Chapter 154 – Volume 31 – Antinomy of Hope and Despair (4)
“Thank you for helping everyone with the tournament schedule. Actually, I have to go through that part by myself…”
“We had a lot of fun, too. And we did a game test together in the first place, and we got very attached while doing it.”
“That’s right. When we were testing, there were a lot of unexpected plays.”
After everything related to the contest was over, I was having an after party with the members of the cartoon club who had helped with the event.
While I prioritize drawing cards with the winner motif, saying that I will meet the schedule as soon as possible.
Thanks to the guys who took care of the finishing touches as requested in advance, fortunately, I was able to finish the work without any problems.
“Oh, is this the new deck you said you drew with that winner motif?”
“Yeah, although the intensity was a bit strong. He said he wanted it.”
“I thought Rapunzel was scary too, but this is really scary…”
Rapunzel is also a character that was said to contain quite a bit of madness.
Apparently, the madness of the winner I saw at the tournament or in the follow-up conversation was even worse.
It seems he’s almost maniacally obsessed with tentacle and spawn play…
It’s not that I’m going to do something criminal, and it’s not a part to say anything because it’s a normal taste.
Well, if I had been obsessed with real madness in the first place, I would have only used that deck from the middle, not the finals.
Seeing them compromise to win, it just seems like fake madness.
“I like this. I think it was chosen beautifully.”
“Yes?”
Sometimes I think Yuria’s aesthetic sense is strangely twisted.
It was amazing that the twisted point coincidentally overlapped with mine.
Although I like the extremes of this kind of madness-young emotion, honestly, I don’t hate it either.
That’s why I think I had more fun working on it because the winner was a crazy person.
“Well, this is this too… I was surprised that the real tournament was much better than I thought.”
“That’s what you say, but you produced and prepared the competition and sales within the expected range.”
“I prepared generously, but it was just a close match.”
Once I produced this much, I was able to commit it because I thought that it would be possible to sell it all for the name value of ‘Siwoo’, even if it took a long time.
Rather than being criticized for lacking in tournaments, I beat them all up with the feeling that I was wasting the money I had accumulated so far.
Of course, now that I think about it, things would have been a bit complicated if I hadn’t done that then.
“Perhaps it would be enough to hold a regular competition. Did you expect it?”
“To what extent? To be honest, tournaments don’t necessarily have to be large, so I thought I could keep it at a reasonable level.”
I heard that because of the crowds that have flocked to the contest, more and more people are paying attention to the work based on its popularity, and the work is selling better.
Originally, these are all part of the advertising effect.
How fun would it be to attract such a crowd to the competition? Or why was it such a prize? It is a law that touches the work with the same thoughts.
Even regardless of the cartoon, a new deck with a winner as a motif started to be sold as a board game package.
Other than that, we were trying to bring people into the game in various ways.
That’s how you get into Inner Marchen and buy another deck, which naturally makes you buy manga.
It was a strategy aimed at entering the station.
“How are you going to fix the performance?”
I was thinking about how to adjust the balance while looking at the competition, but I was trying to decide very carefully because I had to scatter a correction card when I adjusted the balance.
It was not easy to touch only the desired level of performance without being too severe while touching as few cards as possible.
However, it cannot be left unattended, so most of the decisions have been made now.
“To go like this.”
“Well, most of them are understandable. Isn’t the difference in numbers too small? Shall we see an effect with this?”
“Would you like to see?”
Unexpectedly, in a game like this, a little bit of power or a difference in cost has a big impact on the play.
In my experience, this level of adjustment should be enough to change the meta.
In any case, this performance adjustment will be applied to future productions at once, and existing buyers will be able to exchange them at a nearby exhibition hall.
“But do I have to exchange it unconditionally?”
“Because we need to clearly distinguish between those who have been exchanged and those who have not.”
“What if someone wants to have both?”
“In that case, instead of exchanging, I’ll just let you buy the card.”
In the first place, that part has already been prepared under the name of AS.
If only a specific card is broken, it’s a way to buy only that card.
You should probably use that feature to collect balance adjustment cards.
Since it is sold individually, the price is a bit higher than buying the whole deck.
“Then, isn’t it time to start preparing for a sequel? Actually, it seems like you’re focusing on that because a lot of what you want is coming out in lectures lately.”
