Chapter 10 Decided to be a handsome guy in Tokyo in this life
The monthly test is over and we begin the short holiday commonly known as the Golden Week, which lasts from April 29 to May 5.
Toru Watanabe went to Kyoto when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom. In the blink of an eye, the cherry blossoms had withered and the trees were covered with emerald green leaves . A month had passed.
It should be time to plant rice seedlings in my hometown.
At this time of year every year, Toru Watanabe's parents would go out to plant rice at four in the morning. Except for coming back to rest for a while at noon, they would stay in the fields for the rest of the day.
When he was young, his parents loved him because he was smart. Even if he wanted to help, he would be asked to stay at home and read books or go out to play. When he grew up a little, the village bought a rice transplanter, and his physical strength was exhausted, so he couldn't help weeding.
He couldn't bend over for long periods of time; the sharp weeds could easily cut his skin, leeches greedily sucked his blood, and gadflies hovered over his head, causing him annoyance.
“Actually, I can still grow potatoes.”
After thinking more and more that he was good for nothing except studying, Watanabe Toru defended himself.
Although planting potatoes only requires cutting them into pieces, digging holes, burying them, and then picking up dead leaves from the mountain and spreading them on top, you can do it.
Before the holiday, Toru Watanabe called his family and agreed to stay in Tokyo to work during the Golden Week and go back during the summer vacation.
After putting on casual clothes, Toru Watanabe took the train to the Shinjuku intersection and found the Waldorf clothing store where he worked part-time.
"Is your name Watanabe Toru? Your job is to stand at the intersection ahead and hold up the billboard. You can take a short break when you are tired, but not for too long. Do you understand?"
"clear."
The intersection where the Waldorf clothing store is located is the entrance to Shinjuku's bar street. Standing here, you can observe almost all the women coming in and out.
But holding up a billboard for a few hours...
Toru Watanabe originally wanted to find a job doing traffic surveys - sitting there and counting pedestrians and vehicles with a counter, but unfortunately there are no such coincidences in the world.
There are part-time workers doing traffic surveys, but not at this intersection.
If he didn't look for a job, a high school student who stayed near the red-light district would definitely be questioned by the police.
Moreover, he was able to earn money while looking for someone and working part-time, and he only had more than 4,000 yen left.
This kind of hard labor earns much more than shopping mall employees.
Although he had points that could be exchanged for a lot of money, he wanted to save them to exchange for intelligence, physical strength and charm. Besides, there were still two days left until May, and maybe he would have the skills he wanted by then.
Watanabe Toru was standing at a busy street corner holding a billboard. Besides him, there were other people wearing doll costumes handing out flyers, doing the same job.
There are a lot of people coming and going, and it is unrealistic to use the [ detector .
If you are not young, if you are not pretty, if you are not single, and if you don’t dress openly enough, then you are not allowed.
"Handsome guy, do you want to go to the cafe together?"
"Eh~~? Yukie, this handsome boy looks like a high school student!"
"As long as he's handsome, he might still be a virgin~~!"
Toru Watanabe looked at the woman in front of him who was chatting with him. Her shirt was open, boldly exposing her collarbone. She was very seductive and looked quite pretty.
【Character: Kuroda Yukie】
【Charm: 5】
【Pass】
"Sorry, I'm working part-time. If you need to buy clothes, please come to Waldorf."
After saying that, Toru Watanabe bowed and walked away.
I was actually fooled by makeup!
According to his estimation, charm should be six points!
The woman named Kuroda Yukie wanted to follow, but was pulled away by her companions who shouted, "There are police here."
A female college student dressed as a maid handing out flyers nearby said with a smile, "It's really popular."
"I just want to work quietly." Toru Watanabe smiled bitterly.
The female college student was the same. She had been looking for opportunities to talk to him since they first met.
Is sister-brother romance popular in Tokyo? Or is it enough to just be handsome?
Growing up in a remote village, there were only five teachers and students in the school, with ages ranging from primary one to junior high school. Toru Watanabe had never been so popular.
After arriving in Tokyo, I received all kinds of love letters and pick-up lines.
