Saaaa...
A moment later, I opened my eyes to the sound of the wind shaking the leaves of the lake. I woke up in a frenzied position because of Fondant's fishing stew underwater.
I'm back!! It's here!!! '
It must be quite a big one, given the sensation at the end of his hand.
"Khh!!! "
A fishing chair makes a ruckus, rolling back, but I quickly start winding the tightened fishing line as I tighten my legs.
"I think someone caught a tuna by the seashore. Why are you so strong about the fish in the lake?" '
Bang, bang, bang!!
You don't want to get caught by me. I can't believe you're going this far.
Ha. G. Manna's been here for two hours. If I catch you, I'll lose face!
Tsk!!
With a sinister hand, the creature that was lifted up in the air twists and sinks back into the lake.
"Oh... this is crazy."
"Daddy, did you miss the fish? "
I nodded with a red face in Seohyun's voice coming from behind.
"I don't think I'll be able to catch a single one until Grandpa gets here. "
"Hmm... I see. You're gonna hear this from your father-in-law again. "
Seohyun came next to me, who picked up the fishing line with a sigh, and he crouched.
"When are you going to catch the fish?" she asked. Grandpa's almost here. "
"Y-yeah? "
Oh my... this is bad. I shouted aloud that I would boil some Korean spicy soup, but I haven't caught one yet. Then Seohyun, looking at me with his hands on his chin, smiled and asked me.
"So what happened? "
"Hmm? What? "
"Daddy's Tokyo game show. You called Hayashi on the way to camping to talk to him. "
"Oh, right. That's right."
I put bread on an empty fishing hook and swung a fishing rod toward the golden gleaming shore of the lake.
After a while, when the stew rose above the surface with the sound of fondant, I sat Seolhyun on the floor with an iceberg smile.
"Let's see, where were we? "
"Even the PVP system!! "
"Oh, right. Our Seohyun has a good memory. "
Seohyun looked at me, sticking out his tongue with a playful look in my compliment.
"So what happened? "
"It was... it wasn't a riot. As soon as the Pentagon conference was over, people didn't look back and ran to Akihabara. "
"Wow... that must have been fun. "
"There was a conference scheduled for the NEGA after the Pentagon, and Negata, Saturn's public relations model, wasn't trying to catch any of the users leaving the venue. "
If I still think about what happened back then, I can get a bloody smile out of my head.
&
"You there!! You go, Saturn! "
"You should do more!! "
"What!? "
Negata Sansiro, who was shouting at the users like a tough concept, frowned at the response of the young user returning to him.
At the end of the Pentagon's conference, about a quarter of the spectators escaped and the venue was in complete chaos.
"What!? What's wrong with them? "
"The Pentagon is announcing the Dragon Emblem!! "
"What? When does it launch? "
"Today!! I'm buying first!! "
"Gee, wait. I'm coming with you!! "
I had some expectations, but after seeing the entire venue onstage, I was forced to get off the stage because I could see the number of spectators dropping rapidly.
&
"Hahaha. You're mean. If you do that, you're troubling other producers who have been waiting for the Tokyo game show until that day. "
"Yes, but the Tokyo game show isn't just for one day. There were some outsiders, but many visitors came back the next day. "
"I see..."
At that time, Yuki's voice came from a camp built near the lake.
"Seolhyun, can you help me?"
"Yeah. I'm on my way. Hey, Mom. I didn't catch any fish, Dad. What do we do? "
"It's okay. I'll bring all the fish to the lakefront next time Grandpa comes. "
" · · · · · ·. "
"You came over here to rest. "
"Hmm... I suppose..."
Yuki said I fixed a fishing rod and headed for the campsite.
"Dad, will you buy me a cell phone next week after the exam? "
"Mobile? What kind of mobile phone do you need for elementary school students? "
"I have almost all my classmates! You said you'd buy them for me the last time! And I'm already 10 years old!"
Seohyun, who was grabbing my arm all the way back to the camp, finally let me go after hearing Yuki yell.
"Did Seohyun ask you to buy him a cell phone again? "
"Blood, you heard what Dad promised you the last time. "
... so I went into the bedroom and got my back smashed. What kind of phone is that for a kid?
Yuki's eyes turned away from Yuki, who was slicing vegetables on the cutting board.
"La, where's the radio? Did you leave it in the car? "
Is that why you said that child education needs enough consultation with your spouse?
Of course, it's a mobile phone. It's a necessity that everyone has these days, but it wasn't easy to convince Yuki that it was bad for education.
After I had just bought a camper car to get back on the topic, I took out music or portable radio and hung it on the hood of my camper car.
Cheers!! Tsk!!
As we stand up the antenna and dial to adjust the frequency, a moment later a familiar song flows out of the radio.
Hey, what if...
If only I could give up everything.
Would it be a little easier to live with a smile?
My heart aches again.
Don't tell me anything else.
"Ah…"
Yuki, who was cutting vegetables, also stopped his hand at her song and looked at the radio.
At that time, Seolhyun, who was moving the ingredients to the plate next to Yuki, tilted his head and opened his mouth.
"Huh? Isn't this Kanna's song? But your voice is completely different...? "
"Tsubaki's voice... It's been a long time. Joon-Hyuk."
"I see..."
I sat on a table chair nearby with the radio hanging on my forehead, and I narrowed it down.
"It's been a long time, Tsubaki..."
Closing my eyes still reminds me of that day sometimes.
A clean hospital hallway that has been wiped clean enough by the sun. Leaning against the window, her smile staring at me...
We didn't say anything for a moment until the end of Tsubaki's song.
"I, uh, need to use the restroom..."
After Yuki couldn't help but cry, Seohyun tilted his head and asked me.
"Mom... I think I just cried. Are you crying, too? "
"No, I'm not crying. "
I tried so hard to steal tears with my fingertips because of Seohyun's voice.
