Hit and Run In This Mundane World doodles I did on the plane ^-^ Most of them are The Sun King because I hate him but also NEW FACES IN THAT LAST PIC!!!! Those fellas are some of Shiko's assignments that he needs to send to Phitania!
AN: This takes place before the events of Hit and Run in this Mundane World! (an isekai parody where a dude named Shiko Fujita dies in an isekai world called Phitania so he has to redeem himself by hitting people with a truck to send them there). It's about a week after Shiko was sent to Phitania, which is about three years before the story itself. I saw the prompt and immediately went "Oh duh, Shiko had a typical shonen isekai experience" so here we go!
Following the prompt list created by @oc-growth-and-development. Today's prompt is Journey. Enjoy!
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Shiko Fujita is very glad he had died.
Wait, that was a bad way of putting it. At the moment he thought he had, but he had been wrong.
No, Shiko is very glad he had been hit by that random truck while crossing the street. At the time, everything had been falling apart. He had been rejected by a girl, he was failing school, he realized he didn’t secretly have magic powers, and he didn’t have any friends to even listen to him, so getting hit with a truck had been the cherry on top of the sundae. He could still feel it. The moment his body went flying through the air, pain radiating through his body, gasps from the people around him, the impending fall, shutting his eyes-
Well, he’s here now. No need to ruminate on it. He turns away from the mirror and walks out of his room, black cape fluttering after him.
Alina is casually leaning on a chaise, waiting for him. “We’re going on a quest, not to a ball.”
He flashes a smile at her. “Maybe we can go to one after we win.”
She gives a stilted smile and sits up. “Sure.”
Shiko runs to catch up to her as she nearly makes it to the other side of the hall. “So we need to find this Demon Lord, right?”
“We’ve only been talking about this for several days,” she sighs. “I guess I shouldn’t expect you to remember it all.”
Shiko frowns. He was never much into tsunderes, but he could manage them. Eventually she would warm up to him along the journey and then they would kiss, and he could have the beautiful elf princess. He knows how these types of manga always end.
They enter the court room, the King already there with his advisor. He looks down at both of them from the tall, silver throne with warm eyes.
“Alina, Shiko, you two have finally decided to arrive,” he says, his voice stern with a hint of teasing slipping through.
“I’m sorry, father. Fujita was held up.” Alina gives him a pointed glare as she says this.
Shiko shrugs it off. “Where is the Demon Lord, my king?”
The advisor unrolls a large map and points to the center of Phitania.
“We currently think he’s hiding out here,” the King explains. “There’s a few paths you can take-”
“Give me the toughest one,” Shiko interrupts.
Alina gapes at him, but Shiko isn’t paying attention to her right now.
The King taps his chin. “The most difficult one?”
“Of course. I can handle it.”
“We’re a team, and I say-”
“Are you worried about being hurt? I can protect you.”
She sighs. “Father, don’t listen to him. If we take the one with the most cover-”
“Worry not, Alina. I can protect you from whatever we encounter.”
She opens her mouth to protest, but the King laughs. “I believe you, Shiko. You are the fabled hero, after all. Isn’t he, Alina?”
Alina closes her mouth and nods. “Right.” She turns back to Shiko. “We can talk about this later.”
The King continues as if there had been no interruption. “To leave, you’ll need to go over the mountains to the east…”
Shiko nods along, making noises of agreement as the King lays out the plan. Go over the mountains, make their way through the desert, slash through the jungle, and finally make it to the heart of the volcanic ruins. Easy.
“Thank you, Sun King. I shall emerge victorious,” Shiko promises.
The King smiles warmly. “Good luck, heroes. May you free the land from the grasp of the Demon Lord.”
“Thank you, father.” Alina turns away and gestures for Shiko to follow.
As soon as the two are out of ear shot, she elbows him.
“Ow!” Shiko grabs his arm and hisses at her. “What was that for?”
“Are you an idiot? We could die, Fujita.”
He shrugs. “Hey, it’s not a quest without a little danger, right? Besides, I’ve played plenty of video games.”
She groans and smacks her head. “I have no idea why my father instituted you as the leader of this party when I’m plenty more qualified.”
“I’m destined for greatness.” Shiko steps out of the back doors and gazes towards the mountains. Their first checkpoint was only 100 kilometers away, but they were walking on foot.
Alina points towards the woods. “If we go off the trail, we’ll get there sooner, but there’s a few low forces out there.”
