“Even though my class representative Kokoro Oohashi is always pestering me to make weird noises, my senior Saeko Busujima thinks I’m a genius at kendo, and Mitsuhashi from the neighboring school is always trying to drag me into a fight with Tamao Serizawa from Suzuran High, and my little sister Sora Kasugano is also very cute, but...” “I’m really just an ordinary high school student!” Aoki Tsukasa rubbed his bald head, utterly despondent. “No, you’re not.” His classmates replied with utmost seriousness, casting fearful glances at him. “I just want to finish reading this book.” Staring longingly at the textbook on his desk, Aoki Tsukasa’s face was filled with yearning. “No, you don’t.” The system replied solemnly, presenting Aoki Tsukasa with a new task.
Aoki Tsukasa pressed his hand to his head and slowly sat up, staring in bewilderment at the Japanese-style room before him—something he’d only seen in movies and anime. After a long pause, he sighed, muttering weakly, “So I really do have a new life now…”
Yes, Aoki Tsukasa had died once. Back then, he was a man named Zheng Qian, an ordinary person from China, living an unremarkable life with perhaps a rather extraordinary ending.
When he learned he was terminally ill, with little hope of recovery, he resolutely gave up treatment and signed a voluntary heart donation form, quietly awaiting death until his brief life came to an end.
He had no regrets. The heart he donated would grant his younger brother a new lease on life.
The only pity was that he couldn’t live to see his little brother grow up, marry, and have children, nor could he care for his aging parents in their twilight years.
Just as he was preparing to say goodbye to a world that was neither wholly beautiful nor utterly tormenting, the so-called ‘god’ appeared. This entity offered him a new life, on the condition that he live in another world as a seventeen-year-old boy named Aoki Tsukasa, bind himself to a “system” as the ‘god’ called it, and become a delinquent.
The system would help him adapt to his new identity and serve as a supervisor to ensure he fulfilled this agreement.
Aoki Tsukasa did not refuse, nor did he have any reason to. He had always been a model child, with sound values and a loving heart, and when he entered society, he was considered a promising eli