- You've heard Sawano Tsubaki's "What if" song, which is 10 cycles since he died this year. This is the first song in the game, virtue idol, about a decade from now. If any of you are listening to the radio right now, and you're enjoying Virtual Idol at the time, I'm worried that you're secretly crying on your own right now. Time flies like this... 10 years... I used to love this game...
Have you ever played idol, Mr. Sakai? -
- Sure, who am I? The first celebrity to punk the broadcast and go all the way to Akiba to buy Dragon Warrior 3. -
- Oh, right. At that time, I heard that the owner of the agency was very upset. -
- Well, I almost got it right then. They didn't make it to their live feed because of the broadcast schedule, but 10 years ago, Virtual Idol was amazing. The year after her debut, she even performed in Tokyo in the fall. -
- I remember a month before the show, Mr. Tsubaki finally died, didn't he? -
- I didn't actually see it, but they said the show that day was a real sea of tears. especially Kanna, who succeeded her song on behalf of Tsubaki, fell exhausted after singing the last song, "What if?" -
I remember a lot of fans coming to her funeral...
As I listened to the radio broadcast talking to her in her memory, I swallowed an forced smile.
"It was truly enormous..."
Sawano Tsubaki. I still feel sad when I think of her name.
All five songs she left in the world, including "hug me" and "if." And one of the best rated songs was the song "What if" by Kanna.
Her death was one of the most unacceptable cases for gamers at the time.
The funeral was delayed by visitors from all over Japan to commemorate her and several suicidal prayers to follow her.
Five of them actually died.
Because of this, it's become a social issue, and the Pentagon is asking its users to refrain from making extreme choices and to hold press conferences.
It was right around the time I left the Pentagon when I finished the Tokyo Dome event at Idol.
After Tsubaki's funeral, I took some time off and officially resigned as director of Pentagon Soft.
Maurita and Hayashi and many others tried to stop me from making my decision, but I couldn't reverse it.
Over the next few years, Kamucci, president of Mintendo, tried desperately to bring me back in, but I shook my head every time.
Mintendo was having a very hard time in 2005.
Kamauchi tried to seduce me into becoming his own boss, but I didn't want to go back to Mintendo without Gunpei.
Summer of 1997, eight years from now.
After leaving Mintendo due to the failure of a virtual reality game machine called 'Virtual Boy', Gunpei soon died of illness.
Using the future I knew, I was able to avoid the car accident that drove him to his death, but I suppose there was always an infectious disease.
Then I heard Seohyun's voice who was listening to the radio with me.
"Huh!? Grandpa!!! "
"Oh my! How have you been, my granddaughter? "
When he got up on the table in his voice, he threw a bloody smile and said to me, with his hands full.
"You. You said you haven't caught one yet!"
"Fishing. It's harder than it looks. "
"In the meantime, gamers have been fishing well. Tsk, tsk..."
After a while, Yuki and her mother-in-law, who came with a bag full of hands, greeted me as soon as they saw me.
"What have you packed so much for? That should be enough for us. "
"It's much better than not having enough to eat when the employees of the company come over later in the evening. And you didn't catch any fish? "
"Haha... Have you heard? "
At that time, the father-in-law, who pulled out a fishing rod behind his back, opened his mouth with a laughing voice.
"I've been fishing with Joon-Hyuk for years, and I'm terribly incompetent. Kick-kick..."
"But whenever you want to go fishing, it's only Joon-Hyuk who hangs out with you. "
"Well, that's just it, but here we go, son-in-law! "
"Oh, yes. Sure."
"Grandpa, catch more fish!"
"Hello, Seohyun! I'll feed you fish for dinner!!" "
After a while, his father-in-law grabs the point a little distance from the campground and throws it toward the shore.
"Nice view, so secluded..."
I pulled the cigarette out of my pocket, and my father-in-law pulled out a pack of cigarettes toward me, but I refused.
"I'm done."
"Eeew ~ You. It's no more fun than last year. "
"Haha... Is that so? "
Sitting next to his father-in-law with an awkward smile, he asked me with a long smoke.
"So, how have you been? "
"Well, it's the same every day. I woke up in the morning, dropped him off at school, went home to do some housework, went to a secluded park in the afternoon, read a book..."
"... why? Why don't you go to the Old Town Housewives' Club? "
My father-in-law kicked his tongue and inhaled a cigarette deeply to make sure that my answer was not appropriate.
White cigarette smoke is dispersed in the air with clouds flowing in the wind over a clear lake.
After a while, the craftsman who rubbed his cigarette in a portable ashtray slashed his throat with a knife or bottled water, and he heard snowflakes from a distance.
"Grandpa!! Did you catch a lot of fish? "
"Queek! Will you rescue me as soon as I throw a fishing needle?" "
Seohyun ran into the rifle step and sat down next to me, wondering if he was bored by Yuki preparing food.
"If you get your clothes dirty, your mom will scold you again. "
I put Seohyun on a small chair with a fishing rod by the lake and sat on the grass instead.
"I talked to my dad about something. Grandpa?"
"Hmm? It's just grown-ups talking. "
"Hmmm ~ My dad told me about the Tokyo game show in 1995 on the way here, and it was so much fun!"
"Really? Well, your father was famous there. But the fact is, after the Tokyo game show, things are much more fun. "
"Yes? Why? What happened to you? "
Suddenly, I just smiled and looked at the two of them.
&
The second episode of Dragon Emblem sold one million copies within Japan within a month of its release. Million sellers have been on the market since the recession. The dragon emblem has brought great energy to the gaming market.
Users began to build their own commander characters and mercenaries until the front-line system opened.
And then a month later.
Arcade centers across Japan have seen PVP-specific devices that battle opponents with their own characters so far.
To check the reactions of the gamers, the Pentagon shop unloaded the device a day earlier than in other areas, and as soon as it was light that day, it phosphorylated users who were running with a portable Raon in their hands.
