Chapter 4: "Rewards"

'Time to see my juicy rewards!' I thought, opening all the notifications in the system.

Starting with the most important reward:

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[You've met one of the heroines!]

[You received several rewards for meeting "Mashiro Shiina!"]

[+6,000 SP]

[x1 Rank Up Ticket]

[x1 Random Skill Ticket (Advanced)]

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'Now I have more Sp than I need to be able to get a manga.' I thought with some encouragement.

I wasn't going to spend my SP right now, maybe tomorrow. SPs aside, I took a look at the

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[x1 Rank Up Ticket: A ticket that allows you to rank up any skill one time only].

Example:

[Novice] --> [Apprentice].

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It's an interesting item, although I would like to use it at the moment, I feel it's a waste... although I can buy another one of those Tickets for only 20,000 SP.

It would be best to use it on a skill in which I haven't progressed too much, but now let's move on to the next item.

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[x1 Random Skill Ticket (Advanced)].

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No need to put a description for this item, it's simply sublime!

Unlike a common skill ticket, this ticket will only offer me skills within Rank (Advanced).

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[Do you want to use "x1 Random Skill Ticket(Advanced)"?]

[Y/N]

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-Ding!-

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[You have used "x1 Random Skill Ticket(Advanced)"!

[You got the skill; "Golden Hour (Advanced)!"]

[Golden Hour: Feeling tired? Then take a break!

Eliminate all tiredness and exhaustion of any kind just by resting for 1 hour].

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It's... perfect... Imagine destroying your body after a long day of work, and only having to rest for 1 hour in order to be at your best.

Resting doesn't necessarily mean sleeping, I can just read manga, watch a movie, or read a book during that 1 hour period.

I just need to not do anything that requires voluntary effort.

It's perfect!

Although it's not necessarily a passive skill, if it were it would be practically unstoppable.

'I feel like it's my birthday or Christmas.' I thought with glee.

If this had happened years ago, I'd be jumping for joy, but over time I learned to appreciate and enjoy things in an unobtrusive way.

It's a skill that practically skips 3 ranks within the rating for skills offered by the system.

'What was the ranking? I don't remember.' I thought.

'The ranking of skills according to the system is as follows; Novice, Apprentice, Intermediate, Advanced, Master, Expert, and Grand Master.

'Should I use the rank-up ticket in [Golden Hour]?' I questioned.

Moving up in rank from one skill to another is not that simple, it took me two years to level up my drawing skill from [Novice] to [Apprentice]... Moving on to the next rewards... that's too many rewards.

I got rewards for meeting each of Sakurasou's tenants.

I also got two rewards for meeting Chihiro, although I only see as rewards anything that is usable items.

This was what I got for meeting each tenant of Sakurasou:

Kamiisuga: [+2,000 SP], [x1 Random Skill Ticket].

Sorata: [5,000 SP], [x1 Rank Up Ticket].

Mitaka: [2.000 SP], [x1 Rank Up Ticket].

Chihiro: [1,000 SP], [x1 Random Skill Ticket (Apprentice)], [x1 Rank Up Ticket].

... If I was excited to receive a rank-up ticket before, now I don't know how to feel.

I achieved in one day, what I couldn't achieve in two years.

Contrary to what I would have expected, my title of [Failed Mangaka] didn't make me get rewards, I didn't expect anything from Mitaka or Kamiisuga, much less from Sorata, but it was with Shiina that I got a little surprise, but I can't complain, I already got enough things from her, being greedy is not good.

After receiving all the rewards, I got a very good amount of SP;

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[SP: 22,100]

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I can buy two roulettes so I can get any sleeve randomly.

'It's kind of funny that I had gotten rewards from male characters.' I thought.

I mainly thought I would get rewards by encountering only female characters, but that doesn't seem to be the case, even though the system doesn't list Kamiisuga or Chihiro as heroines.

What should I do now? Well, it's obvious, use all my rewards.

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[Do you want to use "x1 Random Skill Ticket(Apprentice)"?]

[Y/N]

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-Ding!-

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[You have used "x1 Random Skill Ticket(Apprentice)"!

[You got the skill; "Mastery of Styles(Apprentice)!"]

[Mastery of Styles: Don't have any eye-catching drawing style? Simple, copy someone else's style.

You can change your drawing style instantly and master any artistic technique, from the most basic drawing to the most avant-garde style.

