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Everyone here is a freshman in high school and is still getting to know each other, so there shouldn't be any issues with not fitting in.
Koshimura Sawa turned around and wrote his name on the blackboard.
"My name is Koshimura Sawa, a sorcerer..."
[A. "My goal is to conquer all the girls in the school."]
[B. Stand on the podium without saying a word and let the students guess.]
[C. "(Straightening his hair) From this day forward, I will stand in the heavens."]
I was wondering why they gave me hair gel-coated hands; turns out that was what they were waiting for.
Sigh, capital, sigh, manipulation.
Koshimura took a deep breath.
"As we all know, from the very beginning, no one has ever stood in the sky."
"However, the unbearable vacancy of the throne will now come to an end!"
He reached out and swept his hair back, turning his original side part into a slicked-back hairstyle.
"From now on..."
"I will stand above the heavens!!"
The whole class fell silent. The students stared at him blankly, their eyes clear as if they had just played a trick on him.
“Okay.” Kawakami Sadayo seemed to be used to this. “Chihaya-kun, Koshimura-kun, you can sit in the two empty seats at the back of the classroom.”
These two seem to know each other quite well, so let's not let them cause trouble for the others.
Yuecun Ze calmly and quickly walked down from the podium and sat in his seat. At times like this, as long as you don't feel awkward, it's others who will.
"Please take care of me."
"Mm." Chihaya Aine responded warmly to her classmates' greetings.
It's clear that Koshimura Sawa has lost the right to make friends; nobody wants to give him a second glance.
This is a disastrous start.
Giraffe, look what you've done to me!
"Ah, a stone?" Just then, Chihaya Aine suddenly stopped and couldn't help but exclaim as she looked at the faintly glowing stone on Takamatsu's desk.
Why does this person call others "Stone" as soon as they meet them? That's so rude.
Gao Songdeng raised her head blankly, looking at her with a dazed expression.
"Hahahaha." Chihaya Aine laughed and waved her hand dismissively, then quickly sat back down in her seat. "Nice to meet you."
"Alright, let's begin the morning meeting now..." Kawakami Sadahiro stood on the podium and sighed.
Takamatsu Akari glanced at Chihaya Aine sitting behind her, but eventually turned her head away.
"Chihaya-san..."
"Huh? What's wrong?"
"I am Takamatsu Akari, nice to meet you..." Takamatsu Akari said, blushing.
You're blushing like a bubble teapot.
Why are the dialogues exactly the same?
The part about world lines converging.
While Koshimura was enjoying the offline version of "The Lost Child," he suddenly felt someone poke him with a pen.
"Um, Koshimura-kun... right? Your self-introduction was quite unique. Speaking of which, I've never met a sorcerer before."
The person in the front seat was a quiet, gentle-looking boy with a friendly but undeniably curious smile on his face.
"I am Kazuhiko Nukumizu, nice to meet you."
Are there any experts?
Chapter Eleven: After School, Then Encountering Xiao Xiang, the Copycat.
Typically, it is only when one reaches the age of 16, and their physical development has reached a certain stage, that the possibility of naturally awakening to become a professional arises.
Before that, if one wants to awaken and become a professional, one needs strong external stimulation.
Therefore, high schools will begin teaching content related to professionals, and this is limited to professional schools like Haneoka. Only some junior high schools will offer interest courses related to professionals.
Only a small percentage of people can become professionals. Ordinary people only need some basic common sense. Studying too deeply is not only a waste of energy, but also creates unnecessary expectations.
As for vocational schools, taking Yuu-oka as an example, the first-year curriculum focuses on theory, with a mix of academic and vocational courses. In the second year, practical courses are added, and students are not allowed to enter some lower-difficulty void explorations until the third year.
In a sense, those like Koshimura Sawa and Chihaya Aine, who entered the Void once and escaped unscathed, are already far ahead of the competition.
However, since Koshimura was a self-taught student without systematic training, and the teacher's seemingly 0.5x speed of speech on the podium was so soporific that he could only frantically flip through the textbook with his head down.
Fortunately, he had already read through the D&D5E player manual, lord's guide, monster encyclopedia and all rule extensions in his previous life, so he wasn't completely clueless.
[You actually managed to read through tens of millions of words without simultaneously playing tabletop RPGs and using the 5E incomplete book quick reference tool? Hakize, you'll succeed at anything!]
Leaving aside the content of the class, lunch break soon arrived. Chihaya Aine seemed to have already used her amazing social skills to infiltrate the girls' group, and they had started calling each other "sisters."
The area around Koshimura was relatively quiet. Apart from Onamizu Kazuhiko in the front seat, everyone else basically avoided him.
"I remember that sorcerers are supposed to make a contract with a powerful being, right?" Wen Shuihe asked curiously. "You're with—ah, sorry, is that something I shouldn't ask?"
"It's nothing, the one I signed the contract with is a giraffe."
"You don't have to say it if you don't want to, it's okay, Koshimura-kun." Kazuhiko Natsumi smiled and waved to him.
See, nobody believes me when I tell the truth.
"I am a mage of the Bewitching School." Wen Shuiheyan sighed, "Spells are really hard to learn... I wonder when I'll finally get ahead."
Persuading someone to study the law is truly a terrible thing to do; I strongly advise everyone not to do it.
But it turns out that this is a bewitching control school that is completely invisible in the early game and also becomes invisible in the late game after the opponent's legendary resistances are stacked up. No wonder it's a male succubus.
Just as Koshimura was pondering whether the future career path for the School of Bewitching and Control Studies should be as a hypnotist or a male host at a nightclub, Chihaya Aine's voice suddenly came from beside him.
