Chapter 1
Chapter 1: I, Izumi Kotomi, the God-Level Heroine
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When Ailun realized he was about to be hit head-on by a truck while walking on the street, he thought he was truly out of luck.
Feeling the pain spreading through his body, Ailun couldn’t make any sound to call for help.
Was he going to die?
Was he really going to be sent to another world by a truck driver at such a young age?!
He was only 17 years old. He had just successfully passed the entrance exam to his dream high school a year ago and was now in his second year. Was he really going to die now?!
I don’t want to die!
Not at all! He hadn’t even had a girlfriend yet, and there was still so much he hadn’t done...
Despite his strong will to live, Ailun’s consciousness was gradually fading, and he knew his life might really be coming to an end.
"It’s so frustrating... I don’t want to die... As long as I can... survive... I am willing to do... anything..."
Ailun struggled to murmur, but his body temperature was rapidly dropping, and his pupils dilated, losing focus as his life ebbed away, and his consciousness became heavy and blurred.
At this moment, a pink light suddenly appeared, enveloping Ailun.
[System delay...]
A mystical female voice appeared in Ailun’s mind, but before he could ponder it further, the pain from his heavily injured body made his consciousness even heavier.
I really don’t want to die!
As long as I can live, I’m willing to accept anything!
[System restored to normal.]
[System binding starting.]
[Congratulations, host. You have successfully bound with the God-Level Heroine System!]
The voice in Ailun’s mind was blurry. He wanted to hear clearly what it was saying.
But then, his vision went black, and he completely lost consciousness.
The moment he lost consciousness, he felt the pain in his body disappear, and his dwindling life force quickly returned.
When he opened his eyes again, Ailun found himself not under the truck’s wheels but sitting on a bench, with the red and white Tokyo Tower visible not far away.
The setting sun painted the evening clouds a fiery red, and the twilight stretched from the western sky to the eastern horizon, giving the city a lazy feeling under the cover of dusk.
What is going on?
Sitting on the bench, Ailun couldn’t react for a moment. He looked around and gradually pieced together his current situation.
He had been killed by a truck, but he was reincarnated. However, this reincarnation seemed to come with a teleportation effect, sending him from his original home country to Japan.
His memories of his previous life were still intact. He pinched his cheeks to confirm he wasn’t dreaming; it all felt very real.
Except... why did his cheeks feel inexplicably delicate and smooth, as if he was touching not his own face, but a beautiful girl’s?
Just as Ailun was confused about the situation, a gentle female voice sounded in his mind.
[Congratulations to the host for successfully binding with the God-Level Heroine System. Please open the system for the first time by waving your hand upwards.]
That voice again. It was the same voice he heard in his mind when he was in a car accident and near death.
The ethereal female voice was very soothing and pleasant to listen to.
What did she say just now? God-Level Heroine System?
"God-Level Heroine System? What’s that?"
[I know you have a lot of questions, but don’t worry, just wave your hand upwards to activate the system and you’ll understand.]
"Well, no... I was just saying, this system name is a bit retro, isn’t it?" Izumi Kotomi couldn’t help but retort.
[Do you think I wanted to come up with this name?! It’s because my level is too low, and I haven’t found a suitable host to bind with, so I didn’t have the money to buy a rename card and had to use this initial name.]
The voice in his mind said helplessly, and Ailun could only wave his hand upwards.
In the next second, a cyberpunk-style system panel appeared before Ailun’s eyes, with "God-Level Heroine System" written at the top.
Although it wasn’t the time for a complaint, Ailun really wanted to point out that the font style of "God-Level Heroine System" looked very similar to the title font of "Cyberpunk 2077."
Could it be that this system had also been obsessed with "Cyberpunk 2077" lately?
Ailun continued to look down and found the system panel clearly recorded his various stats.
"Name: Izumi Kotomi... Hmm? But my name is Ailun . Wait a minute? Why does my voice sound so much like a girl’s?"
Ailun suddenly realized his voice had changed, becoming very gentle and melodious, completely like a girl’s voice.
