wavenovel Chapter 1 Tokyo Countryside, System
Chapter 1 Tokyo Countryside, System
As everyone knows, Tomato City Characters are born at the age of eighteen.
[Read the first ten chapters, and if you don't like it, leave a bad review.]
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Tokyo, in the countryside.
The old alarm clock rang, breaking the tranquility of the early morning.
On the tatami mat, a clean-cut and handsome face emerged from under the covers, with messy black hair clinging to his fair forehead.
Hoshino Makoto subconsciously patted the still-ringing alarm clock, opened his eyes, but didn't get up, continuing to lie there.
"A bad day starts in the morning."
"I was reborn fifteen years ago. Before I was reborn, I had to get up early to work. Now I still have to get up early to work. Wasn't my rebirth a waste?"
Hoshino Makoto placed her fair arm on her forehead. The first thing she did upon waking up was to sleep for just one more minute.
Ten minutes later, Hoshino Makoto lowered his arm and got ready.
"Ding, the system has detected that the host has a handsome appearance and a clever mind. Would you like to bind the rescue system?"
"Bind on, immediately, right now."
Hoshino Makoto's eyes widened. After fifteen years of rebirth, the system had finally arrived.
"Congratulations, host, the rescue system has been bound."
"Take care of yourself and beware of being scammed."
A light blue, transparent screen suddenly appeared in front of Hoshino Makoto.
There are four functions: the first is the [Panel], the second is [Check-in], the next is the [Shop], and the last is [Tasks].
He opened the panel first.
[Host: Hoshino Makoto]
[Stamina: 3]
【Intelligence: 6】
【Charm: 8】
[Skills: Intermediate Learning, Beginner Cooking, Beginner Cleaning]
[Mood Value: None]
[Note: Five points is the standard for an average person, and eight points is excellent.]
"My charm is definitely there, after all, the people who befriend me are only attracted to my handsome looks, not my interesting personality."
"It's true that my IQ is six, but at least I got into the Tokyo Aoyama National University Affiliated High School."
"But I'm not satisfied with a stamina score of only three. I lost both my parents when I was young, grew up in an orphanage, and started working to support myself when I got older. My stamina score should be at least four, if not five."
Hoshino Makoto's comment.
Suddenly, a system notification appeared in front of him.
[Host, don't forget you're a boy]
Hoshino Makoto looked helpless; he understood what the system meant.
Just because—
This is a matriarchal world, where men are naturally weaker than women, shorter on average, and fewer in number.
Of course, this doesn't mean that all men in this world are effeminate or wear pink dresses.
There are no laws specifically protecting men, nor are there any laws allowing polygamy simply because there are fewer men.
Whether they are girls or boys, their values are mostly normal.
As for aesthetic views, they've pretty much swapped them.
However, the appreciation of beautiful things is still the same.
It's called a matriarchal society, but it's just that women are generally stronger than men.
Hoshino Makoto opened the "Check-in" section.
[Congratulations, host, you have successfully checked in. Bright Eyes +1]
"What the heck is 'bright eyes'? It's all twinkling and sparkling, does it make your eyes even brighter?"
"Shouldn't it be signing in to gain some skill points or stamina points?"
Hoshino Makoto picked up the black-screened phone next to his pillow and looked at himself on the screen. He seemed to have changed little.
Wait a minute, Hoshino Makoto suddenly noticed something that seemed a little different.
His eyes seemed to have become brighter and more beautiful.
Hoshino looked at it carefully for a while and confirmed that it was not his imagination.
His eyes do look better than before.
Previously, it was a deep brown color, reflecting the weariness of life.
Now his eyes are like black grapes soaked in water, bright and spirited.
Men are envious, and women are overcome with maternal instincts.
Hoshino Makoto looked at it with some emotion: "This is just a little bit of bright eyes added. If a few more points are added, will everyone be unable to walk away after seeing it?"
He glanced at his charm rating again, which remained unchanged at eight.
It seems that adding bright eyes doesn't necessarily enhance one's charm.
I have no idea how terrifying a Charm stat is when it's nine.
After sighing, Hoshino Makoto then opened the [Shop].