He suddenly remembered a line from the movie "Your Name" by Makoto Shinkai in his previous life:
"Please let me be a handsome guy in Tokyo in my next life"
Maybe this is just how life is for a handsome guy in Tokyo? He just makes a fuss about it?
You have to adapt to your new identity.
His legs were sore from standing and he couldn't lift his arms. Watanabe Toru used three chances but didn't find a target.
He has tried his best to pick the most beautiful women to use the [Detector]. Except for Kuroda Yukie who just took the initiative to chat with him, who had five points of charm, the other two had six and seven points respectively, but all showed [Pass].
I don't know if the charm must reach eight points, or if there are other hidden conditions that need to be met besides the charm.
After returning the billboard to the store, I received today's salary. Generally, it is not paid on a daily basis, but it can be paid for temporary workers during the Golden Week.
I worked for four hours and earned a total of 5,200 yen.
The hourly wage is 1,300 yen, which is considered very high, but the work is also very hard.
Toru Watanabe felt that if he continued this job, it would only be a matter of time before his physical strength increased to 4 points, or even 5 points.
But he is still too naive and underestimates this society.
Women in society, especially those who go to Shinjuku bars, are all very good at applying makeup, and their looks are generally better than they would otherwise be.
With his level of femininity that is hard to detect without makeup, coming here to look for targets is a sheer waste of points and time.
The school is good, because it explicitly prohibits makeup. Even the most beautiful female students dare only wear light makeup and lightly dye their hair.
All women above high school level will pass - Toru Watanabe made up his mind, knowing that women will undergo a radical change like a silkworm chrysalis turning into a butterfly once they graduate from high school.
The 1,000 points spent on [Detector], plus the money spent on the lunch box in the evening - lunch was provided by the clothing store, I ended up losing more than 9,000 yen in the whole day.
So during the next six days of the Golden Week, except for a trip to Akihabara with Kunii Osamu and Saito Keisuke, Watanabe Toru worked and studied, and no longer went to Shinjuku Kabuki to waste points.
During this period, in the early morning of May 1st, the game store was refreshed.
[Items: Detector (1/1000), Healing Medicine (1/1000)]
【Money: 100 yen/1 point】
[Intelligence: 1 point/100,000 points]
[Charm: 1 point/10,000 points]
[Physical Strength: 1 point/5,000 points]
[Skills: Beginner - Flower Arrangement (100), Master - Cooking (1000), Proficient - Driving (10,000), Master - Free Fighting (100,000)]
Watanabe Toru carefully studied the newly added item [Healing Medicine]. As the name suggests, it can only heal injuries but not cure diseases.
But it’s not bad either, as long as it doesn’t kill you immediately and you still get points, you can survive.
[Supplementary Provisions] The first article "Player death has nothing to do with this game, and there is no obligation to revive" always gives him the feeling that this is not a simple love game.
In short, it is better to be prepared.
Next are the five skills for this month. Except for "Cooking", the other four are all new skills.
Toru Watanabe is very interested in master-level "free fighting".
Is there any man who is not interested?
Even if you don't initiate a fight, it's better to fight well than not to fight well. As the saying goes, a gentleman hides his weapon. People must have the confidence to not offend others if they don't offend me, but if they offend me, I will kill them.
There is also a mastery level of "cooking", which, according to the explanation in the [Appendix], is enough to cook a delicious meal, and he can also say goodbye to the bento boxes sold at shopping malls.
The leftovers can be brought to school and used as lunch, saving money.
Wait a minute!
Rather than saving money, you should save points! What if there are better skills next time? For example, "Free Fighting" and "Free Fighting".
Master-level "Free Fighting" Toru Watanabe really wants it!
He had enough reasons to suspect that the game was tempting him to be a scumbag and work hard to earn points!
On May 3rd, at 7pm.
[Sign-in days: Tamamo is so beautiful·One week]
[Players get sign-in gift packs]
【Money: 100,000 yen】
[50% off Charm Exchange Coupon (Player Charm must be below 10 points, and can only exchange for one point)]
One point of charm can be exchanged for 10,000 points, and even with a 50% discount it would still be 5,000 points. He only has 4,000 points left now, and he still needs to continue exchanging for the [Detector].
