Ch 88 – Okabe Rintarou

Inside a room with a simple design having a lack of flavor to it, a boy was seen sleeping with a peaceful and sound face.

But that peace soon ended as rays of light started to hit his face directly through the window beside him which made his face scrunch up with a frown and instinctively move his face away from the light as peace resumed once more.

As he continued to lie down in his bed with a peaceful aura, his face started to form a frown that indicates he was having a very vivid dream or perhaps a nightmare that slowly made his body move around on the bed and dragged the blanket and pillows along with him.

And as he lay down with furrowed brows, his eyes suddenly opened wide along with his breath coming to a halt as unknown emotions flashed through his eyes.

"W- what was that dream?" muttered the boy as he rubs his eyes in confusion while letting out a yawn.

"Sigh, my dreams are weird but today was weirder than weird, it was like I was having a fever dream" muttered the boy while he got out of his bed and grabbed his phone along the way to take along with him outside the room.

"Good morning!" said the boy as he walks downstairs to the grown man watching the TV in the living room.

"Good morning Rintarou" responded the man as Rintarou nodded back and went in a certain direction inside the house.

Sigh, I really need to fix my sleep schedule, like why do I go to school so early? It's like only a few minutes to go from here to there and that's me walking at a normal pace, though I'm a bit athletic so it's probably above-average speed but still, I should sleep more, it would be better for my health.

As I went to the kitchen, I saw my mother cooking breakfast wearing an apron.

"Good morning!" I said to her with a smile as she nodded and continued to cook.

With that done, I headed to the bathroom to take a quick shower and after that, eat breakfast and go to school, unlike Ren who only wakes up when I'm already gone.

As I took off my clothes and got below the running flow of water, I felt my mind clearing a bit from the weird dream I had a few minutes ago that is already hazy, oh how strange dreams truly are.

But the bits I was able to recollect were truly strange, I just remembered vague shadowy blurs moving through a black void or a red beam of light shooting towards a medieval-fantasy kingdom?

Some were even stranger like an eldritch abomination of flesh that was devouring the dead corpse of a dragon inside a volcano, and the heat was somehow bearable when I was in that strange form.

With a shake of my head, I rubbed my smooth hair untainted by the impurities of unnatural shampoos and hair products but as I just stayed under the rain of water, I slowly felt everything going crystal clear in my ability to visualize.

Just the red apple in my mind felt so realistic I could even know what it would taste like and feel its weight from my mental hand that went to grab it.

"What's happening?" I muttered with closed eyes and raised eyebrows as I dispelled my vivid thoughts the moment I opened my eyes but as I did that, more strange thoughts funneled into my mind as I look around the bathroom with a focused gaze.

As I look all around the room, past recollections of the lessons I learned throughout my life replayed like a video along with new understanding popping out from nowhere like the laws of motion or properties of water being shown to me with such understanding I thought I was going mad.

With a quick shake of my head, the strange thoughts went to the back of my head and were instead replaced with the current problems I have to face.

Like school, though I am smart so studying has been a breeze my whole life, I thought I would be a child genius turned failure a few months ago when I was about to enter high school but luckily enough, I still have relatively high grades with the only set back being non-academic activities like arts or dances that are needed for grades.

"Ugh, Monday is really a bummer sometimes, like why is the weekend only Saturday and Sunday?" I said with a grumble while heading out of the bathroom and out with a towel on my waist towards my room upstairs to put on the school uniform.

As I walk upstairs with a certain pattern I was doing subconsciously, I slowly noticed how my thoughts became clear and my understanding of the previous school-related stuff revealed its principles to me like why Sin Cos Tan works as it is which is making me confused on what is really happening right now.

I know I'm smart but I'm not Ren-level smart. Like my brother is a prodigy and I'm just a talented individual with above-average intellect.

"Is this… an awakening?" I muttered with an agape mouth as I kneeled down on the ground inside my room while grasping my left eye with trembling arms and eyes.

"I knew it! This family! It holds an awakening process that turns fishes into dragons! Is this the moment I become a god amongst men!" I shouted as a malicious chuckle slowly came out of my mouth as a devious grin got plastered to my face.

"Kukuku! Look out world! For Okabe Rintarou is going to reach the levels of divine and shake Heaven and Earth!" I said as a full-blown villainous laugh came out of my mouth.

But all of it stopped in just a few seconds as I let out a sigh, I really need to stop being a chuuni, I'm already in high school and I have a reputation to maintain.

With a quick flip of my messed-up hair, my bangs went back to their previous holy place to cover up my forehead because I think bangs make me look cooler.

Soon, I did all of the normal stuff like put on my uniform and headed downstairs to the kitchen to grab a plate of food and eat it.

But as I did that, the eggs that lay down on my plate seemed to speak to me as the full life of a chicken flashed through my eyes, from a baby chick hatching from an egg to it becoming a hen and laying out an egg that got grabbed by a farmer to be sold that now lies in my plate as scrambled eggs.

"Rintarou, is everything okay?" asked my mom as she was cleaning her hands in the sink.

"N- nothing," I said with a shake of my head and hastily got out of the kitchen to the dining room to think about the sudden thoughts that constantly flashed through my mind.

As I went to continuously eat the bowl of rice and egg with a set of chopsticks, strange thoughts continued to haunt my mind like how the rice is able to stick together with the egg due to the way it was cooked and the properties it gained from the water and heat it got cooked in through the rice cooker.

Not only that, the mechanisms of the rice cooker then entered my mind and I somehow now know how it works with a crude understanding but this knowledge just keeps coming from nowhere which is making me insane.

So with a shake of my head, I hurriedly ate the last piece of rice and egg in the bowl and put it in the sink while grabbing my bag along the way.

"Goodbye! I'm heading out now!" I shouted to no one in particular and didn't even wait for them to respond before I closed the door shut and started to walk to the streets.

What the fuck is happening right now?!

Why do I know how coal becomes diamonds?

Why do I know how heat is transferred through infrared lights?

Why do I know so much?

It's like my brain has somehow become super smart all of a sudden and not only that, I feel like I'm slowly becoming a genius!

With me rubbing my head in confusion, I dispelled all of those thoughts and just let life as it is and see what will happen, if I can't control it then I'll let destiny takes its course.

With a casual glance all around the street I was walking on, I slowly felt like the world was presenting itself to me in a way I never knew existed.

But it wasn't cool or anything, I just slowly realized how science-cy it was and I'm pretty sure Ren lives like this every day with his billion IQ mind.

Perhaps I am becoming like Ren?

Who knows, all I know is that maybe I can enter a top-tier college in the future and become a millionaire.

But the pace that my mind is getting better is a bit terrifying with the constant new ideas suddenly appearing from nowhere, like why do I know how a car works and what each part contributes to it as a whole when I just took a casual glance at a car passing by?!

But all of those thoughts melted away once I finally arrived beside the high school I was part of.

"Kuoh Academy" I muttered as tons of beautiful young girls and boys walked around the entrance of the prestigious Kuoh Academy that recently turned into a co-ed system which is nice because it's objectively a better high school than the one I was about to previously enroll into.

AN: This is 1651 words, you're welcome.

So I gave a hint at the end of Vol2 so have fun trying to piece the little clues together on why the story is radically different right now.

The Sword of Damocles hangs above each and everyone one of you with its ever present threat of despair, so send me some power stones with your power of friendship and save the thousands perhaps even millions to come who will read this masterpiece immortalized in the tunnels of time.

(April 26, 2022 – 153rd day of writing)