Chapter 61: "System Update"
*POV Tadano*
I couldn't do anything but watch her go. Placing one of my fingers on my lips, I could only muster a helpless smile. *Sigh* "What a moment for a confession."
"And you're right. Well, at least one less thing to worry about now. The problem now is whether your pair of turtle and rabbit accept this little lonely kitten. Or, on the contrary, if this little kitten accepts sharing you with the turtle and the rabbit."
"Let whatever happens, happen," I said as I opened the notifications that I decided to ignore when I woke up. *Ding*
[Congratulations to the Host for the correct update and evolution of the system]
[The Ikemen System has evolved into the Rising Star System]
[The Trait Option of the System Store has been unlocked]
[The Special Option of the System Store has been unlocked]
[A new option has been opened in the System Store; you can now exchange Idol points to bring works from your previous world, whether past or future, to life]
[Accumulated Ikemen points have been updated to Idol Points. You will receive a variable amount of Idol Points each time you influence people, history, or fate. Idol Points can now be used to temporarily enhance skills outside the usual spending in the system store]
[Status]
Name: Tadano Hitohito
Age: 16
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Name: Tadano Hitohito
Age: 16
Life: 250/250
Energy: 200/200
Idol Points: 1500
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Statistics:
Strength: 10
Agility: 10
Intelligence: 10
Toughness: 10
Vitality: 10
Charisma: 10
Charm: 10
Luck: 10
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[Skills]:
[Reading the Environment]: Allows understanding the mood, internal thoughts, and intentions of living beings around you, bordering on telepathy.
[Genius]: Allows you to generate, improve, or merge skills with enough practice and hard work. Your statistics can also grow depending on the effort you put into it.
[Singing - Professional]: Allows you to have professional control over the tones and melodies of your voice. Now you can influence others' moods with the intonation of your voice. From relaxing the angriest to driving the calmest crazy. Now the skill will scale with your Charisma statistic. The success rate of influencing moods with your voice will depend on your statistic.
[Sprinter - Intermediate]: When activating the skill, the user will gain an additional 50% of their agility statistic, and movement speed will be increased by 60% for 1 minute. Cooldown time 5 minutes.
[Energetic Body - Passive]: You will unlock the Energy bar. Performing strenuous actions will greatly reduce the bar, but it will recharge itself over time with adequate rest. Actions performed with the energy bar will also be enhanced. Like a faster run when using it in a sprint or a stronger punch when using it to hit. The skill is associated with Vitality, and the bar will be larger as that statistic increases. Warning, if the bar reaches 0, you will suffer from the [Physical Exhaustion] disadvantage, reducing movement speed by 75%, as well as halving Strength and Agility statistics.
[Cooking - Advanced]: Food prepared by you will have 40% more flavor and a 25% chance to grant a random beneficial effect.
[Guitar - Advanced]: Almost complete mastery of the guitar, having a 75% chance to enchant listeners, leaving them stunned until you finish your song.
[Dance - Advanced]: You have graceful and charming movements, your flexibility improves by 75%, and you have a 50% chance to activate "Battle Dance" during combat against your enemies.
[Martial Artist - Intermediate]: Passive skill, corrects your movements to make them optimal for each occasion. It fills your brain with all the knowledge of martial arts and their correct use, also providing a 15% bonus to damage when using physical body instead of an instrument.
[Administration - Intermediate]: Efficiency in administrative management +40%, +20% in paperwork processing agility.
[Information - Advanced]: The skill allows you to know a lot of relevant information about your target, likes and dislikes, statistics, and skills.
[Camouflage - Intermediate]: "By disguising yourself, you can change your appearance by 50% to your preference, have a 5% chance of being unrecognizable, and a 30% chance of being recognized by people close to you. Now it is possible to Share the effects of the skill.
[Calm Amid Chaos - Semi-Sealed - Passive]: The skill strengthens the bond between the soul and the body, greatly strengthening the Host's Consciousness and getting rid of all unwanted external influences. While the host remains concentrated. The host can perform an Emergency activation, unlocking the full power of the skill in exchange for one vitality point per second.
[Titles]:
[A Normal Being]: Due to your past experiences, you decided to take the path of normality and be one more in the crowd. Therefore, you developed equal proportions in each of your statistics to never stand out and always go unnoticed. As a consequence, you have brief stealth and will go unnoticed by the senses of others as long as you are in a crowd. However, this effect will break if your statistics cease to be Equal.
