At ten in the morning, all the teams gathered for the Gem Among Games finals in Hall 606 of the Suntec Convention and Exhibition Centre. Everyone is excited to find out who's the winner.

George brought Seiren to Utaha's ward, and the three of them watched the event from the television in the ward.

Jia Ying, Liam, Lucy, and Ayako took seats in the audience as they waited patiently for the event to start.

"Do you think Mummy will win this competition, Daddy?" Lucy asked.

"Of course! Your mum's a genius!" Liam replied proudly, "She and Blessing Software would obviously be the judges' first choice."

"I have faith in them." Ayako added on, "After all, I was with them for a few months. They can really produce visual novels of excellent standards!"

A few minutes later, the event officially started. The host, Mr James Watson, came up to the stage.

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the Gem Among Games finals!" James said excitedly, "I'm so glad all of you could be here today. Be it friends or family of the team members, I thank each and every one of you for coming so that you can support them. As you know, only the best game that the four judges agree on will receive the stamp, and it's not going to be easy. Without further ado, let's introduce the judges!"

The judges are Chase Tan and three other people. All of them are professional visual novel creators.

After the interviews of each company's director has been shown, the teams went up onto the stage, and the judges began telling the results. For Farebit Technologies, only Jay, Ruyi, and Harry showed up. Iori and Izumi are nowhere to be seen.

GameZ came in fifth, as they had some minor bugs in their game. Orion Games came in fourth, all because their plot is a bit cliché, and the judges expected the so-called 'superb' ending. Paperrock Interactive came in third due to its music not being that nice to listen to. Its plot is also a bit far-fetched.

Now, it is Blessing Software against Farebit Technologies. The judges looked at the two teams.

"We'll start with Farebit Technologies." Chase said, "Farebit, we are always stunned by your versatile game creating skills. Three years ago, we asked you to create an action game, and you did it without a hitch. This year is the same. We asked you to create a visual novel game, and you guys seemed to be perfect in this. Not only is the story enticing, the routes are fantastic, and the characterization here is magnificent. The music in this is really great too. As usual, Ruyi's melodic voice is always a blessing to hear. The graphics are top notch, and there isn't a single bug. Well done, Farebit."

The audience clapped their hands. Chase then continued, "Blessing Software, you have surprised me with what you have submitted to us. Not in a bad way, of course. This visual novel is one of the best works you guys have created so far, and we judges find it really impressive and outstanding. Your plot's very special, and we have never ever seen such a story before. It made us really interested to see what happens next. Routes are awesome too. One route reminded me of the Matrix movie, and I like the film, so that's marvelous. Your music...it always satisfy the judges. You have this up and coming rising singer named Jasper Tan singing some of the tracks and playing the guitar in your soundtrack. We judges would like to say we liked it, and it is indeed better than Farebit's music."

Jasper bowed down as a way of saying thanks.

"One thing is that I find your games oddly similar." Chase said, "Some elements in your games have some resemblance. I don't think you guys contacted each other or anything, so I'm just going to count that as coincidental. We have a lot of difficulty choosing which company should emerge as the champion. Give us some time as we discuss." Chase then turned to the judges and started discussing among themselves.

"It looks like the judges are conflicted on who should win." Mr James said. Jay then gave a smug face to Tomoya.

Tomoya remembered Chase's words. There is no way the two games could be similar. There is absolutely no way, unless...Tomoya is trying to think of other ways that this could happen, but his mind is only telling him one.

The red hair in their house...Megumi's kidnapping...the device in the hospital...all of them are done by one person only.

There are some murmuring coming from the crowd.

"I really hope we win this." Michiru whispered to Tomoya. Jerald, who is one of the reporters at the side taking notes down, is looking at Masaru. He prayed that Blessing Software would win the competition.

Finally, the judges turned back to the two teams.

"After much discussion, we have finally reached a decision." Chase announced, "And now, we shall reveal the winner. The champion of this year's Gem Among Games is..."

The whole venue is filled with suspense. The two teams looked at each other before looking at the judges.

"...Farebit Technologies!" Chase declared. The crowd cheered in delight. Ruyi cried in joy and hugged Jay while Harry screamed happily. The Blessing Software members, Jerald, Liam, Ayako, Lucy, and Jia Ying are all in shock.

"What the fucking hell?" Masaru cursed.

In the hospital, Utaha and George were stunned by the results.

"How...how did this happen?" Utaha asked, "We...lost..."

George looked at her and patted her shoulder.

