Chapter 1 – D-Day
Someone did. Everyone is the main character of the novel called life. I didn’t like this very much. It wasn’t because it was completely wrong. It was just because of the omitted words at the end.
Everyone is the main character of the novel called life. However, what kind of ‘genre’ it is is important.
Tragedy, comedy, action, romance, thriller, horror, etc. In a medium like fiction, there is, of course, a genre. If you apply this to your life, you can see that rich and handsome men are the main characters of romance comedies, and ordinary and dull men like me are tragedies.
And today I know the genre of my life. My genre was NTR. Netorare, that is, the case where the girl I like meets another man. When I look at adult comics, what I can feel is the subtle rage and sexual desire. Unlike the cartoon, in real life, I felt nothing but a sense of shame as if my whole body was about to collapse.
As usual, I stopped by the internet cafe to play games, and then I was on my way to Yuri’s house.
Yuri is a girl I’ve liked since elementary school, and she is her classmate who went to the same middle and high school. She also chose the same department at the college near her house that she chose to be with in college as well. She was close like a ball friend, sleeping in the same house, and traveling alone. Now she’s just her friend, but I was waiting for her to find out about my heart one day.
Yuri found that she was standing alone with a man under a street lamp.
At first, she thought it was just a couple chatting in front of someone else’s house. There were many such people in the residential area where Yuri lived, so she had often seen such people since she was young. However, she noticed that Yuri was her when she saw the bag she was carrying.
The beige handbag was something I bought for Yuri as a birthday gift and as a memento of becoming an adult. I bought it with the first salary I received from a part-time job, but my gift was being used by Yuri to meet another man.
Recognizing that I was Yuri, I was standing at the corner of an alleyway, and the faces of Yuri and the man got closer and closer. It stuck like that for 1-2 seconds and then fell off. It was a sight from a distance, but I knew what it was doing.
As far as I remember, Yuri didn’t have a boyfriend. I hadn’t even heard such rumors, so what I just witnessed could have been her first kiss.
Witnessing the first kiss of first love was a common subject in the NTR genre. To be precise, he did more, but that wasn’t what was important right now. Even later when I dated Yuri and kissed her, she was her first kiss to me and to her it was only one of her many kisses. Thinking about it made her legs feel weak. At the same time, her vision blurred and her head felt hot.
Meanwhile, the man moved away from Yuri and turned around her. I was finally able to see his face. He was the exaggeration of our department. Judging from his handsome and lively personality and his car, he seemed to have a lot of money at home. According to his classmate who graduated from the same high school as Gwadae, he said that he had never been without a woman.
It was complicated to think that the woman who was my first love would be just one of many women to another man.
Are these the feelings felt by the male protagonist of the NTR genre? I have no idea how to set things up in this situation. I think I’ll run out of strength just holding back my tears.
He turned around and opened the car door parked next to him. I got into my car and tried to drive out of the alleyway. But the direction the car was leaving was where I was.
I hurriedly raised my hand and wiped the tears from my eyes. The moment I put my hand down, a car with a hype passed by me. I thought he might have seen me, but he didn’t seem to care about a small pup like me anyway. All I had to care about was Yuri who found me.
She found me as she was waving her hand at an oversized car pulling out. She stayed still and opened her eyes wide. Then he walked quickly toward me.
“… Saw?”
The face of Yuri who asked me in front of me was red with embarrassment and excitement enough to be recognized even in the dark. When I saw that, I was dizzy again. Still, I asked while pretending to be as calm as possible.
“Uh, uh, you two, are you two dating?”
“Huh!”
Yuri answered brightly and proudly. I felt like crying because the person I was talking about was me, but the person who made it was an exaggeration.
“Since when, have you been dating?”
“We met at O.T, but we decided to date from yesterday evening!”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
O.T was last week. It was then that a strange woman spoke to me and her exaggerated approach approached her when I fell off her glass. Yesterday evening too, I was playing games in the PC room. While I was wasting her life like that, Yuri was getting close to Gwadae and starting her love with him.
I can’t. I couldn’t hold back my tears if I talked about it any longer.
“Oh, yes. Then I’ll go.”
“Store? Didn’t you come to my house to get a charger?”
“I already bought it. I came to tell you that.”
“If that’s the case, do it over the phone.”
“Meeting and talking, I just thought that would be better. Besides, you seem disrespectful.”
“What manners, between us.”
“I know. What is the courtesy between us?”
Yuri copied her last words and smiled like her. However, her face was distorted and her usual smile did not come out. I’m glad it’s night now. If it was broad daylight, this expression would have been visible.
“I’ll go.”
