Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Players discovered a new use for tennis rackets! ...
"--yawn…"
"Bunta, if you're too tired, there's no need to force yourself to come so early."
"Huh—that's what you said, but didn't you, Kuwabara, leave early too?"
"That's because..."
6:50 A.M. Arrived at Rikkai University Affiliated High School half an hour earlier than usual, Marui Bunta and Jack Kuwahara turned around and chatted as they entered the school gate.
"That guy should be there now, right?"
"That's probably the case. After all, he was so tired that he fell asleep immediately yesterday. Maybe he won't wake up even when we get here!"
"Haha, that's true. But it does seem a little strange. Did Rikkai University have student dormitories before?"
"Uh uh... I don't think so. It seems there wasn't any before yesterday, but after yesterday..."
The two looked at each other, undoubtedly thinking of the same person.
Marui Fumita scratched his cheek and said, "That's right. After all, considering that kid's situation, it might be more convenient for him to live in a student dormitory."
The eldest brother Marui nodded affirmatively, "Yeah, safety first, safety is the most important!"
“…%#%…￥@￥…”
"&*%#--garbage……"
"￥# didn't...disappear￥%..."
The closer they got to the student dormitory, the clearer Marui Bunta and Jack Kuwahara could hear it.
It was dark. A bunch of students who had arrived early for duty had gathered in front of the dormitory. They were crowded there, talking loudly and lowly about something.
Marui and Kuwahara looked at each other, and a subtle thought quickly crossed their minds. Unable to stop feeling uneasy, the two squeezed into the crowd.
"Sorry, sorry—excuse me for disturbing you. Hahaha, why are you all gathered here so early in the morning? What happened?"
A chattering student said, "Oh, it's Marui! You didn't know! There was a thief last night!"
Marui and Kuwabara were shocked: "Thief?!"
The second student chattered: "That's right! Damn thief #%￥... Why did he steal that thing instead of something valuable? How despicable!!"
Marui and Kuwahara looked at each other.
If it was the thief, it couldn't be someone they knew, right?
Marui: "Ahaha..."
Marui: "So what exactly was stolen that made all the fuss?"
The students on duty all pointed and said, "That's it!"
Marui and Kuwahara turned around and saw——
The trash can is empty!
The furious student on duty roared helplessly, "Damn thief! He stole all forty trash can lids in the school in one night!
Now the stench is all over the place! Ugh, don’t let me know who is so wicked! Otherwise, I will definitely &*%#@...!”
Marui: "..."
Kuwahara: "..."
Where does this ominous premonition come from...
“Crash!”
At exactly seven o'clock in the morning, the player finished watering the last piece of land!
Cultivate the land, sow potato seeds, water, and you're done!
【Task 3: The beginning of the farmer
To become a qualified farmer, you must start with the basics. Use a hoe to cultivate the land, then sow seeds in the soil, and water it every day until the crops are ripe.
Plant and harvest potatoes (0/1)
Reward: 2000 yen, EXP+200]
The player, wearing a trash hat that he had finally found after turning over 44 trash cans, calculated his physical strength and started chopping trees.
When completing Task 3, the player also completed the advanced task of making a scarecrow. The scarecrow needs to be synthesized with fifty pieces of wood and twenty fibers in the backpack.
The player uses a sickle to quickly harvest the weeds on the back hill to collect twenty fibers.
The player then starts chopping down trees.
A hoe is allowed! A sickle is allowed! A kettle...this one is also allowed!
There are no tools for players to chop down trees? !
The player was about to harass the customer service again, but his hand slipped and touched the [worn tennis racket].
The player equips a tennis racket.
The player swung his tennis racket and fell into deep thought.
Player... discovered a blind spot!
…
"One! Two! Three! Four! Changsheng Lihai!"
"Go Go Let's Go! Rikkai Let's Go!"
For some reason, the Rikkai University Tennis Club felt an inexplicable tension today.
Upon closer inspection, there was a hint of death on everyone's face.
Even so, some people would take a peek at the tennis club gate between running laps and training.
"Are you coming? Are you coming?"
"It seems not... Not sure, let's take a look."
The crowd communicated with each other through eye contact.
Genichirō Sanada stood motionless at the entrance of the tennis club with his arms folded for forty minutes.
After finishing his morning training, Yanagi Renji opened his notebook and said, "...still not here yet?"
Sanada said nothing and pulled his hat down.
Marui Bunta came over chewing bubble gum and thought for a moment before saying, "Kwabara and I went to the student dormitory this morning. The dormitory manager said that no one would be there before seven o'clock."
Jack Sangyuan wiped the sweat off his face with a towel and nodded, "The same goes for the student cafeteria. There's no one there either."
Liu: "Where's the first grade classroom?"
