"Will you sign with me and become an idol? "
"Yes?"
Whether I was embarrassed by my questions, I drew a glancing smile on her face with her eyes wide open. Did you cut it too far in front of and behind?
But her voice had the power to capture people.
If it wasn't for me, she'd have a proposal from management one day.
"Look... I have to finish the concert today."
"Oh, excuse me. We'll wait until the show is over. "
I lowered my head slightly and apologized to her, then decided to stay a little distance and watch her perform.
Leaning against the small chair, she chokes with a warm car in a warmer bottle and starts singing in a different tone than before.
Every day that passes by is increasing.
We think each other's minds are always there.
You said it was okay if we didn't get together.
Pretend you're strong, but you're only sighing.
A jewel I've left in the passing seasons
It's an unfinished puzzle that's lost precious pieces...
Like white eyes watering the streets.
Fill this album with memories ~
Her image of the microphone rising up with her eyes closed, shining more beautifully under the streetlight.
Her ballad song for the coming winter seemed to warm us up like white snow.
After another song, people applauded and cheered for her. She then laughed at the crowd in a series of songs she had composed herself.
"Thank you. Thank you. Gentlemen."
With her charming voice, many people gathered around her one day.
Inside her guitar case was a sizable sum of money. Even with just one coin, the yen was worth a lot of money...
As I approached, she raised her waist and looked up at me, folding her folding chair in half.
Ugh... I can see you're very cute again, right?
"You're still... there? "
"It's not empty. I shouted too fast before, but let me formally introduce myself..."
"No, I just wanted to sing. I didn't mean to be a singer. "
She cut off my horse like a knife, and quickly tied the guitar case around the floor.
"No, it's..."
"I'm sorry!!! "
I couldn't help but stare at her as she ran away without looking back.
"What the...? "
What did I do wrong?
&
"Hmm? So you ran away? "
"Yes. I felt like I was becoming a very bad person..."
After dinner. Whether I took the coffee Yuki gave me, I wrapped it around a warm mug. She sat on the couch opposite me and glanced at me with ice cream on the lid of the cup.
"Could it have been too sudden and embarrassing? "
"Meow!"
"Ouch! We've been here all day!"
Yuki hugs a day between her legs and puts them on her knees.
Toxic, the one who never set his claws on her appeared to be in the perfect 'bread pose' on Yuki's thigh.
With a thin finger, you rub the tip of her nose with a flirty tail to make her feel better.
"Haha, tickling!"
I swallowed a cup of warm coffee and asked her.
"No matter how petty, it's dangerous for pregnant women, isn't it? "
"I asked the doctor, but nothing particularly bad. However, I was scolded because I laughed all day, no matter how much sex I dropped next to Joon-Hyuk during his business trip. "
One day, she closed her eyes on her knees and brought them to her mother.
Kyrgyzi, home to Yuki's main street, is famous for its abundance of cats.
The villagers regarded Gilan's existence as normal, so they sometimes fed him on the walls for them.
Yuki's mother also kept a bowl of cat food in the small courtyard. One day, she was wandering around the courtyard for a long time, wondering if a kitten had fallen from her mother.
The mother couldn't help but bring the wet kitten into the house because of the rain. She washed the child well and left it in the yard the next day when the sun was shining, but the mother of the kitten didn't show up.
At that time, Yuki at the church thought how beautiful the kitten looked white in his eyes.
Yuki came back to our house with her cat in her arms, or she was lonely in an empty house when she went to work on weekends.
That evening. When I got home from work, a white kitten looked up at me, tilting its head.
"Who are you…? "
"Oh, Joon-Hyuk. This is cat day. I went to my mom's today and brought her back. "
"Huh? Did your mother have a cat? "
"No, it's the way of the Kyrgyzie. I was wandering around the garden all by myself, wondering if my mother's cat had left..."
"Hmm... So you just brought him here without saying a word to me? "
"Can we... raise him? "
"No offense, but... hmm..."
For a moment, I bent my knee and faced the kitten in front of me. The hand of the man who was staring at me with a fat face flew towards me.
"Kuang!! "
Phew!!
"Tsk!! One day!!"
The guy who punched me in the face in the first place was a male, as expected.
After that, Yuki died of gum, but especially to me, it was a cat day.
Yuki, who had emptied all of the ice cream, asked me, putting an empty cup on the table.
"Then why are you looking for an indie band in Harajuku? "
"Well, I've got an interesting idea..."
"Are you planning another new game? "
Yuki asked, and I moved the mug to my mouth and smiled.
"No, the project I'm working on is not just about the game. "
Yuki tilted his head to answer me as if he knew, stroked the back of the day gently.
"Another patent for the Western Union sale!"
&
"Singer Audi... Sean? "
After presenting the new project, the staff gathered in the meeting room were looking at me with a frown. I put the laser pointer into the suit and nodded at Mr. Kawaguchi's question.
"Yes. About nine people were chosen as representatives for each region...? "
"Yes!? Nine? "
The conference room began to be engulfed in the announcement of the female idol group consisting of an unprecedented nine-person system.
"What the hell is Director Kang Jun-hyuk thinking? I can't feel it anymore..."
