When I Woke Up, I Seemed to Have Become the Villain in an Erotic Game I Was Hooked On, But the Route for This Character Is Nothing but Death Flags? - Episode 1: Prologue - Only Death Routes Await

Episode 1: Prologue – Only Death Routes Await

When I woke up, an unfamiliar ceiling greeted my eyes. I was certain I had fallen asleep in my own room.

If my memory serves correctly, I was playing the eroge “Eternal Vows of Love” last night. I had stopped at a good point and gone to bed. So what on earth is going on here?

As I looked around, I saw a room filled with unfamiliar things—a bed I didn’t recognize, furniture I’d never seen before. Everything was foreign.

“…Who the hell is this guy?” When I glanced into the mirror hanging on the wall, an unfamiliar face stared back at me.

No, wait… I have seen this face somewhere before. The moment I thought that, I realized the room itself looked oddly familiar.

The face reflected in the mirror—it looked exactly like the villainous character from “Eternal Vows of Love”, Yuya Saijo, heir to the Saijo conglomerate. It was like he had been brought to life, fully fleshed out. Even the room looked like it had been lifted directly from the game—it was Yuuya Saijou’s room.

If this really was Yuya Saijo’s room, then there was one thing I could predict with certainty. Any moment now, the housemaid waiting outside would knock and enter.

“Argh, ouch!?” Just as I was piecing all this together, a flood of memories hit me.

Or rather, it felt like I had inherited the memories of the body’s original owner—Yuya Saijo.

In any case, there was no mistaking it. This body was indeed Yuya Saiju. And along with this revelation came another, far worse realization, delivered by those inherited memories.

It told me that, just like in the game, I had finalized my engagement to the main heroine, Ayane Houjou, yesterday.

This was the worst possible situation. If I had to end up like this, why couldn’t it have been before the engagement to Ayane Hojo?

That’s because the route where Yuya Saijo gets engaged to Ayane Houjou always ends the same way: no matter what, Yuya Saijo dies.

The moment I understood that, I felt like everything was over. But then again, I was originally just an ordinary salaryman. And now, I had a massive advantage—a cheat-like ability: knowledge of future events in this world.

It was a precarious situation, like walking a tightrope or clinging to a spider’s thread. Still, a faint glimmer of hope began to stir within me. Maybe, just maybe, I could survive this.

I had no idea why I was thrown into this world as Yuya Saijo. Nor did I know what had happened to the original me in my old world. But for now, as Yuya Saijo, I swore to myself: I would find a way to live through this world full of death flags.