Kapitel 82: Chapter 72

He ported the Plants vs Zombies to the version compatible for mobile phones before uploading it to the game store. The price of the game store licensing was just ten thousand yen and around 5% revenue of the game will go towards the platform, so he agreed readily.

Kotori's mother entered her room and saw many cuddly toys designed over the room. She saw a new addition, and it was a new portrait on the wall. Sora saw her daughter's portrait that was wearing a maid uniform with a beautiful smile adorn in her cute expressive face. She got speechless and can't help but appreciate the artwork while approving it in her heart.

Later, she asked her daughter when did she had a friend good at drawing like this. If her daughter's friend studied at her school then, she will ask if her friend can take part in the drawing competitions and compete for the school cause.

"Eh? That's Hiroto-kun's work." Kotori said with some apprehension while she explained to her speechless mother after knowing it was Mamako's son that draws this art.

"How did he?" Sora can't help but ask her daughter while putting her hands on her shoulder. Kotori didn't know as well, but she knew one thing and that was he was a multi-talented person who can do many things.

"So aside from knowing how to play the piano, he can draw, sing and compose stuff?" Sora made an amazed tone. He might have inherited his parent's gene while having a talented child like this probably made his parents happy.

"Can we ask him to take part in the art competition at the cultural festival?" Sora asked. During the cultural festival, the school will have several competitive competitions. If a student wins the match, the student will have the chance to go compete in the higher matches where you will fight students from the other schools and institutes. It would be a great honor and a boost in fame if they win the regional matches. After all, the school students had been doing badly in the competitions in the past years.

The previous principals didn't consider improving the school's few areas and add more facilities. The school only had few facilities which were the auditorium, a gym, a running track, an archery dojo, and the stable of alpacas in the woods. The consequences it made was that the equipment got old and difficult to maintain.

It was just a traditional school with a long history dating back in a long, long time. The emergence of the private institutes coupled with the falling birth rate made it fall in the list of schools to apply 101. At first, the abolishment was just gossips but afterward made true by the government side.

It used to be the top school in the neighborhood with an eminent name, so well-known that even other prefectures were aware of it, but it didn't do well in the changes of time. If new students heard the name of the school, they would be like.

"That school? No, I won't apply there, everything at the school feels old." Everyone will agree, as the facilities were only cleaned and maintained. The modifications this year didn't make a difference.

To improve the school's situation, she had been allowing some students to be more participative in competitions. She approved her daughter's school idol club, but she hadn't helped them yet. She can only do that if they get high ratings in their venture. Here, she saw another light, as she found a super talent behind the student named 'Hiroto Tamaki'.

"I could ask him but it still his decision." Kotori put a finger on her chin.

"Since he made art for you then does he have feelings for you?" Sora chuckled and looked at her blushing daughter that heard her words.

"Stop that Mom! We're just friend moreover he had a girlfriend.." Kotori said while holding her hands but she had some slight sadness over her face which her mother saw.

"But why do I feel you're dejected saying that? Do you have…" Before she can continue, Kotori interrupted her with a flustered face.

"Mom!" Kotori shouted with her cute voice while slightly blushing.

"Youth is good, you must treasure it." Sora nodded while she reminisced the time when she was the same age as her daughter.

Hiroto and his mother were eating dinner while laughing at each other about school stuff he did. After telling Nico's to her, it seems his mother got interested to her personality.

"I want to meet her, she sees to be a good and serious person like Umi-chan was." She lightly chuckled.

"Maybe if we had an overnight again." He nodded. Her mother chuckled before remembering the portrait he kept.

"But you won't believe she kept making everyone do her catchphrase." He said.

"Can you show it to me?" Mamako smiled at him with an expectant face.

"Th-That's! No, I can't do it." He don't want to do it. It would look weird if he did even if he had good looking feature.

"Just do it." She urged him but after some time he gaved up.

"...."

"Nico Nico Nii!" Mamako can't help but smile weirdly before clapping to him.

