Gazing up the skies, their celestial beauty struck a chord within me. The colors melded seamlessly, a tapestry painted by the cosmos. Everything looked so beautiful.-'but what's the use of all this scenery?, if I can't even enjoy it with my comrades. They were the true inhabitants of this world, meanwhile I messed it all up, and after all that we did. We had finally won, but at what cost?. Heh... What a funny looking dialogue, that reminds me of a meme back on earth'

"Earth huh?... It's truly been so long, I wonder If I'll be able to go back on earth after I do this"

"But this time for sure, I'll change everything."

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My name is Kafka, and I work at a convenience store down the road. I'm a college student, and honestly, I'm just your average man—except for the fact that I love watching anime and reading web novels...

Funny to think that I would've been shunned back in the day for my hobbies and wouldn't have been considered your average man. But back then, I decided not to share this little secret of mine. But now, I can even do this in public without feeling weird. This truly has become the norm now.-"Oh how times have changed, just have to be careful not to be caught by my boss, Hehehe."

Anyways, I try to live my life as best as I can, even though I do the same routine every day: school, work, home, school, work... I've never burnt out, and for that, I am thankful. In fact, I get a sense of fulfillment every time I finish my day, and my reward for that is reading my beloved treasures.

Do I have any regrets? Regrets, you say? If there's anything that I regret in life, I guess that would be not being true to myself. Well, I kind of built this persona around my classmates and friends, where everyone thinks that I'm the same as them, when in fact, I am not. I try to get along with them by doing the same hobbies as them, but there are times when a chink in my armor is shown. Thus, the years passed by me, and I grew up not being able to connect with anyone.

[He was having this thought as he was doing his work.]

"I wish I could do it all over again."

"Who am I explaining this to!!!. Sigh, my loneliness must be getting to me....."

"I'm home."

Is what I want to say, but I guess he isn't here today, considering that the lights are out. Who you may ask?. It's a priest, I live with him, I guess you couldn't really call it living with him since he's almost always out.

Back to when I was a kid I became an orphan, and then I was adopted by a religious group, after that I wasn't able to leave the orphanage since no one wanted to become my parents. I guess I wasn't cute enough, and that's is how I ended up living with the priest.

When I was a kid he would always stay by my side, and I have to do those weird traditions, prayers, and whatever. I would always get scolded whenever I would make a mistake while doing those sacred things, but I just couldn't give a rats ass about it.

Then as I grew older he would come to spend less and less time with me, saying that I have to learn how to become independent and experience life. So he is always out doing whatever God's will, God's work, or whatchamacallit, but I don't really believe in god nor do I have that much faith in god, but the fact that I even got adopted is something that I should be thankful for.

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I can eat three times a day, money isn't a problem, and I got a roof over my head. So life isn't as bad I guess?, furthermore I got the whole home to myself again.

"God, I truly am thankful to you."

"if you truly exist somewhere out there, really thank you so much!!."

And just like that the whole afternoon passed. I was so lost in thought that I did not notice that I finished doing all the household chores: cleaning, cooking dinner, and laundry.

'I guess it's time for me to eat dinner'-"Oops, can't forget to pray."

"Thank you for the delicious meal."

'Time to dig in....'

Now all that's left for me to do is spend my time leisurely in my room.

I took out all the new books that I bought from the convenience store.-'Hehehe, I'm always able to get the newest and premium version, thanks to my boss allowing me to buy directly from the stocks'

"One of the benefits of being a convenience store employee I guess. hahaha"

"But today isn't the time to read them, for a treasure is only sweet when it ripens huhuhu, so I must let a certain amount of time pass first before I can savor such juicy treats."

"So today is web novel reading day, I wonder what Webnovel I should read tonight. The Transmigrators Regression?, JOHN DOE: GONE ROGUE, oh maybe this one I added this to my library recently, Tales of the Dragon Beast Hero..."

"What the hell was that story?!!!."

"That was boring, that I feel like dozing off, the characters are way too generic, everything was so predictable, to the point that I've lost interest in the ending, Sigh. I wish for a better plot progression."

"zzzzZZZ....."

SFX: "Snore!!, Kockkkk!!, keckkkkk!!."

[All of a sudden he was woken up by a loud voice.]

"Yo- You people...., dare do that to my sister!!....."

"Y-You're.... scum."

[He felt groggy, his eyes would shut in and out, and he couldn't make out what they were saying.]

"I'll give yo.... second chance."

"Huh?!!, you giv-, us a sec-ond chance...."

"Whe-, we're holding your sister hostage, hahaha, funiest jo-ke I've heard in while."

[He was still half awake, however his mind is slowly coming back, he's slowly realizing what was happening.]

'Huhh??, what is happening?, what am I doing?, why am I holding this little girl.'

[The little girl was too shocked to react to what was in front of her, so in turn he noticed this.]

'A sword is coming!!, I gotta save her!!'

[As the sword were coming to stab the little girl in front of him, he quickly reacted and rotated his position with the little girl, turning him one hundred eighty degrees from his original position, and causing his back to be exposed to the incoming sword but in turn saving the little girl from her initial death. So he braced himself, stiffening up his entire body.]

[Then all of a sudden he was teleported away from the sword.]

'Why am I here now!!?'

[And then as he looked forward, he could see the chaos in front of him, and there stood another person in his, what seems to used to be his place. There stood a man bleeding from the sword wound that was plunged directly in his heart. He quickly lost his footing and laid helplessly on the ground, sliding from the little girls body, still stiff from the fear of death, and with her eyes staring into nothingness, as if she was staring at a thousand miles.]

[Then a thick blood lust covered the entire atmosphere, a woman appeared all of a sudden. She had thick, shiny white scales all over her body, red eyes that looked like it belonged from a reptilian race, and thick wings that made her look like as if she was an angel, couple that with her beauty and she could be mistaken as a goddess from the myths.]

[In just a blink of an eye, what followed was a one-sided massacre, all of the thugs head came flying in an instant, with none of them even realizing what was happening nor were they even able to know that they were dead, it was swift, every person except me and the little girl was left alive, and the blood lust was gone.]

"Come to think of doesn't that woman look familiar?." as I approached the almost half dead man, a sudden chill was sent down my spine...

"This is bad."

 There it was a smiling corpse that laid before me.

'Don't give me that look!!!. That smile of satisfaction!!, as if you died a heroic death, your journey is just starting!!'

"I'm glad I was able to save even at least one good man before I died, I truly became a hero, my dream had finally came true, I'll leave my sisters in your care, that is my final wish."

"Nooo!!!, don't leave your sisters care in me!!!."

"Don't give me your final wish!!!."

"You were meant to be a hero!!!."

"You were meant for greater things!!."

"D-Dont die. No, G-Go back to life!!!!."

"NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!."

[As the hero's face became visible in the sunset, giving everyone a thumbs up, and a cheeky smile. He died with no regrets. Forever leaving this story....]