After sending Zhenbai back to her room, Fang Zheng came over to Eiriri’s place to check on her progress... Hmm, I must say, it’s quite tragic.
"Pervert! Pervert! Pervert!!"
As soon as Fang Zheng pushed open the door, he heard a piercing voice from the computer. Curiously, he peeked inside, and on Eiriri’s computer screen was the masked girl from yesterday talking to her. Although her expression was hidden by the mask, the anxiety from her tone was clear enough.
"You pervert! How could you show me that kind of stuff!!"
"Well, it’s because you were dawdling too much. You said you wanted to draw CG, but you hadn’t even seen the real thing before. If I didn’t send you a photo, you’d probably never see it in your lifetime!"
"How could it be that big? You’re lying! It must be edited!"
"Hehehe, it’s not. I even have a video to prove it. Do you want to see it?"
Despite the girl’s exasperation on the other side, Eiriri seemed quite at ease, and hearing Eiriri’s response, the girl practically jumped up.
"That’s impossible! It has to be fake. My brother isn’t even that big!"
"It just means your brother is small."
"N-No, it’s not! Hmph! I’ll have to see for myself; there’s no way it’s as you say!"
With that, the girl angrily shut off the video, leaving Eiriri chuckling to herself as if she’d pulled off some grand scandal.
"What’s going on? You look like you’ve got something up your sleeve."
Fang Zheng walked over curiously and looked at Eiriri, who chuckled.
"Nothing much, it’s just Little Sagiri being too naive, so I had to give her a little nudge... You see, she’s bad at drawing, so I simply sent her a screenshot from one of my video collections. This way, she should be able to draw it, right?"
Upon hearing this, Fang Zheng raised an eyebrow.
"Whose is it?"
"Of course, it’s yours, Mr. Fang Zheng. Who else could it be?"
"Hey, that’s violating portrait rights."
"Don’t worry. I’ve mosaicked everything except that part, so it’s fine!"
Is that even a thing?
Fang Zheng rolled his eyes speechlessly.
"How’s the situation now?"
Hearing this question, Eiriri’s face immediately fell.
"We’re still short on staff, Mr. Fang Zheng. Can you find a few more people... Training Zhenbai and Sagiri isn’t bad, but I really think I need an assistant now... The workload is too overwhelming. It’s too hard to handle alone."
Of course, if Eiriri were solely focused on EROGE, she would be enough on her own, considering many game companies employ only one main illustrator, and even having two or three is considered a large company.
But the issue is that Eiriri is multitasking—working on her own doujinshi, Yamada Elf’s novel illustrations and promotional art, along with the setup for the EROGE game. Eiriri suddenly felt that she needed to turn into a multi-armed Asura to manage all these troublesome things.
"An assistant, huh... "
Hearing Eiriri’s request, Fang Zheng pondered for a moment and then nodded.
"Got it, let me make a call."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng took out his phone and quickly dialed a number. Soon, Kurumi’s enchanting voice came from the other end of the line.
"What is it, Mr. Fang Zheng? Calling me so late, could it be that you want to invite me to dinner?"
"If you have time, you can come eat at Hinata Manor."
Fang Zheng replied casually, then proceeded to ask.
"By the way, how’s the acquisition going?"
Fang Zheng had long given up on starting from scratch. After going through so many worlds, he found that he preferred direct acquisition. Starting from scratch is exhausting and requires building a market from the ground up. But by acquiring a company, he could continue operations through existing channels while also expanding his networks. It would be foolish for Fang Zheng to start a new company when he had money at hand.
However, this situation was a bit different as he was venturing into EROGE, so he needed a game company specializing in that. It had to be a low-key affair because Fang Zheng was somewhat famous in the Game World, and if the media found out he was acquiring an EROGE company, it could cause a frenzy.
Therefore, Fang Zheng’s requirement to Kurumi was that the company must not be too large, too famous, and yet not like Eagle Leap, where the entire staff had resigned, leaving just twenty or thirty people barely hanging on. Ideally, it should be middle-small scale, one that was surviving in the game world but without much notoriety.
According to Fang Zheng’s idea, such a company shouldn’t be hard to find.
"At present, we’ve identified a game company that meets your criteria, and negotiations are ongoing with them. It shouldn’t be long before we can secure it."
"That’s good. What about the personnel composition?"
"Please hold on a moment..."
With Tokisaki Kurumi speaking, the sound of flipping pages came from the other end of the phone, and after a moment, Tokisaki Kurumi’s voice sounded again.
"According to the list of internal company members, besides the president, there’s one scriptwriter, two employees responsible for original art and CG, one background employee, one recording engineer, and two voice actors."
