Game Market 1983

“Eh, some asshole... dares...”

The man looks for the clerk, pounding his fists to see if he was angry.

“Bring the bidding documents here!! ”

“Yes!! Please wait a moment!! ”

The man, who was a regular customer here at the Figure Shop, ran to Burinake with the tender documents.

He thought for a moment about the pen the employee handed him, and finally signed the document.

“Here's a new bid for a Kimono-type Miyuki figure!!! ”

“Wow! Another bid to break 250,000 yen!! ”

“Hey!! I don't know who that god is, but he's on board. I'm on the stairs! ”

“How much? How much did it cost? ”

“Three... 350,000 yen..”

“Crazy. 100,000 yen more!! ”

“What? At 100,000!? I can't even think about the price anymore. 300,000 yen for a figure.”

Oh my head... 100,000yen is a hot shot...

The middle-aged man was pleased to once again tap the glass case to see if it felt good.

I hate that gesture.

I watched him for a moment and met the cashier who was looking at me. I slowly nodded my head in that glance, asking if I would like to bid for the top bid.

Okay, I'll take it.

“May I have the bidding documents, please? ”

In a word, the inside of the shop, which was buzzing about the tender, cooled down.

I opened my mouth to stop the employee from bringing me the documents after a quiet moment.

“Don't bother with the paperwork, I'll just open the bid verbally. ”

“Uh, how much? ”

“500,000 yen.”

“Whoa!!!!!! Crazy! 500,000 yen a day on the shelf!! ”

If you put it on, it will only encourage the opponent to compete.

You'd better get rid of it with a huge amount that you can't keep up.

“Half a million -- are you sure? A guest?”

I nodded slightly, and this time the clerk opened his mouth to the middle-aged man.

“Parent bid? ”

“ ……. ”

The middle-aged man stared at the clerk with a blank expression.

“W-wait a minute. I'll just make one phone call. ”

From the slightest tremor in your voice, is that it? The man stared at me for a moment and left the store in a hurry. But where are we going?

Miyazaki, who was next to me, was expressing a sense of excitement when he saw that more than one figure had been paid back and forth.

“This game is getting too big. ”

“Sir, are you all right? 500,000 yen?”

“I've never spent this much money on a doll before. Half a million dollars. Haha.”

I looked closely to get a closer look at the figure as guests around the figure took a quiet break.

Once I saw that I resembled Yuki, I called a huge amount of money, but I wondered if it was worth it.

But the details of the figures I saw up close were amazing.

The old-fashioned kimono she wears seems to be made of real silk.

When I saw it from afar, I thought it was a "yukata" that only wore one layer, but it wasn't. A total of three layers of kimonos were really reproducing traditional costumes.

What the hell did you do to the figures? ’

Especially on the outermost part, I painted cherry blossoms with a thin brush, and the feeling was like watermelon painted on silk.

In a word, it must have been an enormous work of work.

"Oh, is that why maniacs buy figures for fun? ’

I looked around a little and saw people staring at me with very envious eyes. If Morita actually sees this, it's a stunning detail.

At that time, Miyazaki, who was behind my back, looked inside the store and cried out in surprise.

“Mr. Uchimura...? ”

Uchimura? Why does that name come up here?

I turned my head to Miyazaki and saw Uchimura standing in the corner of the store.

Uchimu, who met our eyes, smiled awkwardly and raised his hand to greet us.

“Oh, hello. ”

“Did you meet Uchimura at the ‘Street Without Me’ event back then? ”

“Ah!! The man Yuki brought!! ”

How can we meet by coincidence three times?

I remembered an old saying that it was okay to share my life with someone I met three times without making any appointments.

Because no matter where we are, we will meet again. You want me to be your friend, not your enemy...

And now you know about it with Miyazaki. I'm starting to get scared of who he is.

“Uchimura, what are you doing here? ”

“Oh, well, I...”

Then, the figure shop clerk who was standing next to him proudly introduced him.

“This is the creator of the Kimono-type Miyuki figure. ”

“Yes!? Are you sure?"

When Miyazaki asked, Uchimura smiled awkwardly and nodded quietly. I tried to clear my mind for a moment by touching my wrinkled forehead.

So, Uchimura, who was impressed by Yuki's voice, met Yuki at the fair, went through a suicidal commotion, made that figure? ’

Then it makes sense why that figure resembles Yuki so much.

The over-details were a little angry, but the figures he had adapted were not too colorful to call his work.

I was thinking about what to say first, but things started to get noisy around me.

“He's the one who converted the Miyuki figure!! ”

“Really? Amazing. I made 500,000 in one day.”

“Even if I make a figure and sell it, I'll sell it for 100,000 apiece for that detail. ”

$100,000 apiece?

This time, however, the auction was a bit overheated, so there was a tremendous amount of money attached, but to be honest, it was usually a fair trade between 1-200,000.

At that moment, Uchimura, who used to look like a pure Otaku, began to feel like an artisan combing high quality figures.

This could be a huge collaboration with Mauritata. I'm going to call that yuki figure in my hand and talk to her.

At that time, a middle-aged man, who was leaving the store earlier, grabbed his bag and announced a new bid amount.

