Chapter 2- Whis Likes Life

Whis arrived at the library wearing his usual robes, and he also didn't come with Beerus. After all, coming to the library is like a vacation and he plan to enjoy it throughly.

Whis looked around and saw many beings from different universe were here, There are gods, Other beings, though even if they don't know each other, they go along very well, there are also some hot-blooded ones but they didn't fight and kept the peace of the library.

Whis walked around to look for some books. When he arrived on the counter where the librarian was positioned, Whis saw the librarian was writing furiously and when Whis arrived, the librarian stopped writing and looked at him.

"Welcome Whis, what do you want to read?"

"Umm... Do you have any stories about normal life Librarian-sama?"

"A story about normal Life?"

"Yes, the one with no powers but there may be some excitement and also about enjoying life and there are also some difficulties and an ambitious character"

"That is one detail you have, there are some books that I know.... But..."

The librarian paused and took the book he was writing on earlier.

"This is a new book I wrote, Its not finished yet though but I think it will quench your thirst for a bit"

"Really? what is the title of the book?"

"I haven't decided with the name yet but for now, I call it Mogul of Culture"

Whis took the book and sat on the chair with a table, there was a dream room but Whis doesn't like that since it wasn't reading anymore but watching, he liked feeling the book on his hands flipping the pages one by one and seeing the ink, it was also respecting the hard work of the writer of the book.

Whis then carefully put down the book on the table, then closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Let's start the journey"

After Whis said, he opened the book.

Title: Mogul of Culture(TBD)(Unfinished)

Author: LazyTanaka

Chapter 1-

"Hmm…"

Tanaka hummed as he looked at his face in the mirror, no matter how much he looks at his appearance it won't revert back. Instead of his ugly fat appearance, the one in the mirror right now is a guy with average height and he has a slim figure with pale skin.

He is quite handsome and attractive with long lashes and a slightly feminine-looking face. He also has deep blue eyes, messy black hair that goes down to his nape with parted bangs and thin eyebrows.

But one thing that further boosted this appearance were the piercings and tattoos on his body, he looked like a Yakuza? Or a bad boy maybe? Well, anyway, Tanaka could tell that he now has the appearance of Miyamura Izumi from Horimiya.

*Ding!

'Huh?'

Tanaka was surprised with the sudden sound of ringing inside his head, then in the next moment, a floating game-like panel appeared in front of him.

[Mogul System has been Activated]

Tanaka immediately got excited when he saw this string of words, as a person who loved to read and watch anime/manga/novel/H-ahem, Tanaka of course knew the existence of Systems, after all, it was a cheat.

Who doesn't like to cheat? I mean in Exams or in games, never cheat on your partner's boys, anyway, people like things to make things easier, it was the reason why there was technology, we want to make lives easier.

"Open system!"

Tanaka excitedly called out his system.

[Name: Ryuuji Tanaka]

[Wealth: 300 Yen/ 2 dollars]

[Fame: 10]

[Missions in queue: 3]

'That's it?'

Tanaka thought as he looked at his system, it seemed plain compared to the systems described in the novels or anime.

"Wait, maybe, there are some cool features hidden on the missions"

Tanaka kept his hopes ups and immediately opened his missions.

[Main Mission: Recreate 1,000 games/anime/manga/songs/dance/etc from your past life, -Rewards: System Upgrade and more]

[Mission 1: Earn 5,000 Yen from recreating anything from your past life, -Rewards: Gacha System Opens, Gacha Ticket x1]

[Mission 2: Earn 300 Fame Points from the things you recreated, -Rewards: Gacha Ticket x1]

Tanaka sighed in relief when he saw that there are somethings he could get from the system, he was excited to see what things he would get from the Gacha and also some expectations from when the system upgrades.

"But to recreate anime and games from my past life? Does this system want me to spread the sacred culture? Well, challenge accepted"

Tanaka smiled, he loved spreading what he liked the most, if he enjoys it, the others will also have to enjoy it.

"Now then, what should I make first? A song? A Game? A Manga? Ah, there's so many things to choose from"

Tanaka started thinking of what to do first, but just as he was in deep thought.

"Tanaka Onii-chan! Breakfast is ready! We will be late for school!"

Tanaka suddenly heard a voice calling for him.

"I'm coming!"

Tanaka replied back then with great familiarity, he started changing his clothes into his school uniform and also cleaning himself up, after that, he left his room, today is the start of Tanaka's highschool.

The Ryuuji Family is a family with 5 members, unfortunately, only 3 were left, their parents have died from an accident, now these 3 can only support each other.

"Good morning Kashima, you too Kotarou"

Tanaka smiled as he saw his two brothers, Kashima is only 14 years old and at his Junior Highschool while Kotarou is only a 3 year old baby.

"Good morning to you too Onii-chan"

"Nii nii!"

Kotarou who was playing immediately ran towards Tanaka the moment the little guy saw him, though he was clumsy he was trying his best to come towards Tanaka,

"How is my cute little brother!"

Tanaka lifted Kotarou up and gave the cute little guy a kiss on the cheeks, it has been a few days since Tanaka had come to this world and he cared a lot for his family, since their parents were gone, it was a responsibility for him to carry, and he won't ever abandon his family.

"The food is ready"

Kashima called as he finished preparing, Tanaka and Kotarou stopped playing and immediately joined the table.

"Oh? Pancakes in the morning! It's Kotarous favorite! Come on, let's say it together!"

Tanaka smiled and looked at Kotarou who was also looking at him back with twinkling eyes.

"Thank you for the food Kashima Nii-chan! We love you!" x2

"I love you too"

"Hahaha"

This is the Ryuuji Family, even though they are struggling, they are still having fun.

They then started eating, their meal always seemed fun, they were laughing and joking with each other, after their breakfast, they all prepared to leave the house, Kotarou is going with Kashima since they have a baby sitting area in their school.

While Tanaka had to go to a private school with his scholarship.

"Sorry Kashima for always letting you take care Kotarou by yourself"

Tanaka looked at Kashima who was carrying Kotarou.

"Its okay Onii-chan, you are already working just to support us and you also have to focus in school, at least, this much I could do"

Tanaka smiled helplessly and could not help but ruffle Kashima's hair.

"You have grown up"

Tanaka made sure to walk his two brothers to their school before making his way, Tanaka's school is Itan Private Highschool, Itan Private High School is an elite prep school located in Japan, Tanaka was able to get in because of his good grades and for some reason he got accepted by this school and was offered a scholarship.

Actually, there are more schools that Tanaka(Former) could go to but this is the closest one to their home so he chose it, it was also a somewhat interesting school.

The male uniform of Itan Private High School consists of navy blue blazer (worn on winter), white shirt (sleeve length depends on season), striped red-navy necktie, black pants, and dark brown shoes/

The female uniform of Itan Private High School consists of navy blue blazer (worn on winter), white shirt (sleeve length depends on season), striped red-navy bowtie, striped red-navy skirt (length varies). Legwear varies from no socks at all to full-length tights.

It took about half an hour to reach the school by walking, while on his way, Tanaka met many students from the same school and each of them had happy expressions.

'Youth'

Tanaka thought, well, Tanaka(former) doesn't have any friends because of his gloomy appearance, his hair made him like an emo, he was wearing a winter uniform even though it was summer and glasses that made him look like a nerd, all in all, he looked like kind of a guy that has no confidence.

But in actuality, his get up is only like this because he has to hide his tattoos and piercings. The former of his body seemed to have gone through a rebellious phase or something but anyway, Tanaka kinda liked the appearance.

Tanaka reached the gates of the school when the students around him suddenly started getting restless, turning his head around, there he saw a beautiful girl, A girl with glossy dark purple/black hair that flows to her lower back, a slender body and an incredibly beautiful face.

"Yep, she is beautiful'

Tanaka could not help but agree with the others, but he didn't really pay that much attention to her, he made his way towards his shoe locker and changed his shoes.

Just as he was changing his shoe, he noticed a shadow next to him.

'Hmm, let's make friends with someone then'

"Good morning"

Tanaka said as he turned his head but when he turned his head, he saw the beautiful girl from earlier who was also changing her shoes. She turned her head and looked at him.

*Stare~

She stared at him for a long while, which made it very awkward for Tanaka, but after a while, she suddenly rushed away without saying anything.

