“Damien! How dare you score so low on such a massive test!”

“How is a kid of mine this stupid!?”

“I can’t believe this guy is meant to be related to me. Such a disgusting disappointment.”

My name was Damien Yuvonco. I had been born into a family of large standing in the U.S. and was originally set to become one of the leading names of my family's company. But after getting a single mediocre test score, my family tossed me to the side. Thinking I had somehow been broken.

They kicked me out right after I graduated and made it so that I couldn’t find any work past a job in the fast food industry.

Even though I’d made plenty of friends in school, none of them stepped up to help me whenever I was in a pinch. They just said things like “It’d be a waste to spend my money on someone who isn’t even close to my standing” or “Friends aren’t a bank. Make your own money.”

At the sharp age of forty, my life was a complete misery. Things were so bad, that I was almost ready to take my own life if it meant I’d finally be free.

But then, I find out about dating sims.

Since all my relationships with real women had always failed, I’d never gotten the chance to have a real girlfriend. But thanks to these dating sims, I was able to put myself in another's shoes and let them create my happiness for me.

It was such an amazing feeling.

Then, I came across my favorite dating sim of all time. That being the Medieval Fantasy Series.

Each girl had such a unique and different story, I couldn’t help but love each and every one of them.

Before I knew it, I’d already played through every single game in the series. All that was left was to play the fan discs.

I was so excited to play those fan discs, that I ended up rushing out to a store in order to buy a limited edition golden-plated copy of the first volume that contained the fan disc. Sure I could’ve just bought a digital copy, but that wasn’t fun at all.

Making my way into the store, I bought the game and then left. That was when it happened.

As I looked at the beautiful game in my hand, the sound of a loud horn shot into my ear and I turned just as something slammed into me.

Everything suddenly grew blurry.

Looking at the ground, I saw a giant pool of blood forming around my body.

Everything was starting to grow cold.

While it did so, memories of pain and suffering started flooding into my mind.

Taking a look up at the people around me, all they were doing was taking pictures and muttering among themselves. No one bothered to call for an ambulance.

I wanted to clench my fists in frustration. This reminded me of those days. The days when my parents and siblings looked down on me just for failing a single test.

Next to me, the game I’d bought gleamed brightly thanks to its gold plating.

Dammit. Nothing like this ever happened to the protagonists in dating sims. Why do they get such easy lives?

To be honest, while I enjoyed playing as the main character in most games. But when it came to Medieval Fantasy, he was the one thing I hated. He was both pathetic and a wimp. I had wanted to punch him in the face plenty of times because of his stupidly nice nature.

If only I’d been the protagonist. If I had been, I could’ve easily won all those girls over and made an easy life for myself…yeah…if only I’d been the protagonist.

A moment later, everything went black.

“Wish registered. Reincarnation process activated.”

Huh?

Suddenly, my vision filled with light. A moment later, my sight began to return to me and a woman's screams entered my ear.

After another moment, I was faced with a strange-looking man. What was going on?

I didn’t realize it at the time, but I had been reincarnated in none other than the world of Medieval Fantasy as its protagonist Riko Toyazoto.

It’s been sixteen years since I reincarnated. Now, I was looking up at the classroom assignment board. Up to that point, everything had been going the same way it had been during the game. I met up with Xara who said I had a nice scent, and I had planned to follow the rest of the story until I’d met all five heroines as well as the secret heroine. Now that I’d taken Riko’s place as the protagonist, I just had to follow the game's story up to the point where I could have my pick of which girl I wanted.

However, all that went out the window when I saw the board.

In the spot I’d expected myself to be, instead, it said “Axel Savoncho - Class 1-S”

Who was Axel Savoncho? I’d never heard a name like that throughout any game in the series. The closest one would be girl named Alexa Sagoro who was a character that wasn’t even in this part of this storyline.

Lost, I eventually found my name which was in the same class as Xara. It sadly meant I wouldn’t be meeting Dianne anytime soon, but for now, I figured I’d work on Xara.

