"By the way, Kuroto-san, this is the computer I got back..."
After Yuuka left in a hurry, Midori took out the computer she retrieved from the Engineering Department.
Then, she saw a pixel light flashing next to Kuroto Dan, who had taken out a complete set of computers with the highest configuration.
Midori's jaw dropped immediately. "You—you can make a computer out of thin air? Then why did you steal Yuzu-chan's computer?"
"I can't make it now. I got this from Veritas." Kuroto Dan stretched out his hand and swept across a table full of clutter in the activity room, pushing comic books, potato chips, and toys aside. He then carried both computers to the table and started installing the power supply. "Momoi, help me clean up the things on the floor!"
"Veritas?" Yuzu blinked. "So, in the afternoon when Mr. Kuroto Dan disappeared. Did you go to Veritas?"
"Didn't I say there was a cyber attack?" Kuroto Dan turned on the computer, watched the system load, and pulled a chair to sit down. "Let me set up the server first..."
The server Kuroto Dan was referring to was the cloud server used to store all the game data and update programs for his "Genm Corporation." Unlike him, a powerful cheater with God Maximum, other people needing to use Rider Gashats to play games or transform into Kamen Riders would rely on Genmn Corp's server to transmit data remotely—after all, even the Gamer Driver was developed by Genm Corp!
In this world, to prepare for a rainy day, Kuroto Dan started building his own server.
Although many studios provide cloud server services in the millennium, it is clearly better for the company's fate to be in his own hands.
"—Okay, the server will use my Bugster virus as a defense program." Kuroto Dan stretched with satisfaction. "As long as someone attacks my server, the Bugster Virus will counterattack, infect the opponent's attack program, and turn it into its own computing power. If the attack continues, it can also infect the opponent's server along the network cable, so it's foolproof!"
A few hours passed unknowingly, and Alice, over there, also cleared a few more games.
Kuroto Dan looked up from his computer screen. In the activity room in front of him, the lights were on. The three little ones were eating the takeaway pizza delivered to them and still commenting on the movie in front of them.
"The appearance of the dragon at the end is indeed too old-fashioned a plot development..."
"But the protagonists of this movie are two sisters! They're very similar to me and Midori!"
After swallowing a piece of pizza covered with cheese and chicken, Momoi took a sip of her drink and made a satisfied sound.
"Guha——!"
"Yo, you guys look so happy."
Kuroto Dan stood up from the computer desk and took a piece of pizza without hesitation. "The preparations for developing the Gashats are complete. Now it's time to turn your imagination into reality!"
Seeing Kuroto Dan approaching, Midori remembered what Yuuka had announced in the afternoon. She had forgotten about it while waiting, and her relaxed mood from watching the movie became heavy again.
"Millennium Prize. Mr. Kuroto Dan, do you really have a solution?"
The Millennium Prize was the only thing they could do to save the game development department. After all, whether it was Momo-chan, Midori, or Yuzu, they were just the most ordinary students in Millennium.
Kuroto Dan put his hands on his hips and said with full energy, "I haven't thought of a solution yet!"
"Huh?" Midori was dumbfounded. "Are you bragging? There's actually no way?"
"It's just that I haven't thought of a suitable solution yet, but it doesn't mean there's no way, right?"
Kuroto Dan sat down next to Yuzu without care and pushed the three little ones aside with his hips. "Let me sit too!"
"Bang Bang Ka Bang! Aris has conquered New Moon Waltz!"
Lifting the game disc like a Hyrule hero, Alice looked excited.
After playing games for the past few days, although Momoi's plan of "learning to speak through games" had deviated somewhat, Alice had learned many lines from retro games.
The expression on Alice's face had become very rich—besides, those game lines were not incomprehensible to what Alice wanted to express. Wasn't that enough?
"Oh, Aris is really fast at solving games." Momoi nodded and said, "It seems Aris has already mastered the ways of gamers. Should we prepare some more difficult games for you to challenge?"
Alice raised her hand energetically. "The heroic Aris is ready to challenge the enemy!"
