Ch 152 – 12 June, Lots of things to do 03

"Un, with this, you have officially joined us," Takao spoke while holding the form that Ruri had filled out.

"Oh, welcome to our club—" All of the club members welcomed her after Ruri officially joined the GCC. Some of them even gave her applause, which made Ruri look a bit embarrassed.

"Are you interested in board games?" Roka said as she approached Ruri with sparkling eyes and a board game in her hand.

"Well, a bit— I guess."

"Oh, we can try to play it."

"Wait, I wonder. What element do you prefer?" In the middle of the conversation between Roka and Ruri. Chitose asked Ruri with a pretty serious face.

"Eh—" Ruri was entirely surprised for a moment.

"My element is water," Sakura told Ruri while giving a pose in front of Ruri.

"Oh, that's a good one. My element is earth." Chitose responded while giving another pose, too.

"Ah— Yeah, while for me, it's the fire element." Roka was not to be outdone and posed with a very cute face and sparkling eyes. It even feels like people can see the twinkles around Roka's face.

Seeing the behavior of the members made Ruri herself feel less shy. She can still remember the self-introduction she did when she just entered school. She thought that the self-introduction did not get a warm welcome from her classmates. Even so, Ruri had practiced and was confident in this perfect introduction.

"Hm— I have fallen from heaven to this land—the queen and Child of darkness. I once held sway beyond the end of fantasy. An indomitable soul residing in this transient body. I'm fallen saint Kuroneko!" Ruri or Kuroneko finished her self-introduction and gave a pose before ending her words with a firm voice.

"Master of the darkness!"

"Oh— So your element is darkness." "Hu— It's such a good choice."  "Darkness. That's a cool one."

Everyone responded positively to Ruri's introduction, which was easily visible from her facial expressions. She looked very proud and puffed out her chest confidently before talking about the things she could do. So the conversation between them all became quite noisy and looked fun.

"Aren't you interested in joining Kousaka-senpai?" Kouta asked Kyousuke, who was staring at Ruri with a gentle and warm face like a protagonist who saw that the heroine's problem had been solved.

"Eh— No, I don't think I need to do that," Kyousuke answered differently from what happened in the anime. In the anime, he will also enter the same club as Ruri, after all. Kyousuke didn't think about joining this world because almost all the members of this club were girls, and it seemed that they were all open to Ruri. So he felt no need to join out of concern. He also did not want his presence to disturb the comfort of the club.

"Is that so? What about you Tamura-senpai?" Kouta asked the senior and childhood friend Kyousuke, who accompanied him to this club room.

"Me? I'm sorry, but I'm not joining."

"Is that so? That's too bad."

After Ruri had definitely joined the GCC, Kouta's business at school was over. Even so, he spent as much time as possible talking to Ruri about the games the club was working on and also the ones Ruri wanted to make. It seemed that Ruri was interested in creating visual novels with themes like vampires and the like.

Just like Takao said, Ruri could make her own game while she helped with the club project. Kouta told her about several script games she could write for the game, and Kouta gave her some points about the game she tried to make.

After finishing his discussion with Ruri, Kouta said goodbye to the club to see Nanami before meeting up with the others at the café where they had made an appointment. He made his way to the school shoe locker, where Nanami seemed to be waiting.

"I'm sorry. Do you wait for a long time?"

"No, I just arrived here too."

"Is that so? Let's go then?"

"Okay."

They talked for a while before quickly leaving the school. Although Kouta is basically Nanami's junior, their relationship in the making of Fate/Stay Night makes Kouta look more senior than Nanami.

When they arrived at the cafe, at one of the tables, there was already a person Kouta recognized from his memories of his past life. The girl has long, glossy brown hair. Her hair also has Nadeshiko-style bangs and eyeballs that imply intelligence. She came from a reasonably well-off family and had a strict father, so she became a model student.

"Ah, good afternoon Miho. You really arrived early." Nanami talked to her as she and Kouta came and sat in front of her.

"Yeah, of course. I'm quite interested in the project you said to me after all." Miho replied before her gaze turned towards Kouta and gracefully introduced herself to him. "My name is Azuki Miho. Nice to meet you."

She said it while bowing her head and her attic, just like a person from Nadeshiko's family.

"Un, my name is Suzuki Kouta. I'm pleased to make your acquaintance." Kouta also responded to Miho's introduction more straightforwardly. He also continued with a long introduction.

"I am also the person in charge of the circle called 'Type-Moon' and the writer with the pen name 'One' who is the co-author of the manga Tomo-chan. Ah, I'm also a game designer in a mobile game called Flappy Bird."

"Ah, yeah. I read that manga. It's quite interesting." Miho answered and praised Kouta.

"Really, thanks."

"Un, I was also surprised to learn that someone as young as you made such a viral game."

"Well, it's such a simple game. It's just sheer luck to be an internet sensation and make the game more famous than it should be." Kouta was being humble, like a typical Japanese person, to the girl he had just met.

"Even so, it's still a good achievement, isn't it? Your parents must be proud." Miho said that she had a bit of a problem with her strict and stubborn father.

"I hope so, too. But unfortunately, I'm an orphan." Kouta replied to Miho's words, which immediately made Miho act flustered and a face full of guilt and pity because Kouta made a slightly sad expression.

"I'm sorry. I don't know about that."

"It's fine. It had been years ago. I'm already moving on and trying my best. Especially with this big project my circle made." Kouta replied with a smile to improve the mood of Miho, who seemed to breathe a sigh of relief seeing Kouta, who looked okay.

"Well, I wonder if you're really fine to give this job to me— since I'm pretty much an amateur with minimal experience," Miho said as she looked at the proposal of the visual novel made by Kouta. Even though this proposal was made by someone younger than her. In the end, he had much more experience in this industry than her.

And if she looks at the proposal given by Kouta with the names that joined the creation of this visual novel, it can be said to be relatively high. The scriptwriter is a newcomer to the light novel world, and the illustrator is already famous in the world of R+18 doujinshi and the like. She also drew a manga named Tomo-chan. Well, basically, with names like this, at least people who have more experience than her will still be interested in this project.

"It's fine. In the end, you have the same profile as Nanami. What I'm looking for is a voice actor with minimal experience whose age is not far from mine. Almost everyone who worked on this project is not that far away in age after all." Kouta explains why he is interested in hiring voice actors like Miho.

"And there's also one important thing I want from the voice actors who do this contract, which is that I can give them specialized training. Something that I think many experienced voice actors would disagree with. In the end, this is my first project of this magnitude. So, of course, I want to control the outcome as much as I can."

Hearing Kouta's explanation, Miho nodded her head and agreed with what he said. She didn't think many experienced voice actors would like this. However, in Miho's eyes, this seemed to be an added value for accepting this job. No, she was lucky that she was friends with Nanami, so she had the opportunity to get a job like this. Because in her eyes, she was pretty sure that she was more skillful than Nanami, but ever since, she took training with a person named Kouta. Nanami became more proficient in no time. That's why Miho was interested in this project.

Miho is basically a pretty competitive person, after all.

"Ah, of course. It would be helpful to get voice actors who are already close to each other. It will be easier for you two, won't it?"

When Miho heard those words from Kouta, she couldn't help but smile. In Kouta's words, he thought of comfort for her and Nanami. At least this made Kouta make a positive impression on Miho.

So their conversation became much easier.