In the normal planet called Earth, within one of the countries, lived a child named Kotaro Mikami, a boy with short buzz cut hair. He almost got reincarnated to the Origin, a world of sword and Magic, full of adventure and danger. But due to the divine intervention, right now Kotaro was living an ordinary peaceful life on Earth.

A year had passed in the blink of an eye since that incident, and today was another peaceful day for Kotaro Mikami.

As soon as he woke up, he took advantage of living in the orphanage and being a kid; He didn't need to go to a school and yet, he still had a friend.

Every single day, in this living museum. Where Grandpa had never bought anything more modern than the 1960s. Everything was original or refurbished retro, like the house itself. Was the place where Kotaro did his training and no one would bother him.

First, Kotaro spent his day to day life helping in the orphanage, either it was cleaning the room, the dishes or gathering fruits and vegetables from the orphanage owner aka Grandpa.

Second, playing with other kids. In the last one year, he got Stealth Lvl 1 and Tracking Lvl 1 after diligently spending 200 days, from 12 a.m-2 p.m playing hide and seek with Gina. Also with Gina, by faithfully playing Tag every morning, he developed Running Lvl 1 and Jumping Lvl 1.

It was indeed a comfortable life full of freedom and free of chains.

And today, Kotaro was playing Red Light-Green Light (Statue in some country). Kotaro was the 'IT' when another sound of notification suddenly echoed in his head.

Hey!! Listen! Hey! Hey! Listen! Hey! Look at your status!!! You get a new skill 'Perception Lvl 1!'

"Oi~ Gina~! Timeout for a moment." Shouted Kotaro.

He sat on the nearby tree as Gina was sitting in front of him, curiously watching Kotaro.

"Status Open!" Shouted Kotaro.

Life 16 Energy 20 Aether 14 Regen per 24 hour 1.4 Regen per minute 1.8 Regen per hour 1.6 Status Strength 5 Dexterity 7 Magic 5 Constitution 6 Agility 8 Spirit 4 Durability 4 Senses 4 Luck 6 Skill(s) Living Skill Battle Skill Magic Skill Production Skill Resistance Skill Unique Skill Arithmetic Lvl 1 Stealth Lvl 1 Origami Lvl 1 Heat Resistance Lvl 1 Linguistic Lvl 1 Tracking Lvl 1 Cold Resistance Lvl 1 Cleaning Lvl 1 Running Lvl 1 Jumping Lvl 1 Perception Lvl 1

A blue screen was appearing right in front of Kotaro's face. A screen only he could see, but even only he was the only one that could see it, Gina was looking at the empty air with starry eyes, almost felt like she also could see the floating blue screen.

Of course, Grandpa and the older kids didn't believe Kotaro. They just assumed it was an after effect after Kotaro hit his head.

Anyway, Kotaro objective was learning Magic to show Grandpa and the older kids he wasn't crazy. And maybe, just maybe they would give him their share of rice crackers.

Then again, it wasn't like Kotaro knew how to use magic in the first place nor he had the skills and tools to gather the knowledge about magic.

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"So? What does it do?! Is it magic?!" Asked Gina. A shoulder lengthed brown haired girl with a big and round purple eyes.

"E-erm... no... it's another battle skill, and give me a second... Perception: allows my senses to alert me to danger. Do you know what 'alert' means?" Kotaro looking at Gina as he was explaining.

"No.." Gina tilted her neck while putting her finger under her chin.

"And what should we do if we don't know the words?" Shouted Kotaro.

"We look it in the dictionary!" Shouted Gina.

"Teeet!! Wrong answer!" Said Kotaro. "We'll bother Grandpa and the older kids until they explain it to us!!!" He continued as he pointed Grandpa, who was peacefully watering his radishes.

Grandpa was a thin and skinny old man with a bald head, white beard and eyebrows. He'd always been seen wearing button neck t-shirt that stretched up to his thighs and clothing around his belly. He always brought a J-shaped cane, but neither Kotaro nor the other kids had ever seen him using a cane for support.

And that was the reason for Kotaro, without any warning to leap straight at him with full power.

"Hey!! Grandpa! What's alert?" Shouted Kotaro.

Grandpa only groaned even though a 20-kilogram kid was directly headbutting his stomach. And it was at this moment Kotaro felt a tingling sensation in the back of his skull, Kotaro hadn't learnt what was the meaning of Alert, but he instantly understood something was alerting him about the incoming danger.

"Brat... do you want to kill me?!" Shouted Grandpa.

Grandpa never used his cane for support his thin body, but in a blink of an eye, the fragile looking old man spontaneously used the curved part as a hook to grab Kotaro's shirt.

Unable to escape, what followed next was one of the Grandpa famous moves which were 'drilling' others' head with his fists.

"Awawawa... this... this is child abuse!! Gina! Report him to the cop!!" Shouted Kotaro.

"Where do you learn that word?! Hmph! Fine, just report me. Gina! Report this brat for attempted murder." Shouted Grandpa.

"Hah! Is that a threat? Even I know police can't put children into a jail!" Shouted Kotaro.

"Hah! What do you know about that?! They have a special place for a brat like you, you know that?!" Shouted Grandpa.

Their bickering went on for quite a while, and the moment they realized it, a calm and cold voice already called out to them.

"...Grandpa, Kotaro..."

Kunie Kana, a 10 years old girl with waist-length black hair with a messy bang and was the third oldest children in this orphanage.

When Kotaro heard that, he felt another tingling and chilling sensation in the back of his skull. Kotaro may have a hard time doing simple multiplication but he wasn't stupid. He and grandpa instantly knew the only way for them to eat something else except rice for their dinner was by pretending nothing was wrong.

"Oh~ Grandpa~ What a cool beard you have over here!" Said Kotaro as he was improvising and changing his position from pulling Grandpa's beard to carefully brush it with his hands.

"Oh~ Kotaro~ What a cute cheek you have over here!" Said Grandpa as he was changing from pinching Kotaro's cheek to lightly poking at it.

"....For your information, there's a cop in front of our house." Kana said with a smile as veins popping out from her forehead.

Three seconds later.

"Gina!!! We are joking!!" Shouted Kotaro and Grandpa.

Later at night.

"Ahahaha! So something like that happened while we were away!!" Laughed Tokuda Sen, an 18 years old man with a tall and lanky figure and black hair, styled into an undercut.

"Sen-nii... this isn't funny." Said Edogawa Shinichi, a 15 years old boy with a very slim figure, medium-length black hair, chalk-white skin, and dark circles underneath his eyes.

"Aw~ You're too serious. Anyway, good job Gina!!" Said Sen as he gave Gina a thumb up.

"Ehehe, Thanks." Said, Gina, as she replied with a satisfied face.

"Stop encouraging her." Said Kana as she glared at Sen.

"*Ahem* By the way Sen, did you really buy it?" Asked Grandpa.

"Ou~ Of course I bought it!" Said Sen.

"What do you buy?!" Asked Kotaro curiously.

"Ransel for you and Gina." Said Sen.

"...For what? My bag is still good." Said Kotaro as he tilted his head.

"Duh, of course for going to school. I mean, next week you and Gina will enter Elementary school, right?" Said Sen.

...........

"WHAAAT?!"