Chapter 12: Futuristic Gadget Research Club!
As Kayaba leaves him alone…
*Ding*
[You have done a scholar's conversation with a "Tech Characters" <Kayaba Akihiko>.]
[Unlocked hidden Quest: The Creator of the Death Game]
[Description: Have a scholar's conversation with the character. (12% Completion)
Reward: NerveGear Full-Dive Virtual Reality Technology.]
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'Did I just discover a way to get free technology just by doing a conversation?' Junichiro thought.
"Well, looks like I now know who other club members that I should invite," Junichiro said in a whisper with a grin as he also went back to his house from the library.
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Wednesday, 16th April 2013
"Hey, you there!"
An eye suddenly appears in front of the screen with a blue pupil and black eyebrow. The eye is opened wide and staring at you through the screen of a somewhat high-tech camera.
"Can you see me?"
The giant eye moved as if it was frowning while its focus never left the front of the camera. It seems that if you continue to stare at your screen, the eye will come out from the other side to this side.
"Why aren't you answering?"
The eye continues to frown further before a second eye appears on the screen with the same features as the previous one. Besides the eyes, the nose of a person that separates the left and right of the two eyes also appears. It seems that the eyes and nose belong to a person.
"Yes, you dumb-looking green ball in front of me!"
It seems that behind this somewhat advanced camera screen is a green ball or sphere. Though it was unknown what it actually is. It might be a biological creature or actually a robot.
"Well, whatever."
As the person says this, a mouth finally appears in front of the screen forming a smirk on the person's face.
"This is a futuristic gadget research club laboratory."
After he says this, our MC finally shows his face. He is actually Junichiro who has red hair that is cut shorter than before to differentiate him and the predecessor (real Junichiro) with blue eyes and wearing the smart glasses that he just created. Junichiro also wears his lab coat over his uniform with his unique red pen stationed in the left chest pocket of his lab coat.
"Let me introduce the research members. First, lab member 001: The founder and crazy mad scientist..."
As he said to this point, he takes a deep breath before uttering a word. "Me". He said so with utter confidence and a bow in front of Haro (prototype) {the dumb-looking green ball} that he has worked on for a whole week.
"My name is Hououin Kyouma Desu!"
*BOOM* The lightning struck the background as the sky turned into a darker shade.
The sky and the weather won't change much from before as it is still usually cloudy, mostly raining, and also an occasional thunderstorm like right now.
"Can you stop your stupid act Aragaki-san? I know that you have worked on that green ball robot for a whole week and I know that you might become crazy from that. However…. Please stop yelling in front of that thing! It will be embarrassing if someone hears it!" Said a girl with red hair like Junichiro from behind.
"Quiet! "Aragaki Junichiro" is simply my cover name!"
"Ahem, Next! Lab member 002. The vice leader of this club, cosplay costume maker, and also probably our club mascot, Shinonono Tabane!"
Junichiro introduces as he points to a girl while also focusing Haro's camera to the left side of the laboratory where she is located. The girl has reddish-purple eyes and long dark purple-pink hair with a slim, voluptuous figure and large breasts.
She now wears a lab coat with 002 number and a frilly maid-like blue and white dress similar to that of the one in "Alice in Wonderland" that reveals a great deal of her cleavage. She also wears grey bracelets on her wrists and a pair of rabbit ears headbands on her head.
"Hai! This is everyone's idol Tabane-chan desu!" Shinonono Tabane said with a cheerful voice.
Her appearance now can be described to be 9/10 from the adult counterpart in the anime. Besides the fact that she has not yet created some of her signature gadgets like robotic rabbit ears and her own Infinite Stratos, no other difference can be observed as her pair of breasts already develop to her fullest potential even if she is only a high school student now.
"Now, Lab member 004: The Super Hacker Kayaba Akihiko!" Junichiro introduces another member of his lab as he points toward the guy he introduced and focuses Haro's camera to the right side of the laboratory (club room).
Seen on the other side, Kayaba, wearing a white shirt with a necktie underneath and a long white lab coat on top (of course with 003 number too), is typing in front of a computer full of programming language code. He puts on a sharp face as he focuses on the code in front of him with his metallic eyes.
"I'm a programmer! Not a Hacker! Aren't you the one who is more proficient in hacking Junichiro?" Replied Kayaba as a tick mark can be seen on his forehead.
He relaxed his sitting posture on his chair as he sighed to himself. He then faced the other members of this club as he said: "Can anyone remind me why I decided to join this stupid club?"
"Don't you want to create your own flying castle and go beyond any law of boundaries?" Said the red-haired girl with a teasing tone as she smiled at Kayaba.
"Eh? Kayaba-chan wants to create a flying castle?" Tabane followed.
Hearing that, Kayaba's expression froze on his face even though he is usually emotionless and uses his poker face all the time. Even Junichiro can't help notice the subtle difference when that guy's face turns into that of shock.
"... How did you know about it?" Kayaba asked as he turn his head toward Junichiro with his unique glare that combined his emotionless expression and a stare.
Receiving the glare, Junichiro can only widen his eye a bit before shaking his head hurriedly. After all, it was really not him who shared his dream. He is not as bored as that to share the secret dream of others.
"Well… How do I say it? A red-haired guy attracted lots of people's attention in a library as he sat down in front of a poker-faced guy reading a book who then told his fictional dream to the red-haired guy."
"So you are eavesdropping" x5 all the other people in this club say so at the same time.
