SPOILER WARNING - This art preview article contains spoilers for the Villainous Devotion storyline. Click the links in the article below if you want to see the full image previews.
'Sup, cakesters!
We're back with another CG for the Devotion storyline, and more of Hiroko being tragically cute towards an increasingly tyrannical Kyou, who has her mind completely in thrall thanks to his penlight.
This CG set covers at least two scenes, and reuses a couple assets from Nozomi's alternate ending made a couple months ago. The first scene follows shortly after the beginning of the Devotion story, where Kyou brings the newly-entranced Hiroko back to his home to plan how he's going to catch Nozomi with her help. It doesn't matter how nefarious Kyou's being, or that he wants to entrap her best friend in the world, Hiroko just sits on his bed and happily goes along as his "willing" accomplice. With the number he did on her mind, Hiroko is powerless to feel anything but completely smitten with this utter jerk!
In the other scene Kyou's plotting again, only this time he's using Hiroko to get to Sayori instead. For the first part of his plan, Hiroko needs to change into her tennis gear so Sayori doesn't suspect she's strayed from her regular routine. Hiroko's plenty happy to change her clothes in front of him and eagerly goes along with this plan too, but seeing her undress gives Kyou another idea... If he's really inclined to amuse himself he has no qualms about telling the brainwashed girl to keep the clothes off and the scene continues without them and without any consequences for Kyou. All Hiroko cares about now is how she can please her captor, as he takes his penlight out of his pocket and reveals he's going to teach her how to use it on her friends....
So uh, yeah. Cute, tragic Hiroko. Look forward to seeing all this, and maybe a little more, in the next early access release later this month!