"Damn it!! No!!! "
It was a simple system that attempted an attack with just a button, but every turn it needed to be discreet, as it required a pretty profound strategy to deploy mercenaries in the commander's own line of work.
In addition, the number of cases increases indefinitely when the special ability of a Sword Fragment is added.
Ability to manipulate the goddess of destiny to bring about an unconditional preemptive turn.
Ability to maximize the Defense Strength of allies instead of delivering postponement.
Ability to seal one enemy character at the start of a battle.
Some users sometimes share the ability to disable the opponent's equipment with the ability of a sword that is close to deception.
Among them, the ability of the Sword Fragment that the user fears the most is the ability to steal equipment worn by the opponent when winning battles.
"No!!! Claymore, +6!!! "
Gosh... I can't ignore the user content consumption rate of +6 steel daggers a month.
Users who came to enjoy PVP were close to 2,000 people a day, but the device rotation was still very fast.
The PVP Battle of Dragon Emblem was not only a coin, but a special item called a front-line combat support form.
There was a 'battlefield contribution' in the PVP system that competed for power in one sector, which recorded how many battles the commander had participated in and how many victories he had won and was able to earn legendary items as a reward for his subsequent victories in that sector.
In total, the Pentagon prepared 16 battle zones, and the two forces fought endlessly to occupy more realms and items from each other.
Thus, a community of experts began to emerge about the second episode of Dragon Emblem naturally, and without a separate announcement from the Pentagon, fast users began to announce to the community what was going on at the front.
And the community was becoming a massive virtual nationalization created by dragon emblem users themselves.
There were detailed bulletin boards that allowed players to enter by authenticating their battlefield contributions, and in the case of higher boards, there was also room for the brains who predicted the game of war to gather and discuss the next sector to attack.
A truly fun online game is not about operators using their authority to control the world as they please…
All you have to do is keep the world intact in order for the player to learn how to live in it and realize the joy.
At least I knew of the early online games.
Dragging horses to the scenic waterfront and talking about Dorado amongst my close friends, there was definitely a fun game…
In this sense, the Dragon Emblem community was like a field of dialogue created by weary users themselves.
The chat rooms there didn't expect to disappear for 24 hours, and the information boards were filled with information about the pieces of the Sword and equipment that could be obtained by crafting new items each time, and each party's free board was filled with players chatting about everyday life.
I've been working with the users in that space for a while.
I don't know, but there must have been quite a few Pentagon employees hiding their identities and enjoying the community like me.
Interestingly, when calling other users in the community, they were given the title 'Sir', which would appear in the fantasy world as anyone other than 'Mr.' Anybody. 'Many people enjoyed playing real roles in the community by naming users' King of Mercenaries' who are currently taking the top contributions on the battlefield.
But the really amazing part about the second episode of Dragon Emblem...
&
"We haven't unified the continent yet. "
"Really!? "
"As far as I'm concerned, Isn't that right, Joon-Hyuk? "
"That's right. I heard a lot of force has been leaning toward Humans lately and that the Horsemen are still holding out for about two sectors. "
In my answer, Seohyun opened his mouth with a bored expression.
"Are you saying you've been playing the same game for 10 years? "
"Well, technically, it's not quite the same. I've done five upgrades in the last decade..."
Honestly, I thought it was going to be a long five years at first, but in version three, Hayashi is making a lot of improvements to the online system, so the game life has doubled...
But the coin returns from those decades were not to be ignored.
Even in the early days of the PVP system, it was a misunderstanding whether all the coins in Japan were flowing into the Pentagon...
"Heave-ho!! I got another one. "
... But you're telling Seohyun stories and luring him like a ghost...
I can't even tell if the stew is shaking at the surface or if the fish have caught it...
"Wow! This is huge!! "
You can't catch any more powerful fish in a bucket the size of an adult's forearm.
"Joon-Hyuk!!!! The Pentagon staff are almost here!! "
"Yes!! I'll be right there."
Suddenly, the sunset setting over the mountain flooded the lake red, the bright stars in the early evening sky without any light, and his father-in-law started throwing fish into the bucket and into the lake one by one.
"Grandpa, why are you throwing the fish you tried so hard to catch again? "
"We need to get the young ones back to the lake. Otherwise your grandmother would have packed so much food, she probably wouldn't even need fish. "
Seohyun nodded at his grandfather's words and put his hand in the bucket.
"Well, hello to you too!! "
"Seolhyun!! That's the one I just caught!! "
Boom.
With a loud noise the size of an adult's forearm, the father-in-law smiled blankly at the missing fish.
What does a game like the feeling of a user who has lost a +9 Dagger to an enemy?
"Ah-ha-ha! Goodbye!! "
Only Seohyun's voice waving his hand towards the fish that disappeared quickly resounded on the quiet shore of the lake.
&
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After a while, Kaori, the first bus to arrive at the campground, rushes towards me.
"Long time no see, Director!! "
"What took you so long? I saw you with Yuki in Shibuya last week. "
"Ugh. Old and new. "
"Hmph! Just your husband? "
"Yes? What did I say? "
Havashi came to the table with a load on his shoulders and swallowed a mouthful of laughter as he lowered his food on the ground.
"I told you to come empty-handed, why did you buy me this..."
Later, associates who were familiar with Kawaguchi representatives, including Maurita, Uchimura, Miyazaki, etc. were revealed.
"Wow, what a view! It would have been better if you had come during the day…"
"Welcome, everyone. You're hungry, right? We just finished eating, so let's get this party started. "
Yuki, wearing a pink apron, greeted the Pentagon employee, and Kaori and Miyazaki started wearing extra aprons as well.
Early in the evening, the campground quickly became crowded with Pentagon staff.
"Looks like you've come to play..."
While I was watching the employees with my hands at my waist, Hayashi came to me with a cigarette light on.
"Phew... how are you? "
"Well, that's just it. How's the fortress?"
