Kuroto Dan! Become the Game Advisor of Millennium!

"The development of a game project is not something you can see at the beginning. This is a mistake that many novices make on this road – they think they can come up with a well-conceived and grand game right away. This idea is wrong!"

Kuroto Dan knocked on the table with the paper tube in his hand. Momo-chan, Midori-chan, and Yuzu were sitting at the small table with pens in their hands, worrying about their notebooks. Alice followed suit, sitting on the side with a pen and a notebook, imitating everyone's actions.

"Well... making games requires inspiration, right?" Momo-chan raised her hand in distress. "I feel that my inspiration is missing, and I need to play games to replenish it!"

"Rejected." Kuroto Dan glanced at her. "From your daily life, I can see that you have played a lot of games, right? Now is the time to make use of past experience!"

"--Kuyashi!"

"I also wrote scripts when developing Tales Saga Chronicles, but this is the first time to do this..." Yuzu twisted her fingers and wrote something on the paper from time to time. "It's been a long time since I wrote by hand... Isn't it more efficient to use a computer?"

"Because what you need now is not 'efficiency,'" Kuroto Dan answered Yuzu's question. "For things like efficiency, this genius has a hundred ways to speed up game development. What you need to do now is to determine the 'direction' of the game!"

Midori-chan raised her head. "Direction?"

"A ship can only go to the right place if it knows its destination. Otherwise, it can only wander aimlessly or stay where it is."

Kuroto Dan gave a simple example to illustrate. "And what you are doing now is the same – you are a group, and now is the time to unify the direction of all of you!"

"-What kind of game do you want to make?"

"Me, me, me!" Momo-chan was the first to raise her hand. "I want to make a strategy RPG game that conquers cute monsters as pets!"

Kuroto Dan pointed at Momoi. "Write it in your notebook!"

"Is this okay?" Midori asked in confusion. "Then I want to make a battle RPG game with a war system. Is that okay?"

Kuroto Dan nodded. "Then write it in your notebook too!"

"I... I still want to make Tales Saga Chronicles better..."

Yuzu appeared to be brooding over this matter. Even though she had accepted the negative reviews of the game she made on the surface, she was still unwilling to recognize this matter in her heart.

Kuroto Dan stood with his hands folded. "A sequel is also an idea; write it down!"

"Aris wants to be a hero!" Alice raised her hand, and on the notebook in front of her was a miniature Alice holding a sword, looking majestic. "I want to get a holy sword with light attributes!"

"A hero-type game? I already have one!" Kuroto Dan pointed the paper tube in his hand at Alice. "That's also one of my IPs! But you can also add it!"

Under Kuroto Dan's urging, Momo-chan and the other four wrote a lot of games they wanted to make. Finally, Kuroto Dan posted these ideas on a whiteboard that he had taken out at some point.

"Now, you have so many ideas." Kuroto Dan tapped the whiteboard. "At this time, how are you going to choose?"

"I want to do them all... I can't choose." Momo-chan's eyes turned into circles. "Well, anyway, just pick one!"

"Wrong!" Kuroto Dan tapped the paper tube. "If it's just normal times, it's okay to pick one at random, but you have restrictions!"

Kuroto Dan tapped the whiteboard. "This is it!"

In the middle of the whiteboard, it was written with the large words "Millennium Prize" and "Award."

"Your restriction is the Millennium Prize!"

"If you want to create a game worthy of the award within a month, which direction is the most likely among these topics?"

Kuroto Dan's words made the people in front of him a little confused. Momo-chan was confused. "But, with your help, can't we just come up with the most powerful game?"

"Yes. But didn't you choose to let me teach you the method?" Kuroto Dan sat down. "There is no regret medicine now."

"What!?" Momo-chan was shocked. "I clearly found the ultimate producer! I thought I could reach the top in one step!"

"You wish, little girl." Kuroto Dan waved his hand. "There is no such thing as getting something for nothing in the world. Instead of that kind of thing, you should think about the questions with the highest success rate here."

"Momo-chan, I think... Kuroto-san is right. This is indeed our own business from the beginning."

Midori turned her head and said to the frustrated Momoi. "If we hadn't found Mr. Kuroto-san, we would have to do this ourselves. I think what Mr. Kuroto-san has to do is to 'guide' and 'cover the bottom line,' right?"

"Indeed, it's really hard to find a way out. If it works, I can help you." Kuroto Dan nodded and generously admitted his plan. "But since I promised you to help make the best game, I will naturally contribute to it."

"Great..."

"But!"

Kuroto Dan's serious words pulled everyone back from the sky. "I require you to make something that meets my passing line! Otherwise, I won't help!"

"——What!?"

"Don't think that you can be lazy and mess up just because you have the backing of the God of Games." Kuroto Dan snorted. "The grace of the gods will only be 'Pity the ascetic who has gone through hardships!'"

"In that case, we can only start working, right?" Yuzu hummed, but suddenly became serious in her words. "I think using Tales Saga Chronicles. As my experience in production with working with it makes it most likely to succeed!"

Momoi looked at Yuzu in surprise. "Yuzu, you suddenly became confident!"

Midori also nodded. "You are much more confident than usual, Yuzu-chan."

"No, no..."

As soon as she was praised, Yuzu suddenly returned to her original state.

Although she was still very shy, her face showed happiness from the bottom of her heart.

Ding ding ding~

Momoi's phone rang, and she picked up her Momoitalk.

It was a call from the Engineering Department she had contacted before: "Momoi? This is Utaha. You mentioned before that a child wanted a new weapon. We've prepared it here. When will you come over?"

"What's the matter? Retro game discs on sale?" Midori looked at her sister.

"It's about Aris' weapons!" Momoi nodded with her hands on her hips. "Aris is different from us. She doesn't have any weapons yet! I contacted the seniors in the Engineering Department, and they said they can prepare weapons for Aris for free!"

