A new panel appeared in front of Suo Suto.
[Talent: Death Declaration]
[Quality: Epic]
[Effect ①: You can declare the death of a target.
The declared target will die within three days, with the cause of death being random.
This ability has a cooldown of one month.]
[Effect ②: As the price for possessing this talent, your age will regress by ten years.]
The talent he drew was actually related to death.
Maybe it was because he had already died once, so he had good compatibility with death.
But that wasn’t important.
Suto raised his hand and touched his face.
For a certain high school detective, regressing ten years and becoming an elementary school student might count as a heavy price.
But for Suto, going from the age of a corporate slave back to a youthful high school age should be considered a benefit.
Although this talent had a very strong Conan-like vibe, the orthodox Conan-like ability to bring death to the people around you was uncontrollable.
In comparison, while [Death Declaration] had a fairly long cooldown, Suto could control it himself.
It wouldn’t drag him into one murder case after another.
“Even if I ignore Effect ①, just looking at Effect ②, which makes me ten years younger, this already counts as a pretty good talent.”
After reading the talent’s description, Suto closed the talent panel and glanced at his own status panel.
[Personal Attributes]
[Strength]: 4.
[Agility]: 4.
[Intelligence]: 4.
[Charm]: 5.
[Luck]: 5.
The standard attribute value for a normal adult was 5.
Every body-related attribute Suto had was slightly below the standard.
That was reasonable.
After all, Suto’s age had suddenly regressed by ten years.
His younger body was still developing, so every attribute still had room to improve.
Suto closed the status panel and reopened his inventory.
Another red card covered in mysterious patterns appeared in his hand.
[Identity Card].
Suto silently thought “Use” in his mind again.
The next moment, the card also turned into countless red motes of light and merged into his body.
[You have obtained the identity: First-year student of the High School Division of Private Toyogasaki Academy in Japan.]
Pieces of common sense matching that identity began surfacing in Suto’s mind.
Japanese… various subject knowledge from elementary school to middle school… information on the teachers and classmates at Toyogasaki… nearby roads and buildings… the place he was currently renting…
Suto felt a dull ache swelling in his head.
After a while, he had fully absorbed all that common sense.
The uncomfortable feeling faded with it.
Suto rubbed his forehead and muttered to himself, “Toyogasaki Academy, and a classmate named Kato Megumi… this seems to be from Saekano…”
“The [Identity Card] even arranged a place for me to live, so that makes things much more convenient.
But the apartment it gave me is actually in Beika Town… That place is seriously not somewhere you want to live…”
“Toyogasaki, Beika Town, and the common sense memories even include Shuchiin Academy and Sobu High… Places from different anime appearing at the same time means this should be a mixed anime world.”
Suto lowered his head and looked at the river, quietly sorting through the information he had just received.
Then he opened the panel and began checking the system’s other functions.
Aside from the [Inventory], [Talent Skill Panel], and [Status Panel], which he had already used, there was also a [Shop Panel].
After opening the [Shop Panel], he saw that there was only one item currently on sale.
[Double Jump]
Quality: Special.
Type: Consumable.
Effect: After use, you can learn the Special Skill: Double Jump.
Price: 1 gold coin.
(First-purchase discount.
Original price: 1,000 gold coins.)
(This item will refresh in: 30 days.)
Looking at the message on the panel, Suto’s expression turned a little strange.
[Double Jump] was a very common skill, and plenty of games had that kind of setting.
Its effect was simple too.
After a character jumped once, they could jump again in midair.
It was usually used to climb over tall obstacles or unlock hidden routes…
Yet a plain, ordinary skill like this actually had an original price of 1,000 gold coins!
One [Devil Fruit Mystery Box] only cost 99 gold coins!
This thing was actually more expensive than ten [Devil Fruit Mystery Boxes]!
Something wasn’t right.
Suto’s gaze landed on a few words on the panel.
Special Skill: Double Jump.
Suto didn’t know what the prefix [Special Skill] was supposed to mean, but it wasn’t hard to guess that it was probably the reason this skill book was so expensive.
So, should he buy it?
Suto hesitated a little.
He still hadn’t figured out how to earn the gold, silver, and copper coins recognized by the system.
The one gold coin he had received from the Beginner Gift Pack was the only money he currently had.
Once he used it, he would have nothing left for the time being.
He had only discovered two places where he could spend money.
One was the [Shop], and the other was the ad he had seen when he revived.
Not to mention, he still hadn’t figured out the conditions for triggering ads.
He also hadn’t seen any “first-purchase discount” for the things sold in those ads.
If both spending channels were linked, and he spent money through an ad first, the “first-purchase discount” in the [Shop] might disappear.
That would be a huge loss.
As for waiting until the next product refresh thirty days later…
Suto shook his head.
He should use all the resources he currently had to develop himself first.
After he gained a firm foothold in this new world and figured out how to earn coins, he could think about other things.
[Purchase successful.]
A thin booklet appeared in Suto’s hand before turning into a streak of light and sinking into his palm.
[You have learned Special Skill: Double Jump.]
At the same time, Suto saw a new skill named [Special Skill: Double Jump] appear on his [Talent Skill Panel].
He tried jumping in place.
When he reached midair, he tried jumping again.
It felt as if his feet had stepped on something solid, and sure enough, his body jumped upward a second time.
Suto tried it more than a dozen times, and the feeling was honestly pretty fresh.
Seeing that the sun had already begun to set and the sky was getting dark, Suto put aside his thoughts of testing the skill and decided to go home first.
After walking out from beneath the bridge, he felt a river breeze gently blow past him.
On the sloping grass, the blades of grass rippled like waves.
Suto saw that the boy wearing glasses was still sitting in the same spot, reading.
Behind that boy stood a girl with long hair.
A sailor uniform, a pleated skirt, knee-high socks, and small leather shoes… She was dressed like a textbook high school girl.
Just looking at her from a distance made Suto unable to help sighing at the beauty of youth.
He couldn’t help thinking of the girls in his own class from his memories.
They were all very pretty too, but not as much as the girl he was looking at.
A mixed anime world really was great.
The only thing was that the girls’ hair colors were a little messy, with all sorts of colors mixed together.
But that could also be considered a cute point.
Suto walked up the slope to the road, checked the direction, and headed forward.
Before long, a boy wearing the same uniform as the glasses-wearing boy he had just seen came running toward him in a hurry.
Then Suto heard an urgent shout from behind him.
“Oh no!
The convenience store over there has potato chips at half price!
Hurry up, let’s go together!”
Suto could now understand Japanese.
He froze for a moment, as if he had thought of something.
“So Daily Lives of High School Boys is in this world too.
Good thing I didn’t draw a boys’ high school identity card, otherwise it would’ve been nothing but a high school life full of guys…”
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