[The Ultimate MC]: Due to your actions and a little help from external forces, you have attracted the attention of several of the most powerful beings in the Multiverse, making you the gossip of the rest of the Multiversal beings. A room has been opened in the multiverse; every influential being will be qualified to enter and observe your feats for their entertainment.
[Lady Luck's Favor]: "By fulfilling Lady Luck's request, you have earned her favor. The limit is your imagination. This title will be active until you claim it. In case you don't and find yourself on the brink of death if not completely dead, this title will automatically claim your favor and bring you back to life and in perfect condition.
Tadano: "As I expected, it's a great loss..." I murmured in a desolate tone as I saw my low number of points.
"There's nothing we can do. Just be content with seeing how to get more points."
*Sigh*
Tadano: "I guess you're right."
Before the update, I had a huge reserve of points, almost reaching a million.
If you wonder why I didn't spend them, the answer is simple. I couldn't.
I also couldn't increase my statistics.
Upon reaching 10 in all statistics, there was a cap where I wasn't allowed to spend points.
Much of the store was blocked, and I could only content myself with spinning the wheel.
However, it seemed like Lady Luck couldn't help much.
I only got wooden items and a few higher-ranked items.
The only saving grace I found is that I could continue accumulating points. So I continued with my routine of singing and training.
Thanks to the [Genius] skill, I was able to gradually improve my abilities.
However, now that I can finally use them again, the feeling of loss is truly heartbreaking.
*Crunch*
Waking up from my lament, I observed the door that I heard opening.
From it emerged the figure of my mother.
The sad expression she carried was immediately replaced by one of excitement upon seeing me awake.
She quickly ran to me, and when she was close enough, she jumped onto the bed.
"Why do so many people keep jumping onto you? Were you a finish line in your past life or something?"
Ignoring the strange thought, I sat up and caught my mother before she hit part of the bed.
My mother clung to me as tightly as she could while sobbing in my embrace.
The only thing I could understand from her multiple sobs was...
Jeanne: "I'm glad you're okay."
*Sigh*
I sighed in resignation.
I really don't care much about my own fate or what happens to me.
I blame this bad trait on my original personality before merging with this body.
Although I still retain the carelessness about my own future, I can't help but worry about those around me.
This poor woman.
Crying like this.
Damn it, I think I'm too weak to a little girl's tears.
"Obviously Yamai's female dog doesn't count."
After consoling my mother for a while and seeing that she was calm enough to respond, I asked the question that has been weighing on my heart since I woke up.
Tadano: "Mom, where are we?"
Jeanne: "Um... well... you see..."
I could see how nervous she was.
So much so that she struggled to form coherent words.
Strange man: "Come on, woman, I think it's time you told him," said a strange man who entered the room accompanied by a man and a woman whom I assumed were his servants. The man wore a suit, had short black hair, and his pair of slanted eyes were highlighted by a pair of black-framed glasses. The woman was a mature beauty dressed in a charming maid outfit, with short blond hair, smooth white skin, a pair of navy blue eyes, and a permanent poker face expression.
The strange man had a mane of gray hair combed back, wrinkles visible in his expression, evidence of his advanced age. However, his firm and calm step, as well as his authoritative bearing, showed no sign of weakness.
Tadano: "Who are you? And why are you talking to my mother in that tone?" I asked somewhat defensively.
I didn't like his tone. I also don't like the way he addressed my mother.
Strange man: "Oh? It's only been 8 years, but you don't remember your father anymore. That depresses me a little," the man said condescendingly.
Tadano: "What?"
Strange man: "Come on, Jeanne, the boy is still confused, and I don't have so much time to play guessing games," the man said, somewhat annoyed by the situation.
Jeanne: "Haha, sorry, I got distracted because my baby is okay, so I forgot to introduce you." My mother said, somewhat embarrassed as she scratched her cheek.
Sitting in front of me and with a serious expression, she said.
Jeanne: "Well, Hito-Chan, this here is Shinomiya Gan'an ... your father." My mother said with the most serious expression I've seen her make so far.
Author's note: Well here is the chapter, the system update has finally arrived. I'll try to fix some previous errors and add some background. Having said that, remember to drink a lot of water and that I love you very much. Sincerely your favorite depressive author.
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