"Give up, kid. He is not the same person you know anymore."
Why?
Why do I care?
I only knew him for only a week yet why do I care so much?
"Uh please don't cry I dont have any tissues left." Esme said in a awkward tone.
"Huh? Im crying?" I said as I wiped a tear running down through my cheek.
"Its okay, kid. It's normal to cry when you lose someone dear to you." Esme said as she ruffled my hair.
"I'll leave you alone for now but just to let you know before I go today is December 30th."
She hesitated at the door, as if wanting to say more, but thought better of it.
"Yes... than-" I was talking in a sad tone before I cut myself off.
"DECEMBER 30TH? THE SCHOOL STARTS IN 2 DAYS AND I HAVENT EVEN DONE ENOUGH TRAINING TO BE READY OH NO."
Esme chuckled lightly as she closed the door.
Oh no, what am I supposed to do? I am nowhere near the average stat and the Mana Capacity stat even decreased along with the overall stat after this mana poisoning.
I clenched my fists. "System" I whispered, voice trembling.
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Name:Douglas Preto
Soulbound Items:Bow of Eros
Strength:F
Agility:F-
Mana Capacity:F+ ->F
Endurance:F
Stamina:F
Intelligence:F
Charm:F-
Overall:F ->F-
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Affinities:Projectiles, ???(Locked)
Talents:Let the hunt begin(Level 2), Overloaded Senses(Level 1)
Sub-talents:Boomerang
"I wish to ask you something, system."
*I will answer to the best of my abilities.*
"Why have you not warned me about a possible mana poisoning, wasn't your aim helping me get stronger? If so why did you allow this to not only take my time to train and catch up but also decrease my stats?"
*Of course, the system's first and foremost purpose is to strengthen the user but, unless it's something that threatens to kill the user, the system can't warn their user.*
...
That... makes sense but I just dont want to accept it.
"Sigh"
*Since you weren't able to train and catch up to the norm of this world because of unfortunate events I've asked the main database for permission to grant you daily quests for 3 days and it was accepted.*
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Pushups:100/0
Sit Ups:100/0
Squats:100/0
Run(KM):10/0
Reward:One random stat upgrade
Failure:One random stat downgrade
Note:This quest will get harder or easier depending on your performance.
"Huh, what do you mean failure, these quests have punishments to them? Also I couldn't even do 50 push ups back in my world what made you think I could do all of these?"
*Please do not underestimate yourself. Even the weakest person from this world can easily do these exercises.*
"Well I felt that I had gotten stronger than before. Still, I thought it wasnt that much of a drastic change but if it is as you say than there is no reason I can't complete these exercises."
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It was a normal day in the Bless academy's nursery building. Everyone was doing their jobs accordingly as expected of the worlds best academy institute. There was the usual sounds of birds chirping, leavaes fluttering and... a male voice grunting?
The young nurse looked out the window to see a shirtless man doing push ups while making weird noises and counting his push ups.
"Hoh-ho, you look interested in that guy." A teasing voice called out to her.
"Ehh- No I-I just heard weird noises outside and- and I thought it was weird."
The young, female nurse facepalmed after saying these because of her embarrassment.
The Male voice continued counting.
"97"
"98"
"99"
"100"
*Congrats, host. Daily Quest is completed.*
"Huff- huff ohhh finally It's over. Even with this body that was stronger than the one I had before its hard to do these."
*One random stat will get upgraded*
A holographic wheel appeared in front of me with 8 options. They were; Strength,Agility,Mana Capacity,Endurance,Stamina,Intelligence,Charm and Overall. I expected to not have Overall as a option but I am not complaining.
It started spinning and stopped on...
Endurance.
*Congrats, host. Your endurance stat has been upgraded (Endurance:F -> F+) also your overall stat has become rank F (Overall:F- -> F)*
"Hmm, It feels good and I feel slightly rejuvenated."
Although it is a shame I couldn't get anything good other than the Bow of Eros I can still manage to hold my own for now and get other things when I go out through club activities or school trips.
I wiped the sweat off my forehead and stood up.
It was around noon when I started by doing the 10 KM run and I finished all of these exercises in a few hours since I rested quite a while between all of the exercises.
The skies were now getting darker.
"Alright, what do I do now that I finished this quest. Do I go back to my dorm or do I try exploring around here?"
Talking to myself was a weird habit I got from... uhh from my past life but I couldn't remember why exactly I had gotten that habit. In fact other than the memories of the novel everything else started to seem blurry for some reason.
"What is happening? I dont think I am old enough to have dementia or alzheimers."
Its probably because of how I started tiring myself out right after I woke up so I should probably go back to my dorm and sleep.
With those thoughts I headed towards my dorm, got into the side building where I stayed, registered with the secretary and stepped inside my room. It was surprisingly clean so it looked like they cleaned my dorm while I was knocked out.
I collapsed onto my bed, every muscle in my body aching. As I stared at the ceiling, my determination solidified.
"I will be strong"
"Enough to save Thrimphum."
"Enough to be better than everyone."
"And enough to save the world"
I didn't know where this confidence was coming from but it felt rather good so I soared in the feeling and with that I closed my eyes.