"Ah, what a pity. This unique style is so much like Homura's too."
Kani Nayuta sighed.
"You're still bothered by that, huh?"
Izumi Chihiro smiled.
"Senior should be excited too, right? Seeing the characters you created appear before your eyes as real people, that's truly crossing the beautiful boundary from two dimensions to three dimensions."
Kani Nayuta turned her head and said in a teasing tone.
"I wouldn't get excited over something like that."
Izumi Chihiro still maintained the appearance of a gentleman.
"Is that so? I thought Senior would have such a hobby. I was even thinking of cosplaying as the Love Hashira one day to surprise Senior~"
Kani Nayuta said as she walked.
"Kanroji Mitsuri?"
Izumi Chihiro couldn't help but imagine her in the Demon Slayer Corps uniform, with her chest exposed. It was quite a tempting image.
This perfectly complemented Nayuta's loli-goth and big-breasted attributes.
"Senior, you're excited after all, aren't you!"
Kani Nayuta immediately gave him a 'scheme succeeded' smile.
"Cough, cough."
Izumi Chihiro looked a bit embarrassed.
"We've chatted enough. It's time to go."
Beside them, Eriri pulled down the brim of her hat and said in a calm tone.
"Eriri, you're so cool!"
Kani Nayuta laughed.
If only she wasn't hiding her face like this right now.
They walked out of the station.
"Wow, it's really as crowded as in the anime."
Kani Nayuta looked around excitedly.
Apparently, this novel scene piqued her interest.
"Yeah, a bunch of ants squeezed together, you can't even tell who's who."
On the other side, Eriri scoffed.
After the initial novelty, what remained was a more 'realistic' perspective.
Looking at her resentful expression, Kani Nayuta couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
"Hmm, so many maids..."
As they passed a street, they clearly saw many girls in maid outfits handing out flyers on the street.
This scene made Kani Nayuta's eyes light up.
"They're soliciting customers. This place has no shortage of maid cafes, so the competition is very fierce."
Eriri said with a cold expression.
"Although otaku money is easy to trick, if you don't have some fame, you can only attract passersby's attention through these methods."
He added afterwards.
"It seems that no matter where you are, the competition is very fierce."
Kani Nayuta listened to the maids' coquettish voices and nodded in agreement.
After putting the flyers into the trash can, with the introduction and guidance of the two, she also came to understand a more realistic side of the otaku holy land.
Izumi Chihiro and Eriri were not in a hurry to go to the venue, because their purpose today was not to buy some works, so they took Kani Nayuta to wander around.
"These shops usually sell doujinshi. Basically, they sell doujin works by famous artists. If they are not sold out at the comic convention, they often appear here..."
He pointed to the shop with a strong otaku culture style in front of him, and then walked in.
Kani Nayuta already knew the concept of doujinshi, so she pointed to the piled-up books and said playfully, "Senior's works must have a lot of doujinshi, right? After all, there are too many regrets in Senior's works, and everyone really wants to see a better ending in the doujinshi."
"Who knows."
Izumi Chihiro avoided the topic.
There were many types of doujinshi inside. Although Izumi Masamune's fame had grown significantly, it was not possible to find his works everywhere.
Therefore, after a search, Kani Nayuta finally found this type of doujinshi.
"Hmm? This is...!"
She picked up a work, her eyes widening.
"Daki X Nezuko? Kashiwagi Eri-sensei's work..."
Kani Nayuta muttered as she slowly moved her gaze.
"Nayuta, why are you looking at me? Isn't this normal?"
Eriri felt a little unnatural being stared at by her, and before the other party could ask, she spoke first.
As a hentai artist, what's wrong with drawing some hentai!
"Nothing."
Kani Nayuta shook her head and then took the work.
She had planned to buy Kashiwagi Eri-sensei's work before, but the online orders were full, so now she could finally collect it.
Eriri looked at her actions, her expression slightly awkward, then she glanced at Izumi Chihiro, but found that his expression hadn't changed.
That's right, she had already seen it before!
She remembered this.
"Oh, I've been looking for so long, but there's no silver season doujinshi. In this regard, I'm really not as good as my senior."
Kani Nayuta searched for a while but still didn't find any.
"It's because Nayuta writes too well, making those people afraid to defile her work."
Izumi Chihiro also praised her, returning the favor.
It was true, but not entirely accurate.
Because silver season itself is a truly healing work; the characters, apart from the protagonist, are very vague, more like conceptual existences. Naturally, no one could create a suitable doujinshi for it.
Kani Nayuta was somewhat satisfied with her shopping desire.
As for him and Eriri, their focus was on the comic convention itself.
That was their battlefield.
Walking into the exhibition hall.
More and more people were wearing cosplay costumes, and gradually, Kani Nayuta no longer found it so strange.
Dragging their feet, the three finally entered the most central area.
"That's Eriri's circle, so many people... are they all here to buy white album?"
Kani Nayuta pointed to the stage set up over there, where the game's intro screen was playing.
The theme song was very pleasant to listen to, which was also a noteworthy point.
With snowflakes as the background, the accompanying BGM, the visuals, the music, and the current season all seemed to fit perfectly.
The popularity was only to be expected, but the actual conversion rate was their main concern.
"Chihiro, how many copies do you think "White Album" can sell?"
Eriri felt a rare trace of anxiety and couldn't help but ask.
"Let's set a small goal first... five hundred thousand copies."
Izumi Chihiro hesitated for a moment before replying.
"Five hundred thousand? That doesn't sound like much."
Kani Nayuta's expression was casual.
She wasn't familiar with galgame sales figures, so she used her own light novel sales as a benchmark.
"Nayuta, don't listen to Chihiro's nonsense. Five hundred thousand is a small goal? There haven't been many in the history of galgames... It's not that simple."
Eriri said grumpily.