Ch 29 – 03 May, GCC Plan

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"That's… Maybe it's true." Inada responded with puzzlement, as she never thought he would actually agree. While what Kouta asked was kinda reasonable, but still…

"What kind of clothes do you want us to wear?" She even added a question.

"Hmm…" Kouta thought for a moment, since they were different from Utaha. They would be rejected if it was too much, and it was only the school uniform, too. "Well, how about a bunny suit?"

"That's… kinda too much."

"Then… Maid uniform."

"Maid… Huh… I think it's fine.

After Inada said that, Kouta nodded in agreement. It looked like they reached a certain understanding. But there was one person who still had not voiced her opinion, but Takao noticed the two of them were smiling at her. She couldn't help feeling something bad would happen to her.

"Wait… Wait… I'm included?" Takao responded with a look of surprise.

"Of course, why are you not included?" Kouta asked, his lips curling into a mischievous grin.

"Well… that's because it's just you guys… I don't…"

"Eh… so Prez, isn't that unfair that you see us cosplaying while you don't?" Inada followed Kouta's question. Her usual cheerful smile quickly faded back into the mischievous look on her face as she understood Kouta's intention.

"But… But… But…" Takao was suddenly pressured by her juniors. She felt like she couldn't rebuke them.

"It's fine, Prez. All the costumes will be provided by me. You just need to follow us to the cosplay store." Kouta gave her a cold, robotic smile, showing no sympathy for her.

"That's… Kya…" Suddenly, Inada grabbed her shoulder from behind Takao, which made her inevitably scream.

"Yes, Prez. Why are you not joining us?" Inada continued her to persuade Takao.

"But… I…" Troubled, Takao hesitated as her junior pressured her to join their activity. "Fine…" Her eyes were teary with disbelief, and she shook her head at them, but she simply couldn't reject them.

Kouta smiled at Inada, and they exchanged a quick look before exiting the clubroom, excited to go to a family restaurant to celebrate the completion of the Floopy bird.

In anime and manga, high school students usually celebrate in a Karaoke bar or something similar. GCC members, on the other hand, did not enjoy visiting such places. Also, the family restaurant had a drink bar, so they could get all-you-can-drink.

They immediately examined the menu with great interest. Kouta asked for the steak meal set. There was a short wait before the food arrived. Kouta was enjoying his time, eating it little by little.

"So, what kind of game do you want to try to make next?" Takao muttered after a bite of the cake she ordered.

"Well… How about you, Inada?" Kouta asked, he may already know what game he wants to make. But he felt he needed to respect the other members too. What does game do they want to make next?

"... I'm fine as long as it's a different game than this." Inada answered with a nod.

"What about you?" Takao asked Kouta.

Kouta chewed a mouthful of steak and swallowed it before he answered, "Well… "I'm thinking about making a war game."

""War game?"" Inada and Takao's tone was partly confused with Kouta's answer.

"Yeah, especially in a war game setting, the representation of World War II warships is personified as teenage girls and young adult women with personality characteristics reflecting the history of each ship." Kouta explained as much to them.

The game was about the player taking on the role of an admiral and organizing their fleet in battle in order to win. Even though Kouta has already seen AL gameplay… he focused more on following kancolle and combined it with another game to make it more engaging. Which player manually micromanages such actions as building, repairing, and resupplying. Most combat is largely automated, but the player can activate offensive and defensive skills with a formation consisting of 3 x 3 fleet formation.

"And this ship girl is a female moe anthropomorphic character based on warships from the war's major participants." Kouta needed a long explanation, even after he finished his steak. Not only that, but he drew what he imagined the game to be.

"Oh… this is quite interesting." Takao said with a smile, while Inada nodded enthusiastically.

"Yeah, and it's a different game than Floopy bird." Inada continued glancing at Kouta. "But, why all of the ship is girl?" She added.

Kouta rested his hand on his chin, his elbow on the table. He looked through the window for a moment, making an exaggerated long face, before he answered.

"What do you think was the reason for making the game?"

""Eh…"" Both of them were surprised by Kouta's sudden serious question.

"Well, because we like playing the game… that's why we learned to make it." Takao answered the question with such an earnest answer.

"Yea, that's true…" Inada nodded as she agreed with Takao.

