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"Hey, system I\'ve been meaning to ask, but why should I forget the title of my novel I\'m in?"

I asked out of curiosity as I am searching for a certain business. I\'m planning to invest under the name of [Night].

[You can\'t bring everything here with you, as a matter of fact you forgot a lot of things in your past life. The Higher Being just transferred enough memory in that body to maintain your personalities and charateristics.]

"Is that so."

\'Come to think of it I don\'t even remember my surname and past address.\'

Well I don\'t care, I don\'t have attachment to that world anyway.

"Then how come I can remember my novels and my favorite novels?"

[Because it\'s important to you.]

"Hmm, fair enough."

Novels really do means a lot to me.

"Found it!"

It was then I found the business I\'m looking for.

\'[Xenon]\'

I plan on investing in [Xenon], it\'s a smithy that creates various kinds of equipment, it\'s not known now, but the owner of it will acquire a skill and item that can enchance equipments\' performance.

The owner\'s name is Tyrone, a major character of the novel, he personally creates equipments for the main characters, he\'s in his mid 20\'s.

Tyrone was about to sell his smithy when he found a skill book and a hammer that will help him become one of the best smith in the world, it was hidden in his deceased father\'s room.

The skill and hammer was supposed to be a gift for Tyrone, but his father died from a dungeon overflow before he could give it to Tyrone.

His father is just a normal person but Tyrone is an ability user.

Anyway, I already sent a message to Tyrone.

[Night]: Hello, I would like to invest to Xenon.

Ting-

Not waiting for long, I recieved a reply from Tyrone.

[Tyrone]: Um... Mr.Night? Are you sure? I don\'t even have any employee left. You don\'t even know me, what would you do if I ran away with the money? Wait, is this a prank?

His reply is full of doubt, he\'s not even trying to hide it.

Well I can\'t blame him as my sudden message is really suspicious.

\'You won\'t run away, I created you to be honest and dependable.\'

I thought. Can\'t say that, can I?

[Night]: It\'s not a prank, I\'m certain. I will meet you in person to invest and use a mana contract for our transaction if you want.

I sent it to Tyrone, doing business with him will gain me a lot of money and I will have a connection to the future one of the best smithy in the world.

So it\'s a really good thing to me.

Tyrone didn\'t reply immediately as if to think things thoroughly.

After a while I recieved a reply.

[Tyrone]: Well, I don\'t know, but if I didn\'t grab an opportunity because it\'s suspicious, I will not succeed, while on the other hand, blindly trusting someone is stupid so let\'s decide after meeting.

His answer is logical and honest.

[Night]: I\'m currently preparing for something, so let\'s meet on Sunday, I\'ll prepare the mana contract too as I was the one who suggested it.

I\'ll go and lead Tyrone to the skill book, I\'ll just make things a little faster, it will not affect the story greatly anyway. Probably.

[Tyrone]: Okay, I\'ll see you then.

I didn\'t reply anymore as I find it unnecessary, I don\'t know what to reply anyway.

\'With that, I secured a big money income for the future.\'

Then I practiced support magics and buffs and debuffs

I continued practicing them until I ran out of mana.

Being exhausted I lay down in my bed and fell asleep.

***

June 1, the first day of academy came.

When I woke up, I was in my cat form again, maybe because of mana exhaustion.

I washed my face, ate breakfast, and took a bath calmly.

While wearing my uniform, I noticed my watch displaying the time.

<10:09 A.M>

I frowned. Classes starts at <10:30 A.M> and ends at <8:30 P.M>.

And I\'m pretty far from the Academy.

I\'m in Vagha City, the academy is in Azeas City.

Azeas is in the middle of human domain.

It\'s 2 cities away from here.

"Fuck!"

I\'m gonna be late, because of mana exhaustion I slept more than usual. I usually wake up about <5:30 A.M> because of my body clock.

"You shitty system! Why you didn\'t wake me up?!"

I grumbled, while speeding up my movements.

[You were exhausted, your health is more important than the academy for me.]

"Well you have a point but It\'s the first day of the academy!"

[Nothing change, your health is still more important to me~]

It\'s teasing me.

"Just shut up!"

I did a last check to see if I forgot something, and left the appartment at <10:10 A.M>.

\'Am I still gonna be late? I even tried my best to come back quickly from the Red wolves\' mountain!\'

I\'m not really religious but I started praying seriously as I ran toward my destination.

