I appeared to be the last one to arrive as everyone sat around the rectangular table like they were conducting a meeting. I immediately ran to hug Eliza who patted my hair in confusion. It was best to transfer my supply to her to get it over with.
"Please keep my babies safe," I pulled out my stack of light novels, manga and junk food.
Eliza stepped back as she stared at the results of spending all of my last year's allowance to replace most of my burned goods. The pile was much closer to the ceiling than the floor. Even I was surprised as I thought it would be much less when I collected them together in one place.
The rest of the fraction started to gossip where there were more unfamiliar faces gathered this time. The last meeting was composed of people who could make it on the last minute. However, this one was regular and properly scheduled in advance.
"It was really hard trying to hide all of these in my room. I had to tape all of them on the roof of my closet or underneath the drawers and my bed," I pulled a thick roll of transparent tape.
Eliza couldn't stop staring at the pile in front of her. Was my collection that impressive? My room in my former life had three times the amount while it was properly organized and stored.
"My hideout is smaller than you think," Eliza helplessly waved her hands.
I turned to Ben for support as his villa had enough empty rooms. Ben exhaled before transferring half of my collection into his marble to start the meeting. Eliza transferred the rest to hers as her eyes swam around some BL titles I had mixed inside the pile.
I wasn't only going to bring out my otaku supplies. I also had to hide all the cheap and comfortable clothing and shoes I bought while running away. There was no way Luke would let me keep all those clothes or even let me wear them. I pulled out another pile, but this time composed of a bunch of running shoes and plain shirts.
"Do you also have room for those too?" I begged Ben.
Ben shook his head, even though he obviously had the space. I guessed the otaku supply was the most he was going to accept. I smiled as I turned to Cillian who also likely had a lot of space in his mansion from Sienna who complained about maintaining all the unused rooms.
Sienna pulled out some running shoes like they were interesting artifacts as she studied them quite closely. She nodded to force Cillian into accepting the goods when her eyes gleamed from the soft cushioning when she tried one of them on. It was fortunate how we had the same shoe size.
The people in the first district didn't know how much they were missing out by sticking to their customs. Delia gasped when she found a plain white t-shirt without any decorations or designs. The people in the room approached the pile in curiosity to find more cheap items they had never encountered before.
At this rate, I was going to appear even stranger when I pulled out my next pile of vocaloid music albums and their posters. I knew I should've put them together with the other otaku goods! I had to leave some sort of remains for the idol culture as they could disappear anytime like Lilika Yuri.
I blushed when the previous pile disappeared to make space for the new one. The flashy colours made the new mountain stick out more than the previous collections. Slips of photo cards filled the air as they slowly fell down onto the table.
"How did Luke not discover this?" Cillian didn't joke around anymore.
"Wasn't her fraction the tightest one controlled?" Another person softly mumbled.
"I thought that as well," another person whispered back.
Maybe Luke would've discovered my last two collections if not for the recent purchase. He had no idea I ran away so he never knew they existed. Sienna stared at the glitzy pictures of Hatuna Mika who pretended she was embarrassed when it landed on her hand. She threw me a glance to ask who this was as I gestured to flip the back to show her limited-edition signature.
At the end, the meeting was about to begin when the members of the neutral fraction agreed to split the vocaloid pile amongst themselves to hide. Most of them looked at me in a new light where if they were hostile before, it turned into if I was just a crazy person.
"Let's welcome our new member, Rika de Roselia," Alice opened the meeting.
No one clapped except for Alice and Sienna. But I smiled from joy of not having to hide all this stuff alone. I planned to bring more stuff to the monthly meetings whenever I got the chance to visit the second and third district again.
"It is my pleasure to join the neutral fraction," I slightly curtseyed.
"I never knew I would ever find a day where there would be fellow otakus like me," I pretended to wipe a tear from my eye.
"Umm…there's no one here that possesses a collection like yours Rika," Ben got rid of the looming silence of the people who had a sudden headache.
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