Booth and White Dress

The bazaar started as usual, various students from grade one to grade three gathered in one place, the school grounds, to participate in the bazaar.

Whether it was just for fun or to join the cool clubs. The Cooking Club was unusually crowded as they took care of the food and drinks for this event along with the canteen, so their support was huge. The sound of iron ladles scraping against pans could be heard all the way here.

The event was further enlivened by the presence of the Public Speaking Club who spoke endlessly on stage and while going around promoting their club as well as other clubs.

Hah, I wish I was in a club like that with a lot of activities, but due to problems in the past, I was stranded here. Just struggling with pen, paper and computer.

"Hey, don't sleep, we could have visitors at any time," Ayame pinched my arm.

"Auh it hurts, I was just daydreaming for a while, and you pulled me back to earth," I said while trying to remove Ayame's pinch from my arm.

"Don't touch me, yes yes, whatever you want, remember our purpose here is not to play around but..."

"To recruit new members to our club right, I already know, it's just that we haven't had any visitors for over an hour."

"Don't complain, I'll hit you with my shoe," Ayame said as she made a motion to hit me.

"I'm sorry Ojou-sama, your maid made a mistake, please forgive me," I said as I put my palms together.

After a while of chatting with Ayame, a visitor came to visit our booth after a long wait.

"Excuse me senior, is the booth still open?" The visitor said while looking at the two of us.

"Oh yes junior, it's still open, we're from the game developer club here,..." Ayame spoke while explaining what our club does.

A moment later, Ayame finished explaining.

"Valdo, what are you doing? Instead of helping me, you're doing nothing," Ayame said.

"I didn't want to disturb you who were busy persuading innocent juniors to join our club," I said, resting my chin on my hand.

Ayame pinched my waist hard and twisted it.

"Ouch ouch, it hurts, stop, please."

"You should be grateful that I didn't hit you, instead of helping and even talking bad about me."

"Yeah, that's enough, it hurts, let me go."

Ayame released her pinch from my waist. I could feel my skin bruising from the pinch.

Ayame took her mobile phone from her pocket and said, "By the way, I have other business now, it's your turn to man the booth and promote our club. Remember we need 2 new members, just watch out if you slack off again."

"Busy as usual, whatever can be done, I will not be slacking off, no need to remind myself."

After that, Ayame left the booth, leaving me here alone. I wondered if we would really have visitors. Never mind, why complain, just do what I can do now.

There were visitors to our booth and they turned out to be Alda and two of her friends whom I met yesterday at the maid cafe.

"Hi Alda, that's your sister, hello Alda's brother," one of her friends greeted me with a smile.

"Hello Alda's friends, what are you doing here, do you want to know the game development club and join our club?"

"Alda, isn't your brother a member of the football club? How come he's suddenly in this club."

"I-I don't know, my brother said you left the club because of an important matter," Alda said awkwardly.

"Oh, I see, this club looks fun, can we play games in our free time?"

"We spend most of our time at the club developing the latest games, but not only games, we also work on some software, for example this game."

After a while they talked to me about our club, but Alda didn't talk about anything during our conversation. I assumed that she felt awkward with me, especially since Alda wanted to have a friend in the club.

"Hello Alda, long time no see, both of her friends also, hello, what can I do?" Ayame came from behind me and talked to Alda and her friends.

I was surprised that she came back to the booth to help me in this matter. Wait a minute, is she wearing the same dress as the one in our visual novel? And the hat too?

"Senior Ayame, looking so pretty in that dress, will Senior Ayame be performing on stage later?" Alda said cheerfully and admiringly.

"Haha, no, but thanks for the compliment, I like this dress, but I want to try it one day."

"Senior Ayame looks like an angel in that white dress, it's also close to summer, Hey Alda, do you have any plans for summer holiday," Her friend asked Alda.

"I still don't have any plans, maybe a family holiday to the beach, but I think we can play on the beach together later," Alda said.

"That sounds fun, we also have a beach holiday planned for the summer holidays, that would be great."

"We'll talk about it later, but if you want to join our club, you can use the club's registration form, if you want to see our flyer, just scan this barcode here," Ayame redirected the conversation that had gone off the rails.

They took the forms and left our booth, waving at Ayame. I was surprised that Ayame came to the booth while costumed as the main heroine of our visual novel.

"Hey, please don't look at me like that, I know you're amazed by my beauty, and also you're still lazing around like a few minutes ago!" Ayame said.

"Sorry, sorry, I can't handle something like this, I'm not as good as you when it comes to customer management," I snapped back to reality and said.

"You should have a closer relationship with your sister, why do you two look like strangers rather than siblings?"

"Some circumstances, our sibling relationship is broken. Alda, who used to be a cheerful sister and loved to play with me, now she is very annoying and even asks for unreasonable things. I think the older someone gets, the more distant they become."

"She might be embarrassed to have an incompetent brother like you, hehe, but at least she has a brother she can "rely on" unlike me. Ah never mind, it's none of my business, it's yours, maybe the answer to her question is already in front of your eyes."

"Yes, enough with this sensitive matter, I would like to ask, why did you cosplay as the main heroine in our visual novel? Any reason behind it?" I said while pointing out her unusual outfit.

"Hm, I'm dressed like this because I'll be performing in front of many people on stage later."

"So because of that, you threw the presentation task at me?"

"Yeah, is that good? Do I look like the main character in a visual novel?" She teased me.

"Hm, you look amazing, I'm speechless, aaahh whatever, we should do anything to get the best," I said while scratching my head.

She looked away and walked away from the booth. She looked at me, and said, "We have to do our best," and left the booth.

It was very out of character, but I had to prepare a presentation task to show on stage later anyway. Let's ask Senior Takumi about it.

Then I opened the group chat. Senior Takumi sent the presentation file with some encouraging words. Now I just need to prepare myself and give my best on stage even though I'm not very good at presentations.