40 First applican (1/2)

After having a peaceful sleep, Ensen woke up to a blue box floating in front of him.

Slowly rubbing his eyes so he could see better, he read the message.

[A few Faculty applications have been delivered to me.]

Looking at the message in confusion for a few moments from his brain still mostly asleep, he finally understood what the system meant.

Forcing himself out of bed, Ensen knew that he needed to wake up. As such, he decided to have breakfast first to make sure he could think straight.

Slowly changing clothes, he soon made it to the kitchen.

Wanting to quickly wake himself up, Ensen found some instant coffee stashed in the back of one of his cupboards.

Ensen didn't particularly like instant coffee, it was more of an emergency method to use whenever he needed to go somewhere quick.

Slowly brewing the coffee, he also quickly made himself some toast and spread a layer of peanut butter on top.

Afterward, Ensen walked towards the little dining table and began to eat slowly.

Taking a sip of his coffee, Ensen did his best to hold back the disgust on his face. He bought it a few years ago, and while it was still fine to drink it had an odd taste to it.

Unable to hold back his disgust any further, Ensen wore a scowl as he continued to finish both his coffee and toast.

Walking towards the couch, Ensen felt himself wide awake after the trauma with the coffee.

'Luckily I didn't die from that.' He thought to himself, obviously overreacting.

Sitting on the couch, Ensen readied himself as he said out loud ”Okay, I'm ready. Let's see the applications.”

A few moments later a big blue box appeared with a large scroll bar on the right.

Laid out directly on the page on the right-hand side in front of him was a picture rather old man, most likely in his 50s or 60s with bright purple hair.

With an odd expression, Ensen asked ”Why does he have bright purple hair? Did he dye it?”

[That is incorrect, it is completely natural.]

”Huh? How is that natural? Are you tricking me?” Ensen asked with a suspicious tone.

[How dare you accuse the Supreme Academy System!]

Immediately after, all of the blue boxes disappeared.

Looking around in confusement, Ensen thought to himself 'Is it having another tantrum? It really does act like a child sometimes.'

Knowing that he needed to keep things as short as he could, Ensen simply decided to apologize.

”Hey… I'm sorry Supreme Academy System. You're the best system of them all!” Ensen said loudly while looking around the room randomly.

A few moments passed before a blue box slowly faded into existence.

[Do you mean it?]

'What is going on? I swear this system has multiple personalities.' Ensen thought to himself.

”Of course I mean it. You're a supreme system! The mightiest system ever!” Ensen said in praise.

[But most systems hate me because I don't raise powerful hosts.] The system wrote timidly.

'Oh, well, that does make sense. I mean compared to the Supreme Empress System and similar ones. It does definitely seem lacking at first glance. But in reality, I think that it definitely deserves to be up there.' Ensen thought.

”You help raise many powerful people with your host. It's only natural you'd be super powerful. How do the rankings work anyways?” Ensen praised to try to get the system to explain a bit more about its people.

[Rankings are based on how large of an impact the systems have on the universe. But… nevermind, let's continue with the applications.] The system wrote, not wanting to continue the conversation.

'Wow, looks like it has a weird sort of imposter syndrome maybe? Well, it's not something I can fix in one day, so it's right. I should continue with the applications.' Ensen thought, slightly more interesting about how the system's society actually functioned.

Slowly the blue box for the application faded back into existence.

Turning his attention to it, Ensen read the application carefully in its entirety.

[Name: Gerhardt Gwyn]