After crying my heart out and being comforted by Mom, I decided then and there that life is short and that I must become immortal before it's too late.
Meaning I need to get to work.
Looking at my remaining quests, I have:
Completed - Be recognised by 10000 people
Completed - Develop a skill to a professional level
Join a talent academy for a sport
Enter the elite class of Elderwood Girls' School by next year
Eat 2000 bananas (1089/2000)
From these, the remaining 3 quests that I can do, I can't really make any progress towards at the moment. Well, I can eat an extra banana or two, but there's not much I can actually do.
I could go play some soccer in the backyard with mom but... well mom isn't very good. Having said that, she does have a very fast kick, so it is good for practicing goalkeeping, but I want to officially start my goalkeeping practice once I unlock 1 Second Future Sight.
I imagine it'll be very difficult to explain my inhuman reflexes (predictions) to some shots and if I just start as a freak of nature who's naturally gifted at goalkeeping. While it might still look superhuman, it is way less suspicious than myself just one day becoming the world's best goalkeeper.
Yeah, I'll just wait until my mental stat hits 70. After getting the IQ increase from the side quest and a few months of time passing it went up from 62 to 66, so I'm not too far off.
I could study some more to try and make sure I'll get into the elite class for high school... Yeah I should probably do that.
From what I've heard, for me to be moved ahead 7 grades like I am trying to do here, a lot of things need to happen such as, cognitive testing, psych eval, principal approval and even after getting all of this approved, the main issue is that most high schools don't accept younger students. Most high school teachers usually aren't good with kids who could be considered toddlers, so why would the administration put the teachers through that?
Well, apparently Granny Leonidas has a way, so I'll trust that she can set it up, but I should probably make sure I'm ready for it.
Mom had already prepared some of the tests I'd need to be taking so I'll go have a look through them.
If the spine and body are a pair. What would be the equivalent for a house?
Damn, these questions are more complicated than I thought. Well for a body, the spine helps keep it upright, so I guess support structures or maybe bricks? I'll just put support beams.
What is 162 x 54?
Heh, this is easy 162 x 50 is 8100 and then just add 162 x 4 which is 648 which totals 8748.
If you fold a paper in half three times how many times more thick it would be than how it started?
Well, just double it (one) three times. So 1, 2, 4, 8 times as thick.
In the following sequence what number should x be? 2, 5 ,14 , x ,122, 365
Well, let's see: 2 to 5 is +3; 5 to 14 is +9. It can't be just adding 6 every time; we wouldn't get close to 122. What if it's tripling?
It'd then go from +9 to +27, so 2, 5, 14, 41, and then 27 x 3 is 81 so that would then equal 122 later on.
I'm a genius.
After easily solving 16 of the 20 questions correctly, I got bored and decided to do what I normally do, "Mom!"
"Yes Luna?" Mom immediately responded.
"Can we put up my first YouTube video, I need to show the world my greatness with my amazing singing." I exclaimed as if I were a prophet trying to save the masses.
"Yeah, the microphone and camera we ordered arrived like a month ago, I wondered when you were going to remember about it." Mom said.
I was aghast; how could I have put it off for this long? Thinking about all those deadbeat dads who beat their kids, who might hit a bit more gently next time after hearing my amazing voice.
Well, I should correct myself: of course my voice is amazing. I've got to stay humble, after all, but it's more the ability, Angel's Voice, that I picked when I was in the process of being scammed into reincarnating.
I'm not some sort of narcissist who thinks they are the literal best at everything in the world. Probably in the top ten, though for most things.
"Alright, what background do you want for your song, Luna?" Mom asked.
That's right, we don't have a green screen. I'd of liked to have done it outside in nature, but ambient noise and bugs would probably diminish the audio quality.
"My bed!"
What could be more calming than a child's bedroom? Well, maybe a scenic view of nature, but alas, the limitations of humanity are holding me back.
Well, I could probably lip-sync it...
No, go away, distracting thoughts! It doesn't need to be perfect it just needs to be a start.
"Luna you ready?"
"Yeah, I'm ready." I replied
I put on my earphones and waited for the music to play.
Inhale exhale
"Now he's thinkin' 'bout me every night, oh
Is it that sweet? I guess so
Say you can't sleep, baby, I know
That's that me espresso
Move it up, down, left, right, oh
Switch it up like Nintendo
Say you can't sleep, baby, I know
That's that me espresso
I can't relate to desperation
My give-a-fucks are on vacation
And I got this one boy, and he won't stop callin'
When they act this way, I know I got 'em
Too bad your ex don't do it for ya
Walked in and dream-came-trued it for ya
Soft skin and I perfumed it for ya
(Yes) I know, I Mountain Dew it for ya
(Yes) that morning coffee, brewed it for ya
(Yes) one touch and I brand-newed it for ya (oh)"
"Well done, Luna, it was only one take and seems perfect." Mom said excitedly.
"I still need to record the background vocals, Mom, but yeah, in only one go. I can't wait to see how it performs, do you reckon a million views in one day?" I asked in joy.
"Well, no one will have seen any videos of you before; we'll need to make short-form versions of it and post them on other platforms too, and then hope enough people click on the video. You may get lucky and have some people recognise you as a Leonidas..." Mom seemed to internally calculate the expected view count.
Mom hesitantly said, "Luna, it'll probably be like 10 views or so on the first day and then it might pick up a bit later."
I imagine YouTube is the same as muscle building in that consistency and at least minimal effort is key. At least with my Angel's Voice ability, it should be quite good.
A few days later
"What's up chat? Dora the Destoryer is back!"
- OMG I THOUGHT SHE DIED!!!
- Ain't no way she real
- SHE'S ALIVE???
- Rent can not be this high
"I see way too many haters in the chat, but it's ok, I'm in a good mood today."
- Is Teresa here???
- Did you finally get laid?
- You ugly
- I know that watching you puts me in the m (deleted)
"Shut up before I decide to start banning you perverts again! Today we are going to watch my first ever student's debut music video."
- Dora has a student?
- It can't be...
- Dora so old she's passing on her legacy already
"Anyone who hates on my students gets insta-banned, so be nice."
- I'd never make fun of the student, after all it's the teacher's fault
- So we can blame you?
- Dora confirmed bad teacher?
"Heh, you'll see."
As Dora spoke she opened YouTube and searched up Luna Leonidas.
- I was right!
- Who's Luna?
- Leonidas? Show me Teresa
"For those who don't know Luna is Teresa's daughter and I've been teaching her how to sing for quite a while; she's quite good, maybe even better than me."
- Dora didn't teach a kid punk rock, did she?
- Dora the typa auntie to leave a kid at an amusement park
- Dora dumb, the video is titled Espresso, it's clearly a coffee-making tutorial ignore the calm version part
Dora, without saying anything, clicked on the video and saw that it was 4 days old and had 112 views with 30 likes.
'Most likely her family just liked and rewatched the video a bunch, but it can't be bad right?' Dora thought.
As Dora was in thought the video started playing...
"Now he's thinkin' 'bout me every night, oh
Is it that sweet? I guess so
Say you can't sleep, baby, I know
That's that me espresso"
Dora paused the video and seemed to unconsciously said, "Whoa..."
- Dora I think it's time to retire
- The student has surpassed the master
- Dora have you ever thought of the exquisite combination of a toaster and a bath?
- It do be kind of calm doe
Dora was quite shocked, after all, she'd only taught the absolute basics as a favor to Teresa and even after hearing Luna sing, she didn't think Luna would take it too seriously.
But from what she was hearing, that previous notion in her mind was completely shattered.