"Thank you so much, Director. Dragon emblem online. As scheduled, when the continent is unified in the second episode, it will be released. "
"You must be busy..."
"So will you stop coming back and help us?" "
"Are you saying that again? "
"It's your first project, so you have to finish it. "
"Hmm. Finish... Huh? By the way, aren't Kanna's people here? "
"... look at this. I thought I'd tell you again. Kanna says he's running a little late. Because of the broadcast schedule..."
"Really? I hope it's not too late..."
"Oh, I see. I heard that song on the bus on the way over. "
"Oh... I heard that, too. "
"It's been a long time since I heard of it. Tsubaki-san's voice..."
"I see. "
"Director, were you at Tsubaki's last live performance? Do you remember the first greeting I said to you? "
"Yes, of course. "
At Hayashi's words, I suddenly remembered that day, and I saw a smile leaning against a nearby wooden fence.
"How are you feeling? "
"Well, strangely light. "
Tsubaki, who held two fists with a bright smile, felt more beautiful than ever.
An hour later, the first Tokyo Games Show was just two days away from closing.
Although Mintendo did not participate, the Tokyo Games Show was successful in establishing itself as a meaningful event for users and industry, as all content was concentrated on the game under the name "Game Show."
A total of 88 gaming booths were set up, but about half of them were amateur clubs of high school and university students, including some of the work I coached at the Japanese Institute of Electronics that was quite popular.
500 titles that had been prepared in small quantities without much expectation were sold out so quickly that they had to be booked separately...
Their game is called Queen of Hearts.
It reminded me of the Top of Fighters series created by SMK. It was actually a parody fighting game using beauty characters.
"Unh!! Cute!!"
"Is that... Hasegawa Miyuki in the street without me? "
The crowds who passed by her as if she was wielding a pink purse, a proprietary weapon, watched the playback video and blew up the barrel.
"Huh? Besides, they're Kaori from God's gift, right? "
She swings the violin's bow like a sword, and as she puts her distance between her opponents, she turns the violin on and shoots a note.
"Unh!! What is this, some kind of crazy character concept? Did the developer get mulberries..."
Moreover, not only the heroes who appeared in the Pentagon, but also the heroes who appeared in Fox Soft's 'Biceps Memorial' were struggling to survive the battle without opening their wallets.
"Is this for sale? "
On the first day of the game show, Suzuko nodded and replied to a user's question while looking at the monitor.
"Yes, but Queen of Hearts is a game made for Windows 95, do you have it? "
"Yes, there is!! How much?"
"Thank you for purchasing our graduate work title. Title amount is 2000 yen. "
"Ugh... so cheap. Give me two. "
"Sorry, we only sell one piece of graduate work per person. "
"Ah... one I was going to collect as a seal, unfortunately. "
Shortly after, the 250 titles that I was aiming to sell on the first day were sold in about 20 minutes, unexpected excitement brought students to the Pentagon booth to find me.
"Teacher. Que... Queen of Hearts!! Our Queen of Hearts!!! "
Just after the dragon emblem conference, I came down and stole the sweat with my handkerchief, and I opened my mouth to my disciples with an unconcerned voice.
"Is it sold out? "
"Yes? Oh, yes! It sold out less than 30 minutes ago. "
Among the games played by the amateur team at the Tokyo Games Show, there were also many shooters because they were easier to create than other genres.
If you set the trajectory of a certain shell depending on the enemy that appears, the rest of you will only need to set the movement of the protagonist gas. Perhaps it was not the easiest genre to create an entry in a short period of time.
However, Queen of Hart, a Japanese Institute of Electronics, has broken the framework of amateur work and launched a Feud Action Game.
Of course, it was not easy to create a fight game with students.
Even with low resolution dot graphics, the player needed reasonably good motion graphics, and it was a difficult task that required three to four frame rates per technology.
But there was more to it than that to make students feel uncomfortable...
"Sir, how do I set up an A.I. for an enemy character? "
Often when playing combat games, an enemy character that your computer deals with has a variety of reactions depending on your behavior.
As a simple example, if you compare it to the Street Fire series, will you block the hurricane you shot, will you avoid it, will you retaliate against it, or will you stand back...
One of these possibilities was that the A.I. was very difficult to adapt to the students' level in response to the unusual behavior of players who were approaching them in time.
In this era of development, however, using test play to build databases is an unimaginable time...
Anyway, I taught my students how to set up a simple AI that I often used in early game fights.
It was using timers and stamina gauges.
"A timer?"
The first time I heard my explanation, the students turned their heads to see if they didn't understand well.
In fact, the behavior pattern of the initial fighting game was adjusted by this timer, which determines which timing the character will play aggressively or take defensive variability.
As soon as you look back at all the fighting games, there will be very few characters running like crazy towards the player as soon as the battle begins. This is usually because developers have pre-set their defensive postures to keep their distance from the player for 10 seconds after the battle begins.
Before accumulating a database of play patterns during development, it was common for developers to change patterns based on their daily timer and remaining HP gauges…
Thanks to this, Queen of Hearts, created by professional academy students, had a decent form of fighting game even for a short time.
Not to mention a street without me and a gift from God. Last but not least, there were eight bonus characters in Fujisaki Shiori who appeared in the Brain Memorial, so Queen of Hart's popularity was probably already planned.
Of course, in addition to the Pentagon character, the character Fujisaki Siori of Fox Soft is engaged in a battle, and he's also suggesting that he may or may not have fallen for copyright.
First of all, Queen of Hart was an amateur work by students and the game development of professional institutes, and she did not throw up every day because she did not damage Fox Soft's image.
I complimented my disciples with a smiley smile when I heard that Fox Soft's officials also laughed and passed on, because it was a game for Windows only, not specifically aiming at either console.
&
The second day of the game show. Pm
The disciples' Queen of Hearts won the best amateur game award at the first Tokyo Games School.
I was delighted to see the students who were running around with trophies in their hands, but I was only able to return to the Pentagon after a group photo shoot with my students in a professional institute booth.
