Chapter 189 – An opportunity to promote to S rank!

Long Sakura finished those words for a long time, the whole hall was silent, Aoi Natsuki had goosebumps all over his body by her words, unconsciously swinging his body from side to side in an attempt to rub the inexplicable itch on his back with his clothes, for the first time he had heard a girl say such words to herself in reality, the impact of such sentiment given to him was too strong, and now his whole head was in the dark.

Looking at Ryuusakura, the memory took him back to that fire, when he caught Ryuusakura with both hands, the moment before she jumped into his arms, the ecstasy that showed on her face, it was a pair of intense and fiery gaze, at that time, Aoi Natsuki didn’t understand the meaning of it, but now after Ryuusakura’s explanation, he understood all of it.

At the same time a full shock welled up inside.

So that’s what she’s been thinking since that day? How long had they known each other then? Two weeks? Half a month? Arai Natsuki’s pupils shrunk slightly, re-collecting that pair of eyes, and his shoulders, which had just been raised high due to his nervousness, slowly fell like a deflated ball of leather, and his line of sight shifted downward, gazing at the tatami mat for a long time.

It turned out that Long Sakura hadn’t started liking herself that day, but had identified herself from the moment she leapt down from that building.

He had thought all too superficially before, thinking that Long Sakura was merely a whim, and that a girl who grew up practicing martial arts should be more attracted to a boy who was more powerful than her, just like Blade, but he hadn’t expected that the other party would like him far more than his own perception of the relationship itself.

Such words really made Aoi Natsuki change his mind about Ryuusakura again, and now just thinking about Ryuusakura’s previous behavior made him become red in the face.

Not good ……

Trying to suppress it but his brain frequently flashed through various memories that had something to do with Ryuusakura.

That hug to the confession he made to himself at the summer festival; the waltz at the senior party; leaning on his shoulder in front of the shrine, that unique body scent; carrying Sakurajima through the woods, his tone still soft, his perfect side face written with tenderness ……

Ahhhhhhh ……

Aoi Natsuki didn’t dare to raise his head at all at this moment, his heart was beating very fast, that familiar tingling sensation running through his body like an electric current was the same sensation he had felt before when he stayed with Sakurajima, but it was much more intense!

“Natsuki, are you okay? You seem a little ……”

Aoi Natsuki was inwardly shocked, then remembered that Long Sakura also mastered a very metaphysical skill of qi observation, even if he now lowered his face from the other party’s view, the other party was still able to detect his own flustered emotions.

What to do, what to do ……

Natsuki Aoi asked herself frantically back at her brain, her pupils involuntarily trembling.

When his vision returned, he suddenly saw two white, clean feet on the ground, with grainy nails and full, slightly pointed fingers.

In the next second, he felt his cheeks suddenly being cupped by someone’s hands, and before he could react, he was lifted up, and while Aoi Natsuki was panicked, his eyes met Ryuzuru’s face straight in front of him, and the color and temperature of his face were all grasped by her in a split second.

Aoi Natsuki’s entire body went numb and got overwhelmed, “No, no, I, actually ……”

Long Sakura stared at his face to confirm it repeatedly, and after two or three seconds, a touch of gentleness appeared in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth gently rose in an almost subtle manner, followed by not listening to what Natsuki had to say any more at all, and jumped directly into his arms.

It was the first time Ryuusakura had ever hugged him.

Natsuki Aoi didn’t even think about it, and when he realized it, Ryuusakura was already hugging him.

The force was quite light, Aoi Natsuki re-smelled that different body scent, three years older than himself, and his height exceeded his own by a lot, this state of embrace was completely different from the previous with Hayakawa, and Sakurajima, maybe this was the feeling that belonged exclusively to Ryuusakura.

“Good night.” Dragon Sakura whispered in his ear, then released her embrace and helped herself up on the ground.

Aoi Natsuki’s expression is still frozen, the latter she seems to say something else, but he did not hear a word, until Long Sakura left the hall, walked up to the second floor of the footsteps completely disappeared, he slowly peeled out of the state of the muna, his brain emptied, all kinds of thoughts swept back like a rising river, he used his elbow to cover his eyes, and collapsed on the tatami mat smoothly, his left hand covered the location of his heart, this feeling, what is the What’s going on ……

……

The following week, Long Sakura is like nothing to return to the usual state, a group of people are happy, on the contrary, Aoi Natsuki’s heart more and more thought, at first the two meet still a little awkward, but with the passage of time, gradually also more topics.

