I Reject Quests

Looking at his cousins, Rewen was distressed. He didn't know how to answer them. 'Troublesome.' He thought, then turned his attention to the five idols standing behind them. 

"How are we going to sort this out?" Rewen directly asked. 

The cop moved forward and said in a plain voice. "They came here to compensate you for this matter. It would be best if you asked what you need directly." He then turned to the idols and they nodded in response. 

Rewen frowned. "What do you mean compensation? She tried to kill me." He knew that this argument wouldn't work but he still said it. 

The cop sighed as if expecting the answer. "It is not possible to put her into custody for a lot of different reasons. I'm sorry."

Rewen stayed silent. Ruby didn't have any expression on her face. Cal, Denny, Zelic and the other four idols were curiously watching the developments silently. A few seconds later, Rewen got up from his bed. 

"It's okay."

His voice was calm without any ripples. He then looked at the main troublemaker, Ruby. "Let us never meet again. By the way, the new make-up looks good on you." He commented seeing an ugly mark on her face and snickered. 

Ruby raised her head but didn't say anything. It was unknown what she was thinking. 

Rewen's attention turned over to his cousins ignoring the idols. "I'm off." He left the room before anyone could utter a word. Silence filled the room as everyone looked at each other not knowing what to say. Sensing the awkward atmosphere, the nurse quickly left the room. 

***

Eastern Dream Academy. Rooftop. 

Rewen laid down and looked at the orange sky and sighed. "What the hell am I even doing?" The reason he came to the rooftop was in hopes that he would have a moment of peace. The wind brushed up against his body. In contrast to the scorching heat in the morning, the cold wind made him feel better. 

"Yo!"

An orange-haired guy about his age appeared in Rewen's view. He had no idea who this guy was and was not interested in knowing. Yet he nodded politely. 

The orange-haired guy smiled brightly, then ran off towards the edge of the rooftop. 

"Holy shit!" Rewen cursed under his breath and got up quickly. 'Shit, it's too late. What could I do? What could I do? Think. Think. Think.' As he was pondering, he spotted a small pebble near him. Without wasting time, he grabbed the pebble and threw it towards the back of his knee with the help of the [Freestyle Combat Technique].

The orange-haired guy tumbled and fell. Glaring resentfully at Rewen, he cursed. "Yo! What was that for?"

Rewen was stunned. Feeling angry, he walked up to him and kicked him hard in his back. 

"Ahh! Stop it! Yo? Ahhh! Why are you doing this?"

Rewen didn't reply and kicked him a few more times. The orange-haired guy closed his eyes in defeat and stopped speaking. After a while, Rewen's legs felt tired and he stopped. "If you were to lose your dog-life, then I would be questioned by authorities."

The orange-haired guy turned his head in difficulty. "Why the heck would I lose my dog life… wait! Did you assume that I was going to jump off?" Without waiting for Rewen's response, he cried out. "No! I was just going there to take a piss."

Rewen weirdly looked at him. "Just why?"

The orange-haired guy scratched his head awkwardly. 

Losing interest in him, Rewen looked at the time. 5:57 pm. Not wanting to be disciplined by the prefects for being late, he went to the auditorium. A minute later, he glanced at the large auditorium estimated to be more than three times the football field. Like him, many students were entering the auditorium but in flocks. 

Entering the auditorium, he searched for an empty seat among the crowd. During his search, he spotted both of his cousins discussing with the choir group. He frowned and pretended to not see them but soon found himself spotted. 

"Hey there, Rewen."

It was Bianca. She was Denny's best friend and someone Rewen has negative favorability. "What can I do for you?" He didn't want to talk to her. 

"My, I heard you had an accident so I came to check on you. Are you alright?"

"Oh, I'm sorry to trouble you."

"No trouble at all. Come here a bit. I'll check your condition."

"It's okay."

"No, just come here." 

As they were conversing, Bianca suddenly reached out her hand to grab Rewen's shoulders. At this point, Rewen was completely irritated. Despite making his intentions loud and clear that he isn't going to entertain her, she persisted. He restrained himself to not curse as he was in a public place and didn't want the matter to go big. 

He shrugged her hands off and muttered in a deep voice. "You better find someone else to play with." 

Hearing his response, she cheekily smiled. "So you finally attached some balls, huh? Well, even if you do get ballsy, unfortunately for you, you don't have a choice to refuse." After that, she took her smartphone and snickered. "You don't wanna see the Academy website filled with your embarrassing pics, right?"

Rewen's face didn't change. "Okay. I understand that you have your daily needs." There wasn't really any "explicit" pictures of him, just a few shirtless pictures that she got her hands on somehow.

"Daily needs? What? What! Are you fucking kidding me? Oh, so that's how you want to play. Alright then. Be sure to check the webs-"

*Snap*

As she was speaking, she was caught off-guard by a motion and went into a daze. The smartphone on her hand now went into Rewen's. "Rewen, I promise you would regret it if you don't give my phone back right now!"

