Kamiya Seiichi sat calmly cross-legged in the study, holding out his palm to look at his new body.
His fingers were long and fair, with a jade-like quality. When he squeezed them hard, he could almost hear the cracking sound of his bones.
This body was clearly not ordinary, Kamiya Seiichi thought.
Kamiya Seiichi was the name of this body. In his previous life, he was from a different country, and there was no need to think too much about his past. He didn't dare to either, because rumors said that doing so would make him meet the invincible ancient god called River Crab, who lived across the long river of time.
"From today on, I am Kamiya Seiichi."
Kamiya Seiichi looked around his surroundings. It was a Japanese-style study room, designed with very traditional charm. A faint elegant feeling filled the space.
He sat on a tatami mat used for cross-legged sitting, placed right in the center of the room. Almost no other furniture could be seen.
One strange detail was the Japanese longswords displayed by the wall.
"A rich family, then? After all, ordinary people wouldn't need a special room just for sitting and thinking, right? The most important thing right now is to sort out my memories first."
Suddenly, Kamiya Seiichi felt a sharp pain in his head, like someone hit him with a hammer.
"Holy crap!" Even someone as calm as Kamiya Seiichi couldn't help but shout.
Then, Kamiya Seiichi fell down, losing consciousness.
As the sun slowly set, Kamiya Seiichi slowly woke up. He struggled to open his eyes, got up unsteadily, and shook his head.
He felt many new things in his mind, including memories about himself and this world.
This world had hundreds of countries.
The country Kamiya Seiichi was in was called Divine Sakura Country, named after the God Sakura Tree it worshipped.
It had four major prefectures, which were split into counties and cities. The place he was in was Mizusawa County in Sekigahara Prefecture, one of the four major prefectures.
What shocked him was not just this. This world was huge, so huge that even Divine Sakura Country, which was considered a high-level country among the hundreds, was as big as the entire Eurasian continent from his previous life. The population was massive too.
At the same time, this world had supernatural powers.
"Supernatural abilities, so that's how it is."
He felt the strong power flowing inside his body. This was not his imagination.
People with supernatural abilities could flip rivers and seas, destroy heaven and earth. They were at the center of this world's power.
The governments of hundreds of countries formed a group alliance to rule this big world together.
"It's pretty amazing that hundreds of countries with the same culture haven't become one big country but work together like this."
Kamiya Seiichi muttered.
He walked to the weapon rack, picked up a katana, and slowly pulled it out of its case.
A faint ringing sound came as the snow-white blade appeared when the whole sword was drawn.
Kamiya Seiichi carefully touched it, feeling the familiar feeling: thrust, slash, block, cut...
His body started to move like it remembered these moves, and at the same time, Kamiya Seiichi was looking through his predecessor's memories.
His predecessor was a student at Mizusawa County Private First National Middle School, the best middle school in Mizusawa County.
As an A-class student with supernatural potential, he got into the school. With good grades and strength, he joined the A-class genius program, getting ready to try for the top high school in all of Divine Sakura Country: Tokyo Prefectural High School.
But his predecessor wasn't lucky. His parents died young, leaving only a younger sister to take care of.
Compared to kids from other supernatural families, his predecessor could only practice swordsmanship every day, working as hard as he could.
Even so, his predecessor still didn't become the top person at Mizusawa County Private First National Middle School. He stopped at third place.
"It wasn't because he didn't want to practice swordsmanship, but because he didn't have access to any sword school resources and supernatural materials? His talent was clearly great, but the situation was too limiting."
His predecessor was thought of as an arrogant genius because he never used sword techniques in fights. He only used basic moves to beat enemies, making it look easy and simple. People thought he was hiding his real strength.
Kamiya Seiichi felt a bit confused. His predecessor died from working too hard before he could even show his true power.
Yes, he died from exhaustion.
So now, a problem was in front of Kamiya Seiichi...
However, he wasn't worried. He just focused on swinging his sword, checking the power in his memories.
Sweat ran down his face, but before it could hit the ground, it was split in two by the strong wind from the longsword, turning into mist and disappearing.
After putting the sword back, Kamiya Seiichi went to the bathroom, since sweat had soaked all his clothes.
While soaking in the bath, Kamiya Seiichi looked distant.
"Open panel," he said quietly.
Name: Kamiya Seiichi
Strength: Unranked (Human Enemy)
Spiritual Power: 15 / 40
Basic Skills: Japanese Proficiency (150 / 7500), Basic Swordsmanship - Mastered (4500 / 10000)
Supernatural Abilities: None
Number of Transmigrations: 1
Initial Template Points: 20
That's right, there was only one reason not to worry: the golden finger, a must-have for people who travel between worlds!
Although this golden finger looked very simple, it was actually not hard to understand.
Its main abilities were two: the panel and transmigration.
During transmigration, he could make the talent of the body in the new world better, like starting over, and pick a temporary ability.
The second one was even better than the first!
"This is what I'll use to change my current situation and even reach the top."
He thought.
"But it's not time yet."
Kamiya Seiichi finished his bath and went to the mirror to look at himself.
As expected, he looked the same as his previous life: fair skin, sharp eyebrows, and bright eyes.
The only difference was that the current Kamiya Seiichi had long hair, tied up casually, making him look somewhat otherworldly.
"Is this another version of myself in a different world, like 'Many Selves in Different Worlds, Only One Real Self'?" As someone who loved reading web novels, how could he not know about such stories?
"For someone as handsome as me, it shouldn't be impossible to get resources by charming people, right? As long as I don't give up, there are always more solutions than problems."
After making a couple of jokes about himself, he went back to the study.
"The most urgent thing now is to get stronger," he decided. "The academy's big test is coming soon, and this is the last chance for ranking."
"This will decide if I can get into the Kanto Tournament without problems. After that will be the real national test, where I'll have to compete with countless geniuses for a spot at Tokyo Prefectural High School."
Kamiya Seiichi sat cross-legged, quickly making up his mind about what to do.
"Onii-chan?" A small head looked out from the crack of the open door.
Smooth black hair, delicate features, and sky-blue eyes like jewels—this was Kamiya Seiichi's cute younger sister, Kamiya Mitsuki.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Kamiya Seiichi was probably a siscon, both his predecessor and now himself.
To give his sister better resources, his predecessor had worked hard to get into Mizusawa County Private First National Middle School and brought Kamiya Mitsuki with him.
However, because of his hard training and long practice hours, he had less time to talk with his sister. So he often didn't know how to interact with Kamiya Mitsuki.
"Onii-chan, here's tonight's dinner."
Kamiya Mitsuki came through the door and put the food tray in front of Kamiya Seiichi.
"Onii-chan has worked so hard to reach where you are now, so please don't worry about those rumors."
Kamiya Mitsuki made a pouty face.
Kamiya Seiichi thought about it. There really was something like that.
Because his predecessor always stopped trying when he reached third place in every academy competition, the fans of the first and second place winners thought it was disrespectful to their favorites. So rumors about Kamiya Seiichi-kun being arrogant were everywhere in the academy.
"It's okay, your Onii-chan doesn't mind," he said with a smile while patting Kamiya Wangyue's small head.
Kamiya Mitsuki rubbed her head against his hand and smiled sweetly.
Watching Kamiya Mitsuki leave, Kamiya Seiichi knew that the real challenge was coming next.
It was May, and there was still one month until the academy's big test in June.
He had to have enough strength to handle everything and protect everything that mattered to him.
His eyes turned to the panel that only he could see.
"Panel, let me see what you can really do."
He said with determination.
"Transmigrate!"