The mood in the room was a bit awkward, both my parents wanted to say things to each other but none could bring the courage to say it. You could cut the tension in the room with a knife, my mother had moved to the kitchen to make breakfast and my father followed to help. This was not right there was almost always morning banter in this household and the lack of any conversation somehow felt wrong.

“Dad Mom did something happen?” I blurted out before I could stop myself. Fuck, this other-half bullshit has only started from this morning and I was already sick of it. I already knew what was going on and this way to broach it had no tact whatsoever.

What I had not realized is that in this world I was still an innocent boy who just crossed into his majority whose words were pure with no hidden malice or agenda. I did not receive any denial or placation that adults did with children. Instead, both of them burst into tears and hugged each other confessing all their thoughts and desires. The scene was beautiful, I loved my parents for their devotion to each other even in times like this so much in fact that tears of happiness started to leak from my eyes.

This was the second time I had to catch myself. Sure, the scene in front of me was heartwarming but I was way too cynical to tear up at something like this. Trepidation started to build in my gut at the wrongness of it all but I pushed it down. I simply attributed it to not fully adapting to my new environment yet which helped calm me down.

Breakfast was a simple affair, some bread with a vegetable broth. We sat and ate in silence, my parents lost in their little world like they normally were and I was the third wheel in this sickly-sweet environment. That feeling of wrongness was back but again I pushed it down telling myself that I will dig into it later. My father glanced in my direction and for the first time seemed to notice I was there. He suddenly seemed to have an epiphany.

“Son! How are you? You are ok right?” he shouted coming to my side and hugging me.

“I am so sorry. I should have checked sooner. I am a failure of a parent...” his voice got quieter and quieter as he apologized. My father was, to put it lightly, slow so this scene was not uncommon where he fucked up and apologized afterward. The man tried his hardest but if it did not involve physical exertion, he could not be trusted with anything.

“Wait. Isn't today the day of your awakening.” my mother hedged from the side breaking me from my ruminations.

“What?” I asked dumbly.

“Oh my god. In the excitement of everything I completely forgot. Happy awakening day! Come on check your status I bet you were blessed with a great destiny.” my mother exclaimed. Another shock as I realized I was in a video game; everything was so real that it did not occur to me that I had just used a skill, based on all the light novels I read one would think that was the first thing I would do is check for the game-like features. This time my memories from this world did help me when I thought about how to bring about my status screen. I simply had to think of the word status. It appeared the moment I thought so.

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Name: Michael Softwing (Simon Smith)

Class: Attractive Lv.1

Stats

Vitality:10(+6)

Strength:10(+5)

Dexterity:14(+7)

intelligence:12(+6)

Charisma:20(+12)

Wisdom:15(+8)

Luck:11(+6)

Skills

Civil

happy conversation(reduce anxiety)(scales with charisma)

love talk(slows devotion decay and slightly bumps devotion)(scales with charisma)

Combat

Cheer(Increases hit rate and small dmg buff for the harem for one minute)(cost 5 stamina and 10*(number of harem members) mana)(scales with charisma)

Kiss(Extreme Omni-buff to member kissed massive decrease in action chance for rest of the non-devoted harem for one hour)(can only be used once a day)(cost 5 stamina and 20 mana)( Omni-buff scales with Charisma)

Passives

good looking(+10% buff to charisma)(having sex with women of lower charisma has a chance to grant them a buff based on their that lasts the whole day)(Scales with charisma)

Pursued (+10% buff to vitality)(massive increase to heat increase rate for women who can see you or feel you)(Chance of sexual encounter increased)(Scales with charisma)

Bonding soul(+50% buff to mana and stamina)(devotion increase doubled)(no devotion decay)(devotion skill power increased by 50%)

Greater Divine Soul(+50% to all stats)(skill and passive effects of your innate class is doubled)

Traits

Civil traits

Naïve: Accept things at face value and takes a while to understand things below surface level. Negative: easily mislead. Positive: Anxiety rises by -15% for the character.

Loving: Tries hardest to love and keep people, especially those who are close, happy. Negative: easily accept bad behavior. Positive: -30% heat rise, -30% anxiety rise and +15% devotion rise for harem. Causing a decrease in heat and anxiety for the harem decreases anxiety for the character.

Combat traits

Caring: Negative: - 20% dmg dealt and debuffs strength. +50% healing and buff effects applied by the character

Center of attention: +30% chance for enemies and monsters to target the character

Seeing my status brought about a roller coaster of emotions both good and bad. The good was extreme. I rolled a four 9 of 10 character. Many things in this game were static like your class skills and passives. Things like unique passives, traits, and stat distribution were randomly rolled upon character generation. My stats were good, I got two unique passives instead of one and the second one I had was considered the second most broken passive in the game. On top of that this passive should have been able to be randomly rolled so that was something.

Now for the dreaded negatives. The pursued passive, the biggest nerf to the attractive class as staring at me. Rape events become very common because of this trait and there was no law protecting the males if they came out on the other side “un-harmed” to make matters worse my strongest passive buffed this by a fucking factor of 2. To add to that I had naïve and loving that were the worst combos (know from experience) to add this. I also had a sneaking suspicion that my lapses in judgment were being caused by my traits though I could not prove it. The center of attention was also a negative but before the gargantuan terror that was the “pursued combo”. One might be thinking how bad could it be? Can happen up to ten times a day with no repercussions on the other side bad.

“Mom...” I said silently allowing my persona to take over.

“Yes, honey” she answered concern on her face at my sudden shift in mood.

“Can I quit school?” I said honestly.