Chapter 17: Game Meeting Part 2; The Saint Blessing and The Abyss Gate Assassin.

As Utaha sat in front of him, Junichiro could clearly smell and see a good scent of violet.

"Junior, I am optimistic about you." The senpai put down the book in her hand and leaned on the chair behind her. She then started shaking her legs slightly.

"What are you talking about?" Junichiro asked puzzledly.

Kasumigaoka Utaha is in the third grade, and he is in the second grade. The two have never met before except for that one failed meeting due to Tomoya going rogue.

That is, they said a few words in that meeting but they are still not that close.

Now Kasugaoka Utaha suddenly talks to himself. Junichiro's first reaction was not excitement, but just feeling strange and confused.

The elder sister stretched out her slender finger and tapped the table lightly. She then said: "Well, I heard that you create a club with the majority of its members being girls. So I came to congratulate you for your Harem creation."

"...I think you misunderstand," Junichiro said calmly.

Though, it was not what was inside his mind. 'It was not meant that way! There is no way, who knows, that there are very few males who aspire to be scientists in this world.'

He can't help but think of the many male scientists in anime. Most of them are psychopaths and evil… Adding the point that most of them are not in a normal daily life world.

As of now, he can only think of "Okabe Rintarou" from Stein; Gate who doesn't know where he is, and Senku Ishigami from Dr. Stone which he is not even sure whether he is also in this world.

Though adding Dr. Stone would be bad since it would just create more chaos than necessary if he is here…

(Author Note: please comment on any more male scientist anime characters that are also on similar earth or near future. I need those since there is a gender imbalance in the club. The new character will probably be added as a transfer student.)

"Beside me, there is also a male in my club. That means that it is just a big gender imbalance in a club, not a harem club or something." Junichiro tries to explain

"Are you sure about that?"

Someone suddenly said that from the direction of the door. He was none other than Kayaba Akihiko who just came to see the situation.

"The reason you invited me is not actually because you wanted to use me as a reason right?" Kayaba continued his question.

"HELL NO! I don't even think that most of our club members would be girls. As I told you, it is just a gender imbalance!" Junichirou exclaimed.

Junichiro then continues to support his explanation; "As for the reason for the gender imbalance, it might be because most males nowadays focus on tertiary or service sectors like writing novels or drawing manga rather than wanting to be a scientist."

"Kuhuhu… Well, it's rare to see someone who tries to deny something obvious with all his might nowadays." Utaha said so after finally showing her black belly character.

Aragaki Junichiro twitched the corner of his mouth and was about to speak. Suddenly, he realized that something was wrong.

Looking out from the corner of his eye, he saw Eriri who turns her head and looked to the side. However, her body clearly exuded an aura of impatience and resentment.

'That's it. She suddenly talks to me, someone of a younger generation and a stranger, is it actually just to annoy Eriri? Otherwise, with the coldness of the senior sister Utaha, would it be possible to talk so much to a strange junior like me?' Thought Junichiro

'Well, if this continues, the atmosphere will be uncomfortable with Eriri being ignored at the corner… Well, it looks like we also ignore Kato.'

Junichiro raised his eyebrows and began to change the topic of conversation as he started to formulate his counterattack.

"Senior Sister's "Love Metronome" is about to end, right? Is the ending written?" Junichiro asked suddenly.

The senior sister raised her eyebrows as she answered lightly, "Not yet."

Kasumigaoka Utaha did not ask Junichiro how he knew about her "Love Metronome,". After all, it is not unusual for Tomoya to recommend her book to his peers.

It can be said that each book is the devotion of the author's painstaking efforts, just like a child raised by the author, and the end of a book is like the melancholy when a child grows up and then never comes back...

After that, regardless of anything, the characters in the book will only become memories in both reader's and the author's minds.

This reluctance is also what troubles Utaha. So much so that her editor has already repeatedly urged her manuscript, but she has not been able to write a satisfactory ending.

After a pause, Utaha couldn't help asking:

"Junior, as a peer, do you have any suggestions?"

She said that with a hand placed on her lips. The corners of her lips are then turned slightly upwards, just like a charming vixen in many ancient monster stories: "If the proposal is good, I might give the junior some ~Rewards~~"

"..."

There is no fluctuation in Junichiro's heart.

For this seductive gesture and the ambiguous tone, if he really believes the promise of the black-bellied Kasumigaoka Utaha, he is sure that will definitely only get her poisonous tongue and contempt in the end.

Though it seems that his counterattack backfired since his plan was to embarrass her who delay her novel's last volume for a whole month.

"Kasumigaoka Utaha!" Eriri has already endured since before and almost couldn't help shouting, 'You should stop ignoring me!'

However, after shaking her head three times, she finally couldn't help but stop.

'This hateful dark girl is clearly testing myself deliberately! If I become excited, I still don't know what this vixen will say as a counterattack...

You should hold back!

You shall not be angry!

