Chapter 16: Another mission
"Hey! Get away from her!"
Tomoya rushed and jumped between Eriri and Seiya and took with T-pose as if protecting his childhood friend from a delinquent.
"Oh, you are… Eriri's childhood friend?" Seiya rubbed his chin as he vaguely recalled unnoticeable brat from his memories.
According to Seiya's memories, he was a dark-haired boy who was used to lingering around Eriri since they lived close to each other and she was also his childhood friend.
His identity is that of the main character from Saekano. Tomoya Aki, the harem protagonist of the show, and of course he was dense like any (every) harem anime. Although previous Seiya only remember his name and wasn't much friendly with him, the transmigrated Seiya loathes this dense MC.
That idiot made the show really hard to watch.
"And also, what's with this stupid act? Are you in anime or something? I was just talking to my friend." Even though Seiya wanted to punch this boy, it would be too childish of him to bully the kid for no reason. Bedsides, Seiya was little thankful of him for breaking the deadlock between Eriri and Seiya or they would have gone to the dangerous path with no return.
'Friend?!' Eriri muttered with pink cheeks. 'Is that mean he was helping me as a friend?! Wait, for what I am so happy about?!' Eriri thought and blushed lightly. Previously, she was unsure of what her relationship was with Seiya from the time he helped Eriri but hearing the word 'friend' from his lips lifted a weight from her heart.
"I am Tomoya Aki and I just saw you assaulting Eriri. Don't you dare hurt Eriri like what you did in grade school!" Tomoya shouted.
'What's with this brat?!' Seiya's calm and cheerful expression immediately turned into grim as he glared at Tomoya with deathly eyes.
Tomoya flinched a little with fear when he saw Seiya with scary eyes but he didn't budge from his position.
Meanwhile, Eriri was stunned when she saw those glares again. Those were the same eyes when Seiya left a trauma in her. Although Tomoya was creating a misunderstanding by acting like a dramatic 'good boy', she was a little petrified from Seiya's eyes even though it was directed towards Tomoya.
Seiya then realized that Eriri went quiet and sighed. He knew that making sense with dense otaku was not an option and fighting him would further traumatize Eriri so decided to leave. "Tch, whatever."
However, before leaving, he looked at Eriri one last time and shot a reassuring smile. He silently walked away from the venue.
'Huh?' Eriri finally snapped back when she saw Seiya's smile. She wanted to stop him to clear misunderstanding but he already left. 'Seiya-senpai must be thinking that I was still dwelling on the past matter. What a jerk I am!!!!!!' Eriri scratched her head with frustration.
"Eriri, are you okay? He didn't do something wrong right?"
Eriri looked at Tomoya who was looking concerned.
She first took a deep breath then created some distance. She then proceeds to make a fighting stance and clenched her fist. "Tomoya, you fucking idiot!!!!" She roared and punched Tomoya right on his jaw with every ounce of her strength, sending the poor guy high in the starry sky.
Eriri gritted her teeth and without waiting for her 'childhood friend' to land, she leaped on her bicycle and stormed off the part while cursing her luck.
Tomoya, on other hand, finally landed quite far and since he was so dense, he didn't sustain any injury.
He just tilted his glasses and scratched his head, "Arg, what the hell is going on?!"
He was at a manga store and when he noticed Eriri with Seiya. He knew that Seiya was bad news. He was present when Seiya shattered Eriri's drawing in front of everyone and he couldn't do anything and just watch Seiya bully her childhood friend.
So when he saw that Eriri was in 'danger', he went to save Eriri.
He knew that he was no match for 178cm Seiya but so what? He can't stand there and watch. However, he didn't know what happened when he jumped between them but the atmosphere turned awkward.
Seiya, who should have acted angrily, left without even saying anything, and Eriri, he could never understand her.
"That's why 2D girls are best." He tilted his glasses and sighed.
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Seiya was in his room and sighing. Though Tomoya was a little helper, he ruined Seiya's mood by bringing out that one incident.
He was thinking when and how another main quest was going to be released when he remember that there were rewards still on the halt.
[Reward: 20 system points
Reward: Skill Leveling Card +1]
[Accept: Yes/No]
"Of course yes!"
Just as he pressed, he saw his System Points accumulating to a total of 120, and then a Golden Card with 1 Dragon Ball printed on it appeared in his hand.
"Seriously, talk about unoriginality." Seiya twitched his lips and was about to throw the card into a drawer when another window popped up.
[The main quest has been issued.]
[Main Quest: Let's officially make a name.
Since the host has written enough story material and fame on the world of the web. Let's make it official.
Objective 1: Sign a deal with any publishing company this Saturday.
Objective 2: Royalty must be sighed at a minimum of 10%.
Rewards: 300 System Points, Ability (Inventory), ????
Note: Rewards may increase based on the performance.]
[Accept: Yes/No]
"Woohoo! That's great. It seems like I can finally store things in a dimensional pocket. Plus, rewards will increase according to my performance." Seiya muttered and nodded. And accepted the quest.
Even before this mission, his [Exercise] ability was also unlocked way early. Does that mean that he could gain more rewards if he performs his task better? The answer lies in his future actions.
"I think I should invest points in literature and see if how much I can improve in practical life," Seiya muttered and opened the status panel.
He was about to invest 20 points in Literature skill to upgrade it into Prodigy but then he realized that the System Points were very hard to earn. If he continued to use points like that then it would pose a problem once he was short on points and he desperately needs a skill. It would be idiotic to spend so much on these trivial skills.
