I Am a Light Novel Master in Japan Chapter 690

However, before Li Yan finished speaking, he immediately showed a surprised expression. Unexpectedly, the figure holding a vegetable basket turned around to look at him. It was not the Xiao Lin he knew at all, but a strange aunt.

After the aunt who looked at him as a weirdo walked away, Li Yan noticed that the door number clearly said "Yamamoto" instead of "Xiaolin"...

What's going on? Have Xiaolin-senpai, Thor and the others moved?

With all kinds of doubts, Li Yan wanted to call Thor, but when he went down the stairs and passed by Gabriel's room, he saw that the house number of "Innocent" had been changed to "Inoue"... …

If it was a coincidence that the first neighbor moved, then there is something wrong with the disappearance of the second familiar neighbor.

After Li Yan realized that there was a problem, he immediately knocked on the doors of rooms 505 and 605. The strange thing was that the families he now lived in had lived there for several years and were not neighbors who had just moved here.

However, Nanami opened the door to room 605, and nothing changed. Mashiro, Nanami and Rita all lived here well. However, when she was asked by Li Yan, she had no idea about rooms 505 and 605. Who are the residents?

Li Yan chatted with Nanami for a while, relaxed a little, and thought: "Mashiro, Xiaolin, and Gabriel are not familiar with each other. It's no wonder..."

What's weird is why Gabriel and Xiaolin's family suddenly moved out of the One Yuan Apartment without telling him at all. What's even weirder is that the two families didn't seem to be lying, and they had no need to lie...

At nine o'clock in the morning, the streets were drizzled.

Li Yan, who had been harassed by one strange thing after another, had already experienced it. He vaguely felt that something strange had happened, but for now, he did not know the essence of the matter...

In the wet street, Li Yan held an umbrella and tried to call them, but the responses were all "empty numbers".

Just when Li Yan lowered his head to find the phone number of Miss Ichihara Yuko, the landlord, under the dim sky and drizzle, a group of figures heard shouting and quietly passed by him.

"!" After Li Yan heard the voice, his heart suddenly shook and he turned around to look over.

The four figures walking past happened to be Gabriel, Vinette, Satania and Lafayre.

These girls, who were very familiar to Li Yan, seemed to be preparing to go out in groups on the weekend. I don’t know whether it was because his umbrella was placed too low or the sky was too dark, but they did not notice this. A Li Yan very close at hand.

"Wait a minute, Gabriel!"

Li Yan's face showed joy. He held an umbrella and chased after him. He grabbed the shoulder of Gabriel who was walking at the end. He looked at Gabriel who turned around in surprise and asked, "That's great, Gabriel." You are here, I was looking for you just now, what is going on, why did you move?"

However, Li Yan's joyful expression gradually disappeared when the four girls turned back to look at him with completely unfamiliar expressions...

"Who are you?"

Gabriel, who was holding an umbrella, looked at the young man who suddenly struck up a conversation with contempt and asked coldly.

Indifferent...as if meeting for the first time.

Li Yan secretly sensed that something was wrong. After the completion of his light novel, something seemed to have quietly changed...

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In the hazy rainy season, in the art exhibition area in Tokyo, top painters from high schools across the country gathered together to enter the third round of painting selection.

With solid skills, Eri Sawamura, a representative of Toyosaki Academy, successfully entered the third round of selection with her dreams and her own works.

Eri Sawamura was wearing a school uniform, standing in a group of students of similar age, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Huh..."

After successfully passing the district and county selections, she finally returned to Tokyo a few days later.

In this oil painting competition, from the very beginning, she thought that Mashiro Shiina would participate, and she did not hesitate at all. She spent enough effort to create the oil painting that she spent a lot of time studying. Eiri is no longer a newcomer, so it’s no surprise that her oil painting made it out of the first round. However, being able to represent Yamanashi Prefecture High School representative in the second round is a thrilling jump. After all, her highest achievement before was winning the municipal prize. He won the grand prize at the Tokyo Exhibition, and now his oil painting "Girl in Kimono" can enter the third round of national selection in the Tokyo circle. This is already the highest achievement since the establishment of Toyosaki Academy.

Of course, her goal is more than just that...

Sawamura Eiri's cheeks were slightly flushed. She looked left and right at the crowd of students, looking for her lifelong rival - [Shiina Mashiro].

