6 Chapter 5- Orion

"Hello, this is the art club right?"

Tanaka entered the art club room and asked, inside, there were 3 people, 2 guys and 1 girl, a girl and guy were together, the guy was drawing the girl while the other guy was in the corner drawing apples and bananas.

"Ah, yes, welcome, how may we help you?"

The guy alone in the corner stood up and greeted Tanaka.

"Ah, nice to meet you, My name is Ryuuji Tanaka, just call me Tanaka, the student council president have already notified you guys right?"

"Ah! Are you the one who wanted to do commission for us?"

"Yes"

"Then please, come sit inside, my name is Naoto Hachioji, I;m the vice president of the art club, the president is attending important matters so was not here"

"That's okay, anyway, let's start talking then"

"Ah, sure"

Tanaka had a good impression of this guy, even though he looked like a shy naive guy that could be bullied by a small girl, he was quite good at talking with Tanaka, they both sat on a chair with table and so they started their talk.

"Let's do this straight, I will pay you guys high if the quality of the work, is of course, excellent, so if I like your clubs work, I will pay 5,000 Yen for a single drawing"

Tanaka may not be rich but he still has some savings that he saved up in his middle school, if he remembers correctly, it's about a million yen? That was what he found in his memory and he doesn't know how saved up that much money, but considering most of the things in japan are expensive, it wasn't really that much.

"F-five thousand? That's too high, we can't accept that"

"No, treat this as a bonus for you guys, maybe in the future I will come once again"

"O-okay"

"Good, here are the sketches I have and I want you guys to draw it, digitally and full color"

"Digital drawing? Sorry but we don't have the necessary equipment for that"

"No, let me finish, we already talked with the president of the Gaming Club, and have accepted to lend you guys equipment for this"

Tanaka wasn't the one who spoke with the gaming club, but was Chika who happily helped as she was buddies with the president of that club. Chika had already confirmed it a few days ago.

"This…"

Naoto hesitated for a bit before he looked at his other fellow members of the art club who nodded at him, Naoto took a deep breath and nodded.

"Okay, we accept it"

"Good, You may take your time in making this, ensure the quality and don't rush, you can just go to the gaming club to borrow the equipment"

Tanaka nodded. Naoto then looked at the sketch that was given to him by Tanaka, it was a little rough on the edges but the drawing is quite good and there are also important details about the sketch.

Tanaka said nothing anymore and left.

After Tanaka left, Naoto turned to his two art club members.

"Subaru, Mizuki, come here and help me"

"Okay" x2

The two club members were very respectful and checked the sketches given by Tanaka, and they were amazed by how handsome the character was. Even though it was not colored, the character didn't pale against popular anime characters, they were sure that the character will be more handsome after it was fully drawn.

"Can we do this?"

"Yes! VP, even though I only draw cute 2d girls, I will help you with this as it got my interest"

"I will also help"

"Okay, that is good, we will go home for now and start tomorrow"

"..."

After giving them the job, Tanaka didn't immediately went home but first visited the Student Council Room, this was already his hang out place and there is also an important thing that everyone is eager to see.

Yes. today is where the first round winners of the contest will be announced.

"Whoo, don't worry Tanaka, your game will surely win"

Chika immediately said to Tanaka as he sat on the sofa, and Tanaka became speechless, he didn't even say anything and she was already giving him some courageous words? And why does it seem like they were more nervous than him?

Are they the ones joining the contest? Tanaka couldn't help but feel funny as he looked at this, well anyway, the student council room has a big TV and Ishigami connected his laptop on the computer. Hachiman also joined today as he was also cheering for his friend.

There is still a few minutes left before the first round is announced so Tanaka decided to chat with Hachiman.

"So how is your club? Are there any beauties there?"

"Yeah, there is one, but she is cold"

"Oh, be careful falling in love again, you may not want to repeat the middle school nightmare".

"Don't make me remember that, I already told you to forget about it, I know, it's my motto and I am being careful around girls"

"Haha, its impossible to forget about it, She was just being nice to you she said, but she was actually using you as a bridge towards me, I found that really funny"

"Tsk, F*ck boy"

"Hey language~"

Tanaka nudged hachiman in the shoulders just as they were joking with each other, the other made noises as it was finally time,

"Its out!"

Ishigami refreshed the screen and the top 100 list has finally come out on the official site of the contest.

Everyone looked intently in the screen afraid to miss Tanaka's game, even Tanaka is putting his full attention, slowly, the titles of the games started to scroll down slowly, it didn't take long for the top 20 to come out but Tanaka's game wasn't seen yet.

Top 30, top 40, top 50, then finally on the way to top 70 they finally found Angry Birds! It was in the top 69! Tanaka smirked as he saw the number, then sighed in relief as his game passed the first round.

