Chapter 115: A Six-Hundred-Page Love Letter
The cicadas outside screamed their summer chorus, but the thick glass windows muffled their noise. Inside the quiet room, time seemed to stand still. The only sound was the soft rustle of turning pages.
Kato Megumi's room was a perfect mirror of her personality—calm, unobtrusive, modestly girlish. A few pink accessories adorned the shelves, but the room remained simple, neat, and grounded. She sat at her desk, back straight, a light novel open in her hands.
Her fingers paused for a moment on the page. Her eyes, though calm, shimmered faintly. Her heart had been still for so long, but now it rippled.
The sales numbers for the light novel had come out earlier that day. She had seen them with her own eyes—millions of copies sold. A massive success. It was undeniable. And in that moment, Megumi understood something that made her chest tighten with something close to awe.
Yukima Azuma had kept his promise.
He had proven to the world that she could be the main heroine.
She, Kato Megumi—the girl who even her own classmates occasionally forgot—had captured the hearts of millions through his words.
How had he done it?
Even she had always thought of herself as plain, unremarkable. The kind of girl who blended into the background, like a quiet breeze that no one noticed. Yet somehow, this boy had taken her invisible self and projected her onto a stage where the entire world saw her shine.
Was it some kind of trick? An illusion spun by clever writing?
But no. As her eyes moved across the pages, she knew there was no trickery here. The girl in the story—Kujou Megumi—was unmistakably her. The name had been changed, just enough to offer her privacy. But the character was her in every way that mattered.