A few hours

We arrive at the main shopping area. Around us are several stores for all kinds of things.

Ikumi looks around with ringing eyes. I think she missed going shopping.

"Where do we go first?" she asks, looking at me. "I'll let you choose, we just need to go to a special store later because I need to get something specific" I answer her. So Ikumi goes ahead and I follow her.

Since it is Thursday noon, the mall is not too crowded. Some women and men walk through the aisles to the stores.

Among the visitors, I see characters here and there, who sometimes go shopping with their owners, and sometimes without them.

A couple of the characters I recognize before we go into the first store. One is Galadriel from Lord of the Rings, who is comparatively tall, but not inferior to her beauty from the movies. She wears a white dress, and as she walks past us, I see a tattoo on her arm, which I can't make out any closer.

Another character I can make out is Margaery Tyrell from Game of Thrones. She doesn't look like she does on the show, I think to myself as I look at her.

She's wearing an off-the-shoulder top, which shows off her significantly enlarged breasts, which are also heavily pushed. In addition, she wears leggings that show off her ass well. However, the most interesting thing about her is not her looks, but her owner, who walks through the department store together with her.

He wears an expensive looking suit, has black hair and brown eyes. He is tall, about 1.90m (6'2 feet) and looks to be around 50. His hand rests on Margaery's ass as they walk together into a store.

After a short while we enter a store especially for women's fashion.

It's huge I think to myself as it goes over several floors and has only women's fashion.

"What do you want to buy us? I hope not perverted clothes, right?" Ikumi asks and eyes me contemptuously.

"No not at all. I had thought that I would buy a few everyday clothes for each, bikinis for the pool and maybe a few things for the job, for example another uniform for Ram" I reply.

"Hm well then" she returns and goes ahead to the sweater section.

I follow her and look around. "Let me know if you like anything or if you think something might suit the others."

"I will" she just says and picks up a sweater and looks at it. After a few seconds, however, she puts it away and picks up another one. This may take a long time.

After she has picked out a few things, we go to the cabins. "If you have something on please show me" I say to her and she just goes into a cuanging room without saying anything.

A short time later she comes out wearing a purple top and a white short skirt.

"And what do you think?" she asks, getting a little red in the face. "Wow, that outfit, looks damn good on you" I return and get wide eyed. Damn that looks hot.

She grins, turns around and goes back into the booth. If all the outfits look like that, maybe it won't take that long after all.

However, the next 2 outfits don't look very good or fit properly.

The fourth outfit is a simple white top that doesn't particularly stand out, but is great for warm days at home.

After another hour of picking out outfits for Ikumi, we look at bikinis for her.

"I bet you'd like to see those too, wouldn't you?" she says, looking at me again with that look she had earlier.

"I'd love to" I reply with a grin, but she just walks into the booth and doesn't come out for the next few minutes.

After about fifteen minutes, the booth opens again and Ikumi is standing in front of me in her normal clothes. "Tough luck" she says and puts a couple of bikinis with the things she wants to buy.

"That should be enough for now" she says as she looks at her haul.

For now? I think to myself as I look at the small mountain of clothes.

"Alright, we need to get some for the others too. Here are their sizes, you might have to advise me on style there, whereas they're not as revealing as you."

So we look at both regular clothes and bikinis, for Hermione and Ram.

That takes another hour, until Ikumi and I go to the checkout with a big pile of clothes.

On the way to the checkout, I notice a pretty dress. I wonder if Hermione will like it. I ask myself and take it with me when I see that it is her size.

"We have to go to a store for a while" I tell Ikumi as we go out of the store and we walk a bit through the mall.

On the way many, especially men, look at Ikumi. There aren't as many characters here as in the RealDreams mall, so it's probably a little more special to see one, especially when she's only wearing her school uniform.

After a few minutes we arrive at a RealDreams store which sells merchandise. I enter the store with Ikumi and immediately go up to a salesperson.

"Hello, I'm looking for a pillow that looks like the character Rem from Re:Zero" I say to one of the salesmen. "Just a moment" he returns and types something into his computer. "Yes we have some left, I'd be happy to get it for you" he says and then walks into the store.

"What kind of store is this?" asks Ikumi who looks around. "It's a store of the company where I bought you" I answer her "However, there are only smaller things here, you can't buy characters here."

I wonder how she reacts to that. Ikumi doesn't take it well at all. "These are the people who kidnap and sell us?" she asks, getting angry.

Before anything else happens, I take out the remote that I use to control the obedience mod and operate it. Ikumi's face becomes neutral and she gets quiet.

Phew, good thing I brought the remote just in case.

The seller comes a short time later and has the pillow with him. After I pay for it, I order Ikumi "you follow me to the car. Only then you will calm down and get your mind back."

Ikumi nods simply and we walk back to the car. After I put the bags and pillow away and we sit in the car, Ikumi comes back to her senses.

"Wh-what's going on, where are we?" she asks me, looking around. "We're in the car" I answer her and buckle up. "Buckle up too, I want to go."

Ikumi buckles up and we start driving. During the drive she wonders every now and then how she got in the car.

When we get back home, I drive the car up the driveway and get out.

"Come help me carry the bags in and then please start cooking dinner." It's getting later than I thought it would be.

So we take the bags and the pillow and I open the door.