Tokyo Soft Rice King.

In short: They need to have lots of thighs! And they need to be thick!

If all else fails, a hundred million yen would be a good alternative... enough to live on in the bank for a lifetime...

So, the question is, where do you find a 'young rich woman' with advanced talents who hasn't yet discovered her own abilities?

Whether there are words on the right hand or not is easy to see if you get close, because Kuroba Akira has never seen anyone with so much talent that there isn't enough to write on the palm of his hand.

However, checking the proficiency of the left hand is more troublesome, because only three proficiency levels can be displayed on one hand at the same time, but even an ordinary person can learn far more than three skills.

Like the class monitor, a genius who learned one or two digit skills at the age of fifteen or sixteen, he would stare at his left hand for a long time.

Therefore, to confirm proficiency, you need to have the opportunity to hold the other person's left hand and examine it.

This is a very troublesome thing.

Does this mean I should really open a fortune-telling stall?

But Kuroba Akira only wanted to find geniuses. If a bunch of ordinary people came, wouldn't that be a waste of time?

Moreover, he doesn't know palmistry, psychology, or how to sweet-talk people. His fortune-telling stall will probably fail on its very first day.

Moreover, Kuroba Akira has to go to school and has no time to run any fortune-telling stalls.

The feasible method is indeed to immediately approach and strike up a conversation with a talented person, and then find an opportunity to look at their left hand.

"Looks like I need to learn how to strike up a conversation..."

Although Akira Kuroba is not exactly socially awkward, he is certainly not a social terrorist either. He has never approached a woman before and has absolutely no experience in this area.

Damn it, they actually want an introverted person to be a social butterfly... The threshold for being a gigolo is not low at all!

At this moment, Kuroba Akira began to envy those talented people again.

If you have eloquence, you'll definitely learn how to strike up a conversation with a girl very quickly.

For example, the class monitor's "Academic A" is a talent that Kuroba Akira really envies.

If this talent can truly be applied to areas outside of academics, it might even help Kuroba Akira quickly master flirting skills.

Even if it only applies to studying, it's still a pretty amazing talent because it can save a lot of time and avoid tutoring.

It seems that although Kuroba Akira didn't intend to go to a good university, if his grades were better, Kobayakawa-sensei wouldn't have so many headaches.

After all, in his previous life, Kuroba Akira had been a magician trainee for many years, and he had long forgotten his high school knowledge.

But in fact, Kuroba Akira's academic performance in his previous life was quite good. His college entrance examination ranking was decent, so he was admitted to a pretty good prestigious university.

But so what?

Even if you study very well, get into a good university, and find a well-paying job after graduation, then what?

Another case of working overtime to the point of sudden death?

Kuroba Akira had already walked this path in his previous life.

So now, if I ask him to pick up studying again, he really can't muster any interest.

He didn't want to repeat the same mistake and waste his efforts.

Approaching people... I'm really not good at it, but I'll give it a try anyway.

Kuroba Akira remembered seeing a video online when he was bored, saying that even handsome guys only have a 5% success rate when they try to pick up girls, so the key is the number of times and the method of doing so.

People generally believe that a tactful approach is more acceptable than a rude or offensive one.

While his frivolous approach to flirting might attract girls who just want to have fun, Akira Kuroba's goal isn't to pick up girls, so he's more like a 'talent scout'.

Considering that if Kuroba Akira successfully strikes up a conversation with someone who is indeed the unknown genius he is looking for, he will need to find a way to build a good relationship with them, so making a good first impression is very important.

Then you can't reveal your intentions directly, otherwise the other person will become suspicious and wary. So an approach that won't cause embarrassment is the ideal way to start a conversation.

Individual differences are also an important factor affecting the experience of being approached. Those who are outgoing and uninhibited are more receptive to humorous and off-color approaches than those who are quiet and reserved.

Like the class monitor, who is clearly a social butterfly, so she is very receptive and can handle self-deprecating humor with ease...

"……what?"

Suddenly, Kuroba Akira was a little frightened by his own state.

You know, I only watched that video explaining how to pick up girls when I was bored back then. So much time has passed and the content is all blurry to me now. Why do I still remember it now?

Do I really have such a good memory?

Most importantly, his thinking was very clear, as if his brain had been completely refreshed.

Kuroba Akira raised his hands in confusion, switched the milk drink in his right hand to his left hand, and slowly opened his right hand.

Then he smiled helplessly.