[Because you have become a girl. If I didn’t turn you into a girl, the God-Level Heroine System would lose face, right?]
"No way? That’s too much!"
[Because in your previous life, you said something like you’d accept anything just to survive. Anyway, congratulations on your successful reincarnation. Don’t worry about the language barrier; this system has automatically made you proficient in Japanese.]
"I guess I did say something like that..." Ailun didn’t know how to refute for a moment.
However, he was originally worried that after coming to Japan, with his somewhat rudimentary Japanese, he might struggle to communicate with others. Hearing this from the God-Level Heroine System put his mind at ease.
[By the way, you must be curious about your current appearance, right?]
Ailun nodded. Although he knew he had become a girl named Izumi Kotomi after reincarnation, he was more curious about what he looked like now.
In an instant, a small mirror appeared in her hand.
Ailun ... No, she should now be called Izumi Kotomi, looked at herself in the mirror and was instantly stunned.
Her skin was as white as snow and exquisitely carved, and her pretty face, still slightly youthful, could eclipse the cherry blossoms of April. She had short white hair that reached her shoulders, like pure, untouched snow, and her pink gem-like eyes looked harmless and easily bullied.
This kind of beauty could provoke the deepest desire for conquest and possession in any male, or even female, driving them to madness.
Such beauty made her lose herself for a moment. If possible, she would confess her love to this girl without hesitation, even if rejected, she would have no regrets.
Unfortunately, she could not express love to the short-haired, snow-white girl in the mirror because this stunning beauty was herself...
Izumi Kotomi looked at her reflection for a long time before she slowly spoke:
"I look... just like Sirius from Azur Lane."
[Because in your past life, you always liked Sirius from Azur Lane and would often say things like ’Sirius is my wife,’ so I made your reincarnated appearance resemble Sirius. Hehe, you’re welcome~]
"Well, thank you very much..." Izumi Kotomi said with a twitch of her mouth, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
She did like Sirius from Azur Lane, and she did say "Sirius is my wife" in her past life.
But that didn’t mean she wanted to become Sirius!
After reincarnating, she looked very much like her imaginary 2D wife from her previous life, so she probably wouldn’t be able to look at Sirius’ fanart the same way again.
Thankfully, she wasn’t turned into a little loli... Izumi Kotomi couldn’t help but sigh in relief.
[You should have admired your beauty long enough. Now, take a look at the system panel~ I designed the God-Level Heroine System panel like this to make up for your regret of not being able to play "Cyberpunk 2077" in your previous life.]
"Well, thank you very much."
Izumi Kotomi smiled wryly, then turned to look at the system in front of her.
Name: Izumi Kotomi
Gender: Female
School: Chiba City Sobu High School
Grade: First Year
Strength: 5
Endurance: 9
Talent: Thanks to the ’training’ you accumulated in your past life, your hand speed is excellent.
Writing Level: 5 (15,000 Fame Points needed to upgrade to the next level)
Drawing Level: 1 (1,000 Fame Points needed to upgrade to the next level)
Kendo Level: 2 (2,000 Fame Points needed to upgrade to the next level)
Cooking Level: 2 (1,000 Fame Points needed to upgrade to the next level)
Fame Points: 100
These are the only data columns currently displayed, with several others locked below, marked with a big question mark.
Driven by curiosity, Izumi Kotomi clicked on the big question mark.
As soon as her finger touched the question mark, a new panel popped up.
[Insufficient Fame Points. Pay 100,000 Fame Points to unlock new skills.]
Then two annotations appeared.
Note: Fame Points are like skill points in games. They can be used to upgrade skills and unlock new ones, as well as improve the host’s overall physical attributes.
Note: Make more people know your name! Attract more people with your works! That’s how you gain Fame Points!
Izumi Kotomi gradually understood the operation of the God-Level Heroine System. No wonder each skill level had a plus sign after it. Just by clicking that plus sign, you could input Fame Points to increase your skill levels.
