"Izumi-chan!" "Ready, set..." "Izumi-chan!" "Come to school!" "All of us are waiting!" "Wh-What the hell?" "Izumi-chan!" "Hey, stop that!" "Megumi!" "Hey, Brother!" "What are you doing?" "What?" "I said before that I'll come back with a new plan!" "And this is it?" "Yes." "This should really touch Izumi-chan's heart, and come to school—" "She won't!" "More like she'll wrap herself in a futon and sleep!" "Get these guys out of here right now!" "Well, I'd like all of you to go home." "Alright everyone, time to disperse!" "Yay!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "See ya!" "Bye-bye, Brother!" "Yes, yes." "Yay, yay." "Wait, you go home, too!" "Before that, here you go." "A neighborhood circular?" "It was placed on top of the gate." "Why won't they deliver it directly to you?" "Oh, that's because there's a rumor that this area is cursed." "A curse?" "Misfortune has been continuing for the past few years." "Our family for one, but our neighbor as well." "There once was a prolific author living there, but passed away from illness." "It's been empty since." "They say you can hear the piano playing nightly, and see a ghost in a white dress." "The community around here calls it the haunted mansion." "A ghost in a white dress..." "You mean that thing?" "There's nothing there." "It hid behind the curtains just now." "Stop saying stuff like that." "No, no!" "I'm not a woman who tells lies!" "Not that often." "It must have been your imagination." "See ya!" "It'd be nice if it were." "Really." "Hey, Sagiri, are you all right?" "I hope what happened earlier didn't traumatize her." "I'll make you some hot cocoa—" "What's wrong?" "Wh-Wh-Wh-What's wrong?" "Did you get a crush on your big brother?" "Gh-Ghost... piano..." "Piano?" "I was sulking in bed with my futon over me, when from the neighbor's house..." "B-But, the neighbor's house is empty." "I-I hear it." "The sounds of a piano." "Go take a look, Big Brother!" "N-No, no, no." "This has to be a joke!" "If I don't know what that is, I'll be too scared to draw anything." "Okay!" "Leave it to your big brother!" "Um, Neighbor?" "I brought the neighborhood circular." "Elf Yamada?" "Who's that!" "I don't have your manuscripts!" "Yamada-san." "I'd like to ask a question." "Why were you playing the piano naked?" "Where's my drawers?" "One knee-high sock, two knee-high socks, one two, two shoes..." "Wait, why am I wearing shoes inside the house?" "You peeping tom!" "Wait!" "Masamune Izumi?" "Hey there." "What is this?" "What's going on?" "That's my line." "Why are you naked in a place like this?" "Th-That..." "That's my hobby!" "Huh?" "When you play a piano buck naked after a bath, wonderful stories come to mind, don't they?" "No way!" "By the way, why are you playing peeping tom in a place like this?" "I came to deliver the neighborhood circular." "My house is next door." "Huh?" "Such a coincidence?" "IZUMI" "Stare..." "IZUMI" "E-Even if there was, you're the worst to stare at a beautiful girl's naked body!" "That's a misunderstanding!" "I thought there was a ghost here, and checked it out because I had to!" "A ghost?" "There were all sorts of rumors." "By the way, why are you here?" "I moved here so I could participate in the screenplay meetings for my anime." "Most anime production companies are in Tokyo, right?" "Sounds like a tough time." "Of course!" "But I can't help it, I'm an author whose work turned into anime!" "Because my work turned into anime!" "This kid..." "Every time she opens her mouth, it's anime, anime, anime..." "By the way, this house was a cash purchase, paid in full!" "Paid in full!" "?" "Yes." "A cash purchase in full thanks to anime!" "Isn't it something to buy a single-family home in the metropolitan area at age 14?" "By the way, Masamune Izumi." "If you insist, I can give you the honor of stepping foot into my home, the Crystal Palace." "To be honest..." "I am interested." "You should feel honored!" "You are the very first guest to enter my castle!" "Pardon me!" "Is it all right?" "I heard rumors that there are ghosts in this house." "There's no such thing." "If there really were, I'll write about them in my novels!" "Do you work down here?" "I normally write in my studio upstairs." "Though, I sometimes write down here, too." "Wh-What are you imagining while looking at that piano!" "?" "Nothing!" "I've already forgotten about it!" "Hmph!" "We'll see about that." "You can't forget it so easily!" "It was my sacred full nudity!" "Ever since I first met you, you've been nothing but naked this, nudity that!" "Are you in a "full nudity" religion and worship the Naked God?" "For an unknown author, that is a metaphor pretty much on the dot." "That's right!" "Full nudity is the most natural clothing God has given humanity!" "Full nudity is the most supreme!" "So that's why all the heroines in your books completely strip down one after another." "Yes, isn't it wonderful?" "The readers love it, too!" "You really don't understand the romantic comedy genre." "Being naked is, in a way, attire that your heart races to the least!" "You're the one who doesn't get it." "That's exactly where my literary skills and the illustrator's art skills showcase themselves." "Men are powerless before the power of erotica!" "That's not true!" "It is totally true." "My servants totally get it!" "It's totally