She couldn’t stop and turned her body around. A voice came from behind.
“Okay! See you in class tomorrow!”
“Uh.”
I couldn’t say I’ll see you tomorrow and just walked down the alley.
Oh, screwed up I’ve liked you since I was in the 6th grade of elementary school, so I’ve been liking you for about 7 years. In the end, it ended like this. I wouldn’t have shown her liking, but maybe it was because she didn’t confess. Her first love just ended with her unrequited love.
She walked with her head bowed, looking only at her forward feet. She liked that she could see Yuri’s face just when she was walking down this road a little while ago, but now she was just crying.
When she walked down this street, she always imagined her life with Yuri. The scene where we hold each other’s hands, meeting Yu-Ri’s parents, who we’ve known since childhood, and vowing to live well, walking down this road holding the fruit of love born between her and me in our arms. It was a dream that could never come true. Maybe Yuri will break up with Gwadae and she will be able to achieve that dream.
No, I just thought my first love was over, but I habitually imagined being happy. Or was he just running away from reality because he didn’t want to think about what happened right in front of her eyes. Whatever the case, one thing was for sure: I was heartbroken.
… Should I go and confess right now? Did you like it
In an instant, my eyes lit up. It was not a metaphorical expression, but it was said that my eyes really brightened.
Baaang!
A loud horn pierced my ears. I couldn’t see my surroundings because I was walking while looking at the floor.
Today is really the worst. Being hit by a car because it wasn’t enough that your first love was broken up.
I closed my eyes and waited for the shock to come. However, no matter how long I waited, the shock did not come, and I gently opened my eyes.
“Welcome, warrior.”
I saw a pretty white woman standing there in medieval attire.
Since then, it has been a development that has been seen many times. I was summoned as a warrior in a place with a medieval fantasy world, and I had to fight the devil. After years of training, war broke out, and the war continued for several more years.
Wow, really. I’m dying hard
I caught my breath and fixed the handle of the sword I was holding. Right now, my comrades-in-arms and enemy demons lay entangled with each other all around me. Some were dead and some were still alive. In order to save even them, I had to kill the demon king in front of me.
“Can we stop here?”
Even though I thought it was nonsense, I spit it out once.
“I’ll assume you’re dead, and if you surrender, I’ll revive you right away.”
Actually, I just wanted to take my time. I had to take a break and recover my condition.
“Even if you don’t surrender, if you run away, close your eyes.”
“… Do you think Jim will believe that?”
The demon king, wearing black armor and covering his mouth with a hood, bald, finally opened his mouth. I don’t know if the hood was enchanted or not, but the demon king’s voice I heard for the first time sounded unpleasant, like scratching a blackboard.
In response, I raised my hand and took off the broken helmet. The helmet, which had several defensive magics on it, was damaged while fighting the demon king’s direct subordinate. It was a national treasure-level magic tool, but now it was no different from other helmets and threw it to one side of the battlefield.
“Why can’t you trust humans?”
“Of course, isn’t it? Because you guys broke the peace agreement we signed first.”
“All the Demon Prisoners I met said the same thing.”
“The human captive Jim met said that too.”
“But, since you, the most head of the demons, said it, we humans must have broken the agreement.”
“What did you mean? Will you surrender?”
“Why am I surrendering? We are winning right now.”
There were only two situations in which the Demon King and the Hero would go one-on-one. Either the human side is losing or vice versa. As you can tell from our conversation, the demons are now on the brink of destruction. It was a winning game even without hitting the demon king, but the king wanted the demon king’s head in a symbolic sense.
“Even though it was the humans who broke the peace agreement first?”
“You just said it. It’s us who are winning. History is always written by the victors. You’re the Demon King, don’t you know that?”
“That’s right. Hehe.”
“Since you guys lost anyway, can’t we just run away? Run away and live on the outskirts. I’ll cut off the head of your subordinate and call it the Demon King.”
“Then Jim has no face to see his subordinates.”
“Are you living for fame? Live first.”
“If you betray your honor, you are not living even if you live. Wouldn’t it be nice to rest that much now?”
“Did you catch it?”
“A long time ago.”
I wanted to rest a little more, but I can’t help it.
I raised the holy sword and prepared to fight the demon lord. The demon king also pulled out the black demon sword embedded in the floor.
How did this happen? My first love broke and I came to another world, and after a few years, I had to fight the demon king. I thought the genre of my life was NTR, but it turned out to be fantasy.
While thinking such absurd thoughts, the demon king and I started to exchange swords. Just like when I cut my men earlier, the Demon King swung his sword wide and tried to cut me in two. Being strong enough to tear a person in two means having that much speed. I tried to avoid it as much as possible, but my right hand holding the sword was cut off.