Izumi Kotomi clicked the plus sign next to Drawing Level, and the Fame Points column instantly went from 100 to 99. The drawing level didn’t change, but the progress bar behind it showed some progress.
Drawing Level: 1 (999 Fame Points needed to upgrade to the next level)
"Oh, so that’s how it works. Great, I’m starting to understand everything. This is my cheat after reincarnation!" Izumi Kotomi understood how the system worked as she watched the changes on the system panel.
On closer inspection, it wasn’t hard to see that her skill levels weren’t particularly high.
Drawing was something she had never practiced, and at most, she could draw simple stick figures.
Even stick figures were limited to drawing a basketball.
Kendo—she had a desire to learn it when she was young after watching "Rurouni Kenshin," dreaming of mastering the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu one day.
However, in her second year of middle school, due to the consecutive deaths of her parents, Ailun had to work part-time while studying. As a result, kendo practice was put on hold.
The reason the God-Level Heroine System showed her Kendo Level as 2 was probably because she had reached the introductory stage in her previous life.
Cooking—although her cooking in the previous life wasn’t particularly delicious, she could at least cook edible home-cooked meals. Frying, stir-frying, and stewing were not her expertise, but she was familiar enough to cook on her own.
As for why her Writing Level was 5, at first Izumi Kotomi was surprised, but then she realized it must be because, in her previous life, she often liked to secretly write novels in her diary during her spare time.
She had loved reading novels, manga, and anime since childhood. With her poor drawing skills in her past life, creating manga was out of the question, but she would occasionally write novels.
Initially, she wrote in her diary, but in her first year of middle school, her performance improved significantly, and her parents were so pleased that they bought her a laptop.
Although the laptop couldn’t handle large games, it was more than adequate for watching anime, playing galgames, and writing novels in Word.
Before she knew it, she had written over a million words of fiction.
Although she never submitted those scattered ideas for publication...
But ultimately, it accumulated some experience for her. Otherwise, her Writing Level wouldn’t be as high as 5.
Also, Izumi Kotomi noticed that there was no task panel in this system, meaning the God-Level Heroine System wouldn’t assign tasks.
[The God-Level Heroine System is here to assist the host in becoming a God-Level Heroine, not a ruthless task-issuing machine. Therefore, this system doesn’t have a task setup~]
The female voice in her mind reminded her at this point. The voice was no longer ethereal and serious as before; it sounded more playful?
Why did this voice sound a bit like Theresa?
After browsing through the current system, Izumi Kotomi gradually understood her status in this life.
Izumi Kotomi, a 16-year-old high school girl who had just passed the entrance exam to Sobu High School.
Her home was in Chiba City. Her father, Izumi Kaneyoshi, worked in a company as a well-liked section manager, earning more than 300,000 yen a month—not too high, but definitely not low, allowing the family to live without worrying about expenses.
Her mother, Izumi Akina, was a full-time housewife who had been a great beauty when she was young. Now, she occasionally joked that Izumi Kotomi and her younger sister Izumi Aimi perfectly inherited her good looks.
That’s right, Izumi Kotomi had a younger sister named Izumi Aimi.
As for why Izumi Aimi was only a year younger and, although both girls were beautiful, Izumi Aimi looked more like Izumi Akina, Izumi Kotomi learned the truth through the God-Level Heroine System: she was not the biological daughter of the Izumi family. When she was a baby, the Izumi couple, unable to conceive, decided to adopt a child.
Unexpectedly, one night, while returning home, they heard a baby crying in a park. Following the sound, they found a baby abandoned in a cardboard box. Thus, the Izumi couple decided to adopt the baby and named her Izumi Kotomi.
As if adopting Izumi Kotomi brought them luck, two months after her adoption, Izumi Akina found out she was pregnant.
A year later, Izumi Aimi was born, giving Izumi Kotomi a younger sister without any blood relation.
The Izumi couple always treated Izumi Kotomi as their own, loving her like their biological daughter.
Her younger sister Izumi Aimi never knew that Izumi Kotomi wasn’t her biological sister. They grew up together, essentially like real sisters.