"I know. Why are we auditioning for a singer when we're not a management business? "
After catching a few stories in a loud conversation, I confidently replied with a smile on my mouth.
"Don't worry. Once you're done auditioning, you're ready to get into the game. "
"A game?"
The Kawaguchi representative sitting at the top of the conference room asked me if I didn't understand what I was saying.
"Of course. Our Pentagon is a game company. But this project..."
Before saying the following, the conference room staff looked at me with a frustrated look on their faces.
I leaned down slightly, placing my hands on the table, followed by a horse.
"We are going to try to create a game that is in the midst of reality and fiction. And I'm confident that one of these projects is going to bring tremendous reactions to gamers over the next decade. "
The Pentagon staff, including the Kawaguchi representative, looked at me with a foolish expression in my remarks.
By the way... when you make this game, what should you call the genre?
Virtual reality idol games?
No, no, no, there's got to be something more systematic and genre to pull it off.
After a while I thought about the genre of the game in my mind while employees were dazzled. I put a smile on my mouth, adding strength to my hands on the table.
Yeah. If we're going to put genres on this game, we should call it the Real Idol Fostering Project.
&
The next evening.
After work, I went back to Takeshita Toori in Harajuku to look for a singer-songwriter on the street I met last time.
Arriving near the place where I met her two days ago, I hurriedly walked to the sound of guitars coming from somewhere. But why does the guitar sound so weird?
I almost wanted to run around the corner where the bench was installed, but as soon as I heard the first verse of the song, I stopped walking.
'It's not her. '
Shit. We took a wrong turn. You're not coming out today...?
Where she used to sing, she was singing in the tearing voice of an indie band armed with fierce costumes.
"Kill Mount Fujii!! Attack Tokyo Tower!! "
What kind of song is that? Why did you kill Mount Fujii and the Tokyo Tower?
"Khoo!!!!!! "
"Yaaaahhhh!!!! "
I left the place immediately because I felt like I might be going crazy if I stayed here any longer. I looked around the street in case she was taken away to sing somewhere else.
But no matter how much I wandered around, I didn't see a singer-songwriter that sounded like her, and it ended up being a dark night.
Glug-ug-ug...
I was already hungry after a long dinner, so I stood on the side of the road for a moment and looked around.
"How far have you come? Maybe we should just go back and get something to eat? "
I recently called Yuki on an open cell phone and told her I was coming in for dinner.
"Oh... I've been shopping for something delicious..."
"I'm sorry. I'll just eat and go in here. "
"Okay, don't be too late. "
"Yeah, see you later. "
As I was walking along the street on the phone with Yuki, I saw a yellow sign at the end of the alley.
Kishimori ramen? '
Ramen houses that use their name in a neighborhood like this usually go above and beyond.
I quickly set the menu for hunger, nodding slightly and running to the end of the alley with a yellow sign.
Yuck.
The iron door is stuffed, but you hear a greeting from inside, shouting bingo into the smell of stuffed pig skeletons stimulating your nostrils.
"Welcome ~ ~"
The moment I hear the voice of a bad woman. I stopped walking into the store.
"Sir...? Are you uncomfortable?"
Suddenly, she approached me with a sudden burst of action, and she immediately met me in the eye. I grabbed the tray that was holding her in my chest.
"Oh, you didn't!? "
"Ah-ha-ha... don't get me wrong. I just came here because I was hungry. "
"Oh, you didn't!? "
"Ah-ha-ha... don't get me wrong. I just came here because I was hungry. "
"Welcome, sir. Hey, Kanna, what are you doing? If you have a guest, we need to get him back to his seat. "
Surprised by the voice of the big man dressed as a chef, she lowered her head slightly to guide me to my seat.
"You shouldn't be distracted when you're busy. "
"I'm sorry, Dad. "
Huff!! Dad!? The man standing in the kitchen resembling Goliath is her father?
However, as he said, the store was full of customers who were busy.
The steam from the hot broth leaking from the kitchen was filling up the store, so it felt like it had entered the veil.
After a while, I opened the menu for hunger, thanking her for bringing cold water with a towel.
"What would you like to do? Guest!"
Don Cotes (Pork Bone) Ramen and Professor in the voice of a cheerful chef. I also ordered a light drink called Highball.
Kanna, the waitress, and a small ramen house consisting of four people from the kitchen, entered their cooking as if they were putting coal in a running steam engine car.
The sound of oil splashing and people chattering...
It was the resting place of the workforce who ended the day.
"Don Coz Ramen and Highball are here for you! Please wait for the teacher. "
When I swallowed the Hurook noodles, I had a glacial smile on the taste of the brimming broth in my mouth.
"Wow, this ramen is really good. "
"Thank you! Is this your first time at our shop? "
"Yes, I live in Rockefront. I've lived in Japan for a long time, but Harajuku doesn't come here often..."
"Welcome. In fact, my shop is a pretty famous ramen house in Harajuku. "
"Oh, really? Somehow the ramen is very good. "
"Sir, where are you going today? Are you familiar with the program" Onaka Swata "? "
Umm? If it's the Onaka-Shita Award, then it's Yuki's late night food drama.
