45 Chapter 35
"Mah, let's just pray.. It's getting late." Hiroto suggested as all of them approached the shrine. Each of them threw a coin to the bar and Honoka in the center held the thick rope connected to the bell and she waved it to make the bell ring.
"Ding ling.."
All of them closed their eyes.
"Please make the live successful!" Honoka said loudly.
"Please." everyone followed suit.
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After the visit to the shrine Umi, Honoka and Kotori part ways with Hiroto and Maki.
"Today was a lot of fun!" Honoka said while stretching her arms feeling a bit tired but happy nonetheless.
"That's right, I want to hear their duet again. They have that link to each other that made their performance really perfect." Kotori praised while she reminisce for a time.
"Honoka-chan, Kotori-chan, remember that we need to prepare for tomorrow's live so both of you should sleep early and don't stay up late, especially you Honoka!, don't oversleep" Umi strictly said.
"It's okay Umi-chan!, we know already.. " Honoka reassured her.
"By the way during the game, Umi-chan got her first win of the game right?." Honoka asked.
"Hiroto is a kind guy, he helped us, he persuades Maki-chan and even let Umi-chan win the game.. I might have fallen in love with him he-he" Kotori said giggling.
"Eh? But Hiroto-chan already got a girlfriend you know?! " Honoka was surprised by her sudden confession.
"He might have a girlfriend but I am fine being a second ah! Umi-chan might be my rival if I do that! hehe Just kidding" Kotori giggled though her cheeks blushed as a result. (AN: Sneaky 100%)
"Mou, what do you mean we are just friends, just friends!" Umi retort while pouting.
"You have yet to realise your true feelings Umi-chan" Kotori said mysteriously smiled
"True feelings... " thinking of Hiroto again Umi blushed and immediately shook her head.
"Anyway, we just have to thank him and repay him if he needs our help, Hiroto-kun helped us a lot after all" Umi quickly changed the topic quickly.
"We will! " Honoka and Kotori said at the same time.
Umi smiled and walked with them happily chatting with each other until they get separated.
Umi got home and changed to her pajamas as she lay on her bed. She sighed 'true feelings eh' she thought.
She remembered one conversation with Maki while Hiroto was away buying drinks.
"You really have a kind and cool boyfriend Maki-chan!." Kotori said.
"H-he's a pervert, aggressive and forceful!, but y-yeah he's kind of c-cool and kind." Maki said while twirling her hair.
"He sure bad on acting when after I won." Umi said while sighing but she was happy because of his consideration.
"Eh?! Hiroto-chan let you win?! " Honoka said surprised.
"Honoka-chan it's obvious you know." Kotori said
"That's just him being so considerate to others, t-that's one of the things I l-like about him..." Maki said with while twirling her hair feeling shy.
"He didn't let you down Maki, be sure to treasure your boyfriend and never let go of him" Umi said seems smiling but her heart tightens when she said that.
"U-un" Maki nodded by still looking away.
"True feelings..." Umi fell asleep.
'Is it wrong to love a person who already love someone?'
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Meanwhile, after parting with the trio.
"I have to go to the bookstore to look for study books, I need to buy new ones." Maki said while thinking of the books she need.
"I'll help out, I don't have anything to do afterwards." Maki just nodded before they held hands before going to the store. Maki didn't shy talking but she nonetheless had a blush on her cheeks and it was more comfortable than always being dishonest, of course it's another thing when there are other people.
"You're getting more popular in the platform, I saw the subscriber count and you're viewers, do you want to continue and become a celebrity?" Maki asked him.
"Do you watch it often?." Hiroto looked at her.
"S-sometimes, I'm just looking up the internet and always saw you're stream coincidentally because there were many people talking about it." Maki looked at the ground they were walking.
"That good?, then that's awesome." he felt a bit amazed.
"Yeah, there was even a post at the school page, a headline for you, you don't know?." Maki look at him while he looked at Maki with a surprise and realization.
"So that's why.." he was approached with few students looking at him and asking for autographs but he denied. In the end, the students had stopped this behavior and just look at him curiously and admiring from far away.
"I don't want to make a choice for now, since I might apply to college someday, so I'm just going to stream every now and the other day when I'm free." Hiroto said while he rubbed his chin.
"Free, aren't you always free when you go home..." Maki rolled her eyes on him.
"I just stream and after that I chat with you, isn't that something to be busy about?." he teased.
"E-eh, th-that's stop that's embarrassing meanie.." Maki punched his stomach lightly as he laughed at her demise.
They reached the bookstore and see something he knew. His light novel was being advertised in the wooden plaque on the entrance to the left of the glass door. It was somewhat a big advertisement and anyone from the street can see it.
'I know that they would be heavily invested in this project, but to think it would have this effect.' he smiled unconsciously.
"Why are you smiling, you're being creepy?" Maki said rolled her eyes.
"He-he, it's nothing, look there's a light novel being recommended, have you read one before?" he chuckled.
"I have read a few of them in the past...."
"Why don't you try to read this during your free time, it's really good but I have bought it already..." Hiroto recommended.
'Well I'm advertising it to my girlfriend, haha'
"If you say so, but If I didn't like it then I won't continue reading...." she joked but it's probably true, she might be picky with what she reads given her spicy personality.
"Okay, then let's buy the study books first...."
They searched for the books and spent a few moments asking her and looking for the specific books until they were finally done. Hiroto held books on hand and Maki was humming slightly, feeling the advantage of a luggage boyfriend.
