LIGHTNOVELONLINE Ch 52 – 21 May, First Turning Point 02
Kouta wondered what he was going to do to this guy. After thinking for a second, he stood up and asked him a question.
"Are you modeling, right?"
"Eh~ Yeah, of course. I even know some kru from there." Riajuu One replied and boosted him by saying those things.
"Well, if that's the case, you know about acting, right? Parody and comedy?" Koutae said, a touch of irritation in his voice. His face got closer to him as he challenged the Riajuu One.
"Of course…" Riajuu One tried to respond, but Kouta didn’t even let him talk as he continued to tell him.
"Then why do you have a problem with me using a girl's uniform? In the end, it’s just acting and comedy?"
"But I don’t use girl's clothing, and I don’t remember any other member doing so."
"Haaaaa… Of course they don't do it. They are, after all, models. Even if a girl wears guy clothes and is labeled as tomboyish, it becomes a problem if the guy people do the same... Oh well. I do understand your point, but you are badly mistaken. In the end, what I am doing is advertising. And the goal of advertising is to inform, persuade, and remind consumers about your brand and products. So I’m doing my best to appeal to my main primary target. And I will go to any length to ensure this success. Do you understand why..." Kouta explained those while raising voices to make sure to catch the attention of all of the people in the classroom.
"Ugh…"
"Because I’m different from you… Who lives with your parents and gets money from them while I’m living alone… Even though I may have my inheritance, right now. I still need to think about what I’m going to do in the future and how I’m going to live. How do I get money to eat, pay bills and pay tuition in the future? And I’m like, what I’m doing right now… Which means I will do anything to make this game successful, and a trivial thing like wearing a girl 's uniform is not something I care about." Kouta said while tapping his finger on Riajuu One's chest as if Kouta taunted him.
Of course, not all of Kouta's words were truthful, but he needed to say them as Kouta tried to gather empathy toward him since, right now, he wanted to make this Riajuu guy look so bad in the classmates eyes.
"Ugh… You!" Riajuu looked so angry that he made another mistake. He stretched out his hand toward Kouta's collar and tried to grab it. He may have thought to silence Kouta by making him afraid of him.
After all, their body frames were vastly different. Kouta’s height was below average and looked very skinny too, different from Riajuu who may be around 18–20 cm taller than Kouta, and since he was in a sports club and modeling, his body was quite good.
Or Riajuu One could be said to be a typical person who is strong at the bottom and weak at the top in terms of strength. Yeah, so he was strong as an ordinary student, but he was the weakest in terms of sports / delinquency. Which is why he wasn't afraid of Kouta, and maybe he looked down on him.
Not just because of his appearance, he may be mistaken for someone like him who makes games or nerdy who appears to be always drawing stuff and alone as an easy target.
Kouta easily evaded him, as Riajuu One was taller, so when he wanted to grab Kouta, his body moved down a bit, which made it easier for Kouta to pull his hand, step on his foot, and just throw him to the floor.
It was such an easy move since the Riajuu guy made light of him and Kouta didn't try to save his face or anything. Kouta used all of his power to throw him to the floor, and he also crashed into several tables around his fall area.
"Guah!! Aw!! Och, it hurrrtsssss…!!!" A sound rang out, and several tables fell because of Rriajuu One’s fall.
"Shit!! GAaaaaHH!!" Riajuu One before he could do anything, he could feel that Kouta just threw his knee around his neck and just held him there… making him hardly breath. And such ruthless moves as Kouta usually sees are used by the police.
"Gaaaahhh…!!!"
"I don’t know why you have a problem, but sorry… I won't let go till you apologize to me…" Kouta put some power when he said the last word as if told the person underneath him knew it.
"Ugh… Sorry…"
Surprisingly, Riajuu One apologized pretty easily, and Kouta let him go. He slowly woke up, but his face was red as he felt humiliated and angry. His eyes stared at him with hatred.
