The Hero Who Can't Level

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.