In My Second Life, I Could See My Skills, so the More I Trained, the More Peerless I Became

Middle school life at a vocational training school

Translated by NotBlueYet

Edited by Kingavent

I attacked a dungeon at the request of the Minister of Defense, Mr. Sato, and according to the world, that was the first dungeon attack in the world.

The truth is, that time of the Chuetsu earthquake was the first.

At any rate, I was awarded for my achievements in conquering the dungeon, and I even got my face in the newspaper, but that didn’t change my life much.

Yes. Well, because of the dungeon capture on the first day of summer vacation, the name has become known all over the world, and it’s even more so when my face is out.

In fact, from what I’ve heard, the number of incidents where “Yashi Satou” (not me) goes missing has decreased dramatically.

I mean, ……, not me, Yasushi Satou, you were in trouble.

No, you’re involved.

I’ve also been messed around with by various people, including foreign agents, politicians and anti-social groups in Japan, even though I rarely go out, and I’ve had to intimidate them away every time.

If that’s the case, I should have at least shown up earlier.

It’s not my fault, but I feel a little bad about it.

But that doesn’t mean I want to be active in the media like Sato-san said.

I definitely don’t want to do that because it would reduce the amount of time I have for flirting and working out with Ichika.

Well, you can at least get a certificate for conquering the dungeon.

And so, I was promoted to the eighth grade.

I don’t know about the other classes, but the special classes don’t have any class changes; no one left for the third semester, so there were no transfer students.

If there are any, at best they are moved up from other classes.

Speaking of things that have changed, I heard that some of the Japanese laws have changed.

I’m not a legal expert and I don’t know all the details, but it was like a new set of laws about jobs and skills.

On the other hand, people who try to use their professions and skills for the good of the world are given preferential treatment (aid money, half-price exam fees for national qualifications, tax breaks, etc.).

The rest is just laws regarding dungeon management.

Things related to having professions and skills to explore and conquer dungeons, or requesting them to do so, are being developed.

Also, it seems that you’re now required to be a junior high school student or older to be able to accept requests to explore and conquer dungeons.

The fact that it’s a middle schooler instead of a high schooler who’s going to be OK with the part-time job feels contrived, or at least I’m pretty sure it was decided that way in order to make the request to me.

As proof of this, the Ministry of the Environment, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and the Ministry of Defense began sending us requests to attack dungeons.

All of these requests were for things that appeared in places that could harm the ecosystem, or were in urban areas that required immediate attention, and the request fees were usually 3 or 5 million.

And the number of requests is also very large.

Thirty or forty wouldn’t work, I didn’t feel like taking them all, so I decided to focus on ripening the dungeons in the lands I wanted to travel to and the ones nearby.

Well, if I wanted to, I could make use of my alter ego and the level 999 monsters generated from the dungeons of the Kanahebi to conquer all the dungeons in the world, not just the requests, but all of them at once, but if I did that, it wouldn’t be enough to get into the newspapers.

Recently, let’s use the magic stone from the dungeon as new energy! Or, get rid of low-level dungeon monsters and do farm work! It seems that various efforts are being made, and if all are crushed, it seems that grudges will be brought from various directions.

Besides, so far I haven’t heard of any damage caused by monsters overflowing from the dungeon, and I don’t feel the need to rush it.

That’s how it’s going to be, roughly every two weeks to a month, with a leisurely dungeon busting session.

In addition to the demon stones recovered from the dungeon, I also sold some of the weaker demon stones that had become fertilizer in my item box.

In addition to the fact that there was enough money to be made from the strategy and research alone, they would also buy demon stones and items dropped by demons for an additional fee, so the money was being saved at an incredible rate.

That’s right, by the time a year had passed and I was moving up to the third grade, my savings had grown to about 700 million yen.

That’s an awful lot of money ……, but I can’t think of any use for it!

The only things I want are a place where I can exercise and a happy time with Ichika-chan, so it doesn’t cost me that much.

On the other hand, donating to a charity like …… would be a complete act of hypocrisy on my part.

If you want to do charity work, it would make more sense for me to go there and do something rather than donate money, but I don’t have the heart to go there and help.

If I had to do it, it would be a lot of work, so I haven’t done it.

So, after consulting with Ichika, I decided to leave about 100 million yen of unused money …… and invest the rest in companies.

Like the maker of cheap and tasty protein that I’ll be using in my next life, or the textile manufacturer that makes good towels.

The idea is that I don’t mind losing money, as long as it means that the company I like will continue to produce products.

After that, I invested in about 20 companies that Ichika-chan said, “Isn’t this company likely to grow?”

By the way, this investment is not to make money by selling and buying trades, but it is a long-term investment for dividends, and all the securities were purchased on the Internet.

I made a so-called portfolio.

In a previous life, it was the thing that was talked about to buy US stocks.

Few people were doing this in the 2009 phase of my previous life, and not many in this life either.

These things are stronger when you do them before everyone else starts doing them, so I thought that having memories of your previous life was a cheat more than I thought.

Well, I didn’t have a dungeon or anything like that in my previous life, and the company I helped grow up in will be very different from my previous life.

And speaking of something different from my previous life, with the advent of the dungeon, people I’d never seen or heard of in my previous life were getting big breaks on TV.

I don’t know if he’s some kind of janitor or actor, but it seems that he has a profession suited for combat and is active in exploring and conquering dungeons while performing.

……, this is the guy Sato-san told me to do.

I don’t know, but I think it would be more popular if this handsome guy did it than me.

As usual, I get a request to conquer a dungeon once every two weeks, and I put all the rewards from that request into stocks.

In addition to this, there are many other things that you can do to make your life easier.

The companies that …… Ichika-chan invested in saying, “Isn’t this something that might grow?” all grew.

Success with the new energy of the demon stone, or explosive growth with anti-demon weapons.

After that, there are companies that manufacture disaster prevention goods, canned food manufacturers, etc. Demand for evacuation goods for when the dungeon monsters come out has risen, and those companies have exploded because more and more families are putting up underground shelters.

Like that, the stock price of some companies grew dozens of times.

I’m not sure how I’m going to use the money, but I’m going to keep investing in stocks because I feel that it’s similar to the enjoyment of increasing my status through muscle training.