'So he didn't want to buy a book but just helped me, he's considerate and that's good.' Maki felt her cheeks get redder.'
"Do you really need to buy this many books?."
"Of course!, how would I be able to enter a good college..." Maki said with elation.
"We can just go for study lessons or go cram together." he fetch an idea.
"Y-you want to go to a medical school too?" Maki was a bit surprised.
"I might, since you're going to one right?" he smiled.
"Hmmm...then t-that's good..." Maki felt shy and glad at the same time as she twirled her hair.
"..."
"If you're this honest when speaking to others as well.., but I like that you only show this to me, hehe" Hiroto said truthfully.
"W-w-what do you mean!, I don't know what you're talking about, hmpf."
They looked around to find his advertised light novel.
"....This seemed to be the shelf..." Maki looked at the empty shelf, they search to find a copy of the novel, but didn't find one. Before then, the staff saw them looking to the popular novel place as he suddenly talked to them.
"Customer, were really sorry, but we don't have a stock for that novel right now, can you please go back tomorrow to get a copy? But you should get in here as early as possible" the staff was speaking courteously..
"Is it that popular?." he asked probingly.
"Yes, it debuted last week and every time we restocked, it would be bought by many customers." the staff felt amazement.
"....w-well."
"I have a copy so just borrow mine." as they head to the cashier.
"Customers, I recommended you to buy still buy one."
"...she'll think about it later." they reached the cashier, then he gave the books one by one to be scanned.
"Mah, then it's good." Maki looked at him and smiled, she brought out her purse.
'This is the public sir, mam, why are you flirting in front of me, a single….' the employee felt the injustice in the world
"'Cough', customers please pay the noted price for everything."
"..."
After paying the bill, Hiroto and Maki at the park before her mother came, and hailed Maki off. Seeing her go, he walked towards home.
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Hiroto had been doing daily quest ever since it was introduced. Albeit some quest cannot be done, due to time and place but the majority of them had been completed and it gave him a great amount of SP.
Until then, there were many projects of arts and things stocked on his bedroom. Some examples of caricature, renaissance paintings and different geometry arts. There were wooden sculptures of a certain anime models and lastly the manuscript of some novel he had read before like 'To aru Majutsu no Index and the next volumes of the 'Haruhi Suzumiya', he wrote, since he had a daily quest pertaining to it.
Name: Hiroto Tamaki
Age: 16 (25)
SP: 41892
Level: 1 (95/1000)
Physical: 13
Soul Power: Locked
Skills:
Piano (Master)
Axe (Intermediate)
Writing (Skilled)
Carpentry (Basic)
Beatboxing (Skilled)
Photography (Master)
Running (Master)
Fine Arts (Proficient)
Analytical (Intermediate)
Instant Calculation (Basic)
Programming (Intermediate)
Teaching (Skilled)
Poetry (Skilled)
Boxing (Master)
Management (Intermediate)
Fishing (Skilled)
After he livestream.
"I might as well finish the remaining daily quest of the day."
[Quest: Daily
Create a program! :
The code is a system of rules, it converts the information to make a program.
Requirements:
Write a code with complexity tier of better than the average programmer.
Reward: 250 SP, 5 XP]
[Quest: Daily: Completed
Camera enthusiast!:
A photographer focus capturing the scenes fully shown in front of them, they must output precision and quality that would make the scenes shown in the images alive and a real scene that happened.
Requirements:
Photograph scenes using the 21 photography style and achieve a score of 80 and above artistic score. Current completion 3/3.
Reward: 250 SP, 5 XP ]
[Quest: Hidden : In progress
Piano and Vocal :
Perform a duet with Maki and motivate the listeners.
Requirements :
The music duet must reach the hearts of the audiences. Audience needed to be moved : 3/150.
Reward: Singing (Master) Skill, 10 XP, Memorization Capsules x 10.]
He had done the photography quest this morning and now, he wanted to finish the other quest.
He started writing the program, with the help of his arithmetic and other skills it improve his capability to write codes especially logics and a bit of design.
Using D++ he created a no gui calculator. It had the ability to calculate addition, subtraction multiplication and even division.
An almost perfect program other than it was only a console program, created with the help of his other skills. He undeniably created something like a normal programmer can do. Though his was much better and rather than using dull switch statements for everything, he had used different techniques that simplifies the calculation, and that means that his line of code was so much smaller than any average programmer could do. But that was just it.
"I could make the games from my past, that's a great idea!."
[Quest: Daily : Completed
Create a program! :
Code is a system of rules, it converts the information to make a program.
Requirements:
Write a code with complexity tier of better than the average programmer:
Reward: 250 SP, 5 XP]
Name: Hiroto Tamaki
Age: 16 (25)
SP: 42142
Level: 1 (100/1000)
Physical: 13
Soul Power: Locked
Skills:
Piano (Master)
Axe (Intermediate)
Writing (Skilled)
Carpentry (Basic)
Beatboxing (Skilled)
Photography (Master)
Running (Master)
Fine Arts (Proficient)
Analytical (Intermediate)
Instant Calculation (Basic)
Programming (Intermediate)
Teaching (Skilled)
Poetry (Skilled)
Boxing (Master)
Management (Intermediate)
Fishing (Skilled)
Inventory:
Stink Pill x 2
M3 Submachine Gun x 1, Cal 45 Ammo x 60
Sweet Candy x 5
Health Pill x 1
Glowstick x 10
Blue Jersey x 1
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