"Yehey!"

Everyone cheered as they saw that Tanaka passed the first round and celebrated, they were much happier than Tanaka.

"Okay, okay, let's celebrate in restaurant"

Tanaka is not a cheap person and since it was a joyous occasion, it was not so bad to celebrate, so while on their way, Tanaka sneakily checked his system and saw that his reputation points rose up by a few thousands.

Though it was not enough to give him a spin on the system, at least he knew he gained some fame from the game he made, so he was extremely happy now, they entered a ramen house and each ordered a bowl.

After that, Tanaka paid for everyone and they all went home happily, Tanaka gave Shirogane some extra for him to take home as he knew the current family matters of the Shirogane family, Tanaka is also quite close with his sister so it was a no big deal.

After they went home, Tanaka didn't ate dinner with his family as he was already full but he still let his family know before making his way to his room.

Tanaka sat on his computer and opened the Game engine, then entered into deep thought.

"I now have a lot of time. I can start a new game and maybe finish it in three to five months? Anyway, the problem is, which game should I make?"

Tanaka wanted to make a proper game this time, a game that will surely give him tons of reputation points to let him spin, he was already itching to see what his system would give, but it was just too damn expensive.

Tanaka sighed and looked at the computer in front of him.

"Does it have to be necessarily a game?"

He suddenly thought, the system said that it came from his achievements, it doesn't necessarily have to be a game. Couldn't he also gain reputation points from writing a novel? Or even remaking the songs from his past life? Maybe also a movie?

Tanaka thought for a while before he sat up and opened up a document.

"Thinking won't get me nowhere. For now, let's try. If it doesn't work, then I just wasted a bit of time"

The first thing he tried is writing a song from his past life, it was the best way to see if it will really work. Tanaka chose a modern song from his past life.

"Which song should I go? Unravel? No its too difficult for me, Blue Bird? Uh… no"

After thinking for a while Tanaka still haven't decided to what song he should go for, but then his eyes suddenly flashed.

"Yes! That song will work, its easy to sing and very relatable to many people"

Tanaka then started writing on the document.

[Orion]

Originally sung by Kenshi Yonezu, it was a popular song that even went overseas despite being a Japanese song, it was a song with 164 Million Views in Youtube and was one of the best songs Tanaka have heard before.

He also remembers the whole lyrics as he had sung this in an karaoke before, after a while, he immediately finished writing, he then immediately went out of his room and barged in to his little brothers room.

"Shousuke, let me borrow your guitar!"

Despite being in an overly quiet family, Tanaka didn't inherit his fathers quietness but inherited his mothers cheerful personality, Shousuke who was surprised by Tanaka's sudden barging flinched but he immediately turned towards him and pointed at the guitar hanging by the wall.

"Thanks, I will return it later"

"You know how to play Nii-san?"

Shousuke suddenly asked as Tanaka took the guitar.

"Just a little, do you want to hear me play?"

Shousuke didn't reply immediately but only looked at Tanaka before nodding.

"Come to my room then, tell me how good is my singing"

The two then went to Tanaka's room, Shousuke sat on the bed while Tanaka sat in front of his computer and started lightly strumming his guitar. He played nothing but first adjusted the strings to the sound he wanted to.

Tanaka may not be a master in playing guitars but in his past life when he was a high school student, he played guitar until college before stopping because he was very busy but even though he hadn't played for a long time, the foundation was there.

After a while Tanaka finished adjusting the strings then started strumming the guitar, he had heard the acoustic version of Orion. He had difficulty at first but after a while; he got the hang of it and his strumming became smooth.

"Your fingers, that chest, those eyes"

As Tanaka plucked the guitar, he also used some way to make the strumming cooler and added some techniques.

"They appear so bright that there are lights. I grow dizzy."

Tanaka continued to sing until the song entered the chorus and the guitar started playing loudly.

"Oh, God... please, please let me hear your voice!

Just the slightest words will do!

So that we'll never be apart again,9

I want you to join with me...

Just like that constellation."

Tanaka's voice is not that good nor his singing technique was the best but he still sung the song as he knew it, Shousuke who was watching by the side said nothing and just listened to his brother sing a song that he had never heard before.

He liked listening to songs and even though he had never heard of this song before, he already liked it.

After a while, Tanaka finally finished singing, and he felt refreshed, he hadn't sung like that in a while.

"How is it?"

"I haven't heard of this song before? What's the song name?"

"Of course, you haven't heard it before, It was just made today, its title is 'Orion', I'm thinking of releasing it. What do you think?"

"It will be popular, I'm sure of it"

Shousuke replied seriously.

"Good! Then I will rehearse for a little more as I haven't sung in a while"

Tanaka laughed as he heard his little brother's praise.