"W... What if I told you this was for manga source material research?"
Eriri cautiously looked at her best friend... Although Eriri knew Kaede had a boyfriend, she didn't know her boyfriend was Rin Ito. And... why is Kaede only targeting me and not them!?
Eriri secretly glanced at Nanami and the others. Seeing Nanami with her head down, her shoulders and hands trembling with fear, Eriri felt a slight sense of relief... At least it's not just me.
In reality, though... Kaede had already spoken to them beforehand. Nanami was just trying to hold back her laughter at Eriri's scared reaction. And Kaede... seeing her friend genuinely scared for the first time, Kaede was also struggling to suppress her smile.
"Research?" Kaede looked at Eriri with a cold, stern expression. "Do you think I haven't seen your drawings? Do the things you draw require this kind of research!?"
Eriri was trembling all over... She wasn't holding back a smile; she was genuinely scared. At this point, she had no choice but to admit she drew doujinshi... but before Eriri could speak, Suzu took Eriri's laptop and said emotionlessly to Kaede.
"Eriri draws erotic manga!"
"Really? Let me see..." Kaede was curious and leaned in next to Suzu to look through the ero images and doujinshi Eriri had on her computer. Kaede had only just learned from the Camera System that Eriri also drew doujinshi. She didn't know what kind of doujinshi Eriri drew, as the Camera System couldn't control Eriri's computer.
"Guh-woo!!!!!" A cry of despair escaped Eriri's mouth. The feeling of being on pins and needles, wishing to die on the spot, was no less intense than having her browser history exposed. Although Eriri wanted to stop them, compared to letting her best friend think she was a seductress trying to steal her boyfriend, letting her see her doujinshi was the lesser of two evils.
First came curiosity, then astonishment... finally, a gasp of shock. Hiss... I didn't expect Eriri's taste to be so heavy. The heroine looks completely broken!
But... a wicked smile curved Kaede's lips. Speaking of which, Rin Ito only just managed to convince Eriri to join the club as an observer. Although he hasn't 'eaten' her yet, I figure it's only a matter of time. I only planned to scare Eriri a little, but since this is the case... I'll help him speed things up a bit!
Kaede picked a page showing the heroine being stuffed with toys and then spanked to climax, and she held the laptop up to Eriri's face.
"Is this the doujinshi you drew?"
Eriri, with her head lowered, nodded. She couldn't maintain her tsundere facade now.
"Heh-heh... Are you trying to fool me just because I can't draw?" Kaede sneered. "Shouldn't drawing doujinshi rely on imagination? Do you mean that if the heroine in the doujinshi is used as a toilet, you must also be used as a toilet for research? Do all doujinshi artists hold org-parties!? Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Of course not! It must rely on imagination! I'm still a virgin! Eriri desperately wanted to say this to Kaede, but... her earlier excuse was that she was attending a research session, not trying to seduce her boyfriend. There's no way to deny it now!
Therefore, Eriri could only nod tearfully... No matter whether Kaede believed her or not, Eriri had to stick to this story.
I'm sorry!!! I apologize to all the virgin doujinshi artists out there who haven't attended an org-party!!!!! After apologizing to the entire community of virgin doujinshi artists in her heart, Eriri spoke with tears in her eyes.
"Although we don't actually experience being used as a toilet, doujinshi artists attend these research sessions for source material."
"I see... so the overly extreme scenes are by imagination, and the slightly more normal ones are researched firsthand?"
"Mhm, mhm, mhm." Eriri nodded rapidly.
"Why didn't you say so sooner?" Kaede's expression immediately relaxed, and a smile appeared on her face. "Since you draw doujinshi, it's normal to need this kind of source material research. My bad, my bad, I scared you, didn't I? If you had said that sooner, I wouldn't have misunderstood."
"...?" Eriri looked utterly confused. Seriously... she believed such a far-fetched excuse? Truth be told, Eriri didn't even believe the excuse herself. I never thought Kaede was so easily fooled before. Whenever I wanted to apply for more funding, she was shrewd as hell! The only benefit of Kaho becoming Student Council President was that club funding wasn't scrutinized so tightly anymore; Kaho would cover any shortfall herself.
But... no matter what, it's good that I managed to smooth things over without a complete fallout.
Just as Eriri was breathing a sigh of relief, Kaede continued.
"I've never participated in a research session like this before. Can you show me how you conduct your research, Eriri? For example..."
"This one." Suzu handed the laptop to Eriri. The sisterly synergy between them allowed Suzu to know exactly what Kaede wanted to do based on her attitude. The image on the screen was intimately familiar to Eriri. Every stroke on it was drawn by her own hand. Just looking at one page was enough for Eriri to recall the entire doujinshi's contents. Specifically, it was the story of a rich girl, modeled after Kaho, being kidnapped by the yakuza, then continuously conditioned and filled with puffs by over a dozen men, eventually turning into an M. Eriri hadn't expected Kaho to actually have this kind of fetish when she drew it.
The page Suzu had selected showed the heroine being spanked to climax. Looking at the computer screen, Eriri was tongue-tied.
"Uh...?"
"For this page, the research Eriri needs to conduct is to be spanked on the butt, right?"
Kaede knew this was Eriri's first time meeting Rin Ito, and it was already difficult enough to convince her to join the club as an observer and slowly draw her into the fun. If it weren't for the fact that Eriri, as a doujinshi artist, genuinely wanted to see what the scene in her doujinshi looked like in reality, and she wanted to see Kaho being conditioned, she wouldn't have stayed.
Kaede blinked, a hint of cunning in her eyes. Compared to being NTRed by a woman I've never even met, like Utaha, Eriri is a much better choice. So... I'll speed things up a little!
"I..." Eriri gritted her silver teeth, clearly angry. Kaede is definitely angry.
With Kaede and Suzu's combined ambush, the completely flustered Eriri no longer had the time to consider why Kaede wasn't targeting Nanami and the others but specifically her. Although Eriri knew nothing had happened between her and Rin Ito, and she was still fully clothed, the situation made it impossible to explain. The only thing Eriri wanted now was to put the Hat of Forgiveness on Kaede, making her forgive her.
"Then... then okay."
Taking a deep breath, Eriri knelt on the carpet like the heroine in her manga, burying her face in the crook of her arms, revealing only her flushed ears. Then, she lifted her slender waist, sticking her butt up in the air.
But in her nervousness, Eriri forgot one thing. Before Kaede and Suzu arrived, she had been about to go to the restroom to deal with her thighs, which were wet and cool from her excited friction.