My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong As Expected

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This whole thing started because of me, but Yukino Yukinoshita's arrival was incredibly reassuring. Considering her excellent abilities, it's safe to say she's got a ticket to finishing her shift.

However, Yukinoshita sometimes wants to do things perfectly. At least for this job, her perfectionism is unnecessary. Ingredients that are fundamentally inedible will never turn into miso no matter how hard she tries to prepare them. In that case, she might as well turn a blind eye to the quality and focus on producing a result.

The story was completed by having an outsider submit it to the literary society's journal. This way, it wouldn't be considered as supporting either the discontinuation or continuation factions.

As for the quality, I don't mind at all saying that the significant drop in quality is due to accepting submissions from outside the club. In fact, that's how I plan to publicize it. This way, I can save face for those talented writers who are worried about damaging the literary club's reputation. The average quality of the works might drop, but those less talented shouldn't feel so ashamed. Of course, things won't always go smoothly, but I'll leave this part to the honest intermediary, Ms. Hiratsuka. She's already said this is a "Hiratsuka case," so she'll definitely be willing to help with this small matter.

The above are the countermeasures for this commission.

Yukinoshita probably already knows this.

"You understand, right? Quality isn't important, is it?"

"That being said, if we don't maintain the minimum standards, many problems will arise."

Well, what you said makes sense... but what is the minimum standard? It's too vague, and I'm very uneasy about it.

"Then let me confirm the most basic parts first."

Yukinoshita tidied up the manuscript in her hands and then turned to a page. The absentee trial of Professor Zaimokuza had begun.

"First of all, what is this thing called the Cyclops?"

The clear sound beneath the snow now sounds as cold as ice.

Strictly speaking, it shouldn't be a monster, but a dragon, but honestly, it doesn't matter at all. It doesn't even have a name. It's just a small monster anyway. But I have no reason not to answer.

"That guy... he's one of the Four Dark Kings, 'The Crawler in the Darkness,'"MatchShadows and decaying, chaotic timber.

"Oh, that's wonderful.

Why? I was just reading something someone else had written, yet I felt my whole body heat up. Perhaps my tone should have been more even, or rather, I should have created a feeling of reluctance in reading it. I grabbed a strand of hair beside me to cover my ears, which were about 80% red.

"But that's not what I wanted to ask."

Since that's not what you wanted to ask, could you have stopped me sooner? Why did you make me even clearly state "the confused wood"? Is she an S?

"Let me rephrase the question. What is the function of this character named Cai Mu in the writing?"

What is its function...? I swished through the original manuscript of the woodwork base (in a physical sense), checking it again. The confused Mr. Woodworker declared, "I will shroud the world in darkness—".

"He seems to be a villain who wants to shroud the world in darkness. That's what he himself said."

"That's its function in terms of plot. What I want to know is its function in terms of writing."

"Oh, that one."

Which one is it? It seems that Ms. Yukinoshita is someone who wants to understand dramatization through theory. I feel like she'll read "Hollywood-Style Scriptwriting".

"The male student who wrote this novel—let's call him the author, for now—I want to know the author's purpose."

Yukinoshita pressed her fist against her snow-white chin, lost in thought.

"At this stage of the story's conclusion, four new characters have appeared. They likely have an important intention related to the plot structure."

"No, I don't think so. After all, it's a timber base."

I don't think that guy would study script structure theory. He seems like the type who would browse through information on works he's not interested in on a compilation website and call it research. Also, on a side note, he seems like the type who would call randomly browsing otaku shops "market research."

"The Dark Four Heavenly Kings (laughs) are probably those. An original character that was just randomly picked from his inspiration notebook. After all, he's Zaimokuza."

I suddenly realized that I had unknowingly given up on supporting the "Material and Wood" teacher. Oh well. After all, she is the "Material and Wood" teacher.

"Then it seems better to treat it as an imperfection in the script..."

Director Yukinoshita seems to be grinding the script like a scalpel. The Dark Four Heavenly Kings arc is silently approaching its end.

"Speaking of which, what is the most important protagonist doing?"

"Did that man, who spent his entire life looking down on people, do anything truly 'important'?"

To be honest, I haven't even watched it yet.

"It's hard to say. If it's a plot about punishing evildoers and rescuing imprisoned women, that's been repeated more than ten times."

"You remember it so clearly."

"After completing the task, I am confident that I can forget about it within five seconds."

Even so, Yukinoshita seemed to be examining it very carefully. Wow, that must be quite painful for her to look at that. Is she a masochist?

"It's surprising that that completely unplanned chain story actually has something that can be considered a plot."

I'm even more puzzled about what exactly the Dark Four Heavenly Kings arc is.

"...Hachiman, although I don't think that's going to happen."

The director's voice grew even colder under the snow.

"You should have seen the full outline, right?"

"Huh?"

I was speechless, and accidentally uttered the voice of a cute character.

“…………”

The director's eyes grew increasingly helpless.

"Oh, I didn't know that existed."

"It exists even though it doesn't exist."

"What kind of philosophical question is this? A riddle?"

Ignoring my questions, Yukinoshita instead pulled a piece of paper from the manuscript and handed it to me. I took it and glanced at it.

"...I see, it's the same as not having it at all."

"Um."

The thing that's being marketed as a "full outline (tentative)" is actually just a crude story synopsis that stretches the awkwardly long title to three or four times its original length.

This means that it exists in terms of form, but its content is equivalent to non-existence.

"It was a waste of time."

"yes."

This matter definitely needs to be resolved as soon as possible. I've made up my mind again.

