The Demon Prince goes to the Academy

hould like that, but I didn’t feel so good about that.

“In other words, you are very gifted in self-suggestion.”

So all she was saying was that I had a great winning mentality!

Yeah, that’s it, anyway.
As I wrote shitty novels like this, of course, I would have a great winning mentality to keep being a writer.

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I got this ability because it was basically a cheat, but also because it suited me well.

The level of my ability wasn’t that high.
However, activating it was quite easy for me.

I already had the mentality fitting for that flimsy ability called Self-Suggestion, because I lived my life completely reliant on that type of mentality. 

It was like it was custom made for me….
That didn’t make me happy.

Anyway, I was almost able to convince myself that, if it was someone else who had this ability, they wouldn’t be able to use it as skillfully as I did.

Of course, since this is a fantasy world, I had an easier time believing that something would definitely happen.
If I were in my old world, I’d probably be like „Supernatural powers? You crazy?”.
So, as it was that kind of world, I could readily believe in certain things.

Ms.
Rollendria said that we were done with the tests and that I could go back to my regular classes the next day, as she realized that my abilities weren’t capable of anything more than simple body strengthening for now.
Of course, since its potential was tremendous, she would periodically check on my condition.

After class, I stayed in the dormitory for today.
I was going to skip my evening training and focus on developing my ability.

At this stage, Self-Suggestion mainly had effects related to body strengthening.
However, as I scrapped it after vaguely setting it up in the novel, I didn’t really describe what difficulties the person using it would go through.

In other words, there were a lot of things I didn’t know about this ability.
For example, the mental damage one had to suffer for always keeping up that winning mentality.
I’d feel pathetic all on my own for seriously believing that some nonsensical situation would actually happen just because of the ability’s effect.

There was one more thing.

If I believed that my punches were strong, they would be strong, however what if I get into a fight while believing my punches were strong, but I had to actually kick someone?

I would have to convince myself again that my kicks were the strongest.

I was proficient in activating it, but it was rather cumbersome.
It would be more versatile to believe that my whole body became strengthened.

So, for example, I needed to generalize the way I used my ability a bit more to make it useful in a fight.
Rather than focusing on punches and kicks separately, I needed to believe that my overall fighting capabilities were greatly improved.

Hearing that faith made me stronger, would make one believe that I was a paladin, but that wasn’t it, okay?

The god and religion I believed in was myself after all.

It was an unorthodox religion were the object of worship and the worshipper happened to be one and the same.

That was the religion I had to believe in.

I think I’m going crazy.

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For now I could only strengthen my physical abilities a bit, but later, other actions going beyond that would become possible for me.
It would be such a waste of time to apply the skill in such detail for each and every part.

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Therefore, I should use it in a more comprehensive way and not just strengthen my punches or speed up my legs etc.

This required selection and focus however.
If I used my ability to strengthen my whole body, it would become less effective than just strengthening my punches.
So, rather than being too broad in what to strengthen, it would be better to be a little more specific, such as my body being familiar with hand-to-hand combat.

After my ability became stronger, it would be possible for my body to become proficient in anti-magic warfare or close quarter combat.

Ultimately, this ability was well suited for me.

I was a web novel author, and this action was no different from writing up character sheets in the end.

I wrote something down in my notebook at the moment.

Type A

Setting: Overall muscle strength improvement, swordsmanship level improvement.
Improve cognitive ability, improve reaction speed.

I knew best that this was a necessary step.
After setting up a Type A I also set up a Type B according to my own standards.
So now if I thought about becoming Type A, not about which part to strengthen, my whole body would get strengthened as I should be able to remember the settings I set up myself.
Self-Suggestion was literally the ability to become what I thought I was.
If I memorized all the physical capabilities Type A should have, I would have these capabilities if I thought that I became Type A.
That was the easiest way to use my ability.

Later, I’d obviously add Type Z: Can summon a Black Flame Dragon from right hand.

I was going crazy!

I didn’t even use that kind of setting when I was in middle school! However, after I grew older and left school, I actually ended up making that kind of setting lol.

I felt like dying.

I should think that things were good, but that wasn’t the case.
Even though I should be the most mature among all the kids, I turned into the most problematic one, and now I locked myself in my dorm room writing up weird settings.

There was also my personality, but this ability gave me the final hit.

Just….
What is life?.

While I was immersed in my self-reflection, the pager in my room suddenly rang.

-Brrring!

A pager.

One could think of it as some sort of magic intercom.
Someone was calling me.
Who’d be calling me? I first thought it was Ellen, but Ellen wouldn’t call me just because I wasn’t in the gym today.

I turned on the pager.
The voice was familiar and yet its tone felt wildly unfamiliar.

[Come to the main lobby]

It was Charlotte.