Ying Lili always felt that her body was slightly hot and weak, and she seemed to have started to have a fever again. After the quarrel broke out when Li Yan was carrying too heavy a burden and said depressing words, she never thought that in order to prove that she had given up Li Yan reached this point after seeing it.

For the past week, she has been staying in the school's studio, receiving guidance from two art teachers together with other elites in the art department, including receiving guidance from her own mother, painting from six o'clock in the morning to eleven o'clock in the night. I tore up two failed works midway and continued painting with tears streaming down my face. Finally, like a phoenix rising from the ashes, I completely painted my most satisfying work.

What she did was just to prove that she was qualified to be a painter next to an old thief.

Therefore, she unknowingly and nervously accomplished this step...

Yingli coughed a few times, her breathing began to speed up, and she showed her unique "shocked expression", thinking: "Oops, I'm really going to catch a cold, no, I can't do it before I enter the next round." Fall down.”

She knows very well that Shiina Mashiro is a world-renowned girl painter. Needless to say, the gap between her oil painting level and Shiina Mashiro's is the biggest. What she has to do is to try to make her works close enough to Mashiro's works in a one-year competition. After that, she will also find out from this competition how big the gap is between her and Mashiro Shiina, who dreams of being an illustrator.

Mashiro Shiina has been making rapid progress in the fields of comics and illustrations. What Eiri Sawamura can do is to constantly encourage herself to maintain her advantage while also catching up in the areas where Mashiro is good at.

At this moment, Eri Sawamura finally saw that familiar figure among the vast crowd.

The girl with long blond hair stood quietly in front of a certain entry that attracted many students to watch, and her eyes as clear as water looked at the painting quietly.

This girl has an indescribable sense of beauty that attracts the attention of everyone around her, as if she is also a beautiful and moving oil painting.

Sawamura Eiri's nose was a little red. After observing it, she walked over and said, "Shiina-san, we meet again."

"..."

Shiina Mashiro heard the sound, looked over, recognized Eiri, and nodded.

Sawamura Eiri showed a gentle and polite smile, and her heartbeat began to accelerate. At first, she did not dare to raise her head to see clearly, but after getting closer, she finally raised her head with fear and looked at the painting that Mashiro was paying attention to.

In an instant, Yinglili's body froze.

An oil painting with the theme of autumn countryside scenery was hung on the wall. Sawamura Eiri just glanced at it, and she felt as if she was in the oil painting scenery, as if the fallen leaves were constantly passing by her, and the autumn wind was blowing her I can even smell Qiu Sui's body...

Eri Sawamura showed an expression of astonishment. Although she expected that Mashiro Shiina's paintings would be of such a level, she was still too shocked. It took a long time before she forced a smile and said: "Haha, you really deserve to be Shiina-san, oil painting." Still excellent as always.”

Shiina Mashiro said expressionlessly: "This is not my work, it is Rita's."

"!!"

Sawamura Eiri's expression suddenly changed and she stood there motionless. Rita... She seemed to have mentioned this name from Li Yan. It seemed to be the British girl who once lost to Mashiro Shiina and couldn't draw...

The results and the gap are clear at a glance.

Eirili raised her head and glanced at the oil painting again, her eyes darkened, and she asked in a low voice: "Shiina-san... where are your works?"

Shiina Mashiro looked at Eiri in silence and said, "My work...cannot be entered into the competition because it is unfair."

Eri Sawamura looked at Mashiro Shiina with complicated eyes, feeling as if she had fallen into an ice cave, thinking to herself: "What kind of monster am I... fighting with?"

Under a tall transparent glass wall, with the cold rain pattering outside, two blond-haired girls, Eri Sawamura and Mashiro Shiina, stood together and looked so peaceful and meaningful. They overcame their psychological difficulties after seeing Mashiro's paintings with their own eyes. The painter girl's mood at the moment is undoubtedly the same as the scenery outside, gloomy and cold...

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Under the dark cloudy sky, raindrops were falling.

On a cute street with rain and mist, Li Yan and four girls stood in the rain. Everyone was silent for a while.

The four girls in front of Li Yan had different expressions, but what was more eye-catching was that they were so wary and unfamiliar with him. His hand on Gabriel's shoulder also loosened.