***

I rode rapid trains, if I didn\'t have <Calm Thinker> I might\'ve ran all the way to the academy because of panic, which is stupid.

I arrived at the academy at <10:27 A.M>.

\'3 more minutes!\'

I used a university I saw in a sci-fi anime as the Lunar Academy\'s design reference.

So when I entered the academy.

"Woah..."

I admired it, I looked at the academy\'s beauty while running. It was more beautiful than my drawing and descriptions. Seeing it in person was a lot different.

Tall buildings and structures can be seen everywhere you look.

Now it feels like I\'m in the future.

Unfortunately, I can\'t waste any time to look around casually. So I just promised myself that I\'ll do that later.

I ran where the freshmen\'s building is suppose to be.

"A-1, A-1, A-1"

I ran while searching for my classroom.

And then there I saw on door of one of the classrooms.

[CLASS A-1]

I ran toward it, and when I\'m near the classroom.

"Rank 2619, Raven Obadiah?"

I heard a voice calling my name in a questioning tone.

I opened the classroom\'s door immediately.

Swoosh-

Click-

Bam-

"Present."

I said as soon as I came in.

All the eyes in the room turned to me.

\'Ah, fuck... I wanna hide under a blanket for years.\'

I thought in embarrassment sensing their gazes, but my face remained calm.

I calmed my mind with <Calm Thinker> but the embarrassment is still in me.

"You\'re late, care to explain why?"

A man said while looking at me.

\'He\'s the owner of the voice I heard earlier.\'

He look like in his late 20s, he have a handsome face, his body is muscular, he have brown eyes and hair. But he looks like a musclehead.

His name is Kendy Nasah, our homeroom professor and an <S+> rank hero, ranked 49 in the [Heroes Ranking]. The ranking is just a human thing, just so you know.

I looked straight at him and spoke confidently.

"I\'m a minute early, Sir."

It\'s 10:29 A.M, so I\'m in the right.

I don\'t know if I\'m being rude or what, it\'s been long since I talked to other people and all of them are younger or the same age as me.

My readers doesn\'t point it out if I\'m being rude or what when replying to them. But I really doesn\'t want to be rude.

"Oh, you\'re gutsy."

Kendy said smiling at me but he\'s emitting a heavy pressure toward my direction.

"But I\'m not wrong though?"

System adjusts the <Calm Thinker> based on the pressure, so I\'m thinking still calmly and receiving the pressure with a calm face, I\'m still scared though.

The room was filled with the students whispering to each others while looking at me.

"Can I take my seat now so you can start the class?"

I said with a straight face, hiding my nervousness and embarrassment.

"HAHAHAHA!"

Kendy then laughed and looked at me.

"I like your style kid. You may sit, find an available seat."

"Thank you Sir."

Kendy Nasah is a major character in my novel, he likes gutsy people, just don\'t step over the line and you\'ll be fine, that\'s why I answered him boldly. Though I think It\'s nore like I answered him rudely...

I looked around to find a seat for me.

In the back row of seats there\'s a handsome young man with milk white skin, platinum blonde hair and ruby-red eyes.

It was Curtis Hawkins with his goons. He is the rival of the protagonist, he\'s not a villain but he\'s arrogant. I don\'t want near him.

In the front row seats there\'s a handsome young man that rivals Curtis\' appearance.

White skin, jet-black hair, sapphire-blue eyes, he even attracts a lot of girls\' eyes just by breathing.

Alec Osmond, the protagonist. Near him were all of his potential lovers, Eve Godwin, Adelle Lucette, and Masami Aoi.

All of them were the top students in all freshmen, the protagonist is top 1 by the way.

\'They all attract way too much attention, I don\'t want near them...\'

\'But damn, They\'re all good looking. My confidence is hurt.\'

I say that but seeing the characters I made with time and consideration moving and breathing is weird for me.

In the end, I settled to the mid row on the end right corner. I chose the farthest seat from them.

Right after I sat down Kendy spoke.

"Now stand up and go to the training grounds."

He was looking at me grinning like an idiot.

\'Bastard.\'

Even though Kendy looks like a muscle head, he\'s actually smart. He gave us instructions to stand right after I sat as a revenge to me from earlier.

"Petty bastard."

I muttered in a low voice that even anyone near me didn\'t hear. Well Kendy heard what I said as he looked at me squinting his eyes.

I grinned then tilted my head innocently as if asking \'What?\'.

