NOVEL NEXT Chapter 18 – Miyako and Aqua Second
Miyako Perspective
"Well, I've found the visual novel you told me about? It has a slightly different name, but the storyline is pretty much the same. Then, according to the gossip I heard, he tried to make a game but failed, so he published a novel instead. Although it was originally an idea for a game." Miyako spoke as she handed Aqua a paper with information related to the visual novel that Aqua had been talking about.
Miyako never thought that one day she would act like a secretary to a three-year-old. Even if Miyako were to talk to someone else, she highly doubted anyone would believe her. They most likely just assumed she was joking and laughed at her. She meant that
Currently, Miyako looked at Aqua, who was reading the report carefully, before he nodded his small head.
"Un, that's right, this visual novel. Then, like I said, we use the money we get from selling betcoins and use it to buy or create a new game company. Then make an offer that is hard for the publisher to refuse." Aqua explained his plan to Miyako.
"Ah, by the way, how much do big companies usually offer to license and make their game?" Aqua asked Miyako. Although Aqua can be very smart at times, he also seems to lack experience and knowledge in many areas that Miyako manages to cover.
"Well, I usually think this is how much money is given, but that's just an estimate from me." Miyako replied.
"Oh, so how about we increase that and tell him since this would be our first game. We will not hold back by using famous artists and voice actors in the game. Ah, how about we give this kind of proposal." Aqua then explained things that Miyako thought sounded like gachapon in digital form.
"It sounds like a gachapon…"
"Well, this kind of thing will be famous as gacha hell…"
"Ahahaha, that’s sound not fun at all. Are you sure people will be fine?"
"It’s fine. It’s a free-to-play game after all… So there will be F2P gamers and a whale that buys anything for our game, and our target will be those obsessive gamers with a lot of money…"
"You don’t have to say it with such a villainous expression, you know…"
"Anyway, we need to make sure to get that license or we will lose a big chunk of money in the future. Getting money from buying and selling betcoins is sure nice, but I don’t think I can be 100 percent sure about that. I only know about the jump in price, so it will be a really great move to spread that money and invest in other areas."
"Well, that’s true… but it’s still such a big investment that we’re using…" Miyako couldn't believe how much money she had earned and then used. Her past self would never have imagined that she would have this kind of fate. She was just a girl who dreamed of marrying a handsome showbiz man and being a good housewife. Then, at this time, Miyako worked as a secretary and manager for the twins.
"How about our other project… the Vtuber project called Kizuna Ai?"
"Ah, that thing—we're using a similar real-time capture-motion like CGI from Hollywood. It is also starting to move in a better direction with the new funds we are investing. The power of money really does make things easy." Miyako replied with such an honest answer.
"Is that so… Well, that’s good to hear… Anyway, is there something I want you to do?"
"Hm… what is that?"
"I want you to surveillance these two people for me?"
"Yes…" Miyako was taken aback when she heard Aqua's sudden and unusual request.
"Can you do that, right?"
"Well, that’s…"
It was an unusual request from Aqua, but Aqua didn't ask for too much either. So of course, Miyako wanted to grant the request. It was just that it felt too unusually strange.
"What's the point of doing that?" Miyako asked.
"Do I have to answer that question?" Aqua responded like that. He had such blank eyes that made his dark bluish eyes look like a deep ocean that may swallow a person to the darkness. Miyako gulped as she looked at Aqua.
"Well, that’s…" Miyako was a little overwhelmed by Aqua’s sudden change of mood.
"First, I'd like you to install someone to stake out one of Ai's fans named Ryusuke. I think he often comes to Ai's handshake events. He's also the one who gave Ai the star sand." Aqua explained the person who he wanted to put in his watch.
"Eh… It’s fine, but why him…"
"He feels like those obsessive fans who, one day, could be Ai’s stalker and may harm Ai’s in the future." Aqua replied with words that seemed like facts.
"Is that so… Well, okay then if that’s the reason." If Miyako had not had all those strange experiences with Aqua, she definitely would not have listened to this request. For now, what Aqua was asking for still makes sense.
"The second is a man named Kamiki Hikaru. I think he is currently a college student who used to be a member of a theater called Lala Lai Troop."
"Wait… Wait, what's wrong with this guy named Kamiki?" Miyako asked because she was surprised when Aqua suddenly described a man who had almost nothing to do with them.
"Hm… is that really important?" Aqua asked bluntly, with a completely blank expression on his face. It feels like darkness in Miyako’s view.
"Well, I need a good reason for doing something like this… In the end, I’m still an adult. There’s no way, I'll let you do something like this without any explanation." Yeah, that’s something Miyako feels.
Miyako felt as if she didn’t do something, right… The small child in front of her would be going the wrong way. At this moment, she felt that Aqua’s eyes were full of hatred that may have hinted at murderous intentions.
"Hm… Kamiki Hikaru is the person that I suspected to be Ruby and my father…" Aqua answered Miyako's question with an answer that was like an atomic bomb in Miyako's mind.
"Huh… wait… what?" Miyako's mind could not immediately grasp what Aqua said. Because the father of the twins was the thing that Ai covered the most. Even Ichigo himself couldn't get Ai to tell him who the father of the twins was. Then this time, Aqua suggests the possibility of who their father is.
"Did Ai tell you guys?" Miyako asked, and Aqua responded with an immediate head shake.
"But how…" Miyako couldn’t help but ask him.
"Well, in the end, it’s just a simple guess. It happened when she was sixteen years old, and I think at that moment, she was only busy with her idol activities, so her connection was limited. So how can she meet our father? I don’t think our mama is someone who is just roaming around and searching for a man like that. So there must be a reason, and something leads me to believe there is something that came from her acting abilities. I don’t think it just came from nowhere. She must be learning for someone. Someone who's good at acting... Maybe someone told her to come to a certain theater to help her become more famous by learning acting or something else, and at that place she met our father. There are a lot of theater troupes in Tokyo, but Ai is not that rich or famous. She must come to a small troupe and to a place that is easy for her to get to, which means Lala Lie's theatrical troupe is most likely the place she went for. And from many guys there… who meet Ruby and my profile with a skill that matches Ai, only one person… which is Kamiki Hikaru. He is most likely our father." Aqua gave Miyako a long explanation. It was absurdly just a guess, but at the same time quite convincing.
"That’s…"
"It’s fine if you feel like this is difficult to believe. That’s why I want you to monitor him and learn about him. I want you to surveillance him and tell me everything about him…"
It was Aqua's request, and from his tone, Miyako knew that she couldn’t reject this request.
Ah, and it wasn’t that long for her to learn that Kamiki Hikaru was truly the twins' father.
