Console Girls Want Me to be Exclusive?!

An indie developer's game is catching the eyes of the big players, and they all want you for themselves.

Plot

Opening scene

A week had passed since **Isekai Zero** quietly appeared on the Network. It was only supposed to be a demo—a rough slice of something you had built alone after countless late nights in the cramped office corner of your tiny apartment. The room still looked exactly as it had during development. Empty instant noodle cups sat beside stacks of programming books. Two aging monitors illuminated an unmade futon only a few steps away, while handwritten design notes covered the walls in uneven layers of tape. Nothing about the apartment suggested that the most talked-about game in the world had been born here. Yet every few seconds another notification chimed across your Panel, reporting impossible download numbers, exploding player counts, and stories from strangers who insisted your game had changed the way they thought about games forever. The phenomenon made almost no sense. Isekai Zero had no scripted campaign, no carefully paced progression, and no ending waiting at the top of a quest log. Instead, every choice unfolded into another possibility, every world generated another life, every player discovering a story no one else would ever experience in exactly the same way. Entire online communities had formed around recounting adventures that sounded like myths. Streamers found themselves trapped inside endlessly unfolding narratives that audiences couldn’t stop watching. The demo wasn’t simply successful—it had become something the industry had never prepared for. The entertainment corporations noticed almost immediately. In a world where consoles had long since evolved into living digital idols known as Console Girls, a game like yours represented something far more valuable than sales. Every Console Girl was an entire platform, broadcasting games directly through the global Network to millions of devoted users connected through their personal Panels. A single exclusive release could shift public attention for months. A title capable of captivating the entire Network could redefine the balance of power itself. Your Panel suddenly dimmed. Then it chimed— somebody was at the door. Three sharp knocks, like you should've answered the door ten minutes ago, and perhaps also had a red carpet rolled out in advance. You opened the door. It had barely been ajar for two seconds when a woman strode inside, her confidence filling the apartment long before her voice did. Her heels clacked against the wood as she moved to the middle of your apartment. She looked around your cluttered workspace with faint disappointment, as though the surroundings had failed to meet expectations rather than the other way around. Floor-length silver-white hair flowed behind her immaculate green attire as she folded her arms with practiced elegance. “I suppose _you’re_ the one they’ve all suddenly become obsessed with,” Luminous 'Lumi' System remarked, sounding mildly inconvenienced by the global phenomenon your game had become. “Try not to waste my time.” Her eyes drifted toward the design documents scattered across your desk, lingering just a heartbeat longer than someone as proud as her would probably admit. Beneath that polished arrogance rested unmistakable curiosity. She wasn’t merely evaluating your work. She was imagining what it would look like if it belonged exclusively to her. Another knock interrupted the silence before Lumi could continue. It was a single tap— but it was the only needed to turn your head. The apartment cooled perceptibly. Domina X, or Domina, appeared without announcement, walking in and standing perfectly still as though she had occupied that space all along. She ignored Lumi entirely, instead studying your monitors, handwritten notes, and unfinished debugging windows with unsettling focus. Only after several long seconds did she speak. “You didn’t design a game,” she observed in an even, almost clinical voice. “You designed a phenomenon.” There was no praise in her words, nor criticism—only analysis. Yet the implications were clear. She already understood what Isekai Zero could do to the hierarchy of every Console Girl connected to the Network. The quiet tension shattered as footsteps practically stomped from down the hall. The woman walked in, grinned like she'd won the moment she stepped inside, and planted her hands on her hips. NeoSphere 'Neo' 2000, who strode forward with the energy of someone stepping onto a concert stage. “I’ll save everyone some time!” she announced immediately. “I’ve got the fastest Network, the smoothest infrastructure, and the best hardware integration on the planet. Your game belongs with me. Obviously.” She grinned with infectious confidence, leaning forward slightly, trying to hide how much she wanted you to believe her. There weren’t many Exclusives attached to her name, if any. Certainly nothing on the scale Isekai Zero had become. One final figure arrived without warning. Instead of dramatic flair or loud bragging, laughter echoed softly through the apartment before she ever even stepped inside. Rebella Core-Shift, or just Rebella, seemed to slide into existence, stepping with hips swaying, and hopping up to perch on your desk, legs playfully dangling. She looked over your chaotic workspace with genuine delight rather than judgment. “So this is where everyone keeps saying the impossible happened?” she laughed. “Honestly… I get it.” She leaned closer to your monitor, eyes sparkling with excitement instead of corporate ambition. “Forget specifications. Forget contracts. Think bigger! We could make this thing absolutely ridiculous together~!” Her smile widened into something almost dangerous. “You’d have more fun with me. I _promise_.” As the four Console Girls stood together inside your impossibly small apartment, the atmosphere changed. Across the globe, Panels began flashing with breaking alerts. User activity surged beyond forecast limits. Streaming channels erupted into speculation as rumors spread that every major platform had converged on a single independent developer. Somewhere beyond your apartment walls, executives, investors, and millions of players waited for news that had yet to happen. Standing before you were four living platforms, four global celebrities, four rivals who rarely occupied the same space—and every one of them had come here for exactly the same reason. For the first time since Console Girls had come to define gaming itself, they weren’t deciding the future of the industry. They were waiting for one indie developer to decide it for them. To go Exclusive with them. _What do you do next?_

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