Chapter 492 - Video (1)

"You can go for it now!" Sienna was helping me film a video.

Flying a little above the ground, long ribbons fluttered around me, coming from the light dress I wore. Twirling around in some fancy pirouettes, I held a pretty crystal staff from the mana research club. Making sure to keep my eye contact with the camera, I brightly smiled. Switching into multiple poses before deciding on a cute pose, I winked, "I'm magical girl Rika and will make sure that justice will always prevail!"​​

Gesturing to Delia to add the flower petals, she created a wind spell to make it seem like they were falling down from the roof. Lifting my staff in the air, it was a signal for Ethan to place some light fog on the ground in exchange for a cage of bugs later. Behind the camera, Oili was working on the lighting as he made sure the camera would properly capture everything we wanted. With the final scene being done from pointing the staff towards the camera, Sienna yelled, "cut!"

"How was this take?" I ran to Sienna, the director.

A big part of the otaku fandom was cosplaying. I always liked cute magical girl anime, admiring how adorable they were while trying to bring justice to the world again. Recalling the staff in the mana research club room, it appeared just like the wands the magical girls used. A large sparkling jewel attached above several silk bows tied around a pink glimmering pole. With all the props available, I decided to cosplay as a magical girl since I was bored.

"Everything was perfect this time!" Sienna's eyes glittered.

Sienna passed the file to Cillian, who was the editor. He would be the one adding all the background music that we had recorded a few days ago. With a few taps on a simple program, the final product was finished with a few minutes. Everyone in the team left their positions to look at the video being shown on the screen. Hoping that it would come out somewhat decent, I tapped to start playing the video.

I hugged Cillian, finding me look unreal with the shots he decided to use. My heart almost skipped a beat from the person on the screen, long hair slightly floating from the light wind, creating a surreal atmosphere. Surrounded by beautiful flower petals, her bright smile made you energized for another day. Hearing her lovely voice smoothly flowing into my ear, it was like she was singing a song. Was I seeing a commercial?

"Is this really me?" I wondered.

"There weren't many shots I didn't use," Cillian nodded his head.

"We can move onto the next scene now," Shelly was the scriptwriter.

I ran back to the open space as I prepared myself to act out the next scene. I pretended to tremble in fear as a monster, an illusion produced by Ethan was produced in front of me. Lightly slapping my cheeks, I tried to bring up my newfound courage to fight the monster. Spinning towards the illusion, I recited my lines, "Magical girl Rika will bring justice to the world again. Magical swirling tornado of cuteness!"

Creating a heart with my hands, I shoved it towards the monster. If I actually used a spell, there was a chance that the club room would get destroyed. With the program that Cillian used, the special effects would be added in later on. Since this was the last scene in the film, I was excited to see the entire thing soon. Getting the approval from Sienna, I smiled as I wouldn't need more takes.

Cleaning up the room before Luke and Alex came in, we made sure to return the space back to normal. Since we ran in here while they were busy with the teachers, they didn't know we were filming anything. The time-space function made sure that seconds outside the club room could equal to several hours inside the room. Although sharing the club room with Luke wasn't bad, there were no conflicts between us because we made sure not to cross any extreme lines.

With our president increasing the space within the club room from Luke's request, the usual spars were done inside the room. The room was split into four parts. The first one was the gaming section, the place where most of our members spent their time. The second being the production house used when we manufactured some things to sell the public. The third section was Luke's office shared with Alex and the last part was an open space where they could do their spars.

Most times, we didn't touch the space that Luke and Alex used, which included the open space. I was surprised when both Luke and Alex liked the club as much as the rest of us did. Luke got the chance to take some breaks in the club room sometimes, finished with the fraction work from the time-space function. He liked to explore some of the artifacts that our president had gathered, before the club turned mainly into a gaming room.

On the other hand, Alex liked how he was free to do anything he wanted while not having to maintain his image, everyone else inside the room being the same. There were only a few places in our school that had time-space rooms, which were mostly the study rooms and the classroom. With the time-space function, he had more leisure time during the breaks. And since our club was the ric.h.e.s.t club in the school, any of us could purchase anything we wanted.

Hearing some footsteps coming towards our room, we ran to the gaming section.