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"This is the shop." Kitagawa Marin walked ahead. "They have a lot of clothes, and the craftsmanship is very delicate. You can also custom-order clothes."
Amamiya Natsuki looked up at the shop in front of them: "You come here often?"
"I've only been here once. I asked about the price for custom-making a Shizuku cosplay before, but it was too expensive, so I was planning to make the clothes myself." Kitagawa Marin clenched her small fists, her eyes bright. "You never know what tomorrow or an accident will bring, so you have to work hard to achieve your set goals and leave no regrets."
This golden-haired girl was a super action-taker; she would really put effort into the things she wanted to do.
"Welcome..."
A hollow, eerie voice echoed from a dark corner.
"Good afternoon."
Kitagawa Marin instinctively replied.
The next second.
A corporate drone Evil Spirit, shrouded in black mist, with empty eye sockets and wearing a staff uniform, swayed and lunged forward.
"You... you can see me!"
"Eh, eh, eh?"
Kitagawa Marin jumped in fright and quickly hugged Amamiya Natsuki's arm.
Evil Spirit Banishing!
Amamiya Natsuki decisively activated his aura, instantly incinerating the corporate drone Evil Spirit.
It had already become an Evil Spirit, and it was still saying "Welcome" at the door. It should hurry up and achieve nirvana to reincarnate!
"You scared me to death." Kitagawa Marin clutched her chest and let out a long breath. "Hiding behind the door to speak, how cunning!"
Amamiya Natsuki frowned:
"Don't answer until you clearly see who's speaking."
If this golden-haired girl had come alone, she would be in danger now.
"Because Natsuki is here." Kitagawa Marin stuck out her pink tongue. "If you weren't here, I definitely wouldn't be so careless."
Amamiya Natsuki narrowed his eyes: "I highly doubt that."
"..."
"Hello, both of you, welcome."
A sales assistant came forward, her smile standard and appropriate.
"Stare—"
Kitagawa Marin widened her eyes, scrutinizing the sales assistant up and down.
"Confirmed." Kitagawa Marin nodded. "It's a living person."
The sales assistant's ears twitched slightly, and she suddenly felt a bit nervous, her smile stiffening involuntarily.
What did 'living person' mean?
We are a legitimate clothing store, how could there be dead people!
"Good afternoon." Kitagawa Marin greeted, a bright smile on her pretty face. "Do you have Shizuku's uniform?"
"...Shizuku?"
"Kuroe Shizuku." Kitagawa Marin put her right hand on her hip, her voice clear. "From 'The Wet Girl's Academy's Young Lady Shame Club'."
Amamiya Natsuki silently moved half a step away.
There's nothing wrong with girls playing galgames, but there are truly few girls who can say it out loud without shame.
Clearly, this was true love.
"Ah, I'm sorry..." The female sales assistant's smile was about to break. "Let me check for you."
A moment later.
"It's fine if you don't have it." Kitagawa Marin's tone was slightly regretful. "Let's try other outfits today."
The shop was quite large, with many customers coming and going. Amamiya Natsuki was in the process of choosing a character to cosplay when he saw a boy wearing a dull yellow combat suit and a white cape come out of the fitting room.
"It's Saitama-sensei." Kitagawa Marin's eyes lit up. "Natsuki, do you want to try it?"
"If the role-playing is successful, you'll be able to take out a elementary school student with one punch."
Are you kidding? Saitama-sensei's biggest characteristic is that shiny bald head. I'd rather be trampled under your feet than sacrifice my hair!
"Strange." Kitagawa Marin suddenly noticed a blind spot. "It seems like the store doesn't have cosplay uniforms for characters like Spider-Man, Thor, or Captain America."
"The reason is simple." Amamiya Natsuki retorted, "In Japan, only students can save the world."
When Marvel movies were released and swept box offices worldwide, only Japan stood out, being defeated by elementary school student Conan. There were many reasons, but the most important was the ideological concept.
In the Japanese mindset, hero protagonists should be young people, so the characters in mainstream manga are basically students—elementary school student, Junior high school students, high school students—very rarely corporate drones.
When Batman was released, the box office was not ideal. An organization conducted a survey on Twitter at the time, and many people replied—
"Such an old person, still being a hero."
"It feels very shameful."
"Why isn't he a high school student?"
Simply put, it just didn't fit the local culture!
An old man in his fifties still going around doing good deeds every day? He should retire quickly and leave Gotham City to the young people. The remnants of the old world should just retire!
The two quickly finished their round.
"There's a nun cosplay outfit over there. I'll try if the nun outfit can activate role-playing." Kitagawa Marin chose the clothes, confirmed there were no Evil Spirits in the fitting room, and then took the clothes inside. "Natsuki, what are you going to try?"
Amamiya Natsuki looked at the various uniforms not far away and quickly made a decision: "I'll try role-playing as a ninja."
Substitution Jutsu, Clone Jutsu, and all sorts of other messy ninjutsu—if he could role-play them, they would definitely be very useful.
Taking the ninja cosplay outfit into the fitting room, Amamiya Natsuki changed into the uniform and silently activated the 'role-playing' skill he had Copy and Pasted.
"Detecting... Detection failed."
"Compatibility does not meet the minimum role-playing requirements. You cannot unlock this role-play."
"It failed."
Amamiya Natsuki's expression was normal; he didn't take the failure to heart at all. It would be strange if it succeeded easily.
Walking out of the fitting room, Amamiya Natsuki changed into another cosplay outfit, but it still failed.
During this time, Kitagawa Marin also came out of the fitting room opposite, looking pitiful: "Natsuki, I can't be a nun."
"Normal."
Sacrificing herself to save others, God loves the world, devout faith—you don't meet a single one of those!
The two continued to search for triggerable role-plays.
"Hmm?"
As Amamiya Natsuki's gaze swept over a hero cosplay outfit, a prompt suddenly appeared before his eyes.
"You had a flash of inspiration and believed you had the potential to become a hero."
Just kidding, compared to a hero, he preferred being an evil villain.
Prompts don't appear for no reason. Amamiya Natsuki curiously picked up the hero cosplay outfit and walked into the fitting room.
He changed into the hero uniform and activated the role-playing skill again.
[Detecting... Detection successful.]
[Compatibility met. You have unlocked the 'scum hero' role-play]
[Current compatibility: 35%]
[Playing Reward: All Your Basic Attributes Are Extra Enhanced]
[Reward 2: When you perform actions such as sneak attacks, backstabs, traps, coercion, etc., the enemy will be more likely to lower their guard]
Amamiya Natsuki clenched his fists, indeed feeling a surge of power from within his body, feeling like he could easily split bricks with his bare hands.
Continuing to read downwards.
[Please note: When playing the 'scum hero', your words and actions must conform to the character's personality. When more people recognize you, the synchronization rate will increase, otherwise the synchronization rate will decrease. The higher the character playing synchronization rate, the more playing rewards you will unlock]
[When your synchronization rate reaches 50%, you will be able to unlock playing the 'Staff of Authority']
[Note: This skill is a temporary skill, and your character playing time is up to thirty minutes]
Amamiya Natsuki was expressionless.
Putting aside other things, who can explain what the Scum Hero is?
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