Chapter 24: Getting a Ridiculous Amount of Attention

I knew my changed body was quite cute when it first changed.

Even objectively, it was cuter than the child actors who appear in dramas.

I could confidently say it was in the top 0.1% of appearances.

Of course, that 0.1% standard was measured in an unadorned state.

So what about when I’m all dressed up?

“Woaah…”

A living doll.

No, perhaps it feels even cuter than a doll.

Very lightly applied foundation and blush.

Tint that naturally reveals its presence, and an outfit and wig that perfectly match it.

It was a result that would make even me think it was an angel descended from heaven.

“Ehehehe…”

Garam-unni saw me like that and gave a lewd laugh.

I don’t know what on earth she’s thinking.

“Alright, Jiyu. I’d like to ask you too.”

What, wasn’t she just going to make me do it?

Garam-unni, who had been staring at me for a long time, as if she was going to cosplay too.

Handed another bag to Jiyu-ssi.

“Heeik…!”

What, what, she’s suddenly taking off her clothes like this?

Garam-unni took off her clothes as soon as she handed over the bag.

An appearance without a shred of shame.

“What, what’s wrong? Are you embarrassed?”

No, what are you saying when you’re the one saying it?

The one taking off their clothes right now is not me, but you!

I covered my two eyes with my tiny hands.

Nevertheless, I can feel the heat rising from my face.

“Kheh-heuk… I’m done. I’m all dressed, so you can open your eyes.”

Seriously, how can she have no shame?

With a bright red face, I turned my head towards Garam-unni.

“How is it, do you think it turned out well?”

Huh? It’s not just cosplay, she’s even cross-dressing?

The cosplay she did was not that of a typical female character.

The character she cosplayed was Loid Forger.

He’s the character who plays the father of Anna Forger, whom I cosplayed.

“Why are you so quiet, is it bad?”

“Ah, no, it really suits you.”

As I just said, Garam-unni’s appearance boasted a very high degree of completeness.

Perhaps because of her originally androgynous appearance and her tall height, it suited her well even though it was a male character cosplay.

If you look closely, her feminine curves were a little noticeable.

But from a little distance, it was a cosplay that would look like a handsome flower boy without a doubt.

“Hmph, then shall we go out? It’s time to go do business.”

Garam-unni smiled and shook the bag she was holding in her right hand.

What’s in there?

Also, what does she mean by business?

I couldn’t process the information that came in at once and eventually threw out a question.

“What do you mean by that…?”

“Ah, this is some merch I made… I brought it to earn some pocket money.”

She showed me the inside of the bag.

Inside, there were keychains with SD versions of the characters from Spy x Family.

Perhaps because it was a drawing filled with the soul of our artist Asea, the quality was quite high.

“Let’s go, let’s go, this time we have our Yua, so it’ll sell out before anyone knows it.”

I’m not sure if this is right…

But for now, I followed Garam-unni’s words.

Whatever it was, the pretext for me coming here was the wish ticket, so I have to follow.

“Sseup… hoo…”

I take a deep breath, filling my lungs to the depths.

Only then did I seem to find the courage to go outside the dressing room.

Clunk

As I opened the door of the dressing room and went outside, the sight of the event hall I saw earlier came into view.

Seeing the event hall in this state feels different from before.

“The sales booth is in section A09, so… let’s go that way.”

On the way to the sales booth, following Garam-unni.

We have been walking for 10 minutes on a path that would normally take 3 minutes.

Because every time we took a step, we kept getting requests for photos from various people.

Getting requests for photos while being fawned over by female students who came to play with their friends.

“Kyaaa! So cute! Can I please take a picture with you?”

Getting reverse photo requests from cosplayer unnis who were walking around asking for photos.

“Um… guardian, could I perhaps take a picture with the child for a moment?”

And as if that wasn’t enough, even the staff who were working at the event came up to me and requested a photo.

“Could I get a picture…”

Anyway, after walking while taking pictures as if I had become a celebrity, we arrived at our destination.

I feel tired already, even though I haven’t done anything.

“I’m tired…”

“I know, right, I get a lot of photo requests when I cosplay too… but this is a first.”

Garam-unni gave a hollow laugh, looking awkward.

It seems even she thinks this isn’t a normal situation.

“Well… shall we start selling now? I did announce on SNS that we’re opening from 1 o’clock.”

Huh? She made an announcement on SNS?

At the sudden declaration, a sense of bewilderment is felt to the tips of my head.

She just declared that she’s revealing my red pill outright, didn’t she?

I tried my best to hold back the dizziness and opened my mouth.

“Um… SNS…?”

“Aha, I know what you’re worried about, but it’ll be fine. I only operate this with a secondary account that can’t be identified.”

Hmm… is that so.

Honestly, I was very anxious, but I just said OK.

As long as I don’t use my voice, there’s no way I’ll get caught.

I thought it was something I just had to be careful about myself.

“Then, Yua, can you check the list of customers who pre-ordered and hand them the goods? I’ll take care of the customers who are buying on-site.”

