After returning to the classroom, Eriri rested her cheek on one hand, chewing gum while silently recalling what had happened on the rooftop earlier.
Suo Suto really was a strange person.
A girl rushed in from outside the classroom, full of excitement.
“Eriri-chan!
I found out!”
Eriri straightened her body and looked at her with interest.
“Tell me!”
The girl began telling her everything she had just learned after running to Class 1-E to ask around.
Suo Suto, a transfer student from abroad, did not have many friends in class…
After listening, Eriri felt somewhat speechless.
What kind of information was that?
She hadn’t even found out what he liked.
She didn’t even know that he could perform magic…
Forget it.
The girls in class were unreliable to begin with.
All they cared about every day was comparing themselves with others and chasing vanity…
Although she complained inwardly, Eriri still maintained her young lady’s elegance on the surface and smiled as she thanked the girl for her hard work.
The girl happily left.
Eriri took out her phone and looked at the newly added LINE number, falling into thought once again.
Class 1-E, huh?
That class seemed to have…
After Eriri left, Suto stayed on the rooftop for a while longer.
He glanced at his wallet balance.
It had now become:
[0 gold coins, 0 silver coins, 54 copper coins]
Another 10 copper coins had been added.
He had just obtained them from Eriri.
Suto closed the system panel.
By now, he could basically confirm one thing:
[In this world, as long as someone is a heroine from an anime, he can obtain 10 copper coins through the lowest level of physical contact with her.
Limited to once per day, refreshing daily.]
“Asou Miyuri, Kato Megumi, Sawamura Eriri, Katsura Kotonoha, Kasumigaoka Utaha…”
Suto silently thought it over.
These five [Heroines] were the targets he could easily come into contact with right now.
If he could smoothly “check in” with all of them every day, that would be a stable income of 50 copper coins per day.
The problem was how he could naturally make “physical contact” with them, even if it was only the lowest level.
Kato Megumi, who was in the same class, would be easier to deal with.
He could give her chewing gum or something similar every day.
Since her presence was so low, if someone was willing to take the initiative to talk to her, she probably wouldn’t reject it.
Miyuri-san was not difficult either. This story is hosted at g.com.
He just had to visit her place more often.
But Eriri and Utaha, the two upperclassmen, would be harder to handle.
It wasn’t like he could run to their classes every day and ask to shake hands.
At that point, he really would become a pervert.
As for Kotonoha, Suto thought about it for a moment.
Maybe he simply shouldn’t buy a bicycle and should squeeze onto the subway with her every day, protecting her on the train while earning money standing there.
That wasn’t impossible.
However, that kind of behavior could easily cause misunderstandings.
Although Katsura Kotonoha was a good girl, that “head cutting” skill she showed after turning dark was still a little scary.
He should wait and see for now.
Suto stood on the rooftop and enjoyed the wind for a while before returning to his classroom.
…
After school in the afternoon, Suto once again went to that market.
He directly found the fish-selling uncle.
“Uncle, I’m here to buy fish again!”
“Oh, it’s you, young man.
Pick whatever you want.”
“I want to kill the fish myself again today.”
“Sure!”
Suto chose a sea bream weighing around one and a half kg and slaughtered it himself.
Another two copper coins dropped.
“Uncle, I’m free anyway.
How about I help you kill fish?”
“This… All right.”
The stall owner uncle was still quite easygoing.
It was currently evening, and quite a few people had come to buy groceries.
He was a little too busy handling everything alone.
Suto’s fish-killing technique was practiced, so he could indeed be of help.
It could be considered a win-win situation.
After staying there for more than an hour, Suto helped kill over a dozen fish.
He also discovered something new.
The larger the fish, the more copper coins it dropped.
The biggest fish he killed weighed five and a half kg, and it dropped nine copper coins.
The smallest one was only a little over half kg, and it only dropped one copper coin.
After washing his hands, Suto said goodbye to the stall owner uncle and left.
On the way, he sorted out today’s fish-killing gains.
In total, he had obtained 57 copper coins.
Adding the previous 54 copper coins, he should have had 111 copper coins in total.
But his wallet balance was now:
[0 gold coins, 1 silver coin, 11 copper coins]
The system had automatically converted 100 copper coins into 1 silver coin. Visit g.com for the full chapter.
With a thought, Suto tried taking the silver coin out of his wallet.
Immediately, a shining silver coin appeared in his hand.
Its size, shape, and pattern were exactly the same as the copper coin.
The only difference was its material.
It was “silver” rather than “copper.”
Suto took out his phone and tried filming the silver coin in his hand with the camera.
Just like the copper coin, it could not be recorded by the camera.
That meant the silver coin was the same as the copper coin.
Only he could see, touch, and hear it.
After examining it for a while and satisfying his curiosity, Suto stored the silver coin back into the wallet.
Then he went to the supermarket and bought a pile of instant foods like bread, milk, cup noodles, as well as chewing gum.
After thinking for a moment, he also bought several decks of playing cards.
On the surface, his talent skills were currently two: [Death Declaration] and [Double Jump].
But in reality, there was also an ability that came with the system: [Spatial Storage].
With the help of the inventory, he could perform all kinds of flawless “vanishing magic.”
Although the [Identity Card] had provided him with a bank card, there wasn’t much money inside, only 500,000 yen.
Suto had to start thinking about what he would do after that money was used up.
Monthly rent, clothes, food, transportation, three years of high school tuition, and so on…
He couldn’t just sit there and drain his savings.
He needed to find a way to make money.
The most common way would be part-time work, such as working at a convenience store or bookstore.
However, Suto had no interest in those jobs.
He would rather kill fish for people at the market or go to a slaughterhouse and kill chickens, since he could earn copper coins along the way.
If he really wanted to make money, he was more inclined to take the self-media route.
For example, livestreaming as a street magician.
As long as he could grow the account, he wouldn’t need to worry about money afterward.
Once he became famous and turned into a public figure, it would also be easier for him to come into contact with those [Heroines].
After all, the core of close-up magic was interacting and making contact with the audience.
Inviting the audience to inspect props, holding an audience member’s hand, grabbing their wrist… all of these could be explained as “part of the performance.”
“But there’s no computer at home, and I don’t have a good set of filming equipment either.
Buying them will cost quite a bit…”
Suto silently thought.
“But I still have to buy them.
These can be considered necessary investments.”
Fortunately, the [Identity Card] had given him 500,000 yen in starting funds.
Otherwise, he would still have to worry about how to afford all this equipment.
In that case, maybe he really would have had to use Eriri’s hidden identity to threaten her for some money.
After all, she was a genuine young lady from a wealthy family.