"What was that?"

Tanaka couldn't help but be confused by what just happened, then after looking at her body language for a while, he was able to tell that she is bad with talking to other people.

Being able to read body language was something that Tanaka learned for fun in his past life, and it also greatly helped him with talking with other people from his past life and also getting connections.

He just shrugged what happened off, and maybe, try to talk with her later, maybe he could help her from her problem of having a hard time talking with other people, well, that is for later, after he finished changing his shoes, he made his way towards his classroom.

His classroom is 1-1 which means 1st year class 1, it took him quite some time to reach his classroom since he was a little bad with directions, reaching his classroom, he looked for his seat, according to the paper he received from the school, his seat is located at the 2nd row to the back of the classroom near the window.

"Its this one"

Tanaka found his seat and sat down, he then put his bag down and decided to greet his seatmate.

"Hmm, nice to mee-"

Tanaka stopped as he looked beside him, it was the girl he had met from earlier, the one with the communication problem, he just stopped greeting her and pulled out a piece of paper.

He wrote some words into it then passed it to the girl next to him.

The girl was surprised at first then looked at him, then she took the paper and read what was written on it.

[Hi, nice to meet you, my name is Tanaka Ryuuji, I will be your seatmate, I kinda know you have trouble talking with others so I decided to just write, hope we have a good year]

She stared at the paper then turned her head to Tanaka beside her, she kept turning her head back to Tanaka then to the paper for a while, before she suddenly realized something and wrote something on the back of the paper, then passed it back to Tanaka.

[Hello, nice to meet you too, my name is Komi Shouko, let's have a great year and thank you for understanding, and i'm sorry for earlier running away from you, I get frozen whenever I talk with other people, and I just suddenly stare at them or run away, i'm really sorry]

Seeing her message, Tanaka's hunch was right, he sighed with a small smile on his face before taking another new paper and writing another one and passing it to Komi.

[It's a great day isn't it?]

[Yes]

[What do you think of it?]

[It's a wonderful]

[Yes, I especially like the breeze brushing on my face, how about you?]

[I also love the feeling of the breeze]

From then on they started exchanging papers with each other, Tanaka specifically trying to continue the talk, from what he understood, this girl likes to talk to others but she is having a difficulty, so what he is doing now is helping her to get comfortable before trying to help her talk.

While they were busy exchanging with each other, Tanaka didn't notice that his classmates were staring at him full of killing intent. To them, Komi was already their goddess and Tanaka, who looked gloomy, was like a peasant talking to her.

Though no matter what they do, they can't stop it right now since their goddess Komi didn't say anything, well, even if Tanaka knew, he wouldn't care, it's not like he has ulterior motives, there is nothing wrong with trying to help somebody.

Their paper messaging continued until the teacher finally arrived, Tanaka stopped and Komi was a little sad that their conversation stopped but Tanaka made her happy with a last message with let's continue later.

The class started with introductions, Tanaka made sure to memorize their names and also he found that his classmates were a little unique on their own, it was then time for Tanaka to introduce himself.

"My name is Tanaka Ryuuji, I am friend if you are kind to me, you are my enemy if you mess with me, that is all thank you"

It was an intimidating speech that Tanaka used but he made sure no one messes with him. Tanaka didn't like troubles coming one after another, he liked a peaceful life and he also needed to take care of his family.

Tanaka sat back on his seat and everyone fell silent, next after him was Komi Shouko, it was a little funny of how she tried to introduce herself verbally but in the end, she slowly walked towards the board before writing her name and the classmates cheering loudly as if she just sent a prophecy to the land.

After the class started, Tanaka didn't really listen that much to the teachers, for some reason ever since he unlocked the system his memory has been very clear, and he could remember almost everything from his past life.

So while spending his time, he decided to write down his plans for the first mission, earning 5,000 yen from recreating something from his past world.

There are many things to recreate but Tanaka had to be careful and he also couldn't do some large ones because he literally has no money, so after thinking for a while, he decided to go with a novel.

There are also some easier ones such as singing or making a game but Tanaka doesn't know how to sing or even make a game, he also doesn't know how to draw a manga, and muchless make an anime, so his final choice is making a novel.

'Now the question is what novel to make?'

There are a lot of popular novels from Tanaka's past life, such as Harry Potter, the Hobbits,and more, but the thing that made Tanaka hesitate is that he doesn't have any plans going international for now, and he was not sure if those stories are up to taste of the japanese people.

Tanaka then sneaked his phone under the table and started searching online, it looks like most of the stories from his past life don't exist in this world.

'Should I go sword art online? I could also go for God of Highschool, or even something… which Genre should I go by the way? Fantasy? Romcom? Action?'

Tanaka didn't make a decision immediately and continued doing research. After a while, he decided to go with an easy to write light novel, Log Horizon, not only it has the same genre as Sword Art Online, it was also shorter and not that fussy about details.

So with that, Tanaka chose Log Horizon.

As Tanaka finished searching ,he lifted his head to get back to the class but as he got up, he noticed the teacher looking at him.

"So, Tanaka, can you answer the question on the board"

The teacher said, there are some who laughed at his misfortune or there is Komi who was looking at him worriedly, Tanaka couldn't help but smile when he saw her reaction, are they already that close? Wellm whatever, Tanaka looked at the question and it was fairly easy, so he stood up and wrote down the answer before going back to his seat like it was nothing.

The teacher didn't say anything and knew Tanaka was a scholarship holder so she just continued the class. If there is one you shouldn't mess with, it's the genius students as you will only embarrass yourself.

The class continued and Tanaka decided to focus on the class, he have to go to a internet cafe later to start writing the novel, or maybe he could go to the Computer Lab since using it doesn't cost anything.

Anyway, while the class continued, Komi mistakenly bumped her eraser causing it to fall on the ground, Tanaka who was near it picked it up but just as he was about to pick it up, he stopped as a compass went through his fingers nearly hitting him.

Seeing this Tanaka turned his head and looked behind him, there he saw a man wearing a clothes that masked his face looking like a ninja, Tanaka smiled then and nodded before giving the eraser to Kimo then standing up to pick up the compass.

His sudden movements were noticed by the classroom and they immediately turned their attention towards him and saw he had just picked up a compass, so they turned their heads back to the class.

Tanaka picked up the compass and walked towards the ninja guy before raising the compass on his hands then slamming it on the table of the ninja.

*Bam!

It made a loud sound that everyone in the room was surprised about and immediately turned their heads towards where the sound came from, they saw Tanaka standing in front of the Ninja.

"Next time learn who you are dealing with okay?"

Tanaka smiled then went back to his seat while the ninja who was left behind is sweating buckets as the compass almost pierced his hand, it was just a hair breath away.

Everyone who saw this decided to ignore what happened and wrote down to never mess with Tanaka, that guy was ruthless.

The class continued and it didn't take long for the class to end, Tanaka gave Komi a message that he has to do something so he won't be able to talk with her this time, he then made his way towards the Computer Lab of the school and finally found it after asking some students on the way.

He doesn't eat lunch since he needed to save money to help his family. When he reached the Computer Lab, there was a teacher there so after talking with the teacher, he was allowed to use one, so Tanaka sat on one of the computers then inserted his USB on the computer before he started writing.

His typing is very fast and he also doesn't have to think about the plot since everything was on his mind so in his 30 minutes break, Tanaka was able to write 10,000 words, he then saved the file to his USB before making his way back to the classroom.

While walking in the halls, from the corner, one girl suddenly came out and accidentally bumped into him.

"Ah!"

The girl shouted as she fell on the ground.

"I'm sorry, are you okay?"

Tanaka immediately helped the girl up.

"Yes, I'm sorry, I wasn't looking where I was walking"

The girl replied as she took Tanaka's hand and stood up.

"No, it was also my fault"

Tanaka smiled, then suddenly he heard the bell rang.

"I got to go now, please be careful"

After he said that, Tanaka immediately ran towards his classroom, thankfully, when he arrived back to his classroom, the teacher wasn't there yet. Sighing in relief, Tanaka sat on his seat and noticed Komi staring at him, like staring at him with her eyes wide open.

Tanaka chuckled, then took out a paper and started talking with Komi once again, it seems like she is getting comfortable now. They talked for a while until they started talking about each other.

