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Chapter 31 - 29. There are many difficulties, Dubian Che is at a loss.

Chapter 31: 29. There are many difficulties, Dubian Che is at a loss.

Monday, in May, during a pleasant morning, on the train to Shibuya Station, the system notification arrived.

[Sign-in days: Yuzao Haomei·24 days, Jiutiao Meijie·seven days]

[Player has received a sign-in gift package]

[Money·one million yen]

[Intelligence Half-Price Voucher (Player’s intelligence must be below 10 points, and only one point can be exchanged)]

[Charm Half-Price Voucher (Player’s charm must be below 10 points, and only one point can be exchanged)]

It seemed that the weekly sign-in rewards were limited to money and half-price vouchers.

Sooner or later, when Dubian Che lost his desire for money and his intelligence, charm, and physical strength exceeded ten points, the weekly sign-in rewards would become meaningless.

He didn’t expect the rewards for one year and ten years of sign-ins; he just hoped that the monthly sign-in rewards wouldn’t be the same.

Leaning against the train’s door, Dubian Che contemplated how to use these two half-price vouchers.

As for [Charm], there was no need to say much, Jiutiao Meijie didn’t fall for that at all, though it worked wonders on ordinary people, to the point where he himself recently dared not smile.

[Intelligence] wasn’t as convenient as imagined.

According to the [appendix], increasing [Intelligence] wouldn’t make him exceptionally cunning and strategic, it just enhanced his talent in a particular industry.

The industry talent obtained by increasing [Intelligence] after spending one hundred thousand points required him to start learning from scratch, and compared to directly exchanging one hundred thousand points for Grandmaster Level skills, it had the potential to transcend the Grandmaster Level.

The key issue was that the industry skills in this romance game were all too realistic.

For instance, wanting to create artificial intelligence, this grand project required top talents from relevant industries to work together; it wasn’t something he could start doing just because he had a talent for computing.

Alone, he would need to improve his talents in indispensable areas such as mathematics, engineering, logic, etc., through [Intelligence].

With this bit of intelligence, even if he used his remaining points to exchange for another point of intelligence and became an outstanding leader in a certain field, after decades of dedicated research, winning the Nobel Prize would not pose a problem, and he could even go further, surpassing human limits and advancing civilization.

But to use this against the trillion-yen assets of the Jiutiao Family was less realistic than working for them.

If he chose to enhance a talent in the ’martial’ aspect and eventually trained to surpass human limits, at most he could kill Jiutiao Meijie and then run away.

By doing this, what would happen to his parents back home?

They had worked hard to bring him up, and what he should do, even if he died, was to ensure they wouldn’t be harmed, not just look after himself.

Dubian Che also considered whether he should opt for [Pharmacology], strive to research [Healing Medicine] for a chance to survive, and then slowly accumulate strength until he was fully confident to seek revenge.

But, how long would it take to yield results from the super-realistic [Healing Medicine]?

After getting off the train at Shibuya Station, Dubian Che looked at the uphill road between the station and Goda High School.

Over a month and a half, he had gradually grown accustomed to this somewhat steep road; he no longer felt tired, but the uphill journey of his life was at its most difficult period.

A slight inattention, and Dubian Che could end his life as Gatsby did in "The Great Gatsby"—with a bleak funeral.

’The adjective "great" seems a bit unlucky, perhaps change it to "magnificent"? Forget it, even if I end up with the same fate, I must embrace Gatsby’s spirit of pushing forward strenuously and going against the current. Dubian, you are the "Handsome Guy of Tokyo", you must have the confidence to succeed in anything!’

Dubian Che stepped onto the uphill road.

Entering the classroom, the number of early-arriving classmates was growing; everyone had started to work hard for the midterm exams.

At the morning assembly, Xiaoquan Aonai brought several pieces of news.

"This midterm exam, our school will join Jinghua Girls’ High School and Qingshan High School for a joint exam."

"Ah!"

The students below howled in dismay, most of them being students who moved up from the junior high department of Goda High School and had always gone through tri-school joint exams.

"We can’t beat them!"

"Our batch has always been at the bottom, the previous batch might have managed, but we can’t!"

"Some top students also went to these two schools during the middle school exam, impossible, impossible!"

Xiaoquan Aonai clapped her hands twice to signal everyone to calm down.

She said encouragingly with a smile, "I checked, and the grades that lost to them in middle school had turned the tables in high school. Everyone, don’t give up!"

The crowd still clamored that it was too hard and impossible.

Aonai looked troubled and said, "What to do... The joint exam with the three schools has been set, and we all have to take it no matter what, so we only have to work hard. You guys won’t give up, right? Do you not care about the pride of being part of Goda High School? The teacher will be disappointed."

Upon hearing the young and pretty female teacher say this, the male students were the first to be stirred up.