Today, Momoi and Midori had accompanied Alice to the Engineering Department.
They were originally planning to pick a simple rifle weapon, but Alice was attracted to the super-large electromagnetic cannon with space laser weapons taken out by Utaha, the director. Now placed in a corner of the activity room was the sword of the hero that Alice called "Sword of Light: Supernova."
Perhaps because she got her own sword of the hero, Alice was in a very high mood now and even had so much energy that she could solve twice as many retro games as usual!
Just as Momoi was choosing a game disc for Alice, Kuroto Dan took out a machine he had just made from parts. It looked like a monitor connected to VR glasses and a host with exposed wires.
"Come on, it's time to test your talents!"
Kuroto Dan clapped his hands and asked everyone in the game development department to stand in a row. "This is what I just made. It can refine your imagination and accelerate the convergence into a machine that creates Gashats! Don't worry about the appearance; after all, time and materials are limited."
Kuroto Dan was unable to use the power of God Maximum due to some obstacles. He could only feel that the power was still sleeping in his body.
But even so, the power of miracles still overflowed in Kuroto Dan's body—it was originally a miracle he created, so it was naturally 100%, or even 1,000%, compatible with himself!
So, although Kuroto Dan could not take out God Maximum X now, he could still borrow some of the miracle power that overflowed from it to change the world.
"Just put these VR glasses on the head? Weren't you setting up the server just now? Do you have time to make this machine?"
"Time is like a ditch. You can always find it if you squeeze it."
Momoi took a pair of VR glasses with strange colors and looked at them curiously. "Is this the machine that can directly generate the game cartridges?"
"It's still a little inefficient. In fact, I can directly create new games. Otherwise... Forget it, let's not discuss this."
Kuroto Dan is debugging a blank Gashat in his hand. He has done this countless times. Although the materials are a bit limited, as long as Kuroto Dan thinks, "This thing can be used to make game Gashats," then it is not impossible to make it with a little effort.
Yuzu noticed something. She picked up the glasses and looked at them for a moment. She was shocked. "What color is this? You took apart my VR glasses!?"
"It's just a pair of VR glasses. Why should I feel bad about taking them apart?" Kuroto Dan looked indifferent. "When the game development department wins first place in the Millennium Prize and you all become famous, let alone a pair of VR glasses, you can bring them back by the box for wholesale!"
"This..." Yuzu wanted to cry. "You took apart my glasses just to make this?"
"This is the equipment you will use to make Game Gashats later." Kuroto Dan patted the console. "There is a more convenient way to let you do so, if you are infected with the game disease, I will manually implant game disease antibodies in you, but I cannot guarantee that you will survive the erosion of the game disease."
"Why does it sound so terrible?"
"It will only hurt for a while." Kuroto Dan used his fingers to form a fingertip universe. "At first, you may feel pain all over your body due to the erosion of the virus, but when it is completely eroded and transformed into a Bugster, it will not hurt at all!"
Kuroto Dan put on a salesman's appearance. "How about it? Who of you wants to try it?"
"No, no, no, no..."
The three little ones shook their heads like rattles, and Yuzu have guessed Kuroto Dan's true identity with this question.
"Could it be that... Mr. Kuroto Dan suddenly disappeared this afternoon..." Yuzu looked horrified. "Is it because you are a Bugster virus that can turn into data?"
Kuroto Dan turned his head. "Huh? Didn't I say that?"
"No, ah ah ah!"
After finally calming the three little ones down, Kuroto Dan began to instruct them on how to use the latest machine he had made, 'Creator MK1'. This machine was created with the help of the miraculous power that overflowed from his body, which could change the rules of the world, and the power of Level Billion.
If someone else came, using the same method, the same process, and the same materials, the replica would be a useless machine that could do nothing. Only the one made by Kuroto Dan himself would be meaningful.
"It should be said that this machine does borrow some of the concepts of creating games with the VRX Gashat... but it still can't compare to my God Maximum X!"
