episode_0104

“By the way, are you participating in the competition?”

Jenna nodded slowly to my question.

“Yes. That’s right.”

“You didn’t say that the last time we met.”

“Well, I had no plans to participate at that time.”

I expressed doubts about those words.

“Yes?”

Then, Zena explained the situation further.

“I was helping you guys practice and I got interested so I decided to participate. Originally, I wasn’t going to do it anymore because Yumi folded Grandpia.”

“Aha… .”

That’s it.

Seeing that I was convinced, Jenna continued.

“I was going to tell you when I saw you last week, but you said you were hurt?”

“Ah, yes. It was like that.”

“Do you feel okay now?”

I said, tapping my leg shyly.

“I have a constitution that heals quickly. haha… .”

“Okay. thank god. Then.“

After finishing the conversation, Jenna turned and made a gesture to return to the waiting room.

“Anyway, have fun today. I’ll go now.”

“Ah! Yes.”

“Please say hello to Yumi too!“

“Yes. Hello.”

Jenna, who also greeted the manager, coolly turned her back and gradually walked further away.

“I heard an interesting story.”

“Sure.”

My husband and I muttered while looking at the back.

“But, it looks like rumors have started to arrive, so let’s go quickly.”

I heard senior Jooyong say something next to me.

“Ah. That’s right.”

Meeting Jenna reminded me of a memory I had forgotten for a while.

Umm… Well, seeing as I haven’t heard from them, it looks like they met up well with Ise-ah and are waiting together.

Surprisingly, they hit it off, so they might be hanging out among themselves.

We left the pleasant meeting with Jenna behind and headed back towards the waiting room.

The inside of the exhibition hall was definitely more lively than before leaving the waiting room.

Except for a few booths, all of the booths had their tents wide open and various goods were displayed.

“There are already a lot of people wearing cosplay costumes.”

In fact, the main event, the Cosplay Festival competition, does not start until evening.

“Hmm. They may be contestants, but usually those who were eliminated from the preliminaries tend to run booths dressed in cosplay costumes.”

“Is that so?”

The manager nodded and said.

“Yes. I had that experience too.”

“You mean the manager?”

Still, I don’t think a manager’s visual or acting skills will be enough to make him pass the preliminaries.

He is a person with a unique aura, to the point where I sometimes freeze when he is properly dressed and maintaining his facial expression.

furthermore… If you listen to stories from the past that I have heard here and there, you can see that he is a truly formidable person.

Didn’t you hear something unusual about the past just now?

The manager smiled and responded to my unexpected reaction.

“Hehe. Everyone is a beginner at first. Even though it is your first time as a junior, you are doing really well.”

“Not much to say. It’s because I can rely on the manager because he’s by my side.”

“Oh my. If you think of me that way, I might be touched… !”

She raised her hand to cover her mouth and pretended to be surprised.

… Director. The corners of the eyes are crooked.

“… Well~ Anyway, even if it’s not necessarily the case, it’s a festival where people who purely enjoy cosplay gather. Right now, there were a lot of people in the audience wearing cosplay, right? Whether you participate in a competition or just operate a booth… If you like cosplay, this is a place where anyone can wear cosplay.“

As I looked at the person in cosplay organizing the booth on the other side, I could feel the joyous excitement in the manager’s profile as he spoke with sparkling eyes.

“Of course.”

I may have approached it with too rigid a mindset.

Of course, there is no law that says contestants have to change clothes in the evening.

Since there are photo zones here and there, the more cosplayers who grace the occasion, the more lively the festival will be.

of course. In my case, even though it is fake, it is a bit difficult to wear from now on because it is armor in name and color.

I leisurely looked around the inside of the exhibition hall, which had few people to look around earlier, and arrived at the hallway leading to the waiting room.

When I saw that there were more COS players walking in the hallway, I spoke to the manager.

“Shall we try on the costume too?”

“Yes? ah. Is that so?”

As I saw the manager agreeing with my opinion, a memory suddenly came to mind.

“Now that I think about it, the manager couldn’t wear anything on Friday. Because I was working at the student council.”

The manager flinched when he heard what I said and his expression hardened.

“Ho, Ho Ho… . It was like that. Well, that day was… … .”

ah. It may have been a story brought up for no reason.

The manager trembled.

At this point, I’m curious about the current student council president who can make that confident manager like this… .