"It might be true, I like playing games... But one of my main motivations for making games is to make money." Kouta honestly told them his biggest reason.

"Ah…" Inada clapped her hand as she understood it.

"That's…" Takao frowned, her mouth twitching, as if she didn't agree with Kouta.

"But... isn't that wrong?"

"Well, of course, making a good game is a must. And a good game will sell, but at the same time, I realized that this game's main target market would be guys, right? If that's the case, why not go all out."

"All out?"

"Yeah, let's make a lot of cute girls, and if the game is successful, we can sell skins and other stuff. Yeah, it may be fun to make you able to marry the ship girl, but you need some sort of gem to buy the ring in the game. Also, if it would be great, they can marry a specific ship girl. That ship girl would get extra damage or something." Kouta explained everything he knew from other worlds, how greedy monetization was in his previous world. He said with such an evil laugh on his face.

"That's… sounds bad. But I like it… Kouta-kun." Inada grabbed Kouta's hand with such sparkling eyes as she acknowledged Kouta's evil plan.

"But… but… but… that's wrong…"

"Well, Prez, it's not like we already finished making the game. I'm just talking about what if… Also, what do you think and how will we make this kind of game? " Kouta asked as in the end, he was just an amateur.

"Hm… It would be difficult. Especially the art…"

"Yeah… it needed a lot of illustration."

Takao and Inada exchanged glances for a moment, and the paper, which was full of Kouta's ideas, reached the same conclusion.

"Ugh… As I thought…" Kouta sighed deeply. It was the sigh of man bearing the weight of many troubles. "How about other considerations..." He asked another question to ensure the difficulty of making this game as an indie / student project.

"If it's just the three of us, it'll take a long time... Also, Kouta would be the one more focused on graphic design. So just the two of us will be really hard." Takao honestly answered his question.

"Which means… we need more members… No… Even without this problem. We need one member to make our club rebirth." Inada realized their club was still in jeopardy.

"Ah… Yes, we still need one more member...or we would become just a circle." Takao said, with feeling restless and anxious.

"If that happened… what happened to our CPU, Prez."

"Well, we need to be brought back to our home…"

Inada and Takao talked to each other while staring at each other with some sadness on their faces, before they both sighed heavily at the same time. ""Ha…""

"Yeah, maybe rather than make another game. We need to concentrate on finding our last member." Inada said.

"That's true…" Takao followed.

"Hm… why not just combine this GCC with another game club in this school called 'temp' game club creation'?" Kouta asks a question. He may already know the story about Takao and Roka, and it was just their clumsiness, as maybe they weren't honest with each other.

Since Roka felt guilty about what happened to the club and took all of the responsibility by just leaving the club. On the other hand, Takao wanted her to stay, as she felt it wasn't her fault, even in the anime after she got more members. She actually invited her to join the club again but failed since Roka already had a new club.

Inada's face shows, 'how you can say that in front of the Prez.'

On the other hand, Takao was surprised to hear Kouta's question and her face frowned in a second.

"That's…"

"I know it, Prez. It's not Shibasaki-senpai's fault and Prez also knows it, right? I'm not sure if Prez wants to respect her decision or if she has already formed a new club. but to be honest to us, Prez… what do you want? Do you want her to join back to the club or not?" Kouta asked Takao, who was trembling a bit after hearing her junior talking to her as he read her mind and feelings.

"That's…" Takao didn't respond to his question, as if something was holding her back. Kouta didn't know what in her mind was holding her back, but it feels like she just needed one push.

"Well, I think… We are know that Prez wants her back in this club." Kouta gave her answer.

"Eh…"

"I mean… Even though Prez is kind and smart, but she's easily lonely, it looked like… Prez, miss her friend…" Kouta said with a smile on his face.

Takao was overflowing with embarrassment, even her naturally pale face reddened, because she blushed with crimson. What shook her more than anything was his word that felt like reading her feelings and mind. Not only that, his face when he was talking to her was anything but genuine and made her heart throb.

"But, in the end, it's up to you, Prez? Do you want her to join back to club or not?"

"That's…" Takao said something before she stopped for a moment, she bit her lip for a second and her face was reddened, before she finally answered.

"Yes, I want her back to the club." She let her true feelings be known to her junior, who smiled at her with a warm smile.