"Ah… yes. I know, right? "
"Hahaha! That's right. Actually, my shop was introduced there in five. Since then, more and more people have come to visit us. It's not a storefront at the station, but it's a great day for visitors to this secluded street ramen house. "
Somehow I felt like I looked familiar inside...
I slowly swallowed a highball with cool ice and looked around the store, and there was a photo of the main character and the host hanging around the store.
Then I looked at a picture that was hanging in the corner and I burst into laughter. Then the host tilted his head and asked me.
"Do you know him? "
"Is this the woman in the picture... the drama writer? "
"Huh? That's right. How can a guest do that? "
Kanna opens her mouth after completing the calculations at the counter.
"He's a broadcaster. "
"Huff!! Are you sure?"
"Yes…? No, I..."
Ugh... What's wrong with this story?
&
In the end, thanks to the service and the addition of Karaoke (fried chicken) to the teacher, I was bloated and ordered another glass of highball after my meal.
"Did you get your meal right? "
"Oh, yes. It was really delicious. "
"Haha! I can't believe you're Yuki's husband. What brings you to Harajuku? Is there something else you want to cover? "
"Actually, I'm here to see some musicians performing on Takeshita Street. "
"Oh, you mean the indie band or something. Phew! I wouldn't have much to say about that. It's killing me these days. At the beginning of the evening, I would sing a song that didn't sound like much music, and I would squawk and squawk and squawk, and at first it would be tolerable, and then the fortress would seem to be way out of line. I don't know where to sing such a harsh song in Tokyo Tower. Those are the disgrace of our Harajuku. "
Don't you know your daughter is singing on the street? '
I turned my head slightly and looked at Kanna, and I was somewhat convinced of the look on her face.
I swallowed a sip of the extra highball and told the host.
"Actually, I'm not with the station. "
"Oh, really? Did Yuki tell you about this place? "
"No, it's just a coincidence that I'm here. I was just looking for someone, and I came in hungry. "
With a slight look back at Kanna, emphasizing who the word is, she starts to wipe the table with a red face.
"Huh! Did you find him? "
"Yes. Luckily, I found it overlapping. "
"That's great. "
In the host's reply, I left the highball smiling and got up from my seat.
"Here's the math. Mr. Kanna."
"Oh, yes. "
While cleaning the table, she hurriedly ran to my call and stood in front of the register. Luckily, the register was a bit far from the kitchen, so I opened my wallet and took out the card that I didn't give you yesterday at the same time.
"I'm Kang Jun-hyuk from the Pentagon. "
"Is it a... is it a company? "
Don't you know our company?
But it's a company that knows a lot about the game, and I asked her again just in case.
"Raon is a company that built a portable gaming device. Don't you know it? "
"Oh, I've seen my friends do it before, but I don't like games..."
Well, maybe it's not an advanced time for Internet news, and if you don't like games very much, you don't know.
I said, holding the business card with the money in her little hand.
"There is a game that we are planning this time, and we really need Kanna's voice to play it. Please think carefully and contact us. "
Then he glanced back at the host and added a word.
"I can give you absolute secrecy. Don't worry."
"Ah…"
&
"Oh really!? The place where you had dinner tonight was Kishimori Ramen? "
"I know. I was surprised to hear from the owner. "
"I was going to tell you to go to Harajuku, but it worked? "
Yuki, smiling in the bathroom, sat in his arms for a day, added by clicking his nose to see if he remembered the taste of kimori ramen. I opened the magazine with a bloody smile on her reaction.
"Oh, I want some kimori doncots ramen, too!"
"And the teacher was delicious, too. "
"Huff!! Teacher! I want to eat Teacher too!"
"And karaoke..."
"Ahhh!! I hate it!! I can't wait! "
"Haha! Sorry. "
"By the way, Jun-hyuk was looking for Kanna in Kishimori Ramen. Funny coincidence. Last year I saw her, she was in high school, and she was so beautiful. "
"I see. Kanna was good..."
"· · · · · · What did you just say? "
"What did I just say? "
Phew!! Phew!!
The type of transmission that jumps over the speed of sound by bouncing off one of the cushions in the blink of an eye with the elbow. Yuki, the breastplate of a cushion pillow, has been hanging over me since she dropped her predator on the floor.
Is this why people say not to think about anything else during conversations?
&
December 23, 1994.
Almost a month has passed since I met Kanna and handed her my business card, but I still haven't heard from her.
It even has a company phone number and mobile number, but if you still haven't heard from him, isn't the singer thinking?
I wanted to go to Kishimori Ramen's house again, but I decided to just hold back, which seemed to burden her for some reason.
When the public auditions were announced through Pammy Communications and popular gaming magazines for a new project, it seemed like it would take some time for many candidates to audition.
'Let's not rush into it. If she wanted to, she'd come to me on her own. '
I took a deep breath to explore the streets of Akiba in order to suppress a nervous mind.
Recently, Japan's game market is truly the abomination of chaos.
The console market was fragmented with Sensoni's 'Gear Station', launched in early December, as users were reluctant to hesitate about which devices were better between the Gear Station and the NEGA Saturn.
The first gear station in the gaming industry was armed with extremely strong performance, but there were some anxiety factors.
How much will Sensoni, the giant oyster, invest in the game market to win the game?