“8.. 800,000 yen!! ”

800,000 yen? Is he really sane? Even though I called 500,000 yen, it doesn't seem sane to anyone else...

The tremendous amount of money the man called shocked the faces of the people in the figure shop.

That guy...

Despite the quiet surroundings, Uchimura's hiccups were only heard as he was surprised by the unimaginable amount.

Even the clerk who made the bid public muttered in a mute voice.

“P-top bid.”

It was then.

“Hello!!! ”

Outside the store, you hear the voice of a woman who is incredibly sharp.

Everyone who was surprised by the voice turned their eyes outside the store, and there stood an angry lady.

From what I've been calling you, it looks like you two are...

The lady glanced at her husband for a moment, then forcefully came inside and began to slap him on the back.

“Crazy. Crazy!! Very!! Why do you live here? Why are you alive!! You want to buy that thing because he got a loan because he was cheap? Do you know whose house the 800,000 yen is? ”

Did he go to the bank to get a loan for his figure?

Recently, banks say low interest rates lending is a lot more powerful to try to save the foaming economy, but still...

“Honey!? Wait a minute. Listen to me. Huh?”

“What are you waiting for!! Aren't you coming? ”

“Just because you don't know... that figure is going to be very expensive later.

Trust me!! Huh? Miyuki!! Miyuki!!!!! ”

Well... at the first bid, it might go up, but I don't think it's going to go up as much as we called it.

Eventually, I was dragged away from the man's voice by his wife, and I could only hear the sound of smashing of the middle press back.

“So... am I the final bidder? ”

“Oh, yeah. Yes, Mr. Uchimura. You said you wanted to sell, are you okay? ”

“Yes? Oh, well...”

Miyazaki then looked at Uchimura, who was mumbling.

“Uchimura, can I talk to you for a second? ”

“Yes?”

After a while, we stopped by a coffee shop near a figure shop.

I was drawn to Miyazaki and watched as she looked at us in an awkward atmosphere.

“First of all, it's fate, but let's start with formal introduction. I'm Kang Jun-hyuk. ”

“I am Uchimura Hiroki. ”

After a very simple introduction, Uchimura turned his head around to avoid my gaze.

“What are you...? ”

“I'm a student. I'm on sabbatical. ”

“Oh, yeah."

After the exchange of information about each other, Miyazaki, who was next to me, immediately brought the matter to light.

“Uchimura, do you know someone named Yuki Ishikawa? ”

“Yes? Oh, yes. I know.”

“Actually, he's the reason we came to the Figure Shop today. ”

“Yu... Yuki? Why...?"

“Uchimura's figure is so similar to the one we know. ”

Then Uchimu made an embarrassing face and said nothing.

“I'm not sure how Uchimura intended to make such figures. But as a woman, I don't want a doll that looks just like me to be a spectacle in front of people. Do you know what I mean? ”

Miyazaki calmly spoke to Uchimura.

Then Uchimu looked at Miyazaki with a very surprised look. Apparently, Yuki had never thought about it.

“It's possible, really. I had no idea.”

“Thank you for noticing now. So I was wondering if maybe you could cancel the auction. ”

“Actually, I've been wanting to cancel.”

“Really? Then why...”

“I can't pay a 10% cancellation fee.”

As I looked down at Uchimura sighing, I tapped the table for a moment and cleared my mind. And, uh...

“Mr. Uchimura. Why don't we do this? ”

“Yes?”

&

The method was simple.

If I just give you a cancellation fee, that's it.

50,000 yen of raw money just flew away, but it was a conclusion because it was better than flying 500,000 yen.

A moment later, Uchimura, who returned with Miyuki's figure in his heart, hesitates for a moment and gives me the figure.

“Could you pass this... to Yuki? ”

“Yes? Why this? ”

“I'm ashamed to hear Miyazaki's story because I think it might be offensive for Yuki. I owe it to Yuki, but I thought I made her a spectacle.”

It's... it's someone else. I know you thought it was Hasegawa Miyuki, but...

Then Miyazaki, who was sitting next to me, smiled at Uchimura.

“As expected, Uchimura is kind. ”

“The next time I make a figure, I'll think about it more carefully. ”

Uchimura, who delivered the figure to me, once again apologized to us and stood up.

“Hey, wait a minute. ”

I was the one who stopped him from returning. I took 200,000 yen out of my wallet and handed it to Uchimura.

“I'll be sure to pass on the figures Uchimura made to Yuki. And think of that money as the price I paid for your work. I... I think it's good enough to get that money. ”

“Th-thank you. ”

“Oh, and do you like games? ”

“O-of course!! Pentagon Soft Enthusiast!! ”

In Uchimura's answer, I took out a business card and a game cartridge from my bag and presented it to him.

“I'm Kang Jun-hyuk, Director of Development for Pentagon Soft Team 2. The game in this cartridge is a trial of the game being created by Pentagon Soft aimed at the first half of next year. There may be a slight bug, but could you play it and give me a call? ”

I carefully accepted the cartridge I handed you because it is a new game called Uchimu.

“Valentine's Day...? Is this a street show without me? ”

I smiled and answered Uchimura's question.

“No.”