Komi has a dream. She wants to make a hundred friends. Well, it was quite cute when she told him that and she started blushing when she saw Tanaka giving her a knowing smile.

To get back to her, Tanaka also told his dream? Well, it can be counted. Tanaka had already told her about his family conditions and what he wanted was to be rich so that he could have his brothers have a good life.

Komi seemed to be impressed when she read that. They then continued talking to each other until the next class started.

Afternoon, it was time to go home, but Tanaka didn't go home but went to the Computer Lab. He must squeeze as much as he could so that the faster he could write the light novel, he would finish the first mission as fast as he could.

He was so focused in writing that he forgot everything around him and just wrote as fast as he could, slowly the time passed by in a blink of an eye.

"Excuse me!"

Someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder, Tanaka stopped writing and looked behind him, he recognized who it was, it was the girl he bumped in the halls earlier.

"Yes?"

Tanaka asked as he looked at her.

"Sorry for disturbing you, I tried calling you a few times but you didn't respond, I came to tell you that the school is closing"

Tanaka looked at the time and it was already late,

"Ah, sorry, I didn't notice the time. I will go now. Sorry for taking a lot of your time"

"No, it's okay, nice to meet you my name is Hori Kyoko, we are actually classmates"

"Ryuuji Tanaka, nice to meet you too, and yes, I know we are classmates"

After some little talk, Tanaka immediately left the school, he didn't go home immediately but went to his work first, it was located not far from school, at a coffee shop called Cafe Endou.

"Boss, I'm here"

Tanaka reported the moment he arrived at the doors, then at the counter, a very cute girl with back-length golden hair that has bangs swept to the left with two grey hairpins on the left side, brown eyes that has small pupils and a particularly flat chest was sitting there.

Her name is Endo Saya, the daughter of the owner of the cafe, She then suddenly turned her head and looked at him.

"Did you just insult me?"

"No, your just imagining things"

Saya hummed then nodded, Tanaka sighed when she saw this. Girls are very scary with their intuitions.

Tanaka then went to the backroom and changed his clothes to a proper work uniform which is like a bartender's clothes.

The cafe has not many customers, the only reason Tanaka could work here is because the owner was a friend of his father, the owner pitied him and let him work here, doing nothing. Tanaka decided to just clean for a little.

*Bell sounds~(I don't know how the bell sound effects goes)

"Welcome"

Tanaka, who was cleaning, immediately greeted the customer.

A girl with blonde wavy hair that reached down her waist and beautiful pale indigo eyes, she was carrying what seemed to be a violin.

"Can I get some espresso and a chocolate cake"

She immediately ordered, then turned to Kaya and walked towards her.

"Hello Kaya!"

"Huh? Kaori! What a surprise for you to come here"

"I just want to relax then I was passing by and decided to rest here"

"You are more than welcome"

The two girls started talking with each other while Tanaka started brewing her orders, even though, he had only been working here for the few days, Tanaka was able to learn things in a fast pace, it didn't take long for him to give her order.

And so while waiting, Tanaka decided to sit and wait, he looked around and saw Kaya's laptop on the corner.

"Kaya, let me borrow your laptop for a bit"

"Huh? What are you going to need it for?"

"I'm going to make a project, it won't take long"

"Okay, just return it after you finished using it"

"Okay, thank you"

Tanaka then continued writing the light novel, with his pace, it didn't take long for him to write a full 100,000 words, though it was still far from finish the novel, this was enough for the first volume, the next thing Tanaka had to do is look for a publisher.

It was already late at night when Tanaka arrived at his home, his two brothers are already sleeping and his dinner was on the table, he just needed to heat it up on the microwave.

Tanaka didn't go to bed immediately but checked up on his two cute brothers, they were sleeping peacefully. He sat beside them and gave them each a kiss on the forehead, he stayed with them for a time before leaving. He ate his dinner and went to his room to sleep.

The next day, Tanaka changed his clothes to his uniform and went to school once again, as for looking for a publisher, it can be done in the weekends, or if he have time in the afternoon but for now, he can research for some publishers.

Just like usual, he brought his two brothers to their school.

"Kashima, here is your allowance, Kotarou's pocket money is also there, remember to eat a lot okay, stay healthy"

Tanaka smiled and gave both each a kiss on the forehead, then left, Kashima looked at his brother until he disappeared from their sight and he sighed.

Arriving at the classroom, Tanaka immediately saw Komi was already sitting on her seat, with smile he said good morning which surprised her then trying to give a reply back only to stutter a lot of times and her head exploding exuding smoke.

Tanaka laughed and just told her that she could write if she is still uncomfortable, things like this could not be rushed after all, while he was talking with Komi another one entered the classroom.

"Good morning Komi-san and Tanaka-san too:

"You are… Tadano Hitohito right?"

"Yes, that is correct"

Tadana seemed happy that Tanaka somehow remembered his name.

"Good morning to you too"

It seemed like Komi got to know Tadana yesterday at lunch after Tanaka went to the Computer Lab, he also discovered Komi is bad at communicating so Tadano decided to help her, Tanaka had a good impression of Tadano so he made friends with him.

"So, you now have two friends Komi, isn't that good"

Tanaka said with an innocent smile.

Komi blushed when she heard that but nodded.

So for the remaining time, the three talked with each other, mostly Tanaka and Tadano, also Komi who just writes, Komi was very happy that she now had someone to talk with.

While they were talking, Tanaka opened his phone and started researching for popular publishing companies, there are 3 publishing companies, the Shiroyasha Ltd, a company that publishes Manga/Light novels, it was a medium company but has a good popularity.

The second is Asura, a company that also publishes Manga/Light novel, it was a small company but was very popular in tokyo because they always ensure the quality of the works they publish.

Last is Kadokawa Media Company, a company that mains Manga but recently they also started accepting Light Novels, it's a big company and has their own week shonen jump, they are popular.

Just as Tanaka was researching, Tadano, who was preceptive, noticed this and immediately turned to Tanaka.

"Eh? Are you going to publish a manga?"

Tadano asked, which also got the attention of Komi who looked over curiously.

"Not a manga but a light novel, I started writing recently and I think its quite good so I plan to publish it"

Tanaka replied with a smile, he didn't really need to hide it.

"That's amazing! We will definitely read it once it comes out"

Tadana is a guy who seemed to be good at flattery but it was his honest compliment.

"Of course, once it was printed I will send you guys a book with my autograph"

"Thank you Tanaka-san"

[That is great I can't wait to read it]

After that they continued talking with each other, they also tried asking for his light novel but Tanaka kept quiet about it to not spoil the story, It was quite a unique story since Sword Art Online doesn't exist in this world yet

A little while later, the teacher arrived and the three halted their chatting, and focused on the class, Tanaka didn' really need to listed that much because he could remember everything, so in his spare time he was choosing which publisher to go.

After thinking for a while he decided to go with Kadokawa Media Company, it was already a popular and big publishing company, and according to their site, the best Light Novel will be added to the Weekly shonen jump, even chance to get the light novel turned into a manga.

"Well, that's done"

Tanaka put his phone back in his pocket before listening back to the class.

In a blink of an eye, the class ended and it was time for the lunch break, Tanaka stretched his body and since he had already written the first volume, he wasn't going to the Computer Lab.

"Hmm? Tadano are you going to buy in the cafeteria?"

"Yes?"

"Good, Komi wait for us, we are just going to buy some buns"

[Okay]

She seemed excited that she will eat with them, Tanaka and Tadano then made their way towards the cafeteria on their way they met someone.

"Hachiman, let's go to the cafeteria together"

Tanaka smiled when he saw his good buddy(Former) Hachiman seemed surprised at first but after seeing it was his friend, he relaxed.

"Oh, it's only you, Sorry for your lost by the way"

"You don't have to worry about that"

Tanaka knew he was talking about his parents, Hachiman's parents were kind of close to his parents that is how they became friends.

They reached the cafeteria and Tanaka didn't buy anything expensive, he bought the cheapest ones, enough to fill his stomach for the time.

But just as he was about to leave, Hachiman came again. He was carrying 4 pieces of buns and gave the other two to Tanaka.

"It's my treat"

"Haha, sorry about this Hachiman"

Tanaka awkwardly scratched the back of his head.

