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"Question: How can one simultaneously possess youth and the feeling of youth?"
Kitahara Makoto felt he was very qualified to answer this question.
"Thanks for the invitation, I'm in Japan, just transmigrated."
"The method is simple."
"As long as you transmigrate into the body of a sixteen-year-old high school student, you can simultaneously possess youth and the feeling of youth... The taste is like mixing beer and soju, with a strong kick, please do not try it lightly."
Looking at the handsome young man in the mirror, who looked exactly like him in his previous life but was clearly much more youthful, Kitahara Makoto felt a little dazed.
He had transmigrated.
From an adult with a wage slave blessing, he had become a sixteen-year-old high school student in a parallel universe. Strangely, their appearances were identical, and even the positions of their birthmarks hadn't changed.
"Transmigrating into my own body in a parallel universe, there's no psychological burden..."
He exhaled lightly, and Kitahara Makoto couldn't help but recall things from his previous life.
In his previous life, he had finally managed to finish university and successfully joined a large company. He thought his life would be stable, but fate played a trick on him.
One day, while working overtime late at night, he suddenly felt a dull pain in his lower abdomen. After enduring it alone for a while, he couldn't hold on any longer and went to the hospital for a check-up. The contents of the lab report were shocking.
Cancer.
Mid to late stage.
The five-year survival rate was only forty percent...
Kitahara Makoto opened his eyes, dispelling the past memories in his mind, then softly murmured:
"System."
The next second.
A pixelated, transparent game panel appeared out of thin air before his eyes.
[Daily Quest: Two Hundred Squats]
[Quest Description: Squats are the king of fitness. Do you want steel-like kidneys? Come squat!]
[Current Status: Completed]
[Quest Reward: Your stamina has improved, you no longer have to worry about being powerless in middle age]
[Daily Quest: Decompress Life]
[Quest Description: In the quiet of the night, on lonely, boring evenings, there's always some accumulated stress that needs to be released... Please watch twenty minutes of hoof trimming videos.]
[Current Status: Completed]
[Quest Reward: Your mental strength has improved, today's learning state will be more focused]
[Daily Quest: Do a Good Deed]
[Quest Description: Extend a helping hand to those in need]
[Status: Not Completed]
[Daily Quest: You Wouldn't Want Your Secret to Be Known, Would You?]
[Quest Description: Using the phrase 'You wouldn't want your secret to be known, would you?', successfully make the other party fulfill any of your requests.]
[Status: Not Completed]
"...You wouldn't want your secret to be known, would you?"
"Known my ass."
Kitahara Makoto sighed helplessly.
"Parents are dead, no sister but a house, never had a single friend since childhood, and can only hide alone in the stairwell to eat lunch. And you want me to use secrets to threaten others?"
"You're clearly making things difficult for me!"
This thing was a mini-game called "Life Restart System" that a group of patients had modified and created in his previous life.
After transmigrating, the "Life Restart System" had surprisingly followed him, but unfortunately, it had no intelligence, and was even a bit idiotic.
The gameplay was simple.
The System would release four daily quests every day, with different contents. There would be no penalty for not completing them, but completing the daily quests would yield corresponding rewards.
Most importantly, if all four daily quests were completed, he would receive an additional draw chance.
When he was lying in the hospital in his previous life, Kitahara Makoto had played "Life Restart System" for a while out of boredom. He knew that daily quests usually improved physical fitness, while the rewards from the gacha wheel were various magical abilities.
Among them, there was one ability that Kitahara Makoto absolutely had to obtain—
The Body Immune to All Illnesses.
Only those who have truly faced the despair of illness know how important a healthy, disease-free body is. Kitahara Makoto absolutely did not want to experience the despair of lying alone in a hospital bed, silently enduring cancer pain, a second time.
His body in the parallel universe was also not in good condition. The reason Kitahara Makoto was able to transmigrate was because his predecessor accidentally caught a cold one day, then had a persistent high fever, which ultimately led to his transmigration.
So no matter what, the reward of the Body Immune to All Illnesses must be drawn!
Even Jesus couldn't stop him!
"...It's a brainless system, unfortunately."
Kitahara Makoto pressed his forehead, his tone helpless.
After transmigrating, the "System" underwent an unknown change. The gacha wheel became the evil 'ten-pull guarantee'. So far, besides drawing a special ability [Sage Time of Apathy] during his first draw, all the rest were random ability fragments. He had been transmigrated for nearly a month, and hadn't even accumulated enough for a ten-pull.
No way, some daily quests were just too idiotic.
Squats and hoof trimming were fine, but what was with the Tokyo exorcism?
He had been transmigrated for nearly a month, and during this time, Kitahara Makoto had carefully investigated. This was just an ordinary slice-of-life world. There were no ghouls, no other worlds, no Sword Art Online, and he hadn't seen any quintuplets from Quintessential Quintuplets at school. He did, however, see the words 'Shinomiya Zaibatsu' in the news.
So far, Kitahara Makoto had only seen one Little Miss Anxiety girl from a slice-of-life anime...
An ordinary slice-of-life world, and no mysterious powers, yet you issue exorcism quests?
Cannot complete.
Simply cannot complete.
"If I can't complete all daily quests, I can't get draw chances. If I don't get draw points, when will I be able to randomly draw the special physique of being immune to all illnesses?"
"...It really is a brainless System!"
After washing up.
Kitahara Makoto composed himself, picked up his school bag, and headed out for school.
He was now a first-year high school student. Having lived again, he naturally wanted to experience the campus youth he hadn't cherished in his previous life.
A moment later.
Train Station.
It was mid-April, the cherry blossoms hadn't completely faded, but the spring light had already brightened.
A gentle breeze blew, and in the warm morning light, pink cherry petals fluttered down from both sides of the street. It was a beautiful spring day, nothing more, but unfortunately, all the pedestrians on the road were in a hurry, no one stopping to admire the view.
Kitahara Makoto arrived at the Train Station and immediately saw a pink-haired girl with a guitar standing in the corner. She was holding a piece of bread with both hands, her pink cheeks slightly puffed out, secretly eating like a little hamster.
This pink-haired girl had very long hair, her bangs almost covering her eyes, and a single cowlick growing diagonally on her right side. Her eyes were always fixed on the ground, as if afraid to make eye contact with others. Her skin was very fair, the kind of paleness that comes from staying indoors for a long time and not wanting to go out.
"Gotō-san, good morning."
Kitahara Makoto walked up to the girl and casually greeted her.
That's right.
The pink-haired girl in front of him was named Hitori Gotō, none other than Bocchi-chan from "Kessoku Band."
Likes carrying a guitar, extremely socially anxious, looks gloomy, and has the exact same name... Because of this, Kitahara Makoto concluded that this was an ordinary slice-of-life world.
"Ah..."
Suddenly hearing someone call her name, Hitori Gotō visibly flinched, like a little rabbit in the forest, frantically stepping back half a step. She timidly looked up, secretly glanced at Kitahara Makoto, then quickly lowered her head, her voice almost inaudible:
"G-g-good morning..."
Some time ago, while shopping at the supermarket, Kitahara Makoto, in order to complete the daily quest of doing a good deed, casually helped her with a small favor. Later, he found that they often met at the Train Station, and their destination was the same high school. Out of curiosity, he asked and found out that Bocchi-chan was actually his schoolmate in the same grade, though they were in different classes.
Over time, they became slightly acquainted.
At this moment, looking at the Little Miss Anxiety who was secretly looking up, Kitahara Makoto's heart suddenly stirred, and a sentence blurted out:
"...Gotō-san, you wouldn't want your secret to be known, would you?"
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