Even in the early '90s, when superfamilies and NEGA drives were booming, there was a new console company, but the third party didn't get it and so many companies collapsed like the wind, so Sensoni could not ignore the possibility of early glittering and collapsing businesses.
Is that why rabbits are king in a cave without tigers?
Without further information on Mintendo's project 64, the console market was strangely transforming into the competition between emerging companies Sensoni and the Second Factor NEGA.
Of course, I was confident that no matter how brilliant the Sensoni's gear station was, I would be able to surpass it as a NEGA.
Despite its outstanding specifications, it has been a strong support for Real Fighter's Suzuki Ryu and Sonic's Taka retention along with the know-how that has been making the game.
But a surprise ambush appeared in front of a self-confident NEGA...
It was the NANCO that abandoned Mintendo and stuck him into the Sensoni Faction.
Prior to Mintendo's project 64, the NEGA's plan was to seize this opportunity to take out third parties belonging to Mintendo.
NANCO, who had considerable awareness for its users, suddenly launched a 3D fighting game called "Rage Driver" and "Iron Fist" on the day of the release of the gear station.
Otherwise, the 'Iron Fist', which was often compared to the 'Real Fighter' at the arcade center, was launched into the gear station recently, and users came rushing towards the gear station without any need for you.
The main body price set at 34,800 yen was 10,000 yen cheaper than the competitor Saturn, so users unhesitantly raised their hands at a better performance than Saturn and a cheaper gear station.
Thanks to Saturn's uneasy beginnings with magazine criticism and censorship.
In a market structure like that hell, our Pentagon was slowly walking its own path. And as a demonstration of the results, the Pentagon's Premium Shop was crowded with users from the early evening.
"Here you go, folks. If you stay in line, I'll give you blankets in order!! "
Along with Miyazaki's cry, a number of employees began handing out blankets with illustrations of "God's Gift."
500 blankets specially made for today, but...
'I don't think we have enough room for this...' '
Tomorrow is December 24, 1994.
Graphic Noble with Classic is the official issue date of the genre "Gift of God".
Pentagon Soft Director. Kang Jun-hyuk.
A director is a pretty high position within the company, isn't he?
As I lay in bed and looked at one of the business cards on my fingertips for a long time, I sighed and put my business card on my desk.
Then he looks at the hidden mother's guitar case above the wardrobe and mutters to himself.
"Mom, what should I do...? "
&
The next morning.
The train to school for class is always crowded.
I can hardly breathe on a difficult subway train between the worker and the students who go to school, but everyone is holding something in their hands.
Older adults still hold small books in their hands, but as soon as they got on the train as they had promised, they took out a white game machine.
Since the launch of the portable gamble boy in Mintendo, there have been a few players playing on the subway, but the number has been increasing explosively since that white game machine appeared.
Moreover, even the children who gathered on campus during the holidays and read books have recently plugged cables into each other's game machines and enjoyed something together.
Raon...
All I knew was the name of the game machine.
Shortly after the train stopped at the station where the school was, I took a deep breath, barely out of the crowd.
"Kanna!"
When I came down the subway station stairs, Mayumi, who was from the same high school, waved her hands at me.
And next to him, her boyfriend, Nakamura, was still engaged in the game with his earphones on.
Mayumi and I were close friends who were not in school, but were in the same university and had maintained a good relationship since freshman year of high school.
"Mayumi, Nakamura. Good morning!"
But Nakamura wasn't listening to me, he was beating the game hard.
Eventually, Nakamura, who was beaten by Mayumi, pulled out his earphones screaming.
"Ahhhhh!! It was going well!! It was 128 combos..."
"You've been holding on to that game machine all morning. When someone greets you, you should know how to listen!! "
"I was going to say hello. I tried! "
Nakamura grunts and lowers the power of the game machine in his hand.
At that moment, I looked at Nakamura's game machine without even knowing it.
"Oh, that's Raon, right? "
When I asked, Nakamura and Mayumi opened their eyes wide and asked me again.
"Kanna, do you know Raon? "
"Yeah, well, it's famous. I see a lot on the subway these days..."
"That's the first time I've ever mentioned her by name. Everything is so strange in my life..."
Nakamura puts Raon in her bag and smiles. I asked again for those Nakamura soldiers.
"Nakamura likes games, don't you? "
"Of course. Of course."
"What's your favorite game? "
"Well... I'm not much of a genre guy, but I'm mostly RPG. And the Pentagon? "
"Pentagon Games?? Is there such a genre? "
Then Nakamura slightly raised his mouth and answered my question in detail.
"Pentagon games are not genres, they're literally games created by a game company called the Pentagon. Even you don't know how to play the game, Final Frontier. You've heard of dragon emblems, right? They're all made in the Pentagon. It's a company called the Masterpiece Manufacturer, and it's enormous. The loneliness, the news, the lack of me..."
At that time, Mayumi, who was listening to Nakamura's story, flicked her fingers and opened her mouth.
"Ahhh!! Street without me!! I know that game. "
Even Mayumi, who was not interested in the game as much as I am, showed quite an interest in 'the streets where I am not.'