"Ah!!!?... NO! I'm NOT!" She said so with a flustered voice seeing as she got caught red-handed with her being found out eavesdropping on two guys who were having a conversation about their dream.
"Fine! Quiet! Let's just move on with you! Lab member 004: Our Brain specialist and the so-called Red Hot Habanero, KURISUTINA (Christina)!" Junichiro introduced her with a very deep Hououin Kyouma's accent in his voice.
"Wa-! It is Kurisu! Not Christina! Don't add "Tina" to my name!" Makise Kurisu, the red-haired girl, protested about her misspell in her introduction.
"No! I see no Kurisu here! Only Kurisutina!" Junichiro said with a smug expression.
"You! Fine! Forget it!" Christina… Ahem, Kurisu finally relent on her change in name as she sat down at one of the chairs in the room.
"Well, where am I now? Right! Let's now introduce Lab member 005: Koujiro Rinko, our material supervisor, and finance manager!"
"Hah… Do I need to say something?" Koujiro Rinko asks Junichiro with a helpless expression as she gets pulled into this weird situation inside the club.
"Well... You can if you want? Maybe something like 'I joined this club for a certain person!' or 'Since this guy joined this club, I will join this club too!' or maybe something of the sort!" Junichiro said this with a teasing tone since he knows why she suddenly joined this club when it just opened for a day due to a certain guy beside him who joined this club too.
"Hmm? It must be just your imagination." Koujiro Rinko said so with an expressionless expression just like the guy she likes.
'Tch… the two of them are really a match in heaven since even their personality is similar!'
"Well, probably. Finally, our final member, Lab member 006: Fumino Furuhashi! She is our….. Well, just forget about her." Junichiro said the last sentence with a shrug before a shrieking sound from the girl he introduced.
"Wa-Wa-WA! Why the hell you introduce me like that!" Fumino shrieks due to the nonchalant attitude Junichiro has when introducing her.
"Well, I just can't find a place that fits your description when you are here. You are usually only seen looking at others doing their own project while chattering by yourself…"
"At least find a better description! Also, call me Senpai!"
"Fine… " Junichiro relent since he doesn't think much about it.
'Didn't I do this just to act Chuunibyou and to be seen stupid by the secret organization? Why is everyone so particularly sensitive to this play? Forget it… this must be another ploy from the organization.' Junichiro though as he redoes her introduction
"Ahem! Our last Lab member 006; Fumino Furuhashi, Our lab observer and documentation personnel!"
"Well, that's better! Ku-Hum, Hello Haro-san Nice to meet you!" said Fumino as she faced the green haro on the table.
"Haro! Nice to meet you!" replied Haro as it answered her greetings.
Hearing Haro's voice, Junichiro finally remembered that he recorded the entire thing this whole time.
'Well… Let's just show it to them later on in the future for our memories.'
Junichiro thought so as he went closer to his Haro before saying in a whisper so that the others couldn't hear it. "Stop the recording just now and save it to my drive."
"Haro understand!" Replied Haro in quite a loud voice.
"What did you say to it?" asked Christina… Hey! even I as the author forget that her name is Kurisu!
Ahem… Asked Kurisu as she stared at Junichiro with suspicion.
"Nothing," Junichiro replied in a poker face with as little emotion as possible by following Kayaba's usual answer.
"I see," Said Kurisu before continuing with her own stuff.
It's been a week since he had a conversation with Kayaba at the library. He also already roll his weekly gacha four days ago (12 April) and got a new technology:
[Anesthetic Watch (Detective Conan)
Technology Type= Weapons & Medical
Rank= Red 6]
At the time of getting this technology, Junichiro can only curse the amount of new technology he gets from this technology is only a slight improvement on the anesthesia chemical used in the bullet and nothing else. But what can he do? Not like he knows how to re-roll the cache once he got one right?
Other than that, he got two new hidden quests by inviting the two girls Kurisu and Tabane as he suspected. From them, he got the mission "Kurigohan and Kamehameha Time Paradox Girl" and "The Feminist Ultimate Genius Girl" respectively. As many already suggest, He will get the [Time leap Machine Technology] and [infinite Stratos Technology] once he completes the mission.
However, it seems he underestimated the difficulty in doing so. While the Kayaba Mission has already advanced to 70%, he is still at 6% and 2% in the Kurisu and Tabane missions respectively.
'Does the percentage relate to how much I understand about them? After all, I got lucky with Kayaba since he talks about his dream in front of me and I think being the same gender helps in saying what you have in mind.'' Thought Junichiro.
'However, there is also the chance that it is actually because of the level of technology that is given. NerveGear is not as advanced as time machines and mecha that also has the function of understanding its user after all...'
*Ring*
His thought was broken as the ring of his phone sounded in his ears.
"Hello?"
"Ah, Junichiro!" Tomoya's voice sounds from the phone.
"Yes? What is it? Is there something that you need?" Junichiro asked through the phone.
"Well… We have another meeting for our game creation Tomorrow. Please join me in convincing those two Junichiro!" Tomoya begs Junichiro through the phone as he probably still has not yet finished his script in writing the game.
'Tch… This is what happens if you think about those 2d girls all the time and use too much of your finger energy for a back and forth movement with your stick!'
"Hah… Fine, I will come to the meeting tomorrow with you and help you. But I can't guarantee that both of them will join if you still have not yet finished your job."
"Ahaha… That! I will definitely finish it by tomorrow! I promise! See you!"
"See you... El Psy Kongroo."
*Beep
Junichiro ended the call as he thought; 'If he finishes it by tomorrow, I will jump from the rooftop!'