"This body's name is Vivian. You, the possessor of the [Eyes] who guides me toward true awakening, may freely admire my beautiful incarnation."
"Good, good. This is exactly the state I wanted. I think it's great."
Looking at Kanzaki Ranko's very classic chuunibyou evil-eye pose, Hachiman applauded hard, nodded, and raised the portrait camera to take several pictures of Kanzaki Ranko in quick succession.
"That'll do for today. Ranko, you can go back."
"Huh? Uh, um... Phaethon-sama, could you take a few more pictures of Vivian, please?"
Seeing Hachiman tell her to leave after taking only a few pictures, Kanzaki Ranko, who had thought he was going to take a lot of them, paused slightly. She couldn't help crouching down and directly asking Hachiman to take some more.
She didn't even know whether she was speaking according to her own thoughts or speaking as the character Vivian she was cosplaying.
Because Vivian from Zenless Zone Zero, the character she was cosplaying, was someone who admired Phaethon-sama (Mr. Producer) while also feeling inferior inside.
But at this moment, looking at the Producer who was willing to understand her, she genuinely wanted to become the Producer's good friend.
If the Producer could take a few more pictures, leaving her with some beautiful memories of her first meeting with the Producer in person, that would be even better.
"Hehe, Ranko, there's no need to rush. Time is rather tight today. In the future, you can take as many pictures as you want. Still, if you want to take a few more now, that's not impossible either."
Looking at Kanzaki Ranko crouching down while holding her parasol, Hachiman raised the portrait camera with both hands, aimed it at Kanzaki Ranko, and pressed the shutter.
"Eek?!"
Realizing that Hachiman had teased her, Kanzaki Ranko hurriedly pressed her black-stocking-covered legs together and ran away with a red face.
However, as she ran back into the crowd, she did not forget to leave a "threat."
"My servant! You, possessor of the [Eyes]! From now on, let us become stars that shine in the starry night sky together!"
"Phew..."
"That scared me to death. I didn't expect the Producer to support Ranko cosplaying in her chuunibyou form."
"As expected of Ranran, she's so cute!"
Not far away, the many idol groups that had initially been worried about Kanzaki Ranko suddenly being the first to go on relaxed.
Many of them knew that Kanzaki Ranko was one of the few chuunibyou idols among them. When Elusi called her out, they had all been afraid that Kanzaki Ranko would say things they couldn't understand.
They hadn't expected Kanzaki Ranko to be too nervous to say any chuunibyou lines, and even less had they expected Hachiman to take the initiative and ask Kanzaki Ranko to show her chuunibyou form.
Saegusa Hazuki, who had always been standing in for Hachiman and carrying out the duties of Producer, felt completely at ease after watching the entire interaction between Hachiman and Kanzaki Ranko.
She knew more than the young idols did, and she also understood that sooner or later the young idols would become people under Hachiman. But after actually seeing the gentle way the Producer treated the idols, she was no longer as worried.
Although the Producer had indeed teased Kanzaki Ranko at the end, judging by Kanzaki Ranko's appearance, she seemed to be enjoying it instead.
"Then the next person..."
Elusi began calling out names again with a smile, when her finger suddenly stopped in a certain direction.
"Me?"
"That's right."
A sailor-uniform girl holding a katana pointed at herself and asked. After seeing Elusi confirm it, she carried the katana to the edge of the pond and bowed to Hachiman.
"Shibuya Rin, from the group NewGeneration. The character I'm cosplaying is Noshiro from Azur Lane. Please take good care of me, Producer."
Compared with the chuunibyou girl idol Kanzaki Ranko, this cool, black-haired straight-haired idol was much calmer. After introducing herself, she immediately began swinging the katana and posing.
If it weren't for the redness spreading from her neck all the way to the roots of her ears, it would probably have been impossible to tell how embarrassed she felt inside.
"That cat girl over there!"
"Yes! My name is Yuukoku Kiriko, a member of L'Antica. The character I'm cosplaying is Lynette from Genshin Impact. P-please take good care of me, Producer!"
"Kiriko, right? You seem to like wrapping bandages around yourself? Today's cosplay doesn't need bandages. Next time, talk to me about the reason you like wrapping yourself in bandages."
"That orange cat over there. No, tiger."
"Hello, Producer. My name is Takatsuki Yayoi. I'm cosplaying Ju Fufu from Zenless Zone Zero's Yunkui Mountain. I'm not very good at playing a tiger, but I'll do my best! Awooo!"
"Yayoi, you're the eldest daughter in your family, and you often have to look after your younger sisters, right? You're very dependable. But you're cosplaying the cute senior sister, so you can relax a little. You don't have to be so dependable."
As Elusi called out the idols one by one, a silver-haired cat-eared girl wearing a high-slit magician outfit somewhat resembling a bunny-girl costume, and a petite yellow-orange-haired girl with a tiger tail who made cute "awoo" sounds, came forward one after another to be photographed by Hachiman.
After that, Elusi stopped calling people out by name. Some of the larger idol groups were also arranged by Saegusa Hazuki to take the stage one after another. They introduced themselves in groups of two or three, then made movements and expressions fitting the personalities of the characters they were cosplaying.
Of course, although they had prepared themselves mentally long ago, the mermaid songstress's bold behavior earlier had caused the standards for the scope of the cosplay photos to potentially be raised at any moment. Their original preparations were therefore useless. One by one, their bodies were rather stiff, afraid that Hachiman or Elusi might pull them down to take more revealing cosplay photos.
But they hadn't expected that the Producer, who had specifically named them and recruited them into the idol agency but had continued to leave them to their own devices, was actually rather capable.
He not only understood their individual circumstances very well, but seemed able to see into their hearts, knowing their current feelings and thoughts.
Their nervousness was soothed and eased. After the Producer simply took a few pictures and sent them back, they instead felt somewhat reluctant to leave.
Although the Producer sometimes deliberately teased them, especially when he was taking their pictures, they still felt very unaccustomed to it, and their bodies would always develop some "uncomfortable" symptoms.
Still, overall, this somewhat bashful, heated atmosphere was much better than the tense and uneasy atmosphere before.
"Hello, Producer. I'm Kurokawa Akane. I'm an actress. Thank you for recognizing my acting ability, recruiting me into the agency, and offering me generous treatment. The character I'm cosplaying this time is Yelan from Genshin Impact."
Another blue-haired short-haired girl stepped out from the crowd and bowed to Hachiman as she introduced herself.
Kurokawa Akane? Kurokawa Akane? Ruby Hoshino's godmother?
Hearing a name belonging to the same anime as B-Komachi member Arima Kana, Hachiman, whose eyes were already dazzled by the many beautiful girl idols cosplaying different characters, lowered the portrait camera with some confusion.
"Producer? Is there something wrong with my pose...?"
Kurokawa Akane held the pose described in the reference materials. Seeing that Hachiman wasn't chatting with her like he had with the others and was only staring at her, she couldn't help wondering whether she had done something wrong.
Although the cosplay outfit, gems, props, and so on had all been provided by the Service Club, in order to play Yelan well for these short few minutes, she had not only studied Yelan's character setting for a long time, but had even deliberately put a small black dot on her chest, doing her best to recreate the two-dimensional character profile provided by the club.
Because everyone had received only limited character information, she had even wanted to add some of her own interpretation.
Leaving aside whether her interpretation was correct, she hadn't even had the chance to show it yet.
She had only just struck one pose... Her acting couldn't possibly be that bad...
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