"Its okay, you also helped me a lot, at least, I could pay you back now"

"Thank you, then see you later"

"Yeah"

Tanaka returned to their room with Tadano and saw Komi being surrounded bytheir classmates, but as expected she didn't reply to them and only stood there like a statue, it was also becoming uncomfortable for her now.

*Clap! *Clap!

"Okay, that is enough everyone, Komi is getting uncomfortable from you flocking around her, give her some time to eat her lunch"

Everyone immediately realized their mistakes and said sorry to Komi before dispersing away.

Tanaka then took his table and chair and stuck it close to Komi's table, he also called Tadano to join them. Tadano is a good guy and a good guy to be friends with.

"Let's eat lunch together"

Tanaka said to Komi with a smile, then taking out the two buns he received from Hachiman and also the spicy sticks that he bought.

Tanaka and Tadano then trend to Komi waiting for her to take her lunch out in which she immediately pulled one out from her bag, Tanaka laughed out as he saw Komi had cat ears like on her head.

"You have cat ears, haha, that is cute"

Tanaka complimented her unknowingly, Komi was surprised at first then blushed, Tanaka just laughed it out once again and they started eating their lunch, Tadano also bought his lunch and he went to the cafeteria earlier to buy some water.

When the two saw Tanaka's lunch are just 2 pieces of buns and a spicy stick, they couldn't help but look at him, then they remembered that Tanaka is working to keep his family living so he is saving money and didn't even bring his own lunch.

Komi didn't notice yesterday because Tanaka was in the Computer Lab.

"What?"

Tanaka seemed dubious of their looks and asked while happily eating the buns he got.

"Is that enough Tanaka-san?"

Tadano asked in concern.

"Of course, its enough to give me energy for the day"

"That's not enough Tanaka-san, how about I share some of my lunch with you? I already ate a lot this morning"

[I will also share some of mine]

"Haha, I'm thankful but it's okay"

Tanaka felt warm as the two were willing to share their lunch with him but he is really okay, he is not a heavy eater anyway,

Komi and Tadano looked at each other and nodded, Tadano took the lid of his lunchbox before putting some of his lunch, Komi also put some then they gave it to Tanaka who was late to notice it because he was looking around for some loner classmates.

"Uh.. you guys"

Tanaka was helpless as they still shared some of their lunch to him, he just smiled and thanked them once again before digging into what was given to him, they then happily ate their lunch while telling some stories to each other.

"So I will help Komi get friends"

Tadano spoke.

"I'm going to help too then, but I don't know anyone from this classroom and they are already scared of me, so you take it Tadano, if someone makes trouble with you just tell me, I will take care of them"

Komi wasn't able to say anything as she was very shy at the moment.

So to help her right now, Tadano decided to go for it immediately, he looked around and saw the most social? Group, it was led by a girl named Yamai. She seemed to be a good girl?

So Tadano and Tanaka approached her to talk to her.

Tadano was the one who called out to her and then when she turned around, she started whispering to Tadano's ears that even Tanaka could hear.

'This girl is a shit talker'

Tanaka immediately thought, so with a move he grabbed her by the mouth, and pushed her away.

"For someone who is near me, you have the guts to shit talk, don't think that just because you are a woman I won't smack you, I'm someone who support gender equality by the way"

She looked at Tanaka with hatred but she knew she couldn't win so she gave up and turned away.

"What a bitch personality, nice facade though"

Tanaka said with a loud voice that made everyone hear it, Yamai jolted when she heard that and she turned red from embarrassment before running away, then followed by the two who were talking with her earlier.

"Let's find another one, we don't want any bad influence to Komi"

Tanaka said to Tadano who nodded, but after looking for awhile, they weren't able to find any.

"I have someone, let me try first"

Tadano said before making their way towards a girl? Boy? What the hell is this? Tanaka was confused as he looked at this student. If he remembers 'its' name correctly, his/her name is Osana Najimi.

Tanaka didn't know this one but 'it' seemed friendly and Tanaka was amazed by the skills of Najimi, talking with multiple people and was able to listen to all of them and even make a conversation? And from what seemed like it, almost everyone in the classroom is Najimi's friends, truly a master at making friends.

Even Tanaka himself, was not capable of doing this, Tanaka immediately decided Najimi is a must friend for Komi, maybe she could learn a thing or two from Najimi, he told Tadano that he would leave it to him before making his way back towards his seat.

Tadano and Najimi talked for a while before they decided that Najimi would walk home with Komi. After knowing that, Tanaka just left it to Tadano while he himself will go to the Kadokawa Media Company to see if his book will get accepted.

He was confident it would get accepted though but not a hundred percent.

After the school ended, Tanaka said goodbye to Komi and Tadano before making his way towards the Kadokawa Media Company. He needed to ride a train for a few minutes to reach the place, but Tanaka wanted to save so he just borrowed a bike and then went to Kadokawa Media Company.

Reaching the place, the sun was already setting but thankfully, the place is still open. The Kadokawa Media Company is a very big establishment. Tanaka parked the bike in the parking lot for bikes and then entered the building.

Looking around, there were not a lot of people inside, probably because it was already late, but Tanaka coil still some people in their uniforms, they should be the employees, Tanaka approached one of them.

"Hi, nice to meet you, what can I help you with?"

"Ah, yes, I want to publish a light novel of mine, is this where I'm going to submit it?"

"Yes, may we see your manuscript?"

"Uhhh… Its over here"

Tanaka showed the USB on his hands.

"I see, you must print it first before submitting to us so we can accept it"

"Oh, sorry, its my first time"

"Its okay, we actually have a printer, we can print it for you"

"Really, thank you very much"

"Please wait a moment"

The worker then picked up a telephone and called someone, then he was instructed to wait for a few minutes, Tanaka nodded and sat in the lounge to wait.

While Tanaka was waiting, a person sat in front of him, the guy seemed to be the same age as him, the guy noticed hi and bowed his head, Tanaka also showed courtesy and bowed his head,

Then it became quiet, Tanaka is really not a person who liked to engage conversations with someone so he just remained silent.

"Umm… it's my first time seeing you here, are you new?"

The guy asked.

"Ah, yes, this is my first time here, I want to submit a light novel of mine"

"Oh, so you are a fellow writer, my name is Izumi Masamune, my pen name is 'Izumi Masamune', the same name with the kanji switched around a little"

"I see, my name is Tanaka Ryuuji, as for my Pen name, I don't have one yet"

The two with each other mainly about light novels, though it didn't take long before a person arrived.

"So you are here too Izumi, and you must be the new one?"

It was a woman with short brown hair and wearing a suit, she also looked young.

"Yes, it's me"

"Good, my name is Ayame Kagurzaka, just call me Ayame, I'm an editor here, let's go then, I'm interested to see the works of young bloods, follow me too Izumi"

She smiled and walked away, Tanaka and Izumi then followed her, they took the elevator and reached the 3rd floor. Tanaka saw the office of the editors, he was then guided towards the printing machine, they then started printing Tanaka's light novel.

Ayame became interested in his works and immediately took the paper after it was printed. Izumi was also interested, for writers, there are bound to be some interesting newbies who write completely new interesting ideas, they also see if the newbie has a talent for writing light novels.

"Log Horizon? That's an interesting title"

Ayame nodded and started reading the paper.

Tanaka didn't mind and just continued printing the paper, it took about half an hour before the whole volume was printed. Tanaka then turned his head and looked at Ayame and Izumi who seemed to be very focused on reading.

Tanaka didn't mind and just sat down and waited for them. Log Horizon's story is really interesting but it was not on par to the story of Sword Art Online, specially the Alicization where the story was on its peak in Tanaka's past life.

It didn't take long for them to finish reading the book.

"It's interesting, it's a whole new genre and you actually wrote a lot"

"Yes, that's the first volume, my book has a total of eleven volumes, and I already have completed it on my mind, I just have to write it down"

"That is great! I will send this to our chief editor and see their reaction, leave your contracts and also your address, maybe by weekend, we will contact you again, thank you for choosing Kadokawa Media Company"

"It's no problem"

Tanaka and Ayame then talked more about his novel details and it was a little late when they finished, Tanaka already messaged the owner of the cafe that he has to do something today so he won't be able to come.

After it was all done, Tanaka went back home, this can be considered successful right?