That was manageable enough.

Since it was just a matter of handing over the goods without having to say anything or explain.

“For your information, there are 86 pre-order customers.”

I guess not.

Hearing the scale of the pre-order customers, it doesn’t seem manageable.

I was expecting 20-30 at most… so it’s 4 times more than that?

Ehehe, I’m going to die today, aren’t I?

I squeezed my eyes shut.

An hour passed.

Although only an hour had passed.

The fatigue that had accumulated during that one hour was definitely more than one hour’s worth of fatigue.

How on earth did I handle over 80 people in one hour.

My head is not just throbbing, it feels like it’s been completely knocked out.

“You worked hard~”

Hmph, do you even know how hard it was for me?

This is beyond the permissible range of a wish ticket…

[Yang Garam has sent you 420,000 won.]

is what I was thinking! It was a good experience, my sponsor…!

I guess people are really slaves to capitalism.

To think that all the fatigue that had accumulated until now flew away in 1 second…

Of course, capital is a panacea.

“Heheung, this is half of today’s sales profit.”

Ahem, at this rate, I can forget about what happened earlier.

I nodded my head, my eyes, which had turned into money signs, sparkling.

“We’ve sold everything, so do you want to look around here?”

The words I had been waiting for finally came out.

I had looked around roughly earlier, but I hadn’t seen it in detail.

Since we’ve come all the way to Comiket, shouldn’t we look around?

“Let’s eat first.”

Garam-unni naturally took my hand and started walking towards the food court.

I feel kind of embarrassed.

I’ve never held hands with a girl other than my mom…

Ehehe, it doesn’t seem like a bad feeling.

“Um… could I take a picture with your daughter…?”

Of course, that feeling didn’t last long.

Because just by moving a little, I got photo requests from all over.

And this time, I was even treated as a mother and daughter.

Or was it not? Was I treated as a father and daughter?

Anyway, such things kept happening.

“Kheh-heuk… this is really a legend, a legend. How can she be so popular?”

I know, right, it’s really hard for me to understand too.

We avoided such hardships and, after many twists and turns, arrived at the food court.

“Do you want to try this… and this?”

Garam-unni decided on the menu herself.

Since I was in a state of not knowing what was delicious at all, I just nodded my head.

It’s better to trust the judgment of an experienced person than a beginner.

“Customer number 72, your food is ready.”

It doesn’t feel like it’s been 5 minutes since we ordered, but the food is already ready.

That’s not to say that the food was made carelessly.

Perhaps because it was worth the money, even though it came out quickly, I could see that it was lavishly decorated.

The menu placed in front of me was a set of dishes called the ‘Blue Crystal Lunch Set’.

A set consisting of Hamburg steak, Neapolitan pasta, and blue lemonade.

It was a composition that could be seen commonly anywhere, but this set was a little different from those of other restaurants.

A paper with Hatsune Miku smiling and making a V-sign with her hand was decorating the food.

And even on the plate, Hatsune Miku’s face was plastered on, as big as a gate.

It was flashy, but it was flashy in a nerdy way.

“Om nom nom… oh, delish…!”

Even though it looked a bit like that, the taste was quite good for something sold at an event like this.

Should I say it’s a taste that’s about 2.5 times more luxurious than retort food?

This is a taste that anyone would be satisfied with.

“How is it, it’s good, right?”

Garam-unni spoke to me with a smiling eye.

For the record, in front of Garam-unni was a set menu with a similar composition to mine.

But the Hamburg steak was replaced with tonkatsu.

That looked delicious too.

“Do you want to try this too?”

She seemed to have read my thoughts from my expression and offered me a taste.

“Here, say ah~”

Uh… so ‘try it’ meant she was going to put it in my mouth directly?

Garam-unni picked up a neatly cut piece of tonkatsu and held it up to my mouth.

“…Haum.”

After a moment’s hesitation, I finally accepted it.

It’s a bit much to refuse when she’s trying to feed me so earnestly.

My heart was pounding more than usual due to the pressure and embarrassment.

But as if my tongue doesn’t lie, it transmitted the taste of the sweet sauce and crispy batter to my brain.

And naturally melted my tense expression.

“Eheeh, delish…”

Click

Ugh, now even Garam-unni is taking secret pictures of me?

Since she took it so openly, is it a bit much to call it a secret picture?

“Hehe… in exchange for buying you food, I shall receive a picture of our kawaii Yua-chan.”

That unni is definitely not in her right mind either.

She looks so normal, but why is her inside the complete opposite…

Just listening to her talk, you’d think some lewd old man was talking.

“If you’re done eating, shall we go look around some more?”

Still, she bought me food, so I should let it slide just this once.

You have to have this kind of fun to get something to eat…

“Oh, it came out well… I should post it in the members’ group chat and brag.”

is what I thought, but it was all just bundled up malice, wasn’t it?

“Ugh… if I knew that, I wouldn’t have let you take the picture!”

It seems the saying that you shouldn’t trust people easily is true.