Kuroto Dan instructed Momo-chan to put on the VR glasses, and at the same time inserted a blank Gashat he made into the reader.
"After putting on the glasses, I will start the machine here and bring you into a blank game space, where you can fill in the blanks with your imagination and create your own game."
That's right.
Just like the world's first operating system that turned the computer desktop into a visual icon, Kuroto Dan's 'Creator MK1' turned the originally boring game development project of typing code, modifying models, and writing scripts into a straightforward operation that can be seen and understood. Even Momo-chan can do it directly!
"Hey! I feel like someone is saying that I'm stupid!" Momo-chan who was wearing glasses snorted in dissatisfaction.
"Era-changing technology... Is it that direct input of consciousness used here?"
"Then..." Seeing Momo-chan put on the glasses, Kuroto Dan stretched out his hand and pulled the lever. "God of Creation, start!"
Momo-chan was already adding things to the game space with great interest, while Midori-chan and Yuzu outside were completely shocked by Kuroto Dan's introduction.
Even if they were really just otakus who knew how to play games, they could understand what kind of technology this machine contained.
"Just by thinking, you can create games... Completely exempt from all the red tape and boring operations. This kind of machine, students in those game studios would probably want to buy one no matter how much money they spend?" Yuzu looked at the screen displayed on the machine.
The pure white game space had changed greatly. Under Momo-chan's operation, a group of cute cats stood on human feet and built their own home.
"Cat Kingdom! Build it!"
Momo-chan stood atop a wall as she transformed into the chief engineer of the Cat Kingdom in the game space.
Below her are countless cats who are building the kingdom in a mighty manner. Thousand-foot-high buildings rise from the ground, and medieval magic castle elements common in retro games continue to appear. The cats are taking Momo-chan's ideas as the guide to complete the remaining construction work of the game.
"So that's it, is it a game that includes city construction and strategic defense?"
Kuroto Dan watched the gradually constructed game space become complete, and now his palm has been pressing on the blank Gashat.
Because his miracle power is just overflowing in his body, if he wants to transmit the power of creating a Rider Gashat, he must touch the blank Gashat so closely.
"Ninety-nine percent... one hundred percent!"
Kuroto Dan looked at the screen, and the game space created by Momo-chan had been filled with the last touch of color.
The soldiers of the Cat Kingdom pointed out the final technology tree and lit up the infinite energy tower for the city.
Momo-chan put down the creative brush in her hand with satisfaction, sat at the highest point of the city, and looked at the prosperous cat kingdom.
"The Gashat has begun to transform--"
An orange lightning suddenly flashed across the blank game Gashat in Kuroto Dan's hand.
There is no doubt that this machine also uses the technology of the Bugster Virus, or rather, all Gashats are made with this technology.
The orange lightning constantly gives a new color to this white blank Gashat. The Gashat is painted pink to represent the creator, and the cover image is printed. A group of cute cats and a king in pink clothes are holding their heads high.
"Oh oh oh oh!!" Midori-chan didn't even blink.
"It's done like this!!" Yuzu is full of expectations.
"Bang Bang Ka Bang?" Alice was also attracted.
It was Alice who was the most serious in watching the machine screen just now. "Momo-chan, did you make a game?"
A pink Gashat suddenly flew up from the pedestal and was held in Kuroto Dan's hand.
As usual, Kuroto Dan personally explained the name of this game.
"Neko King (King of Cats)! A cute construction simulation and strategic simulation game that leads cats to build a country and conquer the universe!"
"It's a game with Momo-chan's style." Yuzu laughed.
Momo-chan who had just taken off her VR glasses had not yet recovered from the ending of her Neko King, but she also noticed the pink Gashat in Kuroto Dan's hand.
The feeling from the bottom of her heart made her conclude that it was undoubtedly the Game Gashat she created!
"Then, next, it's time to test this game." Kuroto Dan played with the Gashat for a while and took out his Gamer Driver. "Let's try the first game Gashat created in this world. Can it be compatible with my Gamer Driver?"