As for why Izumi Kotomi came to Tokyo, the reason was simple: she wanted to buy some manga from a bookstore.
After sorting out her situation in her mind, Izumi Kotomi gradually accepted her reincarnation and transformation into a girl.
Although she lived 17 years as a boy in her previous life, being reincarnated as a girl would certainly take a little time to get used to.
However, recalling some of the light novels about reincarnation into another world she read in her past life, where protagonists often turned into slimes, spider girls, goblins, or even indescribably strange creatures...
Comparing those, and realizing she had become a beautiful high school girl in her reincarnation, she couldn’t help but feel relieved, even a bit amused.
[It seems you are gradually accepting it, host.]
"You could say that. Since the change has happened, I have to accept it." Izumi Kotomi stood up and said.
It was getting late, and if she didn’t head home soon, her parents might worry.
Izumi Kotomi quickened her pace to the train station and boarded the train heading from Tokyo to Chiba City.
Luckily, it wasn’t yet the rush hour for office workers, so the train wasn’t crowded, and she easily found a seat.
Sitting down, Izumi Kotomi began to think about what to do next.
The date was August 17th, still within the summer vacation period. Japanese high school students’ summer vacation ended on August 24th.
In 7 days, she would officially enroll in Sobu High School and become a high school student.
Izumi Kotomi decided to spend the remaining 7 days of summer vacation mastering the God-Level Heroine System.
"To enhance skills and unlock new ones, I need Fame Points. As the name suggests, Fame Points are gained by becoming famous. So, for my first method to earn fame points, I’ll write a novel!"
Izumi Kotomi decided to write a novel as her first way to earn Fame Points and become an author.
But after deciding this, another question arose.
If she wanted to earn Fame Points by writing novels and improving her levels, what kind of novel should she write?
This was a question that required serious thought.
Suddenly, Izumi Kotomi had an idea. Did the novels, anime, manga, and galgames she read and played in her past life exist in this world?
Once this idea popped into her mind, Izumi Kotomi felt a surge of excitement. Simply put, she wanted to be a copycat writer.
But her phone was dead, so she couldn’t confirm this idea.
So, after the train arrived in Chiba City, eager to verify her thoughts, Izumi Kotomi ran to an internet cafe near the station.
As she turned on the computer, the receptionist couldn’t help but glance at Izumi Kotomi several times. This girl was too pretty! Plus, her figure was so well-developed. It was truly envy-inducing.
Once the computer was set up, Izumi Kotomi went to her chosen spot and turned it on.
There were occasional admiring glances directed her way since a beautiful girl like Izumi Kotomi was a rare sight in an internet cafe.
Focused on verifying her thoughts, Izumi Kotomi paid no attention to the stares.
After successfully booting up the computer, Izumi Kotomi opened the G**gle browser.
In the search bar, she entered the names of the light novels, manga, anime, and galgames she had liked and read as Ailun.
"Sword Art Online," "Date A Live," "Puella Magi Madoka Magica," "Attack on Titan," "Saya no Uta," "Chainsaw Man," "White Album," "My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute," "Bloom Into You," and so on.
Without exception, none of these famous works from when she was Ailun showed up in the search results!
In this world, the anime, light novels, and manga she had read in her previous life didn’t exist at all?!
After exiting the cafe, Izumi Kotomi walked down the street, recalling how none of the works appeared in the search results, and a smile crept onto her lips.
She had found a way to earn Fame Points!
She also found a way to make money in the future!
But what should her first light novel be?
Since she decided to use her writing level to earn Fame Points, Izumi Kotomi chose to start with a light novel.
By writing light novels to earn Fame Points and using those points to upgrade her drawing level, she could eventually become an illustrator and manga artist when her drawing level reached 5.
[By the way, do you plan on getting a boyfriend in the future, host?]
"Boyfriend? No way! Never!"
[Then a girlfriend?]
"Exactly!" Izumi Kotomi nodded firmly.
[Ah, just as expected from you!]
— End of Chapter 1 —