Chapter 2 Cosplay
Rena, the only girl who found out about Elsword's identity in the school.
She's researching Elsword's history.
"Elsword... Sieghart..."
She typed the name on the search engine in her PC.
'It seems like his name's not too well known.'
Elsword's name isn't on the internet, but his family name; Sieghart is.
"The internet only showed that Sieghart is a very clever student that's being the candidate of the best student in Elrios... But why did he only said he's the best in Velder?"
'I'm starting to wonder if there are more than one Sieghart out there, but there's only 1 Sieghart in the search list.'
Rena's thinking hard.
It's not like she's going to do anything, she's just wondering if he's really the one.
But it seems like he's not the one Rena's searching for.
"Wasted my time."
She turn off the PC and head towards her bed.
She buried her face in her pillow.
"Sieghart... Are you really the one?"
Rena's admiring Sieghart.
But she never saw his face, that's why when she heard that Elsword said his name is Elsword Sieghart she thought that he's the one, but since he said he's the best in Velder she doesn't want to put her hope too high.
There's also a chance that he might just tricked her.
"Let's just forget it and sleep."
She closed her eyes and sleep.
'It's not like he's the one after all.'
However, she's still unable to stop thinking about him.
And she end up not sleeping at all.
Good thing it's Sunday.
"Rena! Hey, Rena! Wake up! Aisha's waiting for you!"
Rena's mother came to her room to wake her since Aisha's paying her a visit.
Rena who's still sleepy lazily turns around.
"Mom... I'm still sleepy... Just call her inside."
"What a lazy kid you're... I'm amazed you can be a model like this."
Her mom sighed and went out of the room.
"It's not like I always lazed around like this..."
She pouted unhappily.
She's not quite wrong herself.
It's because last night she can't sleep due to her problem.
She's too confused and too curious of Elsword.
She wish she can grip something like a hint or what.
"Hey, Rena. Are you feeling unwell?"
"Hey, Aisha. Well you can say so..."
Rena smiled weakly and she let Aisha came in her room.
They've been knowing each other since they're in elementary school.
Aisha's actually a model in magazine too, although she's not as popular as Rena.
She looked like an artist when she have a proper make up.
Different than Rena who already looked like an artist without make up.
"So, did you met with Elsword yesterday?"
"-Yes! And guess what!? He just treated me like a hindrance! What an arrogant boy!"
Aisha chuckled.
"Hey, what's so funny?"
"Nothing, it's been a very long time ago since the last time I saw you getting all worked up over a single person like this."
Rena's eyes widened.
She noticed that she's changed a lot since she entered the modeling world.
"I see..."
"But it's okay, Rena. He's just a nerd after all and his appearance also is a mess, just ignore him already! Let's have fun today!"
Aisha hugged Rena, but Rena's not that willing to go out.
"Um- Maybe you're right, but I don't really feel that I want to go anywhere."
"Aw- That's too bad... Fine then, I'll just hang around in your room. I'm so bored today since I didn't receive a call for photo session."
"Me neither, but what can we do here?"
Aisha smiled.
"Do you still need to ask?"
She pointed Rena's PC and her wardrobe.
"Are you planning to-"
"Let's find something fun and let's do some cosplay!"
At the same time, in the other place.
Elsword's visiting a bookstore.
"It's not here too, huh..."
He's searching for a book, but it seems like the store don't have the book he's looking for.
Hence, he talk to the clerk.
"Excuse me, miss. Did you got 'The Last Day of El' in this store?"
The clerk smiled and shook her head.
"I'm sorry, sir. But that book already sold out yesterday."
He cursed in his mind and left the store.
"To think that book would be sold out... Well, it's a best-selling book after all."
He sighed and suddenly he received an e-mail.
He look at his phone.
There he saw a familiar name.
"Just what did she want now?"
He opened the e-mail and his eyes sparkled.
"REALLY!?"
He shouted in the middle of the city.
Everyone look at him with weird eyes.
He's embarrassed so he hurriedly went to the place the written in the e-mail.
Back to Rena's house.
Aisha's smiling as she keep her phone.
"What are you smiling at, Aisha?"
"Nothing, it's just I'm inviting my old friend, it's been been a long time since I met him so I want to give him a surprise, you should also knew him."
"Him?"
Rena tilted her head.
By the way Rena's wearing a gothic lolita dress with long black wig.
She's cosplaying with Aisha who's wearing a maid dress.
"Why are you inviting a man to my house? I think he will fall in love with us if that's the case."
"Don't worry, Rena. He's not someone who's into love life. You can say he's a nerd."
Aisha's not bad looking, so there are quite a number of people who love her.
But...
"A nerd? Well I'm not really good with that kind of people, how did he looked like?"
"Don't worry over things like that. Besides, you've met him before."
"... Don't tell me..."
Suddenly with a bang Elsword barge into the room.
"Aisha! Where is the book!?"
Aisha smiled and point at Elsword whose eyes are covered by his bang.
"A-A-A-A..."
"See? I know you've met him."
"Huh? You..."
Elsword look at Rena who's dumbfounded.
His red hair's messy so she can't look at his eyes.
