Chapter 39

"Okay... if I block the door like this with a chair, Elodie definitely won't be able to walk in on me all of a sudden, right?"

I’d decided to take the cosplay photos in the streaming room.

I wasn’t some photography expert or anything, but I at least knew that lighting mattered.

Honestly, if you’ve ever ordered delivery food and tried to snap a picture for a review, you probably know the feeling...

Even one decent light can make a photo look surprisingly convincing.

"In that sense, isn’t this streaming room absolutely perfect for taking pictures~"

Lee Eunbyul had gone overboard with the praise, and now it was actually coming in handy!

There were proper lights on the ceiling, and I could adjust the brightness however I wanted, so if I took a picture here, it would probably turn out seriously good.

I tapped the chair I’d shoved against the door with both hands for no real reason.

"Alright, then let’s take a shot or two right away!"

This time, I wanted to take a proper photo.

It had to feel completely different from the last one, where I’d worn lingerie and subtly let part of my body show through the window.

If you think about the cosplay photos that get posted in galleries, nobody’s going to yell at you just for shooting something blatantly sexy and designed to get people hot and bothered.

"Then..."

I peeled off the dolphin shorts and black boxy T-shirt I was wearing, and in one go I was down to my underwear.

The characters in Galaxy Express don’t go around naked, but they do tend to expose a pretty shocking amount of cleavage, butt, and thighs.

Besides, I didn’t even have the cosplay outfit I was actually going to wear yet, so today was just for testing.

"Heheh..."

Humming to myself, I picked up my smartphone in nothing but panties and a bra.

If Elodie accidentally saw me like this, she’d probably start going on and on about how I had a boyfriend—no, a girlfriend—no, whatever else she liked to tease me with.

Anyway, taking the picture itself didn’t seem all that hard.

There was even a proper selfie mode.

─ Click!

"Let’s see..."

For the first photo, I held the camera as high as possible before taking the shot.

Thanks to that, my fairly generous chest was emphasized very clearly.

"Hmm... I think I posed way too awkwardly."

For the second photo, I kept the camera in place and used my left arm to support my chest from below, lifting it up a little.

─ Click!

The photo came out exactly as I’d expected, but on the other hand, it wasn’t nearly as sexy as I’d hoped.

It just gave off the feeling of, Wow, her chest is huge! and that was it.

No, and because I’d gone and propped my chest up, it even looked like I’d gathered nonexistent flesh together just for the shot, which made it feel weird.

"No good. It has to make people instantly think, That body is insane!"

─ Click!

For the third photo, I tried setting the angle as normal as possible.

But the result was pretty bad.

There was a clear limit to what I could do with selfie mode.

"At this rate... unless I’m just taking pictures of my legs or hands, I’m never going to get the composition I’m imagining."

Damn it! I’d taken food photos before, but I’d never photographed a body like ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠this, so I’d failed to anticipate something this obvious.

No matter how far I stretched my arm and took the picture in selfie mode, my shoulders and hips still wouldn’t all fit into a single frame.

I didn’t know exactly how to fix it, but at the very least, it wasn’t the kind of sexy photo I’d had in mind.

... This isn’t working, is it? Even I can tell there’s no satisfying spark to it.

"Hssst...!"

I hurriedly scooped up ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠the clothes I’d tossed onto the chair and put them back on.

Then I moved the chair, passed Elodie in the living room as she worked diligently on laundry and cleaning, and went into the bathroom.

Of course, I wasn’t planning to take and upload photos in the bathroom.

This was only a test.

I quickly took off just the boxy T-shirt, leaving myself in my bra, then grabbed my phone and aimed it at the mirror.

The big mirror mounted above the sink reflected me—Kwon Seah—perfectly.

"Oh... this has a vibe. Wait, come to think of it, there were plenty of photos like this! The ones where they cover their face with a smartphone and upload the mirror shot?"

I’d thought this kind of composition gave off a vaguely naughty, doing-something-you-shouldn’t vibe, but when I tried it myself, if I just adjusted the position of my hand a little, I could cover my face with the smartphone perfectly while showing off my body in full detail!

─ Click!

Sure enough, the photo came out just as well as I’d hoped.