"Tsk tsk tsk, only eight people in total, that’s just too pitiful..."
Hearing this, even Fang Zheng couldn’t help but shake his head, but this was normal.
"Then ask those two employees responsible for original art if they would be willing to act as Eiriri’s assistants, working remotely."
"Understood, but Mr. Fang Zheng, there’s also a minor issue apart from this."
"...Issue?"
In response to Kurumi’s report, Fang Zheng was taken aback for a moment.
"What issue?"
"From what I’ve gathered indirectly, one of the voice actors affiliated with the company is the president’s younger sister and is still underage."
"Wait, is that okay?"
Hearing this news, Fang Zheng immediately broke into a cold sweat. If it was an ordinary anime game, the age of the voice actors wouldn’t matter. In fact, many voice actors start working at a very young age, some even when they’re still in elementary school, but they still voice content appropriate for all ages. This, however, is purely adult-oriented content. Is it really okay for a minor to do the voice acting?
"I’m not sure either... so..."
At this point, Kurumi suddenly let out a light laugh.
"I have a suggestion, which is for you, Mr. Fang Zheng, to personally go and inspect."
".......Huh?!"
In the end, Fang Zheng agreed to Kurumi’s suggestion. After all, as his secretary, Kurumi appears often, and if she showed up, it would be easy for the other party to guess who wants to acquire the company. So Fang Zheng decided to personally take action to see the situation for himself.
Of course, he couldn’t go like this, so......
"Why do I have to do this kind of thing..."
Re-transformed into his Red Ponytail persona, Fang Zheng stood by the roadside wearing a hat, looking at the small building not far away, and couldn’t help but complain. In fact, there was no choice, since Fang Zheng was not willing to split his identity right now, his personas were reduced to Red Ponytail and Little Bai Wolf. Of course, Fang Zheng couldn’t control a wolf to negotiate, as just entering the building would probably cause someone to call the police, so with no other options, Fang Zheng had to rely on Red Ponytail to take the blame again.
"But this place is really secluded."
By now, it was already sunset, and Red Ponytail turned her head, looking around. She had already left the city, which was obvious from the surrounding fields; this was already considered the suburbs. For a game development company, the location isn’t actually important, but it also shows that this company is indeed quite poor, and according to Kurumi, the small building they’re using is still being rented...
Who knows what the quality of this company is.
Red Ponytail stood up, adjusted her hat, and stretched her body.
Anyway, let’s go in first and take a look.
With Red Ponytail’s stealth ability comparable to an ASSASSIN, she would have no problem sneaking into a small building like this without security, but it seemed not everyone was here yet; Red Ponytail only saw two girls buried in their illustrations in one of the offices—it should be those two illustrators mentioned in the report.
But the crucial voice actors haven’t arrived yet...
Red Ponytail sneaked in quietly, glancing around, and then silently swiped a game that seemed to have just been released, and then secretly climbed onto the ceiling, opened a personal terminal, loaded the disc content, and started a trial play—Kurumi’s report did not mention the quality of this company’s games, and Fang Zheng didn’t have time to buy one, so he just grabbed a sample directly from the company.
After all, it would belong to him sooner or later.
Soon, on the interface in front of Fang Zheng, the game installation was completed, and then the title appeared.
"Let me see, hmm, what... ’Sperm Dependency Syndrome’... That’s a nice name, very promising."
After glancing at the game title, Fang Zheng nodded in satisfaction, then launched the game, fast-forwarding through it.
It took less than half an hour for Fang Zheng to fast-forward through the entire game. As expected of a small-scale operation, the artwork and CG of their game can only be described as average, and there are only two main characters in the game, the storyline being simple and straightforward for such a production.
But what Fang Zheng was most concerned about was the voice acting.
"Didn’t expect the quality to be quite good."
Listening to the scenes in recollection, Red Ponytail nodded in satisfaction. She initially thought a small company like this might not put much effort into voice acting. After all, according to Kurumi’s report, one of the exclusive voice actors of the agency is related to the boss, she could even imagine hearing awkward voices—this was not uncommon. In the past life, Fang Zheng often encountered some voice actors without any acting skills in small-scale EROGAMES, which was embarrassing to the point where he would rather mute the CV than listen.
For instance, Airi in the game version of ’Incest’ was just like that.
But this one sounds quite natural...
"Ah, there it is."
At this point, the game quickly ended under Red Ponytail’s fast-forward, and then she soon saw the names of two voice actors.
"Aoi Kanata? Hanazono Megumi? All pseudonyms, so... who exactly is the one with legal risk?"
While Red Ponytail was pondering with her legs crossed, suddenly, the office door below opened, and then two girls walked in one after another.

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