"Huh? Have you played that game, too? "
"No. When the game came out, I went down to the living room for a drink of water at dawn, and I heard the sound of tears in my brother's room. So I opened the door a little bit to see what was going on, and it was a gamepad? She was crying her head off. "
He nodded and agreed that Nakamura would agree.
"I understand. So did I. The streets without me were the best game of my life. "
"Hiya!! Otaku!!"
At that moment, I smiled at Mayumi, picking up Nakamura.
"It was a game that was really determined and intended to resonate, and it was popular with the public. Especially since part two won't be able to withstand that kind of mental strength. "
"Is that really it? "
"I'll lend it to you. Do you want to try it? "
"No, my brother is still keeping it as if it were just a tribute, so he can try whenever he wants. "
With Nakamura and Mayumi's reaction, I lowered my head slightly and thought.
'The Pentagon Soft is a very popular place. Then why did he ask me to become an idol in such a place? '
A person named Kang Jun-hyuk.
You don't look so bad, and besides, if you're Yuki's husband, you seem like a trustworthy man.
That afternoon.
By the end of the first lecture, when I arrived at the student restaurant, many students were already filling the restaurant.
I was trying to figure out where to sit, but I heard a voice calling out to me from one side.
"Kanna! Over here!! "
"Oh, Mayumi. "
She was having dinner with Nakamura. She pulled out the chair and recommended it to me.
After finishing eating, Nakamura was sitting at a table, eavesdropping on Raon.
"Here we go again. Here we go again."
Mayumi looked at him pitifully, swallowing a hand-wrapped lunch box.
After a while, Nakamura, who was beating hard at the game to see if he knew that. Screaming, you get down on the table.
"Ugh... kneeling in 187 combos with the damn notice in front of you. "
As I was curious about Nakamura, who was so unfair, I tilted my head and asked him.
"What kind of game are you playing this morning? "
"Well, I don't know, rhythm games? "
"Rhythm game? "
"This is the new Pentagon game I told you about this morning, and you can't break up with it if you really try it? "
"Is that it? "
Then Nakamura reached out to me and said.
"If you're so curious, why don't you play for yourself? "
"Can I... try? "
"Of course. Here, let me show you. "
After taking a seat next to me, Nakamura told me that it was a relatively easy song. The first time I held Raon, I felt a soft, curling hand.
"You're lighter than I thought. "
"Right? Now, if you press the A button here, and you choose to play demo..."
I nodded and plugged my earphones, as the Nakamura told me, due to a simpler maneuver than I thought.
'You said you pressed the button to adjust the rhythm bar coming down the screen to the timing notes at the bottom...? '
After a while, I look at the red rhythm bar slowly coming down from the top, and I press the button, and the sound of a clear, clear piano rings in my ears. In line with the rhythm, a girl's back was briefly touched like a scene from a movie.
"Ah…"
With a small elasticity and then pressing another button to the rhythm bar, one piano music based on the base music began playing in my ears.
"You're pretty good for the first time. "
Concentrated on the music, the sound of Nakamura's voice coming from next to him, I continued the music, beating down the rhythm bar well.
As my fingers moved as if dancing, I heard the elasticity of the Nakamura army over the earphones.
But it seemed good.
I wanted to see the girl on the screen right now.
However, if the timing was off, she would have to maintain the Compact Combo with precision timing, like a machine, in order to get back to the previous scene and see the Hiro's appearance perfectly.
I tried to move my finger hard, but as the music flowed to the middle, a number of rhythm bars poured down at a rapid rate and it wasn't hard to keep up with the timing.
"A little more power, Kanna!! "
Mayumi cheered for me one day, but in the end, my play collapsed in 65 combos.
Once the timing started to deviate, a bar graph called the recall gauge quickly fell down and announced the end of the game.
"Wow… but 65 combos for the first time, that's amazing! "
Taking out the earphones, the Nakamura army handed over Raon with a satisfactory smile.
"Is this really the first time you've done it? "
"Yes, but something was fresh. I thought the only game I ever knew was how to beat an enemy like Super Maridge, but... is this something special? "
"Right? That's why I love the Pentagon. Every time a new game is released, it feels very refined!"
I only played it once, but I thought I could understand the way Nakamura praises me like that.
"How was Kanna's fun? "
When Mayumi asked me, I thought about it for a moment and gave an honest impression.
"Something... sad. "
"Ugh? Sad? "
"Yeah, well, you know, the whole time I was playing the song, it just felt like I was trying to picture someone. I feel like I'm playing the piano soloist..."
"Bingo! That's very accurate. In fact, I get a lot of appreciation for the kindness of PC communication communities. "
Nakamura later explained that the game titled "Gift of God" will be released on the full version of December 24 next month.
What I played was a play demo version of 4 songs that I could play in this play, and the trial game told me that players could see her face other than the back of the hero painted on the pamphlet.
The characters that Nakamura Army had cleared to full combo status were Yukinozo Kaori, the lively blonde-haired character, and Otani Haruka, the cute looking challenger.
Once you've cleared all the rhythm bars with Fulcombo, you can always see the face of the Hiro.
?
"Now I'm only playing 62 hours of demo time to see the other two faces... Especially 'Satsuki Noriko', the main character's lesson teacher, has not yet been cleared by me..."
