10. Decide to be a good Tokyo guy in this life(1/2)
The monthly test is over and we enter the long holiday commonly known as Golden Week, which lasts from April 29 to May 5.
Watanabe Toru went to Beijing on a day when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom. In a blink of an eye, the cherry blossoms had withered and the trees were covered with green leaves. A month had passed.
It’s time to plant rice in my hometown.
At this time of year every year, Toru Watanabe's parents would go out to plant rice seedlings at four in the morning. Except for coming back for a short break at noon, they would stay in the fields the rest of the day.
When he was a child, his parents felt sorry for him because he was smart. If he wanted to help, he would be asked to stay at home and read or go play. When he grew up, the village bought a rice transplanter, and his physical strength was also exhausted, and he couldn't even help with weeding.
He couldn't bend down for a long time. The sharpness of weeds could easily cut his skin. The leeches greedily sucked his blood and the gadflies hovered over his head.
"Actually, I can still grow potatoes."
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was useless except for studying, so Toru Watanabe defended himself.
Although growing potatoes only requires cutting them into pieces, digging a hole, burying them, and then picking up dead leaves from the mountains and spreading them on top.
Before the holiday, Toru Watanabe had a phone call with his family and agreed to stay in Tokyo to work during the golden week and go back after the summer vacation.
Putting on his private clothes, Toru Watanabe took the train to the intersection of Shinjuku and found the Walco clothing store where he worked part-time.
"Your name is Toru Watanabe? Your job is to stand at the intersection in front and hold up the billboard. If you are tired, you can rest for a while, but not for too long. Do you understand?"
"clear."
The crossroads where the Walco Clothing Store is located is the entrance to Shinjuku's bar street. Standing here, you can observe almost all the women entering and exiting.
Just hold up the billboard for a few hours...
Toru Watanabe originally wanted to find a job as a traffic volume survey - sitting there and counting pedestrians and vehicles with a counter. Unfortunately, there are no such coincidences in the world.
There are some part-time jobs doing traffic volume surveys, but they are not on this street.
If he doesn't look for a job, a freshman in high school who stays near the red light district will definitely be interrogated by the police.
Moreover, he could still make money while looking for people and working part-time, and he only had more than 4,000 yen left on him.
This kind of hard work can earn much more than employees in shopping malls.
Although he has points that can be exchanged for a lot of money, he wants to save them to exchange for intelligence, physical strength and charm. In addition, there are still two days until May, and maybe he will have the skills he wants by then.
Toru Watanabe held up a billboard and stood at the intersection of the busy street. Besides him, there were already guys in doll costumes handing out leaflets, and these people were doing the same job.
There are many people coming and going, so it is unrealistic to use a [detector] on every woman who walks by.
Those who are not young will not work, those who are not beautiful will not work, those who are not single will not work, and those who are not dressed openly enough will not work.
"Handsome guy, do you want to go to the coffee shop together?"
"Eh~~? Yukie, this handsome guy looks like a high school student!"
"As long as he's handsome, he might still be a virgin~~!"
Watanabe Toru looked at the woman in front of him who was chatting with him. Her shirt was open and her collarbone was boldly exposed. She was very attractive and looked pretty.
[Character: Kuroda Yukie]
【Charm: 5】
【pass】
"Sorry, I'm working part-time. If you need to buy clothes, please come to Walco."
After saying that, Toru Watanabe bowed and walked away.
I was actually fooled by makeup!
According to his estimation, the charm should be six points!
The woman named Kuroda Yukie wanted to follow her, but was pulled away by her companions who shouted, "There are police here."
A female college student dressed as a maid and handing out flyers said with a smile: "It's so popular."
"I just want to work quietly." Toru Watanabe smiled bitterly.
This female college student is also the same. Ever since they first met, she has been looking for opportunities to talk to him.
Is sister-brother romance popular in Tokyo? Or is it ok as long as they are handsome?
Growing up in a remote village, there were only five teachers and students in the school, ranging in age from the first grade to the third grade. Toru Watanabe had never been so popular.
After arriving in Tokyo, there were all kinds of love letters and chats.
He suddenly remembered a line from the movie "Your Name" by Makoto Shinkai in his previous life:
"Please let me be a handsome boy in Tokyo in the next life."
