Chapter 15 [The Day of the Photoshoot (Part 2)]

Now with only mere minutes before their train arrived, Yuuki along with many others had finally arrived just as the announcement through the station's PA system had announced that their train had now began

boarding.

"We need to hurry, we don't wanna miss that train after all."

Yuuki stated, as she began to lead the sprint to the train platform where their train had been waiting for passengers was with their luggages that contain their costumes being pulled by them.

SHINKANSEN EN ROUTE TO KYOTO ON PLATFORM 3 WILL NOW BE LEAVING THE STATION.

With their panting breaths, they safely made it to their train as the announcement for the said train was about to depart.

They found their seats which were close to each other in no time flight- just in time for the bullet train to speed up.

This silence is too awkward... I need to think of something to talk about...

Honoka felt a little too uncomfortable due to how silent Yuuki, Azuki, and the other shoot participants had been ever since they had sat down at their designated seats. Only the sounds of the train along with the voices of the other passengers with them were the only things that could hear.

"Uh... So who are you gonna be cosplaying as, Yuuki?"

Honoka asked the half-angel who was sitting right beside her, trying to break the tension around each other.

"Do you know this game?" Yuuki showed a picture of a RPG on her smartphone with a purple-haired protagonist with short hair along with another purple-haired girl but with longer hair wearing a sailor uniform style dress on the cover.

"I heard about it but I haven't gotten some free time to play it."

"I'll be doing the younger sister of the protagonist." Yuuki finished her reply.

That's a nice one... I might do that one in the future...

More ideas for her future costumes had entered Honoka's mind as she started thinking about what she would do for her next cosplays, from possible original characters to characters from anime, games, and possibly japanese manga, it was a breakthrough for Honoka who hadn't even thought about her next costume after the one that she just finished recently.

We're almost there now... We're already at Maibara now...

Honoka was lost in thought as the multiple amounts of ideas had crammed into her mind, almost not noticing that almost two hours had already passed ever since they left Tokyo station. There was only twenty more minutes left when it came to their travel time as the train slowly made it's way out of the station.

They were now already in the countryside as Honoka gazed out the window to occupy herself, giving up on thinking about anything that she could talk about with the others.

10 minutes...

5 minutes...

3 minutes...

The countdown for their arrival to their destination had been quick... They were already outside the station with only two more hours worth left before it gets dark.

The inside of their destination train station looked more like a mall than a train station, with shops all over the station giving it a mall-like appearance that could make anyone think that it is indeed a mall, meanwhile the outside surroundings looking as busy as Tokyo's urban landscape.

"By the way, we're gonna be doing it at an actual photo studio and not at a public place." Yuuki stated as they made their way out their way out through one of the stations many exits.

Ok then... It would've been more fun in public but whatever... We might get in trouble if we suddenly just did something like that at a public place.

Their location for the shoot was a photo studio that specialized at photoshoots for cosplayers, this was something that Honoka was surprised about. She thought they were gonna be having one outdoors-- somewhere that they were allowed to do photoshoots.

This was something she didn't expect Yuuki to suddenly announce once they had gotten to Kyoto-- rather, this was something that she had forgotten to mention when she bumped into Honoka the past day.

I'm to embarrassed to admit that I totally forgot to tell her now... I was too focused on looking for a photo studio and forgot... I bet she's pretty mad now...

Yuuki tried her best to hide how she felt about her mistake but it fails...

Honoka was already on her the moment she suddenly declared that they weren't doing a shoot outdoors. In fact, this was pretty obvious to anyone. Now suspicious of the half-angel, Honoka faked her smile, attempting to not notice the obvious lie that she had just heard.

"Oh, cool!" was the reply that she had given Yuuki, who was still trying to pretend that she actually did forget to say a word about the additional info about the said photoshoot.

"Sorry." Yuuki clasped her hands together, trying to a apologize for her mistake.

Well, whatever... I don't even care...

The silver-haired girl only sighed at Yuuki who made an honest mistake, giving up on even saying anything back. The fact that getting mad at a mistake like this was something Honoka didn't count as being worth getting mad or upset for.

It was something that could be called "A waste of time"...

***

Now inside of the aforementioned photo studio, Honoka, Yuuki, and Azuki, along with many others started to change into their costumes and put make up on aside from the wigs that was for their costumes.

Their photoshoot went smoothly with every one of them getting good photos. As Honoka posted an update that she had just finished the photoshoot, several people had liked her post on her SMS with a couple of people starting to follow her.

When Honoka got back from Kyoto another announcement had been sent on the group chat. It was themed group cosplay that featured characters from a role playing game that was so popular it recently got a second season when it came it's anime adaptation.

She was quite lucky that she hadn't made any plans for her next costume just yet, this would've been a bit troubling on her side due to the fact that she was a person that has a hard time deciding on things. She was like a child that had trouble choosing a toy from a toy store that had a lot of toys to choose from.

From this announcement came the character assignments which Yuuki had posted an hour later with an option to get assigned to cosplay a specific character from the said video game using a draw generator that the half-angel had set up with some of the names of the characters from the game on it-- as if it was a gacha from a mobile game.

The chance of Honoka getting the character she wanted was rather slim due to draw generators having very "risky" draw rates.

[To be continued...]