"Huff-puff! Is that it? "
Mayumi asked you to give her the Satsuki Noriko theme, known as the highest difficulty level, if she was curious about the Nakamura Military's description.
And I realized how reckless the challenge was by giving orders to the rhythm bar that was pouring down with the aggressive introduction.
"Now do you understand why I'm tapping buttons with you every day? "
"So you've been hitting this thing with Raon since you were in school? "
When Mayumi asked, Nakamura nodded as if it were natural.
I looked at Raon on the table for a moment and asked Nakamura.
"This game machine called Raon. How much can you live for? "
"Kanna, are you trying to buy this? "
"Yes. And a game called God's Gift, if possible..."
In my answer, Nakamura opens his mouth with a big smile.
"Hahahaha! Good. Kanna, come with me to the Holy Land on December 24!! "
"Sanctuary...? Where is it?"
"Where am I? If I was a shrine for Otaku, would I be outside Akihabara?!! "
"Hey, Nakamura...? "
"Huh?"
"What day is it today? "
"That's the day God's presents come out. "
Phew!!
Hmm... Honestly, I think Nakamura was a little too much this time.
Mayumi swung her bag full swing at Nakamura and shouted from the street, "Are you still angry?"
"Die!! Huh!? I'd rather die out there!! "
"Ouch!! Arrggg! Stop, it hurts!! "
The Nakamura army is struggling to stay out of the line despite all that commotion.
I looked at Mayumi and Nakamura's couple for a moment and apologized to Mayumi.
"I'm sorry, Mayumi. I shouldn't have..."
"No. Kanna, you have nothing to apologize for. This human would be here today if it wasn't for you. "
"Hmph!! Of course!!"
"Seeing that mouth still alive, you haven't been beaten up enough!? "
" · · · · · ·. "
"I'm the only girl on Christmas Eve who comes with me to buy a boyfriend game..."
Yes, today is Christmas Eve, as Mayumi said, called Lovers' Day.
Normally on these days, it was a game release day for lovers like Dorado to eat KFC chicken together, to go to a nice cafe, or to watch a movie, but for Nakamura, who loves games, today was the day of the game that has been waiting for the past year.
"How long do we have to wait, anyway? Anyway, after the game, we decided to go shopping together in Shibuya this afternoon. "
But given the endless parade of standby, I don't know if Mayumi's plan will work...
I came here in a hurry like Nakamura said, but I can't believe people are coming all this way to buy a game.
The day a new game is released in Pentagon Soft, his words began to come true, which he said were the festival of gamers.
"Hey... I think we're close to at least a thousand people. "
"I heard more than 500 people have waited since last night. They must have handed over the cloth already. "
Turning to the conversations of the gamers coming from the front, there was already a long procession after us. Oh, my God. Is this the kind of game that can get people together like this?
For ordinary people like me and Mayumi, this situation was completely understandable.
"Nakamura. Is this a game called God's Gift that only comes out today and never sells again?" How did so many people get together the day of the launch? "
"Of course I want to play the game sooner than anyone else. And if I miss a chance, I have to wait for the cartridge to regenerate. Well, you can download it cheaply through a handset, but whatever the game is, it's best to have it as a cartridge. Given the circumstances, the cartridge from the first copy usually runs out in a day or two. As I said before, the Pentagon has only released one million copies of its games on Valentine's Day. But he also gave us 530,000 Harp Millions. "
"Ouch!! Don't tell me it's a school game!? "
I asked her with a curious voice in Mayumi's reaction to the words Valentine's Day.
"Mayumi seems to know the game. Is that fun, too? "
"Fun!? I thought he was passing out watching the game he bought. Don't buy the Apostle Raon game today either. "
Then Nakamura said, smiling in relief at Mayumi's words.
"I want to do it anyway, but I can't do it because it's a different kind of machine. "
"Hmm? Valentine's Day isn't a Pentagon game? "
"No. It was built in the Pentagon, but it was launched as a super family in Mintendo. It was just before Raon was released... so it was a tragedy that cartridges were produced only for a year after they were released. "
530,000 games in a year.
At that time, the eyes of the waitresses gathered around us began to slowly turn towards us.
Nakamura also lowers his voice to see if he's conscious of his surroundings.
"This... seems to be secretly hated? "
"Why? What did we do wrong? "
When Mayumi was unhappy with people's reactions, Nakamura put her finger on her mouth and said in a low voice.
"It's because of you and Kanna. "
"Huh? Because of us? "
"Quietly look around. "
With Nakamura's words slowly turning his head and looking around, there are only men around. Of course, I saw a female user in the middle of the queue, but it didn't look like she was with her boyfriend.
At that moment, I heard a voice of fretting looking at us.
"That guy. You're acting like you know something about two women who don't know anything. "
"Yeah, well, with the Pentagon's history, we'd know better. I don't know where you come from pretending to be a watermelon..."
Nakamura also smiled at me and Mayumi, saying that he heard their conversation.
"Did I come to buy a game and pretend to be too smart? This is what happens when you bring your girlfriend to buy a game. Actually, that's what I used to do. I came alone to buy a game, but when I had a nice couple standing in front of me, my insides were twisted..."
A little later. 10: 30 a.m. The front door of the Pentagon Premium Shop opened, and the employees dressed in white uniforms stood in front of the store as if they were a department store guide.