I\'m pretty petty myself too.

I stood up and headed to the training grounds.

***

Arriving at the training grounds, I saw a lot of weapons lined up.

"These weapons are provided by the academy, you can use a personal weapon but if you don\'t have one then get here."

Kendy said.

"And since today\'s the first day, you\'re free to do anything you want but you can\'t leave the training grounds for an hour."

He added.

Then some students started picking weapons. Almost all of the main characters have their own personal weapon except the protagonist Alec.

\'Well he\'s supposed to be in a average family too.\'

Alec picked a sword as his weapon.

I approached the weapons and picked a handgun.

I already have a gun but appraising the gun provided by the academy, it\'s a lot better than mine.

Whispers started to be heard around me.

They\'re all looking at me.

\'Well gun is considered as a weak weapon, so it\'s not surprising.\'

Why I picked a gun?

I don\'t know how to wield a sword nor spear.

Bow and arrows makes it harder for me to cast magic.

And to be a magician you need to be able to cast 4th tier magic right now. I can only cast support magics, buffs and debuffs, which are considered as 1st tier magics, the lowest tier.

While in the future I may be able to cast maybe up to 4th tier magics, the magician students that can cast 4th tier magics now will be able to cast 6 tier or above magics at that time.

Also I\'m pretty much familiar to gun as I got admitted to the military in the past, I also like realistic shooting games. My aim is not bad too.

"Are you sure on your choice? you can pick any weapon here for free."

It was then Kendy approached and asked me with concerned eyes.

\'He really cares for his students huh.\'

I thought as I nodded my head.

"I\'m fine with this."

I answered confidently.

Kendy looked at me like I was weird. Well everyone is looking at me like that, even the main characters.

\'Well, I am weird.\'

I shrugged and went to the shooting range area ignoring my surrounding.

\'Why the hell would they put a gun in the weapon selection if it wasn\'t recommend to students, stupid idiots.\'

***

In the shooting range area there\'s a lot of arrows and bullets. The shooting area is divided in rooms.

I picked up some magazines and bullets.

There\'s a few students in here, including me and Masami Aoi but I\'m the only one holding a gun, all of them have a bow in their hands. Aoi is holding a bow personal weapon.

They\'re looking at me weirdly except Aoi who only shows curiosity.

I ignored their gazes.

\'System, appraise and record my classmates\' stats, I\'ll look at it later.\'

I talked in my mind.

[Okay, got it.]

The system replied.

I looked around, to be specific all of my classmates so the system can appraise them.

[All recorded.]

"Thanks."

After that I went in one of a room of the shooting range.

***

The inside of the room is spacious but I don\'t really care.

"Training start."

I muttered, I know how this works as I have <Understanding> and from the novel.

-Please modify your training.

A robotic-voice reply came back.

"10 moving targets, difficulty max."

I said. Training will not be fruitful when doing an easy one, I also have a boost now because of the <I like the spotlight> trait, I gained a lot of attention as soon as I entered the classroom earlier.

Turns out that not just positive attention is being used as a fuel to my growth.

-Training will begin in 10 seconds.

As soon as I heard that, I activated <Insight> and <Calm Thinker>.

"Fuu..."

I let out a sigh and focused on my surroundings.

"Let\'s go."

-Training start!

A circular target appeared out of thin air, and seeing that, I immediately pull my trigger.

Bang!

***

[Session complete]

<Completed in 8 minutes and 43 seconds>

A hologram displayed the time I took to hit all the targets.

"Huff... Huff..."

I was breathing roughly because of exhaustion.

As my breathing stabilized, I recalled the training.

"System what do you think?"

I asked.

[Maintain the count of your moving targets but decrease the difficulty to 7. The speed of difficulty 10 is too fast for you at the moment, increase the difficulty one by one when you get used to the speed.]

The system gave me instructions for my training, all it said was true. I finished a session in more that 8 minutes and my target were only 10.

"Thanks"

After that, I reset my training according to the system\'s advice.

I trained like that for about an hour before leaving the training grounds to go back the classroom.

***

I reached the classroom not long as it wasn\'t that even far from the training grounds.

But as I was about to enter the classroom, 4 students approached me. They\'re my classmates. I assumed.

But they were extras in the novel, I\'m sure as I don\'t know any of them.

"Oh! Isn\'t this our gunner?"

Then the young man in the front of the group said to me with a scoff on his face.