## Chapter 244 – Side Story 8 – A Comic Festival Date With Seraphina (2)
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“Hmm… it feels a bit simple to call it cosplay, but,
I guess it’s better to be simple and easy to handle.”
Si-yoon, having changed in the men’s dressing room prepared for cosplayers, emerged.
His outfit was quite similar to the one he wore when he invaded the Hero Alliance headquarters,
but with a few more decorations, it seemed to be arranged more splendidly.
Even if one couldn’t tell exactly which anime or game it was from,
it was definitely an outfit that suited his superior height and sturdy physique.
‘It’s almost 9 o’clock… Seraphina should be coming out soon.’
Those preparing booths and cosplayers can enter the venue at 9 o’clock,
granting them the privilege to enter the interior in advance and look around before general visitors.
Si-yoon waited a long time in the waiting room, queued to enter the dressing room,
and by the time he changed, it was almost time to use that privilege.
“Alright! Please enter! Come in slowly and line up!”
When the hour hand of the clock hanging on one wall of the waiting room pointed to the number 12,
the guide who checked the time opened the door for those waiting in the waiting room.
“Oh… it’s much more elaborate than I thought.”
As numerous people dressed as various characters went out through the door,
booths densely filling the large indoor venue began to appear.
“I need to find Seraphina… I don’t know what she cosplayed as.”
Si-yoon himself doesn’t look much different except for the clothes,
but there’s no telling what Seraphina might be dressed as.
As he came out of the waiting room and looked around,
“You came dressed properly, I see?”
Someone poked the back of Si-yoon, who had been craning his neck for a while, with a finger,
and left a friendly comment on his cosplay with a clear voice.
“Oh…!”
Similar to the costume she wore when she was active as a magical girl hero,
but with an open chest, revealing her more mature charm.
White stockings that came up to her thighs, gently pressing against her thigh flesh,
creating a cute yet sensual feeling, could also be said to be a charming point.
“It’s a newly made magical girl costume… does it suit me…?”
In the past, when Seraphina appeared in magical girl clothes, it felt like an ‘imitation,’
but now it felt like a mysterious girl with magical powers had descended.
Since becoming Si-yoon’s slave, her abilities have also become more powerful,
giving the impression that the magical girl costume she embodies with her abilities is also more splendid and beautiful.
“It suits you so well… I lost my words for a moment.”
Si-yoon, who had been staring blankly at Seraphina’s question of whether it suited her,
nodded vigorously and praised her beauty.
“Is this… a costume made with your ability?”
“I was originally going to buy a costume… but I thought it would be better if I made it myself.”
In fact, like the word cosplay suggests, Seraphina also tried to buy clothes online,
but she couldn’t find clothes with better quality than what she could create with her ability.
Therefore, she only packed a tool to calm her curly hair a bit and some cosmetics,
and there wasn’t even an accessory in the shopping bag she was carrying, let alone clothes.
“It was hard to find clothes to dress Master in too!
People with good physiques often make their own clothes.”
“Is that so…? It’s hard to buy ordinary clothes because of my shoulders and back.”
Si-yoon often buys large-sized clothes online because of his physique.
Fortunately, the original owner of the clothes he was wearing was also well-built like him,
so Seraphina was barely able to find clothes made based on the character’s actual body shape.
“Wow… how did you make this outfit?”
“The material looks very expensive… where did you get it?”
With her amazing appearance as if a magical girl had truly manifested, the surrounding cosplayers gathered,
carefully asking about where she bought the clothes she was wearing or what material they were made of.
“Ahaha… that’s… that’s a secret….”
Since she couldn’t honestly say, ‘I made this outfit with my ability,’
Seraphina mumbled that it was an industry secret and hurriedly grabbed Si-yoon’s hand.
‘It’s obvious… she’s very troubled.’
Si-yoon knew that Seraphina was in trouble, so he took her hand and led her,
towards the booth that was busy preparing to sell goods and doujinshi.
“By the way… when did you start liking this kind of thing?”
Si-yoon suddenly became curious about why she became interested in subculture and cosplay.
“Since I happened to be working as a magical girl hero…,
I became curious about what magical girls in comics and games looked like.
