Chapter 6: Jack and Kuoh

The sounds of ambient birds and wind rustling leaves played a beautiful orchestra for my ears.

Okay, not at all.

I opened my eyes, once more, the 2nd time I awoke at that ceiling and I still felt like everything was surreal.

Remembering what happened last night, I stood up from the floor and took a look at my body that was technically swimming in a puddle of fluids, sweat, not the other kind.

Opening my general information, I checked for the stat the rose up–

[Strength: 11]

–By 1. I tried figuring out WHY it increased by 1, and the only theories I have are that first it was magic and the second is that for some reason, 10x a normal human's strength is equivalent to 23,456 pushups which is bullshit because 50 doesn't reach 23,456.

"I don't even know how I lasted that long...oh wait"

A thought smacked my mind backwards.

I opened my skills and double checked both Divine Body and Gaia's Blessings. The skills gave invulnerability to damage and natural regeneration.

A light bulb appeared beside my head as I finally understood the specifics of stat increase, the main reason for working out is to destroy and rebuild the muscle manually and continuously, making it bigger and stronger than the last.

Now, imagine having natural regeneration that heals the damage faster than how the body can decide to improve it and technically not breaking them because they don't deal more damage than 30 Constitution.

See? I don't improve doing stuff like those, the reason my strength increased is simply because the system felt pity on me.

I sighed and walked to the bathroom to take a shower, there's nothing to dump, so no toilet. The cold water brushed on my skin, cooling it like a hot sword dipped in water, and yes I mean exactly being hot, not the exercise.

After finishing up and gathering my clothes, I went in front of the mirror, donning the uniform slowly, taking in all the suspense up until the last button.

"I'm way too feminine... I'm turning into a better Gasper"

My hair was down, the wet water forced it down so I had to dry it up using various methods. Specifically, I used Chrono Burst and spun like a beyblade.

Afterwards, I fixed my hair the way it was supposed to be, a wild spiky hair with a single bang covering my right eye all the way to the chin.

"Alright, relax Jack. Relax, nothing will mess with you anymore"

I slapped my face on both sides simultaneously and forcefully kept down my blooming feminine side in favor of acting like a male. Taking one last look at the mirror, I exhaled a determined air and walked to school.

*

Right now, I'm probably already going past the popularity of Kiba by just walking past the gate.

"Who's that?! How did we miss someone like that?"

Harlots.

Ugh...I fucking hate school.

It doesn't help that most of my bad experience with society comes from this particular institution, still, I kept a friendly smile in my face as I continued onwards.

The school was more or less the same as the one in the anime, well, except for the fact that there are severely less males than usual. Actually, I haven't seen a single male yet, bar the teachers of course.

Speaking of teachers, our homeroom teacher saw me confused and approached me, once he found out I was the first day absent kid, he made an angry expression and gestured me to follow him to our classroom.

Now, I'm standing in front of a wooden slide door, and the teacher gave me a nudge as we both entered.

"Who's that?"

"She's...no he's cute"

"Is that the absent male? Maybe she just forgot her female uniform"

"I say the school accidentally gave him a female uniform, so he had to be absent and get a new one"

My mind wandered back it memory lane. A old fat me limping towards the elevated area around the blackboard and shyly introducing myself...

"Ew, he's like my dinner yesterday"

"Didn't you say that the pork your mom bought was rotten?"

...

"Oh, you cruel girl"

I remembered them all laughing at that and I had to grit my teeth just to not retort.

Going back to the present, the sheer difference in treatment granted by having different looks is amazing.

I loathe it.

Pushing my growing hatred back down, I walked to the front and smiled amicably while placing a hand to my chest.

"My name is Jack, Freshman Jack, a foreigner from Europe, also I'm a Hideyoshi"

I had to stress the last part, the males were looking at me funny.

...

"Hey, do you still have that condom we jokingly bought?"

Hey! What hell are you planning!?

"Somebody has a camera here?!"

If you want a picture pay me first!

"Fuck, I left my paint back home"

Then keep it there!

"Ahem"

The teacher coughed, his glare the same as ever but now with just a little bit of...is he actually jealous of me?

"Jack, please sit next to the window back there, it's the only spot open since you were absent the first day"

I bowed, Japan's all about the respect guys, and occasionally taking pictures of dead people in the suicide forest.

Excuse me.

I went to my seat, trying my absolute best to not cower and lose my ever growing fame points by acting shy.

I'll bring it to my fellow brothers, the shy and pitiful stereotype doesn't thrive in the hierarchy of school. Not that I've ever actually stuck long enough to see if it changed but being retarded does that.

"I'm not staying in this school for long..."

As soon as I placed my beautiful ass in the wooden standard chair, a quest prompt appeared in front of me.

[Quest: Rule Kuoh Academy!]

[Kuoh Academy is the center of the plot, rule the school before the main casts even arrives. Be the student council president for 3 years straight. Get the number 1 spot in the overall rankings for 3 years straight. Bring all the school's sports clubs to win their respective championships for 3 years straight. Leave a moniker to mark your first year in school]

[Failure Penalty: Loss of the quest Am I A Comet Yet?]

[Quest Rewards: 1 Task = Lightless, 3-Stage Thrust, 2 Tasks = 150,000 SP, 4 Tasks = ??? SSR Item]

Really now? Did the system just tell me to "Go to school young man"? Gee, thanks mom.

Sighing, I looked out the window with my face leaning on my palms, yes, just like every other protagonist.

"He's so dreamy, kyaaa!~"

I hate my seatmate.