"Phew... I'm so busy..."
Tsubaki, dressed in a gorgeous burrito costume, laughed at my suit that was crumpled around by the students.
"You're popular with students. "
"I was actually a decent teacher. "
A voice was heard from all over the president announcing the closing of the Tokyo Games Show.
Then outside the waiting room, I heard the voices of the mourned users.
"Oh, is it over...? "
"You could do this all week..."
"I know. When do we wait till next summer? "
"I feel like two days is too short since I left yesterday for the Dragon Emblem..."
"The dragon emblem was amazing, but did you see the new video on Capco? "
"Oh, that zombie thing? The opening was amazing…"
"Right? I didn't think I'd faint from that crouching scene, but I thought I'd fainted when I saw that half of his face..."
"I don't think the game graphics are going to get any better. How can you make such a terrible scene happen? "
I secretly smiled at the sound of the user's conversation with good game experience.
"Everyone must have enjoyed it. How many times did I only hear the elastic sound of people while I was in the waiting room..."
I nodded and said to Tsubaki, smiling at me.
"That voice will soon turn into cheer, right? "
"I'll give it a try. But first, I have to tell Joon-Hyuk. "
"Hmm? To me? "
"I want to tell people about my illness on the live stage today. "
"What? Why? You said it was getting better. "
"Even if it gets better, it'll be a long year next year. Maybe today is my first and last day in front of the fans. I don't want to leave without saying goodbye to people who loved my song. "
In the eyes of Tsubaki looking at me, there was determination.
Tsubaki seemed to already know that nothing I said was just a good persuasion to her.
So in the end, I smiled with a small sigh.
"Yes. Okay..."
-The performance of Virtual Idol, celebrating the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Games Show, will be held in Odaiba Beach Park. Visitors, please check your pamphlets and move on to the scheduled time of the show. -
"Oh, we're just getting started. "
"Yeah, the first stage started with Erica? "
"That's right. We should be ready by now. "
"Let's go, then. "
&
A glamorous video of the next generation of consoles with RidgeRacer's openings.
And after Valentine's Day, Capco's series of 'Resident Monsters', which sparked incredible interest in the event, appeared with the dragon emblem that caused chaos.
And finally, just before the announcement of the end of all events, a concert of Virtual Idol, prepared for an agreement with the Tokyo Gameshow Authority, Kishimoto, was about to begin.
"As expected, the end of the event is music!! "
After the event ended, users who left the Tokyo Vicsite began to run towards the beach in news of the concert on Virtue Idol.
It was a pretty cold day because it was early December, but it didn't matter how cold the gamers were.
"Erica, Azzaa!!! "
"Tsubaki!!! "
"Cheryl!!! "
... before boarding the bus to the event site with Tsubaki. Seeing people running busy shouting the names of their favorite characters, I recalled a scene from the movie '28 days after' that I had seen before the regression and shook my whole body.
"Huh? Sir!! "
Turning to the familiar voice that came from behind, the disciples were rushing towards me.
"Hey, guys! How did you get here without clearing out the booth..."
Approaching them with open arms with a warm smile...
"Woo!! Mr. Tsubaki!! "
Like a paddle-grade boxer, the students who dropped out of my arm immediately swarmed around Tsubaki.
"You're Mr. Tsubaki of Virtual Idol, right? "
"Oh!! Reality!! Reality!! "
... Suzuko approached me and smiled on behalf of the students who left the inner circle like rats.
"Good job, sir. "
"Yes, you did well. "
"Like the teacher said, I just got a bunch of business cards from various game companies asking me to come after graduation. "
"Really? That's great. Everyone's relieved of their worries about the job, huh? "
"But at the end of the discussion with everyone, we decided to do what you said. "
"You decided to start a new third-party company that I'm applying for, right? "
"Yes! I already have a name! "
"Already? What did you say? "
"LEVEL.3. "
" · · · · · ·. "
"Isn't it adorable for the title of the game company? "
"You probably know about 30 levels of what you need to do in an Alpysie game. When are you gonna grow up? "
"You can continue to help me."
I swoop down and pull my arm, throwing a bloody smile at Suzuko.
"Sir, can we go to this bus concert too!? "
"If you don't want to, why don't you? Do whatever you want. "
"Wow!! "
After a while, I stepped down with the students to the concert chairman, sending Tsubaki up to the waiting room and looked at the stage.
The main title of Virtue Idol was floated in a huge screen installed under the night sky.
Wherever they got it from, the users' hands were filled with colorful fluorescent bars, and after a short while the bell to announce the start of the concert began to shake dizzily.
The concert started from Erica's stage and was played in the order in which Idol's single record was released, but the concert went very smoothly because everyone had experienced the concert battles before.
After going through Cheryl's overwhelming stage and Azsa's adorable stage, she finally came to Tsubaki's turn, and she calmed down.
"Ah... you're finally seeing the real thing..."
Unlike the last live battle when they were forced to greet her on the screen, this time they were looking forward to hearing her voice directly.
But that's also a...
With Mike quietly in his mouth, Tsubaki opens his mouth in a distinctive calm voice.
"Here today... one of our four will be absent. "
The atmosphere of the concert that I had always been drawn to sank all at once.
It will be the day that I have already foretold the event of the Tokyo Games Show.
Taking all the data to date, it seems that the mistakes were more frequent than other asteroids, and Kono Azsa's failure to be a topic was powerful, but her stage that she had just shown was still the best.
Those who cheered and cheered for Azsa looked disappointed at Tsubaki's words.
However, the next thing she said, she was appalled by the faces of the people gathered at the presidency.
"And that's me. "
"Ugh…!? "
"What? Why!! Tsubaki would never have missed a sale. "
The audience who enjoyed the concert said that the deserter was himself was in chaos.
Because of the four heroes who sold the Tsubaki title, he was close to half a million in single sales.
