Tokyo: Becoming the Perfect Male God Starting with a Rented Boyfriend.

With the classic gesture of hands clasped together, Miyazawa Itsuki and his two companions began their belated dinner.

Miyazawa cut open the top of the omelet rice, and the egg liquid flowed evenly over the rice, soaking it into a golden yellow color.

He scooped it up with a spoon and put it in his mouth.

"!"

Miyazawa Itsuki's eyes widened slightly.

I was genuinely surprised.

In his previous life, he had eaten Japanese food before and visited Michelin-starred restaurants more than once.

He has tasted almost all kinds of high-end Japanese cuisine, but none of the dishes have ever given him this feeling.

Such simple and delicious food requires no fancy ingredients or elaborate plating.

It's simply delicious, making you want to keep eating.

The same applies to stews; the seasoning is not strong, but the flavor of the ingredients is brought out, making them unforgettable.

"To be honest, this is the best Japanese food I've ever had," said Miyazawa Itsuki.

"That's an exaggeration, it's just ordinary food."

"Sakuna, you should have confidence in your cooking." Yuuko Tsukimi smiled. "Speaking of which, this is the first time Sakuna has cooked for a boy. I remember you said when you were little that you only planned to cook for your future husband?"

"Huh?" Miyazawa Itsuki's hand holding the spoon froze.

Is this some kind of Red Wolf fried rice? Should he stop eating it?

"Really, Mom, don't say things that are easy to misunderstand." Tsukimi Sakura puffed out her cheeks. "That was when I was a child. Now, in my eyes, cooking is just cooking, nothing more."

"...Please eat your meal properly, Mom, and stop teasing me and Miyazawa. I'm your daughter, so it doesn't bother you, but Miyazawa must be really bothered by it, right?"

His gaze shifted to Miyazawa Itsuki, who coughed twice and picked up his spoon: "Yes, let's eat, let's eat."

……

The dinner ended smoothly in a subtle atmosphere.

During this time, Yuko Tsukimi did not say anything strange again.

After Sakura finished cleaning up the dishes, Miyazawa Itsuki prepared to leave.

"Thank you very much for your hospitality today. Since it is getting late, I will take my leave now."

"Okay, Miyazawa-kun, take care."

"Miyazawa-kun, you can come anytime in the future."

After politely bidding farewell to Tsukimi and her daughter, Miyazawa Itsuki returned to his room.

He draped his coat over the chair, patted his stomach, and seemed quite content.

It had been a long time since he had eaten a hot meal cooked for him by someone else.

Even if it only happens once, it's still a precious memory.

After a quick shower, Miyazawa Itsuki sat on the bed and habitually opened the control panel to take a look.

【Knife Skill (LV2) 20/600】

I gained five experience points.

Although it doesn't seem like much, it's just a matter of chopping two vegetables.

The panel's requirements for gaining experience points are not based on the time spent using skills, but rather on specific "tasks".

Using your knife skills to prepare dinner for the Tsukimi family is considered an achievement, and you will gain corresponding experience points.

If he were to chop vegetables now, it would also be considered a problem.

However, the definition is rather vague. Whether using knife skills on different people consecutively is considered as one thing or multiple things is judged arbitrarily by the panel.

But none of that matters, because there is a daily cap on skill experience gain on the panel.

Once you exceed that limit, the difficulty of gaining experience will increase infinitely.

A skill can reach its daily limit with just a couple of uses.

Therefore, there's no need to rack your brains to figure out how to quickly level up your skills.

To upgrade a newly acquired LV1 skill to LV2, assuming you max out the experience cap every day, it would take approximately three months.

It takes six months for someone at level 2 to reach level 3.

The earliest LV2 skill that Miyazawa Itsuki redeemed was speed memorization, and five months have passed since then.

It'll be soon.

As for the other LV2 skills...

Calligraphy and baking are upgraded from LV1, while knife skills and driving are obtained through later rewards.

It's still a long way from being upgraded.

What concerned him most was that the panel clearly stated that an update would be performed after he obtained his first LV3 skill.

A new mechanism will be added at that time, but what it will be is still unknown.

"What kind of changes will elite-level skills bring?"

Miyazawa Itsuki put down the study guide; his shorthand experience points were already maxed out.

He lay on the bed and closed his eyes.

We'll find out soon.

Chapter 20 Street Fighting Techniques

The next day, when Miyazawa Itsuki went out in the morning, he happened to bump into Tsukimi Sakuna, who was also leaving home.

Both sides were taken aback for a moment, then adopted a polite demeanor.

"Good morning, Miyazawa-kun."

