Otaku Witch

The club system is an important component of Witch Academy.

Dorothy remembered that her school in her past life also had various clubs, which were simply student groups formed by students with common interests or ideals.

However, in her previous life's country, a student's primary job was to study, and any other engagement was considered improper, so clubs weren't really emphasized. In fact, Dorothy didn't truly encounter them until she attended university.

Even then, when she finally joined an anime club, she hardly ever received any notifications for club activities in four years, feeling as though she had joined solitude itself.

Most of her understanding of clubs still came from youth campus-themed anime.

Well, it was generally about a bunch of young students who didn't study properly, often slacked off at clubs, fell in love early, and glorified it as enjoying their youth.

Only occasionally were there a few rare works that genuinely focused on club activities, truly cultivating hobbies and chasing dreams.

However, the clubs among the witches had some differences from those in Dorothy's memories.

In terms of establishing a club, the difference wasn't significant; as long as they gathered a minimum of five members and found a club location, they could directly apply to the student council. Unless there were special circumstances, any standard application would generally be approved.

But the subsequent operation of the clubs showed some disparities.

The smaller clubs with fewer than a hundred members resembled the student club concept from Dorothy's memory, where groups of young people slacked off, fell in love early, and enjoyed the peaceful everyday of youth.

However, starting from medium-sized clubs with members numbering from hundreds to thousands, or even tens of thousands, their nature changed.

These medium-sized clubs had structures that transformed from being merely social gatherings into rigorously organized bodies, more akin to the guilds or companies in Dorothy's memory.

As for those large clubs with memberships ranging from tens of thousands to millions, or even the super-large clubs surpassing a million members, they resembled the concepts of corporations or even nations.

Although it sounds exaggerated, there was no helping it; the witches' definition of a club tended more towards the embryonic form of a guild (the witches' version of a company).

In the minds of the witches, a club wasn't merely a place to enjoy youth. Those complacent witches who were content with the status quo could casually play around.

But if you truly hoped to achieve something in your career after graduation, then a club should also be a transitional platform for underage witches to refine their skills, expand their networks, find future companions, and construct the embryonic form of future teams.

Many well-managed clubs would transform into official Witch Associations upon the founder's graduation and begin formal business operations.

However, their former clubs wouldn't simply disappear after graduation; instead, they would reduce in size but remain within Witch Academy as recruitment hubs for the associations, providing fresh talent. Thus, if a little witch wanted to join a particular Witch Association after graduation, she could first join the corresponding club to start interning in advance.

Therefore, to compete for new students and attract more high-quality witches to their ranks, the various major clubs at Witch Academy employed every trick in the book, often engaging in fierce competitions behind the scenes, creating a lively, bustling atmosphere each year during the freshman enrollment season.

Now, another freshman enrollment season had begun, and as expected, when Dorothy and Audrey arrived near the huge square designated for club recruitment, they could see from a distance the bustling crowd that filled the area.

This gigantic square, enhanced by a super-sized space expansion spell, had an internal space large enough to accommodate tens of millions of people and was packed with individuals, making the crowd appear dense like ants from Dorothy's bird's-eye view in the sky.

Because the application requirements were so low, heaven knows how many clubs still existed within Witch Academy; all manner of clubs, big and small, had now come out in full force to recruit members. Just the numerous club registration booths alone seemed to number in the tens of thousands at a glance.

"Fellow students, please wait up, are you interested in learning about our Sea of Void Fishing Club?"

"Fellow students, how about checking out our Pierce the Sky Society? Mechanical drills are the romance of witches."

"Both of you, please wait a moment. I see that you two have had some bad luck recently; how about learning about the Divination Club..."

"Would you like a magical creature?"

.......

Dorothy and her companion had just approached this club recruitment square and hadn't even managed to land when a large group of people riding brooms surrounded them. Then, they started aggressively stuffing flyers into their hands.

In response, Dorothy looked helplessly at her stunningly beautiful junior next to her.

They were blocked directly not just because Audrey was extremely beautiful. It seemed like wherever she went, she shone like a spotlight, always the center of everyone's attention. This led to an untold number of people setting their sights on them the moment they appeared. Who wouldn't want to pull such a stunning beauty back to their guild as a poster girl?

If they had such a poster girl, who would worry about meeting new member targets? The new members would practically throw themselves into the net, howling with eagerness.

However....

The two were now squeezed so close by the crowd that they were almost leaning on each other, and Dorothy's junior sister, who had severe social anxiety, had never seen such a formation before. She was almost scared out of her wits, instinctively grabbing onto Dorothy's clothes, wanting to hide behind her.

Even though having such a beautiful girl clinging close actually felt quite comfortable, even through the clothes, Dorothy's keen senses still allowed her to feel the softness of her junior sister's body. However, the sight of this beautiful girl shivering probably looked quite pitiable.

Alas, a miscalculation indeed. She hadn't expected the guild square to be such a ghostly sight; it was absolutely a social anxiety hell.

Let alone Audrey, even she herself was a bit flustered seeing so many people.

But now was the time to showcase some spectacular magic.

"You can't see me, uh, actually, you can't see us."

Dorothy uttered a deep dragon roar, and the power of the dragon language immediately enveloped both of them. Soon, the witches who were crazily approaching them for recruitment due to Audrey's charm suddenly lost sight of them.

"Uh, is this the Witch's Akarin Technique? Senior sister, are you also a fan of the Witch of the Forest?"

Dorothy had just finished casting the spell when she heard her junior sister's puppet voice beside her.

Even through the emotionless metallic synthetic voice, one could hear her excitement and thrill.

Yes, just like a fanatic fan meeting a fellow enthusiast, it was even more intimate than meeting family members.

This left Dorothy feeling conflicted.

Goodness, who would have thought you, a socially-awkward introvert, would be such a hardcore fan of mine?

Tsk, if you ever find out that I am the Witch of the Forest, that will really put me in a tight spot; you'd be worshipping the ground I walk on.

Just thinking about this troublemaker of a junior sister sticking to her day in and day out made Dorothy shiver violently.

"I can't say I like her that much, I just think her spells are quite handy."

Dorothy nodded with feigned composure as she said this.

"Yes, yes, I adore her,"

The Little Fox beside her excitedly shook her ears, and her nine fluffy tails waved like dog tails. Once this topic was broached, she seemed even more interested than in her puppet, chattering away incessantly.

This made Dorothy feel even more conflicted.

Tsk, although she had indeed been looking for a common topic to help bridge the gap between herself and her junior, she had never imagined this common topic would turn out to be about herself.

"Mhm, yeah...."
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She began to respond somewhat insincerely to her inexplicably excited junior sister.

But the socially awkward Little Fox clearly wasn't adept at reading between the lines; she had no idea she was being brushed off, and continued to heap praise on her idol, the Witch of the Forest, through her puppet.

This made Dorothy, a typically narcissistic trashy witch, blush with embarrassment.

My goodness, what is this torture? I'm so tired.

…..Little Witch shyly covers her face…..