Your drawing adapts to any story you want to illustrate].

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'Isn't this practically cheating?' I questioned.

'I'm not going to say it's a bad skill, quite the opposite, it's damn good, but I feel like getting it in a low-level draw takes away from its credibility.

I can master any technique or drawing style, that's practically cheating.

I love it!

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[Would you like to use "x1 Random Skill Ticket?"]

[Y/N]

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The other reward is a normal random skill ticket, how is this ticket different from the others? Well, it is a bit more special, provided you are lucky.

All skills obtained from that ticket, will not exceed the Apprentice rank, but it doesn't matter, it allows me to obtain skills that are usually in higher ranks.

-Ding!-

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[You have used "x1 Random Skill Ticket"!]

[You obtained the skill; "Infallible Anatomy(Apprentice)!"]

[Infallible Anatomy: Is this skill even useful?

Gain intuitive knowledge of human anatomy and the ability to represent it perfectly in your drawings].

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Another skill in the [Apprentice] rank!

... Now, there is something more important than admiring and appreciating the skills I just obtained, and that is;

What skill should I use my [Rank Up Tickets] on? Right now I have 4 of those tickets, I should use them wisely and...

-Ding!-

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[You used "x3 Rank Up Ticket" in your "Drawing(Apprentice)" skill!]

[Drawing(Apprentice)] --> [Drawing(Master)]

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After improving my drawing skills, I felt a brief, slight tingling throughout my body, especially in my arms.

Was this the smartest decision I ever made? In my opinion, yes.

-Ding!-

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[You used "x1 Rank Up Ticket" on your "Mastery of Style (Apprentice)" skill!]

[Mastery of Style(Apprentice)] --> [Mastery of Style (Intermediate)]

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I could have used that Rank Up Ticket on my [Golden Hour] skill, but I feel that the [Golden Hour] skill by itself already serves a good function.

Now, regarding my Sp... Will I use them today? It was still night, but I didn't have to worry about staying awake, at least not now.

... But at the end of the day, I'm still human, and even though I have an ability that allows me to replenish my energy, I still prefer to sleep.

Not without telling my boss about my change of schedule!

Kentaro is someone very understanding and kind, why else would he hire an underage girl...? Kentaro is not someone bad, and knowing his hobbies, he must still be awake at this hour.

-Brrr-

-Brrr-

-Beep-

He hung up on me.

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I got up at 5:00 am as usual, before going to sleep I activated my [Golden Hour] ability, so I wasn't tired from sleeping late.

In the end, I ended up sending a text message to Kentaro, he didn't read it, but it's better to have some decency.

I wasn't planning on missing work directly, but I was going to be a little later than usual.

Leaving my new room, I went straight to the bathroom to take a shower, I could tell the dorms were still quiet, so I assumed the tenants were still asleep.

Classes usually start around 9:00 am, or at least that's how it is in some schools, like Sumei School.

... getting out of the shower I got dressed and went to fix myself a proper breakfast.

'It's been a while since I've had a proper breakfast.' I thought as I made myself a sandwich.

... It was 7:00 am, and everyone at Sakurasou had gotten up somewhat early and was heading to school. Knowing what was going to happen if I was going to wake up Shiina now, I turned to Chihiro and said;

"I know I have to take care of Shiina, but she still won't come out of her room, could you go see what's going on?" I asked her.

Looking at me with a smile on her face, she replied;

"Listen... You will take her to school, and take full responsibility." She said, adding a serious tone in her voice, then walked out of the dorms...

"..."

Kamiisuga was the only girl besides Shiina and Chihiro inside the dormitories, but she had left along with Mitaka, and Sorata... Sorata is not relevant.

'It's getting late.' I thought.

Without further ado, I headed towards the girls' rooms. Ignoring the sign saying; [No boys allowed]....

Standing in front of the door of room 202, Shiina's room.

"Is anyone there!!!?". I asked, raising my tone of voice, trying to wake Shiina up. And just to make sure, I knocked on the door.

-Knock-

-Knock-

-Knock-

Nothing, nothing happened, no one answered or opened the door.

Sigh, sigh.

"This is going to be hard." I muttered.

"I'm going in!" I exclaimed, opening the door.

When I walked in, what I saw didn't surprise me too much, considering I wasn't the best person to criticize other people's rooms.

The room was simply a mess, with underwear strewn about in various places.

