Reach the Top [C61]

The next day.

Slowly waking up Shu Himo found himself stared at by 3 guys of the human race.

"What?!" Startled, he abruptly jumped from of the bed and took out his scythe, ready to cut in half the ones who dare to intrude in his room!

The other three witnessing him behaving like that felt to be wronged: it is you who came inside our room!

"Calm down, this is a misunderstanding! This is our room, we all live in the same room!" Hurriedly trying to explain themselves, they finally managed to make Shu Himo calm down.

Now being calm, Shu Himo observed the rest of the room and discerned that there are four beds, it appears he did not inspect the room at all and just collapsed on the bed last night.

Now embarrassed by his overreaction, Shu Himo looked toward the other three, "Sorry, recently a lot happened, and I was greatly exhausted, so I did not manage to notice the other three beds before falling asleep."

Witnessing his earnest excuse, the others did not mind, "It's fine, are you a new student? It's quite rare that someone comes like this, usually, only during the entrance exam there are new students!"

Nodding, Shu Himo then replied, "Yes, I just came here, my name is Shu Himo, and she is Phylia. Nice to meet you!"

"Nice to meet you too, we are Hao Fen, Xu Guo, and Cai Wu." While the three felt weird that Phylia is in the same room as them, they thought that it is best to not question.

All of a sudden, a noise destroyed their tranquillity.

*DONG*

"What is that?" Puzzled, Shu Himo looked toward the other three.

"It's the Assembly bell! This bell is the one used for the D Class, let's go before they come to hunt us." Hurriedly preparing themselves, the three are already on the door to go outside the room, "Fast, follow us!"

'Hunt us?' Puzzled, Shu Himo nevertheless replied, "Okay!" But despite responding quickly and beginning to follow them, he had an entirely different though, 'I'm hungry!' Finally noticing that he did not eat dinner the day before, Shu Himo has no way but to persevere in hunger.

Going outside the room, they successively went through many doors, crossing 5 portals before reaching their destination.

Appearing from the last portal, Shu Himo got startled by the next scene: aren't there way too many students in the D class?

In front of him, the view of a grand hall overflowing with people of various races can be seen. In the audience, there aren't any angels however there is an about equal amount of humans, beast-men, and elves.

The audience is at the very least five thousand students, up to 14 years old of age, much to the shock of Shu Himo: wasn't this an Academy of exceedingly talented people?

Shu Himo went to sit amongst the audience, viewing now toward the stage.

On the stage, suddenly a majestic angel can be seen: the Headmaster!

Looking toward the audience, he immediately started talking, "The reason for this reunion is a special announcement, in fact, from today three new students will be your classmates!"

This announcement surprised Shu Himo, is there one more student apart himself and Phylia?

"Let's start with Shu Himo, a 6 years old wolf-man and Phylia! Come on the stage to self-introduce yourselves!"

'Eh? Why the headmaster suddenly became a tv presenter?' Dumbfounded by how the headmaster is acting, Shu Himo went on the stage with Phylia.

Seeing the age of the child, all the students in the audience are shocked, being Dantian Core Formation of the 1st string at the age of six, that is something found only on B class and above!

Shu Himo, now on the stage, let Phylia introduce herself for first.

"Hi, my name is Phylia, nice to meet you all." Said that she then went behind Shu Himo once again, letting him do his speech.

"Hi everyone, my name is Shu Himo! I'm happy to know all of you, and while we will not stay together for much, I hope that we will be friendly to each other during this month!"

Hearing Shu Himo, the headmaster is startled, from where did you get all that confidence?

Even worse is the audience, who took his words as an insult, 'We will not stay together for much' who do you think you are? Some of them even decided to challenge later him at a duel, to teach him a lesson.

Shu Himo, returning to his spot among the audience displayed a radiant smile seeing that his targets took the hook, 'Now some of them will challenge me and I will be able to see if this Academy is really for talented individuals as my brother said.'

[It's surprising how the User did not just invited someone for a duel and instead just openly challenged everyone.]

'Shut up, are you really a system? Where is your pride, don't tell me you are scared of a group of D Class students?'

[Oh, if the User wants to act arrogant then the User shall prove to everyone to have the requisite to do it.]

'Eh?'

[Generating quest...]

[Abrupt Quest: Reach S Class during the next test!]

[You are a person with a System, how could you stay at the same level as others? Reach the top to complete this quest.]

[Quest Difficulty: S+]

[Quest Reward: 300 BS points.]

[Quest Failure: -50 BS points for each lower class than S.]

Instead of his usual reaction at a quest, Shu Himo smiled, 'So you do have a bit of pride after all...'

[The System is just considering the best course of action for the User, and always notice how it gets never taken.]

'Whatever...'

Suddenly from the stage, the voice of the headmaster resounded once again, "Now, let's introduce the last student, Aura Azusa!"