“I-it can’t be…! It’s impossible! I, I…!!”
“I what? Are you still saying you’re the main character?”
“!?!?!?”
Egos still refused to accept reality, as he crawled on the ground and writhed in pain after being beaten to a pulp. His body trembled at the question being asked, and as Lost looked down on him, he sounded truly exasperated.
“It’s not just you, all you people who were reincarnated into this world have nothing to be proud of. That is why you cling to this special position of main character given to you by god. Well, it should be obvious this would happen.”
After exhaling, Lost continued talking to Egos without looking at him.
“You were the picture of a corporate drone, working for a black company, and were suddenly reincarnated in another world. Not only that, the world of the game you were into. Of course you had expectations. If you made use of your cheat abilities and game knowledge, you might lead the happy life of a winner. You could say goodbye to that crappy old life and do what you wanted… Right?”
“U, ah…”
All Lost could do was groan.
Then Lost finally turned to him, and spoke with a look of contempt.
“I understand how you feel, but you should have thought more about it. I don’t mean after reincarnating, before that. Why did you have a crappy life to begin with?”
“A-ah…”
“You got saddled with a job in a trashy company because you didn’t work hard enough. And you don’t try hard enough because of the personality that you cultivated since you were a child. It’s not easy to change that character when you’re close to forty. And you were reincarnated into this world with that same mind. Of course you were still going to have a crappy life.”
“S-shut up! Shut up!! I don’t wanna hear it! I don’t wanna hear it!!”
“…Hey hey, you’re close to forty, right? Should an adult really throw a tantrum like a kid?”
“A-aaaaaaah…!?”
Egos saw himself gradually change, and let out a shocked voice.
His complexion, his youthful late teen hands, all turned into the ashen feeble things he remembered.
His face was not that of what he saw as an ideal beautiful man, rather, one of a tired, sleep deprived and unhealthy middle-aged man with deep bags under his eyes.
His hair fell, and his balding head not only changed in hair quantity, but also color.
His blood stained Luminous Academy uniform changed to a worn-out gray suit, and as he saw it all change, Egos…. No, Egoshi Kirio, kept shaking his head, and yelled with tears in his eyes.
“No! This is not me! I was reborn! I grasped happiness in this world!!”
“Ah… Nice face. That’s the expression I wanted to see. That expression of deep despair and bottomed out unhappiness…!!”
Defeat, humiliation, despair, fear.
Many negative emotions flooded into Kirio, and Lost whispered with satisfaction as he saw the expression of someone whose heart was being ripped.
It was not Egos, a main character, he had returned to Egoshi Kirio, miserable corporate drone, who reached out and pleaded as if clinging to Lost’s legs.
“Please, please! Put me back the way I was! The main character! I wanna go back! Send me back!!”
“Ah, I can’t, and I don’t have to. And I told you, right? You’re going to die here. A miserable end, unknown to anyone…”
“A-aah…!? No! Noooo!!”
The hand stretching towards Lost slowly crumbled.
His hand, all of his flesh, crumbled into particles, and as Kirio felt this, he screamed with despair.
“No! No!! I don’t wanna die here! I became happy as a main character…!!”
“…You were never going to be happy. After all, you people…”
“Ah, eh…?”
Egos gasped, dumbfounded over what Lost said.
At that moment, Kirio screamed with his expression of despair that seemed to have lost all its light, as he was faced with this truth that was hard to believe.
“That’s not true…! I got happiness here, this time… A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ah…!?”
A low grumble like a yell from the depths of hell.
It was also the anguished scream of Kirio, who was reaching the end of his life and was crushed by this all too big unhappiness.
Lost saw it all, as Kirio who was there just a few seconds ago disappeared without a trace, and snorted in a good mood.
“False happiness created by someone else is fleeting and easy to break. The end of a fool who chased such glassy happiness could not be more beautiful… Egos Cutman.”
Lost undid the silver armor transformation and let out a sigh… before falling back.
As he looked up at the cloudy sky, he could not move a muscle, and someone spoke while approaching him.
“Good job. But this really is a silly skill.”
“Ah, Drop… It really might not be helpful, but I have no regrets. I got closer to the one I admire.”
“Forget that, go back already. Your hero has awakened. Ryuuga and Zaraki’s fight has begun too, and you don’t want to miss that, do you?”
“Of course. But I can’t move. I’d be happy if you gave me a hand…”
Drop let out a deep sigh and grabbed his leg.
She dragged him into the darkness she created, which disappeared without a sound just as it enveloped both.
And so… Egos was gone from this world without a trace.
No one knew what happened to him. Memories of him would soon fade from the minds of the people in this world.
Even the masterminds who erased him had already lost interest.
The man who sought happiness he did not deserve saw the curtain come down on his life, without anyone realizing it.
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