"Bravo!!! That was really cute!" Mamako showed a satisfied face.

"It's not." He rolled his eyes.

"You should give Kirisu-san her portraits. It's a waste if you just kept it on you." Mamako eyed him. She wanted him to give it to his teacher, but he felt that she might get angry if she saw her apparent girlish outfit in the drawing.

"But I feel that she will get angry at me." He rubbed his cheek as he didn't know what reaction she will show to him, and that was why he's worried, moreover, he thought giving it to Kirisu was unneeded and will only make trouble for him.

"Don't worry, she will like it if you show it to her." Mamako chuckled and assured him with a smile.

"Right... I'll give the portrait tomorrow." If the time was right, he will give it to her. He wondered what reaction she would show and shook his shoulders as he didn't think of it anymore.

"I remember that you released another song at your live stream right?" Mamako asked him, while she looks at her son.

"Yeah, the fans wanted one, so I obliged and it was worth it." He ate the food in his chopstick. Because of the constant songs he kept spouting out of nowhere, many fans had already turned into hardcore fans that wanted his live-streaming to be longer. He had the obnoxious title in the live streaming platform that he hasn't seen and realized yet.

They got the copyright of the many kinds of music he performed. He recorded it in her mother's music studio and recording. Afterward, he uploaded the original music to the different music streaming sites so it would earn him money while becoming more popular. All of that was with his mother helping him, which he was grateful and happy over her unconditional care.

"Now that you think about it, it's probably better to get a car." She remembered that she wanted a car since it would be convenient and easier to move from place to place. Their family dates will be happier and more enjoyable.

"Hiroto... what do you think?" Mamako asked him while she sat opposite of him. Maybe it was time to get one since she had been going over places using public transport. It was a hassle, and so she didn't mind spending money over a car that will make her life easier. In the past, she had one, but since she was working, she wasn't able to use it afterward.

"Yes, it's a good idea." He nodded, he agreed to buy one since he was considering buying a mode of transportation himself. After all, he already had the driving skill, and it would be a waste not to take advantage of it.

"We have one before but I sold it since I can't use it. We have a house at the location of your father's company. Our family had many cars there but we can't bring it here to the country." Mamako said and felt slightly worried.

Mamako had been calling her husband if there was a problem. She can't contact him over the past few days. It was normal for him not call for some time since he was quite busy, but this time she felt something was wrong.

After dinner, they sat on the living room sofa while watching the tv idle. He saw her mother with that same face she had earlier. Her worried expression troubled him to speak and he wasn't able to stop his questioning, "Is there something wrong?" He asked with a slightly worried face. Mamako shook her head, telling him there wasn't a thing to worry about. It was just that this time, she felt that something would happen and it spooked her as the trembling feeling of her skin kept bothering her body.

'Maybe I just feel cold today?' Mamako asked herself, Jiro Tamaki was the name of her husband. She felt that it was just her feeling since every now and often she couldn't contact him. The temperature on these days was a little higher than normal, so maybe that was it. She measured her neck if she was cold, or something, but her temperature felt normal.

"I hope it was." She mumbles before looking at the curious expression of her son. She can't help but pinch his cheeks.

"No-no, there's nothing to worry, let's go visit the car dealership during the weekend and see the best car they had there." Mamako smiled while removing the worried expression on her face. He can't help but suddenly asked her.

"Is it, father? Is something wrong?" He asked carefully.

"..." Mamako sighed, but she didn't hide it anymore. Jiro was the name of his father. She hadn't been able to contact him just this few days. So she was just worried about it while she kept getting some goosebumps and chills over her body.

"Isn't he busy with work? Don't worry Mom, nothing won't happen." He calmed Mamako while holding her hands before looking at her with his Aerona Skill.

'Maybe she was just sick or something.' He thought.

[Tamaki Mamako]

Overall Analysis: Good

Ailments: Fever - Cold Environment.

Symptoms: Chills.

Medication: Warm blankets, antibiotics and a good rest.

