"No seriously Haru, what did you need us to do? " Namikaze Haru looked on with a glassy look on her face.
The day immediately after Namikaze Haru showed her two friends the light novel with her face in was… interesting, to say the least. They very well recognized the appearance of her uniform on the upper right corner, with her looking more than spooky and upper class enough when she would bother with all of that. That said, they raised a very important question.
Why in the bloody hell did Haru look so much like her to begin with? And so, Namikaze Haru realized right then and there that it may have been a bad idea to invite both of her friends to discuss her apparent presence in the book if she didn't want either of them knowing the identity of the equally violent and aggressive little girl inside of her. Her heartbeat raced as she thinks up ways of getting out of this.
A lesser writer would admit defeat, noting that there would have been no logical way of explaining how Haru would get away with still retaining her secrets but still showing them the problem with the serious Koha/ACE light novel and her mirror image on the front page. Then they would retcon the whole event and pretend it never happened. Easy peasy, but I wouldn't go for that; it's a cop-out, and I already have an explanation.
Because, very simply put? They never made the connection to begin with. Haru stumbled over herself after she saw the two, though mostly Sona, have Yen symbols on their eyes and even just a little drool coming out her mouth. They, not caring much about the connection of the little girl that seemed so sociopathic, took note of a very lucrative deal that they could make out of this. Especially considering the exorbitant expenses incurred in very high-class restaurants, Eat All You Can buffets, and steakhouses, courtesy of the girl they were going to have work her way through to pay for most, if not all of it eventually.
Namikaze Haru looked at both of them with a nervous smile as she slowly crawled away into the frameworks of her bed,
Which is how Haru found herself in a small local convention near them, the crowd of cosplayers gathering around her for her picture-perfect cosplay of Oda Nobunaga, the Demon Archer, in a mildly suffocating fashion. Sona looked from the side, taking a picture every now and then and acting as a sort of negotiator to a representative from the Marketing Team of Fate/Grand Order for Haru to do some work with them on the side. Something she happily obliged.
Another snapshot and pose later, and Haru felt absolutely exhausted. She excused herself from all of the waiting photographers and people surrounding her to get some fresh air and R&R, to their massive disappointment. Sighing deeply after leaving the outhouse, she moves to go back to the crowd of photographers waiting for her to return, until something stops her on her tracks.
On the way back, she brushes past a blonde haired cosplayer wearing a blue haori, evidently an Okita cosplayer of some sort. She excuses herself until they both spark, as they both stare at each other with widened eyes. "H-Hey, are you-!?" She began, until she was dragged over to the crowd of photographers by her manager yet again, not getting the chance to realize what was going on.
Oda Nobunaga knew what was going on in her mind. She already knew who that girl really was. The girl they went past… It was her Okita Souji. Another Servant… How does that even happen? The servant in question stared back at her aimlessly before turning back and continue walking. Her face seemed almost unreadable to her.
As much as she wanted to ask her something, they just didn't have time or circumstance on their side right now. She just had to do her job right now, and that was to entertain everyone at the fest. Needless to say, they both went out of the convention center roughly a few thousand dollars richer, which was nice. What wasn't nice for her but totally euphoric for the other girl however were her plans to eventually dress her up in even more characters for the next few cons, starting with a cosplay of Kagura from Gintama.