“Oops!”
It wasn’t me who let out a groan, it was the demon king. He has seen me as much as I have seen him. He judged that he wouldn’t be defeated so easily, but he seemed embarrassed that his prediction was wrong.
It may sound like a useless excuse, but this was my goal.
While he panicked, I jumped into his arms and bit the nape of his neck exposed through his armor. The fishy, yet hot liquid spewed out of his mouth as he bit into the thick, sweaty flesh. I was not taken aback there, and I applied strength to my neck and bit off the nape of the demon king’s neck.
This was my plan. Endurance or stamina was no match for him anyway. In the shortest time, he had to take advantage of his carelessness and inflict a fatal wound. It was a fantasy world with magic, so even if his arm was cut off, as long as he was alive, he could attach it right away. This was the 4th time my right arm was cut off. If I stopped the bleeding and waited for support, it would be my victory.
Anyway, my plan worked, and as I expected, the demon lord spurted red blood from his neck and stabbed his sword into my chest.
Fu-wook!
… Wasn’t this planned?
It was the amount of blood loss that would have killed a normal person, but befitting the name of the king of demons, the demon king did not go easily. Like the helmet, I easily tore the armor enchanted with high-level defense magic and inserted the demonic sword into my body.
He was given paralysis magic so he could fight any level of injury, so he didn’t feel any pain. Even so, his body lost strength and he fell to the floor.
As if that was the last time, the demon king let go of the sword stuck in my chest and wrapped his neck around his blood spurting out. He slowly knelt down in front of me while bleeding through the black iron gloves. Even as the black hood was drenched with blood, the demon king spoke.
“A coward, are you human?”
I opened my mouth even though my whole body was losing strength.
“Because you are cowardly, you are human.”
“Heh.”
He let out a light laugh as if he agreed.
Because of the sword that penetrated his back, he could not lie down properly and had to lie on his side unsightly. On the other hand, the demon king knelt down and bowed his head, revealing the dignity of a king even until his death.
By the way, it was a magic sword enchanted with instant death, but because of the enchantment enchanted on the armor, it could not die right away. Judging from the blood flowing from his severed arm, he seemed to die of blood loss. Just when I thought it would take some time until I died, the Demon King, who was not yet dead, also spoke to me.
“… Look.”
“Aren’t you dead yet?”
“It’s not long, I’m no different from you.”
“Is that so? So shall we talk until we die? I’m bored.”
“Huh, good.”
So we started talking to each other. Stories of small battles that took place while holding each other in check before the war, stories of enjoying a peaceful time, stories of wanting to throw away all these things and run away, etc.
Talking about it, he seemed like a guy we could easily become friends with if they weren’t in each other’s shoes. I told the devil about it. He was ashamed, but he was going to die now and there was nothing to see. The bleeding was really blurring my vision.
“If it hadn’t been for the war, we could have been friends. Is not it?”
“Okay… I must have… “
Unlike me, whose wounds were blocked with a knife, the hole in the demon lord’s neck didn’t seem to stop bleeding. It was noticeable that the tone of the voice was weak as the words were muffled.
“Ah, do you think you’re going to die? It’s my first time dying.”
“Yes… Jim is also the first… “
“No. Have you already died once?”
“Well, what… “
I let him know that I was actually from another world. As he listened to my story, he asked what kind of world it was out there. I listened intently to my words even on the subject of losing consciousness. I told him about my first love, hoping he wouldn’t die.
It was when I saw that he was with Gwadae starting from the first meeting. I also lost too much blood, so I couldn’t move my mouth.
“There, Yuri and that… Exaggerated… Hey, are you listening? … “
“… Jim is… Now, good… Good dreams… Pack… I have to go… “
“Hey… “
“… “
“Hey… !”
“… “
“… Did you look behind, see… “
The demon king lowered his head and did not answer. Soon, as if I had the flu, my body, which had been feeling chills, was numb. In that state, I closed my eyes and waited for death to come.
… Ahh!
Suddenly, I heard tinnitus and it lit up in front of my eyes. I opened my eyes wondering if I had come to heaven. Right in front of my eyes, I saw a combination of letters and numbers.
○○ Bar ○○○○
Realizing it was the license plate number, I heard a fierce male voice.
“Hey you crazy bastard! Keep your eyes open!”
It was a Korean word I hadn’t heard in a long time. As long as Korean isn’t the official language of heaven, I knew where this place was. A familiar alleyway, a yellow street lamp, and a black car with the lights on. It was a scene no different from the one before waking up in another world.
As soon as I died, I returned to the present.