As I looked for and took care of various things, it became a hobby before I knew it.”
As she worked with the identity of a hero magical girl, she suddenly wondered, ‘What is a magical girl really?’
As she looked it up out of curiosity, it became a hobby before she knew it.
However, it was difficult to properly pursue her hobby at the time due to her busy and painful hero work.
The best she could do was to watch new animations that aired every season whenever she had time,
or occasionally buy small accessory-type goods when she had time.
Then, after becoming a slave, she had the leisure to take an interest in her hobby,
and she wanted to try cosplay together on a date with Si-yoon.
“Wow! Can I buy just one of these?”
Seraphina was talking about how she got into her hobby as she walked around the booths,
and stopped in front of one booth as if she liked something.
“Of course! You’re wearing a similar outfit, aren’t you?”
What she was holding in her hand with a happy expression was an acrylic stand of a character wearing a magical girl outfit.
The color of the hair and the details of the outfit were obviously different,
but even though it was clearly a fictional character, it was somehow subtly similar to Seraphina.
“Kyaa! I couldn’t collect things like this even if I wanted to before!”
“Haha… do you like it that much?”
At the sight of her jumping for joy even with just a small acrylic stand,
Si-yoon couldn’t help but burst into laughter and unconsciously stroked her hair.
‘Hoo… I was so excited that my transformation almost came undone…♥’
Seraphina’s heart was pounding at the touch on her hand,
and she almost lost her mind at the sight of Si-yoon when she lifted her head.
Even the transformation, which is usually well maintained in most situations to the point where it doesn’t come undone even when severely injured,
almost faded away, emitting a faint light for a moment due to her rapidly beating heart.
“Are you two a couple? You came cosplaying as a couple!”
“Ehehe…♥”
The booth operator saw the two’s actions and realized they were on a date,
smiling and looking at them with envious eyes.
“Here you go! Have a beautiful love!”
He put the acrylic stand in a bag, handed it over with the change, and then,
waved his hand behind Seraphina, who was walking away with a shy, blushing face.
‘Lovers…♥’
The fact that she and Si-yoon looked like lovers to other people,
made Seraphina’s heart, which she had barely calmed down, keep pounding.
“Why? Are you not feeling well?”
“Ah… no! That! Shall we go see that?”
When Si-yoon saw her flushed face and asked if she was feeling unwell,
she shook her head from side to side and hurriedly turned her gaze elsewhere.
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Seraphina and Si-yoon, who had been walking around the Comic Festival venue all day in cosplay,
bought various character goods with both hands full.
The two took one last picture with the venue building behind them,
changed back into their original clothes, and entered a hotel near the venue.
“It was really fun! I really wanted to come here once.”
Seraphina poured out the goods in the shopping bag she had brought with her cosplay clothes on the bed,
and smiled with a lingering feeling as she unwrapped them one by one.
“It’s fun to come to crowded places like this sometimes.”
Si-yoon, who didn’t think much of it at first, was also enjoying the event in his own way,
looking at the things Seraphina bought together.
“By the way… that ability is really convenient.
You don’t have to take off your clothes or carry them around separately?”
Seraphina, who had been transformed in the same outfit she wore when she came to the venue,
emitted a brilliant light and returned to that outfit when she released her transformation.
“I originally had to take them off separately… but at some point, I didn’t have to change separately.”
Originally, she had to transform without wearing anything,
but thanks to her strengthened ability, it seemed that she no longer had to do that.
“Let’s save the rest for when we get back to the hideout…,
I must give an award to Master for playing with me today!”
Seraphina, who seemed quite satisfied with today’s date, put the goods back into the shopping bag,
put her hands on her waist, and looked at Si-yoon with a triumphant expression.
“Ehem ehm…♥”
“Eek?!”
Then, humming a tune and taking a pose like a magical girl’s transformation pose,
a light resembling the color of emeralds began to envelop her body in an instant.
Si-yoon was startled by the suddenly emitted light and briefly covered his eyes,
and the light subsided not long after he covered his eyes.
“How is it…? Another outfit prepared just for Master…♥”
And the moment the light subsided, what appeared in front of Si-yoon was…,
Seraphina, looking so beautiful and sensual.