Well, if we meet, we can probably see each other at least once.

“But we paid the activity fee. You said it would be me, right?”

“Ugh. Still, I don’t want to go again.”

It’s an afterthought I’m only hearing about it now, but it looks like they somehow succeeded in securing funding.

That’s a good thing. Mmmmm.

* * *

Squeak.

At the sound of the tightly closed waiting room door opening, the four girls’ necks whipped around.

“How was everyone?”

“Jina!”

“Seo Yi-jin… !“

“Huh? Why?”

As soon as he stepped into the room, he heard the girls’ call, and Jin Lee stood there and smiled.

I gaped at that harmless face, but in the end, all that came out was an awkward sigh.

“Ugh… .”

“Ehyo… .”

The four girls looked at each other at the sound of sighs at the same time, and then they broke the stiff atmosphere and gave each other empty smiles.

The girls realized that they felt the same way, so much so that they felt awkward until just now.

“What happened?”

“That’s it!“

Of course, Seo Yi-jin knew nothing.

* * *

“Wow. It looks like real iron.”

Lee So-yoon said as he carefully touched the armor.

Behind them, Lee Se-ah and Seong Yu-rin also looked at the costumes with sparkling eyes.

“But when you actually listen to it, it’s light. I think it’s made of aluminum or something. The paint is darkened and the color makes it look like iron.”

“Oh… . It’s really light.”

As the saying goes, it was armor that could be lifted even by Lee So-yoon’s weak arm strength.

I heard this would be difficult if it were as heavy as real armor.

We were now waiting for the manager to come out in his costume.

This is because there was only one simple dressing room installed in the room.

It felt a bit awkward to wait quietly while I was changing clothes, so I tried to leave the room with the deputy director and secretary.

I was able to stay in the waiting room because the other kids made a lot of noise saying they wanted to see my costume.

“You also have a wig?”

This time, attention was focused on the wig that Lee Se-ah lifted up.

“Blonde… .”

Seong Yu-rin gently touched her hair and smiled slightly.

The wig and Seong Yu-rin’s hair were both brightly blonde, so at first glance they looked similar.

After looking around for a while, the vice-president glanced at his watch and stood up.

“ character. Well then, let’s go to the booth team quickly.”

“Ah. Are you going now?“

As everyone’s eyes gathered, the vice-president spoke.

“Ungh. I need to get ready soon.”

As the manager said, I looked at the clock and saw that there were about 15 minutes left until the exhibition hall opened.

Following the vice president, the general secretary and Yoo Seol also stood up.

“Phew… . I’m a little nervous.”

Unlike the vice-president and general secretary, this was the first time I had spoken with Yoo Seol, so I seemed very nervous.

“Cheer up. We will also check the costumes and go see them.”

“Going seniors!“

Along with our cheers, the manager’s voice was heard from inside the locker room.

“Chief couple! Please take care of the booth!”

The sound was muffled by the walls, but it was still powerful.

“Okay. Just trust me. Because I will definitely sell everything.”

The three open the door to the waiting room and leave.

I sang Yuseol as I left the waiting room for the last time.

“Senior.”

“Ugh, yes!”

Seeing her so stiff from earlier, I wanted to say something.

“Cheer up. Straighten your shoulders. Today is the professional illustrator ‘Seori’, right?”

rumor.

The nickname she chose was Seori.

It’s really simple.

Huh, well… It’s not my position to say anything to Nana, who is ‘Seojin’, or Manager Yoo Ara, who is ‘Arara’.

… okay. After all, it’s better to be simple. hmm. It’s easy to sign.

Yoo Seol smiled brightly after hearing what I said.

The curved corners of her eyes and mouth showed her joy.

It was a refreshing smile that made those who saw it feel better.

“Hihi. huh! I’ll work hard─!”

As if my words had clearly recharged her energy, Yoo Seol answered energetically and stormed out of the waiting room.

“Wow. What’s happening suddenly… … .“

I was so energetic that I walked down the hallway so vigorously that the deputy manager’s panicked voice came through the door and gradually became quieter and no longer heard.

“… … .”

“… huh? What’s wrong?”

“Phew… . no. just. That’s it.”

Somehow, after the rumor got out, other kids seemed to look at me a little more harshly.

“Hehe. The juniors are really fun.”

In the sudden silence, the manager’s booming voice echoed throughout the room.