Surviving as a Brainwashing Villain in a Hero World 243

## Chapter 243 – Side Story 8 – A Comic Festival Date With Seraphina (1)

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Having enjoyed dates with a total of five women, starting with Dowa and ending with Ruirin,
Si-yoon succeeded in impregnating them all.

Early in the morning before his sixth date, he was sound asleep as usual.

“…Master! …Wake up!”

‘Ugh…?’

It was a time when the sky was still dark, before the sun had even properly risen, but
Si-yoon faintly began to hear someone’s voice.

‘What is it… a dream…?’

As he woke up and feeling returned to his hands and feet,
the voice he heard gradually became clearer.

“Master! Wake up!”

‘Ah… so she’s telling me to wake up.’

The one telling him to wake up in a clear voice was none other than Seraphina.
Ahead of her date with Si-yoon, she was shaking him awake from a very early hour.

“Ugh… what time… is it…?”

Barely managing to lift his heavy eyelids that hadn’t fully opened yet,
Si-yoon rubbed his eyes and unlocked the smartphone he had placed by his head.

“4… 15…?”

The time displayed on his smartphone was ‘4:15 AM’.
It was a time when most people were usually fast asleep.

Even though he had become accustomed to waking up early for dates,
waking up a little after 4 AM was quite tiring and difficult.

However, Si-yoon guessed that Seraphina had woken him up early because she wanted something,
so he smiled without any particular reaction and stroked her hair.

“So… can I ask why you woke me up so early…?”

“Because today is the day I have a date with you!”

It wasn’t the wrong answer, but Seraphina’s answer was too obvious.
Si-yoon chuckled, finding the answer funny even though he wasn’t fully awake.

“Ah, I know that, of course…,
Is it perhaps because the date location is somewhere we have to go to early… or something?”

“The place where you and I will be having our date today is the Comic Festival!”

What Seraphina was holding in her hand was the Comic Festival being held in S City.

It was an event where people who enjoyed subculture, such as anime and games, gathered in one place,
selling and exchanging self-drawn fan comics and merchandise.

People would cosplay as their favorite characters and walk around, or
take pictures while striking cool poses as if they had really become that character.

“Isn’t that kind of event usually from around 10 o’clock…?”

“It’s true that it starts at 10 o’clock… but if we don’t go early, we’ll be late getting in.”

The reason Seraphina had woken Si-yoon up early was to get inside the venue even a little earlier.

The Comic Festival was also famous as an event where a large number of people gathered,
and if you arrived around the opening time, it was already packed, and you often had to stand and wait for hours.

Therefore, there were quite a few people who arrived the day before and waited in their accommodations,
or even pitched a tent in front of the venue from dawn and waited.

“Come on! Hurry up and get up, wash your face, and change your clothes!”

“Ugh…”

Looking like a mother waking up a child who doesn’t want to go to school in the morning,
Seraphina roused Si-yoon, who was nodding off, and took him to the bathroom.

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Si-yoon couldn’t even enjoy a leisurely bath, let alone dry his hair properly.
He rubbed his eyes, still not fully awake, and wiped his face with a towel.

“Comic Festival… I used to like that kind of thing too.”

Since Si-yoon had the goal of becoming a villain since he was young,
he admired the cool and charismatic villains that appeared in anime and games.

He sometimes imitated the character’s lines or struck their poses, and
he even saved up his allowance to buy and read comic books.

“Since we’re going to a comic book event… it wouldn’t be good to dress too formally, right?”

He dressed in a similar style to when he was walking around Chinatown with Ruirin,
and used a hair dryer to finish drying his still damp hair.

Finally, he looked in the mirror to make sure there was nothing strange, and
walked out to the front door where Seraphina was waiting.

“Master! I’ve been waiting.”

Wearing an outfit that felt like a high school uniform,
Seraphina was waiting for Si-yoon in front of the front door.

Perhaps because of the youthful outfit,
her face, wearing a smile full of excitement, looked brighter than usual.

“Let’s go quickly! I’ll drive.”

“You can… drive?”

