Chapter 12. Exam time!

Today is the big day! If you don’t know what I am talking about than what the fuck have you been doing? Emma arrived at my apartment nice and early like the mother figure I have never had with a hearty and nutritious breakfast and made sure I had all my documentation ready.

Even the asshole butler was behaving well today and just minding his own business while driving us to the testing site without giving me any side glances or making a big deal that I am in the limo with Emma.

Arriving at the testing center, I realized I am definitely in a place that’s out of my league. Other than the fancy limo Albert drives Emma around in, I don’t think I have seen any other limo driving around but here, there are literally a whole fucking parking lot of limousine like this is the fucking limo party where you have to drive a limo to be invited.

Looking around, I saw people dressed in fancy and expensive clothes and walking around with an air of arrogance that I saw from Emma’s brothers the few times I met them before I was banned from going over to her house.

Not like it would have mattered that I got banned since they moved back to America a few years later anyways. Even though they were Emma’s siblings, we had nothing in common or have anything to talk about since they were both spoiled rich kids that lived in luxury and probably thought I was just a stupid pet dog Emma kept around for entertainment. Jokes on them, I am actually the fucking protagonist and Emma is nothing more than my plotarmor.

Anyways, after we got out of the car and Emma said goodbye to Albert, we left the limo party and headed for the entrance of a large open area like they were trying to hold some outdoor concert where security guards checked each person to verify that they are indeed stupid enough to pay the 100,000 yen entrance fee to take this stupid ripoff of an exam. Yes. I am one of the stupid.

While the actual campus of Tokyo Academy is where Tokyo University used to be hundreds of years ago. To accommodate all the exam takers from all over Japan, the location of the exam site is somewhere out in the countryside of Tokyo that’s surrounded by nothing but forests and mountains.

“Ken Emerarudo?” The security guy said out loud like my name is weird. Yes… My fucking last name is Emerarudo, got a fucking problem with that? Obviously since I was a orphan find on the streets, that is not my actual fucking last name but the idiots at the orphanage decided to go with it and it’s a story I rather not share. Maybe one day when I became the hero that saves the world, I will tell a interviewer how I got this fucking last name but for now, just shut the fuck up about my last name that I am totally not self-conscious about.

Gathered in a huge open space with who knows how many others, it seems like there are a lot of delusional people here in Japan. Obviously, all those other fuckers who thinks they have what it takes to become the protagonist is sadly mistaken since they have the actual hero amongst them.

“Ken Emerarudo? You often post on retro gaming forums don’t know.” I heard my fucking last name for the second time today from a unfamiliar voice.

“I sure do. How did you know I was a regular there?” I turned around to face this beautiful girl, much higher quality than any girl in my highschool that’s not Emma.

“I just inspected you and it says you are level 0. I just happen to be a regular on the forums too and there is this loudmouth rude kid with the username ‘lvlZ4LifeFKuAll’. I could not figure what levelZ meant but now that I have met you, everything clicked.” The girl said. As she talked more, her broken Japanese became more apparent and it was only natural for me to inspect her like she did me.

“Yang Mi? Level 40?” I said out loud as I inspected her.

From her name and broken Japanese, she is most likely a China girl but Level 40? Emma is only at level 36 with the best possible leveling exponent so this girl is either going ham in the dungeons or in the same category as Emma but didn’t spend 12 years only slaying slimes. Yes. Emma leveled twice more and I didn’t say shit but now you know.

“Why is a China girl here for the Japanese entrance exam?” I asked, trying to figure out which one of my online nemesis this China girl could be.

“Aren’t you Chinese too? You look Chinese and what about her? She is not even Asian. And you can call me Mia.” China girl replied.

Do I look Chinese? How the fuck could she tell? We all fucking look the same to me!

“I was born in Japan so I am pretty sure I’m Japanese” I said and before I could continue this bitch cuts me off!

“And your last name is Emerarudo? Doesn’t sound very Japanese to me.” She replied, making fun of my last name.

Ok, I think I am beginning to narrow down on who this bitch could be from the forums. Must be one of those that’s always going back and forth when they don’t agree with my opinions. Fucking hell. Do I really have to explain my fucking last name?

“I was an orphan found on the streets. When they took me in, I happened to be wearing a necklace with Ken carved on an emerald stone. So the fuckers at the orphanage decided that my first name is obviously Ken and since I’m wearing a emerald necklace, they decided my last name is fucking Emerald but spelt the Japanese way. Happy?” And you fuckers happy too? Happy to learn that the fucking protagonist last name is some stupid joke?

“So you never met your parents. Yea, I figured. You are definitely Chinese.” China girl said to me like she can fucking read my genetic code.

“You must be one of those that has to be right always. Even when you are wrong. I hate people like you. I hope you fail and go back to China.” I told her. Yep, the bitch deserved the harsh truth. Just because she is a looker doesn’t mean I will go easy on her.

“Just like online, same nasty attitude. To answer your question. I am here because the competition in China is just too fierce. I know I am not the elite of elites so taking the exam in China would mean I might not make it but I am sure here in Japan, I will have no problem getting accepted. At the end of the day, I don’t care which country I get my license from as long as I get to go in Level A and above dungeons.” China girl said. Like who even asked you? I don’t give a shit why you are here.

“Your Japanese sucks. How did you even get accepted to take the exam?” I asked. If you can’t tell by now, I am not liking this Yang Mi girl at all.

“You must be poor to ask that question. Obviously with money, I was able to get my Japanese citizenship rather quickly.” China girl replied, looking at me with confusion. Why are you still talking to me?

“Go away Yang. You are distracting me before the big exam.” I said, trying to get rid of the distracting bug.

“Good luck passing when you can’t even remember a simple name like Mia.” The fucking bitch said to me!

“Ken, stop getting distracted. We are here to pass the exam, remember?” Emma said, trying to calm me down as I was starting to get heated.

How can I stay mad when I have such a cute blondie press tightly on me? Well. Lucky bitch better be thankful that Emma is here or I would not have let it end this easily.

After focusing my attention back to the matter on hand, I saw this old ass man walking onto the platform in front of all the test takers and at first since we are rather far on the back, I didn’t know who this fucker was but as I squinted my eyes to get a better look, it was none other than the principal of Tokyo Academy and one of the two Japanese on the elite 50, Otani Eiji.

“Hello, all hopeful heroes, welcome to the annual exam for Tokyo Academy where if you get accepted, you will have a chance to earn the hero license and represent Japan.” Old man Eiji said to us.

I think this old mother fucker is in his late 70s now? Why is he still active in the dungeons? Is the pride of Japan so important that he doesn’t want to retire until I get strong enough to take the spot? Don’t worry old man, I will make my way to the top sooner than later so you can retire your ass from the dungeons and let me handle being the pride of the nation.

After the old man blabbered on about whatever and whatever for 30 fucking minutes! They finally got the fucking exam started so I could show off how strong I had became.