The two of them entered the anime convention venue.
The venue was filled with cosplayers.
Characters from various anime had gathered together.
Yet Bai Yurou secretly made a comparison in her heart.
When it came to accuracy, the Cai Xiaotong beside her still came out on top.
While the two of them were heading toward the booth where Cai Xiaotong had placed the cosplay costumes, quite a few visitors who passed by them would ask Cai Xiaotong for a photo.
Cai Xiaotong smiled and agreed to each one.
“Xiaotong is really popular.”
After watching Cai Xiaotong finish taking a photo with a Hoshino Ai cosplayer, Bai Yurou remarked with emotion.
“After all, I have such accurate cosplay skills, paired with my cute face and loli height. Naturally, I attract the attention of many male and female otakus.”
Cai Xiaotong said narcissistically.
Bai Yurou had thought that Cai Xiaotong would be like many lolis in novels, refusing to admit she was a loli and then blushing and acting tsundere or something.
She had not expected her to directly accept it and even say it so frankly.
Speaking of which, no wonder her online name was Loves Onee-sans the Most.
After all, she herself was a loli.
A loli paired with onee-sans was indeed a perfect match.
“But Yurou, you don’t need to feel sad either. With your looks, once you come out in cosplay later, I believe the number of people coming to ask you for photos will not be less than mine.”
Cai Xiaotong thought Bai Yurou was envious of her and comforted her.
Just now, Bai Yurou had already agreed to Cai Xiaotong’s request and was willing to cosplay. But if it were her, what character would she be more suited to cosplay?
Bai Yurou began to think. The character Cai Xiaotong wanted her to cosplay was most likely also a character from Magical Girl Witch Trial.
Among the characters she might be suited for, the first one Bai Yurou thought of was Natsume An’an.
Just like herself, she was also a frail and frequently ill young miss.
However, her height was not suitable.
An’an’s height was about the same as Noah’s. If it came to cosplaying her, Cai Xiaotong would be more suitable.
Then who would it be?
Bai Yurou could not figure it out.
She felt that her own persona did not correspond to any of the characters in Magical Girl Witch Trial.
Cai Xiaotong quickly brought Bai Yurou to her booth.
This was a booth Cai Xiaotong had specially applied for in order to sell the Magical Girl Witch Trial doujinshi she had drawn herself.
Two girls were already sitting at the booth.
One had long yellow hair, blue contact lenses, and was also wearing a black bow.
At a glance, it was clear she was cosplaying the Magical Girl Witch Trial character Saeki Miriya.
Moreover, Bai Yurou recognized the cosplayer in front of her.
Zhao Dandan, Lin Ye’s high school classmate, and also her little sister Ning Mu’s good best friend.
Zhao Dandan was one of the few friends Lin Ye had in high school.
At that time, because Ning Mu was too much of a genius and had excellent grades, Lin Ye had wanted to catch up to his little sister’s footsteps.
So the Lin Ye of high school had always focused his attention on doing practice problems.
This resulted in him not having much time to socialize with classmates.
As for Zhao Dandan, she and Ning Mu had been good best friends since the first year of high school.
Thanks to Ning Mu, Zhao Dandan had also had some contact with Lin Ye, this older brother of Ning Mu’s.
At Lin Ye’s funeral a few days ago, Zhao Dandan had also gone to see him off on his final journey.
The young girl sitting beside Zhao Dandan————was precisely Ning Mu.
Ning Mu was not cosplaying like Zhao Dandan. She still had her signature long black hair and was also wearing that conspicuous pink rabbit hair clip.
Today’s Ning Mu was in much better mental condition than the Ning Mu at the funeral a few days ago.
Her complexion was also much more normal, though she still looked a bit haggard.
“Xiaotong, I brought my good best friend along to play as well.”
Zhao Dandan saw the two people walking over and said to Cai Xiaotong.
After Lin Ye’s death, Ning Mu had often shut herself alone in her room for the entire day.
Ning’s father and Ning’s mother, worried about their daughter’s physical condition, had called over their daughter’s high school best friend Zhao Dandan.
It just so happened that Zhao Dandan had been requested by Cai Xiaotong to come to the anime convention to help watch her booth for a while, so she prepared to bring this good best friend of hers over as well to relax a little.