I didn't expect her title to reach Half Million when she was suddenly hospitalized and never interacted with fans…
But if you think about it, the Tsubaki song had a different concept.
That is not the case if you ask why the poor voice is leaping over the high notes.
Her protective instinct for a clean appearance was also difficult to convince of the popularity she was currently gaining.
The reason she was so loved by fans that even the Pentagon's marketing team was... in her lyrics to a song that was more loving than any other character.
The songs "hug me" and "ifs" were all love songs that sang from the perspective of "women."
"Give me a hug" with a heart that wants to be with my loved one forever, and conversely, "What if" with a sadness that still has to be broken up is now ranked # 1 in women's favorite song, beyond the category of games.
The hospital broadcast live footage on one TV medium and Tsubaki's popularity was now soaring high enough.
She was saying goodbye to fans who loved her now.
"Our Virtual Idol… is a project team designed by Pentagon Soft. As you already know, Kang Jun-hyuk, Director of Pentagon, was also a game developer who I loved before I challenged Virtual Idol. "
" · · · · · ·. "
"Every time I played a game he made, I was sometimes angry, and I was annoyed at how he ended up throwing it at me before he had a hard clearance. But I was always there when I finished the game, admitting," Ah! ""
On the stage, three meteors came up and stood side by side with Tsubaki.
Tsubaki turns slightly to look at his colleagues and greets them with a calm voice.
"As a fan of the Pentagon, like many of you here, I'm auditioning for Virtue Idol. But I kept one thing from the auditioning board. "
"Secret?"
"What the...? "
"Something's not right..."
As you hear chattering here and there, Tsubaki looks me in the eye from one side of the stage.
I gaze at her silently for a moment, then nod slowly.
Then Tsubaki nodded his head and turned his eyes toward the audience, as if responding to my sign.
"I have a rather unusual disease. Modern medicine has yet to discover the cause and the cure. Until I graduated from high school, I was just a normal girl who would be in any school. As I chose the department of sport for side activities, I was doing well soon, and an average student who wasn't that bad at grades or even grades... I started to feel a little dizzy one day when I graduated from high school and was dedicated to job activities, so I often stumbled a few times in my path.
At first I thought it was just anemia, but then I woke up one day and I saw her in the hospital. "
"The doctor said that he wanted to get better, but unlike everyone else's expectations, I felt that my body was getting very little, but it was definitely getting worse. Then one day, I heard in a game called Virtue, I was recruiting a storm to replace the character's voice. I used to love singing, and I would hide the truth about the disease and I would audition. Pass the result..."
"I was very happy at first, but after a while, I got scared. If I hear about my illness and cancel my pass... what if I end up in the storm? "
The audience who heard the story began to recognize the meaning of her story one by one.
"Don't tell me... Mr. Tsubaki..."
"Oh... I don't think so... No way. "
"Don't do it."
And in response, Tsubaki said with a slightly bolder smile than ever before.
"Yes, I am living a life of indefiniteness. "
Tsubaki's expression of revealing his illness to his fans in the official position was very glamorous.
However, on the contrary, the look on the audience's faces was dazed as if they had been hit with a giant hammer.
"And that's why I'm dropping out of the first season of Virtual Idol. "
"Ah…"
"After you've passed the audition. Coming up from Hokkaido, my hometown, to Tokyo, I first stopped by the Pentagon headquarters and looked for Kang Jun-hyuk, the director of Idol. Joon-Hyuk was also hesitant when he first heard about my illness, but he left me to play the character Sawano Tsubaki in a humbling request. And then something really strange happened. "
"Just as much as recording a character's lines or singing, I forget about my illness. I enjoyed working on it. I wonder if my illness is healing on its own. That's why being trained in character acting and recording their songs has been the most exciting time of my life. Even though there were difficult moments, I was able to endure every moment..."
Tsubaki holds Kanna's hand by his side and speaks.
"I think it's because there are colleagues who have come with me to this moment. Virtual Idols aren't the only characters on the screen. Every single one of their voices has the bloody efforts and sweat of me and my colleagues onstage right now. So I hope you'll like another colleague who's about to debut at the beginning of next year. Although I'm not officially a singer, I think your support has created a lot of great memories. I would like to stand in front of you as early as possible..."
The more I spoke, the more I watched her in her voice, the more I felt a corner of my heart tingling.
After pausing on the stage for a moment, Tsubaki opens his mouth with a bright expression.
"I think this might be the last time I'm standing in front of you. "
On the speaker set onstage with her greetings, her debut song, "Hug Me," began to flow.
The sound of a calm piano resounding on a cold winter night begins to wind up all over the beach park.
After a while, I walked a little distance from the stage, and I climbed up to the bridge overlooking the stage and lit a cigarette.
The moment the smoke of a single cigarette rising out of the red filter was dispersed in the night sky...
"Ah, snow...? Mom, open your eyes. "
Elasticity leaked from the mouth of the boy who was staring at the stage of Tsubaki at the bridge.
Her voice echoes from the speaker, and the snow blossoms scatter across the stage as if they were little fairies.
"Wow... that sister is so beautiful... White eyes are dancing..."
The mother next to her voice, who was listening to Tsubaki's song, opened her mouth with a gentle stroke of her head.
"Right? But she's very sick now. "
"Really? If I get sick, I should get an injection soon..."
In the warm words of the child melting the cold of Shirin Winter, I smiled and talked to him.
"Thank you... he knows her well, that's what you said. I'll be sure to pass it on to you later. "
"Yes, thank you. Mister."
&
On that day, the Tsubaki stage became a huge demolition, not only in the gaming industry but also in the general entertainment industry.
Of course, the popularity of Virtue Idol, including Tsubaki, was truly inspiring throughout the country after the concert of the Tokyo Games Show, although it had been asked to appear in various arts programs since then.
It was the best show in Japan, the Hong Baek Ga contest.