That’s never happened before.

Natsuki Arai sat on the wooden veranda outside her house, glowering in the sun, a cup of tea by her side, not saying a word.

There was also a wind chime hanging on the eaves of the house, and as a breeze blew by, the wind chime swayed and resounded with a crisp ringing sound.

Aoi Natsuki felt tired after sitting for a long time, and wanted to go back to his room to take a nap, just then, the sound of slippers stepping over the tatami mats came from behind him, and the speed sounded quite fast, he turned back, only to see that it was Hayakawa, with both fists clenched in a look of urgency.

“Natsuki! I’ve got an idea!”

“Hmm? Thinking of what?” Natsuki Aoi was curious.

“I can think of something I should do!”

“?” Aoi Natsuki pondered for two seconds, then abruptly remembered what she had asked Hayakawa about while camping in the mountains some time ago. Eh! It’s hard to believe that she’s been preoccupied with this matter all these days!

Natsuki Aoi’s eyes widened as he stared at her dead on.

Hayakawa took a breather and relaxed, then raised his head, his gaze becoming determined, “If I were to say something I wanted to do and never attempted to do, that’s the only thing I can think of when I think about it.”

“What is it?”

“Game making, I want to make a game of my own!” Hayakawa said with all his strength, and then a small wince, “This, this is an idea I’ve had since elementary school, is, isn’t it, is it, a little too impractical?”

“It won’t! Although it is true that making a game is a bit exaggerated, but …… is not an unrealistic idea, right?” After Aoi Natsuki finished speaking, the two of them fell into silence in unison, making a game, what exactly should be done?

……

“It can be done, making games now is not as difficult as you think oh.” Sakurajima Apricot said slowly.

“Eh!” Hayakawa got excited and slapped his hands on the table, “Is it true?”

Natsuki Aoi foxed, “You’re not joking again, are you?”

“Why yes, I’m serious this time.” Sakurajima Apricot raised her eyebrows lightly.

A group of people were sitting around a low table, hearing Hayakawa talk about making a game, they all became interested, especially Ayano, her eyes were glowing, looking around from side to side, then picking up Lina’s writing pad and holding it up, “This feels like the old days when you used to draw little people on paper to fight in a war, isn’t that what it means to make your own game?”

“It should be a lot more complicated to post it online, right?” Dragon Sakura was equally ignorant of the game.

Only Sakurajima seemed to know the most after a round of questions.

“Average, I did learn a bit of programming before on a whim.” Sakurajima Apricot said faintly.

“A little ……” Aoi Natsuki questioned the concept of a little in Sakurajima’s mouth.

“Aiya~ It’s really a bit la, it’s been a long time since I’ve moved, and making games that normally go live on steam is a big project, it’s going to waste a lot of time.”

“No, no, no, no, no, I’m not talking about a masterpiece like that, I also know that’s absolutely impossible to accomplish, if it’s possible, I would like to start from the simplest, to be able to have a plot that infects the player just fine.” Hayakawa blushed red, she also didn’t expect that she just mentioned a word to Natsuki, and this matter was immediately pushed into the process, all of a sudden everyone assembled to discuss this matter, she was still incredulous even now, her whole body felt light and fluffy, without a bit of solidity.

“I’m not talking about that kind of game, with our half-baked level, not to mention the big game, even the pixel game can’t be done at all, but the good thing is that we were born in Japan, and our country is quite tolerant of the kinds of games, in addition to logging into the computer side, naturally, there are also joystick games, let’s say the RPG mini-games.”

“RPG mini-game ……” Hayakawa thought for a moment and immediately exclaimed, “”Witch’s House?!”

“Right! There’s also Mad Father, Killing Angels, Green Ghost, etc., and while the world is currently more likely to go after some of the more graphically grandiose games, there’s still a decent place for small RPGs with excellent plots in Japan, and the production cycle as well as the technology is relatively much easier, so if you really want to make a game, you might want to give this a try.”

Hearing the end, Hayakawa sucked in a breath, the whole person was completely shocked by Sakurajima’s words, indeed, she made a lot of sense, even hearing this, Hayakawa vaguely had some impulsive feeling of wanting to start immediately, but then he thought that he was completely clueless about even the simplest of RPG mini-games, and then sighed again.