"Yeah? I want to see how I will regret it." Ridiculing her, he broke the smartphone in two pieces with ease, threw it on her face and… ran! Like the wind, he disappeared into the crowd. By this time, Bianca re-analyzed what happened and went quiet. Looking at her broken smartphone, her eyes became moist. 

Normally, he wouldn't have done it. He knew that she wasn't very serious about it and didn't consider this "bullying" but for his predecessor whose life was extremely hard because of his interference, it was "bullying". Rewen could make a distinction between jokes and bullying but his predecessor couldn't. 

He was battling his way out from the crowd while grumbling. Why does he get into conflict with women so often? "Woman, woman and woman everywhere!"

"Why! Do you have any problems with women!? Sisters! A misogynist is roaming freely-"

"No, no, no. You misheard, sister."

After a few seconds, he finally spotted an empty seat and dashed into the seat seeing no one around in the vicinity but as soon as his butt was about to come in contact with the seat, he was obstructed by another butt. Not even bothering to say a word, he used his butt force and forced his way to his seat. "Hmph. Look somewhere else."

To his surprise, the person was quite persistent and the corner of his eyes caught sight of a huge butt near his face. Without a second thought, he smacked the butt and cursed. "Get your ass off my face!"

"....you… dare… hit… me?"

Rewen snorted in response to the person's threat but his fuse went off when he saw the face of the person. The fallen devil prostitute! The first person he encountered after coming to this world and his classmate. 'What kind of fuckery is this!?' Rewen cursed inwardly.

"Calm down. I didn't know it was you. Sorry for hitting you."

Her eyes were cold and devoid of any emotions. She gave him a deep look, then walked away. Seeing her back, Rewen didn't feel relief at all. 'I should prepare myself for an assassination.' He relaxed and leaned on the seat when he noticed the person sitting beside him. 

Rewen sighed as he presumed that he might as well be forced to turn himself to like those mystical creatures called "gay" if this continues. Fortunately, the next two hours were peaceful. Even though the cheers and ruckus bothered him, he ignored it. While he wasn't exactly fond of the music, the performances were entertaining. The female idol in which Ruby was a part of did appear but they all had masks on their faces. Rewen sneered. 

In the end, the student council president came on the stage and concluded the ceremony. 

"Just wait! You little shit!"

Rewen heard a voice as soon as was about to enter the 43-F street, which led to his home. Listening to the voice, he was both annoyed and relieved. Relieved because it was a male and annoyed because the male could be counted as his childhood bully. 

"What do you want?"

"I heard you dumped my sister."

"Yes. What about it? Isn't that good for you? You have a chance now."

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Is that so? Well then, see ya!"

Rewen waved his hands and started walking away when the guy suddenly grabbed his shoulders. 

"I ain't letting you go before-"

*Smack*

A jab came straight down on his face. Blood sipped down from his nose as he couldn't believe what happened. "You…"

*Smack*

"Are you f*cking crazy!!?" He roared before using his huge muscular body to take advantage. Unfortunately for him, another fist came down on his face. 

A few seconds later, a well-built man laid on the ground beaten and bruised. Rewen cleaned off the blood from his hands using the leftover water from his bottle. "Hm. Consider this as a sort of revenge for what you did a few years ago." He spat his saliva on the guy's face and went away. 

That muscular guy was Alfred, his childhood bully and also Svety's step-brother. Although he never explicitly showed it, Alfred also liked his step-sister and hoped for the popular incest-but-not-incest trope to be dropped on his life. Now that Rewen has broken up, he is taking the chance to act like a local hero to his sister. Rewen almost laughed out loud thinking about this. 

Paying no heed to him anymore, he continued walking to his home. Just as he reached the gate, he let out an exclamation upon seeing his cousin, Denny. "Eh?"

"Eh?"

He was about to move on when he saw two suspicious boxes on her left hand. Looking at her with a gleeful smile, he spoke. "Hehe, is this the latest VR that has been causing quite a bit of ruckus in the gaming industry? Thanks!" Without waiting for her answer, he politely took one of the boxes from her. 

Denny looked at him with sharp eyes but didn't say anything. 

Rewen nodded understandingly. "You don't need to worry, this is between us." He said and went inside. 

Denny glanced at his back. 'Is this the face of a man who beat up a Rank 2 Mage a few hours ago?'

***

Rewen's bedroom. 

Taking a shower and wearing light clothes, he sat on his PC and installed the VRMMORPG - CHAOS which was publicly available. From the developers' notes, Rewen found out that the game is completely free-to-play and there is no way to convert the real-world currency into game currency but the converse can be done. The only thing that would require some cash to play the game is the game's driver

Rewen took out a small black chip from the box and read the instruction manual. "In simple words, all I have to do is replace my helmet's driver with this. Pretty simple." He went over to his shelf and took his helmet. 

After a few seconds, he was all ready to dive into the game. "I wonder which server should I join? Hmm… I probably won't play competitive so I don't need to join servers near the popular guilds exclusive servers. I'll just select one randomly." He scrolled down and selected B-X87.

"Alright, done." Putting on the helmet, he laid down on his bed.