Although not comparable to where I lived a few days ago, this girl is just messy. Looking around the entire room, I paused, somewhat shocked...

'This girl has a graphics tablet!' I thought excitedly.

This made me a little jealous, I spent most of my time drawing the traditional way. Looking at the screen for a moment, I remembered a bit of the plot.

I already knew that the manga Shiina was drawing sucks, not with regards to the drawings, but directly because the plot of her manga is worse than mine.

Wait... I'm comparing myself to a girl two or three years younger than me. Impressive.

On second glance, only Shiina's sketches are better than my drawings.... "I guess it's a tie." I muttered.

As I looked at Shiina's drawings, I could hear a faint groan:

-Hmm-

'So there it is.' I thought, looking at where the sound was coming from.

Bending down to the small lump under Shiina's desk, I spoke;

"It's morning already, you'll be late for your first day of school."

-Hmmm-

Another groan sounded.

"The sun won't rise again." Replied the lump under the desk, in a low, soft tone of voice.

"The sun is up, get up or I'll leave you here and go to work." I threatened.

Hearing my words, Shiina started to move until she was fully up.

'Unexpected.' I thought, briefly admiring Shiina's body. 'I thought it would be different, it doesn't matter anymore.' I thought, referring to the situation I was in.

Quickly averting my gaze from Shiina, I turned my back to her.

Ignoring my presence, and her own nakedness, Shiina greeted;

"Good morning."

-Ding!-

Ignoring the system notification, I said to her;

"Put some clothes on." I said, in a calm tone.

"Why am I naked?" Shiina questioned, ignoring what I said.

"That doesn't matter now, just put on some clothes, you're going to be late for school." I said.

"What clothes should I put on?" Shiina asked.

Sigh, I sighed again... Searching through Shiina's clothes, I handed her what I assumed was Sumei's uniform.

"Pantyhose." Shiina said.

Avoiding sighing this time, I took the first thing I found and handed it to her, of course, not forgetting her bra.

-Ding!

Without paying attention to the rest, I decided to leave the room, but not before warning Shiina;

"Get changed at once, I'll wait for you outside." I said to her, leaving the room and closing the door...

Expecting the worst, I sat outside of Shiina's room, until she came out...

"I'm done." Shiina said, walking out of the room.

To my delight, she did have all of her uniforms on correctly... With that settled, we left Sakurasou...

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After leaving Shiina with Chihiro at Sumei, I was left with some free time. At this time it was 1:00 P.m. and I was again in Sakurasou, Kentaro read my messages and said there was no problem with missing one day.

He also scolded me for missing without notice, but I let it go, he said it was not possible to switch to an afternoon shift, so I would have to manage until I got a lot of money.

How would I do that? Well...

-Ding!-

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[The Host has decided to start a spin on the roulette wheel!]

[Before spinning the roulette, would you like to purchase an anime genre filter?]

[Add a single genre=100SP]

[Discard one genre only=100SP]

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"Add only the action genre and start at once."

-Ding!-

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[The Host has added [Action] as a filter for Roulette reward selection!]

[Host has decided to start spinning the roulette!]

[-10,100 SP]

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-Beep-

All the notifications that had appeared earlier disappeared, causing an all-white screen with gold borders to appear.

On this same screen was a roulette wheel, from which one could barely make out the tiny words on each roulette reward.

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-[Roulette]-

Selected genres: Action.

[Starting to spin the roulette wheel!]

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The roulette started spinning, making the roulette rewards even more indistinguishable.

The roulette came accompanied by a small sound that repeated endlessly as if a sound had been put on a loop only to be repeated every 1 second.

-Tic-

-Tic-

-Tic-

-Tic-

-Tic-

-Tic-

-Tic-

-Tic-

The sound was getting slower and slower until the roulette stopped spinning.

-BEEP!-

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[Congratulations, you got the complete collection of "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure"!]

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[AUTOR:

I kindly request that my dear readers recommend me any translator who is decent! (Much better than Google Translate).

Unfortunately my trusted translator (DeepL) no longer allows me to translate the chapters, and the limit is 5,000 letters per day... just as I just wrote it... 5,000 letters per day!!!

I remember that before you could translate everything you wanted without limits, completely free, but not anymore!

I ask for your help!

Although I am of legal age, I never thought about getting a credit card, but I see that now it is necessary...]