Tomodachi no Imouto ga Ore ni Dake Uzai Volume 2, 4: Only the Club Advisor is Strict with the Sports

Volu 2, Chapter 4: Only the Club Advisor is Strict with the Sports Club

My quick recovery ca as a blessing in disguise, happening in just one evening. My thoughts, jumbled into a big, ssed-up jigsaw puzzle, have finally started to co together. Though not a single problem has been taken care of as of now, you don’t really think that I’d just give up here, right?

Every single one of them’s just going crazy on , but I’ll definitely deal with it all now that I’ve regained my calm, rational thinking. To achieve that in the most efficient way, I have to decide on my priorities. Now, the problem that has the highest influence on my future—to get the [5th Floor Alliance] into Honey Plays. I really want to face Mashiro’s feelings head-on, but I can’t do anything if she continues to run away, so I’ll take my ti and postpone that.

For now, I want to maintain the user base we’ve gathered with our ga. Keep Makigai Namako’s scenario in one corner of my mind, while focusing on the job right in front of .

At school, during a break.

Not having finished their howork, having forgotten their workbook for the next class, my classmates spend their precious ti as inefficiently as always. anwhile, I was working on the voice script for the illustrations of the five characters that Sumire—Murasaki Shikibu-sensei finished early for so reason. Connecting my smartphone to an exterior keyboard, I started typing.

With [The Screaming Night of Dark Koyama], the one constructing the main story is Makigai Namako-sensei. However, when it cos to battle or system voices, then that’s my job. I don’t have enough talent to write a script for an action movie, but if it’s just short phrases, then even I can do that. At first, I was under the guidance of Makigai Namako-sensei, but after a while, I was told ‘You’ve got quite the talent there. Going pro might be impossible, but you can definitely work this out on your own’ from him, which was probably ant as praise. Anyway, writing these short lines beca my responsibility. If I can help Makigai Namako-sensei focus on the main story with this, then it’s all good.

“Alright, that’s a good place to stop.”

“Good work, Aki. I just finished checking the illustrations myself~”

Having finished the script for a few of the characters, I was taking a light stretch when Ozu called out to , having finished his work as well.

“Thanks a bunch, Ozu. How was it?”

“Feeling pretty good about it. The character designs are hip with the latest trends, and they all have their personal accessories done. That’s Murasaki Shikibu-sensei for you. Developnt-wise, nothing that would be no good overseas.”

Seems like everything went flawlessly.

Every ti I finished checking the scenario or the illustrations, I’d have Ozu make a second pass to check for anything I missed. Two are better than one, after all.

“Alright. Then, here’s the voice script I just finished up—”

And I’ll have him move on with the next check.

The characters all have their own, strong traits. Like the brocon girl, who keeps seeing other boys as her older brother due to past trauma with the loss of her brother, or a dangerous older person who finds fun in other people yet is scared of anyone they et, and so on.

With all those strong traits, I have to think a lot about their potential lines.

“This brocon girl is the only one that’s realistic.”

“…Really? Well, she’d be scared, you know.”

“I was called out once in a similar way. ‘Onii-chan?! You’re my Onii-chan that I got separated from 10 years ago, right?!’ she said.”

“That totally sounds like a reunion scene from so ga.”

“But it was actually pretty scary in reality.”

“I’m sure… And what happened after that?”

“I brought her to the nearest police station.”

“You really have no restraint, do you?!”

This guy’s actually torn down a huge flag with a beauty like that. But to keep it real, if I was called out by soone who claid to be my long-lost little sister, I’d probably take her to the hospital before the police.

“I thought that the police would have more success with finding her older brother, but for so reason, she ran away before we got to the police.”

“So she ran away. Scary… Wait, weren’t you called out by an older lady just a while ago? ‘Beco my younger brother!’ or sothing?

“Ahh, yeah. I also brought her to the police back then. At least once a month, there’s people mistaking for their younger or older brothers. Maybe I have lots of families that I got separated from without knowing?”

“I think you should only worry about your real little sister.”

That’s what you’d expect from the iken who makes everyone turn their heads when he passes. He seems to have a lot of experience with being hit on by won. Well, it’s not like Ozu himself actually wishes for it, and I don’t think that you’d be happy if you suddenly earned this secret magic power to be pulled into all sorts of romcom events without asking for it.

