Ch 20 – 30 April, Time with Utaha 02

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Just like that, Kouta registered and joined the GCC. After that, those three people started to have a discussion on how they were making the Floopy Bird game. Takao and Inada appeared to be in charge of the mechanics and other details, while Kouta handled the graphic design.

While Takao teaching Kouta how to make games. As to his surprised, Kouta actually get some lucky pervert accident? Or maybe she was just trying to seduce her.

Takao taught Kouta in the PC. While Kouta concentrated on the PC without looking up, he realized that Takao was teaching him how to do it from behind him, her voluptuous breast eventually contacting Kouta's head. Something, that is told in the anime and manga, because of how unaware and dense Takao was. But too bad for original MC, because of his spiky hair, he didn't experience those soft and rich breasts.

At least, Kouta could enjoy herself, while Inada who realized what happened, just stared at him with deadly and disappointing eyes. But she didn't actually comment on what was happening to Takao. What a good girl, she was.

But too bad for him, in the end, those good times must come to an end since he needs to meet with Utaha. So after his club ended, he went to the usual Audiovisual room that was used by them.

Kouta entered the auditorium and noticed Utaha sleeping soundly. For a time and time, Kouta couldn't believe this 2-D like world was full of cute girls like her, she's pretty enough even when she's not smiling. For Kouta to witness how defenseless she was, maybe showing some trust from her, who is usually a cold person.

"Utaha-senpai, please wake up. This is Kouta."

"Hm… Kouta-kun?"

Utaha, who was sleeping on a bench, had been awakened by Kouta.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm a bit sleepy… I worked through the night again yesterday… This week I started working on the plot for the second book…after all…"  Utaha's answer was lackluster. On her face that was lacking any tinge of liveliness, and she had a pair of sleepy eyes that made people wonder whether she had already woken up.

"Yes… Ah, if you're exhausted with your work. Just go ahead and sleep. I still needed to read your work after all." Kouta said, while he took Utaha's small red notebook that had already been prepared by Utaha.

"Well, if that's the case… I'll take those offers." Utaha replied, and without any hesitation, she sat beside Kouta.  In a spacious room the size of two other classrooms combined, where maybe 100 people could fit if they crammed in, those two people sat pretty closely.

"Utaha-senpai?" Kouta was a little surprised with Utaha boldness since she not only sat beside him. But she rested her head on Kouta's shoulder.

"Well, this… just a bit of research for my novel. I want to know the feeling..." Utaha told Kouta her excuse while trying to sleep on his shoulder.

"Ah…. Okay. I try my best to work as quietly as possible."

"Yeah… please do that." Utaha said it while smiling, happy that Kouta responded. "Also, thank you." She spoke with a soft voice.

"Eh, what's for." Kouta surprised at being thanked by Utaha.

"About my novel. Just like you said, after those fan sites came out. The sales of my novel are increasing, and... The story writer for the manga made by Kashiwagi Eri is you, right?"

"Ah, yes."

"Yeah, her tweet about my novel inspired her to make "Tomo chan wa Onnanoko," which also received some attention. That's why I am really grateful, and I let you become my pillow." Utaha said that with a red face, while ended her sentence with a tsundere like line.

"That's sound like kinda insincere."

"Just shut up and take it… I'm just not used to thanking someone. Especially, a younger man than me." Utaha said while looking up at Kouta with her slightly reddened cheeks, as apparently she was too embarrassed.

"Ahahaha, is that so. In that's case. I believe you are grateful." Kouta said as he let Utaha sleep on his shoulder, and it didn't take long for her to fall asleep. She may be exhausted, but Kouta himself was pretty sure it was because she started to depend on him, so she was really relaxed around him.

"Oh, well. It looked like I'm was on the right path. Honestly, what I'm going to do with her…." Kouta, of course, was not that dense and believed that her senior started had some affection for him. But, he needed to prepare himself…since, at this point, they became closer and closer. It would be dangerous if he gave in to his emotions.

