1 Dating Sim Game System (1/2)

Lin... No wait, now he was known as Seiji Haruta.

Seiji knew that he had hit the jackpot.

After reincarnating into this body, he had been experimenting with this system that he inexplicably received.

Since the functions of this system were similar to most dating-sim game systems, he just called it the ‘DS system’ for short.

What were the functions of this DS system?

Well, any gamer that’s played a dating-sim game before should know the basics. Although each dating-sim game had its individual quirks, there were some common characteristics found in most of them.

One was conversation options.

When talking to one of the primary characters—for instance, a beautiful girl, three conversation options would appear at various points, and one would definitely improve her feelings towards you, while one would decrease them, and the other one was neutral and had no effect.

Then, there was the conversation memo.

Whether it was the main character’s conversations with everyone else or the game text, everything could be viewed again on the dating sim’s memo. This meant Seiji was able to look at the record of his conversations with everyone!

Next was the ability to inspect his own stats and check someone’s current level of friendship or affection towards him.

After Seiji reincarnated, whenever he talked to a girl whose appearance was above average, he could see their current opinion of him, and he was also able to check his own stats.

[Academics: 5 – Rubbish—with this level you’d be the worst even in elementary school!]

[Physical ability: 5 - Rubbish—even a loli elementary schooler could defeat you with a single kick!]

[Art: 9 - Low level—it barely counts as having some minor ability to appreciate beauty, hmph!]

[Music: 10 - Low level—can understand some popular music, but you’re still basically an idiot.]

[Communication: 2 - Garbage—trying to communicate with others is like insulting them!]

...

The descriptions next to his statistics were painful to look at, but that wasn’t important—because Seiji still retained memories from his new body, he could only lament that the original Seiji truly deserved the outcome of choking to death on instant noodles in a tiny apartment.

All his classmates looked down on him, the school bullies picked on him, the prettiest girl in school insulted him, his childhood friend kicked him away, his younger sister slapped him, his older sister forced him to leave home, and his adoptive mother treated him coldly... Okay, these memories were far too painful. Seiji didn’t want to go through them anymore; just remembering them once was distressing enough.

Along with stats came the ability to level them up. For example, academics could be raised with options like [go to cram school], [study at home], [hire a tutor], et cetera, while physical ability had options like [exercise at home], [jog in the morning], [workout at the gym], et cetera.

Other than that, there were also CGs and video playbacks, which could replay some scenes of him interacting with girls; almost like a type of album.

But all of the above wasn’t really that special.

The last function was the one that Seiji found the most astounding and the most gamebreaking—even if he didn’t have any of the above abilities, he could subvert the entire world with just this ability!

It was no joke!

Because the final ability of the dating sim system was…

Saving and loading!!!

This game function was the most ordinary of all; after all, every game came with this function.

But, for this ability to appear in real life, heavens... This cheat was truly broken!

After reincarnating, Seiji spent the majority of his time experimenting with this final ability; at first he was astounded, then he was overjoyed, but now he was starting to feel slightly scared.

As long as he saved a file beforehand, it didn’t matter what he did afterwards; all he had to do was load the saved file, and he could start all over again with a clean slate!

He could already imagine it: he could do anything wicked that he wanted, and after the police caught him, he could just load the file, and it would be like nothing ever happened.

This was akin to a gift from the Devil!

Although Seiji didn’t think that he was a hero, he definitely wasn’t an evil person either, so those wicked ideas only flashed through his mind briefly before he sealed them away and decided to set some rules for himself that he definitely would never violate.

After opening this Pandora’s Box, he closed it immediately, using all of his self-control to prevent himself from opening it again, and he had finally managed to calm himself down with great effort.

‘Well, let’s just go with that,’ Seiji thought.

At this moment, he silently opened up the load menu, before choosing the first save file and returning to that time.

His entire world turned dark momentarily, before becoming light once more.

He was still in the same room, but it was now early morning instead of late night.

This was his first save file, and it was also the one immediately after his reincarnation.

Let’s just start from here now—a new life after reincarnation.

First, he needed to clean up the instant noodles that choked this body to death...

His room was 30 square meters, furnished with a shower and bathroom, and the rent was 5000 sakuras every month.

That’s right—sakuras, not Japanese yen.

After Seiji reincarnated, at first he thought that he was in Japan, but later he discovered that this was actually a parallel world; the entire world map was significantly different from Earth’s, and history had changed significantly.

The European pioneers had fought a series of wars which lasted for several hundred years against the Native Americans, so both Europe and America’s development had stagnated, while the Asian Huaxia Empire became the world’s only superpower.

But seventy years ago, a large continent arose from the depths of the Pacific Ocean, and the ancient civilization which dwelled on it had attempted to conquer the entire world. Eventually, the war ended up in a stalemate as they were pitted against the allied armies of the entire world. Ultimately, they signed a peace treaty, thus becoming the world’s second superpower.