The long sermon went all night long. Or rather, from the middle of the night up to the early morning, it is still in force, in the present continuous form. A joint effort. All Stars. Surrounded on all sides. Everyone is taking their turns. Will I be able to escape this if I fry them? The geeks for example? I can fry them, right? They have no intention of helping me. Yeah, I positively should do this.
They kept endlessly scolding me.
But I had no other options?
Yet they kept relentlessly lecturing me.
But no one aside from me couldâve pulled that off?
They fervently scolded me.
Isnât it all that Kawamoto guyâs fault?
I lost my allowance!
This is just too much!!!
I did my best, you know? I did, you know!?
A discussion began. The geeks seem to have no intention of helping me. Read the mood! Iâm hunting them down later and then frying them.
The idiots were idiots. Well, itâs not like I expected anything from you guysâŠâŠ
ăSo what was his deal in the end? Why no one could beat himâŠâŠ?ă
ăHe interfered with the minds and nervous system? Kind of.ă
Mind manipulation combined with illusions, and abnormal statuses. Itâs impossible to even fight him properly.
ăAnd what about Plunder?ă
ăHe copied it with Mimic. Or imitated? Mimicked? Kind of?ă
Thatâs why no one paid attention to him, no one was on guard, and with no one keeping an eye on him, he was able to go through his preparations. And could execute his plan into reality.
ăHe had tons of skills, right? 13 people worth⊠ă
ăHmm? Magic Immunity? Instant Death? Abnormal Status, and illusions? And something else? ă
The build meant to counter other cheats. The build was meant for killing those with cheat abilities. The sequence he came up with to safely kill cheat owners. And in order to stick to that sequence, he held back. Held back and died.
ăBut why you~? Haruka-kun?ă
Oooh, they are swayingâŠâŠ No, itâs nothing, really.
ăHe is a Cheat Killer. But I have no cheats? So there is nothing that can be taken from me that can become a problem.ă
ăăăAaaah.ăăă
Looks like I had Anti-Anti-Cheat. Reverse Cheat. Wait, isnât that just a handicap?! Just where am I supposed to use such crap?
Even if he used all of the skills he had and managed to kill me, stealing my skills, he wouldnât be able to kill the president and others with my skills alone. Thatâs why it was a checkmate for him, no matter what he did.
ăWell, since it all happened in front of the cave, I had a buff from ăHikikomoriăfor protecting my home. Until now it also kept me from dying in the forest despite my weaknessâŠâŠ I guess?ă
Thatâs why I wanted to go back to the cave. The cave had to remain my home. Thatâs the only place where I could fight. Thatâs the only place where I could survive.
Well, in the endâŠ
ăI thought he was a genius, but turns out he is just an idiot? He couldâve won if he made use of all of his skills to overwhelm me. But in that case, he wonât be able to take on other cheat users? So he held back? Kind of?ă
He was a dumbass. He had his plans derailed by the idiots. Wasting his skills he then held back against me and got killed. Killed by me.
If he killed the idiots and stole their skills he wouldnât have lost. If he didnât hold back against me he wouldnât have lost as well. Itâs because he tried to take the place of a hero, despite being some side character, he was unable to become even a minor character and was killed by a side character. It was supposed to be a fight for mutual destruction, yet he crumbled before me.
You donât even need to read the first page to understand this. Just read the introduction of other characters. We are just supporting characters. Side characters in an epic that is about to begin. Classmates A and B. We arenât even characters, my role was supposed to be Classmate A, who lives in that cave, taming goblins, who will get killed by Classmate B, who came out of the forest, who will then die to monsters on his way out of the forest, because he lost power. Thatâs it.
And yet, while a minor character like me was tossed around by the main characters, he misunderstood his role. He thought that he was the protagonist. Thatâs why the story fell apart. Thatâs why things fell apart. AndâŠâŠ I survived.
He was an idiot that in this tale of a different world, in a world of sword and magic, still believed that 1 = 1.