Before Tanaka went home, he bought some things to give to his two brothers before going home.

When he arrived home, his two little brothers were still awake. Tanaka gave them the cakes that he bought and played with them, after that, they all went to sleep, Koatarou didn't want to let go of Tanaka so he slept with the two.

Waking up in the morning, Kahima was the first one to wake up and have prepared all of the breakfast, Tanaka cleaned up Kotarou and then they ate breakfast, just like usual brining the two to their school, tanaka went to his.

Arriving at school, the first thing he saw after he entered the classroom was Komi, she is always early, Tanaka sat on his seat and greeted Komi, then they both started talking mostly about what happened yesterday. It seemed like it was successful since Najimi became her friend.

It didn't take long for their classmates to arrive and class starting, it was quite easy for Tanaka and doesn't really need to give attention so in the blink of an eye, it was already lunch.

"Komi-san!"

Najimi was the first one to call out, then Najimi turned to look at Tanaka, he was surprised for a bit before turning back to Komi.

"Komi=san can you buy me- *Blah *Blah *Blah"

In short Najimi wanted to buy Komi something for Najimi that has a long description, and if she doesn't go, Najimi won't be friends with her anymore, a little bit forceful but it will help Komi from communicating but before she go, Tanaka gave her a paper that she could read what she could read out if she somehow forget what she would need to buy.

Tanaka didn't follow after them and let Tadano do it, while he will chat with Najimi.

It didn't take long for Komi to arrive but according to Tadano, she wasn't able to order and just gave the paper that Tanaka gave, well, at least, she did go so it was a step forward

For the coming days, it was pretty normal for Tanaka, Ayame also contacted him, telling him to come this weekend, Tanaka accepted and so today is Saturday, Tanaka arrived at Kadokawa Media Company.

He was wearing his highschool uniform and also didn't show his piercings, he needed to look presentable after all, he still went traveling with a bike.

Then outside, Ayame is already waiting with a smile on her face, after Tanaka parked the bike, he was immediately pulled by Ayame inside the editors office and there he met the chief editor of this place.

"Nice to meet you my name is Minano Matome, I'm the chief editor here"

"I see nice to meet you"

Tanaka was surprised at first to see the chief editor is a small girl with green hair but he didn't think much about it since it wasn't really that strange in this world.

They then started talking about the contract, Tanaka will receive 18% royalty from the company, it was a lot for a newcomer but according to Minano, the book is a new genre and will surely be popular.

Well, Tanaka isn't sure too much about that but in his past life, SAO took almost all of the heat, so maybe in this world it will become a hit? Well doesn't matter, other than the royalty, Tanaka also gets paid 500 Yen per 5,000 words and also received 20 thousand Yen which is already a good deal so Tanaka immediately signed it.

Next is printing of the Light Novel and also Tanaka's pen name, as for his editor, it will be Ayame since they are already acquainted with each other.

"I'll go for LazyTanaka as my Pen name, and also I don't want to reveal my identity"

Tanaka said after thinking for a while the pen name LazyTanaka came from his favorite author who wasn't able to finish a lot of his books but he keeps pumping new ideas so Tanaka admired that person, as for not revealing his identity, he just doesn't want his peaceful life to be disturbed.

Maybe in the future if he decided to show his face then that would be in the future. Definitely not now.

After a little more talk, their meeting ended and Tanaka immediately went back home, 30 thousand Yen is a lot of money for a student like him, especially that he also takes care of his family.

So for now, he needed to smartly use the money, first things first is he needed a laptop for his Light Novel, that was all he needed right now, a laptop costs about 10-15 thousand Yen,or maybe just buy a second hand one so it doesn't cost much?

(100,000 ÷5,000 × 500 = 10,000 + 20,000 = 30,000 tell me if my math is incorrect)

After he buys one, he will save the remaining money for his two brothers.

"I'll go buy tomorrow"

After that, Tanaka went back home.

Chapter 2-

Sunday, Tamaka decided to stroll around today with his family, of course, since he wanted to relax, he wore his most comfortable clothes and also wore his earrings and made his tattoo show. He also tied his gloomy hair into a ponytail making him look like a different person.

The gloomy looking Tanaka turned into a bad boy Tanaka, anyway, other than his family and maybe the tattoo artist? No one knew about his tattoo, it actually covers from his shoulder to shoulder, it was more like a yakuza tattoo of a dragon, a black dragon(The tattoo is different from Izumi who has a tribal tattoo, for reference of his tattoo, its from the main character of the way of house husband except that it only extends towards his shoulders and a little to his arms). as for the ear piercings, he did it by himself(the former)

"I really like comfortable clothes"

Tanaka smiled then immediately called out to his two brothers, since he earned money, he must treat his family to having fun. Tanaka wanted them to enjoy their life after all, he also plans to buy a small laptop today.

Tanaka and his two brothers then went to a mall to have fun, he bought them new clothes, new shoes since what they use are old ones.

"Onii, I think we should not waste money, we can still use our shoes for a long time"

Kashima said in concern.

Tanaka smiled and ruffled his brother's hair.

"You don't have to worry, your brother will earn a lot of money in the future, just enjoy it for today, do not worry about other things and just focus on having fun, okay?"

Kashima nodded and did not say anything anymore and just followed his brother and also let Kotarou have fun.

Tanaka also became the center of attention of many girls, after all, he was a handsome bad boy. It was pretty rare these days since most of the people became lawful or some became thugs.

Tanaka didn't mind though, at least, they didn't disturb their fun, some brave girls also wanted to give their contact numbers to him but Tanaka politely refused.

"I need to go to the bathroom, wait for me here"

Tanaka needed to go to the bathroom so he told his two brothers before going towards the bathroom, while on his way, he suddenly noticed a girl staring at the stairs, it was a strange sight.

A pale-skinned teenage girl who is incredibly beautiful and attractive with back-length light brown hair that has bangs hanging over the right side of her face with a single medium-length hair strand on the left side, and light brown eyes.

She looked somewhat confused, Tanaka decided to approach her.

"Uh.. miss, is everything okay?"

Tanaka asked.

"Umm, it's not moving"

The girl strangely replied.

"Umm.. Its not going to move, its stairs, if you are talking about the moving one, its the escalators over there"

"Ah! No wonder its not moving, it's different from the the stairs from my house"

'What kind of stairs does she have?'

Tanaka thought dumbfoundedly.

"Thank you for your help, my name is Shichijo Aria"

"Tanaka Ryuuji, do you have someone with you?"

"Yes, I came with a friend today, I wonder where she went"

"Uhh. Do you have a phone? You can call her"

"Ah! that 's right"

Aria then took out her phone and contacted her said friend, Tanaka waited with her since he already knew this girl is an airhead.

They waited for a while before a girl that had long purple-ish black hair and pinkish-purple eyes came.

"Aria, I was looking for you everywhere"

"Sorry Shino-chan, I couldn't climb the stairs"

"Its okay"

She then turned her head towards Tanaka and when she saw his appearance she seemed to be shock.

"Are you one of those thug guys who take beautiful women away and do them?"

Tanaka found her question strange.

"Fortunately, no, I'm just helping your friend here since she was staring at the stairs, anyway, I have to go now, please take care of your friend"

"Ah, yes, sorry for what I said and I will"

Tanaka waved his hand and proceeded towards the bathroom, it was a quick call of nature so it didn't take long for him, then he returned back to his brothers and continued their bonding.

While they were at it, Tanaka went to a store to buy a laptop, it took him quite a while but he bought a normal laptop at the price of 13 thousand Yen.

Good thing is the shop was on sale. The real price of the laptop is 23 thousand yen, it was a catch for Tanaka. After he bought one, he then continued their fun, it was already late in the afternoon that they decided to return back home.

Tanaka's two brothers were very happy when they returned home. Tanaka was of course happy too, their smiles made him happy. Tanaka was somewhat happy to understand how a father felt about his children? Well certainly not all of them.

After they got home, they ate their dinner and went to watch some cartoons on the T.V before going to sleep, Kotarou was already tired from playing all day.

Kashima tucked Kotarou to bed and also went to sleep while Tanaka started writing immediately with his laptop, he wanted to finish writing as fast as possible and write more novel to earn more money.

According to Ayame, his book will be published a month later or may 2 weeks, which is faster, they are already printing his book.