"Good morning, what a coincidence, I didn't expect Tsukimi-san to be setting off at the same time."

"Yes, because I calculated that if I leave at this time after making breakfast, I can catch the tram just in time."

"Did Tsukimi-kun even take the time to make breakfast?" Miyazawa Itsuki asked, somewhat surprised.

He thought he was getting up early enough, but he didn't expect Tsukimi Sakura to be even more diligent than him.

"Just some simple food."

Tsukimi Sakuna gazed at Miyazawa Itsuki with hazy eyes.

"Miyazawa-san lives alone, right? How do you manage breakfast?"

“I have bread from the convenience store.”

Is that enough?

"It's enough for me. I occasionally buy vegetable salads or something to supplement my vitamins, so I shouldn't be lacking in nutrition."

Tsukimi Sakura looked puzzled.

Indeed, for a perfect superhuman like her, it's impossible to understand how crude a male high school student living alone can be in his attitude towards his life.

To avoid collapsing due to health issues, Miyazawa Itsuki at least still bought bread to eat.

They are already living quite earnestly.

In the past, it would have been perfectly normal for him to skip breakfast altogether.

Tsukimi Sakura blinked and didn't continue talking about it.

The two were just neighbors, and she had no further grounds to comment on Miyazawa Itsuki's principles of life.

Instead, they changed the topic.

“I asked my mother last night,” Tsukimi Sakuna said. “Please don’t take it to heart, Miyazawa-kun, about my mother asking you to look after me at school. Just forget about it.”

"why?"

"If you get involved with me, Miyazawa will have a lot of trouble at school."

"I don't want to cause any more trouble for Miyazawa-kun or Mom. I can handle my own affairs."

Miyazawa looked at her.

The girl lowered her eyes, her posture pleading even though she was clearly thinking of others.

He thought for a moment, but didn't say anything like, "I don't think it's troublesome, please let me help you."

Tsukimi Sakura seems easy to talk to, but she actually seems to have her own stubbornness.

I don't want to owe anyone anything, and I try my best to avoid causing trouble for others.

Last night at Tsukimi's house, he felt the softer side of Tsukimi Sakura.

Once outside the house, Miyazawa Itsuki felt more clearly that Tsukimi Sakuna had become the polite but aloof saintess from the rumors.

It's so close, yet it feels so far away.

“I understand. I will keep my distance from Tsukimi at school.” Miyazawa Itsuki nodded. “But if you have any difficulties, you can tell me.”

"Yes, thank you, Miyazawa-kun." Tsukimi Sakuna smiled gently.

"Well then, Tsukimi-kun, you should go ahead first. To avoid people guessing that we live in the same apartment building, we might need to avoid going out in the future."

After a moment of silence, Tsukimi Sakuna said softly, "Then I'll be going now."

She bowed slightly to Miyazawa Itsuki, then turned and left.

The figure with light chestnut-colored long hair disappeared at the end of the corridor.

Miyazawa glanced at his watch and silently set a five-minute countdown.

With nothing else to do, I casually opened the panel and logged into the redemption list.

The weekly refreshed exchange list has added new skills and items. He hadn't had a chance to check it yesterday.

Name: Miyazawa Itsuki

Points Balance: 5280

[Skills: Shorthand LV2, Calligraphy LV2, Knife Skills LV2, Baking LV2, Driving LV2, Photography LV1, Basketball LV1, Appliance Repair LV1...]

[Special Ability: A hatchet is useless against me, Casanova's Eye]

[Special Item: Passerby A's Glasses]

[Exchange List (Skills): Racing LV1, Chess LV1, Street Fighting LV1]

[Exchange List (Items): Energy Replenishing Potion, Focus Potion, Running Shoes]

Miyazawa Itsuki's gaze swept over the array of goods.

Racing? Can renting a boyfriend really be related to this sport?

If it were simply about driving, he would have been an experienced driver in his past life, not to mention now that he has LV2 driving skills.

Chess is also a double-edged sword; in Japan, the audience for chess is very small.

Even in Go or Shogi, he would give it a second thought.

However, the remaining two are completely different.

Miyazawa Itsuki's eyes twitched slightly.

Street fighting techniques.

This is a vague concept, not a standardized martial arts style, but a series of techniques used for survival and self-defense in unregulated street conflicts.

In layman's terms, it's the art of fighting.

"This is really rare. Is my luck finally turning around?"

After several months, I finally got another skill related to combat power.

In past refreshes, there haven't been many offensive skills.

Miyazawa once managed to get a level 2 Muay Thai weapon, but had to give up because of its high price.