Sleep is for the plebs

I yawn as I left my bedroom, still thinking about the conversation I had with Darkvern or Vern for short last nights, I thought he would be especially talkative by how he acted last night, but apparently he is just a lazy bastard and insist that he needs to "hibernate" to maintain his optimum condition, meaning that I couldn't grind the skill up. Well, I still have a few weeks left before the canon starts, so it wouldn't be a big deal if he sleeps.

I then head down to the dinning room to have some food before heading to school. Seeing that my mom was already there, I picked up a bowl and joined her for breakfast.

"Mom I'm going to hang out with some friends again today. Or do you need me early here today?" I asked her as I stood up from the table with my plate but instead of taking only my dishes, I picked her up and went to the counter to wash them. It was a blatant way of telling her I wanted to go hang out with my friends and if the amused look she gave me was anything to go by then she caught on with my intentions.

She shook her head at me lightly. "Don't worry Ise. I still have lots of errands to run and I will start going to the gym to improve my figure. Can't let the goods go to waste after all," she said sagely closing her eyes and nodding her head.

"Of course," I agreed with her as I closed the window that alerted me of the creating of the skill [Dish Washing] (Really?) and finished off the cleaning of the plates, vases and utensils we had used before I dried my hands with a towel. "Since you are going to the gym should I buy food for myself?"

She shook her head. "Don't bother. I'll buy it myself on my way home from the gym since I'll be arriving roughly at the time we eat. It won't be daily mind you since I'll just be going three days a week."

I nodded at her and picked up my bag from the floor. "I'll be on my way then. See you tonight mom. Love you," I said and kissed her on the cheek before walking away. I was surely telling her that I loved her came out as easily as it did thanks to Gamer's Mind. I was thankful because it made my deceit easier.

I stepped out of the house and after accepting the normal reputation gain quest of arriving at school early and coming back home early I activated Observe and began to leisurely walk towards Kuoh Academy, looking at anything and everything that was interesting and mundane. I needed to improve observe as quickly as I could to gain the most information I could from just a glance because that was my most powerful weapon after Gamer's Mind and Gamer's Body.

It didn't level up, didn't come even close, by the time I arrived at Kuoh because I was sure that after level five skills will only level up fast in combat situations and sadly I didn't have too much time with school and sleeping…

Wait…

Did I even need to sleep?

I mean it was a fair question. My health was not 'monitored', for a lack of better words, by normal means. It was monitored by my HP and Gamer's Body made it so any fatigue or physical pain I felt only lasted for a few seconds top before it being willed away. Gamer's Mind would also take care of any mental fatigue I developed for lack of sleep. Slowly a monstrous grin grew in my face as began snickering to myself.

Ah. The brokenness.

Anyways my evil moment of the day ended just before Kuoh came to view and it thankfully spared me of the strange looks I would surely get if I walked in randomly laughing like your every cliché evil villain. Anyways after greeting Sona, who lacked the surprise at seeing me so early from the previous two days, with a nod that she returned as I felt my reputation with her and the school slowly increase I walked towards my classroom and took a seat.

There was a skill I didn't get to test yesterday and I was sure it will come in handy. I pulled out one random book from my bag and looked at it with observe, which had been active all the time since I left home and it hadn't levelled up. Sighing in annoyance I sent that to the back burner and stared at the mathematics book I pulled out. Making sure that no one was looking I focused on the book.

"Knowledge Absorption," I whispered and I was glad it was a subtle technique. I felt my mana going from within my core towards the book using the contact with my skin as a medium and my eyes widened in surprise as I felt my mana copying what was written in the book and implanting it on my head. Most of the stuff I already knew or vaguely recalled it but thanks to this I had the feeling I won't be having any problems recalling what I learned through the use of this technique.

I was about to start salivating like a subnormal fool when I noticed Katase and Murayama entering the classroom. The noticed me looking at them and Katase smiled in greeting and Murayama smirked at me. Katase made a motion with her hand telling me she wanted to speak with me later and I was sure it was about where we were going to hang out after school. I nodded at her and her smile widened a tad before she and her friend took their seats.

I admired their beauty for a second before Aika entered the room. She gave me the sexy eye and I returned it with an amused look that had her giggling like a well, erm, schoolgirl. I shrugged my shoulders as she took her seat and admired her supple curves, to grind Observe of course (hehe).

A moment later a decided enough ogling and tore my eyes away from her and blatantly ignored the overbearing entrance of Motohama and Matsuda as I pulled out another book from the bag. There was a hungry gleam on my eyes that had anyone caught I would have been suspected of being a psychopath.

"Knowledge Absorption."

I was so going to abuse the shit out of this.

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After spending the first half an hour of the first period absorbing the knowledge on the books I will be using for the school year I decided I could grind the skills that weren't flashy at any time and also didn't consume mana due to my regeneration rate of fifty. Along with [observe] I kept [Reinforcement] and [Stealth] activated which amusingly enough allowed me to sneak up on unsuspecting people, scaring them.

I also spent the whole morning annoying teachers with my now perfect knowledge of the school material –Knowledge absorption was a level three now. I hadn't been bothering myself with paying attention and all of them had taken notice of this and had called me out on it. When the asked me questions about the subject to embarrassing me they were in turn embarrassed by my perfect textbooks answers. If I kept this up for a week they'll know not to bother me, which was what I wanted.

The reputation gains for knowing the material and not showing off was also appreciated.