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https://kakuyomu.jp/works/16818093079507847550/episodes/16818093080434353932
“”The club is discontinued!?””
Amamiya and Karina are astonished by the shocking fact told to them by the head of Amane.
There are many computers and games consoles in the club, and they thought it was still active with a large number of members, but now there are only two.
The adviser just resigned the other day, and it seems that the club is in danger of full-blown closure.
“It seems that the club has been under consideration for closure for a long time. The year before last, there were ten of us in the club, but last year, when Amane and I became second years, they all left”
“They’re a heartless bunch, aren’t they?”
Kenmochi speaks earnestly, and Amane is drinking tea with plenty of sugar beside him. If one were to explain normaly, she would normally be the head’s girlfriend, but Kenmochi didn’t seem to mind.
“As you know, you have to have a certain number of members in order for a club to be active. In our high school, it’s a rule that there must be at least four of us. But there are only two of us left, me and Amane. And we are the two who will graduate next year. My advisor also quit saying that it’s hopeless for us to be active. If that happens, the club will be discontinued before the end of the year.”
Amamiya was at ease with Kenmochi’s slurred explanation, but Karina, who was sitting next to her, was shaking with tears in her eyes.
I guess she was thinking that she was going to join the club that she had always dreamed of.
“So, but if there are people who want to join the club, it will be fine, won’t it? As long as me and Karina join the club, the talk of abolishing the club will be over. ……”
“Yes, as long as you guys join the club and we can find an advisor, we will be spared the closure of the club.
But…”
Kenmochi continued with an expression that still did not clear up the situation.
“The “consideration for closure” will not be lifted for those who wish to join the club in their second year. It will continue even next year, when you are in your third year.”
“!”
Amamiya was convinced that this was also the case.
The next year, Amane and Kenmochi will graduate.
leaving only Amamiya and Karina, now in their third year, as the only remaining members of the club.
“If we want to make sure the club is lifted, we will need new members for two years and one year above the specified number. I think it will be a burden for you guys. I won’t force you to join the club if you don’t want to, and we will graduate. After that, I will leave it to you to decide whether or not to abolish the Game Research Department.”
“Kenmochi Senpai ……”
After all, he’s a kind senpai who doesn’t rely on his looks.
Amamiya was already feeling a sense of admiration for Kenmochi, as he exuded the kind of man that guys adore. unrelated to the game.
“But aren’t you two famous players?”
When Karina asks this, Kenmochi’s eyes widen in surprise.
“You know us?”
“Yes, I don’t think there is a single gamer who doesn’t know you two!”
Amamiya, who is a gamer but doesn’t know the two of them, looks down apologetically next to her.
“Kenmochi-senpai is a world-class player who has won numerous FPS tournaments held in Japan. Amane-senpai is the ‘Heaven Sound’ who is active in RPGs, racing, fighting, cards and all genres, isn’t she?”
“”Gulp.””
The two senpai are perturbed when their true identities are revealed.
Amamiya, who had no idea, looks at Karina, stunned.
“If not me, there must be a lot of students who know who the two of you are! Normally, there would be an influx of people wanting to join the club!”
“Come to think of it. That’s where the trophies are piled up ……”
The trophies were piled haphazardly in a corner of the club room.
Somehow, you could get the sense that they weren’t really treated as championship items.
“Yeah, actually, there’s a deeper reason for this. …… Here’s where we’re going with this, you two. What’s your speciality?”
Amamiya and Karina look at each other, scared of Kenmochi, who asks them with a serious face.
The genre they are good at, of course.
“”Fantasy RPG!””
“Hou …….”
“I see, fufu……”
Kenmochi’s eyes sparkled, and Amane gave a fearless smile.
There was something strange about the atmosphere between the two of them, which had suddenly changed from the welcoming mood they had been in earlier.
It was as if he had been looking forward to it.
“W-What is it?”
“Fufu… did you think that Amami-kyun and Karina-chan would be able to join the club normally?”
Amamiya was given the strange nickname “Amami-kyun” by Amane, but it was far from that.
Can’t you join the club normally?
“The computers, games software and fridge in this clubroom were purchased with the funds we got from the competition. If you become a member, you can use it as much as you want, and you can even use the fridge to chill your drinks. It’s cool and air-conditioned. It’s the perfect environment for us gamers.”
Amane is not tall enough to look up at Amemiya and the others, but they are intimidated by her tone and eyes, as if she is a different person.
They are the eyes of predators who have captured their prey.
“But we are not so generous as to allow those without ability to use them. You’ll have to take a test☆.”
She says it cutely, but he’s afraid.
Exams…He thought exams for joining a club only existed in soccer and basketball manga, but apparently they’re serious.
“B-But if we don’t do this, the club will be abolished ……!”
“Get hungry! Amamiya! We’re not joking!”
Kenmochi had also gone from a calm character to a scary character that matched his appearance.
The volume and power of his voice was so great that it made him get up from his chair.
lthough they had just met, the senpai they knew was no longer there.
“Takaaki kun, it’s getting interesting. ……”
Karina accepts this situation as it is and smiles happily.
Ah, so she’s from that side too.
“If you’re a gamer, it’s your style to play the game fair and square!”
Amamiya feels as if he has entered the world of anime.
Takasaki and the others mocked him for being a nerd, but there is no one here who would deny the otaku like themselves.
The seniors can be serious because this is their place.
If that’s the case, then their fighting spirit is ignited because they too have to respond to seriousness with seriousness.
“Pick any game you like, we’ve played every game in the world, we’ll take it no matter what it is.”
“! Takaaki kun, That’s all we have……”
“Ah, yes, that’s it. That one.”
With that said, they start up a computer set up nearby and log in to a certain game.
