You say this is a love game?

If the urban legend is true, this place should have been full of monsters and ghosts.

It is a technologically advanced country, but it has a special liking for supernatural things.

But at this moment, it was the accumulation of the social atmosphere over the past sixteen years, as well as the influence of his elder sister when she was alive, that made Mizutani Makoto feel that something was wrong.

Although your task description sounds very youthful and literary, this task requirement seems weird to me.

Are you sure I can meet a girl who makes my heart beat faster at midnight?

The location is also a campus...

But you know what, if I sneak into the campus at midnight and happen to run into a girl there, my heart might really accelerate without any pre-sway.

Mizutani Makoto asked quietly, "Can this novice mission be skipped?"

【Newbie Mission: Heart-beating at first encounter! 】

Although no new dialogue was triggered, the task window that popped up again in sight was a silent reply.

It's over, it's artificial intelligence.

Mizutani Makoto suddenly felt that his future was bleak.

He took a deep breath and came up with an idea.

Before class started, Mizutani Makoto took out his mobile phone and typed "Private Hiiragiaka Academy" into the search engine, and then relevant pages were pushed out.

What is frustrating is that this school is not included in the wiki. The page at the top does have highlighted keywords, which are all discussions on the forum.

He glanced.

Well, this forum focuses on "paranormal event research".

The ominous premonition deepened.

【Private Hiiragiga Academy】

[A school built during the Taisho era was set on fire six years later. Due to fire hazards, the fire was difficult to contain. The fire caused heavy casualties and sparked widespread condemnation from all walks of life...]

Fourteen years later, descendants purchased the land and rebuilt the school on the ruins of the fire, renaming it "Private Yami High School"...

Private Yami high school.

Come on.

When he saw this name, Mizutani Makoto was startled and finally understood something.

"Tell me the truth, you're not a youth romance system at all, right?"

【Young Man's Training Manual! 】

It is still a pop-up window for emphasis.

What the hell is Mizutani Makoto!

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he said, unable to bear it any longer, "You are trying to kill me for money!"

Hot knowledge.

The school he is attending now is "Private Yami High School".

……

……

Private Yami high school.

The school's predecessor was the private Hiiragigaoka Academy, founded in 1916, which burned down in a fire in 1922. Fourteen years later, the school was rebuilt on the site, renamed "Private Yami High School," and officially began enrolling students in 1939.

Today, this school is worthy of the title of a century-old school.

The teaching facilities here are quite complete, and the teaching staff is among the best in the country, so the quality of students can be said to be excellent.

Of course, since it is a private school and has something to do with "quality", the tuition fees will definitely skyrocket.

For example, he dared to charge 150 million yen for high school tuition alone.

150 million yen...

Damn, for a proper national high school, including miscellaneous facilities fees and textbook fees, the total annual expenditure may be around 30 yen, while the tuition fees of private schools are generally around three times that of public schools, which is around 100 million yen a year.

To find a school like this with a tuition of 150 million yen per year, you usually have to go to a top private high school in Tokyo.

Because of this, most of the students who can go to school here are either rich or noble. It can be said that if you pick up a brick and throw it down, you will hit a rich boy or girl.

According to normal enrollment channels, this is not a school that Makoto Mizutani can afford to attend.

He was admitted through the "special admissions" channel.

In order to increase the rate of admission to higher education and to promote social democracy and equality, top private high schools like this generally provide special admissions quotas, that is, they recruit "geniuses" among ordinary people, allowing those students with top grades but ordinary family backgrounds to come to this stage and spend high school life with the young masters and young ladies.

The proportion of such students is about 10%.

Tuition fee reduction is about half, with the focus on scholarships.

150 million yen, even if half of it is waived, there is still 75 yen in tuition fees, not to mention some additional expenses such as school uniforms and extracurricular activities. This is not something that ordinary people can afford.

From the moment Mizutani Makoto entered this school through the special enrollment channel, he had to work at high speed like a wound-up gear. Only by competing for scholarships in the battle of "academics" could he continue his studies.

It can't be said that this is a classroom where academic ability is paramount, but if he doesn't study hard, he will probably not be able to pay the tuition, and his studies will enter the stage of "it doesn't matter if he doesn't study". He will have to pack up and go sleep under the overpass.

But on the other hand, the scholarships at this private high school are exceptionally generous, and as long as he can get the scholarship, everything will be fine.

He was currently in his first year of high school, and the first round of scholarships he was supposed to receive hadn't been distributed yet. Once he received this scholarship, he might even be able to skip his part-time job...

And this scholarship is one of the reasons why Makoto Mizutani came to this school.

At the same time, this is also the "life plan" he arranged for himself.

In his previous life, he was a small town test-taker who had reached the peak of perfection. What was there to be afraid of?

“If you don’t learn, you can’t survive.”

This was what he had thought.

He raised his head and looked out the window.

The second to last row of the classroom, next to the window, is a perfect little corner for painting and lazing around.

From Mizutani Makoto's position, he could look up and see the playground outside the teaching building, where young boys and girls were working hard.

There is also a pot of succulents on the windowsill, and this touch of green is considered to be the characteristic of the class.

Quite refreshing.

Whether it is the environment or the atmosphere, the private Yemi High School is impeccable. After all, the tuition fee is there, and you get what you pay for. How can the lives of the young masters and young ladies be in such a miserable state?

