"Uh... h-hi there!" Rise offered nervously, giving the assembled fans a wave.
"Holy crap, it's really Risette!" one said.
"She must really want to stay anonymous if she gave away her shoes like that!" said another.
"What'll you give us to stay quiet?" asked a third.
"I could... give you autographs?" Rise offered. "I'll sign whatever you'd like! Nobody could argue that you didn't see me if you had my autograph!"
The small crowd seemed to consider her offer, huddling together to whisper among themselves. How they could hear each other whispering over the booming sound of the concert was unknown to Rise, but she wasn't going to start asking questions right now. The only thing that mattered was getting out of this little predicament with as little attention drawn to her as possible.
"Okay, we've talked it over." the apparent head of the group said as the huddle broke. "We'll accept your autographs for our silence."
"Oh, that's great! If one of you could just give me a pen, I'll-" Rise began.
"On one condition." the leader interrupted. "You're going to autograph your own clothes. I'd say... an article of clothing for each of us would suffice?"
Rise's words and happy demeanor died with the full details of the request. They expected her to give away more clothing? One article for each of them... that would leave her with just her coat and sunglasses! Possibly a single sock as well if they were going to consider each one a separate article. There was no way Rise could possibly comply with that!
"Y-you can't be serious!" Rise shot back. "I'm not stripping and signing my clothes for you perverts!"
"Well, I guess we'll just have to let everyone know the famous Risette is here..." the leader said, playing with his phone just as Shiki had not long ago.
Realizing she didn't have much else to bargain with, Rise realized she'd have to bite the bullet, at least a little.
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