(As everyone knows, people in anime worlds live to a hundred on average.)
(Therefore, every character who appears is at least eighteen years old.)
Sakurajima, Advanced Nurturing High School.
A lively scene was unfolding in front of the school gates.
A boy with cherry-blossom-colored hair, wearing a red blazer school uniform, was stepping out of a car. Four delinquent boys followed closely behind him, their faces full of reluctance to part.
"Boss! Are you really going to this school nobody knows anything about?"
"Boo-hoo, boss! I still wanted to conquer Suzuran High School with you!"
The cherry-blossom-haired boy said helplessly:
"I told you, I'm going there for further study! Further study! I've already reached the top of that crow-like school life. It's time to learn some academic subjects and work toward my future!"
"But boss, don't you already have a corporation you founded yourself? Do you still need to work toward anything?"
"Speaking of which, boss, will you really understand what they teach? I heard this is a famous elite high school. Who cares whether you go to a proper high school like that? Especially one that cuts you off from the outside world for three years..."
"Anyway, I have a reason I have to go! Stop worrying. You bastards just need to manage my corporation properly!"
With the cherry-blossom-haired boy's mind made up, the delinquents imagined their boss enduring humiliation and hardship, with some special reason they knew nothing about for attending this school. They all shed anguished tears.
"Yes! We won't disgrace you, boss! See you in three years!"
What a bunch of hot-blooded, sincere idiots!
After saying their goodbyes, the delinquent boys drove away.
The boy slung his bag over one shoulder with one hand and looked up at the broad marble steps ahead. On the school gate, several dozen feet high, stood the large words: Advanced Nurturing High School.
"A classroom of meritocracy where fists reign supreme? Here I come!"
The boy's name was Natsukawa Tatsuya. He had originally been a person from Blue Star who enjoyed watching all kinds of anime.
One night, he had been watching anime while holding his anime sweetheart, Ai-chan. When it ended and he wanted to relax a little, a dump truck crashed through the window...
A dazzling light shone into his eyes, and onto the naked, bewildered Ai-chan.
"Oh my god! This is the twelfth floor!!"
Then he had transmigrated into this unfamiliar anime world.
At the same time, his body had taken on an anime form, and he had awakened a Friendship System. The system notified him that he had received a beginner's gift package of 1,000 friendship points.
The system had also arranged an identity for him: both parents deceased, raised in a neighborhood full of delinquents. His body had also shrunk to that of a young child.
Friendship points could be exchanged for various items in the system shop, and the system could also inspect other people's attributes.
Over the next few years, Natsukawa Tatsuya had used his system friendship points to acquire ultimate control over his body. His energy was inexhaustible, and everything was under his control.
He also had extraordinary memory. Any book or anime he had seen in his previous life could be recalled clearly whenever he wanted.
Thus began his life in an anime world. Relying on his talents, he had conquered a school in the delinquent neighborhood as soon as he enrolled in middle school. The legendary strongest delinquent middle schooler was born!
Over the next three years, he had campaigned far and wide against the neighboring middle schools in that area. Using the system to determine loyalty, he had recruited followers and founded an animation company, a novel company, a screen adaptation company... all under the umbrella of the Tenryu Corporation!
Unfortunately, after receiving the friendship points in his initial beginner's gift package upon transmigrating, he had never discovered how to earn more.
Although he had already used up his points, he had reached the pinnacle among ordinary people his age. With several companies to his name, he no longer lacked anything materially.
Yet the various items in the system shop still made him envious. To guard against any future accidents or unnatural death, he had searched for all kinds of ways to obtain friendship points.
Things like hiding his dragon among the flowers or going eight rounds a night, for example. Unfortunately, he had completely failed to find a way to increase his friendship points.
Natsukawa had thought it would be fine to keep living like this. This was clearly an anime world he did not recognize, so he might as well just be an ordinary small-time capitalist.
To his surprise, when he graduated from middle school, he actually received an invitation to an admissions interview at Advanced Nurturing High School! And his system finally reacted!
Holy shit! I'd just been going about it the wrong way!
"Ding! Successfully enrolling at Advanced Nurturing High School will award 100 friendship points! Gaining affection from the female characters who appeared in the original work will award friendship points and various rewards!"
Natsukawa remembered everything. Wasn't this an anime he had watched before, a school anime about all kinds of physical battles-no, battles of wits-in a school where ability reigned supreme?
So this was the world I'd transmigrated into!
I don't lack anything now!
I'm so empty. I'm still missing a companion with a soul. Could this be the system's true nature?
And so, Natsukawa Tatsuya had taken the exam and successfully received his admission letter.
Having seen the original work, Natsukawa knew that Advanced Nurturing High School was a state-led school established to cultivate outstanding talent. Here, apart from Sakurajima's laws, the school rules took precedence over everything!
Those who received invitations to the entrance examination were special middle school students selected by Advanced Nurturing High School from students recommended by schools throughout Sakurajima, thanks to its state backing. Whether you handed in a blank written exam or scored zero in the interview, as long as you took the entrance examination, you could basically get into the school.
From the chairman at the top to the students and staff below, everyone operated under detailed school rules.
Advanced Nurturing High School was also completely different from other schools. It practiced absolute meritocracy and admitted only 160 students each year through specific methods.
Each year's students were divided into four classes, A, B, C, and D, with forty students per class. Only those who graduated from Class A could receive what the school promised-the freedom to choose any career they wished to pursue!
Thus, over those three years, the four classes would constantly compete with one another, striving for the chance to graduate from Class A and realize their dreams.
The competition was fierce!
Whether he graduated from Class A or not, however, made no difference to Natsukawa Tatsuya. He was a man with a system.
He could simply do things just like Pretty Boy. His main objective was to find female characters who met the conditions and engage in in-depth exchanges to earn friendship points from the system. Everything else could wait...
Of course, if something else interested him, he could also display his "strength!" and aim for Class A.
(Pretty Boy, whose actual name was Rokusuke Koenji, was the heir to a conglomerate. In the original work, he went his own way, contributed nothing whatsoever to his class, and acted entirely according to his own preferences...)
Back at the scene, a beautiful figure on the steps caught Natsukawa Tatsuya's eye.