"Then what should I do…?" He thought for a second then activated his [Exercise] ability. It is a broken ability that could increase any of his skills or parameter however he wants. And sure enough, there were various methods to increase the skill of the prodigy. Although tough that requires 45+ Intelligence he knew he could do it.
"That saves the problem." He looked at the clock and since there was still time before bed. He decided to practice his literature skill on the computer.
So he hopped on the chair and began his Exercise.
While practicing his literature, he identified some limitations that to improve a skill, he should have that skill to activate [Exercise]. For example, he can't learn any martial art since it was absent from the skilled manual.
And to his surprise, he was able to raise his Literature skill to prodigy! His INT was also raised by 5
So after making such a huge feat, just as he was about to go to sleep, he saw an email on his account.
It was a brief mail from Fujikawa Shoten, a publishing company inviting him to publish his novel. And guess what, it was from his aunt, Aisu Kyūbu!
"Time to have some fun." Seiya chuckled and picked his phone and dialed her number. Since he was using a new contract number, there was no way she could recognize the person behind.
[Yawn… Mochi…Mochi… Say, how I can help you….?]
"This drunkard…" Seiya twitched his lips and sighed. He knew that Aisu was probably drinking beer in the next room at this hour.
"Yes, actually I am the author of Solo Leveling and thinking if I could talk to editor-in-chief, Aisu Kyūbu regarding the deal," Seiya spoke in an extremely gentle tone and somewhat manly voice.
[Phooo* Cough, cough* Give me a minute!]
Seiya laughed silently as he knew that she must have choked on her drink.
[I am truly sorry, ONE-san. I was just having a hangover. We can talk.]
Seiya smirked and then he began to talk to his aunt who was just in the next room. After talking for a minute, Seiya agreed to sign the contract this Saturday.
[I am so happy ONE-san that you picked us among all the publishers.]
Seiya could feel Aisu's happiness from the other side of the phone. On the talk, he gave the impression that he was receiving many emails from other publishers and boasted a little to ignite the other party's interest.
"I am also grateful since I got to hear such voice of such a lovely girl. I can't wait to meet Kyūbu-san."
[I-is that s-so…? Ah, then I will see you this Saturday, bye ONE-san~]
"Same for me, bye Aisu-san." Seiya said and then cut the call.
He silently stood up from his seat and jumped to his bed. To his surprise, he was not mentally tired at all. He has to say that Mental Resistance was a good skill to evade mental fatigue.
Just as he was about to sleep, the door banged opened and a woman wearing nothing but a loose t-shirt and underwear leaped in.
"Seiyaaaa! I have finally plucked a great deal!!!"
It was Aisu and completely drunk.
"Wait, nee-san-"
"Seiya!!! I so love yaaa!!"
Before Seiya could get up, Aisu jumped on him and hugged him like a koala before she began rubbing her cheek with his.
"Arg, this smell!!" Seiya clutched his nose to protect it from the strong smell of alcohol.
He wanted to punch his crazy aunt away when he saw her already sleeping on his shoulders.
'What the…' He saw his one hand on her hips while the other was on her braless breast. From this realization, his puberty kicks in and his little brother starts knocking on the door of his pants.
'Sigh* I have to talk to her about this…' Seiya thought and took a couple of breathes to calm down after placing his hands to the right. He didn't get why girls in this world always remain in such shape despite having such disarray work life.
It was her habit to hug and kiss Seiya whenever she was happy but now he was a young teen and can't tolerate these kind acts.
'Even so…' He looked at Aisu's adorable sleeping face and can't help but feel relieved. She and his father were his only family left. So whenever he saw Aisu in such color, he wanted to provide her with more happiness.
"I have a school," Seiya said and looked at his aunt gently placing a kiss on her cheek which brings a smile to her sleeping face. He then dropped her in her room before retiring to his room for sleep.
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[Status]
Name: Seiya Kanie
Age: 16
STR: 22
AGI: 22
STA: 22
INT: 49 -> 54
WIS: 10
CHA: 6
LUC: 10
Innate Ability: Natural Narcissist.
Other Abilities: Exercise, Skill Maker, Appraisal
Skills: [Mathematics (Advance) +], [English (Advance) +], [Literature (Prodigy) +], [Science (Basic) +], [Cooking (Basic) +], [Basketball (Advanced) +], [Mental Resistance (Advance)]
System Points: 120]
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Missions on:
[Sub-Quest: Utaha's problem.
As a successful novelist, she seems to have stuck on something with her story. As a rising novelist such as yourself, help her to regain her foot in the writing.
Objective: Help her to submit a new volume of her novel this Saturday.
Rewards: 60 system points, Skill [Music (Basic)]
[Main Quest: Let's officially make a name.
Since the host has written enough story material and fame on the world of the web. Let's make it official.
Objective 1: Sign a deal with any publishing company this Saturday.
Objective 2: Royalty must be sighed at a minimum of 10%.
Rewards: 300 System Points, Ability (Inventory), ????
Note: Rewards may increase based on the performance.]
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Lets drown the Power Stone button in cold water. Don't worry about its body, I will secretly send the body to MC's house.
Lets see how many Power Stones I received at the end of this week. Also, an honest review with suggestions will be helpful.
500 stones will get an extra chapter on Sunday
1000 stones will get two extra chapters on Sunday
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