Aeon Nether & Idol Effigy

Chapter 23- Watched again?

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It had been exactly one and a half years since the day I decided to upgrade my species. You know, for more important reasons than my last ones. I'm pointing this out, because I remember my previous thoughts might have sounded pathetic. Nothing new there.

Anyway, I succeeded at upgrading my species somewhat...

I was about 14 and a half years old at the point I was notified about my species upgrade. My healing ability made it convenient to push myself further and at a certain point it felt better to force myself to vomit. Maybe it was due to the fact that what I vomited wasn't just bile, but other poisonous matter too. It would also feel good, because it reminded me of my passive heal ability.

No matter how much I threw up, my body would heal itself with the special powers in this world, even if the vomiting proved to be harmful to me. On a messed up note it may be due to being able to vomit without feeling bad for doing so, like my past life. To me now, it is objectively a healthy act and not like one of those unhealthy acts that people do whilst wanting to believe it's a healthy one.

Back to the topic at hand, when the day came that I achieved the upgrade in my species the embossed letters showed up on the screen spelling out awakened human...

It was a lacklustre thing.

Awakened human.

Was this something that hinted at the laws of this world? Something that I misunderstood, because I saw this world was too similar to my previous one? You know a rule! Yes! I can see now. You must be this tall to become an awakened human!

A puff of air must have escaped me at that moment, because my soul had clearly departed to reach out to try to get a taste of the world settings I clearly skipped over.

To be honest I didn't really know what I should have done. I was at a loss. Isn't an awakened human what I woke up as? Wasn't it not a part of my species, but my state? You know, like I've awakened my ability.

The upgrade I thought would be needed and difficult to get, happened to be something that equated to the state that I was at when I was reborn into this world. Great!

Another achievement for an actual species upgrade seemed to be needed.

...

My fifteenth birthday is tomorrow.

For the last six months I was working four times harder than from the time I was thirteen years old to upgrade my species. It didn't work. No. Maybe it's more accurate to say that it was harder to get.

So, I was currently in the cafeteria with plates full of what could be called unhealthy foods. I needed some companionship and the unhealthy food that the cafeteria has was a good target for the sad me.

It was sorely needed. Afterall, when I turn fifteen there's a reasonable chance that I'll get a lottery ticket to enter Idol Effigy or some other show and if it is Idol Effigy they'd start live streaming me when I'm around fifteen years old. It would be one day before the traditional school year that begins in normal schools in September. So, in other words I had less than a month before I might be watched.

The good news is that it's a chance for me to rake in viewers. The more viewer's I'd have the more I'd get a chance to survive better in this life through the period the shows are on and the more likely I'll have some protectors, if I grab their attention.

The bad news is that it's a notoriously difficult thing to do.

In most cases people watch or channel surf across a couple hundred contestants among the potential billions of participant's on the show. Another problem is that you could end up with a bad person watching your stream.