"Wait, didn't I earn 10,000 from the book? Shouldn't I have finished the mission already?"

Tanaka suddenly remembered, he immediately opened his system and looked at his mission.

[Main Mission: Recreate 1/1,000 games/anime/manga/songs/dance/etc from your past life, -Rewards: System Upgrade and more]

[Mission 1: Earn 0/5,000 Yen from recreating anything from your past life, -Rewards: Gacha System Opens, Gacha Ticket x1]

[Mission 2: Earn 9/300 Fame Points from the things you recreated, -Rewards: Gacha Ticket x1]

"Eh? It's not counted… that's kind of disappointing, but whatever, maybe by the time the book is published on the market, I have already finished writing the Log Horizon, I won't have any problems with it anymore"

Tanaka consoled himself before continuing to write, it was already 11 pm when he decided to go to sleep.

The next day, Monday, Tanaka changed to his uniform once again and ate his breakfast, just like his usual routine, brought his two brothers to their school, a goodbye kiss on the forehead and also gave Kashima and Kotarou allowance.

Then made his way to his school, just like usual, Komi is very early and the first to arrive, Tanaka chatted with her while waiting for the class to start, he also told her that his light novel is going to be published which made her happy for him.

It was certainly a joyous occasion for them, Najimi who was also new to the group heard it and was surprised to know that Tanaka is writing a Light Novel.

"Tanaka-san, I'm an expert when it comes to novels, if its bad I will criticize it"

Najimi said with all seriousness, and glasses appeared out of nowhere.

"Well.. Sure, I don't mind"

Tanaka smiled wryly, even if his book doesn't become popular, he knew it has certain popularity to a group of people, that is enough for him.

It didn't take long for the teacher to arrive so their chatting was stopped, Tanaka decided to focus in class today since he had nothing to do.

In a blink of an eye, days have passed, nothing really much happened, except for helping Komi get some friends, also Tanaka meeting new people, right now, Komi's group of friends have grown into about 5 people? Not that big but it was a great improvement for Komi who is bad at communicating.

And today, there is something new, Komi got a phone… a flip phone… in this age, that is great actually.

"And umm congratulations I guess?"

Tanaka commented.

[And um..]

"?"

[Now I want to know my friends number]

"I see, let's call the others then"

Tanaka stood up from his seat then looked at Komi who had a deadpan face staring at him.

"Umm… oh you want my number, sorry I forgot about mine"

Tanaka immediately understood, Komi blushed when Tanaka said that outloud, Tanaka then went for his pocket but to his surprise, his phone is not there.

"Eh? Where is my phone?"

Tanaka looked around for a while but still could not find his phone.

"Sorry Komi, I'm going to look for my phone first, you can go get the others numbers first"

Tanaka gave a smile before running out, he remembered that when he went to Hachiman earlier, he left it on his desk. Hachiman is in class 1-2, it's not that far so Tanaka immediately ran towards Hachiman's classroom.

Komi only looked at Tanaka then turned her head towards her other friends, she approached Najimi and asked for his/her contact number to write it on a paper.

"Eh? Why write it on a paper when I could just p-"

Najimi stopped, then looked behind her and noticed someone was not there. She smiled knowingly before writing on a piece of paper, Najimi also told Tadano and Agiri, Komi's new friend, before they all dispersed back to their seats.

It didn't take long for Tanaka to return and it seemed like he was in a rush since he was sweating buckets/

"I'm back Komi, here is my number, I never bothered to memorize it so here you go"

Tanaka smiled as he showed his contact number to Komi who accepted it with a blush as she noticed Najimi was looking at her with a big smile.

But the moment Tanaka gave his number to her, she gave a beautiful smile that even Tanaka blushed.

'That's dangerous'

He thought.

'..."

Just after that, the teacher arrived and Tanaka sat back in his seat hiding his blush. Thankfully, his bangs are long enough to cover his red face.

The teacher then stepped in front and announced.

"Let's decid on the representatives today, first up is the class prez, the top dog."

"Ehh…"

'It seems like no one like to be the class prez, well, it's understandable since almost all works will be dumped to the student from the teacher and you also have to look after your classmates, simply, it was no different from being a nanny'

Seeing no one is willing, the teacher just changed her strategy.

"Who do you guys recommend?"

The moment the teacher said that, they all turned their heads towards Komi which surprised her.

Tanaka turned towards Komi and could see she was shaking, not from excitement but she knew it was impossible for her, Tanaka sighed and turned to Najimi and gave him some hints.

Najimi immediately understood what Tanaka meant, probably.

In the end, Komi didn't become the Class Prez, but the goddess, its stupid, but at least Komi didn't have to become the class prez.

The one who became the class prez is Tadano, they wanted to give it to Tanaka as their revenge for taking Komi from them but they didn't want to die young so they just gave it to Tadano.

As for the vice prez, Tanaka voluntarily took it and the secretary became Kyoko Hori, the one that Tanaka bumped in the hallways also the one who reminded him on the computer lab, well, Tanaka is already acquainted with her so their job will be easy, after that the class continued.

Tanaka quieted down and sat on his seat, for some reason, he suddenly felt his mood dampen. He doesn't know the reason but it was as if he was tired, he took a deep breath and lowered his head so as not to let anyone notice.

He remained like this until the class ended, when he looked up, he saw Komi staring at him, she seemed to be concerned about him.

"I'm okay, Komi"

Tanaka replied with his usual smile, then he suddenly noticed that Najimi and the others were gathering playing a game.

"Hmm? Look Komi, they are playing, why don't you join them, Tadano, why don't you teach Komi"

"Okay"

Tadano nodded and Najimi, who has good senses, immediately heard it and pulled Komi away, Komi didn't say anything but she was looking at Tanaka who was staying behind his seat.

Tanaka saw that Komi had joined, he took his notebook and laid his back on the chair and put the notebook on top of his head.

'Am I burnt out already?'

Tanaka thought as he looked at the darkness in front of him, he felt like the strength on his body was leaving, thinking about it carefully, he felt a little light headed this morning but he didn't really think of it that much, maybe because of his continuous staying awake late at night?

He didn't feel that much and he still felt energetic this morning.

Just as he was thinking about these things, someone suddenly lifted the notebook from his head, and a soft hand touched his forehead.

"Tanaka-san! Your boiling hot, you have a fever!"

He heard a voice when he looked up, he saw Hori-san looking at him, her voice was a little loud that everyone who is on the classroom heard it, Komi who was playing with Najimi and the others immediately stopped playing and ran towards Tanaka to see his condition.

Tadano also looked over.

"Let's bring Tanaka to the infirmary"

Tadano immediately said.

"I will help you carry him"

Hori said.

They then carried the sick tanaka to the infirmary and laid him on the bed.

"You guys may now return to your classroom, I will take care of this"

The nurse said before everyone left, Komi looked at Tanaka with worry before also leaving.

"Here drink this"

"Mam, my fever is not that much, I can still-"

"Shut up and lay down there before I beat you up, patients should listen to the nurse"

She said before shoving a thermometer to his mouth and also giving Tanaka medicine, Tanaka can only sigh helplessly and do what he was told to do.

"..."

Meanwhile, Komi feels very worried that she couldn't focus in the class anymore, as her friend, first friend, Komi had already noticed Tanaka seemed different earlier but she failed to notice that he was actually sick, she is thinking that it was her fault that Tanaka became sick.

Now she felt anxious and restless, Tadano who was not too far away noticed this also feeled worried, he was genuinely worried for Tanaka as he was also his friend, Tadano is such a good kid.

After the class ended, Hori approached Komi and patted her on the shoulder.

"He will be okay, it's just a fever"

Hori consoled who still look worried, Komi nodded, to console her more, Hori hugged Komi which relaxed Komi for a little bit.

"We can visit him later"

"O-okay"

Surprisingly Komi replied Hori smiled and patted Komi before they want to their seats as the next class started.

"..."

Tanaka slowly opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling on top of him. He somewhat feels better now, Tanaka stood up from the bed and felt his clothes drenched with sweat, he looked around and saw no one was there.

He took off his sweat drenched clothes, Tanaka felt better, he looked out the window and saw it was already noon, he looked towards the bathroom before leaving his shirt and going towards the bathroom to wash his face.