“But I don’t know anything about making RPG mini-games either what should I do …… “The red that flushed on Hayakawa’s face spread all the way up to the base of his ears, it’s really embarrassing to talk about wanting to make a game when you don’t even know how to make RPG mini-games.

On the contrary, Sakurajima wasn’t much surprised, instead, he fanned his right hand very flatly, “It’s fine, it’s fine, it’s not hard to make RPG mini-games, as long as you know how to use RPG Maker Master, it’s an entry-level tool, so if you don’t know how to use it, I’ll teach you.”

“Really? That’s so great Sakurajima!” Hayakawa excitedly jumped right into Sakurajima’s arms in a very overreaction, mostly because she was blushing and wanted to find something to cover her face as soon as possible.

“Hohoho, is that what you’re going to be a little bit?” Aoi Natsuki teased.

Sakurajima Apricot glanced at him with a smirk and didn’t say anything.

“I remember there are quite a few other elements in the game, right? Like sound effects, risqué drawings, characters, etc… What should I do with those?” Ayano inquired curiously.

“Right oh, there is still this aspect of the problem well ……” Hayakawa was affected by the joyful atmosphere, and at once forgot that there are many details in it.

“Indeed, and can that aspect be addressed as well?” Dragon Sakura asked, turning her head.

The group turned their attention back to Sakurajima.

And Sakurajima, unhurriedly taking a bite of dried fish, cupped the tea on the table and took another sip, letting out a long breath before saying, “It’s going to be a matter of gathering everyone’s strength.”

“We?”

“Is there anything else I can do to help in this matter?” Dragon Sakura asked, pointing to herself.

“Of course we do, we have a full staff here, Hayakawa and I are in charge of production, Ayano is in charge of stand-up, Ryuusakura is in charge of action direction, and Takahashi is in charge of dubbing, okay?” Sakurajima turned his head and reached out to touch Rina’s little head, “Rina will be in charge of modeling, okay?”

“Awwww!” Lina’s eyes immediately lit up when she heard that there was still a part for her, and although she didn’t understand it at all, it seemed like everyone was doing something awesome.

“Eh! Me? Dubbing?” Takahashi Mito exclaimed in shock as she reacted the most, pointing at herself.

Sakurajima smiled and held the right side of her face, “Yeah, I noticed before that Takahashi you have a special voice, sometimes fierce but sometimes you can be very pitiful, this kind of strong contrast, I think it’s very suitable for dubbing oh.”

“Are you flirting with me?” Takahashi Mito frowned.

Sakurajima apricot immediately moved away from the line of sight, looked to Lina: “And like nowadays RPG small game protagonist or supporting characters are high school students or small children, let Lina to serve as a model is the best it, so that on the standpoint of Ayano have a point of reference, Dragon Sakura, some of the battle scenes above, your advice is also essential.”

“Well, that sounds like it’ll work all at once.” Dragon Sakura nodded solemnly.

“Uh-huh, most of the sound effects in the game can be downloaded for free sound effects in RPG Maker Master, early on, it’s completely enough, as for the music, I think it shouldn’t be too hard to please Hetty.” Sakurajima apricot thought thoroughly, almost all of the difficulties of making a small game had been thought of, originally it was just an idea, it was surprising that it could really have the possibility of success under the opportunity of the group chatting together, this could not help but make Hayakawa freeze for a long time.

When she came back to her senses, Hayakawa once again jumped into Sakurajima’s arms, the force of which sent her straight to the ground.

“No, is everything alright?!” Hayakawa, who realized that he had lost his temper, immediately got up and asked anxiously.

“A bit of ……”

“Ah! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” Hayakawa apologized repeatedly.

“However, finally can fulfill the wish, is not it?” Sakurajima apricot slender eyes gazed towards Hayakawa, Hayakawa after hearing this moved to the extreme, not all because of the game, in which more still because of the side of this group of friends for her sake, the previous self obviously has always been a follower beside the other people, to do anything have no say, but now can have so much sincere friends to give themselves ideas, she really super touched, a moment did not hold back, the eyes instantly red.

“Thank you, thank you all ……”

“Don’t say thank you, anyway, it’s summer vacation and we all have time, so let’s just start this afternoon! It’s fun to think about everyone doing something together!” Ayano kept rubbing her hands together, and Rina, who was sitting on her lap, looked up at Ayano-san and then followed suit.

Everyone is happiest when they are together.