After a full three hours had passed, Mayumi Nanase finally appeared before everyone in a hurry.
"If you'd been any later, you would've had to go to the venue by yourself, President Nanase."
Looking at the panting Mayumi Nanase, Fang Zheng helplessly teased her, while she smiled apologetically.
"Sorry, Kasugano-kun, I was just too busy over there..."
As she said this, Mayumi Nanase smiled and held down her sun hat, showing herself off in front of Fang Zheng.
"By the way, Kasugano-kun, what do you think of this?"
Since this was a competition rather than a school event, not everyone would be wearing uniforms. Mayumi Nanase was currently dressed in casual clothes. Honestly, in Fang Zheng's eyes, her outfit was hardly anything "shocking": a sleeveless, off-the-shoulder white summer dress with a hem that fell around her knees. To Fang Zheng, it was an utterly ordinary outfit.
But that depended on what world you were in.
In places like the Game World where Asuna and the others lived, where miniskirts had practically become standard attire, Mayumi Nanase's outfit could be considered quite conservative.
But this world was completely different.
Despite already being in the late twenty-first century, the social atmosphere was so conservative that it was scarcely any different from the Showa era. Society encouraged both men and women to avoid revealing clothing as much as possible. In this world, girls' skirts almost all reached their calves, with their bodies covered up tightly from head to toe. Boys mostly wore long- or short-sleeved tops with long pants.
Even during PE classes, girls wore capri pants. Miniskirts were out of the question. According to this world's books, miniskirts and athletic shorts were products of an "era of moral decay." For modern people to wear them was shameless, practically no different from running