Art Preview: Hiroko Gullible Path CG #2

SPOILER WARNING: This art preview article contains spoilers for Hiroko's Gullbile story path. Click the links in the article below if you want to see the full image previews.

Hi, cakes!

The next early access will be upon us by the end of this week, but before that I've had time to commission one more piece of CG art for Hiroko's Gullible story path. This scene occurs during the more villainous branch of the story where Kyou has pushed Hiroko's perceived gullibility to the limits. Not only does he feel Hiroko owes him, both for his help during the week and for her past "bullying", he's also fascinated to see just how far she'll go to follow the increasingly unreasonable suggestions he's planting in her mind...

As a result, on an evening where Hiroko should be off celebrating her big win in the tennis tournament she instead finds herself deeply in trance on the side of Kyou's bed while he sets up an improvised cam show to demonstrate his skills to a wider audience. 

Kyou's hastily assembled audience wonders if his assistant really is as entranced as she looks, so to open the show he administers a simple suggestibility test. He impresses on Hiroko that there's a balloon tied to her left wrist with a piece of string and that she can feel the balloon start to rise, taking her arm with it. Everyone watches as Hiroko's hand first twitches, then begins to rise from the bed as Kyou's suggestion appears to take hold. Up, up, up, he tells her, as the balloon continues to rise towards the ceiling... 

By the time he's finished, Hiroko looks a sight: Her left hand is reached as high as it will go while the rest of her body appears to be resolutely asleep. It's enough to convince most of those watching on Kyou's webcam that his assistant for the show really is as deep in trance as he says she is, and he can move on to impressing something a little more demanding on her sleepy mind, for the entertainment of everyone watching...

UPDATE: My artist worked especially fast in getting this stuff together, so I went ahead and crammed some more into this CG to complete it in time for the next early access! The additional art covers the part when Hiroko awakens from trance for a few minutes. She first reacts with surprise as she struggles to get her bearings. Only to realise a moment later that she's "in a karaoke bar surrounded by all her friends and she's about to sing her favourite song"...

Having completely accepted the reality Kyou planted in her head, Hiroko then squeals in excitement before jumping onto his bed. She sings and dances her heart out, unaware of the cam audience watching her before eventually settling back down on the bed and inviting the next person to sing, which is Kyou's cue to put her back into trance. As soon as he takes his penlight (which she thought was a karaoke mic) from her, Hiroko immediately falls back into a tranced sleep, her face still flushed from how she exhausted herself with all that dancing just moments before...

So yes, we'll be seeing all this in the next early access release! Please look forward to it ^^