Kirihara Akaya also raised his hand appropriately: "I asked the first-year students in the club! They said they didn't see Yagi go to class either!"
Niou Masaharu stroked his braid and said, "Where has our miracle freshman gone so excitedly so early in the morning? Puri~"
"Too lazy!" Sanada scolded.
"Hey, hey~ Let's save the scolding until we find that guy," Marui counted on his fingers, "He's not in the dormitory, not in the cafeteria, not in class, not in the tennis club... Where on earth could that guy be..."
For some reason, a certain place flashed through everyone's mind.
“…”
“…”
"Maybe, there... maybe?"
"How about... go and take a look?"
"Just take a look...just take a look?"
The team led by Sanada reached the back mountain on foot. When they arrived, the player had already chopped down five trees and collected 100 pieces of wood. He was sitting on a rock, chewing on a piece of bread that could restore 20 health points while counting the small garbage in his backpack.
I spent 1,200 yen to buy three loaves of bread in the student cafeteria. In the morning, I rummaged through the trash can and found two cans of Coke and a pack of very hard-to-chew biscuits. The worn glasses and discarded paper and pens were negligible.
And some sap and pine cones dropped from felled trees.
NPC: "%￥@#*)... No way..."
NPC: "It's clearly %#￥%... here￥...*!"
Oh hoo! The NPC is here to issue quests!
The player quickly ate another piece of bread and jumped off the stone to approach.
Pigtail NPC: "Is this a scarecrow? But why is it here, puri~?"
Squinty-eyed NPC: "That's a bit strange. Why is there a garbage lid on the scarecrow's head? Is this some new art style?"
The red-haired and bald NPCs looked terrified, resembling the "Scream": "—Wait, why is the trash can lid here!?"
The player didn't understand and just poked A.
Then all the NPCs noticed the short player wearing a trash hat.
If it weren't for the trash can... oh no, the familiar poking gesture, I would almost think someone had thrown the trash can here.
NPC: “…”
NPC: “…………”
It seems that this is not the place to issue tasks, so the regretful player ran away.
But Mushroom Head was picked up just after he took a step.
NPC: "It's you... You stole all the trash can lids in the school?!"
Another NPC said: "Now that you've joined the tennis club, it would be too lazy not to go to training!"
And NPC: "Class is about to start. We'll talk about these things later. Now let's go back to class."
——Skip everything!
Everyone looked at the first-year student with the lifeless eyes. Oh, of course, the trash can cap was still very noticeable.
However, out of respect, even the unrestrained Kirihara Akashi couldn't help but stretch out his evil hand.
"Where did you get this hat? It looks pretty cool..."
"——Akaiya!"
"Just pretend I didn't say it, just pretend I didn't say it..."
The player was stunned for a while, and just when everyone thought he finally realized that he had to get back on track.
The black-haired mushroom head took out a biscuit, raised his hands high as if he was tired, and placed it directly on the garbage hat. He looked at everyone blankly and began to chew it with great effort.
NPC: “…”
"No, I really can't do it anymore... This kid is totally unacceptable!" Marui Bunta raised the white flag.
He looked at the little guy holding up the trash can lid, then looked at the scarecrow holding up the trash can lid and fluttering in the wind, and suddenly he was at a loss as to who he was, where he was, and what he was doing.
Jack Sangyuan couldn't hold back his urge to complain, "It's better to say that he only eats salt and oil..."
Liu discovered more. The fields were cultivated with a radius of eight meters as the center of the scarecrow. The soil had been neatly turned and the seeds had been planted. Judging from the color contrast of the surrounding soil, it seemed that even the water had been poured.
Liu looked at the new scarecrow again and glanced at the five bare tree stumps not far away.
This time, looking at Mushroom Head chewing the biscuit with great effort, I made a judgment in my mind, but at the same time, deeper doubts arose.
He was thinking when the noise started again.
"Why did he leave again??"
"What is he going to do this time?!"
"No, hey—you should go to class now!"
There was a lot of noise, but the player turned a deaf ear to it. The player's physical strength had recovered to the green bar, and now it was time for the player to make a wooden fence!
So, under everyone's gaze, the freshman, wearing a trash hat and looking like he had difficulty walking, stood in front of the tree, dragging his tennis racket.
For some reason, several people had a bad feeling in their hearts.
"What is he standing there for...?"
"Still holding a tennis racket? Training on your own?"
"No way... This guy doesn't look like someone who would do such a normal thing..."
A sound that made my ears tingle and my teeth ache was heard.
“Bang—bang—bang—!”
“BOOM—BOOM—BOOM—!”
"Gah-squeak-boom--!!"
With a pale face, the huge pine tree was chopped down at a speed of 10 times per second.
The metal tennis racket even produced sparks from the friction with the tree stump, and for a moment, wood chips flew everywhere and covered the ground.