Si-yoon’s reaction seemed a little surprised at Seraphina’s words that she would drive.
That’s because he had never seen her drive before.

“Of course! It’s a bit inconvenient to do hero work without a license.”

Seraphina had been given the qualification to drive,
having already obtained a license when she started working as a hero magical girl.

However, she had never bothered to step forward because Si-yoon or Dowa always took the initiative to drive.

“Since I made you get up early in the morning…,
I think it’s right for me to do the driving.”

“If you’re going to drive… I’m grateful.”

Although she had been quite prickly and rough before becoming a slave,
Seraphina, who had been living together in the hideout since then, gradually had kindness take root in her heart.

Now, she often expresses her honest feelings to others, and
like now, she sometimes takes the initiative to help someone.

‘She was a very sharp and thorny girl at first.’

The pressure of being a hero had disappeared,
and now she had the comfort of knowing that she could live solely for herself and those she cherished.

And the influence of Aquamarine, who still stayed close to her, would be great.

‘Now that there’s no need to fight… her mind must be at ease.’

Watching Seraphina, who was acting with a cheerful and confident appearance, with a pleased expression,
Si-yoon opened the door to the passenger seat on the right, not the driver’s seat, and sat down.

“Okay! Let’s get going!”

While he was sitting awkwardly in the passenger seat and looking around,
Seraphina started the car with a loud voice.

***

After driving for a long time from early in the morning, they finally arrived at the Comic Festival venue.

Located in S City, this venue usually hosts various events and concerts,
so the parking facilities as well as the surrounding commercial district are quite active.

“Wow… are there this many people? It’s still three hours before the opening?”

Hundreds of people could be seen in front of the two people who had arrived at the parking lot.
Even though it was just past 7 AM, many people were already waiting.

“The opening is at 10 o’clock… but we can enter from 9 o’clock.”

When Seraphina took out two shopping bags full of something from the trunk,
Si-yoon took them from Seraphina’s hands instead.

“Really? Can you enter early if you buy an expensive ticket?”

“If you cosplay, you can enter 1 hour early!”

Cosplay can be done simply by changing clothes or wearing a wig,
but in order to create a realistic look, many people wear fancy makeup or wear a lot of accessories.

Therefore, if you purchase a slightly more expensive ticket with a cosplay activity option, rather than a general admission ticket,
you can enter and wait 1 hour early to prepare your makeup and costumes.

That meant Seraphina was going to cosplay at the Comic Festival.

“Then… do I have to cosplay too?”

“Of course! You have to cosplay with me to enter early.”

Of course… Si-yoon, who was entering 1 hour early with her, also had to cosplay.

The reason why Seraphina had taken out two shopping bags from the trunk, not one.
One of them contained the cosplay costume that Si-yoon would wear today.

“Okay! This is the costume you’ll be wearing when you cosplay today.
You don’t have to do wigs or makeup, so it’s simple!”

‘This is unexpected… I’ve never done it before…’

He had received the shopping bag containing the costume from Seraphina,
but he was not yet ready to cosplay in front of so many people.

If he had heard about it in advance, he could have prepared himself,
but until yesterday, it was clearly the day he was with Seorin.

‘Well… I can’t back out when she’s so excited.’

But Si-yoon soon swallowed hard and steeled himself.

Seraphina was smiling so brightly with such an excited expression,
and he didn’t want to ruin that excited feeling for no reason.

Wearing these special clothes and spending a good time together,
could also be seen as another deep memory.

“Then… we change in the dressing rooms and meet in the waiting room before entering?”

Si-yoon took Seraphina’s hand and walked towards the venue where people were crowded,
and asked her again how to enter.

“Yes! If you look to the left of where the people are, there’s a separate entrance.”

“Okay.”

In front of a small entrance that read ‘Cosplayer Entrance’,
a guide with a rather tired expression was receiving tickets next to those who were standing in line.

‘Master… he must look so cool…♥’
‘I wonder what kind of outfit Seraphina will come out wearing…?’

Seraphina and Si-yoon stood in front of the cosplayer entrance and handed over their tickets,
imagining each other’s cosplayed 모습 and stepped inside.