And between them, a man, who looked like he was in his mid-30s, climbed onto a little platform and grabbed the ready microphone.
Are you with the Pentagon Soft headquarters? I didn't see Kang Joon-Hyuk before... '
"Greetings and thank you very much for coming today to purchase the 'Gift of God' from our Pentagon. I'm Kawaguchi Hironobu, the CEO of Pentagon Soft. As I mentioned earlier today, I was going to hold a fan signing ceremony for the Dragon Emblem Series and Kang Jun-hyuk, the main director of the street that I am not in, but I was unable to attend today for any reason. "
"Eeh!? "
"Oh, I brought all the stuff I was collecting for the autograph..."
"What's going on? Is there anything more important to the director than an appointment with the user? "
Then, after waiting all night from last night, some users who were wearing blankets from the Pentagon cried out.
"Huh? He was with us until dawn. "
"I know. I said thank you in person for the coffee. What's the matter? "
The Kawaguchi Representative was also making an embarrassing face to the voice coming in from the queue.
"I'm sorry. Director Kang Jun-hyuk was there until dawn to keep his promise to you, but he suddenly went to the hospital after hearing about the birth of his wife around 5am. We appreciate your patience. "
The people who were waiting slowly nodded and opened their mouths to see how much they could understand what the Kawaguchi representative had said.
"You can't do that with your wife's birth. "
"Yes. To be honest, I was moved to be here until dawn with Manzak's wife. "
"Oh, I want that blanket, too. Should I have come at dawn...? "
The day of release of the game titled 'Gift of God'. A child truly called a gift from God... I closed my eyes for a moment and prayed for Yuki's safe birth.
&
God's gifts began to get really explosive at the same time as they were released. The place where we are standing is about two-thirds of the way in the queue, but the line drops quickly thanks to the cashier spread out over several places.
As soon as I got the game, I often noticed someone who smiled and hurried back home, opening it immediately and putting the cartridge in Raon.
But most notably...
"Nakamura, why is the box so big for the game he bought? "
I was also curious about the car and Mayumi asked Nakamura military first.
Isn't there one kind of game called God's Gift? Occasionally, some people saw people taking large packages from the register, and some bought four boxes.
"Oh, that's a... limited edition package. "
"Limited Edition?"
"Yes. A custom product that can only be purchased by people who have pre-paid. "
In Nakamura's answer, I tilted my head and asked him.
"You're not playing anything else, are you? "
"Of course. Everything else except the game script. The limited edition of this god's gift consists of just 500 first-come, first-served orders for each hero. That'll be 2,000. "
"Wow... 2,000!? "
"2,000 of them, not all of them will be sold here, but they will be distributed to Pentagon shops across the country. But if I had bought all four versions of him, I would have broken the money. That's 14,800 yen a box. "
Taking Nakamura's silent expression, I and Mayumi were appalled.
"Th.. 14,800 yen!? What the hell's in there? "
Then, the serious and solemn Nakamura family informed the components of the limited-edition package precisely like a machine without missing a grain of grain.
"1 cartridge with game base. 11 musical notes of an alcoholic piano song in the gift of God. And one copy of each heroine's Star Conti Illustration Book in a 68-page game. Chapter 1 BGM OST. One original version of the OST playing the piano. And Orgol with each hero's theme song. And…"
"And…? "
"Heroin figures on the most important 1/8 scale. "
"If it's a figure... you mean the character doll? "
In Mayumi's question, Nakamura nods slowly and mutters in a pathetic manner.
"Phew... That's why I pay double for 5,480 yen!?
Crazy. Crazy... really. "
"Really? But the gamers liked to think it was very cheap when the price was first published. "
"Close to 15,000 is cheap? "
"Yes. I heard that an eight-scale figure maker personally vetted a figure craftsman called Uchimura. He's already called God's Hand in the figure industry. It's worth a lot of money just because he makes his own figures. "
The Nakamura soldier walks out loud in front of the queue when people leave. Mayumi opened her mouth following Nakamura's lead.
"Isn't it just sales details? "
"It's detailed in general terms, but it's a blessing for us. "
At that moment, Mayumi's eyes glowed with Nakamura's answer. Then he grabs Nakamura's shoulder and asks.
"Did we just...? "
"Huh…? "
"Answer me straight. You booked that limited edition, too!? "
"Well, you know... Hahaha!"
&
"Thank you, sir. Have fun playing. "
A few moments later, Nakamura comes out of the Pentagon shop, smiling with a big box in his arms.
Even though Mayumi ripped his head off and made a mess of it, at least at this moment, did he look happy?
I also bought a Raon body and a gift cartridge from God.
"Kanna, would you like to join us for lunch? "
Mayumi asked me, covering Nakamura's hair between her fingers and blowing it out. Nakamura said with a loving look, I wanted to come with you, but I didn't want to interrupt their dating anymore.
"Mmm-hmm. No. I have to perform in Harajuku tonight, so I have to practice early. "
"Okay. Okay. Have a good vacation, and contact me often!"
Then Nakamura said to me, looking into Mayumi's eyes.
"Call me if you have any questions about Raon. You know my home phone number? "
"Yes, thank you. Nakamura."