Back in the hall, the judges took the trophy and passed it to Jay, who is smiling gleefully. The Blessing Software, along with the crowd, clapped their hands to congratulate Farebit Technologies.

Out of the blue, Megumi had a very bad headache. She felt very dizzy. A few seconds later, she fainted and fell onto the floor.

"Megumi!" Masaru squatted to shake her body, "Megumi! Are you alright?" The other team members heard the thumping sound and are horrified to see Megumi unconscious.

Masaru carried Megumi and ran out of the venue. The rest of the team followed. Liam, Ayako, Lucy, and Jia Ying got out of their seats and out of the venue.

Jerald is taken aback by the events that happened earlier. Not only did Blessing Software lose, but the director also fainted on the spot.

Outside the hall, Tomoya looked at the windows and saw Izumi and Iori on the first floor. He ran down the escalator angrily. Masaru looked at the windows and saw the Hashima siblings. He then knew what Tomoya is about to do.

"Eriri, Michiru, can you attend to Tomoya?" Masaru asked, "I feel he's going to do something bad. I will bring Megumi to the hospital, and I'll meet you guys there."

"Okay!" Eriri replied before chasing Tomoya. Michiru followed suit.

On the first floor, Izumi and Iori watched the competition live on their phone.

"Farebit won..." Izumi said with distraught, "Farebit won..."

"Isn't that good?" Iori asked, "Our company won. Our efforts are paid off."

"With what you had done? All the more I wished we didn't win." Izumi replied, "You did some shady shit, and if anyone knows it, we could be doomed!"

A few days ago, during the afternoon when Megumi was kidnapped...

In Iori's office, he told Izumi about his break-in, and how happy he is to finally get some information on Blessing Software's game.

"You broke into their house?" Izumi asked, "Are you courting death? What if anyone saw you? And why you would even do something against the law?"

"Relax, sister. It's what we've been doing for the past two competitions too. I've done this countless times, and I didn't get caught for it. To have an advantage over our opponents, we need to know what they are doing."

"This is obviously wrong!" Izumi screamed, "You are breaking the law and that's never fair sportsmanship! Ever since Megumi-san and her company stepped into Singapore, you've been targeting them non-stop!"

"That's exactly what I want to do!" Iori shouted, "They treated me like shit, and they gave us so little salary too! They expected us to be one of the best in one of the worst environments ever! We are rotting every day in there, making sex-orientated shit! Liang-san is smart to see our talents and he didn't want it to go to waste, which is why he wanted us on his team. Remember, Izumi, he saved our ass, not that stupid brown-haired bitch or Tomoya."

"I don't get it." Izumi glared at her brother, "Even if you hate Megumi-san so much, you shouldn't resort to underhand tactics. You and Liang-san are so despicable. You guys will do anything to achieve your goals. Liang-san wanted Farebit Technologies to win the competition, so he resorted to using moles to help him know what other teams were doing. You hated Megumi-san and Blessing Software so much, you hired a few men to kidnap her, and then you broke into their house."

"Wait, how did you..."

"I overheard your conversation." Izumi crossed her arms, "Okaa-san would be so upset if she ever knew what you are doing. I'm so disgusted by you and Liang-san. After this competition ends, you can choose to stay. I will leave. I will no longer work in such a dishonest company anymore." She then left the room.

Back to the present...

"I already told you no one will find it out." Iori leaned against a wall, "If you and I don't say anything, no one will find out."

"You and Liang-san really go all out to destroy your enemies, don't you?" Izumi smirked, "You destroyed our friends with your disgusting tactics."

"Correction. It is your friends, not ours."

Tomoya then marched up to Iori and punched his face.

"You son of a bitch!" He screamed at Iori, "How dare you fuck us up!"

"What did I do, smarty pants?" Iori rubbed his own face, "I didn't do anything."

"You know it yourself." Tomoya said, "You must have broke into our house to see our work. That's why our games are so similar."

"Not only you and your bunch of dickheads can come up with what you came up with." Iori retorted, "I can too, and that's a fact." At this moment, Eriri and Michiru arrived behind Tomoya.

"Don't talk all that shit. You didn't even show that during the times you were with us!" Tomoya shouted, "Also, I knew you planned Megumi's kidnapping so that you can conduct your break-in! And that device you placed under Utaha-senpai's bed! You placed that to try and steal our story plot!"

"Excuse me, are you done accusing me?" Iori asked with annoyance, "You don't even have evidence that I did it at all. I, on the other hand, can sue you for slander for all that shit you've been talking."

"You..."