Well, of course, it would be easy if Kouta became a couple with Utaha and let Eriri go… but there was no way he would do that. He was a scumbag, after all, and the feeling stole the heroine's affection from the protagonist, still keeping his inner soul.

To be honest, Kouta has been broken since those days. Every time, he saw heroines from those memories… even if he wasn't aware of them. In his head, he was still making plans to steal them…

Even with Utaha, to whom she became closer—closer each day and like a friend to him.

His desire couldn't be stopped by anything.

Yeah, till this day… Kouta still followed his plan to trap Utaha to make her become him and accepted his relationship with another girl. For now, what he's doing is just to increase her affection.

That's how scumbag and broken Kouta was. Because he sometimes calculated this world as if it were a game,

"Oh, you're progressing really quickly. You're really awesome, Utaha-senpai." Kouta praised Utaha with a smile after he started reading Utaha's works. Even though he had told her about the proposal for a visual novel, they were making it. In the end, Kouta just told her about the main plot.

Of course, the story would be a bit different since it was a different person. But Kouta, who read the novel, still feels the same vibe from Utaha's work as from the original work. Which was more important for him.

Kouta tried his best to remember the vibe of the visual novel Fate/Stay Night and gave Utaha input. He wrote all of his points in the note for Utaha read later.

"She's just sleeping without care… She doesn't even know what I'm thinking about…." Kouta couldn't help whispering to himself while sighing.

In order to not wake up Utaha, Kouta worked very diligently and silently. Until Kouta had gone through all of Utaha's work. He knew very well that her work would be different from the original, but as long as it had the same vibe. Kouta believes Utaha's work will still be successful as the original.

"Mmm—mm…" But at that moment, Utaha's eyelids began twitching, and she opened her eyes.

"Mm…" When Utaha woke up, she saw Kouta patiently letting her sleep on his shoulder.

"...Hmm? What…? Is it already morning…?" Half-asleep, she had assumed it was morning time. Kouta smiled at her and gently shook his head before shaking her body.

"No. It's afternoon. You need to prepare to go home already and take some rest. I have checked your work. Please, read the note before you continue your work." Kouta told Utaha, while shaking her body to ensure she didn't fall asleep again.

"Hm… is that so…" Utaha said while stretching a hand up and looking up.

"Gezz… Please, don't overdo it. I don't want you to overwork and fall sick." Kouta lectured her senior, as he knew very well how sad and dangerous it was when he fell sick.

"Yes… Yes… You sound like Machida-san." Utaha said in a resigned voice. She rubbed her eyes several times before continuing. "It's just that I have lots of inspiration, so it's hard to stop."

"Even so… please take care of yourself…" Kouta gave her a simple reprimand.

"Fine…fine… Ah, by the way, your manga is interesting, and Kashiwagi Eri drawing is also good. I like it." Utaha said with a grin on her face.

Kouta remembers from the anime how Utaha herself said to Eriri that they lose if they're moved by it. And to be honest, if not because they had affection for the same person, maybe they would be friendlier to each other faster. At the end of the stories, they got closer and closer... That's why Kouta's plan to make Utaha fall would involve Eriri in some ways.

"At least, please take care of your body more seriously." Kouta once again lectured Utaha.

"Okay—okay…" Utaha responded lukewarmly.

Those two took their time before leaving the school. Being close to heroines and spending time with them was always enjoyable for Kouta. Kouta could have asked Utaha to relax in a family restaurant and the like before they left.

Since enjoying their time naturally with Heroine was also something, he didn't want to miss. He can also increase his relationship with Utaha. Kouta took care of Eriri's business by sending a draft manga and a work schedule via email. For now, Kouta thought to make some space between him and Eriri for one or two day, while working on increasing Utaha affection, and maybe get close to Takao as well.

"Hm— I might miss having Eriri, even if only for one day..." Kouta mumbled to himself while he was walking alone. What could his dinner be, he wondered?