Taking pity on how pitiful I seemed to be they left me alone clearly showing their distaste for how depressing this all was. Haha yes! Behold the power of my system! My apology skill is to be feared! This will probably only satiate them for a day (if that) meaning I needed to activate more events for the opportunity to gain skills.
You see I figured out the reason for the events and when they happen, I will get an event when a skill can be gained through the system (like my first event, I had apologised so much in my life that the system saw that I could gain the skill for it with an event). Or I can gain an event when I make an event-worthy thing happen in my real life (like when I bumped into the girl). The REM events if I had to guess are probably the price I have to pay for keeping the system and using it, there's a price for everything after all, the fact that I was physically there in the novel and had a real threat of death goes to prove it, the system wants to make sure I'm useful enough to keep imbuing with its power.
So today I'm going to be trying to see if I can spark an event into happening by doing things I did before the system and if I spark a different kind of event at the same time that's even better.
Now let's see what I did a lot of; reading, but I already unlocked that when I went to the library. Possibly studying and writing because of school so I'll try and be as attentive as possible today. I could also see if there's a skill for talking I guess.
I step through the doors of the school with an impressive amount of excitement to learn that had not existed since the first days here.
I realise that my first class is maths with Mr. Butler again. Oh Joy! But I'm determined to try my hardest to work and learn today... Let's hope this determination can last all day. Oh damn I got too caught up with the system that I didn't do my homework!
'Wow Owen seems really invested and engaged today! Although it could just be him making up for not doing his homework again.' Thought the maths teacher noticing how hard working and diligent he was for once.
Well that was a waste of time I didn't gain any events but I guess I'll keep trying...
I managed to get to lunch and I was really tired from acting like a good student all day. I had a massive headache and my wrist hurt from all the note taking it was my worst nightmare and I was doing it willingly!
"Hey what happened to you yesterday? What, you finally have a cliche romance event and throw it away!" Dan joked as he came over and sat next to me.
"Yeah I dunno just remembered I had to call my parents."
"But you looked really terrified!"
"Have you met my parents?"
Just then I turned around and saw that the girl from yesterday was towering above me, like how the greecians must have viewed Aphrodite. She had a nervous expression lying across her face. She might have made me go all awkward and trip over my words like I'm sure my friends would have done but I'd been killed incessantly by this beast and I had bested them by being genuine. So I adopted the same kind of strategy again here, by just being genuine towards her after all she was no longer a confusing beast executioner but instead a normal person just like me.
"Hi! You're the girl from yesterday right? Sorry I was just having a bad day and I hope you'll forgive me?" I talked as casually as I would to my friends and then flashed a smile so she knew I wasn't as weird as I was yesterday.
"No it's fine! It was totally my fault and I was coming over here to say sorry to you!" her voice was melodic and kind but right now I couldn't care less I wanted to investigate my system more.
"Don't worry about it. Accidents always happen. Now maybe you should go back to your friends before you get any more nervous." I joked but before she could realise that she had already gone red around parts of her face and was scurrying back to her table on the other side of the cafeteria. I would think that that were strange but I'm sure that's how I would have reacted before yesterday. My friends looked at me in confusion and started pressing me for how I was able to keep so cool and why I had sent her away. I just made jokes to cover it up and to get them to leave me alone about it.
Upset I didn't manage to activate an event from that I got up at the end of lunch and started to head off to class.
[Event will be forced onto user]
['My Sweetheart Psycho']
[User must complete the novel!]
[User will be a side character!]
[Time dilation activated]
I don't understand why is it making me do this all of a sudden?! A whole novel! One I haven't even read! These are my last thoughts as the world scrolls down and I'm plunged into darkness...
*Beep Beep Beep*
A noise forces my eyes to open and adjust. Prying them open, feeling soft covers around my body, hearing yet another alarm waking me! Looking around I see that I'm in a small apartment, from where I am on the bed I can make out that the bed is on the back of the apartment with a bathroom door to my left. I reach my arm out and grab my phone to turn off the alarm and sit up to try and wake myself up. I see that in front of me is a tiny living room space with a small TV and a two person couch. I toss the covers to one side and get out of bed, my feet touch the hardwood floors and almost recoil from the feeling. I stumble my way over to the bathroom and realise that it's really small with a shower, toilet and sink. Luckily there's also a mirror so I get to check out who's body I'll be stuck in this time.
The person looking back at me was clearly in their twenties, had a brown crew cut and brown eyes. Pretty bland as far as characters go... It took a while for my brain that was still waking up to remember all the things the system had said when it dumped me here. Then I remembered that I was in a novel called 'My Sweetheart Psycho' (which I had never even heard of before) and that I was a side character. I instantly started looking around the apartment for clues of who I was. The rest of the apartment wasn't anything special there was a tiny kitchen area to the left of the living space, a bookshelf with a table next to it holding a toolbox and cardboard boxes everywhere. Clearly I had only recently moved here because the boxes had all of his (or I guess 'My' from now on) belongings and there was no dust to suggest they had been sat there for a long time. In that case the toolbox would have been used to put together furniture, I saw a few windows in this apartment and when looking out of them I saw that I was a few floors up and in the middle of what looked to be a city but had a homely small feeling that cities don't have.
Rooting around in cabinets and boxes I recover a wallet from a pair of jeans lying on the couch. I was a police officer! But in romance serial killer stories don't the side police characters get killed way too easily!