In the past, she had some problems with her body that might harm her, but he made it possible and cured it early before it could show signs of symptoms.

'To think it was just a cold.' He signed in relief. Thankfully, it was just that she was feeling cold. Her assumptions made her think she cares about his father.

"Mom, I think you just have a slight fever. That's why you kept getting chills." He explained that her body temperature was slightly higher than normal, but she wasn't perspiring, so that was why the cold got stuck in her skin and it made her inner body temperature higher. It was the reason she kept trembling and shivering.

"Eh? Is that so?" Mamako showed a surprised look to him before feeling her neck and thought it was normal temperature.

He rolled his eyes before saying, "That's because you're the one who measured it. You won't realize that your body had a slight fever if you only had the symptom of slight chills, let me get a thermometer so you can see." He quickly asked her what she did during the past few days. He got a thermometer in the medicine cabinet and put it in her armpits.

"Nothing or sort that could make me sick?" Mamako contemplated. Aside from helping him over his things, she hadn't been going out that much. She added the family dates they had, but it didn't seem to be a good reason to place the blame.

Mamako had a good resistance over sickness, but she wasn't immune to an illness or disease. It was probably something she did over the few days that turned her like this,

"Maybe it was because of me bathing over for long. he-he.." Mamako put out her tongue while looking at him with a laugh. She always does a warm bath but overexposure of the hot water accompanied by the cold atmosphere gave her the ailment she had right now.

"So it was like that." Hiroto nodded with understanding. But he reprimanded her telling not to take long baths from now on. The temperature nowadays was lower since the rainy season wasn't over yet.

"You will get better after a time or so. For now, you need to cover yourself with thick blankets and have a good rest later." He stood up to get a blanket before covering his mother with it. Then, he prepared a tasty hot soup and some aspirin, she smiled gently and thanked him for his help. Learning that it was just her sickness that kept making her tremble, she sighed in relief as she lay down at the sofa and rested her chin on her knee. She looked at him while smiling as it seems she was just exaggerating about worrying about that stupid husband of her. She didn't want to sleep after eating dinner and accompanied her son for some time.

Hiroto brought his laptop to the living room before they choose a car through the internet while reading the best specifications they wanted, even if she hung over a thick blanket. They still could interact with each other and laugh.

Hiroto had turned 17 this year and will be an adult in the next semester of study. He could only get a student license before getting one.

"Do you want to learn to drive?" Mamako asked him curiously.

"Y-yeah, I want to learn." He nodded. He already knew how since it's embedded in his brain with the help of the skill. His mother started discussing what he needed to do before getting one, but he still had to practice first driving.

"How about taking a driver's lessons for some time before I get you a pro driver's license this year?" She suggested.

"It's so you can use the car early and it's better that way. We can also get a student license for your first hand so you can have some experience while I teach you how." Mamako smiled. Hiroto contemplated before nodding if she could make exceptions and get a license then, going place to place wouldn't be a hassle anymore.

"When we bought the car, I will teach you how," Mamako said.

"Okay." He nodded.

She let him pick the car they will buy and it made him smile, albeit he doesn't have any experience in picking one but still attempted to pick the best he can find. "What do you think about this." He showed a minivan called Khrysler Pacifico. It allows all the passengers the comfort to move with ease at their seats. The site displays a good rating and it was slightly cheaper than the other brand. He chose the latest one since it had the best commodity in terms of its specification while having a top rating compared to the other minivans.

"Are you sure?" She asked while smiling.

She wanted to get an SUV, but she understood why he chose that one. She affirmed and decided what he wanted. While thinking about buying another one for herself, and so she decided to buy two cars while gifting what he chose earlier.

She chuckled inwardly at her decision. "This is fine, but you must pick the pink colored one."

"Eh?" He got speechless but afterward nodded helplessly. His mother asked him to pick an SUV to compare it with. She chose an XBW X5 for herself and didn't bother the puzzled expression of her son.