After saying goodbye to the two of you, walking up the subway stairs with a rifle, I stood in the platform to get off the train and looked at the Raon box in my shopping bag.
Did he live well? '
I was born and bought it for the first time. I'm not so confident about this because I'm weak on electronics, but I've heard enough from the Nakamura military before I bought it, so it should be okay...
I smiled gladly at God's gift package, which I saw in my shopping bag.
'That day's piano... This is the end of it. '
But at this point I really didn't know.
I never thought my life would be completely changed with a portable gaming machine and a cartridge called God's Gift…
Whether it was taken out of the shopping bag or back home with no one, the 'God's Gift' had very small components.
When the seals of the sealing package were removed and the paper box opened and opened, a manual and game cartridge were placed in the inner plastic case.
I looked through the thick manuals before playing the game and saw that I had a great story line that clearly exceeded the framework of the existing game that I had known so far, even Prologue alone. Is this the moment when the graphic novel genre is real?
After turning over the page introduced by four heroes, a simple manipulation of the game was written. And on the last page of the manual there was a score for the main theme song.
I put two batteries in Raon's body and turned on the power switch, just as the Nakamura told me.
Later, in the middle of the screen, a cute phrase called RAON popped up and the initial setup page popped up.
When I moved the crosshairs to match the date and time, and then entered the ID and password to be used on the handset where the game could be downloaded, I noticed the main screen.
-Put your game cartridge in a slot. -
By inserting the game cartridge according to the text shown at the top and pressing the Select button, I remembered a message window before the manufacturer's logo appeared.
-Information of earphones is recommended over internal speakers for clearer listening to God's gift music. If you want stereo sound, keep your earphones plugged in and press the YES button. -
I removed the earphones I used for the Walkman from the desk drawer, plugged the earphone jack into the bottom of the Raon and pressed the OK button.
After a while, a screen titled "Gift of God" appeared along with a beautiful piano tune.
The windswept curtain and the grand piano next to it gave a very poor feeling to the one looking at it.
When I was watching the title screen while listening to the main theme song of God's gift, 'Love Letter,' I felt like my breasts were eating for no reason.
-NEW GAME-
-PRACTICE MODE-
-OPTION-
From the three menus, I placed my cursor at the top of the new game and pressed OK.
With a fade out, the title screen slowly darkened and the game started with a spotlight on in the middle of the screen.
At a piano show in Concul, it began by slowly stepping onto the stage and placing your hands lightly on the piano keyboard.
-Elohim Essaim, Elohim Essaim... all will be done as I wish. -
Then I started playing the piano with the rhythm bar coming down from the top at the next part of the bottle.
The first song of God's gift is Chopin's Knockton op.9 No. 1...
Is this what it feels like to hit a piano by yourself in the moonlight shining through a window frame?
This song, which has a very emotional feeling, was one of the famous songs that comes to mind when it was shortened with an assessment that the tone was too beautiful.
I never thought I'd see classical music through a game...
Soon, I began to hit all the rhythm bars at the right time, focusing on the increasing tune of the piano.
Since the song lasted about 6 minutes and 30 seconds and required a high concentration, I could feel my fingers hardening as the combo reached 180.
Chopin's piano song had a lot of cuts in the middle, which was very similar to his personality of shutting down words because he couldn't tell his lover what he wanted to say.
A little more... a little more...
I was obsessed with the protagonist's liquor and moved my finger. I got a S rank by completing the protagonist's first song as a full combo.
Is it because I usually like classics and like to play guitar? My fingertips were a little bumpy, but I can't tell you how impressive it was to play the piano.
Even though Chopin's emotions were transferred to a small cartridge like this, I did not feel sorry for the amount of money I bought this game.
And after a while. The true story of God's gift begins with a powerful applause from the audience.
I imagined for a moment that it would be as much fun and happy as Chopin's beautiful piano tune, but my hunch was shattered along with the protagonist's accident scene in the game.
The sound of sirens from the ambulance coming over the earphones and a woman screaming for help.
A woman's voice is heard in the flashlight rushing by the emergency room.
"Please... God. Please don't take him away like this. "
Her humbling voice was repeated faintly so that she could not tell which of the four heroes belonged.
At some point. I heard someone's voice in her desperate wish.
Whether the voice was God's response... or the Devil's twist was the only part you had to clear.
&
A year before the accident came around, there were four heroes, of which I liked the vibrant violinist named Kaori.
She was like a sister who definitely brought her protagonist's tenacious personality despite her comradeship.
The protagonist had to think about who was the hero who had prayed for him within a year, but when he played the piano, he had to try not to miss her as much as possible in the part that played the piano.
Especially in the second chapter, her memories of working with Kaori were so dull that I thought Kaori might have saved the protagonist at the time of the accident.
"I wish she was the hero who saved the protagonist..."
Even if you lose your memory, the protagonist is trying hard to find the woman who prayed for you.
Her desperate wish to save the protagonist, even though she lost all memory of herself...
Seeing them together reminds me of Princess Fairytale Mermaid of Andersen.
And at the same time, I remembered the sad ending together.
'Eventually, the mermaid, who had never been loved by the prince, vanished into a bubble...'