"I'm on my deathbed in 99 days, I'm kicked out of the Knights, but I'm living a slow-paced life, going on rampage through dungeons, and spending a happy life with the villainous saintess ~Conquering the World Arc~"

Thanks to careful prior preparation and intelligence gathering, the final battle began with our overwhelming advantage, and we successfully killed the Demon King.

Theoretically speaking, there was no reason why the Four Heavenly Kings should be stronger than the Demon King, so the Four Heavenly Kings were quickly killed as well.

The remaining enemies were killed as well.

In addition, all the enemies I could think of at this stage have been killed. For example, enemies I had encountered before, enemies I should have encountered later, enemies that I foreshadowed in my monologue for some reason, enemies who buried a bunch of foreshadowings that they thought were powerful, enemies who only had some conflicts at the beginning and forgot to resolve the foreshadowings, enemies that were placed in the middle of the story, and enemies that suddenly appeared at the end of the story.

In addition to physically hostile creatures, enemies that might pose an obstacle in other areas were also eliminated. These included enemies created by complex, or to put it bluntly, chaotic interpersonal relationships; enemies created by extremely distorted and unrealistic social structures; and enemies created by all the ignorant masses.

Moreover, it causes many mental problems, meaning that so-called internal obstacles are also eliminated.

As a result, I wiped out all the enemies who stood in my way.

"Victory is always empty."

Having achieved my goal of defeating the Demon King, all I have left to do is rule the world.

There are three steps to do this, and those three steps can be further subdivided into three stages.

I will explain in order.

—Seven days remain until the night of destiny.

"What is this thing?"

After reading that article, Yui Yuigahama's first words were these five.

I ignored her questioning gaze and pretended not to understand again.

"What do you mean by 'this thing'? You need to be clear when you ask questions."

“…………”

Yuihama frowned in annoyance. "Hmm—"

"Uh, well, what is this thing...?"

"novel."

"Hmm, hmm. Yes, I can roughly tell..."

This hesitant way of speaking sounds so familiar.

"This is a novel provided by a cold-blooded high school sophomore. It's a work poured into her soul. I didn't ask her to write it, but undeniably, it's the result of her best efforts, and this time it seems less than ideal..."

"work."

Yuihama shifted her gaze back to the manuscript. Her brows furrowed, and her expression held a hint of sadness.

"Oh, on a side note, I recently saw someone on TV say, 'Japanese is truly a language of broad-mindedness.'"

"Uh, that's completely off-topic."

The context is very important.

However, I can understand Yuihama's feelings.

Yukinoshita said something about "the honor of the Service Club," showing a strange insistence, and this is what she wrote in one night.

There are many things to criticize, but in short, she hates anything superfluous in the script and deleted everything she deemed unnecessary. Cruelly, the Demon King dies at the beginning. The Four Heavenly Kings also die along with him. Or rather, all the enemies are slaughtered. Is Yuki mentally ill?

Yuihama, however, clenched her fists firmly, trying to defend this unique novel.

"Hmm...no, but it really suits Yukino's personality! It's like there's nothing superfluous about it."

"Yes. She dealt with the characters who seemed to be useless in no time."

Its lethality caught the eye of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, and it's not surprising that they used it to make drugs for killing characters.

"But... but with that change, the story's pace became so much lighter! I finished it in no time!"

"Yes. Quickly wipe out the enemy, and then prepare to dominate the world at an astonishing speed."

What are the three steps to conquering the world? If I saw that kind of motivational book in a bookstore, I would burn it without hesitation. Burn it immediately. The following text vaguely reveals Ms. Yukinoshita's underlying desires, which terrifies me.

"Uh, um. Well, maybe it's because the earlier plot was so terrible that he got annoyed watching it too. I don't know."

While it wouldn't be accurate to call it "escorting," I'll draw a conclusion for now. No, correction. Aside from reaching this conclusion as a compromise, I can't think of any other way to continue interacting with Yukinoshita.

all in all.

"Then it's up to you."

"what?"

I shoved the manuscript into Yui's hands, who was completely dumbfounded, and turned to leave. Back home, I lazed around with Komachi. I hope this kind of life can last forever. More tomorrow~ Happy, right?! Hamtaro? (Note 3)

"Wait, wait a minute, you introverted guy! Huh, what do you mean 'leave it to me'?"

It turned out I was dreaming. Yui grabbed me by the back of the neck, even though I should have been home by now, and the daydream vanished in an instant.

"Well...didn't I tell you? This is a chain story. Now it's your turn to write. Bye."

I left those words behind and began my journey home. (The rest of the story is omitted.)

"No, no, no, I can't do it! I don't read novels! How could I possibly write one? I'm serious!"

Hmm. I tried to imitate that lousy boss who conveniently shifts responsibility to his subordinates and dump the work on her, but did I fail? But it would be terrible if she refused. I tried to create an atmosphere of "all our hard work so far will be wasted…!" and asked her to help.

"Huh? Ah, uh, wow—! Okay, okay, you autistic guy! I, I'll write it, don't just stick your head on the ground!"

Incidentally, the word "please" carries a similar implied meaning to "kneel down".

"Yuihama, would you like to write?"

"Hmm, hmm. I'll try... What should we do? Should we discuss it with everyone...?"

She muttered to herself uneasily, and I felt a little guilty.

This matter definitely needs to be resolved as soon as possible.

I made up my mind again.

"I'm on my deathbed in 99 days, I'm banished by the Knights, and while living a slow-paced life, I'm also having a blast in dungeons and spending a happy life with the villainous saintess ~Paradise Expulsion Arc~"