Chapter 1034: with translation of chapter title

NO. 157: Convenience of Modern Internet (II)

【Digital Quick Print: So it's not just the manuscript stuck, even the schedule planning went wrong!?】

【Iron Horse: No way, President, the earthquakes this year have been strangely frequent; recently our hometown's volcano erupted, although it didn't cause big problems, my family is already rebuilding】

【Fine Brush Painting: Rebuilding isn't considered a big problem?】

【Clear Skies Above: Reconstruction has subsidies, newcomer; the Iron Horse clan's subsidy fees are still among the highest in each region—this is like money falling from heaven, that guy ought to properly thank the monster that fought at their volcano crater back then】

【Iron Horse: What are you talking about? My figurines and all those years of resources got melted too! Don't even mention thanks—it's even hard to forgive!】

【Love and Hope Hahaha: Want to try revenge?】

【Clear Skies Above: Don't stir the pot, newcomer; even telling Carrot Knight wouldn't help with this】

【Aspiring to Become an Inlay Master: Speaking of Carrot Knight, this year will they not give fluffy-haired folks a chance to perform like Light Beauty?】

【Aspiring to Become an Axis Strike Assassin: How about you, President, give a performance? I recall you're also fluffy-haired; you could cry for everyone】

【Digital Quick Print: I've already cried!】

Today I was even caught and lectured by the student council vice-president, and my otaku identity was exposed—I nearly died today!】

【Clear Skies Above: Honestly, the schedule issue still has room for adjustment; chatting more with the exhibition staff could help, but regarding the manuscript, President, you really need to consider it carefully—the club has over a hundred members, and writers are originally scarce resources; now it's hard to catch up on topics】

Six-and-a-half-day deadline—nobody finds it easy to take on.】

【Love and Hope Hahaha: I get you, President—divine power urging again, breaking human limits, one person, one keyboard, one night, a miracle!】

【Iron Horse: Precisely speaking, it's six nights】

【Fine Brush Painting: Why a keyboard, shouldn't it be a brush?】

【Digital Quick Print: Digital carbon, I'm going to kill you all today——! Angry. jpg】

I currently have sixteen windows open everywhere seeking help, while you only spout empty talk!】

【Iron Horse: Um… how about I try looking for external help from other exhibitions? Recently there's an artist called Xingbu Ji, whose drawing style is pretty good】

【Fine Brush Painting:?】

【Clear Skies Above: Don't artists need extra help? Fine Brush Painting isn't it because of superb drawing skills that you were pulled into this core group?】

【Digital Quick Print: We need writers, ah ah ah ah!!! Just now I got rejected again!】

【Clear Skies Above: Why not commission AI? Look at the Strange Cave Club's AI writing—it's also quite strong】

【Digital Quick Print: Isn't there meaning in stories we create ourselves?】

We initially raised the club's threshold precisely to exhaustively seek the ultimate expression of everyone's dreams!】

【Fine Brush Painting: So what should we draw? Please send the requirements ASAP】

【Iron Horse: Sorry to interrupt your fiery state, President—you said this morning you encountered something really impressive, with a bunch of adjectives, maybe someone who could solve the urgent problem—any results now?】

【Digital Quick Print:!!!】

While pounding keys on multiple screens before her, like a social terrorist, ailishuma, locked in battle at the peak of interpersonal relations, after unconsciously typing those three exclamation marks, her mind went blank for a moment.

She then sprang to her feet.

"Aaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!"

She was screaming strangely.

"I forgot it aaaaaaaaa!!!!"

She was breaking down.

Amid her breakdown, she glanced at the number in the lower-right corner.

"Six minutes have already passed aaaaa!!"

She was melting, as if sharing a similar stand-in with the occasional pink-haired guitarist who appears opposite the office.

"?"

And that visitor, who had just expanded from a tiny dot on the screen into a full witch riding a broom, looking at her melting phenomenon, naturally had a question mark.

"... Are you okay?"

She asked instinctively, and this question also caused the girl whose skull was boiling to simultaneously halt the boiling and melting reactions; turning her head, she saw half a head of the witch peeking out from the screen, that heavy makeup could not hide her lovely cheeks nor the sexy dark-red tall hat, together creating a subtle impression that left her speechless.

"..."

She sized up the dorm, then looked at her: "Thief?"

"No."

"Cyber hacker?" she asked again, tensing her legs warily.

"It's a Digital Beast, partner is that demon youth you met this morning."

"Demon youth?"

Though this title was a bit unfamiliar, once broken down, ailishuma instantly reacted, rushing straight to the screen:

"Star Teacher?!"

"Eh..."

Startled by her sudden approach, she instinctively leaned back, bumping into the witch beast on the screen's edge, feeling a slight pain, yet she maintained a profound pose: "... He sent me to remind you, though you probably don't need reminding?"

"I'll be right over..." ailishuma had already dashed to the door instinctively, but a cool breeze made her look down at herself—she had just decided to take a shower and was still only in her underwear.

She immediately blushed and retreated back to the room.

"Ah, I'll put on clothes right away! Um… can I do my makeup too?"

She blinked her eyes, biting her lip, looking somewhat conflictedly at the witch beast.

This only left the latter feeling bewildered: "What are you asking me for?"

"Aren't you Star Teacher's partner?" Efficient ailishuma had already sat at the vanity table, raising her hand.

"Right! You're not wrong!"

Moreover, it was the first time the witch beast had been validated by an outsider, and it instantly improved its impression of this strange person.

【"So you should also pass a message to Star Teacher?" The digital creature hastily operates, letting the Witch Beast look very curious.】

【"Her heavily made-up face is the digital beast's default setting; she actually doesn't have much makeup experience, let alone the pile on the ailishuma's table — although the latter normally isn't used at all."】

【"Going out, a homebody doesn't need such elaborate facial grooming; even if ailishuma is a refined homebody, she merely remembers to tidy up before leaving, and the table holds more cosmetics used for comic conventions or formal occasions."】

【"This time it can basically be considered a formal occasion, so she made thorough preparations."】

【"I'll just drag you over, saving time," the Witch Beast, who's usually not very polite, simply popped out of the screen and sat in the chair, "You don't need to panic, you're only a few minutes late."】

【"After all, the partner likes to go early to wait for someone…" she didn't say that, after all her goal had already been exceeded—she originally wanted to scare the opposite side, but as soon as she arrived she saw the other party already "spiritless and scattered".】

【"This instead left her at a loss, her original mischievous thoughts completely dispelled, she wasn't really willing to watch the other party perform another melting act."】

【"Exactly, for the perfect, invincible, noble Star Teacher! A few minutes are already super super excessive!!" ailishuma's manipulation of the face almost turned into an afterimage.】

【"She immediately put it away."】

【"Um, Miss Digital Beast?"】

【"Call me Witch Beast, just sit behind my broom, sideways is fine too," the Witch Beast glanced at the ailishuma who was at a loss before the broom, then grabbed the black cat beside her that stretched out like liquid, "It'll hold you in place."】

【"Huh?"】

【"Then, let's go!"】

【"At the moment the words fell, the shift from reality to the network turned the girl, together with her surprise, into a drawn-out voice, and within a minute under the gaze of the AI Three Goddesses, she shot out from the terminal screen and landed at Seat 103, T Area, Tresen Cafeteria."】

【"Just in time."】

【"The boy who had just set three dishes on the table greeted the smiling witch and the astonished horse girl, placing the last small dish from the tray onto the table."】

【"Let's sit down and eat while we talk."】