Makoto Mizutani had a very good impression of this school and was confident that these three years of high school would be an important stage in turning his life around.

He just never imagined that this school could even be associated with a "ghost school"...

His eyes flickered between "description" and "requirement".

"Can I trust you for once?"

Believe that it is really a youth love game, and believe that he can really meet the "heart-warming female guest" on campus at midnight.

[This game is designed to create a perfect youth experience for players, helping them unlock a happy life and reach the pinnacle of their lives! ]

"Transfer to manual."

This game is designed for players...

Mizutani Makoto gave up resistance.

He sighed and looked at the window glass.

The window frame cut the May sky into neat blue squares, the white clouds were blown into misty cotton-wool by the wind, and the boy's sigh floated up slowly, without even a splash of water.

When you are upset, staring at this scenery seems to have a good soothing effect.

Mizutani Makoto slowly turned the pen between his fingers when he heard a loud whistle coming from the playground, which made the pot of succulents on the windowsill tremble slightly.

"Then let me ask you again, are there ghosts in this world?"

【Have. 】

You are this (thumbs up).

Damn, you're so outspoken.

Makoto Mizutani wanted to give it a thumbs up.

This system works, at least it's honest.

Chapter 003: Mizutani Makoto's Difficult Life

At 15:30 pm, the school bell rang as usual.

As Mizutani Makoto, carrying his schoolbag, turned the corner into the science preparation room, the wind was blowing the curtains at the end of the corridor into billowing shapes. Someone called out to him and said hello, and by the time Mizutani Makoto actually came downstairs, a little more time had passed.

But even so, compared to the high school dismissal time in my hometown, it is still incredibly early.

This was one of the few things that made him happy.

Mizutani Makoto slung his schoolbag over his shoulder and hurried to the shoe cabinet.

There were no extra surprises in today's shoe cabinet, which surprised him a little.

You know, thanks to his handsome face and a slightly more mature temperament than his peers, he has received many love letters from young girls since he started school. In this wealthy high school with many young ladies, he even set a record by receiving six love letters on the first day of school.

You are so open-minded, Sakura girl.

This fits perfectly with Mizutani Makoto's impression of this place in his previous life—there's not even a term for "premature love" here. The school doesn't care if you're in a relationship or not, and even in terms of family, aside from the more traditional and serious ones, normal families generally don't interfere with their children's love lives.

But is this right?

Mizutani Makoto thought of the love letters he received from girls in his class in the second grade of elementary school. At an age when they couldn't even control their snot, those elementary school students managed to hold their trembling pens and even copied out a few love poems from the book, which were terribly abstract.

"This is not right." Mizutani Makoto shook his head viciously and threw the snot-stained love letter out of his head.

After putting his indoor shoes into the shoe cabinet, Mizutani Makoto left the teaching building.

It is already the end of May. The wind blowing in the afternoon is a little hot and dry. The clouds are floating lazily, pushed by the wind and moving slowly. Occasionally, a few thick cumulus clouds pass by, casting mottled shadows, but they are quickly blown away by the wind.

A bird flew by, filling the field of vision with a dark color.

Mizutani Makoto is a time traveler.

Of course, he prefers to explain it as reincarnation.

One day, I was sleeping soundly in the university dormitory. Before going to bed, I reminded my godfather to wake me up at 8 o'clock in the morning. As a result, my godfather did not wait for me, and when I woke up, I was turned into a fetus without even a head.

I grew up in a daze until I was old enough to remember things, and spent my kindergarten and elementary school childhood full of dark history.

It wasn't until that pouring afternoon in his second year of junior high that the caged bird, having forgotten its umbrella, was trapped in the classroom. The rain poured down like countless silver needles. He peered through the drizzling rain. The roar of thunder tore through the leaden clouds, and the sky lit up with dragons and serpents of lightning. Suddenly, the boy understood.

wrong.

This is not his first time being a human.

——Today I know who I am.

To Makoto Mizutani, he was like the unlucky kid in some novel who suddenly died, his eyes blinking and then instantly remaking himself. After living in a daze for a dozen years, he finally realized that he was a reincarnated wretch, and that his reincarnation was to a parallel Earth that was highly similar to his previous life.

There is no fancy magic here, no fighting spirit that has grown to its peak, and no Dragon Quest, blazing swords, or dark rain...

Yes, it’s just boring schoolwork.

And a more difficult life.

The experience of Mizutani Makoto's Earth Online this time is quite tense, mainly because he has no sister, no house, and both his parents are dead.

Since he was a child, he has no memory of his parents. They must have passed away before he could remember anything in this life, so his impression of his parents in this life only comes from the album photos left by his parents and the oral accounts of relatives.

The person who really took care of him while he was growing up was his sister who was four years older than him.

One can only sigh at this start - at least it's not a hellish start where the girls from the vocational high school are defeated the moment they show up.

In the days that followed, the eldest brother was basically like a father and the eldest sister was like a mother.

When Mizutani Makoto was 13 years old, his sister unfortunately passed away due to illness.

He was a lonely man full of confusion for a year, and finally woke up at the age of 14. He realized that he was the reincarnation of the emperor. With the knowledge foundation of his previous life, he was destined to be a superior person in this life.

While walking on the street, Mizutani Makoto took out his cell phone and called the contact of his "supervisor".