Outbreak Company: Volume 4 by Ichiro Sakaki

Author:Ichiro Sakaki [Sakaki, Ichiro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2018-06-22T00:00:00+00:00

Elvia normally wore clothes that exposed a lot of skin—including her shoulders and belly button—but this very age-appropriate sailor uniform had a definite charm of its own. Actually, it was almost startling how different she seemed in it.

The sailor uniform is by definition a summer outfit, so it has short sleeves—the wearer looks ready for some fun in the sun. Plus, Elvia’s skirt was on the short side, so the overall impression might normally seem a bit rough around the edges—but compared to her typical appearance, this outfit actually made her look very mature. Very much the studious female student. And I had zero objections to that.

“Yeah, I think it looks great.”

“You mean it?!” The tail started going faster and faster, whap whap whap whap whap.

Elvia was an easy personality to understand, if nothing else.

“This is my first time wearing something like this, and I kinda like it.”

She did a little spin right there in front of us. Each time she turned, a pair of black leggings was briefly visible. Yeah—very energizing. That’s the stuff.

“By the way, how do you feel about this for the transformation scene?” Minori-san asked, turning the liquid-crystal display toward me. On-screen was a still image of Petralka transforming, partially touched up with CGI.

That’s right: we were deliberately adding computer effects. Purposefully making an actual transformation scene look faked.

Petralka’s transformation was achieved using magic. That is, people just off-camera were using wind and light spells, while Petralka’s costumes had been designed to be easy to get into and out of quickly. That was the “transformation”: a quick change of clothes.

“I think it’s good. We have to be careful not to make it too obvious, or that would be suspicious in itself.”

“You’re right,” Minori-san said. “We’ll go with something like this, then.” She saved the image. Presumably they would do the rest of the frames later.

Incidentally, it was Loek and Romilda, leading teams of elf and dwarf students, who were responsible for the special effects (by which I mean magic). Given how readily (if sort of accidentally) they had replicated the crazy stuff from soccer shows with their spells, I showed them some magical-girl anime and asked if they could manage something that looked like that. And lo and behold, they had.

Anyway—

“Shinichi-kun, you need a different costume for the next scene. Go get changed,” Minori-san said, consulting a filming schedule on her computer.

“Oh, sure,” I said, starting off. It was only then that I realized Elvia and Myusel had disappeared somewhere along the line. Elvia might come and go, but it was unusual for Myusel to leave my side without saying anything. I wondered where she had gotten to.

Well, maybe she had needed to use the facilities. You know, the sort of thing she might not want to just announce. I decided not to worry too much.

“Uh... Oh, there it is.”

On a hill several minutes’ walk from the filming location, a changing area had been set up. A forest came right up to the foot of the hill, so some cloth had been draped from the branches to create a simple changing area.

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