Ch 175 – 15 June, Kato Megumi 03

Usually, after school, Megumi spends time with her classmates before going home. Since she basically didn't join any clubs, she had plenty of time after school. But today was a little different. Because today, she did not return home and headed upstairs where the various club rooms were located.

Megumi didn't join the club, but she already had an appointment to meet this new acquaintance, Suzuki Kouta. In the past two or three days, she had been harassed by this punk who seemed interested in her. As a girl she was sometimes happy to have people interested in her, but being confronted by a boy who was not her type and also talking about having a girlfriend and still trying to approach her bothered her.

That's why Megumi was a little grateful that some people helped her. Unlike the punks who bothered her, he seemed to be better both in his attitude and appearance. Until now, Megumi wasn't one to think about one's appearance, but comparing a punk to someone like Kouta was an easy choice.

Megumi still couldn't believe that she had so easily given her contact info to someone she barely knew. In fact, she only found out his name when they exchanged contact info. She didn't know if it was because she was grateful to Kouta for helping her or because of his appearance that Megumi somehow felt she had seen before and also felt more comfortable.

Even so, Megumi still felt very grateful to Kouta for helping her, apologizing, and compensating for her classmates who were bothering her. Even though Kouta didn't have to do that, therefore, Megumi offered herself if there was anything she could help with. From there Megumi realized a little why she felt she had seen Kouta.

Kouta said that he came from the GCC club and helped his club make games. That's when Megumi understood why she thought she had seen Kouta. After Kouta told her about the GCC, Megumi realized that she had seen Kouta in a YouTube video from the GCC, which contained the promotion of the game they made. Although different from Kouta, who is now wearing a boy's school uniform, in the video, Kouta is wearing a girl's uniform.

'Maybe that's why I feel safe and comfortable when talking to Kouta.' Megumi thought so after she agreed to help Kouta. However, she told Kouta that she knew nothing about the game world. Kouta reassured her that he could teach her little by little. Megumi didn't have any clubs or other activities after school. She thought, why not— before she finally ended up in front of the GCC club room.

Until Megumi finally knocked on the door and heard a female voice who opened the door for her and let her in. Megumi entered with a senior named Takao, who introduced himself as the club president. Contrary to what she thought, the GCC was mostly made up of girls and only one boy in the room was seen talking to a group of girls.

"I heard from Kouta that you came to help with his game project," Takao spoke to her as she told her to sit not far from the table full of PCs lap, tops, and various electronic devices. Megumi could also see that someone busy with work on her PC was not far from her.

"Ah, yes. But I don't know if I can do well—

"It's fine. After all, you'll be working on a different game than this one."

"Is that so—"

"Un—"

Megumi and Takao talked to each other before Kouta finally came to Megumi. Kouta apologized to her because he was a little busy. Before he explained that, he hoped Megumi would help him with the voice cast in the game. Of course, she was very surprised because she never did that and she spoke honestly to Kouta.

"It's fine. Don't I tell you that I will teach you about it? I quite like your voice anyway. Your voice is clear and perfectly fits the character I created in this visual novel." Kouta replied and also praised Megumi's voice.

Megumi was slightly surprised because it was the first time anyone had complimented her voice. She also noticed what Kouta was doing while she was chatting with Takao. Kouta seemed to be talking to the club members. She didn't know what they were discussing but saw that Kouta was helping the members.

"It's just that we will be dealing with sound. We can't work on it here. So we'll have to go to my house, are you okay? Of course, we won't be alone because many people besides you are working on our game. So just relax— Probably five to six people are beside us."

"Eh, that's many—"

"Un, and most of them are girls too. So you don't have to worry that much."

"Is that so? Won't it be a nuisance?"

"Is fine. There's no one in my house but me, after all."

It was actually a rather sad thing to say, but Megumi could read the atmosphere and not ask any questions. It felt a little too soon to go to the house of someone she just met, however, when the two of them left the GCC room and met two seniors who were also working on the same project.

One is Nanami-senpai, who, just like Megumi, will be working as one of the voice actors. At the same time, the other one is a person whom Megumi knows very well because she is a famous senior at school, Utaha-senpai. After seeing Utaha, Megumi felt this project was more serious than she thought.

'Will I be okay working together with this senior— it feels a bit like I'm getting nervous.' Megumi thought like that as she walked after Kouta and the two seniors.

"So she was the last voice actor?"

"Well, I also want us to at least voice the female characters. How about Utaha-senpai also voices one of the servants as well— such as Rider or Caster—"

"Eh— that's quite a bit— Hm, well— I might think about it if you also voice one of the characters like Illya."

"Why Illya?"

"Well, it's fun to think you make a cute little girl voice."

"Hm— Well, I think about it."

"Eh— Really—"

"Yeah, at least we have three voice actresses for three main heroines."

Megumi could hear the conversation between Utaha and Kouta, which sounded quite serious, and about how they still needed voice actors for this project. However, there was one thing that surprised Megumi when they all arrived at the station. That was the fact that there was one person who joined them. This meant that this person was also working on this project, except that this person was once again someone Megumi never expected to join here.

The person in front of Megumi was one of the most famous students in the school, especially for a first-year student, because she won the painting competition as a member of the art club, Eriri.

Once again, Megumi felt that the job Kouta said would be easy was arguably more serious than she had imagined, especially if the project was made by someone like Utaha-senpai or Eriri, who had won competitions and awards. Ah, if she could remember, the GCC also made a quite successful game, and she had also played it. In other words, this project was serious from the beginning.

Megumi hoped she would be doing fine.