“Wait! Why are you reading through it?!” Soukichi yelped. “Felt curious.” “Stop, please! Give me back my phone!” Flustered, Soukichi reached out his hand in an attempt to retrieve his phone, but Kasumi deftly dodged him. “Huh? Come on. I’m only gonna read through a little bit! ...You know, based on the cover, I thought this was a manga at first, but it’s actually a book. It has a few illustrations included inside, like a light novel,” Kasumi said The book in question fell under the genre of “erotic light novel.” It was a novel composed a few pictures dotting its pages, just like a typical light novel, but its main distinction was the presence of more explicit s*x scenes and illustrations. Even authors who released straight-forward titles under more normal labels had recently dipped the