"Damn you! You’re asking for this!!" As if what happened before never happened, or he may just thought Kouta was just lucky. He tried to move toward him again… but before he could do anything… someone screamed at them.
"You two, that’s enough!!!" Soared Eriri felt it necessary to intervene in this useless fight. Kouta and Riajuu stopped their movement and looked at Eriri who glared at them. Eriri may not have looked like that, but she actually had a high rank in the class. She was a lovely and kind girl to everyone in this class.She was the daughter of the U.K ambassador, too, and part of an elite class. That’s why the Riajuu couldn’t say anything to her.
"Kouta, he already apologized, so you’re fine, right?" Eriri asked Kouta, who just nodded and tidied up his table and seat.
"Also, you… Just someone take him to the infirmary and let him take care of his wound… Also, you… cooldown yourself…"
"But…"
"No, but… you're the one who started this…" Eriri’s icy words, that easily destroy both any argument and ability to maintain eye contact. Well, without knowing Eriri and Kouta's personal relationship… Riajuu didn’t have any ground as Eriri took Kouta's side. He wouldn’t be as popular as before. As for Kouta after that event, there were no people disturbing or asking him that day.
In the end, it was time to go to the club.
Opening the door to the clubroom, Kouta caught a rare sight as all of the member clubs were glued to one monitor.
"What are you doing?" Kouta asked.
"We’re just seeing any comment in our video at Outube." Inada answered his question without looking at him.
"Yeah, we may already see it on our phone once you posted it last week. But we wanted to see it together and saw those comments together…" Takao said it to Kouta.
"I never expected we would get a good view within a week… Can we make money from it? Chitose asked Kouta with such sparkling eyes.
"I don’t know… I've already tried to apply for monetization after all." Kouta answered her question while she still looked excited.
"Good, I hope we got something… Or maybe we use this momentum and make another video?" Chitose asked Kouta, but Kouta shook his head.
"I've already finished all the graphic design for our next game. So we should focus on that… But if Chitose-senpai, Roka-senpai and Sakura want to make another video, you can do that."
"Eh, is that so? But, what kind of video do we make?" Chitose asked out of pure curiosity what kind of video Kouta would make after those nice videos.
"Well, just video you playing any game? Like Floopy Bird or board games, Roka-senpai makes and posts those videos to Outube… And if you can, you talk about everyday life and other small things. Or doing commentary about the game…" Despite Chitose’s serious tone, Kouta replied casually, without a hint of doubt.
"That’s it?"
"Well, we are just a normal GCC after all… so we posted that we were playing a game that is not that weird. No, if people knew there were a lot of cute girls playing games. The viewer will flock around.
"That… Haaaa…"
Chitose sighed a bit disappointed, but she understood what Kouta was trying to say since it feel to standard. While those two had such a conversation.
"Really, but this comment is a really good one, Kouta." Inada said before continuing to say the comment aloud. "I like the braided pink hair girl! She is the cutest."
"Haa… Really, Inada." Kouta replied as he walked toward her and gave her a light chomp in the head.
"...but…the thread comment on this is the funniest one… Look, ‘what a poor guy’ one comment replied. ‘Why?’ ‘Well, how do I say this, but that’s not a girl?’ "Yeah, one of these girls is actually a guy.’.... What a poor soul…" Inada, who couldn't stop laughing despite her best efforts.
"Yeah… Kouta, you make many guy in this comment on identity crisis and even some of them acted like cultist saying ‘As long as there is a hole, there is always a way!’" Sakura, who stood next to Inada, said those words with such a big smile on her face that she almost burst out laughing. "How do you feel to become so famous for this, Kouta?" She continued.
"Well, of course… it’s the worst thing ever." Kouta answered honestly.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I mean. Right now, I don’t feel safe knowing that somebody is aiming for this, butt." Kouta said it while looking at the ceiling as if he were praying to the gods.
While all of the girls were laughing when they heard Kouta’s words.