šµ"The past, buried deep within distant memories...
The future still lies far ahead.
I once selfishly believed.
Those days are different from the present.
Must surely be waiting for me.
But then I realizedā
The future had already...
No, it's nothing.
But...
When that sadness grows too heavy,
When it becomes unbearable,
Stop walking and listen carefully.
You remember this memory, don't you?
Come, close your eyes~~~~."šµ
The singing finally came to an end.
Within the dim castle hall, the silver-haired girl clad in a white gothic dress stopped dancing alongside the fading song. Her expression carried both sorrow and relief. As she slowly closed her eyes, a crystal-like tear slid down her cheek.
Like a shattered diamond, it glimmered faintly with jewel-like radiance as it passed through the cold and hazy moonlight before falling onto the ground.
Under the moonlight, the tiled floor transformed into a mirror, ripples spreading across its surface as the world inverted and the world inside the mirror slowly began to move.
"Clang~!"
The sound of armor grinding echoed out.
Inside the vast, gloomy hall, the silver-haired girl dressed in silver-white battle armor stepped forward. When she reached the center of the hall, her delicate body suddenly came to a halt.
"Boom!"
Like a meteor descending from the heavens, a gigantic unknown object crashed violently onto the ground, creating a miniature earthquake that overturned the luxurious decorations inside the palace.
Standing before the silver-haired girl were two gigantic armored knights.
One possessed a tall and heroic figure, floating in midair while wielding a lightning spear.
The other was massive and heavily built. Its landing was precisely what had caused the tremor just now. The spiderweb cracks spreading across the floor beneath it made its terrifying weight obvious at a glance. This heavily armored knight wielded a gigantic greatsword, and merely lifting it created a violent gust of wind.
The silver-haired girl remained completely fearless. Her delicate face rose together with the snow-white longsword in her hand, proudly pointing toward the two gigantic armored knights.
A beam of moonlight descended.
The heavily built giant knight suddenly smashed its greatsword downward. The overwhelming pressure of the strike swept forward like a collapsing mountain, annihilating everything in its path. Yet the silver-haired girl facing the descending blade seemed completely frozen in place, showing no reaction at all.
"Boom!"
A massive crater exploded into the hall floor as dust and debris filled the air.
A moment later, when the dust finally dispersed, the silver-haired girl clad in white battle armor was standing lightly atop the edge of the greatsword itself. Her elegant azure eyes opened slowly as her cherry lips parted and she began to sing softly.
šµ"Mirror, tell me something. Tell me who's the loneliest of all?
Mirror, tell me something. Tell me who's the loneliest of all?
Fear of what's inside of me.
Tell me, can a heart be turned to stone?
Mirror, mirror, what's behind you? Save me from the things I see!šµ
..."
"Clang~!"
The girl's body danced together with the song, her movements as light and elegant as skating across ice as she glided along the sword's edge. The crystal embedded within the hilt of her white longsword rotated, and when the red crystal lit up, the tip of her sword pierced the heavily armored knight.
"Boom!"
Though the sword appeared weak and delicate, the strike carried the destructive force of a heavily armored tank, blasting the gigantic armored knight backward and smashing apart one of the palace's massive pillars.
Not long afterward, the heavily armored knight rose from the rubble completely unharmed, while the heroic knight wielding the lightning spear slowly turned its head to stare at the silver-haired girl.
...
After uploading the final character promotional trailer, KamiyÄ Yuu felt an overwhelming sense of relief and pride, as though he had completed a mission.
Looking back at the 'RWBY' promotional trailers he had created, every single one possessed its own unique highlights and characteristics. KamiyÄ Yuu had completed the 'RWBY' of his ideals. It was also his way of giving an answer to the late Monty Oum. In this world, he had not disgraced the work.
At present, thanks to the investment funds from Fakebook for the four-character promotional trailers plus the movie version, the 'Yosuganosora' Animation Studio now possesses a starting capital of three million US dollars. This amount of funding was more than sufficient for producing a 'RWBY' animated movie.
Suddenly possessing three million dollars in freely disposable funds, KamiyÄ Yuuāwho still barely counted as an ordinary personācould not help sighing that he had never seen this much money in his entire life before. Especially after converting the amount into Japanese yen and adding two extra zeroes behind the number.
301,736,529 yen!
Three hundred and one million, seven hundred and thirty-six thousand, five hundred and twenty-nine yen!
This enormous income was the greatest acknowledgment of KamiyÄ Yuu's efforts in this world, greatly stimulating both his ambition and confidence.
...
Inside the 'Yosuganosora' Animation Studio, all the members had gathered in the lounge to celebrate.
"Everyone worked hard this month! For the upcoming 'RWBY' movie productionācheers!" KamiyÄ Yuu smiled as he raised his champagne glass.
"Cheers~ cheers! I can still drink another whole bottle! Yuu, stop being stingy and hand over the bottle in front of you already." YÅ«ki Chinatsu replied drunkenly while lying sprawled across the sofa, clutching an entire bottle of red wine and giggling.
"Cheers!" The other members of the 3D production department responded with joyful expressions. Uehara Etsuki simply nodded gently with her calm gaze, while Morishita Aoi set aside her usual seriousness and raised her champagne slightly, a faint smile appearing at the corner of her lips.
"Aoi, how does it feel?"
"What?"
"Have you started liking your assistant work yet?" Uehara Etsuki teased.
Morishita Aoi sighed softly. "It's not bad."
The timid young man Matsuoka Taira looked at the scene with such emotion that, if not for the others being present, he probably would have burst into tears already. Miyauchi Ema helplessly handed him some tissues, while Majima Hana sat beside YÅ«ki Chinatsu and poked her smooth little face with her finger, her glowing eyes looking as though she wanted nothing more than to pull YÅ«ki Chinatsu into her arms and pamper her.
"After only two days of rest, we'll already have to start making the movie version... and with only three months available too. It's honestly unbelievable." Miyauchi Ema said with a smile, her expression showing neither dissatisfaction nor hesitation.
Matsuoka Taira looked at KamiyÄ Yuu with complete admiration. "With President KamiyÄ here, everything will definitely be fine!"
KamiyÄ Yuu smiled modestly. "Don't place such huge expectations on me. Let's all work hard together."
At present, the 'Yosuganosora' Animation Studio is developing quite impressively. Another office floor was nearly finished being renovated, providing even more workspace, and all kinds of office facilities had become fully equipped.
As for computer-related matters, there was even less to say. KamiyÄ Yuu would occasionally program new software and upload it onto the company's internal network. If Morishita Aoi had not personally witnessed the absurd way KamiyÄ Yuu programmed, she genuinely would not have believed those software tools were created by him.
3D, special effects processing, illustration, editing...
At present, the 'Yosuganosora' Animation Studio has already developed its own complete software ecosystem. In terms of overall software capability, it surpassed the outside world by several levels. Because of this, every member of the 'Yosuganosora' Animation Studio looked at KamiyÄ Yuu with amazement, unable to understand how exactly he managed to accomplish all of it.