"In that case, we’ve just got to do it!" Jiutiao Meijie declared conclusively.

"Exactly! Let’s all give it our all! I ran into a middle school classmate the other day, and she’s one of those who betrayed Goda to go to Jinghua. And to make things worse, she even mocked me for going to Goda!"

"For Goda!"

After that, the female students joined in as well.

Xiaoquan Aonai nodded with satisfaction at everyone and continued, "The exam will cover all high school knowledge, so it might be a bit difficult..."

Before she could finish, another groan rose from the crowd.

"No way, haven’t we not finished all the classes yet?"

"I’ve just finished the curriculum at the cram school, but I haven’t started reviewing. There’s so much I still don’t understand!"

"Let’s not even talk about what we haven’t learned; I haven’t even mastered what we have covered!"

"Everyone!" Xiaoquan Aonai clapped her hands together, "There are many difficulties, but the teachers believe in each and every one of you! One last piece of news, due to the latest requirements from the Ministry of Education, club activities won’t be suspended, but the school encourages everyone to also focus on studying during club activities."

"Ah!" The cries from below became even louder.

It wasn’t just Class 4; the neighboring Class 3 had its share of wails as well.

Classes 2 and 1, which couldn’t be heard, were probably in a similar situation.

"Barring illness or special circumstances, everyone must stay at school until six o’clock during the exam period, otherwise the school will be reported for condoning students attending cram schools."

Xiaoquan Aonai glanced at Dubian Che.

"Sports clubs can apply for temporary activity classrooms. All teachers will stay at school, and students can come to the teachers’ office anytime if they have questions."

Was this hinting at students to turn their clubs into study groups?

During the break between the morning meeting and the first class, students from the entire school were discussing these matters.

Saito Keisuke expressed his frustration, "What is the Ministry of Education doing? Isn’t education already lenient enough? This year we have to carry on with club activities even during the midterms!"

"I’d like to study a bit more too, but when I think of the other high schools’ baseball clubs not focused on getting into college still training, and with the summer Koshien preliminaries about to start, it’s better to stick with training," Kunii Shuichi said.

"What does Koshien have to do with you being a substitute?"

"Hey! Saito, that’s really rude!"

Dubian Che listened for a while, and most of the classmates in his class shared Saito Keisuke’s sentiment: given this uncertain state of affairs, they would rather suspend club activities and attend cram schools.

This was typical for Goda High School.

Goda High School, a private school with both junior high and high school divisions, was renowned for its 100 percent college entrance rate and for having a high number of students admitted into prestigious universities. The high school division almost exclusively admitted students from its own junior high division.

The curriculum was also far ahead of ordinary schools.

Junior high third-year students learned all high school content, and Goda High School first-year students virtually finished the entire three years’ worth of high school curriculum.

Sophomore and junior years were then entirely devoted to review.

With such an accelerated curriculum, relying solely on study time within school was definitely insufficient; anyone who successfully advanced had almost always attended expensive private cram schools outside of school.

When Dubian Che chose his high school, he aimed for a public high school with cheaper tuition, but due to the catchment area restrictions of public schools, he had to apply to Goda, a private high school.

Private schools accept a group of new students from other areas during the middle school exams, but due to Goda’s advanced education, the difficulty of these exams was extremely high.

Students from other schools who wanted to get in either had to have attended junior highs that were already of a high standard, or they had to have gone to very good private cram schools.

At his own nearly abandoned junior high with only five students and teachers, Dubian Che managed to achieve the third-highest score on the Goda entrance exam through self-study, which was quite remarkable.

The content taught in high schools in the Island Country surpassed what he had learned in his previous life, with calculus being a prime example.

Since his major in his previous life was in the humanities, he was completely baffled when he first saw the math section of the entrance exam.

During the entire exam, he suspected that Tokyo was discriminating against outsiders, giving only him such a difficult test.

Fortunately, it was still a middle school exam, and even though the content was very advanced, calculus and other such knowledge only accounted for a small proportion of the score. He not only managed to get into Goda High School successfully but also secured the third-highest score.

After entering the school, he did put in effort to keep up with the teaching pace. However, he held onto the thought that it was only the beginning of his first year in high school and his own grades weren’t bad, so there were only a few things he didn’t know. He believed that he could slowly work harder.

But now, he no longer allowed himself to take it slow; he took this as a part of training his willpower, forcing himself to start studying even harder.

The key point was that from now until the end of midterm exams, he had to spend two and a half hours each day at the Human Observation Department, alone with two dazzlingly charming beauties who were always at odds with each other.

Maybe it was better to just be honest with Jiutiao Meijie, offer a few "Healing Medicine" pills, and ask her not to hurt his parents, allowing her to do as she pleased with him for a more straightforward resolution?

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