CHAPTER 51: 51 - ANNOYING THINGS [1]

I don’t know how long had passed, but I regained my consciousness later.

"...!"

I immediately opened my eyes and sat up.

"Haaaaa.... Haaaaa... Haaa..."

My body still aches, but it’s more bearable than what I felt earlier.

"How long was I unconscious?"

I asked.

-For an hour.

Then I received a reply from Levina, she’s in her spirit form. She’s now flying toward my direction.

"So I still have time to attend the class."

I mumbled, a bit relieved as I turned to her.

-Before that... Tell me, what happened earlier?

Levina asked me with a serious tone.

I can see that she’s worried about me, so after letting out a sigh...

"Okay, so—"

I told Levina that I acquired a skill and tested it out, and because my body can’t handle the skill fully—I suffered a backlash.

-I see...

After hearing my story—Levina started scanning my body.

-You need to be stronger to utilize that skill without receiving any backlash.

"I know."

I replied in a dissatisfied voice.

-Though, there’s a way you can use it much better right now...

Then I heard Levina whisper that under her breath unconsciously!

My eyes quickly widened and moved to her.

"Really? What is it?"

I eagerly asked her.

-Ah, no... It may be impossible for you.

"Just tell me, please."

I urged her, pleading.

-...

Levina just stared at me with a confused expression for a few seconds.

-Haaaaaaah... It’s by going through body reconstruction.

But in the end—she gave up and told me the solution she thought of.

"Body reconstruction?"

I tilted my head after hearing that.

Levina opened her mouth without hesitation and started explaining.

-Yes, young orcs go through body reconstruction after they reach the age of ten. It removes the impurities in their bodies and makes them more sturdy and stronger.

She said.

I know what body reconstruction is, I’m the one who wrote that setting about orcs to begin with.

Orcs are fighting geniuses, with overwhelming physical abilities, so I put that about them. The question is...

"How will I reconstruct my body?"

-I don’t know, only orcs can do it. That’s why I told you it might be impossible for you.

I frowned at Levina’s reply.

Then I started pondering, thinking of a way.

’How can I reconstruct my body?’

I read about it a lot in martial arts novels in my past life. But I didn’t put an artifact, herbs, or literally anything that will reconstruct one’s body in my novel.

’If I knew that I’d be reincarnated im here, then I would’ve put some.’

And then, just as I thought of that—

"Ah."

An idea came to mind.

"System, request a body reconstruction in the system shop."

I muttered, and the system automatically processed my command. Meanwhile, Levina is looking at me weirdly—I just ignored her as she doesn’t know anything about the system’s existence.

Anyway, the system replied not long.

[A body reconstruction is worth 10,000 CP, twice the amount you currently have.]

But after hearing that, it just made me frown even deeper.

"Can you do something about the price, like... Lower it a bit?"

I asked.

[Let me see...]

I waited for the system, and after a while...

[Oh, it can be lowered to 3000 CP... But it will not be effective immediately as you will need to train hard to reconstruct your body.]

The system informed me that.

"Really?!"

I actually didn’t expect it to work, but it turns out that I’m underestimating the system way too much.

Yeah, I’ll need to train hard and it will not have an effect immediately.

But who cares, it’s all advantageous to me anyway!

"Purchase it immediately."

I instructed without a second thought.

[Done.]

The system quickly replied.

I felt like something was being added to my body. I can’t see it, but I know it’s there. I smiled at that.

"Let me see what I should do to reconstruct my body."

Swoosh~

Though, my smile immediately disappeared and was replaced by a frown after the system projected a new transparent window in front of me.

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[Body Reconstruction]

1. Run 20,000 kilometers.

2. Do 5,000 push-ups.

3. Do 5,000 sit-ups.

4. Do 5,000 squats.

5. Lift 75 kilograms, 20,000 times

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"Well, this will take a while."

I grumbled, squinting my eyes.

...

...

...

*****

Alec and everyone else in [CLASS A-1] is already in their room, except for Raven.

Their class has 50 students overall. Other freshmen sections have up to 100 students or more.

"Raven’s still not here, huh."

