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Chapter 86 Mobile game?

Li Xue once made a suggestion to Tang Yao, which was to find a cartoonist to draw the card illustrations. On the one hand, it could reduce her workload, and on the other hand, it could use the cartoonist's fame to build momentum for the game.

After listening to it, Tang Yao felt that it made sense, so she gave it a try and sent a private message to the world-famous teacher Rumi.

And then... nothing happened.

The private message she sent to Teacher Rumi fell on deaf ears.

Later, Avalon Studio expanded, and Chu Yuxin's arrival made Tang Yao feel a lot more relaxed. She also introduced a lot of people to the studio.

So Tang Yao forgot about it.

But unexpectedly, after she forgot about it, the teacher Rumi wrote back...

"Is this considered a message in a bottle?"

Tang Yao looked at the message sent by Teacher Rumi on her phone, complained softly, and then put down her phone and pretended not to see it... After all, the first batch of card faces had already been drawn, and it was too late to let Teacher Rumi participate.

not to mention.

It's not a grudge.

But Tang Yao felt that since she had left him there for so long, she should at least leave him there for a few days...

but.

Tang Yao was just about to put down her phone when she saw the closed beta test content she had just written on the screen and suddenly thought of something.

and many more.

I don’t know what to draw on the commemorative card yet... I can ask someone else to draw it!
For example, this teacher Rumi.

You can let her design a heroic spirit herself! You can just control the attributes yourself.

It’s also a good opportunity to verify the linkage effect.

If the effect is good and players like it, we can definitely add card faces drawn by this great cartoonist in the next version. If the game is a big success, we can even collaborate with her works...

Think of this.

Tang Yao put down her phone and her hand slowed down. Finally... she replied, "Hi."

Making money is still important.

On the other side, Teacher Rumi seemed to have been guarding his phone and replied quickly.

The two chatted for a while, and the teacher Rumi probably knew that it was a bit unkind of him to reply after such a long time, so he was quite polite and apologized several times.

Then, social media is not instant messaging software after all, so it is a bit inconvenient to chat, so the teacher Rumi suggested adding friends.

Tang Yao hesitated for a moment, agreed, and sent her instant messaging account.

soon.

The communication software rang.

Tang Yao accepted the friend request. The avatar of this Rumi teacher is the heroine of her own comics, but she is more sexy than when she was serialized, and she looks pretty good.

And just as Tang Yao was observing the other person's profile picture.

“…You’re a girl???”

That Rumi teacher sent me a message.

She seemed particularly shocked, and asked four questions in a row: "The author of 'Fate/Zero'? You're a third-rate painter, right?"

"..."

Tang Yao froze slightly when she saw this message.

She forgot that her social media account gender is female.

But thinking about the possibility of future cooperation, she hesitated for a moment, and did not deny it. She could only reply: "You are also a woman, right? This is normal..."

"No! Then why did you choose the name of Third-Rate Painter?"

"Just picked it randomly..."

"So you really are a girl?"

"Ah."

"Wow... This is the first time I've met a female manga artist who draws male-oriented manga so well."

"Thanks for the compliment...but your work is better."

"No, I'm not being polite. I really love Fate/Zero, especially Saber... What a heroic girl! She's so awesome! I think her reaction to suddenly hugging me would be so cute!"

"...?"

Tang Yao slowly put up a question mark.

This time it's a real question mark.

Why does this person feel a little strange?

"Ahem, don't you think so? By the way, are you planning to draw a swimsuit episode? Actually, it doesn't matter whether you draw it or not. I mainly want to ask, have you drawn Saber in a swimsuit?"

"sorry, we do not have that!"

Tang Yao felt something was wrong when she saw this message, and quickly changed the subject: "Teacher Rumi, I contacted you before because I wanted to invite you to draw illustrations for my game."

Rumi on the other side saw this message and her attention was finally diverted: "...Game?"

Tang Yao explained briefly.

After Tang Yao sent the message of explanation.

There was no immediate reply, and there was silence for a long while.

New replies popped up.

"????"

"You mean... you drew Fate/Zero just for the game!? And now you're planning to invite me to design Heroic Spirits for the game and also draw their portraits?"

"Correct."

"...You don't want to serialize it in a magazine just for the sake of the game?"

"Correct."

"........."

Tang Yao knew that her actions were a little difficult for cartoonists like Rumi to understand, but she didn't explain. She just asked, "Although the invitation is abrupt, you see..."

Rumi was silent for a moment, then replied, "I can promise you... but I hope to meet you in person."

"Eh?"

"May I?"

"Of course you can, but you'll have to wait a while because my game is about to be open for testing, so I'll be very busy..."

"test?"

"You can simply understand that the game is available to play. Are you interested? If you are interested, I can send you an invitation code when the time comes."

"Okay, then send me one... so can we meet? I'm in the Magic City. If it's inconvenient for you, I can come to you."

"Um...I'm in the Magic City too."

"That's even better. You can set a time then."

"it is good……"

Tang Yao hesitated for a while, but did not refuse... I'll take Miss Li with me when the time comes.

We can just talk about the linkage in detail.

"By the way, you asked me to design a Heroic Spirit and draw a portrait... What are the specific requirements? How should I draw it? Is it the same as the one on your website?"

"No, I hope you can develop your own style. You don't have to follow my style. As for the requirements... it's what I just mentioned. You need to draw four stages of character portraits."

Tang Yao replied, "Also, I want to tell you that the illustrations you draw will be given away for free to players who spend money during the testing phase. Do you mind?"

"it does not matter."

"Thank you so much."

"No, I'm looking forward to meeting you... Making games? I thought you were serializing the comics for free just out of love for them, but I didn't expect this to be the reason... By the way, what kind of game is yours? GalGame?"

“No, it’s a mobile game.”

"…What does mobile game mean?"

"Mobile games."

"????"

The other side of the city.

An extremely spacious...even luxurious studio.

Teacher Rumi, who was wearing loose pajamas, had a plump and round figure and round-framed glasses. She looked at the information on the screen and was stunned where she was.

A good while.

She finally reacted and looked at Tang Yao's message again in disbelief. Then she picked up her phone and flipped through it. Then she said directly: "Mobile game!? Why don't you serialize it in "Young Comic"... How could anyone play a game like this!?"

　Sorry, sorry, sorry... I'm in a really bad state today, so I only have two chapters today.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)