After spending months going through the normal game events, everything seemed to be proceeding smoothly. That was until Xara decided we should check out the student who was apparently a commoner before coming here.

At first, I wasn’t too sure about meeting him, but then I learned that said person was none other than this Axel Savoncho guy.

Deciding to risk interacting with him, Xara and I met him outside his classroom.

From what rumors said, he’d actually been trapped and left for dead by some other royalty, but then managed to escape and had changed into a completely different person.

When Xara talked to him, I looked him over and spotted something that caught me by surprise.

Around a chain on his belt, was none other than the first of the three grimoires I was meant to collect as well as the key to the sixth secret heroine.

Thinking it was probably that grimoire that helped him escape, I decided to think it was just a coincidence that he managed to find it.

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But then, I was immediately caught off guard when he closed in on Xara and nearly kissed her on the lips.

Acting as fast as I could, I put a stop to it, but he just smiled at me and made me wonder if he was alright in the head.

Xara and I immediately left him behind after that and I’d hoped that would be the last we’d see of him. But then, while I was running an errand for a teacher, I saw him pin Xara to a tree and immediately took action by challenging him to a duel.

However, when we fought, he beat me instantly. This frustrated me to no end. But trying my best to move along with the story, I went on the school trip. That was when I finally made contact with another one of the heroines. The one called Kimichi Romaiyozu.

We actually hit it off pretty quickly. But then, while we were out collecting wood for our group's campsite, we ran into a horrifying creature that attacked us. And as much as I hated it, we ended up getting saved by Savoncho.

When everything was finally done, I was hoping to get back in contact with Xara only to find out she’d been in the same group as Savoncho. And when I tried to pull her away from him, she got angry at me and tried to distance herself.

Life was pretty rough after that. Since she wasn’t there to watch out for me, I got treated pretty badly by the other students at our school. They had already bullied me quite a bit after my loss to Savoncho, but things moved up a whole other level once Xara wasn’t there to protect me.

Then, Xara asked me to participate with her in the Hunter Games event. I was overjoyed to hear her ask me that. Back then, I thought things were finally starting to get back on track.

However, things quickly grew difficult as we came across an item that we were unable to obtain for almost the entire week.

Having no idea what else to do, we had to turn to Savoncho who surprisingly ended up teaming with Dianne. When I saw them together, I started creating a theory in my head. A theory that maybe Savoncho was a reincarnate like me.

I wanted to make a move to confirm this, but I could never get the two of us alone for me to confront. And even if I got a chance, there was something else weighing on my mind so it was hard to think about a confrontation.

That something was about Xara.

Despite reaching the part in the story she’d normally take me out to her favorite spot and confess to me, she had yet to do so. It was then that I noticed how she was looking at Savoncho.

Scared he’d take her away from me, I took the advice Dianne gave me and confessed my feelings to her.

In truth, I actually grew rather fond of Xara. So if this confession was enough to keep her at my side, then I was perfectly fine with taking her as my heroine.

However, when I confessed, she shot me down. Frustrated, I tried my best to hold back the tears of disappointment until she was gone.

Once she left, I let the tears flow until someone came around and cast a sleeping spell on me in order to bring me back to my dorm.

The next day, I learned that apparently right after my confession, Xara was confessed to by Savoncho and she said yes.

Hearing that made me feel bitter as hell. So bitter that I couldn’t even congratulate them.

Having Xara taken away from me only made me hate Savoncho even more.

Because of what he’d done, I was unable to look Xara in the eye and ended up avoiding her. Knowing my feelings, I’d probably burst into tears had I stood around her too long.

Knowing I had lost my chance with Xara, I tried my best to suck it up and move forward.

Little did I know, Savoncho was about to take so much more.

After having given up on Xara, I decided my next route choice would be Dianne. She was a nice enough girl, so I didn’t mind taking her as my own.

Following the formula of the game's story, I waited for a rainy day to come and picked up a stray kitten trapped in the rain and took it in.

I didn’t know a thing about raising a cat, but if it helped me get Dianne’s route, I was all for it.

Over the course of a few weeks, I mentally prepared myself to win over Dianne.

