The moment everyone realized Monaka had used her Healing on me, the new students erupted into chaos.
Weiss stared with his eyes wide open behind his glasses, his whole body trembling violently.
"Th-that's impossible...!? Why would Monaka give it to Leopin...!?
That Healing was supposed to be for me...!?"
The students from Class 1-T surrounded Weiss.
"Hey Weiss, what the hell did you do!?"
"Why did you expel Leopin so quickly!?"
"If Leopin had stayed in our class, that ten million would have been ours!"
"You're the worst! Take responsibility and cancel the expulsion right now!"
Weiss clenched his teeth and glared at his classmates.
"You all agreed to it too!
Besides, there's no way we can cancel an expulsion now!"
While the Class 1-T students argued noisily, two girls rushed toward us with panicked expressions. One had a ponytail and wore a white apron over her uniform. The other had straight bangs covered by a black hood.
This pair acted like attendants. They surrounded Monaka like light and shadow and began scolding her.
"Lady Monaka! The Saint's first Healing is said to carry tremendous blessings, you know!?
How could you give something so valuable to a complete nobody like him!?"
"Indeed. Someone of your status, Lady Monaka, has a 'first' that many powerful people would pay mountains of gold to receive.
To waste something so precious on a worthless horse bone who cannot even provide any benefit is utterly ridiculous."
"Miss Onesko! Miss Shinobuko!? Leopin is not a horse bone!
To me, he is a white horse... No, the prince who rides upon it..."
Monaka's words were cut off as Onesko and Shinobuko grabbed her hands.
"We have been appointed as your supervisors, Lady Monaka!"
"Indeed. From now on, no reckless actions are allowed."
Monaka was dragged away by the black-and-white pair and pulled back into the crowd of new students.
The yes-man vice principal, who had looked completely soulless on stage, finally snapped back to reality.
"Ahem! Quiet please! Everyone be quiet!
The prize for Monaka was only an example. We are not actually giving it away!"
He was immediately heckled for still holding the certificate that read "Lovey-Dovey Award with Monaka" and quickly hid it behind his back.
"More importantly, thanks to the sponsors, there are many other prizes available!
If you perform well during your time at the academy, you can earn plenty of prize money!
Also, your school life will be broadcast to the entire world through magical devices!
Please conduct yourselves with the dignity befitting the first students of the Royal Pioneer Academy!
With that, today's entrance ceremony is...!"
"Wait!"
The principal, who had been standing beside the vice principal, pushed him aside and stepped forward.
He looked over all the new students except me with sharp eyes.
"Let me say one last thing to all of you!
What I want are golden eggs...!
Students who make sponsors pour money in like water are the good students!
Students who cannot produce money are failures...!"
The principal suddenly paused and looked directly at me.
His eyes were filled with hatred, as if he were looking at a worthless stepchild.
"Such rotten eggs will be crushed without mercy, so prepare yourselves...!"
◆ ◇ ◆ ◇ ◆
When the entrance ceremony ended, a luxurious breakfast buffet provided by a major tavern was served.
Since there was nothing for the Special Training Class, I left the venue early.
Outside the castle that served as the school building, untouched plains and forests stretched out.
From now on, we new students would attend classes while developing this land.
There were no dormitories or school cafeterias.
We were given only the basic starting equipment for our jobs. Everything else had to be self-sufficient.
We were supposed to cooperate with our classmates and sometimes team up with other classes to survive.
"But I'm all alone now..."
Once someone was dropped into the Special Training Class, no one would deal with them anymore.
Surviving completely on your own was nearly impossible, so most people who fell there gave up quickly.
Feeling a light sense of despair, I opened my status window.
---
**Leopin**
**Job:** None
**LV:** 1
**HP:** 10
**MP:** 10
**Status**
Life: 1 (No Growth)
Stamina: 1 (No Growth)
Toughness: 1 (No Growth)
Spirit: 1 (No Growth)
Resistance: 1 (No Growth)
Agility: 1 (No Growth)
Focus: 1 (No Growth)
Strength: 1 (No Growth)
Magic Power: 1 (No Growth)
Holy Power: 1 (No Growth)
Intelligence: 1 (No Growth)
Education: 1 (No Growth)
Five Senses: 1 (No Growth)
Sixth Sense: 1 (No Growth)
Charm: 1 (No Growth)
Luck: 1 (No Growth)
Dexterity: 2000
**Basic Skill**
Jack of All Trades, Master of None
---
Looking at it again only made the despair feel heavier, like a weight pressing down on me.
"No matter how many times I check, it's terrible...
There is no sense of future potential at all..."
Even with terrible stats, most people could at least get a job like "Trash Collector."
But mine were so bad that I could not even qualify for that bottom-tier job.
"And the skill has 'Master of None' attached to it...
It feels like it's hinting at my entire future..."
With a sigh, I touched the Jack of All Trades, Master of None skill and opened the skill tree.
Three skills appeared.
---
Jack of All Trades, Master of None
Dexterous Growth
Dexterous Body
Dexterous Job Change
---
When I touched a skill name, an explanation window appeared on the status screen.
---
**Dexterous Growth**
Use dexterity to level up with minimal experience.
**Dexterous Body**
Use dexterity to convert the Dexterity stat into other stats.
---
"What is this skill? I never learned anything like this in middle school classes."
I decided to test the Dexterous Body skill.
In my mind, I chanted, "Dexterity, become Life...!"
---
**LV:** 1
**HP:** 10 ⇒ 1010
**MP:** 10 ⇒ 9
**Status**
Life: 1 ⇒ 101
Dexterity: 2000 ⇒ 1900
---
My MP dropped by 1, Dexterity dropped by 100, and it all went into Life...! My HP also increased...!?
"No way...!? If these stats are real, this skill is incredibly powerful...!?"
Still half in disbelief, I converted more Dexterity into other stats.
---
**Leopin**
**Job:** None
**LV:** 1
**HP:** 1010 ⇒ 2010
**MP:** 9 ⇒ 2010
**Status**
Life: 101 ⇒ 201
Stamina: 1 ⇒ 201
Toughness: 1
Spirit: 1
Resistance: 1
Agility: 1 ⇒ 201
Focus: 1 ⇒ 201
Strength: 1 ⇒ 201
Magic Power: 1
Holy Power: 1
Intelligence: 1
Education: 1 ⇒ 201
Five Senses: 1 ⇒ 201
Sixth Sense: 1
Charm: 1
Luck: 1
Dexterity: 1900 ⇒ 600
---
Suddenly, my sharpened Five Senses picked up voices carried on the wind like ringing echoes.
"Ah, that hit the spot!... Oh, there's a trash guy outside the castle!
Let's play a game to help digestion! Whoever shoots him with an arrow wins!
I'll go first...!"
...Whoosh!
I sensed the sound of cutting wind and reflexively raised my hand.
I caught the arrow flying straight at my head with my bare hand.
...Clang!
It was an unbelievable reaction even to me.
But the guys aiming from the top of the castle looked even more shocked.
"No way!? That trash actually caught the arrow!?"
"That's impossible! He's not some martial arts master...!"
On the balcony of the entrance ceremony party venue, the male Archer students were panicking.
I slowly drew back the arrow I had caught...
"Here it comes!" I shouted, and threw it with a powerful underhand motion.
...Swoosh!
The arrow flew back like a beam of light and slammed into the wall behind its owner with a loud thud.
The guys who could not move an inch screamed and collapsed.
"Eek... Eeeeeek!?"
"He threw it back!? From that distance!?"
"Don't be stupid! That's over two hundred meters away!
Throwing an arrow back that far with your bare hand without using any bow skill...!"
"He's a monster!!?!?"