You must not be fooled by those hills of fat on her chest.'

"Yes, what is it? Sa-wa-mu-ra-san--- "

"YOU!! Grrrrrr..."

Sparks start to form between the two of them.

Junichiro stretched out a finger and tapped the table lightly to divert their attention as he said his answer: "Well sorry, but a romance novel is not my genre so I didn't finish all your books."

"In my opinion, it is stupid for the protagonist to be attracted to both girls and need to choose between them. After all, he should have picked one from the start. Hence, there will be no one who is hurt, rather than waiting this long for a few volumes before picking one." Junichiro added in his explanation.

'Though, it would not be attractive to the readers if that were the case haha' Though Junichiro in his mind.

"Heh… I thought you would support a harem ending like the 'man' you are." The senior sister raised her eyebrows lightly.

Junichiro couldn't help but twitch his eye once more from her response as he thought 'Why do I always think your perception of men is very bad! Or more like It's always the image of an adult scum and a pervert!'

Eriri also looked over, folded her hands on her chest, and rarely stood in the same position as Junichiro: "Hmph! Wandering between two girls, always being ambiguous, and thinking that no one will be hurt. In fact, that is the most excessive thing."

*"Achoo!!!"

A sneeze can be heard outside the room as the figure of Tomoya enters the room.

"Looks like I got a slight cold huh? Well anyway, what have I missed?"

"Nothing"x3

Junichiro, Eriri, and Utaha answer at the same time.

Deciding to end the previous conversation, Junichiro asks Kayaba who just sat down at the corner all this time.

"Anyway, Kayaba, I actually didn't expect you to come here. What makes you here?"

"Is there anything wrong?" Kayaba said while reading a book he pulled from his pocket before.

"Nothing, it's just I forgot to tell you that this game meeting club is actually to make a dating simulator or more specifically, a visual novel game. Hence, I am surprised to see you come." Junichiro explained his reason.

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Kayaba became silent for a while before asking "What is a dating simulator?"

"..." x6

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"This guy is not joking right?" Ask Eriri.

"Heh… You got some dense guy as your friend here, junior." Utaha said with a smirk.

"No, he is not, Ehm… A dating simulator is a simulation of, you know, real-life dating. However, you do it inside a game with a virtual character." Answer Junichiro uncertainty.

After all, it is hard to explain something that is already obvious to you. Since dating simulators are already explained clearly using the word that makes it up, it will be very hard to try to define them.

"True! Dating sims, or romance simulation games are video game subgenres of simulation games with romantic elements. Dating sims are often dialog-heavy and focus on time management and the player must befriend and carefully build and maintain a relationship with one or more characters as the gameplay is largely dependent on statistics. These games also often involve the raising of stats that reflect the player's skills and can be combined with other genres from RPG, Sci-Fi, etc." Tomoya adds to his bad explanation.

"I see… So did you often play it, Junichiro?" Kayaba asked suddenly.

As Kayaba asked that question, the whole room focused on his answer as even the usually uninterested Kato decided to look over.

"Well… not really… I only played one or two and became bored from it." Junichiro said what was in his mind.

It was both a truth and a lie.

Truthfully, he only played one such game in his previous life and became bored quickly because of the game being 'Pay to Win'. With a history of "no money spent on games", Blank (Junichiro's previous life) uninstalled it just within a day.

And a lie… Of course, because the predecessor (real Aragaki Junichiro) before his death always plays one when a new dating simulator game comes out…

"Ahem anyway, looks like this is all we have huh? 6 people in total." Junichiro said to distract the others as he thought: 'Looks like Ruri is not coming huh?'

"6? Isn't there only 5 here? Me, You, that friend you brought here, Eriri and Utaha senpai?" Tomoya asked in confusion.

"You forgot Kato," Junichiro answered shortly.

!!! x3

"Ah, Kato! You are here!" Tomoya exclaimed.

"As expected of Kato-san huh?" Said Utaha who also just realized Kato's presence.

"Junichiro… is she an assassin?" ask Kayaba rudely. To which Junichiro answered: "She is not…"

"... hello" Kato answered shortly after hearing her name being called.

"Ahem, well looks like there are really 6 people in total huh?"

Though, just as Tomoya said that sentence, a seventh voice can be heard just inside the room.

"Ano… I am also here" said that guy

"Who are you!" x5 (everyone besides Kato and the guy)

"Eh… I am…" Before the mysterious guy has the chance to answer, Kato immediately answers instead of him.

"He is Kousuke Endou, he is actually our classmate in class 2B with me and Tomoya."

Hearing his name, Junichiro can't help but think 'Kousuke Endou? Why do I seem to have heard this name? A guy with black hair that covers his eyes like a hentai protagonist along with his stealth capability that rivals Kato… Wait a minute! HE IS!!!!!'

[Chapter Ends Here...]

Author Note: Just like many authors, it seems I have finally mastered the skills of [Cliffhanger] LOL. (°w°)