Josh who was complimenting his shitty cooking ate his badly made toast and drank some milk.
"Since dad didn't let me use his car I'll just go to the train station"
Josh went to the train station and while going there he heard girls chatting about him.
A young woman asked "Hey, oppa wanna go out with me?"
Josh asked for her age
The young woman said "I'm 19"
Josh said "Please get away from me or I'll call the F.B.I"
The young woman chuckled "Your funny"
"I'm not joking. I am 14 years old"
The young woman started walking away
The girl was gone and Josh started walking 'Man some girls really wanna go to the fbi huh?'
Josh started walking around with his phone on his hand and he saw a girl approaching him
"Wanna go ou-"
"I'm 14" Josh interrupted her halfway and discreetly had his phone record what she was saying
"Doesn't matter, young boys are the best" She licked her lips
Josh thought, 'A pedo huh? I don't think I'll like getting ara ara'd '
Josh started running toward the train station ignoring the girl and waited around 15 seconds for the train to arrive
The train was only half full, as the price of cars decreased so did the amount of people having to use buses, trains, and taxi. Still about 28% of the population still used other transport because they have no real use for cars, or could just walk to their workplace
Josh wasn't able to sleep since he watched horror movies and took a nap, he was about to miss his destination but the train had built in hands to slap people in their sleep if they didn't stand after five seconds to leave
Splack!
The metallic hand slapped Josh's face.
The force of the hand wasn't much, but more than enough to wake people up
Josh woke up - now instead of black spots under his eyes his whole face was red.
He walked outside of the train and went inside the mall his face hurt and girls who would normally be chatting of how good looking he is, were now afraid that he got into a fight.
Josh didn't care of the girls reaction to his face as he went to what previously had been the gaming section now turned to a section for only the game.
Instead of 15 people and 5 A.I now there were more than 45 people and 20 A.I making people have tests. Now only hundreds came to register instead of the thousands of people that came when he went last time
Josh went to one of the workers and asked for the game manual, "I don't know how to play the game"
"It's simple, normal players hunt monsters down to get stronger. The game however is more than murdering every monster you see, It's a game where your choices can have an impact on the games history"
"How can I get stronger" Josh asked
"Hunt monsters" The worker said
"I can't " Josh's face twisted
"Why" the worker wondered
"The monsters are too strong and they're are no players to help me" Josh answered
"Beginner monsters aren't strong, and what do you mean no players?" The worker explained
" My race is an elf" Josh explained
"So you're the one who the boss was talking about. I mean he said you were smart and you looked handsome" The worker refuted
"I am handsome and smart!" Josh felt like he was being mocked
"Pretty sure pretty boys don't have a face redder than tomato, and aren't dumb enough to ask the system for help"
Josh looked into a mirror, his face that gave off a charm looked blood red 'How much that that metal hand want to slap me? No that doesn't matter right now'
"I want to get stronger" Josh stopped looking at his reflection
"Here" the worker handed out a test paper for science
"Every month you must go here to further improve your stats"
Josh started answering, last time Josh had it easy however the test paper was different, the questions it had were questions that Josh would have never answered if he didn't read science books from time to time. The 200 questions which Josh answered in less than an hour are now questions he had to think deeply about.
Josh miraculously answered all of it in 2 hours. The worker was honestly impressed Josh answered all of them and all of them were correct
"Do you want players to study?" Josh asked
"Of course, teachers would probably be okay with the game even if it didn't help make students study as the new school system made procrastinating more acceptable. And now that we make students study if they want to get better than the rest of the players in the game, I'm sure that teachers would openly talk about the game and help us secure more players"