Yamada Ryo suddenly walked over and bent down to look at Gotou Hitori, who was being tempted by the demon.
"Bocchi, the music has been written based on the lyrics you provided."
Kita Ikuyo: "Ryo-senpai, you've already finished the music? That's great! Let's listen to it."
Uchiha Ryo stood up and left, then watched as the four girls huddled together, listening to the music on the phone.
Ijichi Nijika: "It sounds great! Then we can start practicing and get ready to perform on stage again!"
Kita Ikuyo nodded. "I'll do my best! And to meet the performance quota and produce the album... I'll work hard at my part-time job too!"
Part-time job... Gotou Hitori shivered.
Uchiha Ryo: "Kessoku Band, instead of working part-time, I think you, who are just starting out, should work hard on your music, or rather, use your music to earn money."
Ijichi Nijika stood up and looked at Uchiha Ryo.
"Although we'd like to do what you said, where can we earn money with our music when we don't have any fame?"
Kita Ikuyo took out her phone. "How about using YouTube? We can start a band account and post our music."
Post music online? Gotou Hitori thought of her own account, 'Guitar Hero.' Although the name sounded a bit ridiculous, she already had nearly fifty thousand subscribers.
But because of her social anxiety, she didn't dare to accept any gigs, so her income wasn't particularly impressive.
Ijichi Nijika: "Kita-chan's suggestion is good. But that also takes time to grow. So for the summer vacation, we still have to...."
Uchiha Ryo: "I have a job offer here, and I sincerely invite the Kessoku Band to join."
Yamada Ryo looked at Uchiha Ryo curiously.
"Is it the maid thing you mentioned to Bocchi just now? I'm not interested in being a maid, but I could try being a butler."
Uchiha Ryo waved his hand. "Not that. I'm talking about something related to music. I'm hoping the Kessoku Band can create a few songs for my game."
Kita Ikuyo: "Game music? You're making a game too, Uchiha-kun!"
Uchiha Ryo smiled. "Not just me, but an entire game circle project. We hope to create a galge with a brand-new mechanic within a year, so we need a professional band to help with the music production."
Ijichi Nijika frowned slightly. "Um... Uchiha-kun, if it's as classmates and friends, it's fine for you to ask us to make one or two songs. But you said it's a job..."
Uchiha Ryo: "We can talk about the price. We plan to include at least thirty tracks, depending on the quality of the songs."
Gotou Hitori: "Thirty!!"
If I'm in charge of writing the lyrics for all thirty songs... I'll die, right? Writing thirty songs in a year will definitely work me to death!
Uchiha Ryo: "Bocchi-chan, you seem to have misunderstood. The tracks I mentioned include instrumental music, and in fact, the proportion of instrumental music will be even higher. After all, it's BGM for a galge, so our demand is very high."
"And.... as our game sells, the Kessoku Band's name will also appear in the public eye. If this game happens to become a hit, you'll also gain considerable fame."
Do it well, and you'll get both fame and fortune. If you don't do it well, you can still earn money by writing music. The four girls of the Kessoku Band were moved.
And Uchiha 'Capitalist' Ryo also began to tempt them further.
Roping them in now before the Kessoku Band gets famous. When the game is released, it might be a win-win. And for a small band that hasn't debuted yet, buying their songs won't cost much at all.
Using the least amount of money to make the biggest deal, and still guarantee a profit. Uchiha Ryo was starting to admire himself. Enyun-chan, who had witnessed everything from the side, wanted to hang this scumbag master from a lamppost.....
.....
The next morning, Uchiha Ryo, who was supposed to be at Toyogasaki, was at home. Because Hana-chan was staying over at Hoshino Hinata's house last night, Uchiha Ryo woke up early and went straight to Toyogasaki High School.
In the club activity room at noon, Kasumigaoka Utaha, Eriri, Katou Megumi, and the four members of the Kessoku Band, a total of seven people, were trying out the test version of the galge.
Uchiha Ryo's idea was to keep the game's engine, but have them complete all the character settings, plot settings, and various events.
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Ryo-kun, although your idea is good, and the various equipment and personnel for the game production are basically all gathered, can I ask one question?"
Uchiha Ryo: "Hmm?"
Kasumigaoka Utaha glanced at the other six beautiful girls in the room.
"Our game circle is really overflowing with 'yin' and lacking in 'yang'~ President—is your first requirement for recruiting members that they must be female?"
Uchiha Ryo's expression was calm. He just quietly picked up his water bottle and took a sip. "Kasumigaoka-senpai, first of all! There is a male member at Shuchiin who is in charge of logistics."
"Secondly, it's not that I'm looking for girls, but that the people who meet the requirements just happen to be female."
Kasumigaoka Utaha rolled her eyes at Uchiha Ryo, then returned to her seat.
"Well then, President, are we making a normal male-oriented galge first, and then releasing a female-oriented one later? So how many female characters do you want to capture?"
Uchiha Ryo tapped the table. "Let's start with ten."
Kasumigaoka Utaha: "Huh!!"
"My dear president! Do you know how hard it is to come up with the character designs, backgrounds, and corresponding stories and capture routes based on their personalities for ten female characters!"
Uchiha Ryo pointed at the seven people present.
"Although Katou-san is still the model for the first female lead, you can just add everyone. You can understand their personalities by interacting with them, and then set the capture direction based on their personalities. As the saying goes, 'art comes from life.' I believe in you! Kasumigaoka-senpai!"
Kasumigaoka: "I...."
Uchiha Ryo looked at Eriri.
"Based on the character designs Kasumigaoka-senpai gives you, the artist's side also needs to be ready. You'll be in charge of the character portraits. Leave all the backgrounds to me."
Eriri nodded. "You can leave the character portraits to me. But the backgrounds... can you handle them by yourself?"
One had to know that for this kind of large-scale, multi-character galge with many random events, at least hundreds or even thousands of background images would be needed. Of course, some games could be lazy and reuse backgrounds, but Uchiha Ryo would not allow that.
It's just a thousand pictures. It's nothing. The shadow clones will handle it!
Uchiha Ryo: "You two can rest assured. I'll also help think about the female lead's character design. Leave all the backgrounds to me. We have a professional for the computer hardware, and as for the music... it's up to you guys."
Ijichi Nijika nodded!
"What a fun game! We'll do our best!"
Gotou Hitori: "...I'll do my best."