Washing his face with cold water, Tanaka felt very refreshed, he felt so much better, he took a deep breath before going out of the bathroom, but just as he got out of the bathroom, the door of the infirmary suddenly slid open.

There were 5 people who were staring at him, respectively, Komi, Hori, Tadano, Najimi and Agari. Tanaka also stared back at them, there was nothing but silence.

"Close the door! A teacher might come!?"

Tanaka immediately said.

The group immediately panicked and Najimi pushed them inside then closed the door, then they finally reacted to what happened and they all became shocked once again, they stared at Tanaka's body that has a tattoo that covers almost all of his body, and even though he is not muscled, it was still a body of a healthy young man.

"How long are you going to stare?"

Tanaka suddenly teased.

The girls immediately blushed before covering their eyes with their hands but they still left a small hole for them to see, while Tadano and Najimi seemed to be amazed.

"Amazing Tanaka-kun! You actually have tattoos!"

Najimi immediately jumped to Tanaka and inspected his tattoos, Tadano also looked around admiring Tanaka's tattoo.

"Wait! Stop that! Tanaka-san, why do you have a tattoo!? That is against the school rules!"

Hori finally reacted and immediately reprimanded Tanaka.

"I actually already have this before I enrolled to this school, the principal also noticed it but didn't say anything"

Tanaka replied as he took his uniform again and wore it.

"No! That is against the rules, you must immediately remove it"

"Well, I can't, removing tattoo costs a lot of money, I don't have money to do that, I still have to support my family"

Tanaka replied with a wry smile, he was helpless, if his parents were still here they would happily pay to remove it for him but they were already gone so Tanaka can't do anything, and removing this much tattoo will definitely hurt a lot.

Hori wants to say something but is helpless, she can only keep it a secret from the others, meanwhile, Komi is still staring at Tanaka with her notebook covering the half of her face while Agari was already swallowing her saliva as she looked at him.

"Well, anyway, I hope you guys keep this a secret, I don't really let anyone know about this"

"Its okay Tanaka-san we won't say anything"

Tadano immediately replied.

"Hey Najimi! I know you are curious but please refrain from licking me"

"Eh??"

"..."

Tanaka sighed he was really cfareless this time, he made a mistake, he thought, everyone already went home, sighing, he can't do anything about it, thankfully, it was his friends who discovered him except for Hori? Well, since she knows his secret she must join the group.

"Let's go home"

Tanaka smiled, he had somewhat recovered from his fever, everyone nodded and made their way home, Hori, Agari and Najimi's house were at a different direction so they already separated at the gate while Tadano walked with them for a while before going to a different street.

Now only Tanaka and Komi were the ones left, Tanaka's house were closer than Komi but he decided to walk Komi back to her house, surprisingly her house is close to the cafe that he is working at.

"Sorry for worrying you Komi, wait actually, I'll call you Shouko now, since you already call me Tanaka which is my first name"

[???]

Komi was shocked from the sudden surprise of calling her by her first name, and she never thought that Tanaka was actually his first name.

"Haha, that is easy to mistake, I don't really like people calling me by my last name, since you already got used to it, I will call you by your first name. Is that okay? Shouko"

[...Yes]

Shouko blushed as she heard him call her by her first name again, it didn't take long for Komi to reach her house, Tanaka then left to go towards the cafe to continue his work.

Looking at his disappearing figure, Komi returned back to her home and went directly to her room and jumped to her bed, she hugged her pillow and dug her face to it, then she remembered Tanaka calling her first name, she blushed again before kicking her bed furiously.

"Onee-chan you are noisy!"

"..."

Tanaka was sent home by the boss after hearing he had a fever, he even got reprimanded for not taking care of his health, he was then instructed to rest for the day and come back tomorrow, Tanaka sighed and followed.

He reached his home and his two brothers are not home yet. He went directly to his room and changed his clothes before going to sleep.

Just as he was about to go to sleep, the door suddenly opened and his brother Kashima rushed towards him.

"Nii-san, I heard that you have a fever"

Kashima looked at him worriedly.

'Really, they don't really have to worry that much'

Tanaka thought as he looked at his brother's worried face, he patted Kashima on the head.

"I'm okay, I'm just going to rest for a little bit, you should take care of your health okay, so you won't be like me"

Kashima looked like he was about to cry before wiping it off and nodding.

"Yeah"

"..."

Tanaka woke up early the next morning. He felt better now, but he decided to do exercises today. He had ignored his health because of how busy he was for the past few days but now, he will take care of it.

He wore a sweater and a mask before going for a run, Tanaka didn't run leisurely and ran at a fast speed, he doesn't have a lot of time so he plans to use all up of his energy in one go.

He ran for about 20 minutes without stopping before he was out of breath, he stopped in a park and did some exercises there such as push ups and some other more.

He spent about 2 hours before going back home, arriving back at his house. Kashima was already up and was making breakfast.

The moment he saw Tanaka coming from outside Kashima was shocked.

"Nii!? Where did you go?"

"I went to exercise"

"Exercise? You just had a fever yesterday! How can you be so reckless brother?"

"Don't worry, I'm fine, I feel stiff laying down all day, go continue cooking, I'll take a quick bath then i'll wake Kotarou up"

Kashima didn't say anything but stared at Tanaka before sighing and continued making breakfast.

Tanaka took a quick shower before changing back to his uniform and waking Kotarou up, waking up this cute little guy was very easy for Tanaka, he just had to touched Kotarou's nose with his finger then he wakes up, Kotarou slowly opened his eyes and when he saw Tanaka he immediately hugged him.

"Oh? Did you miss your nii-nii?"

Tanaka chuckled as he felt that Kotarou hugged him tightly, Tanaka didn't mind and hugged his little brother back before making their way back to the kitchen.

Kashima already finished preparing and when he saw Kotarou hugging Tanaka he could not help but smile.

"Now, let's eat"

They ate their breakfast.

"Oh, by the way, I think my light novel is going to be distributed in next week"

Tanaka received a text just last night from Ayame telling him they have already printed 10,000 copies of his book and will be distributed around.

"Really? Congratulations Nii-san"

Kashima already knew about Tanaka's light novel and was the first one to hear it was going to be published, he was certainly happy for Tanaka.

After breakfast, Tanaka dropped the two to their school before going towards his, arriving at his classroom, Komi was already there, always early as usual.

Tanaka greeted her and told her he was already fine, Komi looked all over him to see if he was really fine then looked at his body then Komi suddenly remembered yesterday and blushed.

"Hmm? You are red, did you get a fever too?"

Tanaka innocently touched Komi's forehead and felt it was burning hot.

"It's hot, Let's go to the infirmary!"

Tanaka immediately said but just as he was about to pull Komi, Hori came and Tanaka said what happened, Hori talked with Komi in a low voice and they talked to each other, then Hori looked at him and sighed.

"She is okay"

"Really?"

"Yeah, you dense jerk"

"Huh?"

It didn't take long for the others to arrive and the class started, but today is Physical examination, and they have to do some tests.

Girls and Boys are separated, the first test is vision test, Tanaka got a perfect vision so he scored high, next is the body height, Tanaka is fairly tall 177.7 cm, Weight is 76, then sitting height… After doing a few more examinations next is the fitness test.

Students are tasked to change to their P.E uniforms. Tanaka was quite happy that their P.E uniforms had jackets so he happily wore one, the one that caught attention the most is Komi.

(I'll stick calling her Komi and only Tanaka calling her Shouko to not confuse you guys)

She is very beautiful with the ponytail and she also has long legs that made the boys drool after her. Well, Tanaka is not one of those, but he admired the beauty of Komi.

The fitness test started, first is grip strength, followed by body flexibility, side stepping, sit ups, long jump, shotput handball.

Even though Tanaka just recovered from fever, he easily aced all of this showing his strength to his whole class then next is 50 meters sprint, the first one to go were the girls.

Komi is against a student named Yadano Makeru, she seems very competitive, the race started and Yadano ran as fast as she could that her face went to a weird look, she didn't care about her appearance anymore, well, unfortunately, Komi is much faster than her and easily surpassed her making Komi in 6.89 seconds.

After the girls, it was the boys' turn, Tanaka was against Tadano, Tanaka didn't run at full speed and only leisurely but he easily left Tadano behind, his final time was 5.69 seconds while Tadano got 8.39 seconds.