“Good. Then I can get some experience.” Shiko immediately heads off to the woods.
Alina follows, keeping her distance. “I thought you said you played video games.”
“They’ll help, but it’s like playing the same game on a different console. You know the basics, but it’ll take some getting used to with a new controller.”
“Mhm.”
The walk is completely silent as they march further in. The treetops begin to blot out the sky, only letting a few godrays slip in. Shiko squints to see further, but the path still appears to be clear. Despite no danger being present, Alina keeps touching the sword to her side.
“You have nothing to worry about,” Shiko says. “Nothing’s happened yet-”
Just as the words leave his mouth, the bushes rustle. He freezes, while Alina quickens her pace and continues walking.
“There’s something here!” Shiko yells.
“Yeah, and if you ignore it, nothing happens,” Alina says calmly, her voice fading with every step.
Ah. A chance to farm for EXP then. Shiko kicks the bush, sending leaves scattering upwards. He watches them fly up before slowly settling onto the ground. He waits a few moments. Nothing. He kicks it more gently this time. Nothing. One more small nudge. Nothing.
Shiko turns around and takes a few steps before he suddenly trips. “Gah!”
He splats down onto the ground, taking in a mouth full of dirt before spitting it out. He sits back up and quickly assesses his surroundings. Of course. Slimes were always the first enemy you encounter, and he had come across an entire swarm of them.
“Alina!” Shiko yells out.
The slimes quickly move, as if suddenly unfrozen, and begin to attack him. Well, bumping into him is a much more accurate description. It’s more ticklish than anything, but they won’t let up. He tries grabbing them, but they slip out from his fingers and make high-pitched chirps at him.
The slimes pause long enough for him to make his first move.
Shiko draws his sword and slashes through the closest slime. A rush of adrenaline courses through him as the slime splits in half like he had just taken a hot knife to butter. It squeals before suddenly cutting off, and the other slimes quickly move back away from him.
As the slime slides onto the ground and disintegrates, he can almost feel his body growing stronger. Wow, his first enemy, and he’s already won. This quest was going to be a breeze.
He lets himself smile as he sprints towards the next one, sword raised over head and ready to come down.
Gay meth comic redraw because even though I'd like to do Pride portraits of at least two of my OCs (Adrienne and Etienne), I haven't had the motivation to do the whole drawing, lining, and coloring process in a while. Also I don't draw enough of my OCS that aren't in R&RWG!
Old school forums really are the best place to find information on software, that was a really easy tutorial to follow. Unfortunately the author seems to have never made any follow-ups so I'll have to look for other RPG Maker tutorials
Anyways, I'm making a short RPG to get a feel for RPG Maker 2003, which is also an excuse to develop my isekai parody OCs. It's called "I died & woke up in a fantasy world?!" but that's a placeholder title for now since it's. Not the catchiest. Anyways, it's a prequel to "Hit and Run! In this Mundane World", so it'll be based on Shiko's adventure through Phitania to (though more likely just be like one small snippet). I'll just be tagging it under "h&r!" since it's part of that story. I'm just going "FUCK IT WE BALL" as I make it so we'll see what happens! I definitely need to rewrite the intro since Shiko is out of character in it
I also wanna make a couple YNFGs, one being an idea I've been calling "W?" (Short for Who What When Where Why?). There's another that I should make sure I can make since it was more like a hypothetical one my friend and I were talking about and I wanna make sure I could actually work on it so I'm not talk about it but anyways I wanna make that into a real thing too
I need to look into how to add my own assets, but I got a bunch of free music off the rpgmaker website that can be used for non-commercial releases so that's nice! Need to learn pixel art too but right now I just want to get a feel for the software and using it before I start going "I can't work on the game because my art sucks"
[Image Description: A pencil sketch depicting the upper bodies of Alina and Katsumi at a side view. Alina is an elf with her hair in a bun, some hair hanging in front of her ears, and small, thick, round eyebrows. Katsumi is a human with long straight hair, straight bangs, thick eyebrows, and a small blush oval on her cheek. Both are crying, smiling, and holding hands as they look at each other. Alina says "I thought you were killed!" In the lower right corner is a box with Shiko's head. Shiko is a human and has simple short hair. He stares blankly and below is the caption "Live Shiko Reaction". /end ID]
I got inspired by the memes. Kinda wanna finish this one
