a man in black, she took out a doujin book and handed it over.
“Money first, goods second.”
Suddenly, the man pulled out a gun.
When he revealed his face… It was Gao Liang?!
Lin Lin immediately closed her eyes, thinking angrily that he was cheating her.
Gao Liang pulled the trigger—
And a lollipop popped out of the gun.
Lin Lin looked at the lollipop, fell silent for a moment, then slowly leaned closer with a shy expression…
W-wait wait wait!
What is she even thinking about?!