I Was Reincarnated as the Villain in an NTR Eroge, but Since I Don’t Actually Want to Be a Villain, I’m Just Going to Live Normally - 2

Chapter 2: For Now, I Guess I’ll Go to School

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I packed my textbooks into my school bag and finished changing into my school uniform.

“Alright, I guess I’ll try going to school now.”

With that, I slung my school bag over my shoulder, left my apartment, and decided to head straight for school. Luckily, quite a lot of Kuze’s memories remained with me, so it seemed like I wouldn’t get lost on the way. The school was only one stop away by train from the apartment I lived in, so it seemed to be fairly close. While riding the train and walking outside, I looked around curiously at my surroundings. The scenery looked exactly like the Japan I used to live in. So it didn’t feel like I was in another world at all.

“Hm, so does that mean the world line is the same as the original real world?”

In other words, rather than being reincarnated into a different world, it might be more like I had arrived in a parallel world of the original one. Though I had no idea, really. Well, even if I tried thinking too hard about that, there was no way I’d find an answer. So I stopped thinking about it and headed straight for school.

Before long, I arrived at the front gate of the school without getting lost.

“Ohh, this is amazing. The school’s exterior looks exactly the same as in the game!”

Muttering that, I stared at the school building from in front of the gate. It looked exactly like the school I had seen over and over in the game’s story, so I felt a little moved. Up until just now, I had honestly thought everything looked the same as the world I had lived in before. But the moment I saw this school, I truly realized that I was inside the world of the game. It even made me feel a little happy, like I was visiting a real-life pilgrimage site.

After all, no matter what I said, that NTR eroge was a game I had played intensely in my college days because I thought, “Maybe there’s actually a hidden happy ending…?” The game was a work I had a lot of emotional attachment to. Well, in the end, there hadn’t been a single happy ending and I fell into despair, but that was a good memory too.

Ah, but hey… If this really was the world of that NTR eroge…

“Then that means the protagonist and the heroines are at this school, right? If that’s the case… How should I behave from now on? Should I stay away from the protagonist and the others?”

If this world shared the same world line as the NTR eroge, then the protagonist and heroines attended this school. And in that case, the class 2-1 that I—Akira Kuze—attended would be the very same class where the protagonist and two of the heroines were. So if I started attending school every day from now on, I would inevitably be around the protagonist and the heroines… But would that cause some sort of bad event? Would everything going to be okay?

By the way, the game had three heroines. The first was a cute, airheaded childhood friend who had been close to the protagonist since they were young. The second was a serious, beautiful friend he had known since middle school. The third was a cheerful, boyish junior with a charming personality who had been in the same club as the protagonist since middle school.

Of course, all three heroines were very good girls. The everyday scenes of them hanging out together were great, and the lovey-dovey parts after they started dating were really fun. But no matter how good the choices the player made, the heroines were always NTR’d midway through the story because of Kuze, who appeared later. It was a terrifying game that burned the players’ brains after they had been enjoying all the wholesome daily-life and romantic parts.

And I had reincarnated as that Akira Kuze, the one who destroyed the players’ minds. So I felt a bit uneasy, wondering if staying close to the protagonist and heroines would pull me into the main route… But, well…

“Hmmm… Well, it’s fine. I have no intention of becoming the villain like in the game. So there’s no way I’ll end up in a bad ending, right? No need to worry about that.”

And so, since I had absolutely no intention of becoming a villain, I concluded that I didn’t need to worry at all. Besides, in the first place, after living a life as an overworked corporate drone, all I wanted now was to heal my exhausted mind and enjoy a relaxed high school life. So even though I was technically a villain, I had no intention of doing anything bad whatsoever. The protagonist should just hurry up and start dating his favorite heroine. As someone who had played the game, I was honestly rooting for him.

After resolving my worries, I stopped thinking about anything else. I changed into my indoor shoes at the shoe lockers, and headed toward my classroom.

 Rattle rattle!

“Morning.”

“Haha, seriously? That’s super lucky—wait, huh!?”

“Yeah, yeah, that’s what happened—whoa!?”

“Hm? What’s wrong with you guys… whoa!?”

The moment I opened the classroom door and greeted everyone while stepping inside, all the students in the room suddenly became noisy. And right after that…

Whisper whisper…

“H-Hey… Why the hell is that delinquent guy here…? He hasn’t shown up to school in forever…”

“I-I don’t know… Ask him yourself…”

“N-No way… Why do I have to ask something like that…?”

“W-Whoa… His face still looks stupidly scary no matter when you look at him… He totally looks like the type who beats up underclassmen, bullies people, or extorts them…”

“Y-Yeah, I get that… His face really is way too scary…Why is that kind of dangerous delinquent even in our class…?”

Whispers of people fearing or disliking me drifted here and there. Well, I was a delinquent, so it was natural they saw me that way. But I wished they would at least whisper quietly enough that I couldn’t hear them.

Well, whatever.

The moment I stepped into the classroom, everyone treated me like I was some plague, but it didn’t really bother me. Maybe if I were still the student I used to be, this kind of atmosphere of being disliked might’ve been unbearable. But the current me had spent years working in a black company as a corporate drone. I had experienced this exhausting kind of atmosphere countless times in that life. So there was no way I would be shaken by something like this now. And it was not like I came to school to make a hundred friends anyway.

I mean, since I managed to return to being a high school student, I want to study properly and enrich my life this time!

Thinking back, when I was a teenager, I spent every day playing games with friends, reading manga, browsing the internet—doing all that stuff—and barely studied at all… Only after becoming a working adult did I finally understand how fun and important studying was, and I deeply regretted not studying more seriously when I had been a student… So I wanted to make use of that regret from my adult life and study properly this time. I was determined to walk a responsible life this time around!

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