Chapter 86: A Million-Copy Hit, a Truck-kun Casualty, and the Russian Transfer Student
The summer Comiket arrived on a blazing weekend in Chiba.
Yukima Azuma, Kasumigaoka Utaha, Kato Megumi, and Eriri were all involved—but only Yukima and Megumi manned the booth.
Utaha, now too famous for her own good after the signing event for The Metronome in Love Vol. 4, had to go undercover. If she showed her face, she'd be mobbed. So she kept a low profile, quietly roaming the venue.
Eriri, on the other hand, couldn't show up at all.
As the renowned R18 artist "Kashiwagi Eiri," her name was prominently listed in the game credits. She could wander around for shopping, yes—but appearing at the booth was out of the question.
At the Booth
Behind Yukima stood a mountain of boxes—1,000 game discs of White Album.
"Do you really think we can sell all of these?" Kato Megumi asked, glancing doubtfully at the stockpile.
Yukima shrugged. "We'll see."
Realistically, Comiket was more for exposure than profit. For most indie devs, selling 200–300 copies per day was a success. A thousand? That was optimistic.
But then—