4. This is Mom’s idea!

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4. This is Mom's idea!

With the appearance of Fujiwara Chika, it assured Shuu that he had reincarnated in the anime world. with how many stories he had read with the same beginning as he experienced now. He wouldn't be surprised anymore. Still, unlike Shuu's personal connections and social life, Shuu remembered quite a lot about anime, manga, novels, music, kdrama, or even Monalisa. It was to the point where he wouldn't be surprised if someday someone from above told him he was reincarnated by the God of Art and Entertainment.

Anyway, enough with the useless things. Let's get back to the point, even with Chika, who sometimes came with Fujiwara-sensei. There isn't that much change in Shuu's life. He still keeps a schedule full of learning things. He wasn't interested in children's toys, playing with other kids his age, or bullying his servant, like how many rich children are depicted in a story. So it was a good way to waste his time and invest in his future.

It was until one dinner he had with his parents. Unlike his father, who is sometimes busy, his mother, Aoi, stayed at home all the time. With Shuu's schedule, he was rarely able to see what his mother was doing. but whenever he wasn't in his study. Aoi would spend her time with Shuu. (To be honest, spending time with my parents was harder than when I was studying. I had to keep acting like a child in front of them.) He thought jokingly, (If this keeps going, maybe I'll become a professional actor in the future). Then there's also one thing that Shuu's father always left some time, no matter how busy he was.

and that's their everyday dinner, which is also their family time. and today Ren finally dropped a bomb on Shuu's mind.

"Shuu," Ren called. Shuu kept his manner following how he was taught to the T. before he faced his father. "Yes, Dad?" It seemed strange for Shuu to call his parents this way. However, when he started learning manners, he once changed the way he called his parents, and the result… he was scolded, especially by his mother.

No matter how Shuu saw it, no matter from what aspect or what angle, except for the time when he couldn't see her, in Shuu's eyes, Aoi was the same as those kind mothers from normal families. If it weren't for his education and his surroundings, he wouldn't even believe that their family was normal. While Ren excepted the time when he was working, which sometimes Ren was able to watch and observe, he was what you would call a silly and fun dad. A kind mother and silly dad were the picture of a happy, normal family.

"It's time for you to know our family's true nature," Ren said with a very serious face. Shuu felt like the atmosphere around the dining room became heavier and heavier as the second passed. Because it was family time, they also didn't have servants nearby.

With an increasing feeling of tenseness, Shuu unconsciously gulped to calm his nerves as he waited for Ren to continue his unveiling.

"Actually..." Ren kept increasing the mysteriosity. "We are a family of… Ninja!" he blurted out with a very serious face.

Luckily, Shuu didn't have anything in his mouth, or he would have already spit everything out at this point. However, even without that, it was a fact that Shuu's brain.exe has crashed. before he even could retort anything. Aoi made a hand seal like some anime that Shuu knew, "Nin-nin!" She said. Then to add the cherry on top, they both took out something from who knows where… then *POP *POP

It was Party Poppers!

Shuu's Brain.exe got deleted permanently….

After a while, Shuu only stared at the ceiling like an old man in his late thirties, wondering why his life had gone this way. Yet, as the pepper from the party popper's explosion just now started to fall, some of it even fell on his face. For the first time in the last five years, Shuu failed to act with a very fed-up-looking face. He slowly cleaned his face and looked at his parents with dead eyes, like some character he knew from the past. Shuu himself didn't know that he could do this.

"Are you surprised?" Aoi asked, "Shuu was surprised, right? Hehe, all of this is Mom's idea!" She proudly pronounces.

(Well, of course!! If my father is also a person who will come up with this kind of idea, I'll be admitted to a mental hospital by now!!) Shuu retorted with full power in his heart. Thanks to that, Shuu was able to cool his head. "Wow!! Mama's the best!!" Shuu replied, which ended up with another giggle from Aoi.

Then, after a series of praises from Shuu got Aoi on cloud nine, Ren finally continued their conversation. "To be exact, our family was a family of Ninja in ancient times," Ren explained. "Of course, it wasn't like the shadowless or the invincible Ninja you heard about in fairy tales. As ninjas, we avoid the center of attention and keep our ears and eyes open as wide as possible to gather any information we can."

Hearing his father explain something like that, Shuu at some point seriously thought that his parents got hit on the head and had a mass hallucination. Shuu kept his calm and took everything in as if a grandpa were telling his adventure stories to his grandson.

"Even now, with the era of information and data, you could say that we're still on top compared to others in matters of gathering and handling the information," Ren continued.

"If that's the case, why is Dad telling Shuu this?" Shuu replied, as he decided to play along.

Ren smiled, looking at his son. (He really was exceptional, like what Aoi and others stated) "Like other families' heirlooms, we also had one. and that is our technique, and I'll pass it down to you too someday in the future. That's why, starting tomorrow, Dad will assign Dad's most exceptional subordinate to teach you the basics in preparation for that," he explained.

(I see… I SEE!!! Now I understand the reason for all these charades!!) Shuu screamed inwardly. (So after all that education you prepared for me, you still wanted to increase it again! and used these charades to make me ignore the most important part, huh! Screw all of this!!) "Wow!!" Shuu smiled brightly. "Of course Shuu will inherit our family heirlooms!"

"Husband, husband," Aoi called in a small voice, "I looked into it on the internet. It said it's better to show children small goals to boost motivation. It also enhances their learning speed. I tested it too, and it worked beautifully."

"Is that the case?" Ren replied, "Then how about this...?" He gave Aoi his name card.

Aoi nodded. "I think this will work."

""Shuu"" they called. "This will be something you could do in the future," Ren said.

Shuu watched them both have a name card in their hands. Shuu also heard their conversation from before. He watched them very reluctantly, knowing it wouldn't do anything special, or so he thought.

Aoi and Ren threw it at the same time. Shuu was unable to see their movement. It's like their hand disappeared for a moment. Dazed Shuu turned his head toward the place where their hands pointed, and there he saw the name card from before pierced and stuck on the wall.

"Eh…" Shuu unconsciously let out a stupid voice.

Shuu never explained it before, even when her mother was slender and beautiful like a woman in her early twenties. His father was also handsome, but his body was on the chubbier side. In any case, what they did just now was something that Shuu never even thought would happen, even with miracles.

(WHAAAAAATTTT!!!!)

***

"So that's the case." Miyuki replied as he concluded what he heard from them and the information from others: "Ogata-san is exceptional in science but bad with literature, and Furuhashi-san is exceptional in literature but bad with science, and what the principal wanted was to tutor both of you to overcome that bad side."

(This is the prestigious Shuchi'in private academy. Even if they were called geniuses at one subject, it wouldn't be enough if they failed too hard on another.) Miyuki thought (So that's why I never saw them in the ranking. Everything makes sense now, except for why we've been chosen to help them)

As Miyuki was still thinking of something. Kaguya takes the reins in their conversation: "Then, can you two show us your last test? We won't know how to start if we don't know your level now." She said, "Oh, if it isn't possible or you two didn't bring it, We have some mock problems." Kaguya handed out both math and modern Japanese mock problems.

Then, by their own will, Rizu took the modern Japanese mock problem and Fumino took the other one. Unexpected or as expected, the result was… Devastating.

Rizu complained that there's no calculation to this day that could calculate a person's feelings, while Fumino hid behind the sofa in spiraling depression. They rendered the whole student council speechless.