Blake mumbled to himself.

Alec, Adelle, Eve, and Aoi heard him. Curtis has his attention on Eve so he didn’t.

"Maybe he’s still training?"

Adelle suggested.

"Yeah, there’s a high chance."

Alec followed, supporting his words.

Raven always come to the classroom just right before classes start, he’s using every moment he can to train and clean himself, this is a well-known fact to their group. Actually, to the whole [CLASS A-1].

"Hey, I saw Raven running again in the academy this morning."

"Yeah, I saw him enter the training grounds earlier too."

"He’s back, huh."

Just then, Alec and the others heard a group of three girls talking about Raven—they didn’t turn their heads, but they heightened their hearing senses listen to the girls’ conversation.

"Where do you think he went to?"

"I don’t know... But Miss Ruby said the reason he didn’t attend classes is because he’s training."

"How strong do you think Raven is?"

At the question of Girl A, the others went silent for a while.

"I don’t know, but he’s using a gun so..."

Girl B mumbled.

"But he sometimes feels big and strong."

Then Girl C added.

"What you just said sounded weird."

"Oh, shut up, you know what I mean."

"Hahahaha—"

The three of them laughed for a while, then Girl A spoke again.

"But seriously, Raven is kinda mysterious, isn’t he?"

She asked, and the others nodded in response.

Though they weren’t part of the conversation—Alec, Adelle, and Aoi also think that Raven is too mysterious and weird sometimes.

"His mysteriousness makes him kinda attractive, right?"

Girl C then suddenly suggested that.

"Yeah! I get you, he isn’t really that good-looking... But he’s weirdly attractive."

Girl A followed.

"Right?! I also think so too—his vibe feels a lot different from some of our childish boy classmates."

Then Girl B immediately added.

"Yeah, he’s more mature."

"And he’s so smart."

"Also, his sharp eyes... I always find myself staring at them."

"And when he declared that Miss Keara belongs to him."

"Kyaaaa!"

The girls then continued to talk about Raven’s good points while squirming and slightly blushing.

"Raven became popular because of that event, huh."

Adelle muttered. She’s talking about when Raven claimed Keara for himself in front of the whole class.

"Why is that guy so popular? I’m clearly more charismatic than him."

Curtis grumbled, he was also listening to the girls’ conversation.

"They said because Raven is mature, they must think you look childish compared to him."

Then Blake unconsciously said what was in his mind after hearing his words!

Alec, Adelle, Aoi, Eve, and Curtis looked at him with widened eyes.

Curtis glared at him while Alec is looking at him surprised, the same goes for Aoi.

Adelle finds the situation funny and is trying her best not to laugh.

Eve is looking at Blake with a weird smile, like saying he did a good job.

But Blake didn’t notice all the stares and just continued to speak.

"I mean, you’re cringe sometimes when you’re trying to be romantic... While Raven might be doing the same, he just somehow makes himself looks cooler."

He shrugged.

"Maybe it’s because of the way he carries himself confidently.."

Then he added immediately.

"Oh, is that so."

Though after that, Blake felt chills all over his body!

His head turned to the others, and there he saw Alec looking at him with worried eyes, Aoi with a shocked expression, Adelle holding her laughter back, Eve smiling widely at him—

"...!"

And Curtis looking at him with a smile, though his eyes and the atmosphere around him are scary!

’Oh, shit.’

This is when Blake realized what he just did.

"Your main weapon is a shield, right, Blake?"

Curtis asked, still smiling creepily.

Blake is getting scared.

"I want to have a spar with you later. I want to try sparring with a tanker once."

Curtis followed.

"Wha... Ah... I didn’t mean that, well I mean, Raven does look cooler than you sometimes but... AHHHHH!"

Blake tried to make excuses, but his mouth is just too honest. Thus, it just made Curtis more mad.

But while that was happening—

"What do you guys find attractive about that guy? He’s weak as fuck and he looks like shit."

Alen and the others suddenly heard that!

A boy had approached the three girls that were talking about Raven earlier and said that arrogantly!

"..."

Alec and the others frowned and perked up their ears upon hearing that.