"Tomoya-senpai, he didn't mean to do this." Izumi tried to calm the situation down, "It's because..."

"I don't need to hear it. I know why." Tomoya said, "You wanted to win this competition so badly, you cheated your way. Congrats, Hashima siblings. You've achieved your goal. You'd betray your own childhood friends for some fucking competition."

"You weren't even my friend ever since you and your stupid wife treated me like a piece of dirty shit." Iori laughed, "Oh right, your wife fainted earlier on, didn't she? When she wakes up, tell her that she still sucks at being a director and this is what she deserved for doing this to me in the past. This is karma."

"How dare you curse my wife, you motherfucking asshole!" Tomoya punched Iori one more time. Eriri then went to Tomoya, "Leave them alone. Those two are not worth getting angry for. They are already worthless enough. Let's get to the hospital quickly."

Tomoya nodded his head and stormed off. Eriri and Michiru glared at them before following Tomoya.

"Pissing them off makes you feel very happy, don't you?" Izumi asked angrily.

"It does not just make me happy. It makes me feel so much joy!" Iori exclaimed, "Taking them down feels so good!"

"I am so disappointed with the things you have done since you ever stepped into Farebit Technologies." Izumi shook her head, "I'm done talking to you. I'm writing my resignation letter now."

"Izumi, I did this for us. For Okaa-san. To help us live a good life and repay her debts!"

"No, Onii-chan." Izumi scowled at her brother, "You did it because of your thirst for revenge." She then walked away from him. Iori sighed and watched Izumi go.

In the radio station, Jerald's boss told him to talk about the incident that happened earlier. Jerald didn't want to do it because Masaru is his best friend, and he didn't want to upset the team further. The boss commanded him to say it, telling him that he is a radio DJ for a reason. Jerald sighed and agreed to it. He couldn't lose his job because of this, couldn't he?

A few minutes later, Megumi and Utaha, who is in a wheelchair, are both discharged from the hospital. The team members and their friends went into the shop they had set up at the start of their trip. It turns out that Megumi did not sleep throughout the night because she wanted to edit one route. She also did not drink enough water, thus she fainted.

"Why didn't you tell me about it, Megumi?" Tomoya asked, "You got me worried for a moment."

"I didn't want to make you worried before the competition." Megumi replied, "I know you will lecture me on it."

"Just tell me next time, okay?" Tomoya held her hands, "We are husband and wife. We shouldn't keep anything from each other."

"Alright." Megumi replied, "I'm more worried about the team's condition. We just lost the competition, and everyone looks so sad and depressed."

Tomoya looked around and saw most of the people in the shop looking disheartened, except for Liam and George.

"I mean no harm, but second place is good too." Liam said, "We have all worked hard, and at least we're second. You should be proud of yourselves for making it this far."

"That's right." George added on, "It's all about the experience, guys. You guys have experience now, and that might enable you guys to work even harder and win the next competition."

Seeing that the team ignored them, the two sat down on the floor. Jasper stood up and went to Tomoya.

"Tomoya, Megumi, it's been a pleasure working with you guys." Jasper shook Tomoya's hand, "I had a lot of fun being in this project. At least now I know I'm better than Jay in music. I feel confident again."

"Always feel confident about yourself, Jasper." Tomoya said to him, "Never look down on yourself. You are such a super talented musician, I'm sure everyone would rather hear your music."

"We really hope you could do very well in the future with your songs." Megumi smiled at him, "If you got any personal problems, you can speak to us if you want."

"I will, and thank you guys so much for helping me both in career-wise and personally." He hugged both of them, "I wish you success in your future endeavors."

"You too." Tomoya uttered. Jasper then waved goodbye as he walked out of the store.

"Blessing Software," Tomoya told the team, "We can treat this as experience. Yes, we lost. That's a very unsatisfying feeling and it feels like all our efforts have went down the drain. No, it has not. We made a game the judges like. We have fans who always constantly support us. We can't let those fans down. We got to continue making visual novels like we always do. We might lose this time, but that doesn't stop us from doing what we want. This competition will not deviate from what we will always do. That is making our fans happy by creating more light novels game!"

"I agree." Masaru spoke up, "Let's all enjoy ourselves for the rest of the trip and forget about this competition. We lost, but we all know we have tried our best, and that's all we need to know. We all have worked very hard, and we ought to pat ourselves on the back. We tried to win. At least we tried. When we try, there's a fifty percent chance. If we don't, it's a straight zero."