"WHY MUST IT BE YOU!?"
Rena shouted to the top of her lungs.
After hearing Aisha's explanation Rena finally grasp the situation.
"So basically, you just want to lend him a book that you bought in the bookstore?"
"Indeed, but I also planned to introduce him to you in a better way."
"-I don't care about details, just lend me the book already."
Rena's eyes twitched.
"No, Els. If you want to get the book you need to play with us."
"... I'm not a kid why should I play with you girls?"
Rena's eyes twitched again.
"Oh come on, it would be fun seeing you wearing costumes, we got some male costumes for you, but I don't know if it fit or not since we used to wear it for cross-dressing."
"I get the point, so hurry up and finish this. I want to read the book earlier."
Rena's eyes twitched for the third times.
'He's ignoring me? He's ignoring me, right? This nerd's ignoring me!?'
Rena thought in her mind.
Rena who's already used to being the center of attention is angry when someone ignored her.
Just like a willful princess, she's quite a troublesome princess indeed.
"Say, Elsword..."
"So, which costume should I wear?"
"Oh, wait-"
Rena's giving a malicious smile.
Her menacing aura's spreading that finally Elsword noticed her.
"Oh, did you just said something?"
"Y-Y-Y-You've got some nerve... Ignoring me!"
Rena's exploded.
To handle the situation Aisha restraint her from behind.
"C-Calm down, Rena! Elsword, too! Don't just ignore someone!"
"It's not like she's someone special to me though."
"~~~~! Let me go, Aisha! I will give him five pieces of my mind!"
Rena went berserk.
Elsword who ignored her went to the wardrobe and picked a costume.
"I see, this one's quite nice and the size's just fine."
He picked Rena's male costume.
"D-Don't-!?"
Aisha covered Rena's mouth to stop her from shouting.
"Okay, why don't you go to the changing room and wear it, Elsword!?"
"Got it."
Elsword went inside the changing room after picking up make-up equipments from Rena's table.
Finally she let go of Rena.
"What are you thinking of, Aisha!? He's wearing my clothes and using my make-up equipments!"
"Just shut up, and see. You will be surprised, he's actually a great cosplayer, you know?"
Rena can't comprehend Aisha's words.
"Cosplayer?"
"Yes, I rarely met him but he always join a cosplay events and I've seen quite a lot of his photos during the festival or events at the social media."
"Really? That nerd?"
Aisha nodded happily.
Rena also quite interested on how will he looked like with make-up on.
She've seen many handsome boys just like Chung, so she's not expecting too much.
After waiting for about 30 minutes the changing room's opened.
It's quite fast for a make-up and costume changing time.
There Elsword slowly appeared.
His bang's being combed tidily to the right side, showing his red eyes and smooth face.
He tied his lower hair to two low twintails.
His hair's being made spiky with hair modelling gel.
He's wearing a white prince costume.
Rena's jaw dropped.
She's fascinated by his appearance.
He really looked like a real prince.
"How is it?"
"Um, you looked handsome, Elsword!"
Aisha exclaimed happily.
Elsword stare at Rena who's fascinated and smiled arrogantly.
"What, are you surprised?"
Rena finally get a grip of herself and retorted.
"W-Who's surprised!?"
He chuckled.
"Yeah, right. Said the one who jawdropped upon the first sight."
Rena's face turned scarlet in embarrassment.
"S-Shut up! So what if I'm shocked?!"
Maybe Rena didn't realised it.
But she's actually catching Elsword's attention.
"Yeah, yeah."
Saying that he sit on Rena's chair.
"So, Aisha. Lend me the book now."
His main target is to get the book.
So he wanted to end this game earlier.
"Not yet~ Let's have a photo session."
Aisha showed Elsword her phone.
"Rena, have a photo session with him."
"Huh!? WHY ME?!"
"Why, you ask... Because a prince is only suitable with a princess, not a maid?"
"Wha-!"
Rena's blushing.
Not because she's in love with him but because she never had a photo session with a boy.
"How annoying... Hurry up and let's finish this quickly."
"Kyaaa!?"
Elsword pulled Rena and hugged her waist by his side.
Aisha who's quick on taking picture didn't let go of this chance.
"Say, cheese!"
*Click*
Rena's still shocked due to the sudden embrace.
She's still a girl who never experienced love life before too.
But she finally recovered from the shock.
"KYAAAA!? Release me!"
Rena broke the hug and hugged herself.
"Y-Y-You pervert! Even my dad never did that to me!"
"*Sigh* You're really annoying, can't you stop giving me more trouble? I just want to get the book and leave. Don't misunderstand me, please."
Aisha giggles and lend him the book.
"Here you are, thanks for today, Elsword."
"Finally!"
His cold attitude changed into child-like attitude upon seeing a book.
Rena's shocked by that sudden change of attitude.
"Okay, I will go back."
Taking the book he walk out of the room.
"Hey, Els! Your costume!"
Aisha chased him with his clothes with her.
Rena's still dumbfounded inside the room.
"... So even a cold boy like that has that kind of side?"
Without her knowing, her lips form a slight smile.
Chapter 2 End
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