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Chapter 8 - Season 1 - Episode 7 - Songwriting and a Surprise!

The year passed since James graduated from highschool at the age of 9 years old and because of this, his parents prepared a big celebration in their garden with all his parents' friends and kids. 

He, of course, had no other choice but to agree to it as he did not want to argue such shallow things with his parents. And so, the party ensued and many gave their congratulations to him from some old dudes and grandmothers to some middle aged parents as well as some kids his age. 

He knew some of them were just faking it and deep inside were seething with envy and hatred. Why? Well, being compared to him sucks. He was different since he was a child, he was smart, to a genius level even. He perfected his test scores and not one single wrong answer was found so his scores were impeccable. 

After the party, he prepared himself and worked hard to make sure his business proposal to his father for investment would be fool proof! And aside from that, he wrote all the songs from Soundgarden's first album as well as Nirvana's Bleach album. 

The list for Ultra Mega OK were as follows:

Flowers

All Your Lies

665

Beyond the Wheel

667

Mood for Trouble

Circle of Power

He Didn't

Smokestack Lightning

Nazi Driver

Head Injury

Incessant Mace

As for the last song called "One Minute of Silence", well, it was a cover of Yoko Onno and John Lennon's "Two Minutes of Silence" so there was no need to write it down. 

For Nirvana's first album called "Bleach" he wrote the them as follows: 

Blew

Floyd the Barber

About a Girl

School

Love Buzz

Paper Cuts

Negative Creep

Scoff

Swap

Meet

Mr. Moustache

Sifting

After writing all the lyrics and chords for each song, he also wrote the notes for bass and drums as well as the tabs for the lead guitar.

Everything went well and after the year of 1980, came his 10th birthday party, to which his parents' friends attended. 

After celebrating his 10th birthday, he asked for a cassette recorder from his parents. When the cassette recorder came. He immediately jumped to recording all the songs to each cassette. One song on each cassette and he labeled them as per their song title. Yes, it was kind of wasteful to just use one song demo for a cassette but he got hundreds of cassette tapes in stock so, why not, right? 

It took him a week to sing all the songs to each cassette tape and secure demos for all the songs, and once he was done, he asked his mother's help for copyright filing. With the help of his mother and assistance from his butler and driver, the songs, names, and demo recordings were all filled to the copyright office.

After a week, he got all the copyright certificates for his songs. And when he held the certificates in his room, a sudden "Ringing" sound invaded his ears. 

He was shocked and looked around his room as if something was wrong. 

'What the fuck was that!?'

[CONGRATULATIONS FOR COPYRIGHTING YOUR NEW SONGS!]

[YOU HAVE BEEN AWARDED A 5-STAR MANAGER CARD] 

'Wha-'

Although he wanted to say more, a thin gold card appeared in front of him and it was floating as if it was waiting for him to grab it. 

'Is this for real!?'

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It has been a week since he encountered a magical thing called "System". And he has been at it since, looking at the gold card that was placed on his study table. 

'What do I make of this? It has been a week and I still can not imagine that "System" will appear alongside my reincarnation. I, who is from the future, of course, read some novels from websites and most of them are about rebirth, reincarnation and systems. Damn, even my favorite webcomics' main character had a system to help him become overpowered, but me? In this reality? Like what?'

'But I have to admit this is a good thing for me. Maybe this system made me smarter than my previous life, right?'

'5 star manager card, the system said it means that once I activate it I will get a 5 star manager who is under my absolute control and obedience. The manager will not need to eat or drink as well! Wow! But he has to for appearance's sake. Well, all is well! And that means I already have a manager for my future company!' 

"Good thing, the system already made things clear that the 5 star manager will have its own history and personality so telling my parents about this manager who I found will make things easy for me to explain.'

'The only issue now is to establish the independent label I have in mind. Since it is only 1980, Sub Pop has yet to be incorporated so I can plunder that first and then have my manager scout Chris Cornell to his band next year called "The Shemps".' 

'I have to convince my father to invest in my company then.' 

'One thing at a time!'

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