Otherwise, you can exchange some and continue your studies on the path of "Tokyo Handsome Guy".
May 6th, the first day back to school.
In the morning class , both teachers and students felt restless as if they had not yet escaped from their holiday life.
At noon, the monthly test rankings were posted on the school bulletin board.
"Would you like to go and take a look?" Saito Keisuke said to the other two.
"What's so good about that thing!" Kunijima Osamu looked at it with disdain.
From the conversation between the two, we can roughly estimate their usual ranking.
Keisuke Saito has the ability to compete for the top 20 in the school, which is the number of students from Kamikawa High School who have been admitted to top-notch universities in the past, while Kunii Osamu's name has to be found from the back.
Watanabe Toru thought for a moment and said, "Wait twenty minutes. There are too many people going now and it's hard to squeeze in."
Twenty minutes later, the lunch break enters its second half and the crowded crowds in the cafeteria, bakery, and bulletin board disperse.
"Okay." Keisuke Saito nodded in agreement, then took out his mobile phone and shared a game with the two of them.
Kunii Osamu took one look and said, "I've been playing this game, I advise you not to get into it!"
Saito Keisuke asked curiously, "Why?"
"I suspect it's false advertising! SSR isn't even in the card pool!"
"It's just your bad luck." Watanabe Toru said with a smile.
"Nonsense! How could I have such bad luck!" Kunii Osamu firmly believed that it was the game company's problem.
"By the way." Watanabe Toru recalled what happened in the family education class, "Kunii, how are you and Yamaguchi Naomi doing?"
Kunii Osamu smiled proudly yet shyly: "Hey, we've been chatting on LINE every day recently."
"You bastard! Remember to treat us!" Saito Keisuke punched him.
"What treat?"
"You want to cheat? Didn't we agree on this? Whoever has a girlfriend gets to pay!"
“No problem, no problem!”
Watanabe Toru was very quiet at this time. What happened between him and Tamamo Haomei... shouldn't count, right?
The three chatted for a while, then got up and went to the bulletin board on the first floor, where there were three or four students gathered.
Toru Watanabe started from the very beginning.
"Order: 1; Name: Rin Kiyono"
All right.
"Rank: 2nd; Name: Kujo Miki"
“…”
"Rank: 3rd; Name: Watanabe Toru"
Fortunately, I managed to maintain my original ranking.
He worked so hard, but if he still lost his ranking, he would really have to pack his bags and go back to his hometown, and kneel in front of his hard-working parents.
Saito Keisuke admired, "You're amazing, Watanabe! If you can stay in the top five, you can be directly recommended to the University of Tokyo in your senior year!"
"If you keep up this level of ability, you won't need recommendation for admission." Watanabe Toru said indifferently.
Saito Keisuke nodded: "That's true."
"What's your rank?"
"I thought I did well in the exam, but I ended up ranking 31st. I plan to go back and talk to my parents about enrolling in a cram school."
"You're signing up for cram school in your first year of high school?"
"One step behind means a step behind. Mr. Koizumi also said: 'The beginning is important.'"
Watanabe Toru nodded and looked at Kunii Osamu who had been silent: "Kunii, how did you do in the exam?"
Kunijii Osamu said with a sad face: “121.”
There are four classes in the first year of high school, with forty students in each class, and 121st is considered to be on the back end.
Watanabe Toru patted his shoulder and said, "Don't give up. The three of us didn't do well in the exam this time. Let's work hard together and try to improve on the next exam."
"You didn't do well in the exam?!" Kunii Osamu looked at Watanabe Toru angrily, and his loud voice attracted passers-by.
"Kunii, during the Golden Week, I realized something."
"Humans have their limits. Do you not intend to be a human anymore?"
Watanabe Toru shook his head and said seriously: "As a handsome guy in Tokyo, even if I can't be the best in grades, I have to keep improving. Only in this way can I be attractive."
"roll!"
