269 This Seems Quite Promising! (1/2)

The purple-haired beauty's expression was rather flirtatious as she said this, and Seiji couldn't help but feel moved by it.

”...Sure,” he agreed.

'Since she's willing to create the game together with me, then she's going to be my partner from now on, and that's a step up from being normal friends, so of course it'll be fine if she calls me by name.' That was what Seiji was thinking.

Of course, Yukari was thinking something entirely different.

”Go ahead and call me 'Yukari' from now on as well.”

”Alright.”

The purple-haired girl was delighted to have achieved her important goal.

The two of them continued eating together.

”By the way, what type of game storyline are you intending to write... Seigo?” Yukari asked. Her heart pounded rather quickly at calling him directly for the first time.

Seiji told her the result of last night's discussion with Hisashi.

”A boy in female clothing as the main topic... not bad!” Yukari's eyes lit up. ”I also think that this is an interesting topic, and I agree with it!”

”That's good, then. Do you have any specific ideas or thoughts on this matter?”

”Hmm... I think that the standard fake lesbian relationship is a good one, but if it were me... I'd want something more special.” Yukari pondered on it for a moment. ”How about using the classical story outline of a cute boy wearing female clothing and sneaking into a girls' school, but there are actually two boys sneaking in... how about that?”

”Oh?” Seiji's eyes also lit up at hearing this. ”This sounds pretty good; do you have any more details?”

Yukari gave the matter some more thought. ”We can have the two boys as opponents! These two boys actually have the same goal—perhaps they are searching for some type of artifact, which was why they both disguised themselves as girls and entered the girls' school. These two boys don't know each other's identity, but know of the other's existence and are competing with each other to find the artifact or reveal the other's existence and get the other kicked out of the girls' school... something like this.”

”So, we're adding mystery, suspense, and a competition of smarts... Yep, this seems quite promising!”

Two cute boys both disguising themselves as girls and dueling in a battle of wits against each other? It definitely sounded interesting to Seiji.

”We can use one of the traps as the main character. He faked his identity as a girl and became a new student at the girls' school, and after he entered the dormitory, he learned that he has a competitor who also joined the school in the same way and is even in the same dormitory! Likewise, his rival also learns about him...” Seiji began imagining the basic plot of the story out loud.

”I think... this type of storyline will be great! I think it'll work, and I really feel like writing it right away!

”If we make the artifact require a condition where you need a girl to truly be in love with you, the main character will need to both be cautious of his rival and also date the girls, and different girls will have different routes, and one of the girls will even include his rival, where the two of them will end up... er...”

When Seiji thought about this idea, he suddenly paused.

A misunderstanding route between two traps?

No!

It sounded interesting, but he was going to be the writer!

It might give him a dark memory or mental injury that would be impossible to cure!!

Yukari chuckled upon seeing Seiji freeze.

”How about giving the artifact the power to change a person's gender?” she suggested. ”This way, it won't end up being a boy with a boy, and it can still be a boy with a girl.”

”...No, that's no good.” Seiji rejected this suggestion with great difficulty. ”In the end, I feel that this type of change is somewhat meaningless. Instead we could consider a surprise reveal, where he believed his rival to be male, but she was actually female, and it was all a misunderstanding by the main character. But this... feels like we'd be tricking the players too much.”

Seiji thought hard on the direction of the storyline.

”Or, after the storyline progressed to a certain point, and the main character and his rival found each other, the mistaken beginnings of love turned into friendship. The two of them allied in retrieving the artifact and managed to cooperate and solve an underlying vicious plot. Alternatively, they could duel against each other to determine the rightful owner of the artifact—something like that.

”This... seems like it would work, and it would be reasonable as well, emotionally speaking. After finding out that a love target was actually a boy and even your rival, normally speaking, very few people would still be able to retain their feelings of love! After some small conflicts, the two of them becoming friends sounds much more reasonable.”

”I think that this sounds fine and that the players will be able to accept it.” Yukari praised his idea.