Chapter 30: The Fourth Simulation on the Right Track
[Detected available Talent Selection Rights. Initiate Talent Selection?]
No.
This time, he wanted to try a different path.
If it didn't work out, the evaluation shouldn't be too high, likely landing him a "Poor" rating, which would grant him the corresponding reward. Of course, there was a risk it could turn into "Extremely Poor" or "Bad," ratings for which he had already claimed the rewards.
[Simulation Start]
[After sending Shoko Nishimiya and Hitori Gotoh to the Service Club...]
[You didn't intend to stay with them constantly. You prepared to draw up a study plan, only to be pleasantly surprised to find that you were practically an academic genius.]
[You were able to score incredibly high marks on past Tokyo University entrance exam papers you found online.]
[This gave you other ideas. During your time in school, could you take a different path? Or perhaps, accumulate some startup capital in advance.]
[In this society, no matter what you do, money is indispensable. You need money to grease palms in the business world, you need a capital chain to manufacture goods, you need a sufficient base for stock trading, and even opening a shop requires rent or purchasing a storefront. Later on, the role of money only becomes greater, and the concept more abstract...]
[You began to investigate potential projects.]
[Anime merch is a huge market, but you lack the ability to enter the game.]
[Real estate is even more of a pit, filled with sharks.]
[You also lack the capability to enter the high-tech sector.]
[With no other choice, you looked at your immediate surroundings and found that a cram school was a decent path, but it also required a certain financial foundation.]
[In the end, you realized you needed a financial base first to act as a lever before you could take it step by step.]
[Unless you were some kind of stock-market wizard who could turn spare change into a fortune overnight.]
[While you were thinking, Shoko and the others' actions weren't going very smoothly either.]
[Yukino's plan was good, but implementation was another matter entirely.]
[After their investigation, they discovered that there were actually quite a few outcasts in the school. This should have been a good thing.]
[However, the subsequent screening by Yukino eliminated the vast majority of these so-called outcasts.]
[Because essentially, they weren't good people; they just lacked the opportunity to be otherwise. If their environments were swapped, they would just become the new discriminators. They were not suitable to become friends with Shoko and Hitori.]
[It was only then that they realized there weren't actually many people who didn't discriminate.]
[But it wasn't a fruitless endeavor. Through Hitori's efforts, they met three girls interested in music. They seemed very pure and kind.]
[They are currently getting to know each other.]
[As time passed, because she had to help with two heavyweight requests—Shoko Nishimiya and Hitori Gotoh—an exhausted Yukino Yukinoshita ignored some of the disputes in the class. She didn't even participate much in the Executive Committee matters.]
[Meanwhile, apart from occasionally going over to help them, you focused most of your energy on making money.]
[Studying? As an academic genius, you didn't need to worry about that for the time being.]
[After some consideration, you decided to walk the path of the "copycat" author, bringing works from your previous life to this world.]
[Through your efforts, you successfully translated and wrote That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World from your past life.]
[At the same time, the Cultural Festival began, and then it failed.]
[You didn't care.]
[You were busy submitting your manuscript.]
[Your work caught the attention of an editor.]
[Your works was signed, won a Silver Award, and was promoted on a small scale to test the waters.]
[You chose a buyout option.]
[You obtained a considerable sum of money.]
[You decided to rope in good students to open a cram school.]
[In the grade-level exams, you took first place with absolute dominance.]
[Meanwhile, although you didn't help much, under Yukino Yukinoshita's powerful execution, they still became friends with those three girls. They were even starting to form a band called "Kessoku Band."]
[Not only that, but Yukino had even contacted the ace of the school's music club: Kazusa Touma.]
[The results were brilliant.]
[The "Alliance of Outcasts" seemed to be emerging.]
[The day after you won first place, Mafuyu Kirisu sought you out, asking if you had free time to help other students.]
[Your choice is?]
[1. As the top student in the grade, it is my duty!]
[2. That kind of trouble is boring.]
[3. If Kirisu-sensei is willing to teach with me to save time, I can consider it.]
...
?
The options finally appeared?
In reality, Haruka was a bit stunned.
God knows, this simulator had run three times already, and it rarely gave him a chance to choose anything.
Haruka looked at the three options and decided to think carefully.
First, in this simulation, he obviously hadn't deviated from the track. He was focused on his career and already had startup capital.
But there was a question: would things continue to go this smoothly?
If it went on like this, shouldn't it be renamed the "Business Simulator"?
Out of suspicion toward this problematic simulator, Haruka didn't believe it!
He still remembered how his first and second simulations ended.
What?
The choices in the simulation were personal choices, and the simulator didn't interfere?
Heh.
How was that different from the lottery claiming absolute fairness, only for the winners to always be internal staff?
Therefore, Haruka had reason to suspect that if he deviated too much from the simulation characters—the heroines— disaster might be imminent.
It was just a suspicion.
But he didn't want to gamble.
Moreover, he remembered this option appearing before. Back then, he seemed to have chosen to ignore it, right?
So this time...
"I choose one!"
...
[You chose to accept this heavy responsibility.]
[Kirisu-sensei was deeply moved. Subsequently, she brought two problem students and introduced them to you.]
[As expected, they were none other than the famous "partial geniuses," Fumino Furuhashi and Rizu Ogata.]
[They were very excited about your appearance because your story of climbing to the top truly shocked students like them who were deeply troubled by their studies.]
[At the same time, they had no doubts about you tutoring them, because your grades said everything.]
[However, you didn't want to waste too much time having some sweet romance with young girls over home tutoring.]
[So you decided to find an assistant.]
[I choose you, Pikachu! — I mean, Yukino!]
[Subsequently, you led them to the Service Club.]
Haruka arrived downstairs.
Walking beside him were two girls, each different but both falling into the category of beautiful.
A burst of light, distinct piano music rang out.
"Piano?"
Haruka froze for a moment.
He instinctively murmured, "Chopin's Black Key Etude. A concert etude. In terms of technical requirements and expression, it's an upper-intermediate level piece. It sounds good; the performer is talented."
"Kasugano-san, you know about piano?" Fumino Furuhashi asked curiously from beside him.
Haruka shook his head. "I just read about it online. I wouldn't say I know it."
In fact.
The moment he heard it.
He felt a sense of familiarity, an inexplicable confidence, as if he could play it himself.
This confused him. Did he have this talent?
No, it was probably a result of the partial career experience rewards from the third simulation.
"Let's go. Let's go up and take a look. Trust me, there are people here who can help you."
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