"I hope you guys won't be disheartened by this." Megumi said, "This competition is already over, and we know our game is a very excellent game. So let's just relax and enjoy ourselves for the rest of the time we're in Singapore."

Jasper then came back into the shop, "Yo, I wanted to tell you something, Tomoya."

"What is it?"

"A whole lot of your fans are outside your shop right now." Jasper then opened the door, and many people are outside, cheering for Blessing Software.

The members looked at the crowd with surprise.

"Holy...shit..." Michiru opened her mouth in shock.

"Is this how many fans we have in Singapore?" Utaha asked, "It's a lot."

"Blessing Software, don't feel discouraged." One fan said, "Even though Farebit won, we will always support you as your fans. We like your visual novels because they are really fun, interesting, and awesome to play."

"Yeah, please don't stop making games after this." Another fan said, "We would be sad if you were to stop because of this competition. Not winning it doesn't mean you suck. You guys rock!"

The fans then continued chanting Blessing Software. Megumi, with tears of joy, cleared her throat and looked at her fans.

"I want to thank you all for coming to support us throughout our journey as Blessing Software." Megumi talked, "We are really, really touched that you came all the way here just to support and comfort us. I really appreciate you fans. Each and every single one of you. I promise you that we won't stop making visual novels at all. We will continue what we always want and love to do. I hope that you would continue to support us, and I really want to thank you guys from the bottom of my heart. Singapore fans, you are awesome!"

The fans roared in delight and clapped their hands as she bowed.

"Just to add on, I was wondering if I had printed the CDs for wasted." Tomoya said, "Earlier this morning, I went to make some CDs for our new game that was shown in the competition. I thought if we won, lots of people will buy it. Now that we lost, would you still buy it?"

The crowd replied with a yes.

Tomoya grinned at them, "Thank you for all your support. It really means a lot to us. Because you guys made an effort to come here, for today, we're going to sell our games at a thirty percent discount!"

The crowd cheered in joy. The other members smiled at each other, knowing that their efforts are not for wasted. For the rest of the day, fans bought the store's worth of games.

As the fans are busy buying, Megumi and Masaru looked at them.

"It is so good seeing fans, isn't it, Megumi?" Masaru asked.

"Yeah." Megumi replied, "They lightened up the mood, and made us really happy. I really cherish our fans. Without them, we won't be where we are today, being famous worldwide."

"We don't need to win a competition in our lifetime." Masaru said, "As long as our fans are there to support us, we are contented enough. We have won their hearts."

"I agree, Masaru-san." Megumi smiled at him. At the end of the day, the games are all sold out. Tomoya, Megumi, Utaha, Masaru, Michiru, Liam, Eriri, George, Ayako, and Lucy gathered while Seiren is sleeping on a chair with her earmuffs on.

Tomoya stuck his right hand out. Megumi placed her right hand on top of his, followed by the rest. Once Lucy placed her hand on top of Ayako's, they looked at each other with happy faces.

"Blessing Software forever!" They shouted as they swung their right hands up.

FallenVengeance Presents

Saekano: Showdown

Main Cast
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Tomoya Aki
Kiyono Yasuno as Megumi Kato
FallenVengeance as Masaru Kobayashi
Ai Kayano as Utaha Kasumigaoka
Saori Ōnishi as Eriri Spencer Sawamura
George 'Joji' Miller as George Fuistuer Yang
Sayuri Yahagi as Michiru Hyodo
Wang Weiliang as Liam Feng
JJ Lin as Jasper Tan
Jay Chou as Jay Liang
Juice WRLD as Jerald Johnson

A month has passed since Gem Among Games ended. The members and their friends have returned to Japan to live their normal lives again.

Liam officially quits his police job. There is a ceremony held for his departure, where officers and his boss saluted him for serving the country for ten years.

In Liam's office, he and Michiru are packing up his stuff when Justin came in.

"Are you really gonna leave, brother?" Justin asked, "I can't bear to see you go."

"Don't talk like this is the last day you're going to see me, goofy man." Liam patted his shoulder, "You got my number, bro. We can still meet up."

"You're always welcome to step back into here." Justin said, "I'm going to miss the times with you. The jokes, the serious investigations, the private talks. Nothing's ever going to be the same again."

"Remember the first time you were assigned to team up with me?" Liam asked, "I almost cried. You were so shitty with the first case that I had carried you throughout that whole shit."

"Yeah, I remembered that. Good ol' memories. I don't think I know how to find clues that time. I was a freshman. Remember when we managed to solve our first case?"

