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"It seems that I saw someone holding a tent..."
Like a newly hatched duckling, Kirino looked around curiously at the people attending the exhibition.
“Because some people are queuing up all night.”
Kyosuke didn't even turn his head. He didn't want to stay in such a place any longer.
"All night? Isn't that too much?"
"No, you will know what true exaggeration is later."
Kyosuke turned around and looked at Kirino, a sneer flashing at the corner of his mouth.
"what?"
Kirino tilted her head, not really understanding what her brother meant.
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Kuroneko and Saori were not difficult to find. Kyosuke saw them anxiously waiting in the staff passage.
"Sorry, we're late."
Kyosuke quickly stepped forward and apologized to the two people who had been waiting for so long.
"Too slow." The black cat looked at Kirino with an unhappy face, "It's so slow, you really have no sense of time at all."
"Why me?"
Kirino was very unhappy that Kuroneko targeted her right from the start.
"Of course it's you. With Brother Kyousuke's familiarity with CM, how could he make such a low-level mistake?"
"What? Him?" Kirino pointed at Kyosuke beside her, "Is this guy familiar with this place?"
Hearing Kirino's question, Saori looked at Kyosuke with admiration, "Well, Kyosuke's connections are at least much stronger than mine."
"Don't give me that. If you really want to get a staff position, you should be able to do it."
"But even I can't take out so many at once."
Saori handed a staff ID to Kyosuke as she spoke, "It's a public security staff ID. This can't be obtained simply by relying on connections, right?"
"Well, I just helped a guy a few days ago."
"Humph~"
Kirino glared at Kyosuke angrily.
Saori saw that several people were about to quarrel again, and hurried over to act as a peacemaker, "Alright, alright. Now that you are all here, let's go in quickly, otherwise such a good opportunity will be wasted. I have participated in so many CMs, but this is the first time I have entered the venue early."
"Tsk, that's true." Kuroneko reluctantly handed his staff ID to Kirino, "Hurry up and go in. There's less than an hour left before the official opening. If you don't hurry, the popular doujinshi will be sold out."
PS: First update, there will still be two updates today
Chapter 107 Merlin: I watch you jump into the pit
"Hey, Kyousuke-chan~"
Not long after the four people entered the exhibition, they saw Merlin in white casual clothes.
"What are you doing here?"
When Kyosuke saw this guy, he wanted to go back, but he was blocked by this guy.
Merlin opened his arms and wanted to give Kyousuke a big hug, "Don't be like that, of course I have good things to say to you."
"No, nothing good ever happened to you."
Kyosuke stretched out a hand to block the guy who was approaching him.
"Really, Kyosuke-chan is really so reserved." Merlin said as he took out a plastic bag from his backpack. "Why didn't you just come to me from the beginning? In the end, you got ripped off by that slicked-back hair guy. Here, this is for you."
Merlin took out a few pieces of paper-like things from the bag and gave one to each of the four people.
"this is?"
Kyosuke looked at the white thing that Merlin had stuffed into his pocket. It was square and looked a bit like a plaster or a hot pack.
"Ding ding! This is a cooling patch specially made by Merlin. It can keep people cool for 12 hours~"
Merlin held his head high and chest puffed out with pride, and his arrogant look reminded Kyosuke of a naughty kid who liked to show off.
"Did you make this yourself? You're not allergic to it, are you?"
The black cat was a little hesitant holding the cold patch in his hand.
"That's disgusting, Ruri-chan. How could I possibly make something like that?"
"What...how did you..."
Black Cat was startled by Merlin's address, she had never seen this person before.
Merlin didn't seem to notice the black cat's vigilant look at all. "Don't worry, you can use my things with confidence."
"Is it really okay?"
Kyosuke was a little hesitant about using this thing. It wasn't that he doubted Merlin, but that everything Merlin made always had some magical side effects.
"Don't worry, don't worry. This is what Lily asked me to do. There will definitely not be any side effects."
Merlin seemed not to notice that the black cat was hiding behind Kyosuke and looking at him with a wary look, and he continued to chat with the few people in a very familiar manner.
"What about her?"
"At our [Camelot] booth, you can go and have a look later."
"Oh, okay...wait a minute." Kyousuke was halfway through his sentence when he realized what this guy meant, "You guys have a stall?"
"Of course, it would be a waste not to take advantage of such a good opportunity to make money."
"Selling books?"
Merlin's expression made Kyosuke suspicious. Others didn't know about the Camelot gang, but Kousaka Kyosuke didn't know? Except for Mashu, all of them were soul painters, and some of them didn't draw as good as his works. Merlin's painting style was okay, but this guy only painted oil paintings, and he was basically clueless about comics. It's not that he couldn't draw it, but the plots he thought of... except for the blond gorilla fighting the blue-haired camel, that was Kyosuke and some people playing simple and easy.
