After entering the inner hall, the atmosphere became even livelier.
Inside, numerous individuals and circle groups were selling doujinshi. Many of them were all-ages versions, while quite a few belonged to the 18x category...
Yuuki Asuna curiously walked up to one of the booths and politely asked the seller sitting behind the table while looking at the books laid out before her,
"Excuse me, may I take a look?"
"Ah, um... sure!"
The booth owner looked at the beautiful girl in front of him with a stiff and strange expression before answering awkwardly.
"Thank you."
Yuuki Asuna picked up one of the booklets on the table, wondering if it was some kind of manga. As her slender fingers turned the pages, a series of intense illustrations entered her eyes one after another.
However... the contents of those pictures were far too stimulating.
In an instant, her expression froze, and her movements stopped.
The booth owner gave an awkward laugh as he looked at the beautiful girl before him.
This definitely wasn't an otaku girl. How exactly did she even end up here?
"Asuna, what are you doing over here?"
Sato's voice suddenly came from behind her. He quickly walked to her side and looked at the booklet in her hands.
The moment he saw what Yuuki Asuna was holding, his expression immediately changed, and he stared at the explosive contents with a strange look.
This was...
Yeah, a doujinshi. And an 18x one at that.
"Ah!!"
Yuuki Asuna suddenly let out a red-faced scream and jerked her hand back as if electrocuted, retreating two steps as though she had touched some unspeakable object. The doujinshi in her hand slipped from her grasp at the same time.
Sato reacted quickly and caught the booklet before looking up at the girl.
Yuuki Asuna's face was completely red. She bit her cherry lips tightly as she looked at Sato with an indescribable mixture of embarrassment and annoyance.
"Sato."
Yuuki Asuna's voice trembled slightly, and her eyes remained fixed on him.
Sato: "..."
I didn't tell you to read it, this has nothing to do with me!
Sato had not expected that moments after entering, Yuuki Asuna would wander over here, and even more coincidentally, that this booth would happen to be selling 18x doujinshi.
"Is this entire place full of things like this?"
After letting out a faint sigh, she looked around at the enormous venue. There were probably thousands of booths here.
"Ahem, not all of them. There are all-ages works too."
Sato laughed awkwardly as he explained.
"What happened?"
Katou Megumi, Eriri, and Kasumigaoka Utaha walked over as well.
When the booth owner saw the three beautiful girls approaching, his eyes widened in disbelief as he stared at Sato, the only male in the group.
Hey! Brother, are you serious?!
You know girls this beautiful, and instead of doing something meaningful with them, you bring them to a place like this?!
You normies really know how to have fun!
"N-Nothing..."
Yuuki Asuna blushed as she instinctively glanced at the doujinshi in Sato's hand.
The others immediately noticed.
Eriri and Kasumigaoka Utaha exchanged silent looks and instantly understood, both giving Yuuki Asuna meaningful smiles that made her face turn even redder.
Katou Megumi, however, did not understand. Looking curiously at the booklet in Sato's hand, she asked,
"What is that? A manga?"
"Uh... you could say that."
"Can I take a look?"
"Megumi!"
Yuuki Asuna suddenly called out to her. After Katou Megumi turned around in confusion, Yuuki Asuna shook her head with a flushed face and pursed lips.
Why?
Katou Megumi did not quite understand, but after thinking for a moment, she suddenly lowered her head silently and spoke in a tiny voice.
"Is it... that kind of thing inside?"
Sato noticed that the tips of Katou Megumi's ears had turned red, and for some reason, that stirred something in him.
Although Katou Megumi's personality was very calm, she was still a perfectly normal girl. It was only natural for her to feel embarrassed seeing such things.
Wait!
Sato suddenly realized something and frowned slightly.
Bringing Katou Megumi and Yuuki Asuna here might have been a lack of consideration on his part.
Because he had originally planned to come with Kasumigaoka Utaha and Eriri, he had not thought too deeply about it. And since Katou Megumi and Yuuki Asuna were online friends he knew from the "game," he subconsciously overlooked the issue.
But...
SAO could hardly even be considered a game, and Katou Megumi and Yuuki Asuna were not otaku girls at all.
So...
Wasn't it incredibly strange for him to bring two non-otaku beauties to a giant doujinshi convention like this?!
Meanwhile, Eriri had already picked up a doujinshi and started reading through it enthusiastically while commenting on it.
"The paneling is pretty good, but the art style is too exaggerated and lacks aesthetic appeal. The story also feels too weak and overly dramatic."
The booth owner immediately lit up upon hearing her critique, but after seeing Eriri's appearance, he shrank back again.
Beautiful girls at this level simply should not exist in a place like this. What exactly was wrong with this guy?!
He looked at Sato with envy and resentment.
Sato sensed the gaze and glanced at him.
What?
After finishing her evaluation, Eriri put down the doujinshi and looked deeper into the venue with lingering excitement.
"Let's keep going. I heard Eromanga-sensei and several other big-name artists came too."
After saying that, she immediately took the lead and walked ahead of the group.
Seeing this, Kasumigaoka Utaha shook her head slightly and sighed.
"Looks like after making it ashore, this girl has relaxed quite a bit."
Sato smiled noncommittally and slowly followed after her.
Katou Megumi and Yuuki Asuna, meanwhile, exchanged strange looks.
Subconsciously, the two looked at each other in astonishment.
Why was Sawamura-san so calm while looking at this kind of thing?
The two of them recalled the contents they had just seen, and their faces flushed red again with embarrassment.
Why?
Because the soft, cute, tsundere little otaku girl who went "uwah uwah" was once a master-level 18x doujinshi artist.
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