Everyone in Rikkai was dumbfounded, as they were hit in the face by the flying dust and wood chips.
The human eye cannot keep up with the speed of his swing and can only barely see the afterimage of the racket.
The person who did all this still had an expressionless face and his dead eyes didn't blink until he finished chopping down the tree in such a hardcore manner.
Everyone: “…”
Everyone: “…………”
Kirihara Akaya's jaw almost dropped to the ground.
He looked around in a trance and confusion, and asked hesitantly,
"Am I...still dreaming? I was hallucinating just now. I actually saw that first grader...chopping down trees with a tennis racket..."
Marui Bunta said nothing and just kept popping his bubble gum.
After a short pause, the broken people struggled to piece together their worldview that was shattered beyond repair.
The player looked at the worn-out tennis racket with regret as its durability successfully dropped to 0, and turned around to make a fence in his backpack.
The player held the fence above his head with both hands and passed by a group of NPCs who were as quiet as chickens for some reason.
The player surrounded the field with a wooden fence,
The player checked the task bar and found that the location check-in task had been refreshed. He turned on the navigation and passed by the silent NPCs again and immediately ran away.
Oh no! There's only one and a half minutes left in the location check-in mission, and players are running out of time!
Before everyone could comprehend their worldview, they saw a black shadow rush out from before their eyes.
The first grader ran down the mountain without looking back.
Although their sanity had not yet returned, their instincts, which had been hurt so many times, had already given them an emergency warning. Several people hurriedly ran after Yagi Kei and asked him,
"Hey! Where are you going again!?!"
"Wait! Wait for us!!"
"——Yagi Kei, if you have the guts to run away, you have the guts to speak!!"
The players turned a deaf ear to the NPCs' cries, and the countdown for the punch-in task in the task bar had already begun:
59, 58, 43, 40, 28...
After calculation, no matter how cunningly players move, there is a 90% chance that they will miss the punch-in task.
Players will never allow it!
Gritting his teeth and making up his mind, the player immediately opened two cans of Coke to deal with emergencies.
【JJ Cola: JJ company's flagship product
+13 Stamina, +5 Health/Speed +5, Duration 21s]
The few people following closely behind just watched helplessly as the person who had been gradually maintaining a distance suddenly raised his hands and held a can of Coke.
While running as fast as he could, moving flexibly to avoid, jump, roll and overcome any possible obstacles on the road in a straight line, he opened a can of Coke with one hand and threw it into his mouth without blinking.
NPC: “…”
NPC: "???!!"
— Bubble gum is fine, but Coke cans really aren’t okay!!!
Before one can is finished, the player gets another one.
Finally, with the speed +10 BUFF, the player was able to distance himself from the NPCs.
After a few seconds, everyone could only see his dusty back.
Kirihara Akaya, who was panting and even a little out of breath, was like a dog about to die of exhaustion, and his breathing became even heavier than a cow: "Huff, huff... Senpai, should we still chase, chase?!"
Everyone who was silent but wanted to express the same idea: "..."
Sanada Genichirō gritted his teeth and said, "Chase!"
Everyone: OAQ!!
The player barely managed to slip into the check-in point while the scarlet countdown was 3 seconds, rolled into the classroom through the crack in the door, and then canceled a double jump and shook his hand to raise it gloriously.
The player found an empty seat among the terrified and confused NPCs who were staring at the player, and quickly entered the check-in point.
Oh my goodness I ran fast!!
The player successfully checked in and happily faced the stunned teacher NPC on the podium with lifeless eyes and a dazed look on his face.
The face under the trash hat had no expression at all, only the corners of the mouth twitched upwards from time to time, which was very weird.
Teacher NPC: “…”
First-year NPCs around the player: "QAQ Mom!! This place is scary!"
Just as the class bell rang, the teacher NPC who witnessed the entire process of the player's operation was shocked.
Looking at the first grader with a mushroom head and a trash can lid on his head, the teacher kept repeating to himself, "Teachers should be role models and educate students, and lead by example." In the end, he gritted his teeth and chose to respect the student.
"Since the bell has rung, let's start class now!"
At this moment, the members of the tennis club finally arrived, panting and sweating profusely, and barely chasing after the back of the mushroom-haired first-year freshman. They looked at the people who were sitting obediently in the classroom with the posture of elementary school students listening to the class with trembling eyes.
A world where only players can enter at the right time!
For a moment, everyone's emotions were incredibly complicated, and they clenched their fists tightly to suppress violent thoughts...
——Why don’t you just say that you ran so fast just to get back to class!!!
Now, all the regular players of the tennis club are OUT!
The author has something to say:
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The tennis club members, who were summoned to the office after class to discuss their lateness, met: ... (forbearance) (keeping silent) (tacitly brushing it off)
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