not true." "I still totally think it's crap that you stripped your heroine naked when she first appeared in your debut piece." "That's the law of the forest where if someone of the opposite gender sees you naked, you have to give your virginity to that person." "It's such an erotic, moe, and marvelous scene!" "And that's why you don't get it!" "Who do you think you are?" "My books have sold a hundredfold compared to yours!" "A hundredfold is an exaggeration!" "You're not more authoritative if you sell more." "Of course you'd be more authoritative!" "Sales figures are combat powers for authors." "Bow before me, an Oricon #1 author!" "WEEKLY LIGHT NOVEL RANKING CHART" "You're #14 this week." "WEEKLY LIGHT NOVEL RANKING CHART" "You're #14 this week." "I-I was #1 last week!" "Besides, "Dark Elf of Bursting Flame" has sold over 2 million copies!" "That's over tenfold my own sales..." "But even then, I won't lose to you." "I won't yield Eromanga-sensei to you!" "An unknown author with less than a tenth of combat powers compared to myself wishes to challenge me?" "Yeah." "So?" "How do you want to challenge me?" "Whether or not it's interesting." "A challenge of who writes the more interesting novel." "The judge will be Eromanga-sensei." "The winner will get illustrations drawn for a new title." "How's that?" "That's fine." "I'll write a novel more interesting than yours, and make Eromanga-sensei change heart." "And I will have the ultimate insert art drawn for me!" "And I'll blow you away with a super-interesting new piece!" "I won't give my partner away to you!" "You're late!" "Why didn't you!" "Come home!" "Immediately!" "Were you scared all by yourself?" "No, that's not it!" "So there wasn't a problem?" "Yeah, it's fine." "It wasn't a ghost." "I see." "The sound of a piano was... it was just the neighbor playing." "Neighbor?" "What!" "?" "It's fine, leave it to me." "What are you doing!" "?" "It's me!" "You made my little sister cry." "I-I'm not crying!" "Why did you suddenly go home?" "Don't you think it's rude?" "What about you?" "Playing a piano in a haunted mansion." "You're the one who's rude!" "That's totally not true." "Because you saw me naked, I'm the one who is totally more troubled." "Then I'll strip down, too!" "Take that!" "Why would you show me such a thing?" "I now have no choice." "Who is that girl?" "O-Our neighbor, Yamada-san, yes!" "You get along with her?" "No, no." "If anything, she's someone detestable." "Why do you lie like that?" "It didn't look like that at all." "It's not a lie." " Someone like that—" " You saw her naked?" "Did you?" "J-Just a little." "So you saw her..." "Put your pants on." "And get out." "Pervert." "I'm in a crisis." "So you decided to have a showdown against Elf Yamada-sensei with Eromanga-sensei at stake." "And, your motivation keeps going nowhere, so your stories are being turned down." "To summarize, yeah." "Men fighting one another with another man at stake sounds like a boys-love novel." "Don't make fun of me." "Sorry, sorry." "By the way, how will you get Eromanga-sensei to read those manuscripts for the showdown?" "Well, I just need to have Sagiri directly read them." "Elf?" "You're finally home!" "I'd like a moment with you!" "Welcome, visitor from afar." "This is my company's studio." "It's full of boxes." "I just moved in, after all." "The contents are goods and sample books." "If you'd like, take whatever you like." "Seriously?" "Can I have your new book, autographed?" "Oh?" "You're one of my fans?" "You should tell me stuff like that!" "Here you go!" "Thank you." "Your autograph looks nice." "I think I'm pretty much in awe." "The view from the veranda is wonderful, too." "It's not that different from our place." "We're neighbors, after all." "So that's what she's like when she's alone in her room?" "I've never seen her look so merry like that before." "Well?" "How's the view from Crystal Palace?" "Isn't it wonderful?" "Yeah." "So, what's up?" "I thought I'd disclose the true identity of Eromanga-sensei." "Wh-What's this, all of a sudden?" "I'm not getting any replies, so we can't have our showdown if we can't get in contact, right?" "She probably can't think the Eromanga-sensei she's looking for is right in front of her eyes." "How are you going to research Eromanga-sensei's true identity?" "The internet." "I've already finished carefully examining the blog." "From my analysis... they talk about their favorite anime and manga, doesn't go to events, doesn't talk about IRL friend at all, seems to have one family member, but doesn't live with parents?" "What does this mean?" "Either a shut-in, or someone who hardly steps out of the house." "The address should be around here." "At least the same ward as us." "You've gotten really far along in pinpointing!" "Oh, Eromanga-sensei is currently streaming!" "Frilly, frilly panties, so sexy!" "Currently streaming?" "Hey, what have you been staring at?" "W-Well, nothing." "That cute girl's pure white panties." "Oh, that's your..." "That cute girl's pure white panties." "That girl..." "U-Uh, hey..." "No, no, no, no, no!" "What's she doing?" "Your little sister is funny!" "Your little sister draws?" "Yeah." "Is she like that all the time?" "It's the first time I've seen it." "She seems to be having fun." "She likes to draw, huh?" "Yeah." "That's great." "I