With the smartphone in my right hand positioned to artfully hide my face, I ended up with a shot of me in pink dolphin shorts and a black bra, my waist incredibly sleek and my chest quite large.

"Everything’s great, it really is... but there’s way too much everyday-life energy in it."

Elodie cleaned the place thoroughly every day, but a bathroom was still a bathroom, wasn’t it?

No matter how much this was the bathroom of a chaebol’s youngest daughter, there was no denying the tiles on the wall and the unmistakable fact that it was a bathroom.

And the lighting was a little off too.

I wanted something brighter. The whole point was that the brightness should change depending on which cosplay I was doing, but you can’t do that in a bathroom, can you?

"...What, should I put a full-length mirror in the streaming room?"

Wouldn’t that be way too suspicious?

Besides, there was already a big mirror in the dressing room that showed me from head to toe.

Ah!! But the dressing room would definitely have all sorts of random ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠clothes and accessories getting caught in the shot, so that wouldn’t work either!

At this rate, maybe I should just ask Lee Eunbyul to rent me a photo studio... no, no! That would be completely insane.

I didn’t want to become some crazy chaebol lady who rented a studio just to take lewd pictures!

"Wait a second..."

As I came out of the bathroom and headed back into the streaming room, a thought suddenly flashed through my head.

Was I an idiot? Was I still not used to the life of Kwon Seah, the youngest daughter of a chaebol family?

Why was I even worrying about this? I could just go into a place like a cosplay gallery and copy what people there were doing.

The cosplay gallery was more ordinary than I’d expected.

And it was full of information, too.

"Let’s see... Sonar A7C 2? This one’s only 500,000 won? Falconet EOS R51? That’s also a million won..."

"Ten million won is insanely expensive... or is it? I mean, I’ve heard camera hobbies are this crazy money pit of a pastime, almost as bad as golf."

Still, I had four billion won in my account, didn’t I?

If 1 percent of that was forty million won, then ten million would be, what, 0.25 percent?

... Thinking about it that way, it started to feel like nothing. It was like buying an iced coffee back when I was living the life of a Level 9 civil servant.

Even 4K sounded amazing, so could this thing really take photos in 8K?

How good was it supposed to be? I couldn’t wrap my head around the other specs, honestly, but the explanation of 8K hit me right where I lived!

Alright, then I’d get the camera with this one...

"Okay, here we go. I’ll need a tripod too, right? I have no idea why it costs 2 million won, but if it costs 2 million won, there must be a reason."

"Then I should get the most expensive one of those too. Huh? There’s something called a reflector too? If I buy one, I’ll definitely benefit, right?"

"Makeup doesn’t matter since I’m not going to show my face anyway, and I can just check the retouching app later, right? And the chest thing... good, I’m definitely reading this and using it."

And so I spent nearly two hours at the very bottom of the cosplay gallery, greedily devouring everything I could and filling my cart.

"Tw, twelve million... the camera and lens were the main culprits, but this still comes to over thirteen million won..."

The total was pretty huge, so I did feel a little dazed, but I cheerfully paid in full.

With four billion won in my account, it didn’t even feel like I was spending much.

"Then... shall we buy the most important thing now?"

Posting an image of yourself in just a bra and panties could be accepted as a character photo, but it would be hard to call it cosplay.

In a sense, buying the cosplay outfit might actually be more important than buying the camera.

"There was a recommended shop in the gallery earlier, right? Good... if I go into the Galaxy Express category here...!"

"Hmm... who should I get? Isn’t Renako here? She’s got the biggest chest..."

I clicked my mouse a few times, then just dumped every outfit in the shop into my cart.

Why was I even agonizing over this? I could just wear each one once and upload whichever character looked the hottest, couldn’t I?

"Uh... what? I can’t just add them? It wants me to pick a size?"

Ah, come to think of it, since this was clothing, I actually had to choose a size?

I stared blankly at the size chart on the website, and then it suddenly hit me.

Honestly, it was kind of wild that I’d gone this long without thinking about it...

"How tall am I?"

I touched my chest and hips with both hands, but of course that didn’t tell me anything.

"What about my bust? Waist? Hips? W-what size did I even used to wear?!"

... Wait, the camera wasn’t the important thing at all!!!

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