[Updated monthly:]
Basic Skill - Fishing (100 Emotion Points), Basic Skill - Painting (100 Emotion Points).
Intermediate skill - Cleaning (1000 emotion points), Intermediate skill - Neptune (1000 emotion points).
Advanced Skill - Cooking (10000 Emotion Points)
Hoshino Makoto read it from beginning to end, but only managed to make out three words.
We can't afford it.
"System, how do I obtain these emotion points?"
Hoshino Shin flipped through the entire panel but couldn't find any explanation of how to obtain emotion points.
[This system is a rescue system. Regardless of the method used, as long as you obtain positive emotional values such as happiness, joy, and bliss, you can exchange them for skills in the shop.]
The system provides an explanation.
"No matter what method you use, positive emotional value is fine." Hoshino Makoto lowered his head to think after hearing this.
"Then I'll start a live stream and shoot a video. With my looks, I'll definitely get tons of likes and dislikes."
"Hoshino Makoto, you're a true genius."
Hoshino happily opened his phone, opened the video app, and quickly executed a series of actions.
"Damn it, I'm not old enough yet."
Hoshino turned off his phone in disappointment. It was truly a case of the late emperor passing away before his great undertaking was even halfway done. He suspected that he had been tricked by the system.
Hoshino Shin looked at the [Mission] last, his brows furrowing slightly.
In his previous life, he enjoyed reading novels and naturally knew that some systems would issue tasks to their hosts.
Some of them are okay; it's not a big deal if they can't be completed.
However, some systems treat their hosts like slaves.
If a mission fails, they will threaten to shorten the host's sexual function.
Although the punishment for this failure was insignificant to him.
But it's really disgusting.
Hoshino Makoto has been in this world for fifteen years. Although he lost both his parents when he was young, he has managed to survive until now.
Furthermore, they have already received an acceptance letter from Tokyo Aoyama National University Affiliated Higher Noble Academy, one of the top high schools in the country.
The tuition, textbook fees, and accommodation fees have all been raised.
All that's left is the final tuition fee of 50,000 yen.
Hoshino's current plan is to raise the last bit of tuition money and then head to Tokyo.
If all goes well, after graduating from the Aoyama National University Affiliated Higher Noble Academy, he will go directly to Aoyama National University.
Then he graduates and takes the civil service exam, making taxpayers support him.
This is Hoshino Makoto's plan; even without the system, he will have a bright future.
Even if something unexpected or unforeseen happens along the way, he can simply become a gigolo.
Of course, this is a handsome Tokyo guy with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
This is something Hoshino would only do when he was truly desperate and had no other choice.
[Host detected to have opened the task; task officially launched.]
The system voice sounded at this moment.
This world seems to have been corrupted by dark forces, evil forces formed from the most common dark thoughts in people's hearts, attaching themselves to different individuals.
Specifically, this manifests as hypnosis, time freezing, altered consciousness, etc.
As the host of the rescue system, how could I not step forward and eliminate the evil forces in the face of such a situation?
[Task Time: The faster the better]
[Reward for successful mission: For every 100 points of evil power eliminated, randomly gain one point from Stamina, Intelligence, or Charisma]
[Punishment for mission failure: None]
Hoshino Makoto was the first to see the concrete manifestations of the dark forces: hypnosis, time freezing, and altered consciousness.
The sacks for the bridge, is that right?
This sounds a bit inappropriate.
He then saw the task time and the reward for successful completion.
One option is to be as fast as possible, while the other can reward one point of physical strength, intelligence, or charm.
Hoshino Makoto looked at the penalty for failing the mission, and it turned out to be none.
Hoshino Makoto took a deep breath.
Although he hated the system that treated its hosts as slaves, he was punished if he failed a mission.
But at the same time, he also knew that sometimes failing a mission without punishment was worse than failing a mission with punishment.
Combined with the task timeline issued by the system above, which is as fast as possible.
Hoshino Makoto realized that dealing with these evil forces would probably not be easy.
But where can one find these evil forces? Hoshino asked the system.
The system provides the answer.
The more people surrounding an evil force, the faster it grows; it often hides in large cities.
Big cities, Tokyo is considered a big city, right?
He was going to Tokyo for school, so he could look for it while he went to school.