kind of understand." "You've got to be like that." "It means you'll make wonderful art." "I'd love to work with her, if Eromanga-sensei wasn't around." "I see." "That's her right there, though." "Yamada-sensei." "What's with that creepy way to address me?" ""Elf" is fine." "Then, Elf." "What?" "Thank you." "For what?" "What you just said made me happy." "You may be a better person than I thought." "Is that so." "About the thing with Eromanga-sensei..." "I'll try asking so that somehow your manuscript will be read as well." "Is that all right?" "I'll take Eromanga-sensei away from you." "We won't know until we try." "And I won't let you." "I said this was a challenge, right?" "Oh, fine." "So, why did you become one of my fans?" "Why so suddenly?" "Do I have to tell you?" "You have to!" "Please tell me." "The first time I read your book..." "It was a really laughable scene that wasn't sad at all, but it made me cry." "Back then, something really rough happened in my life." "I didn't know what I should do, and I was depressed every day." "Right afterwards, I had something else horrible happen to me, and it crushed me." "Dark Elf of Bursting Flame" "But..." "Dark Elf of Bursting Flame" "When I read your silly story, and laughed, and cried, I felt slightly more at ease." "And that's how I became a fan." "I-I see." "Wait, silly?" "You're not complimenting me!" "It's a compliment!" "Your story doesn't advance at all, but man, how do you write such interesting prose?" "You're surely making fun of me!" "You may not believe me..." "But back then, I felt novels can save lives." "Thank you." "Well, I am a genius!" "I personally think I make 100,000 people cry with each book I publish." "But maybe even you have saved at least one person on one occasion?" "I hope that's true." "Just then," "I remembered that person who I didn't even know the face of, yet gave me impressions" "Next up, let's do something a bit more provocative!" "I remembered that person who I didn't even know the face of, yet gave me impressions" "Next up, let's do something a bit more provocative!" " wanna see more - old man's too good about my first novel." " wanna see more - old man's too good" "Come on now!" "Enough already." "Get to work!" "Eh?" "I don't feel like it." "You've been saying that for two weeks now." "Are you going to submit a manuscript in time?" "Who knows?" "What about your challenge with me?" "You have deadlines for your series' new volume, right?" "It's fine, it's okay." "I can drag it out a bit more." "Besides, does a genius like me really need deadlines?" "No!" "Of course not!" "My heart, only when free, can spread the wings of creation and flutter!" "This is weird." "The other day, I thought she was a cool person." "Anyway, Masamune, let's do some cooperative play." "Hey, Yamada-sensei." "Weren't you going to create the ultimate light-novel?" "I will create it, of course." "But for that, I am replenishing my magical energy." "To create a masterpiece, I am building up my spirits." "No good." "This person is trash." "What?" "And you call yourself one of my servants?" "I may be a fan, but I'm not a servant!" "Hmph, why don't you meddle with your little sister and not me?" "No, she's fine." "She's cute, and showing effort." "You're no good." "You're not cute, nor showing effort." "Huh!" "?" "A-All that girl does is just draw pictures!" "No matter how you look at it," "I'm showing a lot more effort as someone who is peerless in the professional world!" "I can't say that she's actually a popular illustrator." "In any case, hurry up and get to work!" "As." "I. Said." "I just don't feel motivated to do that." "It doesn't matter if you're motivated or not." "Work is something you do every day without rest." "Y-You're not always... w-working like that, are you?" "Of course." "I get turned down a lot, so if I can't write every day..." " Don't write when you're not motivated!" " ..." "I can't keep going." "Ow..." "Fool!" "Just how foolish can you get?" "I understand now." "Your novels are boring because you're writing like that!" "Prose can't be interesting when it's written while you're not motivated!" "Isn't it our job to write something interesting even when we're not motiva—" "It isn't, you nitwit!" "Compared to prose written in interesting ways and not motivated, and prose written when you're on max-fire motivation is definitely more interesting!" "That makes sense, but..." "Then, if you're not on max-fire motivation, don't write manuscripts even if it kills you!" "You've been working all this time with that kind of approach?" "Huh?" "But I've never worked at all." "But you're Miss Popular Author, right?" "Of course I am." "But novels are a hobby." "Being a professional author is my hobby." "What?" "To make it easier to understand, it's a game." "A game I got hooked on the most in my life, more exciting than anything else in this world." "S-She's..." "What?" "You're going home?" "That's right." "I came here thinking your work may give me food for thought, but it was a waste of time." "Hold on there!" "Do you really want to see me "working" that much?" "Yeah." "Then..." "I'll work tomorrow." "If you'd like, come visit." "Thou shalt prove thyself." "Be silent." "Let there be light." "Come in." "The sanctuary hath opened." "Welcome back, Masamune!" "Next Episode:" "Eromanga Sensei"