But God didn't give her a second chance.
After finishing all the appointments with his colleagues until the end of the concert, Tsubaki had to fall unconscious and go straight to the hospital.
The next day, when she opened her eyes to another dangerous affliction.
Kanna and her companions, who had stood by her all night, heard her condition and had no choice but to sulk.
Tsubaki's illness worsened more than ever because he took his' voice 'from her first.
Shhh... Shhh...
The sound in the quiet room...
After a short while, I was staring at her, and Tsubaki showed me a sketchbook with a message he had written.
- Thank you.
"Don't talk like that in the past. "
How was your day? -
"Excellent. It was beyond compare..."
- Really?
"Yes..."
- Thank goodness.
I put down my sketchbook for a moment, and suddenly Tsubaki's eyes were filled with tears, staring out the window. The teardrops that were sobbing settle on her cheeks settle on the tip of her chin momentarily.
- I'd like to get back onstage, but I don't think it's working. -
"This isn't like you. Cheer up."
Then the nurse came in, opening the door to the room.
"Mr. Tsubaki, it's time for your injection. Sorry, visiting hours have expired in a few minutes. "
"Oh, yes. Tsubaki, then I'll go. I'm coming with Yuki tomorrow…"
Then Tsubaki hurriedly wrote something on the sketchbook.
- Wait a minute.
"Yes…? "
A moment later, Tsubaki handed me one of the cassette tapes that he had hidden in his pillow crabs and in.
"Is this for me? "
With a warm smile on either side of his mouth, Tsubaki nods, looking up and down, and raises the front of the sketchbook.
- Listen to me when I'm alone. -
"Oh, yes... I will. "
The way out of the hospital, back home...
With the audio system installed in the car, Tsubaki's tape is inserted, and for a moment the noise rang and her voice echoed in the car.
"Ahh! Ahh! Is this going to be a recording? "
I felt her voice coming from the speakers for a very long time.
"They say it's recorded when the red light comes on. Ahhh!! I'm in!! "
A smile was drawn on her mouth, as her cute voice blurted out if she didn't know how to use the recorder.
"Can you hear me? Ah! I don't know if I can say this... Haha... I'll say it if I can hear you. Today is two days before the Tokyo Games Show. After just going with Yuki, I leave a little message to Joon-Hyuk like this.
Well, actually, can you deliver this properly? I'm worried about that, too, because Yuki might misunderstand. "
"Actually, my doctor told me this morning that I should cancel my concert. It can be a very dangerous choice at the moment, and even if you suffer, if you crowd the vocal chords because of the concert, you might wake up and lose your voice... I'll leave you a message just in case. "
Yuck!!!
As soon as I heard her on the tape, I stopped at the side of the road in a hurry.
"That's why I wanted to thank you before it was too late. "
Tsubaki's voice on the tape felt little anxiety. Rather, her message, filled with excitement about a straightforward concert, felt as pure and clear as the voice of a young child ahead of a picnic.
"Thank you so much so far. I want to thank Joon-Hyuk and his colleagues for their hard work together. I think 1995 will be the most memorable year of my life. This precious memory... I will hold onto it until the end, even if I am no longer in this world. "
Tak. Ziyi...
At the end of the playback, only analog noises were coming out.
&
The fans of Tsubaki wanted her to get better soon, but unfortunately, the reality was not.
After the TGS concert, she spent most of her day in the room, and she often fell asleep more and more drunk than when she was awake because her illness was getting worse.
Occasionally, when Yuki and I would stop by the hospital and watch Tsubaki sleeping, we would have regretted that she was better off stopping him, even if it was her choice.
January 1996, the following year.
She showed up in a wheelchair at a concert in Idol with a new year's celebration message, and did not lose a warm smile to her fans while fighting the bottled horse.
In just two songs, she was loved not only by the gamer but by the whole nation in half a year, and hid herself from the stage at the end.
One April, when Tsubaki's parents asked her to go to Germany for surgery, she was bitten by pink all over the world.
I heard that I slept comfortably in the spring wind.
It was the day after Kanna wrote back that she was going to hold a concert at the Tokyo Dome.
Leaving behind a promise to come to the concert in a healthier way...
&
"Ha... ha..."
After a live performance at the Tokyo Dome with a new colleague, Kanna sighed and waved her hands at the audience.
Kanna, who had almost the same tendency to sing as Tsubaki, took over all the songs she had left behind and is currently showing the most outstanding sales volume among idols.
A thunder-like box started pouring down in the audience towards the singers who had successfully completed a performance at the Tokyo Dome, the stage of their dreams.
"Excellent!! "
"One more song!! One more song!! "
Kanna looks slightly embarrassed at the ongoing audience's call for an anchor.
because the song that I just finished was a second encore song. As the chairman's mood settles, I nod toward Kanna, watching the stage from one side.
Then, throughout the show, her smiling face became serious.
"Today... I have some bad news for you. "
Suddenly, the people who were obsessed with her were silent in a different atmosphere.
"In fact, Sawano Tsubaki, who made a debut with us last year and was very loved by you, passed away last April. "
"Excuse me?"
"Huff... I heard you went abroad for treatment, but in the end..."
Kanna quickly followed the horse to the mourned audience, hearing that Tsubaki had passed away.
"Before you leave, I promise to... be well again and come back to you, but on behalf of Mr. Tsubaki, who can no longer keep that promise... we apologize for that. Thank you so much for loving Tsubaki to the end. "
The moment members on stage greet their fans holding each other's hands.
I instructed the video team using the radio I was holding.
Then, on the silent stage, a low piano begins to sound.
"Oh... really...? "
The first Tsubaki to receive and rejoice in his music appeared on a huge screen.
A bright smile, as if it had all the world, had a strange charm that made me smile after seeing this.
An empty platform with only two of them.
I'm worried about your silent face.
And he shall become of the adults, and shall live for ever;
You may lose something precious, but...
I know that, too, but...