"At that moment, I just used Burning Hand followed by a Fireball, and that big guy fell down with a 'bang'," Chihaya Aine recounted vividly and confidently.
"Bravo."
"As expected of Chihaya-san."
The three traffic light enthusiasts surrounding him applauded in conviction.
"Hehe, you can just call me by my name..." Chihaya Aine scratched her face shyly.
The traditional storytelling is called "Chihaya Aine vs. the Red Dragon".
You're so serious about spouting nonsense, and hxd can only play along and pretend to be stupid in order to cooperate with you.
"Ah, Koshimura-kun, over here!" Chihaya Aine seemed to have noticed Koshimura Sawa sitting alone over there, and immediately stood up and raised her hand, revealing her cute little tiger teeth.
Before Koshimura could even get up and go over, Chihaya Aine started introducing him to the traffic light trio behind her.
"Sawarin knows so much, and he's a guitar master too," Chihaya Aine said earnestly. "Of course, with his help, we were able to defeat the Red Dragon, right, Sawarin?"
The traffic light trio applauded in agreement, their eyes filled with pity as they looked at Koshimura Sawa.
Chihaya Aine seemed to realize that the atmosphere was a bit off, and quickly changed the subject.
"Aine-kun is actually a dragon vein sorcerer." Eri placed her hands on the table, looking at Chihaya Aine. "I wonder what kind of dragon she is?"
"Well, I'm not really sure either..."
"Speaking of which, do you know about that new face cream? I heard it contains dragon scale ingredients, which are said to be very good for the skin."
"Ah, I saw that yesterday too."
The conversations between girls are really hard to understand.
Koshimura turned around and found that Wenshui Kazuhiko had already started reading a book while lying on the table.
Wow, there's a dog in the picture.
Wait a minute, what's tucked inside your "Introduction to the Study of Bewilderment and Control"?
What does "Is it okay to act cute with an older sister?" mean?
Are there any normal people left in our school?
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The lunch break flew by, and before we knew it, it was time for the first class of the afternoon.
Although it was called the first class, it was actually the last class of the formal courses, followed by three hours of club activities.
Upon learning the truth, Koshimura Sawa couldn't help but shed tears.
What? So not all schools around the world start their morning reading at 5:55 a.m. and end their evening self-study at 10:30 p.m.?
Capitalism is despicable.
Koshimura Sawa, a student from Tokyo University who was not fortunate enough to enjoy the daily life of a youthful campus, naturally had no interest in club activities and would head straight home after school.
You'd be better off spending that time building more tiles.
As soon as the bell rang, Koshimura Sawa was packing up to start his class when Chihaya Aine suddenly pulled up a chair and sat down next to him.
"Sawarin, let's form an adventure team!" she said, her eyes shining.
"...Why did you suddenly think of this?"
"Because, as you can see, we enrolled relatively late," Chihaya Aine said, shrugging. "But it seems everyone already has their own adventure groups, so it's impossible to join!"
So that's why you came looking for me... because you couldn't find anyone else.
"And Sawarin seems to be much better than them."
This is true.
"Chihaya-kun, you know that an adventure party needs at least three people, right?" Koshimura Sawa asked rhetorically.
"Of course I know, but it seems like my classmate Takamatsu, who sits in front of me, hasn't joined the adventure group either, so that makes three people, right?" Chihaya Aine made a "three" gesture with her fingers. "Besides, Takamatsu seems to be quite popular in the class..."
Want to recruit the Takamatsu Lantern Adventure Team? Go talk to my brother Riki's drumsticks.
"So you don't know if she agreed or not..." Koshimura Sawa was speechless. "Besides, adventure groups are supposed to go into the Void. A bunch of first-year high school students who have never even been into the Void, what kind of adventure group are they?"
"Let's work out together first and build some chemistry," Chihaya Aine said, changing the subject. "But forming an adventure team right now is a bit ill-considered. I don't even know what class Takamatsu is... We're both magic users, so if we add another magic user, it feels like we're going to become a glass cannon team."
Getting killed by an unknown AoE attack during a raid? That's quite a life scenario.
"Let's not talk about that for now, Sawarin. I remember your guitar was broken, wasn't it?"
"Hmm." Koshimura glanced at the guitar sword placed at the back of the classroom. "I was planning to take it to be repaired today."
"That's great!" Chihaya Aine patted the guitar slung over her back and smiled happily. "I was just about to get my guitar fixed, let's go together, Sawarin!"
So, could you please stop using that name?
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"Edogawa Musical Instrument Shop..."
Koshimura looked at the guitar on the signboard, as well as the Adventurers' Guild emblem with its crossed sword, shield, and staff.
Well, livehouses have all become adventurers' guilds, so it's quite reasonable for music stores to become weapon shops.
"Welcome, what would you like to do for us?" A shop assistant with long, straight, black hair stood behind the counter and bowed slightly to the two of them.
Arriving at the world's tallest city, Edogawa Musical Instrument Store, oh my, isn't this Garden Tateru? It's so beautiful!
When I was a kid, I watched this episode and made a mistake towards the rabbit in Otae.
Something's not right with you.
Koshimura Sawachi placed his black guitar case on the counter and unzipped it: "Hello, one of the strings on this guitar is broken, and the nut seems to be deformed as well. Can you repair it?"
"If the nut is deformed, it needs to be adjusted with a professional straightening clamp, which may take a while. The strings, however, can be replaced directly." Tae Hanazono checked the guitar and reached out to take it out of its case.
"Wait a minute, you can't hold that like that." Koshimura Sawa quickly grabbed the guitar neck and pulled out the guitar sword.