In previous years, Lily had thought about asking Merlin to draw two books and sell them, but in the end, the things this guy produced were not satisfactory, so it was never completed.
Hearing Kyosuke's question, Merlin explained to him with some regret: "How could I sell the book? I wanted to sell the story of you and Scathach in the interrogation room, but it was torn up by Lily halfway through."
Tear well.
Kyosuke really wanted to hug Lily, who was so skillful. If he really put this thing out to sell, he guessed that the rest of his life would be over.
"So what do you sell?"
"Photo albums. Yours, Gawain's, Lanstro's," Merlin counted on his fingers. "Anyway, we'll sell anything that's been published in the store."
"I've already resigned!"
"I'm sorry, Kyousuke." Merlin put his hand on Kyousuke's shoulder, "This is an order from Lily herself, we can only follow it."
I should never have bailed her out in the first place.
Kyosuke realized that he should have let Lily stay in the detention center. At that time, because she was pitiful and no one cared about her (Mashu ordered everyone in the store not to bail her out), he took Lily out in his own name. Unexpectedly, Lily still held a grudge and set him up here.
Merlin was actually happy to see Kyosuke's conflicted expression. Since he resigned, he couldn't play tricks on him like this for a while. "Don't be angry. Lily is just using your photo album as bait. She just wants to see how many people will come to buy your photos."
"And then you turn around and pick up Excalibur and kill them all?"
"so smart."
Kyosuke glanced aside the thumbs-up Merlin gave him. He felt his stomach aching again, even though he hadn't had an attack for a long time since he left Camelot.
"Mashu, didn't she care?"
When Kyosuke mentioned Mashu, Merlin showed an obvious smile on his face. It was obvious that he was waiting for Kyosuke to mention this. "You mean Mashu-chan? She doesn't know anything about this. Because she has been helping Eriri-chan all this time and has no time to come back. She doesn't even know that we are setting up a stall here~"
Kyosuke narrowed his eyes and stared at Merlin who was shaking his head. "So you came to me just to let me tell her all this?"
"Smart." Merlin snapped his fingers. "Mashu-chan is at Eriri-chan's booth. I think Kyousuke-chan should know what to do when you see her later, right?"
"Why don't you do it yourself?"
Merlin burst into tears the moment Kyosuke finished speaking, crying like a pear blossom in the rain, "There is absolutely nothing we can do. She is the boss, what can we little knights do? So we can only hope that Kyosuke can find Mashu-chan. You know, we in Camelot have suffered from Altria for a long time."
"Okay, I got it. I'll go find Mashu later." Kyosuke couldn't do anything about this guy, so he had to bite the bullet and take the job. Anyway, Lily was selling her own photo albums, so he could just give her up as a tit-for-tat.
"Then please."
After getting Kyosuke's assurance, Merlin immediately became smiling, and the speed of his expression changing was almost as fast as that of Sichuan Opera.
Kyosuke first gave this guy countless middle fingers in his heart, then took Kirino and the others and left for the venue.
Merlin stood there and waved goodbye to several people.
"Bye, have fun, Kyousuke-chan, Kirino-chan, Saori-chan, and Ruri-chan~~"
I could have had a lot of fun without you.
Kyosuke rubbed his stomach and looked at Merlin who was complaining.
I feel like today is going to be a bad day.
At the very beginning, he met this guy whom he really didn't want to see, and he was also plotted against by him. Kyosuke felt that many bad things would probably happen to him after this holy war journey.
PS: I'm having a bit of a writer's block, so I'm going to go read some comics and novels that have some holy war plots_(:з」∠)_.
Chapter 108 Lao Xing: Who do you think I found to be your partner? [Two in One]
When the familiar white-haired man was no longer visible, Kirino turned to Kyosuke and asked, "Who was that guy just now?"
"A former colleague. You don't need to know what's going on."
Kyosuke didn't want to talk about that guy any more. Anyway, in his limited memory, basically nothing good happened with this guy. The date at the amusement park was an exception, but Kyosuke attributed all the credit for that incident to Meili, because Kyosuke believed that if the person standing next to him at that time was Meilin, he would definitely get involved and mess up the whole date.
"So how exactly is this thing used? Do you stick it on clothes or directly on your body?"
In order to change the subject, Kyosuke picked up the cold note that Merlin had just given him and looked at it carefully, and deliberately made a loud noise to attract other people's attention.
But Kirino didn't buy it. "So what's this interrogation room he was talking about? You wouldn't like that kind of atmosphere, would you?"