Inside a vast seaside villa, Satsu stood naked in front of the mirror, gazing at himself in a daze.
"How can anyone be this handsome!"
Gently tracing his jawline, Satsu couldn't help exclaiming, "No matter what angle you look at me from, this body is practically perfect."
His jet-black hair and striking features gave him the cool, bold air unique to a young man.
His sculpted muscles accentuated his nearly 1.9-meter frame. Yet in the very next moment, a visible flicker of regret crossed Satsu's face.
He slowly raised his right hand, his gaze settling on his wrist.
Although he'd put on a fresh bandage, Satsu could still faintly smell the blood coming from his right wrist.
He tried to make a fist, but all his right hand gave him in response was a sharp stab of pain.
There was no doubt about it: his right hand was practically useless now. Whenever Satsu thought about it, he couldn't help complaining.
"I really don't know what the original owner was thinking," Satsu murmured.
His thoughts drifted back to a month ago. He'd been an ordinary college student, but on his way home, he'd tried to save a little girl who'd run into the road—and ended up in a showdown with a truck, man to man.
When he opened his eyes, Satsu found himself lying naked in a bathtub. The crimson water and the searing pain in his wrist had immediately told him something was wrong.
A month had passed, and he'd gradually come to accept the fact that he'd transmigrated into someone else's body. Fortunately, the original owner had kept a diary, which had saved Satsu a lot of trouble figuring out the family situation.
Some big shot of unknown background had kept the original owner's mother.
The mother and son had once relied on each other, living off the monthly child support. They'd been quite well off.
Then, one rainy night, the original owner's mother left a bank card behind and disappeared. She never came back.
But the original owner's father seemed to have no idea what had happened. He still sent every last yen of the monthly child support.
A father he'd never met, a mother whose whereabouts were unknown, and, besides this seaside villa, a cold ten billion yen in the bank. That was all he had.
"Kato Satsu, Kato Satsu! You're so handsome, and you're so rich!"
"But without your parents' love, what good are any of those things?"
"What's that saying? Money isn't everything; it's the root of suffering."
"If you couldn't handle it, then let me take over!"
"First things first: I'll get myself a few girlfriends to keep!"
Just as Satsu was thinking this and getting ready to make his grand plans a reality, an admission notice and a school uniform were delivered to his house.
He took a closer look, and the name of the school left him dumbfounded.
"Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School!"
"Pah!"
Satsu spat, then unhesitatingly tossed the admission notice into the trash.
"Come on! What level am I at now? Why would I take that tortuous road called going to school?"
But only a moment later, Satsu calmed down and stared thoughtfully at the admission notice lying in the trash.
"Reine, Ichinose, Kikyo, and Sakayanagi..."
"Forget it, forget it. The money isn't going anywhere, anyway!"
With that, Satsu eagerly fished the spittle-stained admission notice out of the trash.
He gently wiped the spit off with a napkin. The disdain in his eyes had vanished, replaced by a gleam of wisdom.
Back to the present.
Satsu had now put on his uniform and was making his final adjustments to his appearance.
If he could graduate from Class A... it never hurt to plan ahead. What if that unknown old man found out what was going on here?
It definitely wasn't because he wanted to meet those beautiful anime girls. Nope~
Even if he failed, he could always leave them with a line like—
"My three years are up! This lousy school! I'm out of here!"
It wasn't as if he had no other options. And besides, was he really bound to lose to those people?
Satsu was full of confidence. Not because he was especially talented, but because he had a secret weapon that was practically a cheat code.
"Well, I'm here now, so I'll make the best of it."
Talking to himself, Satsu picked up the admission notice, opened the door, and stepped into the brilliant sunlight.
"Let's go! Time to see the Tyrannosaurus!"
The bus came to a slow stop. The instant Satsu climbed aboard, all sorts of voices began ringing in his mind.
"Hey, hey! How does he make a school uniform look like a bespoke suit?" (boy in the back row)
"He's so handsome~!" (girl by the window)
"I was that handsome when I was young, too~" (middle-aged man)
Listening to those voices, Satsu smiled, overjoyed. That's right. This is my secret weapon!
"Mind reading!"
"As long as I look at someone, I can know exactly what they're thinking!"
"With this ability, I don't care whether you're an artificially created genius or a real one. I'm not afraid of anyone!"
Half a month after transmigrating, Satsu had accidentally discovered this superpower of his.
But how could he explain a supernatural phenomenon like this? In the end, he could only attribute it to the fact that he'd transmigrated.
Well, he'd already transmigrated! Wasn't he allowed to get a cheat code, too?
"Why did he suddenly start grinning like an idiot?" (Kikyo Kushida)
"Ahem!"
Hearing Kikyo's thoughts, Satsu deliberately cleared his throat a few times and headed farther into the bus.
He hadn't forgotten to sneak a few glances at Kikyo. After all, one of his secondary reasons for enrolling was to see these high school girls from anime.
Sure enough, in the world he'd come from, no one could ever have recreated them like this. Transmigration really was the way to go!
"Creep! Does he think his looks give him the right to toy with girls' feelings?" (Horikita Reine)
"And now he's pretending to look at her by accident." (Horikita Reine)
"He's probably going to go ask for her contact information any second now." (Horikita Reine)
Satsu was surprised that she'd caught him sneaking a look, but he didn't let it show on his face.
I've been checking out girls for years, and this is the first time I've been caught.
Thinking this to himself, Satsu walked slowly to the back row. A strange smile played on his face as he stared straight at Reine.
If some other guy had done that, he'd probably have been beaten up and hauled off to the police station by now.
"Hm?" (Horikita Reine)
Though she wondered what Satsu was up to, Horikita kept her eyes fixed on the book in her hands, acting as if she didn't care what he was doing.
"There's one thing you got right. I really was going to ask for someone's contact information. It just wasn't Kikyo's."
"It was..."
Satsu silently finished the thought as he spoke aloud.
"Tyrannosaurus."
"Pah!"
Realizing he'd called her the wrong name, Satsu hurriedly covered his mouth. But he quickly corrected himself, saying,
"I'm Kato Satsu. That's my name. Want to be friends?"
"Me?" (Ayanokoji Kiyotaka)
"What the heck!" (Horikita Suzune)
"Huh?" (Kikyo Kushida)
"Oh! What an interesting boy." (Koenji Rokusuke)
"He's actually gay!" (everyone on the bus)
"Don't be ridiculous! I'm a real man!" (Kato Satsu)
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