Chapter 122 - Unresolved (2/2)
“This much force is just right. It’s hard from a girl, especially one that has no experience.”
… Is that so?
“If it doesn’t work out, I’ll comfort you. So, do your best, Senpai.”
“Even if you say you’ll comfort me, it’s the Rei-chan from 10 years ago. An elementary schooler…”
“It’s fine, don’t sweat the details! It’s safe because the inside is already 20!”
“That’s got to be an out.”
Rei-chan started laughing, and being caught up in it, I as well.
As I was about to give my thanks, my smartphone rang. It was from Natsumi-chan.
“Hello?”
“Thank you for the hard work. The plan has finally passed! The one that Thief-kun… no Seiji-san and I corrected multiple times.”
“Uhhh… Plan…? What do you mean?”
“Eeeeeh…? Come on. Don’t play dumb. The one where we wanted to create a mobile content division within the telecommunications department.”
“Eh, which means… a division to make mobile games? Isn’t that reckless? You’re underestimating it too much.”
“Fufu, isn’t the same thing that Papa told us? It wasn’t realistic enough, so we worked together to revise the plan. In the end, our goals changed to buying out an affiliate company. That’s how the talk ended up getting put together.”
… I see.
Rather than building a whole new team by employing second rate engineers and producers, it would be easier to buy a whole team on its own. In the current situation it should be easy to do. The present me had made the proper moves. Good job me.
It was all finally becoming a reality.
“I mailed you the information on the company so check it over will you? I don’t know much about games, but it seems that they were pretty famous before, and are now going through some tough times. This makes things more interesting though~ Fufufu.”
“What’s weird about it?”
“I’ll tell you in more detail tonight.”
Saying that, Natsumi-chan hung up the call.
The mail from Natsumi-chan was soon forwarded to me. It was to my own private email.
[About Acty Softworks as a Subsidiary.]
Before my second year of high school, they had created a bunch of famous works. The name is well known enough for me to recognize it.
“Senpai? What is it?”
“…”
A bunch of hard business words written in small characters were lined up in the report.
In summary, it’s been decided that we would take them in as a subsidiary, and that I would represent the HRG company to meet them. For Acty Softwork, ASW’s, game production, HRG will put out the money. It’s a simple resolution, but negotiation with the other party may be difficult.
“Hey, what’s up?”
I held back Rei-chan, who came closer trying to take a peek at my face.
“Fugyaah, what are you doing?”
“This is still a secret, so… Hmmm?”
As I read further down, I found the name of their representative.
ASW Representative — Ii Kanata
“Whaaaaat?”
Is it a different person… with the same name and gender? No, Natsumi-chan was laughing, it has to be Kanata.
I wonder what sort of meeting it’ll turn into.
As I was thinking that, I was wrapped in the feeling of a time leap.
Eeeeeeh! With this timing!? I wanted to ask Natsumi-chan about a lot of things though! Ummm., it seemed like it was about to get interesting—waaaaaaiiit!
When I came to, I woke up on the bed in my room. Today’s date is the day after the ending of the school festival. I was still at the point of dating Hiiragi-chan.
Still, that wasn’t a dream, right…?
In my own way, I was also trying to help out the tilting HRG company.
Wait. Even though I broke up with Hiiragi-chan, I was still doing my best for HRG…? No, well, doing your best at work is the right thing to do, there’s no question about that… however, something bothers me about this.
Anyways, let’s send a message to Kanata.
[Let’s do something about it together!!]
[Are you half asleep? The school festival is over already.]
…. Well, of course it would be like that.
I had finally woken up at that moment.