"You know a lot of people." Kuroto Dan was curious. "You're so popular, but no one wants to join the club?"

"Uh-huh!" Momoi was choked. "How come an adult like you hasn't been beaten to death yet?"

"I was already beaten up and died." Kuroto Dan nodded. "You still have things to do now, right? Then go."

Momoi was puzzled. "You won't let us work overtime?"

"It won't take long." Kuroto Dan waved his hand indifferently. "I also need to make some preparations. Come back to me after you finish your things."

Yuzu naturally refused to go to the Engineering Department with Midori and Momoi. Although Yuzu knew the seniors in the Engineering Department, she certainly refused all unnecessary outings — being able to tolerate Kuroto Dan staying here was already Yuzu's highest level of concession!

"Um, Mr. Kuroto Dan..." Yuzu finally asked Kuroto Dan for her occupied laptop. "Can you give me back that laptop? I've saved a lot of files on it..."

To be honest, Kuroto Dan doesn't really need this computer. For him, as long as there's a network interface, he can get information through it, and the computer isn't even necessary. However, in some cases, the computer is still useful.

"Then you can take it back." Kuroto Dan waved his hand. "Momoi, are you going to the Engineering Department? Bring me a computer! There must be a lot of scientific products in Millennium Science School, right? Bringing a computer should not be a difficult task."

"The Engineering Department should have quite a few slightly older computers. Is that okay?" Midori asked. "After all, it's a bit embarrassing to ask them for the latest models. Utaha-senpai and their work all require calculations."

"Need calculations? That's perfect, get me one server too." Kuroto Dan's order was a matter of course. "I plan to get a company server as the update address for the Gashat's data, and you can solve all these things at the same time."

"At the same time?" Yuzu was stunned. "This is not at the level of being at the same time!"

"This is called reasonable allocation of resources." Kuroto Dan didn't care at all, even proudly puffing out her chest because of her own operation. "That's how it is in the early stage of starting a business! Be thick-skinned and make use of all resources!"

"Dirty, dirty adults!"

Momoi waved to Alice. "Okay, okay, sister Aris, just come with us to the Engineering Department. We've already agreed!"

Alice asked in confusion. "What kind of place is the Engineering Department?"

"Good question! I don't know how to answer this question!"

Momoi said a little embarrassedly. "But I still know that the seniors in the Engineering Department have been providing weapons maintenance and replacement services for students throughout the school, but their main achievement is still in manufacturing rockets, which is a super project that can fly into space!"

"Oh~ Aris sighed in confusion." Alice's eyes lit up with little stars.

Although Alice is just a child as innocent as a newborn, it seems that someone has instilled some basic common sense into Alice's mind. Alice still has no big problem using most of the nouns and items and naturally understands what a rocket is.

"That's right. If we talk about who can provide weapons for Sister Aris, it can only be the Engineering Club."

Momoi said confidently. "Let's go, Sister Aris! Let Utaha-senpai pick a suitable weapon for you!"

Momoi and Midori took Alice out of the activity room of the Game Development Department.

The Engineering Department can be said to be a very important department in Millennium Academy.

From the repair and renovation of school buildings to the maintenance and replacement of student weapons, the role played by the Engineering Department can be said to be the backbone.

Therefore, the Engineering Department has always been one of the departments with the most funds. Therefore, the activities of the Engineering Department are on the other side of the school, in a factory with a very large area — that is not comparable to the students of the Game Development Department who are nestled in an activity room the size of half a classroom!

"Mr. Kuroto Dan... what are you doing?"

Yuzu looked at Kuroto Dan on the side.

From just now, his body twitched from time to time. It was not the twitching of a human body, but the kind of twitching that flickered like the frame loss of a picture.

After Momoi, Midori, Alice, the other three left, Kuroto Dan's eyes began to light up.

Kuroto Dan waved his hand. "Don't talk, I'm fighting with a group of people."

"Fighting?!"

In the cyberspace that cannot be directly observed, Kuroto Dan's clone data turned into his own Kamen Rider image, fighting against the various attack programs and virus packages that were overwhelming!

"Hoo! You should have a taste of a Kamen Rider's power!"

Kuroto Dan swung his sword to cut off an attack program that had transformed into a female student holding a rifle.

At the same time, the Gaschacon Bugvisor (Shooting mode) equipped in his left hand pulled the trigger and fired, shooting the virus data robot that came to support from a distance into a sieve.

"I've been fighting with these things since just now! Someone must be attacking me with data!"

"Data attack? Hacker?" Yuzu was confused. "Don't hackers attack computers? Mr. Kuroto Dan, your body will also be attacked by hackers?"

"Ah... It's a long story, just think so." Kuroto Dan answered Yuzu's question here.

The offensive in the cyberspace on the other side became more and more fierce.

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"Hare! This strange virus program is so tenacious! I've been attacking it for so long and still can't take it down!"

The red-haired girl, the righteous hacker of the Veritas, Maki, discovered a "network virus program" without any license or label which was nakedly hanging on the Millennium Academy network to steal data during the routine network security inspection today.

Someone has so obviously released a virus that steals data, and it is so brazenly posted on the public network of Millennium Academy? This is simply a provocation!!

How can this be tolerated? Maki can't tolerate it!

"At first, I thought it would be solved quickly, but I didn't expect it to be dragged on until now..." Maki tearfully begged her good friend Hare. "Please, help me!"

"Is there a virus program that you can't fix yourself?"

The one who came over with her long white hair tied into a ponytail and holding a Yokai MAX drink was another powerful hacker from the Veritas, Hare.

Her eyes swept across the screen in front of her, and the initial carelessness turned into confusion after a few seconds. "Is this a virus program? So smart??"