Ning Mu also knew that continuing to internalize like this was not a solution, so she agreed.
“Mm. Thank you, Dandan-jie.”
Cai Xiaotong then looked toward Ning Mu beside Zhao Dandan.
This was also an absolute beauty. Just like Bai Yurou, she was very suited to cosplay.
She had originally thought she herself was already peerlessly beautiful, yet she had not expected to suddenly run into two girls who were not inferior to her today.
The narcissistic Cai Xiaotong remarked inwardly.
“Hello, my name is Cai Xiaotong.”
In order to get Ning Mu to also join her cosplay plan, Cai Xiaotong greeted Ning Mu and tried to get closer.
Ning Mu also directed her gaze toward Cai Xiaotong and the Bai Yurou behind her.
The moment she saw Bai Yurou, Ning Mu’s eyes froze slightly.
She is probably surprised to be able to see me here.
Bai Yurou thought upon seeing Ning Mu’s reaction.
After all, in her eyes, if not for herself, her older brother would not have died.
She definitely felt some rejection toward her.
Sometimes she really wanted to tell her that she was Lin Ye.
“Hello, I’m Ning Mu.”
Ning Mu’s change in expression lasted only an instant.
She immediately put away her emotions and normally responded to Cai Xiaotong’s greeting.
“This is Bai Yurou……”
Cai Xiaotong continued introducing the Bai Yurou behind her.
“We actually know each other.”
Bai Yurou took the lead in interrupting.
“Yes. Miss Bai Yurou and I have met once before.”
When saying these words, Ning Mu’s tone was calm and without waves, as if she were merely mentioning a stranger she had only met once.
But Bai Yurou clearly knew in her heart that this did not mean Ning Mu had already forgiven or let go.
She was only carefully hiding that rejection at the bottom of her heart and trying to face her in the manner of treating a stranger.
“Mumu, you two actually know each other? Why didn’t you tell me you got to know a new girl outside?”
On the other side, Zhao Dandan teased, then also began introducing herself to Bai Yurou.
At the funeral, it was only Bai Yurou who had seen Zhao Dandan.
Zhao Dandan had not seen her.
Even if she had seen her, at that time she would have been a stranger to Zhao Dandan and had probably already forgotten.
“I’m Zhao Dandan. I’m Xiaotong’s older cousin.”
“Mm. My name is Bai Yurou.”
After they finished introducing themselves to each other, Cai Xiaotong directly and straightforwardly revealed her purpose to Ning Mu.
“Ning Mu, do you want to cosplay?”
“Cosplay?”
Ning Mu was a bit confused. She clearly did not understand what this word meant.
Ning Mu, just like Lin Ye, was not an otaku. From childhood to adulthood, the only anime she had ever watched was Detective Conan.
Today Zhao Dandan had come to find her to go play at the anime convention.
She had only wanted to change her mood a little and try to step out of the shadow of Lin Ye’s death, so she had agreed.
Although she also did not know what an anime convention was.
“It’s just like me and Dandan-jie, cosplaying as various anime characters.”
“But I don’t know these characters.”
Ning Mu spoke the truth.
“It’s fine. Not knowing them doesn’t matter. As long as you wear the cosplay costume, you’ll become even more beautiful than you are now. How about it? Do you want to become more beautiful?”
Cai Xiaotong discovered that Ning Mu had not directly refused and felt there was hope, so she continued to coax the pure and kind young girl in front of her.
“Mumu, just give it a try.”
On the other side, her good best friend Zhao Dandan also began to persuade her.
“Then…… alright.”
“Perfect. Yurou is also going to cosplay. You two can go change together later. It’ll also be convenient to look after each other.”
Seeing yet another beauty agree to her request and be willing to cosplay, Cai Xiaotong was especially happy.
She immediately found two unopened cosplay costumes at her booth and handed them to Bai Yurou and Ning Mu respectively.
“Dandan-jie, take Yurou and Ning Mu to the changing room. I’ll watch the booth for now.”
Because she was afraid the two of them would not be able to find the changing room of the anime convention, Cai Xiaotong requested her older cousin to help lead the way.