A new panel appeared before Sora.
[Talent: Death Declaration] [Quality: Epic] [Effect ①: You may declare the death of a target.
The declared target will die within three days, with the cause of death being random.
Cooldown: One month.] [Effect ②: As the price of possessing this talent, your age will regress by ten years.] The talent he had drawn was actually related to death.
Perhaps because he had already died once, his compatibility with death was unusually high.
But that wasn’t important.
Sora raised a hand and touched his face.
For a certain high school detective, regressing ten years and turning into an elementary school student might be considered a heavy price.
For Sora, however, going from the age of an overworked office worker back to a youthful fifteen-year-old was practically a bonus.
Although the talent gave off a strong Detective Conan vibe, the genuine version of that “scientific” power brought death to everyone around its user uncontrollably.
In comparison, although Death Declaration had a fairly long cooldown, it was something Sora could actively control.
It wouldn’t drag him into endless murder cases.
“Even if I ignore Effect ① entirely, Effect ② alone, letting me become ten years younger, already makes this an excellent talent.” After reading the talent description, Sora closed the talent panel and opened his 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 physical attribute Sora possessed was slightly below average.
That was reasonable.
After all, his age had suddenly regressed by ten years.
His younger body was still developing, so there was plenty of room for improvement.
Closing the status panel, Sora reopened his inventory.
The other mysterious card appeared in his hand.
[Identity Card] Sora silently said “Use” in his mind.
The next moment, the card transformed into countless red particles and merged into his body.
[Identity Acquired: First-Year Student of Toyogasaki Academy High School, Japan.] A flood of knowledge matching that identity poured into his mind.
Japanese…
Knowledge from elementary school through middle school…
Information about teachers and classmates at Toyogasaki…
Nearby roads and buildings…
The place he was currently renting…
Sora felt a dull ache spreading through his head.
After a while, he had completely absorbed all of the information.
The discomfort gradually faded.
Rubbing his forehead, Sora muttered to himself: “Toyogasaki Academy…
and a classmate named Megumi Kato…
this seems like a background character…” “The Identity Card even arranged a place to live for me.
That’s convenient.
But the apartment is located in Beika Town…
that’s not exactly a place people should be living in…” “Toyogasaki, Beika Town…
and the memories provided by my new identity also include Shuchiin Academy and Sobu High School…” “Locations from different anime series exist simultaneously.
In that case, this should be a crossover anime world.” Looking at his reflection in the river, Sora quietly organized the information he had just received.
Afterward, he opened the panel and examined the system’s other functions.
Besides the [Inventory], [Talent Skill Panel], and [Status Panel] that he had already used, there was also a [Shop Panel].
Upon opening it, he discovered that only a single item was currently available for sale.
— [Double Jump] Quality: Special Type: Consumable Effect: Learn the Secret Technique: Double Jump.
Price: 1 Gold Coin (First Purchase Discount.
Original Price: 1000 Gold Coins.) (Next refresh in: 30 days.) — Sora’s expression became rather strange.
Double Jump was an extremely common skill in many games.
Its effect was simple: after jumping once, the user could jump again in midair.
Usually it was used to cross tall obstacles or access hidden routes.
Yet such an ordinary skill had an original price of one thousand gold coins.
A Devil Fruit Mystery Box only cost ninety-nine gold coins.
This thing was worth more than ten Devil Fruit Mystery Boxes combined.
Something wasn’t right.
Sora’s eyes landed on a specific phrase.
Secret Technique: Double Jump.
He didn’t know what significance the “Secret Technique” prefix held, but it wasn’t difficult to guess that it was probably the reason for the absurd price.
So should he buy it?
Sora hesitated.
He still had no idea how the system’s gold, silver, and copper coins were earned.
The single gold coin from the beginner’s gift pack was the only money he possessed.
Once he spent it, he would be broke.
So far, he had only discovered two places where money could be spent.
One was the Shop.
The other was the advertisements he had seen during his resurrection.
Setting aside the fact that he still didn’t understand the conditions required to trigger those advertisements, none of the items in them seemed to offer a first-purchase discount.
If both systems shared the same purchase history, then buying something from an advertisement first might remove the Shop’s first-purchase discount.
That would be a huge loss.
As for waiting thirty days for the next shop refresh…
Sora shook his head.
He should invest all available resources into developing himself right now.
Once he had established himself in this new world and figured out how to earn money, he could think about other things.
[Purchase successful] A thin booklet appeared in Sora’s hand before transforming into a streak of light and entering his palm.
[Secret Technique: Double Jump learned.] At the same time, a new skill called [Secret Technique: Double Jump] appeared on his Talent Skill Panel.
He tried jumping in place.
Once he was airborne, he attempted to jump again.
It felt as though his foot had stepped onto something solid.
His body immediately launched upward a second time.
Sora repeated the process over a dozen times.
The sensation was surprisingly novel.
As the sun gradually sank below the horizon and darkness approached, Sora abandoned his testing and decided to head home.
Walking out from beneath the bridge, he felt a gentle breeze from the river.
The grass on the slope rippled like waves.
The bespectacled boy was still sitting in the same spot, reading.
Standing behind him was a long-haired girl.
Sailor uniform, pleated skirt, knee-high socks, leather shoes…
The standard appearance of a high school girl.
Even from a distance, the sight made Sora sigh at the beauty of youth.
He couldn’t help recalling the girls in his own class from the memories he had received.
They were all beautiful as well.
A crossover anime world really was wonderful.
The only odd thing was the variety of hair colors.
Every color imaginable seemed to exist.
Still, that was part of the charm.
Sora walked up the slope to the road, got his bearings, and started heading forward.
Not long afterward, a male student wearing the exact same uniform as the bespectacled boy hurried past him.
Then Sora heard an urgent shout from behind.
“This is bad!
The convenience store over there is having a half-price sale on potato chips!
Hurry and come with me!” Now that he could understand Japanese, Sora froze for a moment.
A realization struck him.
“So Daily Lives of High School Boys exists in this world too.
Good thing the Identity Card didn’t assign me there.
A high school life surrounded entirely by guys…”