"It had only been on sale for a short time, yet it's already this popular and has so many doujinshi?"
"Looks like Tokimeki Memorial really is an amazing game."
Sakumura stood at the back of one line, while Kirei Kotomine was at the back of another. They were some distance apart, but communication through the contract between Master and Servant meant that wasn't a problem.
"Assassin, when does the performance start?"
Kirei Kotomine wiped the sweat from his face.
Although the weather had already cooled down, the atmosphere inside the convention was, for lack of a better word, exceptionally heated.
The lines for every doujinshi booth stretched on forever. The booth girls maintained order while wiping away sweat, and quite a few staff members were selling bottled water.
"Wait a bit. Though honestly, I'm starting to not want to watch it."
"Why?"
Faced with Kirei Kotomine's question, Sakumura fell silent.
He picked up a program list handed out by a staff member.
<Sakumura Anno's Strange Tales of Black River Mountain · Stage Play>
His expression twisted somewhat as he looked at the program's title.
<Sakumura Anno's Strange Tales of Black River Mountain> was a game—also a cartridge game—but he had deliberately avoided it when buying games.
The main issue was, making the actual person play a game with himself as the protagonist—forget everything else, wasn't the sense of immersion alone incredibly weird?
Who could have imagined that he had avoided the game, only to be ambushed by it at the convention anyway?
"Oh, because of that program."
"Still, I'm pretty interested in it. It seems there'll be an imitation contest during the audience interaction segment afterward? There are prizes for the top three."
"Assassin, are you interested?"
Listening to Kirei Kotomine, Sakumura Anno's expression became even more distorted.
"Kirei. Where