Why did things turn out like this?
This question wasn't just echoing in the minds of the Inui Sajuna and Inui Shinju sisters; even the two who were tightly hugging Hachiman were wondering the same.
Sugawara Fumika, who was cosplaying Rem, was truly cosplaying for the first time; it was just that she wasn't tall and usually wore glasses, and even though she had a nice figure with an F-cup, she didn't stand out enough because of her hunchback, belonging to the category of inconspicuous ordinary university students.
She had always been very interested in cosplay, just that she hadn't found a suitable opportunity.
But early in the morning, when she changed into Rem's black-and-white maid cosplay outfit, used special hair clay to dye her short hair a natural-looking blue, and took a few simple photos before following Kitagawa Marin around to greet the many beautiful girls cosplaying today, her head was already spinning.
Now involuntarily kneeling in front of Hachiman, smelling Hachiman's somewhat suffocating masculine scent, her brain turned completely to mush; she looked up at Hachiman, swallowed hard, and then looked at the "Ram" beside her who was equally unable to control herself, hesitant to speak.
But the moment she opened her mouth, she couldn't hold back, and there was no time to speak at all.
Mhm... how did things turn out like this...
Watanabe Akane, who was cosplaying Ram and kneeling on the ground along with Sugawara Fumika, wasn't actually cosplaying for the first time, though previously it was just a personal hobby she figured out by herself.
Now, as Sugawara Fumika's senior who was about to graduate, she wanted to develop this cosplay hobby into a career.
As everyone knew, after the elf princess arrived to serve as the cultural exchange ambassador between demi-humans and humans, the popularity of different worlds, demi-humans, and magic had all run very high.
Although learning magic required talent, and ordinary people basically could only see the elf princess on the internet, those affairs of the supernatural world having little to do with ordinary people, the related industries involved were extremely booming, which was something ordinary people could also participate in.
For example, the idol industry where the mermaid songstresses belonged, while it was booming, it was also ridiculously cutthroat, with fierce competition ranging from professional idols to school idols.
The cosplay industry could be considered an industry with a relatively low barrier to entry that individuals could build up on their own, but it was equally highly cutthroat, and succeeding in it wasn't easy.
Coincidentally, at an anime convention, she saw Sugawara Fumika, a junior she wasn't very familiar with but had some impression of, alongside several beautiful girls with excellent temperaments and exquisite, high-end clothes, seemingly discussing something about private cosplay.
She then took the initiative to approach Sugawara Fumika and the girls around her, attempting to integrate into this special group whose uniqueness could be gleaned just from them giving away cosplay outfits.
To her surprise, this private cosplay party and hot spring anime convention was actually hosted by the elf princess from another world.
After a full body check and putting on a black collar, she was teleported to the Service Club, where she first soaked in the hot spring and then savored the cuisine.
She hadn't expected that as a temporary reserve member, she would enjoy pretty much all the welfare benefits of a Service Club member, only to start preparing for the hot spring anime convention on the second day...
Actually, Watanabe Akane had already thought it through: since this hot spring anime convention only had one guy, no matter how bold or outrageous it got, at most they would take some cosplay photos from special angles, or perhaps have some intimate physical contact.
She could understand and accept all of these.
Just the welfare benefits she enjoyed in the hot spring inn were worth more than what some high school girls earned in a month working compensated dating part-time jobs.
Having enjoyed these benefits, if she wanted to come in and play together again in the future, she definitely had to pay what was due.
But she never expected that things would go this far right from the start, before the introductions were even finished.
And the main point was that they were the ones taking the initiative?!
"Se-, Ram..."
Taking advantage of the moment Watanabe Akane snatched food from her mouth to catch her breath, Sugawara Fumika couldn't help but seek her senior's advice in a low voice.
"Don't, don't speak... Rem... just relax... and enjoy..."
Compared to Sugawara Fumika, who had a good figure but lacked confidence, Watanabe Akane, who was about to become a working adult, or rather, had already been exposed to society, was much more realistic; if she couldn't understand it, she accepted it.
Compared to a future where she threw away her dignity and bottom line to turn her hobby into a career, becoming the Service Club President's *** and continuing to treat her hobby as just a hobby would undoubtedly be better.
Of course, the premise was that this guy standing before her, surrounded by numerous super beautiful girls, was willing to let a temporary member like her become an official one.
There were far too many beautiful girls in the club who excelled in temperament, appearance, and figure, they were perfect in every way. Still needing to rely on special items for cosplay, she held absolutely no advantage; the characters she could cosplay, others could cosplay too, and the others who had already been thoroughly taught were probably much sluttier than she, who had just started figuring these things out.
Her junior Sugawara Fumika at least had a nice figure for the Service Club President to toy with; if it came down to physical value, her body might not even be as useful as the wealth of cosplay knowledge she had accumulated as a hobbyist.
If only they could pull in an Emilia, or form a group with other cosplayers to cosplay the beautiful girl characters from Re:Zero together...
Just the Rem and Ram sisters alone really lacked enough appeal...
Thinking of this, Watanabe Akane stopped looking up at Hachiman, whose face was almost entirely obscured by Shiba Miyuki, Janus, Himemiya Elisa, and the others crowding around him; instead, she reached out and pulled the still-swallowing Sugawara Fumika closer, making her work hard alongside her.
"Master, Ram knows she was wrong."
"Please don't punish Sister; if Master wants to punish someone, please punish Rem."
Seeing this, Sugawara Fumika pursed her lips, wrapped tightly around Hachiman alongside Watanabe Akane, and slowly exerted herself.
Even though she still hadn't figured out what exactly was going on or why her body was out of her control.
But at least she wasn't the only one acting so embarrassingly and shamefully.
At least... it really felt good...
"Marin! What is going on?!"
"You aren't intentionally tricking us, are you?!"
Seeing that Sugawara Fumika and Watanabe Akane had absolutely no intention of stopping, and even though they were the ones serving Hachiman, they were drooling like perverted women, while even Shiba Miyuki and the others had begun showing off their intimate relationship with Hachiman unscrupulously, acting as if no one else was around.
Sensing that the situation was off, Inui Sajuna hurriedly pulled the red-faced Inui Shinju behind her and couldn't help but interrogate Kitagawa Marin.
They had agreed this was going to be proper cosplay!
She knew the hot spring anime convention wasn't entirely proper, but they were proper cosplay enthusiasts!
"Uh, hahaha... I don't know either... Could it be that Fumika and Akane-nee bought a hypnosis doujinshi? But Hachiman hasn't signed for them yet..."
Kitagawa Marin crouched down, picked up the doujinshis that Sugawara Fumika and Watanabe Akane had dropped on the ground before they could get Hachiman's signature, and took a look; it seemed they really were hypnosis doujinshis.
The plot of this doujinshi was roughly about the protagonist transmigrating to another world, and after some twists and turns, following the heroine of the previous arc, Emilia, to a mansion where two twin oni maid sisters secretly tried to assassinate the protagonist at night.
After being killed time and time again, the protagonist accidentally entered a special library in the mansion, unexpectedly learned hypnosis abilities, and began to secretly educate the twin oni maid sisters behind Emilia's back.
Mhm... although the doujinshi's plot was purely for the sake of doing the deed and lacked much logic, mainly depending on the acting participants' own thoughts, if they truly acted according to the doujinshi's storyline, a forced scenario could indeed occur.
However, according to Princess Lala's younger sister, Princess Momo, the doujinshis they bought required Hachiman's signature before a story quest would be generated.
If several girls who bought doujinshis appeared beside Hachiman at the same time, the story would trigger based on plot redundancy and priority.