The game is the familiar game screen “Arcadia Fantasy”.
“Amane-senpai, Kenmochi-senpai. Please PVP with this!”
PVP.
PVP is a word that refers to real-time combat between players.
Arcadia Fantasy also has this function and is used by so many players that competitions are frequently held.
The seniors’ abilities are unknown, but Amamiya and Karina thought that if they had been playing the game since junior high school, they should have an advantage.
“Hohoho, this one? I like this game too.”
“No way, you’re challenging us in a game we’re good at!”
The seniors also logged into the game with a familiar hand.
There, Amamiya is convinced that they were naive in their thinking.
The character controlled by the seniors who appeared before them was the name of a player who had won consecutive PVP tournaments in Arcadia Fantasy.
Amane ‘Sky Music’ fighter.
Kenmochi, ‘Sword Master’ archer.
Amane uses a tall, boin-boin, sisterly looking character.
Kenmochi uses a character with a bow and arrow instead of a sword, isn’t that part of the name?
“N-no way! That Sky Music-san and Sword Master-san!?”
Instead of being scared, Karina was almost fainting because of her increased respect for the two seniors.
One know how she feels, but you have to understand that it’s a bad situation.
But they are still top players.
Although not as famous as the seniors, Karina ‘Dragonhead’ Amemiya ‘Rein’ was so skilled that they were feared by some players.
When it comes to coordination, they are second to none.
“Well then, let the test begin!”
Amane gives the signal and the test begins.
A few minutes later, Amamiya and his team were defeated soundly.
The only conditions for joining the club were a draw or victory, and the defeated Amamiya team were not allowed to join.
After it was over, Kenmochi was apologetic and Amane was grandly happy that they had won.
“…… We’ve lost.”
The time was 5.30pm and it was still light as summer was approaching.
However, the faces of Amamiya and Karina were cloudy.
This is because they could not win even with Karina’s cooperation.
They anticipated everything they were going to do and none of their attacks worked.
The seniors, who had won consecutive championships, were no match for them.
If you don’t win, you can’t join the club.
Amamiya was at a loss as he could not imagine winning against those two, but Karina put her hand on his shoulder.
They are white and slender, just like her.
“Let’s win next time. There is still a chance to win. We can try as many times as we want within the year. We just have to practise.”
If Karina says what she wants to say, it is surely not a lie.
The one thing that Amamiya found out about Tojo and Takasaki is that nobody hates to lose.
(If I’m going to be a man worthy of Karina, I’ll have to respond to her wishes too. ……)
“Yes, it’s not over yet. The seniors have their pride as professional gamers too, and I need to be strong enough to be recognised.”
Once that’s decided, training is the way to go.
After all, Amamiya had learned from the battles of the seniors that just interacting within the game was somehow at a disadvantage.
Amane and Kenmochi used their mouths to give each other instructions while operating the game.
In comparison, Amamiya and Karina were silent from start to finish, which was probably the difference.
“It might be more efficient to practise in the same space rather than chatting in each other’s homes. ……”
“Yeah, I knew it, as expected of my partner.
Takaaki kun and I have a long relationship in the game, but in reality it’s totally short. But the two senpai were different, it was like they were one and the same.”
“Yes, so much so that it’s scary. ……”
The two seniors fought as if their lives depended on the game.
Even now he can vividly recall their terrifying appearance.
“Then, may I visit Takaaki-kun’s house?”
“Eh, ……”
“Because I’m 3 stations away by train, right? I can’t take Takaaki-kun all the way back and forth, and I thought I’d just walk to your house, but I guess that’s no good…?”
Karina visits him at home.
Bringing a beautiful girl he just met in reality into his house.
Karina pricks Amamiya’s cheek as he dazes with a strange thought.
“M-my house! But I haven’t tidied up, it might be a mess…”
Amamiya replies with the characteristic negative, unenthusiastic attitude of a gloomy person.
“Don’t worry, my parents’ house in my home country was messy too, so I don’t mind at all.”
By her parents’ house in her home country, she means her house in Russia.
It wasn’t messy separately, but Amamiya, who had no experience of inviting girls other than Tojo into his room, was, to put it simply, bad
But here, Kumatani would surely call out with a scary face, ‘Let her in, if you’re a man, let her in’.
(Prepare yourself, Amemiya Takaaki !)
“O-okay. Well, let’s go to …… my house~”
“Ou~!”
Amamiya was embarrassed, while Karina was acting as usual.
But he was happy that she, who is always salty towards others, was only smiling at him like this.
“Hmm?”
Feeling the phone in his pocket vibrate, he takes it out and checks the screen.
It was a text message from his childhood friend Tojo Chika.
They had not exchanged e-mails since the day he was dumped.
Surprised, Amamiya does not open the text message and puts the phone away in his pocket.
He didn’t feel like talking to Tojo
(I have to explain to my sister Anna about my relationship with Karina so that she doesn’t misunderstands ……)
Amamiya was more nervous than ever before at the sudden development, like in a romantic comedy, that Karina, a beautiful girl who was so out of his league, was about to visit his house.
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So like, for one thing, it’s dumb in general to require new members to win over existing members in order to join the club, especially when you need a certain number of members to be allowed to continue activities. And when the existing members are two top-ranked pro players, it becomes downright ridiculous. Because unless they’re pro players themselves, they are never ever going to win (I mean, they’ll probably win in this novel, but they would never win irl). I also deeply object to the implication that gaming is all about competitive games and that the value of gaming comes only from building skill. Because when it’s like this, they will exclude anyone who just isn’t into PVP and competitive games. I love Gamers! for this reason, it deals with this exact question in the PERFECT way, and the fact that Gamers! exists makes this chapter look so stupid.