"Ha... the real cheat code is finally online."

What should have been an empty right palm now revealed a talent that Kuroba Akira never possessed.

"Academic Ability"

Kuroba Akira possesses the ability to replicate talent.

Chapter Thirteen: A Once-in-a-Millennium Beauty

Kuroba Akira didn't know when he acquired this talent.

Could it have been imprinted when we shook hands just now?

In short, Akira Kuroba has now become talented.

At that moment, he also understood what it felt like to be talented.

First of all, my memory has improved. I can not only recall things I've seen before, but I can also remember some of the details.

Nowadays, things that used to require repeated memorization to remember can now be firmly remembered after just one reading.

Moreover, my concentration is much stronger than before, and I won't get distracted by boring thoughts.

Their comprehension ability has also improved significantly. Even without anyone explaining things to them, they can quickly summarize and clarify the main points.

Finally, there's a strong sense of confidence, a feeling that many things that were previously impossible can now be accomplished.

Or rather, there's an urge to give it a try.

Although there are no visible changes on the outside, the impact on the inside can be described as a complete transformation.

He remembered a theory called the '10,000-hour rule,' which basically means that the reason why geniuses are so outstanding is not because they are naturally gifted, but because they have put in continuous effort. Anyone can go from ordinary to extraordinary after 10,000 hours of training.

Kuroba Akira wants to say: That's pure bullshit!

Geniuses do exist, and they can reach the top in much less time than 10,000 hours.

However, after the cheat was launched, Kuroba Akira became hesitant.

Now that I have talent, I can make a name for myself in various fields. As long as I can stand out from the crowd, I can avoid being used like a beast of burden until I die, just like in my previous life... So, should I give up being a kept man?

No, it's too early to say how long this copied talent will last. We can't gamble our future on something so uncertain.

Maybe if you wash your hands when you get home, the words on your hands will disappear.

Kuroba Akira trusts his cautious nature more than his talent.

Lost in thought about all sorts of things, Kuroba Akira was finally nearing home.

Walking along the riverbank where he usually goes for his morning run, near the residential area, Kuroba Akira saw a cat under a streetlamp.

"Meow!"

After seeing Kuroba Akira, he called out to him.

"Oh, Kuroo... Were you waiting for me?"

"Meow~" It's like saying 'Yeah.'

Kuro-o is the white wildcat that Kuroba Akira encountered on the first day after his transmigration, except for its black tail.

Despite being described as a stray cat, it was remarkably clean, with even its paws still pink, showing no signs of having ever been a stray.

Furthermore, Kuroo often went to Kobayashi's grandma's house to freeload meals, so Kuroba Akira also became familiar with this cat.

However, Kuro-o is never touched. If you reach out, you'll get a claw. Kuro-ba Akira has paid the price for this several times.

At first, Akira Kuroba thought the cat might be spiritual, since Mr. Kobayashi's last words mentioned "the person brought back by Kuroo," so maybe the cat really did have something special about it.

Of course, whether in his past life or this one, Akira Kuroba is a staunch materialist. He believes that everything in the world that cannot be explained by science is simply something that has not yet been explored to that level.

So now that time travel has already happened, it doesn't seem so strange that a cat demon would appear as well.

But he later discovered that Blacktail was just a somewhat intelligent cat, unlike the cat in Team Rocket who could speak human language.

Therefore, being guided by it may just be by chance.

This area is probably all Blacktail's territory, so if they encounter a strange intruder, they will take them to a trusted human, namely Granny Kobayashi.

So, let's not fantasize about cats turning into cute girls...

Cat girls with animal ears... don't exist! (sad)

"Meow meow meow! Meow meow meow!"

Kuro-o jumped down from the low wall of someone else's yard and meowed at Kuro-ba Akira's feet.

Following the kitten's gaze, Kuroba Akira noticed it was looking at the milk in his hand.

"What...are you eyeing the milk in my hand?"

"Meow~" It's like saying 'hmm'.

What a greedy cat! It's not a kitten anymore, why does it still like to drink milk?

Although Kuroba Akira didn't want to drink the now-cold hot milk either, and it wouldn't have mattered if he gave it to Kuroo, he still argued with a cat.

"No, this was given to me by the class monitor."

"Meow?!"

Blacktail looked shocked, and its tail stood up straight.

"You think being cute can put food on the table? Kitty, let me teach you today that this world is cruel. If you want something delicious, you have to trade other benefits for it."

"Meow meow meow meow!"