Maybe the life of a handsome guy in Tokyo is always like this? It's just him making a fuss?
You have to adapt well to your new identity.
His legs were sore when he stood and he couldn't lift his arms. Toru Watanabe used up three opportunities and failed to find a single target.
He has tried his best to select the most beautiful women to use the [Detector]. Except for Kuroda Yukie who just took the initiative to strike up a conversation with five points of charm, the other two have six points and seven points, but they all show [pass].
I don’t know if the charm must reach eight points, or if there are other hidden conditions that need to be met besides charm.
Return the billboard to the store and get today's salary. Normally it won't be paid on a daily basis, but for temporary workers during the Golden Week, it can.
It took four hours and the total cost was 5,200 yen.
The hourly wage is 1,300 yen, which is very high, but the work content is also hard.
Watanabe Toru feels that if he continues this job, it will only be a matter of time before his physical strength increases to 4 or even 5 points.
However, he is still too naive and underestimates this society.
Women in society - especially those who go to bars in Shinjuku, all have excellent makeup skills, and their appearance is generally higher than their original level.
With his level of femininity even without makeup, it is a waste of points and time to come here to find strategy targets.
The school is better, as makeup is strictly prohibited. No matter how beautiful the female students are, they only dare to wear light makeup and dye their hair a little brighter.
All women above high school pass - Toru Watanabe made up his mind because he knew deeply that as soon as women graduate from high school, they will undergo earth-shaking changes like silkworm chrysalises turning into butterflies.
The 1,000 points spent on [Detector], including the money spent on buying lunch at night - the lunch was provided by a clothing store, ended up losing more than 9,000 yen in one day.
So in the next six days of Golden Week, except for Naka, Osamu Kunii, and Keisuke Saito, they went to Akihabara for a tour. Tetsu Watanabe was working and studying, and no longer wasted points on Shinjuku Kabuki.
During this period, in the early morning of May 1st, the game store was refreshed.
[Items: Detector (1/1000), Healing Medicine (1/1000)]
[Money: 100 yen/1 point]
[Intelligence: 1 point/100,000 points]
[Charm: 1 point/10,000 points]
[Stamina: 1 point/5,000 points]
[Skills: Beginner—Flower Arranging (100), Master—Cooking (1000), Mastery—Driving (10,000), Master—Free Fighting (100,000)]
Watanabe Toru carefully studied the newly added item [Healing Medicine]. As its name suggests, it can only heal injuries, not diseases.
But it's not bad, as long as you don't die immediately and you still have points, you can survive.
[Supplementary Rules] The first article "The player's death has nothing to do with this game and there is no obligation to resurrect" always gives him the feeling that this is not a simple love game.
All in all, you are prepared.
Next are the five skills for this month. Except for the repetition of "Cooking", the other four are all new skills.
Toru Watanabe is very interested in master-level "free fighting".
Is there any man who is not interested?
Even if you don't take the initiative to fight and cause trouble, fighting well is better than not fighting well. As the saying goes, a gentleman hides his weapons in his body. A person must have the confidence to have someone who will not offend me and I will not offend others. If someone offends me, I will kill him.
There is also master-level "cooking". According to the explanation in the [Supplementary Provisions], it is enough to cook good dishes, and he can say goodbye to the bento boxes in the mall.
If you can't finish eating, you can take it to school to make lunch, which will save you some money.
wait wait wait!
Rather than saving money, you should save points! What if you have better skills next time? For example, "free fighting" and "free fighting".
The master "free fighting" Toru Watanabe really wants it!
He had enough reason to suspect that the game was tempting him to be a scumbag and try to earn points!
On May 3rd, at seven o'clock in the evening.
[Number of days to sign in: Tamamo is so beautiful·one week]
[Players get sign-in gift packs]
【Money·100,000 yen】
[50% off charm redemption coupon (player charm must be below 10 points, and can only be exchanged for one point)]
One point of charm is worth 10,000 points, and a 50% discount costs 5,000 points. Now he only has 4,000 points left, and he still needs to redeem [detectors].
Otherwise, you can exchange it for a little more and continue your studies on the path of "Tokyo Handsome Guy".
To be continued...