Awakening Starting With The Villain System

Ring. Ring. Ring.

I groaned.

That irritating sound clawed its way into my dreams like a demon shrieking through a megaphone.

My eyes cracked open, slow and heavy, and I rolled my head to the side like a corpse reluctantly coming back to life.

An alarm clock blared from my bedside, vibrating slightly like it was angry at me for still being alive.

With a grunt, I stretched my arm and slammed the button to shut it off.

Silence returned.

Bliss.

I closed my eyes again, just for a second.

Just enough to pretend I wasn't lying in a stranger's bed, in a room that didn't belong to me, inside an academy I barely believed I deserved to be in.

But I couldn't stay in bed.

I knew that.

The second the silence settled, a new voice roared to life.

Grrrroooowl.

My stomach.

It rumbled like a beast demanding to be fed.

Loud.

Violent.

Disrespectfully loud.

If someone else had been here, I might've buried my head in shame.

I rubbed my stomach with one hand and muttered under my breath.

"Damnit..."

That thing was louder than the alarm.

My body was drained, my arms heavy, my legs sluggish, my brain barely functioning, but my thoughts?

They raced.

Hunger made my mind sharp, or maybe desperate.

I sat up slowly, blinking around the room like it was the first time I was seeing it.

My new home.

The walls were still the same shade of pale elegance, the bed was still warm, but somehow... everything felt heavier today.

A glance at my phone made my stomach sink even lower.

Morning.

Proper, full-on morning.

Classes would start soon.

My first official class at Dusk Academy.

I couldn't afford to be late, not today.

Not on the first day.

I might be a nobody now, but I wasn't about to show up dragging my broken pride in ten minutes after roll call.

Even if I was starving.

Even if my limbs ached and my energy was at zero.

I had no food in my room.

No stash.

No snack bars.

Nothing.

And although I remembered there was a cafeteria somewhere in the dorm building, and in the academy, found it by accident during my wandering hell yesterday, going there now would cost me precious minutes.

Minutes I didn't have.

I sighed and stood up, stretching my back until I heard a satisfying crack.

"Looks like I'm fasting today," I mumbled.

Class first.

Hunger later.

I trudged toward the small bathroom connected to my room and did the usual, washed up, brushed my teeth, took a shower that was both too cold and too short, and stared at myself in the mirror a little longer than necessary.

My reflection looked like a half-dead corpse in an expensive uniform.

Still, I wore it.

The blazer, the dress shirt, the pants, the tie.

All sharp.

All pristine.

It didn't matter that I was practically on the verge of collapsing.

At least I looked like I belonged.

I grabbed my ID card and made my way to the door, pulling the handle—

And froze.

A glowing blue screen popped up out of nowhere, floating in front of my face.

No sound.

No warning.

Just there.

Like magic.

Like the system hadn't finished messing with my life yet.

==== Daily Quest ====

Quest Info:

Push-ups — 0/100

Sit-ups — 0/100

Squats — 0/100

Running — 0/10 km

Note: If the daily quest isn't completed, you will be punished.

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