After the others had finished, the examinations ended.

"../

In the blink of an eye, a week has passed and Tanaka's books were finally released in the bookstores, it was also sunday this time so Tanaka decided to go to the nearest bookstore to see how his book is selling.

But he is not going along, he was actually invited by Najimi and the others to come with them to buy it, and also get an autograph from him? Well , Tanaka didn't mind, so they all met at the cafe Tanaka is working at.

They didn't know Tanaka was working there so they all thought that it was just a random place Tanaka chose and it was actually a convenient place since it was close to a bookstore.

Arriving 30 minutes early, Tanaka was surprised to see Komi is already waiting there, she was wearing a very cute dress that made her more beautiful.

"Hey beautiful, why are you so early?"

Tanaka called out with a smile as he approached Komi who was surprised to hear him, she blushed when he called her a beauty, she is really weak with praises.

[Good morning Tanaka]

"Yes, good morning to you too Shouko, it seems like the others won't arrive until later, why don't we go inside and have a drink while we wait for them"

Tanaka smiled and opened the door of the cafe, Komi nodded and they both entered the cafe.

"Welcome!"

A voice immediately greeted them.

'Oh Tanaka-san, why have you come early?"

A middle aged man wearing sunglasses greeted them, this is Saya's father the owner of Endo cafe, Aki Endo, he smiled the moment he saw Tanaka then he looked at another one who entered with him.

"Oho? Is this your girlfriend Tanaka? She is pretty, nice to meet you little girl"

"Haha, she is my classmate Uncle"

Tanaka laughed out while Komi blushed when she was mistaken as Tanaka's girlfriend.

"Anyway, we will stay here for a while uncle, we are waiting for the others"

"That is good, while you wait, can you take over for a bit, I'm going to get something, I was waiting for Saya but she still hasn't arrived"

"Oh, sure, leave it to me"

"Okay, thanks"

Aki then left while Tanaka went towards the backroom to wear an apron, while on work, he also tied his hair into a ponytail.

Arriving in front of Komi who was staring at him with cat ears, Tanaka acted like a professional.

"What is your order madam? Also I won't order anything unless you say it"

Komi jolted when she heard that, she then looked at the menu and saw many drinks, then she looked at Tanaka once again before turning her head away, if she continue staring at him she may not be able to look away anymore.

"C-c-c-could y-you please r-recommend a g-good drink"

Komi stuttered a few times but she was able to say it.

"I see, then for a beautiful girl like you, I will recommend Espresso, but if you don't like coffee I also recommend hot chocolate"

"H-hot chocolate please"

"Then please wait a minute"

Tanaka smiled then skillfully prepared the hot chocolate. It was quite easy to make for Tanaka as he had done it a lot of times and it took only a few minutes to be finished.

"Here is your hot chocolate, please enjoy"

Tanaka gave it to Komi who was staring at him the whole time before she snapped out of it and blushingly drank the hot chocolate, her cat ears came out as she took a sip, it was very delicious.

"How is it?"

Tanaka asked with a smile.

"I-its very delicious"

"Thank you for your praise"

Tanaka then suddenly looked out and saw the others had already arrived, Najimi and Tadano came together, and it seemed they hadn't noticed they were inside so Tanaka immediately went out and invited them in.

Now, they only have to wait for Agari, Hori wasn't able to join because she is busy.

"Whoa, are you working here Tanaka-kun?"

Tanadano asked.

"My uncle owns the shop"

Tanaka replied vaguely, not telling them that he works here, so hearing that it was the shop of his uncle, they thought that he was just helping out.

"Hey, Najimi, don't go somewhere without permission"

"Boo! I also want to try being a coffee master, maybe I can work here?"

"I don't know about that, you can ask uncle later"

"Okay, also give me a black coffee"

"Ho? That's unexpected choice of drink"

"Heh, I'm already an adult and black coffee is a drink for an adult"

Najimi made a jojo-like pose as he said that everyone looked at him.

"Well, how about your Tadano?"

"I'll get cappuccino, I haven't tasted that in a while"

"Okay, one black coffee and cappuccino coming right up"

Tanaka then prepared their drinks and it didn't take long for him to give it to them, it didn't take long for Agari to also arrive, Tanaka didn't want her to be left out so he gave her a take out,

Aki also arrived a few moments later and the group then made their way towards the bookstore, the name of the bookstore is Katsugi Bookstore, it was already opened there are not a lot of people inside so the group was able to go inside easily.

Tons of books immediately greeted them as they entered inside, Tanaka curiously looked around to see if there are some books that he knew of, but looking around, he didn't see anything that was familiar/

"Tanaka, let's go to your light novel already, I want to read it"

Najimi immediately pulled him, Tanaka nodded and they went towards the new categories, it was in the middle of the bookstore. There were a lot of new books. Tanaka also saw the place where his book is organized and a few had already taken it.

It was quite good since they didn't promote the book at all and just published it, and this bookstore is also not that popular. Najimi and the others immediately picked his book and went to the counter to buy it; they weren't interested in other books.

Tanaka stayed for a bit and skimmed over the books, and he found the stories kind of lacking? Maybe it was quite good in this world but if you compare it to the ones from his past life, they were like shit, they can't even be called a cliche.

Tanaka sighed, it's not that he is insulting the other writers but it wasn't really up to par of what he had expected, no wonder Ayame and the Chief editor accepted his book, Tanaka sighed and took two of his books, one is for his brother Kashima and one is for his uncle Aki.

They immediately bought the books and the group decided to read it later, for now, they will stroll around the place and maybe enjoy a little of their gathering, so they went to parks, and to the zoo.

The sun was already setting when they decided to go home, the group split up once again to go their homes but Tanaka stayed with Komi to bring her home safely.

"Did you enjoy today?"

[Today is very enjoyable, thank you Tanaka]

"That is good, we will go more places in the future so don't think this is the last"

Tanaka smiled, Komi nodded then there was silence, Komi glanced at Tanaka's face and a blush could be seen on her face.

It didn't take long for them to arrive at Komi's house, after saying goodbye to each other.

Komi entered her home and directly went to her room, she then jumped towards her bed and couldn't help but remember how much fun she had today, she then took out the light novel from her bag and looked at it carefully.

Meanwhile, Tanaka went back to the cafe to work, But while walking, Tanaka opened his system and looked at his mission.

[Mission 1: Earn 5,000/5,000 Yen from recreating anything from your past life, -Rewards: Gacha System Opens, Gacha Ticket x1(Mission completed, rewards can now be claimed)]

[Mission 2: Earn 259/300 Fame Points from the things you recreated, -Rewards: Gacha Ticket x1]

Tanaka sighed in relief as he saw his mission was finally finished, he thought that it wouldn't go up until he received the money, but it was already done.

"Claim rewards"

*Ding!

[Rewards has been claimed]

[You have now unlocked Gacha System]

[You have received Gacha Ticket 1x]

"Good, open gacha System"

The moment Tanaka said that, he suddenly found his surroundings darkened, then out of nowhere, a huge roulette appeared in front of him, there were words written on the roulette.

Consumables, Skills, Special Items, and finally a Jackpot which is nothing but question marks.

Tanaka couldn't see the prizes other than the words written on the roulette, but looking at the words, they have different categories, consumables must be for consumable items, yes, he knows its commonsense, as for skills, its vague, there are many types of skills so Tanaka can't predict what it was,as for special items, Tanaka also doesn't know, and no need to say about the jackpot.

Taking a deep breath, Tanaka raised his hand.

"Use Gacha ticket"

[Gacha Ticket is used, please spin the roulette.]

Tanaka then approached the roulette and grabbed the end of the roulette, then with a powerful pull.

*Swooosh!

The roulette then started spinning at a very fast speed that only after images could be seen from it, Tanaka didn't know how long had passed but he was very nervous and excited as the roulette finally slowed down and landed on a category.

*Ding!

"..."

-To be continued-

"Oh my god a cliffhanger"

Whis exclaimed loudly as he saw the words at the end, it didn't quench his thirst, it made him even more hungry to know what will happen next, but knowing the librarian, Whis just sighed, it was an interesting story at least for him.

"Let's just read another book, a finished one, I don't want to read an unfinished anymore"