1. Isekai? Oh Well

'So I am now in the High School DxD World, and in Kyoto to boot. Thank goodness I have my cheat. Otherwise, I'll be toast in no time flat.

But seriously, though, why am I a mangaka?! I could do so much better! Anyway, what's done is done, and I have to adapt.'

Thought Akira Hoshi as he looked around the newly built manga studio that he was in. He wasn't really surprised as he had read enough fanfictions of this troupe and was kind of numb to this type of situation.

Just as he looked around, the discarded papers gave him a reminder of what the previous owner of the body was doing before he died from overwork, leading to him passing through.

"Shit. Now let's do the first sign in or I will have nothing to eat for quite a while."

Yes, the new mangaka had to submit his first novel volume today, or else he would be left with no money as even if everything in the studio is his own, but he had no money left after that and had bet everything on his manga which he couldn't finish, and in but a few hours was the deadline.

'System, tell me your functions again.'

[The only function of the system is to make you powerful in different worlds]

[It can allow you to travel worlds when you reach the appropriate strength or get a sign in reward related to it]

[The system can only sign in once a year, but everything you get will have extremely high potential or you can choose to have more number of sign in opportunities, but with less and less powerful rewards (Yearly > Half yearly > Monthly > Weekly > Daily)]

[As you have chosen the once a year option, you have one opportunity now, and the next time will be after a year exactly after you sign in]

'Show me my status.'

[Name : Akira Hoshi]

[Age : 22]

[Physique : Normal adult]

[Energy : Barely More than a normal adult]

[Skills : Drawing (Advanced)]

(Beginner < Intermediate < Advanced < Expert < Mastered)

[Inventory : Novice gift]

[Sign in : 1]

[System has more functions. Please explore. It is only limited to your imagination]

'Then open the novice gift first, then sign in.'

[Novice gift opened. You got <Never Ending Energy> & <Learning Potential>]

[Never ending Energy - Your energy capacity will not change, but never run out]

[Learning Potential - The system will give you potential to be the best in anything and everything, but not be completely dependent on the system, so you can learn anything at a stupidly fast rate and master it fast as well, so although you won't have instant mastery, but you can learn it like games but at a very fast speed. You can even have the corresponding knowledge according to the mastery.]

[Sign in (Yearly) complete. You got <Word Power>]

[Word Power - You can control the power of words and any form of it. How you use it is only limited to your imagination]

Akira's brain just stopped for a while as he digested the information but was completely blown away by it.

'Damn. This is really really OP! With the Never ending energy, I should be do what I have in mind, but this is soo cool!!'

After dancing around for a while, he suddenly got a call on his phone, which stopped his celebration dance for a new life and new start because of happiness as well as he never felt as energetic as he was feeling at the moment.

"Hello?"

"Hello Akira, I hope you have completed your first volume for the manga that you will be publishing or it would be really bad for the both of us."

Akira unconsciously shivered a bit although the voice he heard was calm and feminine, the scare he got did not reduce even after four years of working under her as a mentor throughout his college years.

His mentor was a middle aged lady with black hair and glasses, who was also his professor throughout college, and now his editor as well. Although she was very strict and tough with him, she was also the reason he had such good skill at a young age enough to actually start writing a manga on his own. He also knew that she meant well, especially since he was an orphan in this life and she was the only one who actually bothered to care as much as she did.

That didn't help his fear of her at all though.

"Yes, Kurumi sensei. I will be done with the finishing touch by evening."

"You better be as I will be coming to collect the manuscript tomorrow morning. If you haven't completed it, you won't be able get another opportunity anytime soon."

"Yes. Don't worry sensei, I won't let you down."

"Okay. You do your work, I'll see you tomorrow."

"Okay, goodbye sensei."

"Haah... Well I should get started with this as it wouldn't be good for my new life to start with a failure. Thankfully and surprisingly, I will be able to do it with Word Power as the manga that my predecessor made was none other than 'Shokugeki no Soma'.

Although it was only one chapter that won enough popularity in the newcomer's manga competition to get selected for further publishing."

Akira set down the pen in his hand, got up from his table, and freshened up before sitting back to start on using his magic.

'Okay, let's try something simple but necessary first.'

Akira then looked around the house and finally found what he was looking for as according to his new memories, he should have it.

'Cookbooks with recipes.'

Yep. Akira was searching for them as those were the reference materials he was going to use to absorb the knowledge of all the words written in them and try to see if he can learn them as skills.

If it is possible, then he can reduce a lot more of grinding time. Even if he is lazy, he will still have to go blind after he runs out of books to refer from and his OCD will not allow him to not have max level skills if he can.