In a music video compiled of all the footage she had worked on in the recording room, her various daily lives were left behind.
Kanna sharing crepes in downtown Harajuku.
Covering a blanket over a weary Azsa rainstorm.
Drinking in a tavern in Shinjuku with Cheryl's thunder…
Tears began to pour down on the faces of the thunderstorms who were on stage in her everyday appearance.
Even though we didn't make the debut with her, the new members who suffered together during the practice also shed tears in her memories.
Give me a hug and I'll break my body...
No matter what trials await us,
I want to be with you forever.
At the end of the video, she walked out of the studio after finishing recording, waving her hands at the camera and smiling brightly.
Tears finally shed in my eyes, which I endured all the time looking at the screen as if it was saying goodbye to everyone here.
"Tsubaki, isn't it hard to record? "
"It's hard, but it's so much fun to endure. Especially because Cheryl's voice is so good at acting that sometimes it feels like she's actually talking to the characters in the game. "
"Yes, thank God. And what if I say one last word to the fans who are going to see this? "
"Yes? All of a sudden? "
"Just be honest and tell me how you feel right now. "
"Uh... so, um..."
After a moment, she opens her mouth, looking at the camera with a crimson face.
"I want to sing for you until the end of my life..."
Last comment.
It's a debut song by Tsubaki. Give me a hug. 'It was the last line from the sample record.
&
"Then the audience realized what it meant."
"I was..."
"Even now, I think the music video of Tsubaki at that time was the best. "
"I couldn't say goodbye to my fans. "
Before she left for Germany. The last letter that was written to me.
- If I don't make it back, I want Joon-Hyuk to tell the fans instead. Can you... say hello to me? -
At that time, I couldn't say anything without getting her letter.
All I'm saying is, pull yourself together.
As I looked away with Hayashi at the employees laughing and chattering in preparation for dinner, I took a small sigh and turned to talk.
"How about Dragon Emblem Online, by the way? Don't you think it's almost over when you hear the pain of dying? "
"Only eight years of production this year. This is going to be as cool as it gets. "
"Really? I'm looking forward to that. "
Then Hayashi smiled strangely and asked me.
"Then would you like to play formally? "
Hayashi smiled as confidently as she pulled out a disc from her arms and gave it to me.
"I have written down the protocol address for the access inside. "
"What is this? Did you finish your development already? "
"No, this is another version of the Dragon Emblem online that we've prepared for you. "
"Hmm? For me? "
When Hayashi's words do not speak English, he raises himself up, pulling out his dusty trousers.
"So, stop resting and come back. We still need you. "
At that moment, Kaori's voice was heard preparing a meal by the table.
"You two!! Stop fooling around and come here and give me something to eat!! "
"Ney, I understand. "
When I saw Hayashi running straight to her in Kaori's mourning, I felt that his cold and sharp personality had become much more harmful when he was young.
I looked at the disc handed to Hayashi and raised my mouth.
I started to wonder what kind of online games would have been born into the plans I had made and left.
"Joon-Hyuk, I think Kannada is almost here!! "
"Oh, okay. I'm on my way."
&
The day after I had a nice dinner with the Pentagon staff.
When I returned home, I put Seohyun who was asleep on the bed, and I organized the camping tools with Yuki.
"Oh, that was so much fun. It was a little hard to prepare a lot of people's food."
"Sorry, next time let's just relax and go to a resort. "
"It's okay. It's been hard, but camping is kind of romantic, too. I didn't realize it was so much fun to talk to people like that in front of a campfire. "
"Thank you for saying that..."
"Oh, do you want to wash first? "
"No, I have to take a shower later. You must be tired, go to sleep first. "
"Yes, I'll take a bath first. "
After finishing cleaning up, Yuki went to the bathroom, and I took a disc out of my bag.
In fact, I've been very concerned about what's on this disc since yesterday.
I said I'd catch Hayashi and ask, and I'd only know if I played, so I have to tell her that the thirsty man sells the well...
Cock.
I took out the optical disc that was in the case and put it in the newly launched Complex Raon 3 last summer.
The console, which automatically sucked the disc without a separate tray, started installing an enormous amount of volume into the console hard drive after a short while with the disc drive.
"What is this? Are you sure you want to install the entire disk? "
If I'd known this was gonna happen, I should've just installed it and washed it out.
At that time, a simple illustration of the plot began to flow from the TV screen that was being installed.
In the era of the wars that followed in 2, with a simple chapter 1, I comfortably leaned against the chair, looking at the illustrations that depicted the fierce battles of the humans and the horses.
In Episode 2, King Kroel appeared as the Holy Spirit to help players under special conditions, and he had so much power that he absolutely needed the power of the Demon King Osiris to oppose him.
Although the war had been turned upside down at this point, there was a time when the horseman's union brought Osiris in first, and most of the human realms were taken away and the game almost ended…
In Prologue, players drew a detailed portrait of each other's territory and the history of it being taken from each other.
And the moment all installs point to 100%. I entered the developer protocol in the case and tried to access the online world.
Immediately, a man on the TV screen slowly got up from the majestic meadow.
"Hmm? What? Are there any initial character settings for online gaming? "
I used an analog stick to manipulate the man standing alone on a thin grassland with nothing.
"Or is this even another prologue? What the hell am I supposed to do? We have to show them the way. "
I was about to get irritated by the frustration of being unable to do anything...
The sky grows darker and darker in the game, and then suddenly, everything around you becomes dark.
At that moment, a man's voice echoes from his TV speaker.
- The Demon King has fallen into human hands. Reclaim your world before this world is tormented by the holy light... "Drink." -
If you're a normal gamer, just listen to this. Though I tilted my head, I was in the original plan for the Dragon Emblem, and at the same time I heard this ambassador, I remembered what Hayashi said with a proud look on his face.
I mean, you need to take a break and come back. We still need you. '
"Hayashi... You're... pretty good. "