Coins were the currency in the world currently. Of course, many decades ago, this was not so as nearly each country had a different currency from the other. However, after the advent of powers, there was a world-head meeting where it was agreed that every country would use coins as its currency.
There were four different values for them. The one with the lowest value and didn't worth much had just one black dot on it while the highest had five dots on it and worth a thousand of those with just one dot of them.
But, there were complains made most especially by powerless humans, that carrying a huge bag filled with coins wasn't really an easy task.
Therefore, a device was made by great scientists and eventually duplicated. These devices would be able to store coins within it. All one had to do was input the exact amount of coins in it while it was pointed at the coins themselves, and the coins would vanish from sight and be credited into a special account within the device.
Thus hassles involved with coins in general were eliminated.
These devices were like smaller versions of an android phone and were all white in color. They were divided into groups of storage capacity. The lowest storage capacity could only store 400 one-dot coins after which it would be full. The highest could store up to 1000 five-dot coins. But, these devices were not given freely. Each had a price tag on them and those prices increased exponentially as the storage capacity increased.
These devices were what was given to each students in SH, but they were modified to do a lot of other thing, with displaying their power levels, ID and also creating a school account for daily gifting of coins included.
These were colored green, in accordance with the primary color of the school.
The storage capacity however of these devices were reduced to ten coins for the first year students. This was so that they could only spend according to the way the school wanted. They didn't want any of them spending lavishly which could eventually lead to indiscipline and extravagance among the students.
All first-year students had been gifted free 10 coins for the day and right now that was all Peter had on him. He had not come from a rich family neither was he a noble nor did he have any impressive powers.
He had never really had the opportunity to be in hold of 10 coins of which he had a choice on how he wanted to spend it.
But finally, not only was he freely granted a coin storage device, but he was also entitled, somehow, to 10 coins per day. he'd decided, once he'd known, that he would be smart about spending it.
However, even now things did not seem to be going his way. As he stared at the price tag attached to the pizza carton, his mind went on overdrive. He knew that the second grader definitely knew about the price tags on some exclusive food in the buffet.
Therefore, sending him to get five slices of pizza meant he was indirectly being cadged of his money. And since one slice cost 2 one-dot coins, and he was being ordered to get five slices of it, he was invariably going to be spending the exact amount of coins in his account, leaving him broke.
Slowly, he turned back and walked over to Mitch, but staying in his quarter.
"Um...senior, the pizza actually has a price on it. So—" He began saying but was instantly cut short by Mitch.
"So go buy them and bring them to me!" Mitch said, getting annoyed.
Peter gulped, forcing himself to not frown, though he was very wrought. Nearly all his life, he'd been bullied and insulted. He'd had to pass through elementary with his classmates calling him 'fatso' due to his extra fat and overweight unfortunately gained from his very terrible eating habits.
When his mother who'd been working as a cook in a noble's house for years was fortunate enough to be given SH's form , its money already paid for, he decided he would begin to cutdown on his diet and train his ability. And he made progress as from a power level of 1.0, he was able to advance to 1.2.
And that meant one thing. Upon getting into SH, there would definitely be students who would be weaker than him. He would finally be able to know how it felt to be on the other side of the abuse table, where he would be the abuser and the other would be the abused.
This was why he had tripped a student in his class with his powers as he was one of two who's wrists displayed a power level of 1.1.
But right now, the table's arrangement was still unchanged. It seemed as long as he was still a level one, he was always going to be harassed, one way or the other.
He was fuming but there was nothing he could do than returning back, picking five slices of pizza and scanning his device on the coin transfer machine, watching his school account turn red and hitting 0 coins—in anger.
Slowly, he handed over the plate of pizza to Mitch, but just as he began walking over to a table, he noticed one particular student grinning widely at his predicament. He looked closely at the face and realized it was someone in class 1A. Someone very weak. In fact, weaker than him.
Peter humphed and found a seat at one of the first year tables.
'I'll be wiping that fucking smile off your face pretty soon. Just you wait!" He muttered fiercely under his breath.
Klimo who as with the other students just witnessed what just happened, had a massive grin on his face. As far as he was concerned, this was payback for tripping him, and there was also the fact that he didn't even have to lift a finger.
He was satisfied with the outcome and decided the hassle between them was now over. He had always believed with massive power—which the system had slowly begun to grant him—he would be kindhearted and not be like some crazy people who would seek revenge at any cost.
However, this mentality would be changing very soon.