“I finished reading through your script.”

“Oh, as fast as always.”

Finishing his multi-tasking, conversing with while reading the manuscript, Ozu gave a satisfied nod.

“I think the phrases are great. They’re all phrases that the character would say, in my opinion.”

“Really? Glad to hear that.”

“Though it’s a bit funny to think of these phrases for them.”

“…Please don’t say that.”

Having another person read what I wrote myself is honestly pretty embarrassing. It feels like sothing’s forcefully peeking into my brain.

“Not to flatter, but it really feels great. It feels fine reading it as a whole, and it fits with the illustrations. You really can do anything, Aki.”

“I’m a jack-of-all-trades, but master-of-none. Since I don’t have the talent to make it big, I just do the small stuff that anyone can. If I can, I want Makigai Namako-sensei to focus on the main story.”

“That alone shows your talent, in my opinion.”

“If I really had the potential, I’d make a ga myself. But it’s because I can’t do anything on my own that I need help from you guys.”

“Mmm… You’ve gotta learn to take a complint, you modesty demon.”

Naturally, our hands didn’t stop moving while holding our conversation.

I kept working on the voice lines.

Ozu would look over them, all the while running the horizontally-written text data through the automatic voice editing script tool.

That way, the text is written vertically, allowing for easier use by the voice actress, with space for writing notes. The sound engineer can manage files easier with a numbering system. The one who made this all-in-one software was none other than Ozu himself.

At first, the one who helps with the recording, Otoi-san, kindly warned us with ‘You’re sending files without any nas? You looking down on ? Want to get butchered?’. As of right now, the only thing she says is ‘Another request, even though I’m already so busy? Want to get butchered?’

Yeah, I think it’s safe to say that we’ve grown a lot.

And, while we were making smooth progress, break ended. Thanks to my diligent work, I made up for a lot of what we missed yesterday. Really, a good night’s sleep can work wonders. With this much, we can proceed to record so lines with Iroha after school. Deciding on that, I imdiately sent a LI ssage to Iroha and Otoi-san.

[AKI]: Might be a bit sudden, but can we record the voice lines today?

[Iroha]: Ehhh, I’m not really motivated though~ Well, I might be willing to rethink it if you went on your knees, begging with ‘I really want to hear Iroha-san’s beautiful voice!’

An imdiate response from Iroha. Though it ticked off a bit, so I decided to ignore it for now.

[Otoi]: 20 chupadrops

Shortly after, I also heard back from Otoi-san. Those chupadrops she’s talking about is actually an abbreviation for these chupa-chupa drops. It’s a rather famous Arican lollipop that you frequently see in comrcials. Instead of paying her for the work she does, we instead offer her the chupadrops she wants for the job.

[AKI]: You’re going to eat 20? Won’t you get diabetes?

[Otoi]: You just stepped on a landmine.

[AKI]: Eh, I did?! I was honestly worried…

[Otoi]: Mmmm, whatever. Chupadrops, 20. Only YES or NO are allowed as answers

[AKI:] That’ll be a YES, then

[Otoi]: Oki~ I’ll be waiting in the studio~

Negotiations complete.

Though I seed to have stepped on a landmine midway through that. Unlike Mashiro or Iroha, Otoi-san is pretty grown-up. Even if you make her mad in so way, it won’t take too long until everything’s back to normal. But, at so tis, I accidentally trigger a landmine. Those different landmines can appear in various forms. For example, the diabetes this ti.

A while ago, she got angry at because I ca with a request that went ‘I would like sound effects for the characters playing at the sea’, or sothing. I still have no idea why she got mad at that ti… When I asked for ‘footstep sounds as if they’re walking through a river,’ she didn’t get angry at , so it doesn’t seem to be related to the contents of the work. To find out when I do trigger her in so way, I asked her to just tell , as a precaution to not worsen our business relationship. I asked her, ‘If I ever step on a landmine, please tell imdiately’, and our conversation just now was a perfect example for that.

“Let’s see… ’Diabetes’ is also a no-go…”

Opening up the ‘Otoi-san landmine word mo’, I made a new entry.

—Sound effects of them playing at the sea

—Be patient

—Swan

—Pour so water there

—The roof happened to leak

—Saying flowery words

—Diabetes