Because of My Stupidity, I Became a Timid Vampire

Chapter 195 : High EQ

Since the cosplay characters had been decided, the first thing was naturally to order the costumes. There was only one week left until CP27 began, and custom orders had production times—any more delay and it might really be too late.

Opening Taobao on her phone, Xifeng turned to Bei Yaoyue: "Should I help order yours too?"

Since both were ships of the same class from the Sixth Destroyer Division, Akatsuki and Hibiki's clothes were completely identical. If anything, the only difference was that Akatsuki wore pantyhose while Hibiki wore knee-high socks. So ordering both costumes together could save a lot of trouble.

But Bei Yaoyue didn't agree. Her expression seemed somewhat evasive as she turned around to hide her face, saying: "No need, just order your own. Don't worry about me."

Since this was just Bei Yaoyue's personality, Xifeng didn't suspect anything. She searched on Taobao and only found one shop that made Sixth Destroyer Division costumes.

Kantai Collection was a Japanese game after all, with very limited influence domestically. Only a few particularly famous characters like Shimakaze and Yuudachi were truly household names. "Fringe" characters like Akatsuki, Hibiki, Inazuma, and Ikazuchi would probably be unheard of by anyone not familiar with the circle, so naturally few people cosplayed them, and very few shops made their costumes.

But fortunately there was at least one shop, or Xifeng would really start getting a headache.

Xifeng clicked on the private chat with the shop: "Hello, are you there?"

"Hello dear, yes I am. How can I help you?"

"I want to custom order this costume set." Xifeng sent the product page, then asked a question she was concerned about: "How long would it take to complete a custom order now?"

"It takes half a month, dear."

Half a month... by half a month the day lilies would be cold!

Rubbing her temples with some frustration, Xifeng typed on the keyboard: "Can you rush it? I need it urgently."

"Yes dear, rush fee is 100 yuan, seven days completion."

Xifeng calculated—seven days still wouldn't quite make it, since after completion there was still shipping time to consider. Express delivery would take at least one to two days, so if it couldn't be completed within five days, there was no way it would arrive in time.

"Can it be faster? I really need it urgently. Can you make it in four days? I can pay extra."

"Sorry dear, this is policy, not a matter of money."

Xifeng was stumped. She refused to believe it—rules were dead, but people were alive. Could a living person really be held back by needing to pee?

It was just cutting in line for her clothes—what was wrong with that?

Understanding it was ultimately still about money, Xifeng continued asking: "I can pay 500 for rush fees, I just need it completed within four days."

"Dear, this really is policy, no amount of money will help."

"One thousand."

"Dear, without the seamstress coming in, we can't magic a costume for you."

"Three thousand."

"Alright dear, guaranteed completion within three days."

A 300 yuan costume with 3000 yuan rush fees—money really was being spent in strange places.

"Dear, please send your measurements—bust, waist, hips, shoulder width, and leg length."

Xifeng sent the measurements she had taken previously. The shop was silent for a long time before weakly sending a few lines: "Hello dear, are you a crossdressing boy? If so, please tell us—we need to adjust some proportions of the costume."

Seeing this, Xifeng was immediately stunned. Why would the shop ask such a question? What boy would cosplay this kind of absolute territory sailor outfit?

Never mind anything else—leg hair would show!

Xifeng still remembered a guy from her university anime club—180cm tall, 150 pounds, built like a linebacker with leg hair thick enough to wear as pants. At one CP he cosplayed an absolute territory character, exposing his thighs. Under the wind-blown short skirt, between the alluring black knee-high socks, was a thick, sturdy thigh with seven or eight centimeter long leg hair. That scene... tsk tsk, don't even mention how spectacular it was.

Since then, Xifeng had always kept her distance from the term "crossdressing master." When she had impulsively set up Xiyue's persona, if she had recalled this incident, she definitely would have died before choosing a crossdressing character setup.

"I'm obviously a girl. Is there some problem?" Xifeng replied to the shop, her confusion undiminished.

Unexpectedly, the shop fell silent again for a long time. Just when Xifeng was getting impatient, they replied: "Dear, we hope you'll tell the truth, because male and female body proportions are different. Boys wearing women's styles will look very bad."

"Stop asking—I'm a girl!!!" Unable to bear it anymore, Xifeng added three exclamation marks to express her indignation.

"...Alright, I understand." the shop replied.

"What weirdos." Xifeng couldn't help cursing under her breath. She said she was a girl—why keep pursuing it relentlessly?

After discussing some other details with the shop, she finally settled the costume order, agreeing to ship in three days via SF Express, which would basically arrive in four to five days.

After buying the costume, there were still other necessities like wigs, shoes, knee-high socks, colored contacts... and such. Of course, thanks to natural advantages, she could skip the wig—she could just have Bei Yaoyue help style her hair when the time came.

She bought a pair of brown round-toe leather shoes and blue colored contacts, which basically completed everything. Xifeng closed her phone and ran to Bei Yaoyue's bedroom. Without knocking, she pushed the door open directly, only to see Bei Yaoyue's desktop flash once before returning to the desktop.

"What are you looking at? Why are you hiding from me?" Xifeng curiously approached, wanting to grab the mouse from Bei Yaoyue's hand, but was directly blocked. Unable to overcome Bei Yaoyue's strength, Xifeng had to give up.

Bei Yaoyue shook her head lightly, right-clicking to close Alimama from the taskbar, saying: "Nothing, just buying costumes. Already finished."

"Then why won't you let me see?" Xifeng vaguely sensed something was off.

"Because I already finished buying them—nothing to see." Bei Yaoyue said expressionlessly.

Looking at her suspiciously, Xifeng didn't continue pursuing it. She puffed out her cheeks and somewhat angrily told Bei Yaoyue about her chat with the shop.

Unexpectedly, Bei Yaoyue burst out laughing with a "pfft" sound, then quickly covered her mouth and suppressed her laughter.

Xifeng looked at her with a strange expression: "What are you laughing at?"

"I know why the shop was convinced you're a boy."

"Why?"

"Have you considered cosplaying UMP45?"