"If… if I said this was for manga research, would you believe me?"
Eri Ri cautiously looked at her good friend... Although Eri Ri had known Aoi had a boyfriend for a long time, Eri Ri didn't know her boyfriend was Ito.
And... why was Aoi only targeting her and not the others!?
Eri Ri secretly glanced at Nanami and the others. Seeing Nanami with her head down, her shoulders and hands trembling in fear, Eri Ri felt a little relieved... at least it wasn't just her.
But in reality... Aoi had already told them in advance. Nanami was just trying to hold back her laughter while watching Eri Ri's scared expression.
And Aoi... seeing her good friend's scared expression for the first time, Aoi was also trying hard to suppress her laughter.
"Research?" Aoi looked at Eri Ri coldly, her face straight. "Do you think I haven't seen your drawings? Do the drawings you make require this kind of research!?"
Eri Ri was trembling all over... She wasn't holding back laughter but was genuinely scared.
At this point, she could only admit that she was drawing adult manga... But before Eri Ri could open her mouth, Rika brought Eri Ri's laptop to Aoi and said expressionlessly.
"Eri Ri draws erotic manga!"
"Really? Let me see…"
Aoi curiously leaned next to Rika and together they flipped through the erotic pictures and adult manga Eri Ri had drawn on her computer. Aoi had only just learned from the Camera System that Eri Ri also drew adult manga.
She didn't know what kind of adult manga Eri Ri drew, after all, the Camera System couldn't control Eri Ri's computer.
"Guwu!!!!!"
Eri Ri let out a wail. This feeling of sitting on pins and needles, wishing she could die on the spot, was no less than having her browser history made public.
Although Eri Ri wanted to stop them, but... compared to letting her best friend think she was a vixen seducing her boyfriend, showing her adult manga was fine.
Initially it was curiosity, then bewilderment... finally, a sharp intake of breath.
Hiss...
She didn't expect Eri Ri's tastes to be so heavy. The female protagonist must have been completely broken!
However... Aoi's lips curled into a mischievous smile.
Speaking of which, just now Ito had finally managed to persuade Eri Ri to join the club as an observer. Although she hadn't been 'eaten' yet, Aoi estimated it was only a matter of time.
Originally, she had only intended to scare Eri Ri, but since that was the case... then she would help speed things up.
Aoi chose a page where the female protagonist was filled with toys and then spanked to orgasm, then showed the laptop to Eri Ri.
"These are the adult manga you draw?"
Eri Ri, with her face lowered, nodded. At this point, she couldn't be tsundere anymore.
"Heh heh..." Aoi sneered, "Are you trying to bully me because I can't draw? Isn't drawing adult manga supposed to rely on imagination? Do you mean if the female protagonist in the adult manga is used as a toilet, you also have to be used as a toilet for research? Do all adult manga artists hold orgies!? Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Of course not! It must be based on imagination! She was still a virgin!
Eri Ri really wanted to say that to Aoi, but... her explanation just now was that she was attending a research session, not seducing her boyfriend.
There was no way to deny it now!
Therefore, Eri Ri could only nod tearfully... No matter whether Aoi believed it or not, Eri Ri could only say that.
I'm sorry!!!!! Adult manga artists who haven't participated in orgies and are still virgins, I'm sorry!!!!!!
After apologizing to the vast number of virgin adult manga artists in her heart, Eri Ri spoke tearfully.
"Although we don't actually experience being used as a toilet, adult manga artists do attend such research sessions for material."
"I see... So, for overly extreme content, you rely on imagination, but for slightly more normal content, you do personal research?"
"Mhm, mhm, mhm."
Eri Ri nodded repeatedly.
"You should have said so earlier." Aoi's expression immediately relaxed and a smile appeared on her face. "After all, you guys draw adult manga, so it's normal to need this kind of research. Sorry, sorry, did I scare you? If you had said that earlier, I wouldn't have misunderstood."
"....?"
Eri Ri was completely bewildered.
No way... She believed such an absurd reason?
Honestly, Eri Ri herself didn't even believe that reason.
I never thought Aoi was so easy to fool before? Every time she wanted to apply for more funds, she would be incredibly shrewd!
The only benefit of Hana Ren becoming the student council president was that club activity funds would not be so strictly controlled; Hana Ren would cover any insufficient parts herself.
However… no matter what, it's fine as long as we muddled through without tearing off the pretense.
Just as Eri Ri breathed a sigh of relief, Aoi continued.
"I haven't participated in this kind of research session before. Can you let me see how you conduct your research, Eri Ri? For example…"
"This." Rika handed the notebook to Eri Ri. The tacit understanding between the sisters allowed Rika to know what Aoi wanted to do just by looking at her attitude.
Eri Ri was very familiar with the contents on the screen; every stroke on it was drawn by her own hand. Just by looking at one page, Eri Ri could recall the entire content of the notebook.
Specifically, it was a story about a young lady, modeled after Hana Ren, being kidnapped by gangsters, then being repeatedly trained and filled with cream puffs by a dozen people, eventually turning into an M. When Eri Ri drew it, she never expected Hana Ren to actually have such a sexual interest.
And the page Rika chose was where the female protagonist was spanked to orgasm.
Eri Ri looked at the computer screen, wanting to speak but hesitating.
"Uh…?"
"For this page, the research Eri Ri needs to conduct is being spanked, right?"
Aoi also knew that Eri Ri and Ito were meeting for the first time. It was already difficult enough to let her observe from the side and slowly draw her in.
If Eri Ri, as a doujinshi artist, hadn't really wanted to see what the scenes in her doujinshi would look like in reality, and wanted to see Hana Ren being trained, she wouldn't have stayed.
Aoi blinked, a hint of slyness in her eyes.
Compared to being cuckolded by a woman like Poetry Lily, whom she had never even met, Eri Ri was more suitable.
So… let's speed things up a bit!
"I…"
Eri Ri gritted her silver teeth, angry. Aoi was indeed angry.
With Aoi and Rika's combined 'catching a cheating' punch, the completely flustered Eri Ri had no time to consider why Aoi wasn't bothering Nanami and the others but specifically bothering her.
Although Eri Ri knew that nothing had happened between her and him, and although Eri Ri was still fully clothed, the situation was impossible to explain. All Eri Ri wanted now was to put a 'forgiveness hat' on Aoi, to make her forgive herself.
"Then… alright."
After taking a deep breath, Eri Ri, mimicking the female protagonist in a manga, knelt on the carpet, burying her face in her arms, only exposing her flushed ears. Then, she raised her slender waist, sticking out her bottom.
But in her nervousness, Eri Ri forgot one thing.
Before Aoi and Rika arrived, she had just been about to go to the bathroom to deal with the cool, excited mess between her legs.