“I’m finally learning the record magic I wanted. I have no choice but to study hard.”
The record magic I learned last semester was a big difference from what I wanted.
It only tells me the basics, so I was in a state where I couldn’t think about how to implement what I was thinking.
However, this semester was just the level I wanted, and it was a full-fledged lecture to learn how to create record magic or the basic framework and rules.
And it was still impossible to make a computer itself, but I was looking at the possibility itself.
Thanks to that, I was starting to make calculator-level objects lightly.
Perhaps, over time, it seemed possible to create a computer with basic coding.
We’re still a long way from getting the performance and systems to draw the picture, but honestly, that’s where we are right now.
“First of all, it’s not that I’m not preparing for a sequel, but I think it’s an ambiguous timing to start full-scale work.”
“Ah… That’s right.”
“Yeah, fortunately you didn’t forget, did you?”
“No matter how stupid I am, it’s not something I’ll forget until the time my child is born.”
Because Rosaria is getting closer to the due date, to take care of Rosaria immediately after giving birth.
She believes that she should be able to devote enough time to that as well.
In such a situation, it seemed appropriate to put up with the continuity work of the works I was thinking about drawing, rather than pushing ahead with the cartoon work, which takes time once I start.
“Would you like to touch it too? I feel it’s time to come out very well.”
“I want to do it! I want to do it!”
Orca was very surprised that Rosalia’s baby was being born, as she gently touched her belly in many ways.
She says this, but I, who actually made Rosaria’s ship like that, have a similar idea.
Being a father was, to be honest, something that I didn’t quite realize.
“The Orca is also very strange, so normally in a relationship like this, she can’t help but be jealous.”
“Why? I like Carly, and I want to have a baby too… But before that, Rosaria is also my favorite friend. Then, the baby the two of you have is bound to be very lovely, right?”
“I don’t have anything else to say, but…”
You don’t have a lot of ideas like YuRia, even if you do.
Even the behavior of the Orca approaching while being so innocently happy was a strange thing.
Rosaria couldn’t overcome her curiosity and asked questions, but she seemed rather confused when she heard Orca’s logic, which was both plausible and strange.
“It’s understandable because it can’t be helped, but it’s because it feels strange to be genuinely happy.”
“Ehehe, I’m looking forward to it.”
“If anyone sees it, they’ll know it’s your child.”
“Hehe, if you think about it, can’t I be considered a mother too?”
“What kind of crazy thing is that…”
This time, even YuRia, who often said absurd things, was taken aback.
With a puzzled expression on her face, she began to look at the orca.
She said it was so out of context that she was very embarrassed.
“Why? Strange?”
“Little…?”
“Well, she must mean that she would cherish it as if she gave birth to her…”
“Yeah! That!”
“Ahaha… Thank you, Orca.”
“It came out by adding good things and good things, so there’s no way it’s not good.”
She hates mint chocolate, but gets angry when someone who likes mint and chocolate hears about it.
They say that Pizzira tastes like honey.
Anyway, she is a remark that she wants to tackle in many ways, but in the end, she said that she would love the child she did not give birth to, so it wasn’t a bad story.
Rather, it’s like a special situation created by Orca’s unique innocence and kind heart.
“Thanks Orca.”
“Eh? Suddenly?”
“It’s just that.”
“Eh…?”
“Huh, if you’re talking to Orca, she’ll forget all the frustrating thoughts.”
“I know.”
“What were Rosaria and Carly worried about!?”
“It’s not like that, it’s just that the due date is approaching, so I’m excited, but I’m similarly worried… Ugh!?”
“Rosaria!?”
Rosalia, who was laughing and talking to Orca, suddenly frowned at her.
She curled up as she hugged her own belly as it was.
Her tableware, which she had just been holding, dropped to the floor and made her clatter, and we hurriedly helped her and asked if she was okay.
However, Rosalia, her pain was so severe that she couldn’t even answer properly, so she gritted her teeth.
“Bae, bae… Haha!?”
Yuria hurriedly used recovery magic, but it had no effect at all, perhaps because she was in pain unrelated to where she was injured.
And if there is no problem with her body, if it is that painful, there is only one at this time.
‘The pain that appears when labor begins…!’
It was a sign that Rosaria’s biggest hurdle to becoming a mother had begun.