"Yeah. I treated you dinner in an expensive restaurant. It cost me a bomb. That dinner was when we get to know each other better too."

They then both hugged each other.

"I'm going to miss you, buddy." Justin sighed, "Promise me we will meet up."

"It's a promise." Liam replied. Michiru smiled at the both of them.

A few minutes later, Liam and Michiru reported in Tomoya's office.

"So, Tomoya, what's the occasion?" Michiru asked, "Why did you call us here?"

"We won't be making games for a while, so I figured we'd do this for you as a thank-you for your contributions to Blessing Software."

He passed a poster to Michiru. The couple took a look at it and got a surprise.

"A tour for Icy Tail?" Liam asked.

"I've organized some dates and places for you to hold your music tours, since you are a very famous band. Ayako has even agreed to join you girls for some of the stops too. You can promote and perform the songs from your upcoming debut album too. This is what you wanted, right, Michiru?"

"Oh my god." Michiru looked at the poster before looking at Tomoya. She then held his shoulders and shook him happily, "Thank you so much, Tomoya! Thank you so damn much!"

"Thank you for giving Michiru this opportunity to perform live in front of her fans." Liam said.

"No problem," Tomoya weakly replied, "But can you ask Michiru to stop shaking me?"

Eriri and George went into Sayuri's ward.

"You're done with your work?" Sayuri asked. Eriri nodded her head and sat down beside her, "Mummy, are you feeling okay?"

"I'm feeling fantastic as ever." Her mother responded, "Thank you, you two, for visiting me every day. You two are really busy, yet you took time off to see me."

"It's okay, Okaa-san." Geroge said, "I don't have a lot of patients to take care of anyways."

In Masaru's house, he gave Utaha a box of shoes. She opened it up and realized they are sneakers.

"Masaru-san, why can't I wear heels?" Utaha whined, "You know I love them. Besides, I can walk again."

"Of course you can walk. It's just that I want you to take it slowly." Masaru answered, "You've just recovered a few days ago. We should take one step at a time. Once you're familiarized with the sneakers, I promise I'll let you wear your heels again. For now, take this."

He held her hands, "You know I love you so much. I'm doing this so that you can recover quickly. I want my wife to fully regain her walking ability."

"I know." Utaha smiled at him, "Thank you for everything, Masaru-san. No words can describe how much I love you."

Both of them shared a kiss together before hugging each other.

Iori is being escorted out of his house by the policemen, and looked back to see Izumi at the doorstep.

Izumi had not only reported her own brother to the police for his wrongdoings, but she has exposed Jay and Harry by sharing how Farebit Technologies cheat during all the three Gem Among Games competitions. She had taken voice recordings of Jay ordering Iori to break into the other teams' houses. As such, the Gem Among Games judges removed all entries of Farebit Technologies and thus disqualified them. They have also barred Farebit Technologies from entering the competition again. The judges promised to hold another one next year.

Izumi has resigned from her job in that company too. She plans to travel to Japan and apologize to Megumi and Tomoya for all the bad things the Hashima siblings did to them, and she hopes to seek their forgiveness. Perhaps she could even join Blessing Software back, and be with her friends like old times.

Other Cast:
Kimberly Chia as Chen Jia Ying
Justin Timberlake as Justin Miserfoosh
Luna Haruna as Ayako Furushima
G.E.M. as Lee Ruyi
Harry Styles as Harry Williams
Tetsuya Kakihara as Iori Hashima
Chinatsu Akasaki as Izumi Hashima
Eri Suzuki as Tokino Himekawa
Rui Tanabe as Echika Mizuhara
You Daichi as Ranko Morioka
Mai Nakahara as Sayuri Sawamura
Michelle Wong as Jennie Kobayashi
Zong Zijie as Chen Han Sheng
Yojiro Noda as Johnathan Tan
Jamie Foxx as Mr James Watson
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Radio DJ Boss
Kenichi Matsuyama as Furoshi Kawanawa
Sota Fukushi as Larry
&
Mark Lee as Chase Tan

Story By:
FallenVengeance

Based on Characters from:
Saenai Heroine No Sodatekata (Saekano)
FallenVengeance

Special Thanks to:
Fumiaki Maruto, for creating Saekano and its characters. Without him, I wouldn't have written a single Saekano fanfiction or liked the series.
Jarad Anthony Higgins, a.k.a. Juice WRLD, for his extraordinary, emo, and catchy music.
Readers and fans, for taking your time to read the book. I appreciate every one of you.

Book dedicated to:
Fumiaki Maruto
Juice WRLD (in loving memory)