However, I was quite surprised to find that once we set off on another trip event, I’d somehow wound up on the same ship as Dianne.

During the trip, the two of us got quite close to one another, and I thought things were going well. That’s when I decided to make my confession to her once we got back to school.

We may have only spent a little time together, but I couldn’t risk Savoncho taking another girl away from me.

However, once we got back, it turned out that Savoncho had gone missing. Upon hearing that news, Dianne seemed to be in a pretty depressed mood and ended up having to skip school for a few days.

Sensing now wouldn’t be a good time, I had planned to hold off on confessing until her emotions were steady. But when I finally felt like it was time, Savoncho appeared with what was apparently a small ship that floated above the school building which looked more like a floating island than anything else.

Seeing her relief later that day caused fear of rejection to well up inside me again. But with my plan already prepared in my head, I took a step forward and confessed to her.

But just as I feared, I was rejected. Though, she did say we should get to know each other better. I’d hoped that meant she was at least interested so I kept myself in good spirits.

Then, I saw her talking with Savoncho on the school roof and looking like she was enjoying herself way more than she ever was with me. Seeing that caused my anger to bubble over and after Dianne had left, I finally confronted Savoncho.

I tried to remain calm as I asked him a few questions, but soon my patience reached its breaking point and I charged at him before getting dealt a frustrating defeat.

Once he left, I vowed I’d do everything in my power to take him down. Because maybe, just maybe, if I took him out of the picture, things would get back on track and the game's story would continue as normal.

With that, a plan began to form in my head.

A few weeks later, my preparations were complete. I’d spent a load of the money my family sent me on stones that set up a magic-blocking barrier and then challenged Savoncho to a duel.

After he accepted, I set up the stones all around the arena we were to fight in and waited for the day to arrive.

Before I knew it, the time had come.

I slipped on the outfit I’d worn when I fought against him with the confidence I wouldn’t lose.

Why was I so confident? Because after watching Savoncho on multiple occasions, I had a theory his skills relied less on his physical capabilities and more on his magical abilities.

If this theory was correct, he’d be helpless before me. And considering how much everyone hates him, I’m certain people would be fine with the barrier.

Excited to see the look of horror on his face when he realized he couldn’t use magic, I made my way toward the arena.

When I reached it, however, I was caught off guard when I saw him just glancing around with a look of annoyance rather than fear.

After another minute or so, our duel began.

I immediately brought out a barrage of attacks in hopes of taking him out swiftly. But to my surprise, he dodged out of the way right before I made an impact. He continued to do this as I thrust attack after attack on him. Weirdly enough, throughout the match, he kept trying to cast spells. Did he forget a magic-blocking barrier was up?

This continued for almost ten minutes. By that point, we were both completely out of breath.

Frustrated, I dug my feet into the ground and tried to hit him with one final charge. When I did so, however, his hands started to glow and he vanished from the ring.

Looking around confused, I didn’t remember much else after that. I recall shouting out in anger for several moments before a loud crash entered my ear and my world went dark.

Waking up later that day, I was in the hospital. Apparently, Savoncho managed to somehow cast magic within my magic-blocking barrier and pummeled me into the ground.

As frustrated as I wanted to feel upon hearing that, I was too busy wondering how he managed to use magic. Isn’t that barrier meant to block the magic of anyone and everyone?

I thought even the most powerful of wizards were helpless inside a barrier. How did he do it?

I pondered this question for so long, that I didn’t even realize how fast my wounds seemed to heal.

Leaving the hospital the next day, I returned to school and tried my best to figure out how Savoncho broke my barrier.

I had a theory that maybe the whole thing was a fluke, but when I went to collect my stones from the arena, I was able to confirm they were all working fine and it shouldn’t have been possible for him to cast any magic.

Still unsure how he did it, I flew through the last two days and before I knew it, school was over.

Deciding to return to my home, for now, I left the school in hopes of sorting out all the stuff getting jumbled up in my head.

All the while, Savoncho’s head kept flashing through my mind and angering me to no end.