Two minutes.
That’s all it took to get from my dorm to the classroom.
I’d tid it, not because I was particularly organized, but because walking into a new class late on the first day was the kind of nightmare that stayed with you forever.
The door was right in front of when it happened, collision.
"Oh, sorry!" The words ca out before I even looked up.
She was a girl. Dark blue hair, the kind that shimred when it caught the light, and equally dark blue eyes that looked like they belonged on the cover of so brooding fantasy novel.
Her uniform matched mine except for the skirt, which was expected, boys got trousers, girls got skirts. School policy.
But she didn’t move. Didn’t even blink at first. Just... stared.
For a mont, I thought she was a magic statue soone had left in the hallway as a prank.
Then she exhaled, slow and sharp, like my very existence had been the final straw in her already miserable day.
Without a word, without even a glance back, she stepped around and kept walking.
I stood there for a mont, frozen.
"Did I just get ignored?" I muttered under my breath.
Yeah. Yeah, I had.
With that tiny bruise to my ego, I pushed into the classroom.
Students filled most of the seats already, chatting in groups, laughing, scrolling through their devices.
I scanned the room, keeping my head low, before heading to an empty spot in the far corner.
Safe. Quiet. The kind of place people without friends naturally gravitate toward.
No one looked at . No one said a word. Which was just perfect for .
I stared out the window, letting my mind wander as the light poured in.
Outside, the courtyard looked almost unreal, like one of those overly detailed backgrounds in a video ga that you never really get to interact with.
A quiet chuckle slipped out.
Yeah, this is it. The friendless corner. Doubt anyone will even sit next to .
But the universe loves proving wrong.
Soone slid into the seat beside . I turned my head. And to my surprise, it was her.
The blue-haired girl from earlier.
She didn’t even look my way. Her expression was unreadable, her gaze fixed forward.
"Would you take your eyes off ," she said, her voice sharp but steady.
I blinked, realizing I’d been caught staring for all of maybe two seconds.
"Right. Sorry."
I looked away, feeling like I’d just been handed a detention slip for breathing wrong.
So much for my prediction about having no seatmate.
Instead, I’d landed the one person in the building who seed determined to make my existence slightly more difficult.
I sighed inwardly, trying to see a bright side in all this.
Maybe she wouldn’t talk to at all. Maybe we could just ignore each other for the rest of the sester.
And then...
Ding!
The sound didn’t co from my phone. It ca from everywhere. Or maybe nowhere.
A blue screen flashed into existence right in front of my face.
It again...
[You Have Received A Quest!]
The text shifted. Lines unfolded.
==== Villain Quest ====
Word: I don’t like this human.
Quest Info:
Get your seatmate to leave the seat.
Reward:
1 Level
2 Intelligence
1 Luck
1 Magic Power
Ti Limit: 48 hours.
Penalty for Failure: You get nothing.
===========
I stared at it. Then at her. Then back at the floating text.
I swallowed hard, my throat dry, as the shimring blue screen hovered in front of like a ghost that refused to vanish.
This was the third ti it had appeared.
The first ti, I thought it was just nothing, just my imagination. The second ti, I thought it was an illusion I had due to hunger.
But the third ti? Only an idiot would still call it an illusion by now. This was real.
A system.
My very own personal, impossible, absurdly convenient system. And apparently, it wanted to do... well, weird things.
Tasks. Quests. Whatever you wanted to call it. And in return, it promised to make stronger, to level up.
Rather than feeling suspicious, paranoid, or even annoyed, my chest bubbled with excitent.
This was a gem. My golden ticket. With this, I could beco the strongest student in the academy, fast.
I almost laughed out loud at the thought, but I held it in, grinning inwardly instead.
The task it was giving now seed so simple.
Just get her to leave. That’s it. Mission complete. How hard could it be?
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