“I saw a good photo spot! The moonlight really spices up the scene! Let’s go there!” G said, pulling Juliet’s hand.
The sight made them stand out, and some of those they passed by talked about them.
“Oh. Look at that devil girl. Pretty cute, huh?”
“Devil...? Which one do you mean?”
“C’mon. The one holding hands with the Black Crow, obviously.”
“She doesn’t seem all that devil-like to me.” This made Juliet feel somewhat bashful, while G didn’t seem to care.
But as they walked, the amount of people around them gradually dwindled.
“We’re here! We’ve arrived!”
Eventually, they ended up inside some stone ruins—a property that had been destroyed during Franklin’s act of terror. Unfortunately, its rebuilding plans had been delayed, if not completely lost in the legal process, because it didn’t have any inhabitants or owners to begin with.
“I think devils and fallen angels are best paired with the scenery of destruction! The absolute end! Not scenes of everyday life, but the desolation left after it’s over!”
“Our minds are as one... (I totally get it...)” G’s assertion was something that really touched Juliet’s teenage tastes.
They had chatted a bit on the way here, and though Juliet had found G a bit much at first, she eventually decided G was actually very easy to talk to despite her unique tone and overwhelming personality.
“Let’s get ready now! I’ll set everything up!” G said as she reached into her Inventory and took out various photography equipment. There were floating orbs and mirrors that shone to function as lighting, as well as crystal balls with wings that functioned as cameras—all of them Legendarian magic items.
Appropriately for a content creator, G seemed very serious about her setup.
“Let’s get started, then. It’s photo time! We’ll do each of us individually first, then pair up for the rest!”
“O-Okay.” And so, the photo shoot commenced, beginning with Juliet.
G left the poses and expressions up to Juliet at first, but then began telling her where and how to stand, and what faces to make.
Juliet checked the photos on the spot, and seeing them was quite surprising to her.
G’s photography skills were just incredible—even more than one might expect out of a content creator. Juliet was into fashion and taking selfies, so she could easily tell that G’s photos did a good job of highlighting her charm. Juliet was already Juri Kurosaki’s ideal avatar, yet these photos seemed to somehow make her look even better.
“Pretty...” said Juliet, so overcome by emotion and excitement that she could only manage the most basic statements.
“Well, I gotta be good at it for my job. I gotta know how to captivate people. Not that I don’t like the praise, though!”
“You made me look so gorgeous... Can I have these too?”
“Of course! I’ll give them to you along with the pay!”
I’ll definitely send them to the other side and put them in an album, Juliet decided.
“Oh. I forgot to ask... Would it be okay if I use my photos with you for video thumbnails or post them on social media? Would you be against that?”
“Not at all.” Juliet was a high-ranking duelist, so there were already plenty of videos and photos of her duels. Agreeing to this wouldn’t change a thing.
“Nice! Thanks a bunch!” G said with a bright smile.
The photo shoot continued, and they ended up taking dozens of pictures.
The ones where they posed together as a devil and a fallen angel were especially beautiful—breathtaking, even. The background shadows and lighting worked splendidly to create scenes that looked simply magical.
“Wow... I don’t even feel like I’m looking at myself here...” said Juliet.
“Well, it’s your avatar. It’s important to make it look even better than it does normally,” G replied as she sorted the photos. Some would be used in videos, some in streams, and some posted on social media. Her eyes as she did this were nothing if not serious.
“You content creator types are really amazing...”
“We’re not all like this. There’s a bunch of areas we can fall into. For example, the lip feti— I mean, someone I know gets viewers not through photography or recording skills, but just by showing interesting and funny occurrences. I don’t have whatever weird predisposition makes that kind of thing happen to me on its own, so I set up my events myself and make some eye-catching screenshots and pictures to go with it.”
“You’re so good at this, though. You’d be a great photographer...”
“Oh, that’s not happening. Not a chance. No way.”
“Huh?” G’s strong denial made Juliet’s eyes go wide.
G, however, maintained a smile as she said, “I mean, the thing I wanna photograph the most is me. I want people to look at me. I wanna shine brighter than anything else in the world! That’s not the usual outlook for a photographer, right?”
“Umm... That makes you sound more like...a princess?” That was the first word that came to Juliet’s mind when she thought of “someone who shines brighter than anyone else in the world.”
That might’ve been kind of a childish answer, though, Juliet said, regretting her choice of words when...
“AHA! Yeah! You might be right!” Apparently finding humor in Juliet’s words, G let out a laugh. “You really don’t know me, huh? So this is what it’s like to leave Legendaria.”
“Hm?”
“Ah ha ha! Don’t worry about it. Thanks for helping me out today. Here’s your pay,” G said as she handed Juliet a sizable sum of money and the copies of the photos she’d made on the spot.
“Thanks...”
“Oh! Right! Can I add you as a friend? You know, to celebrate those great photos we just took?”
“Okay!” Juliet said with a nod. She was happy to have a new friend on top of all the wonderful pictures she’d received.
After adding each other to their friend lists, the pair were ready to part ways.
G seemed to have somewhere else to be, while it was about time for Juliet to log out and prepare to go to school.
“I’ll go check out your videos, um... Miss G?”
“Just ‘G’ is fine. ‘Miss G’ sounds like the name of a rapper or something, so just ‘G’ is fine. Anyway, Julie, whether here or on stream, let’s meet again sometime!”
“Okay!” Her heart lifted by the wonderful photos and her new friend, Juliet logged out.