Dark Hero in Tate no Yuusha

Justice and evil can change depending on one's point of view.

I was so tired that philosophical lines, which I normally wouldn't think of, popped up into my head. My willpower has been shaved down to the point that…I've been having a blank expression for a couple of hours now. I want to lie down on my bed and spend some leisure time on the manga and anime I love so much.

With eyes like that of a dead fish, I, a functioning adult, am playing… a gal game. (An opposite of the otome game which is for male audience).

The protagonist is a commoner boy. 

It's a gal game, so the capture targets are females.

On the other hand, if the protagonist is a girl and the capture targets are males, then it's an otome game.

I'm so happy to see the female character on the other end of the screen blushing. Every captureable character that appears in this game is beautiful.

They're created by popular illustrators and voiced by famous voice actresses. If this were an otome game…I'd hear the male characters, but the sweet voice of a guy wouldn't make me happy!

With a blank expression, my focus was on a smartphone's screen.

Since I have no motivation, I have to rely entirely on walkthroughs to play.

Once you select a choice on the flickering screen, you'll know if the love meter rises, accompanied by a sound effect and a varying pose that the 3D character will make.

The female character had a pose where her hand was brushing through her hair, along with her cheeks slightly blushed.

'You're different from normal boys. Let me hear your name.'

I got goosebumps all over my body from this cringe line. This girl is the crown princess, a captured target character that appears in the game and is established as a female character that's highly popular around the campus. This is a scene where the protagonist comes across her by chance, and not knowing that she's the crown prince, interacts with her normally.

I'm far past my second playthrough. I could only let out a complaint about these first-meeting scenes I've seen many times.

"You fucking kidding me?! There's no way that one wouldn't know who the crown princess of their own country is. How sly of this bastard protagonist."

It seems that the crown princess doesn't notice the sly behavior of the protagonist.

"…She's blushing while in delight. Tsk, she's got no keen eyes."

I am Vishwa, a 28-year-old, IT employee, still single due to my rotten fetish for slave girls. Even I don't know how I got this fetish till now. I have been living alone for the last ten years in my house. 

When I was five, my mother cheated on my dad with another man for his money and ran off somewhere. Since then, my father was the only one who taken care of me, he treated me very well.

When I was studying in my college first year, I heard the devastating news of my father's death due to a certain accident through a phone call. That was the biggest shock for me then, I took a lot of time to recover from my grief. 

After that, I studied well using my father's insurance money. I got a proper job just as my father wished.

I'm spending my long-awaited weekend break playing a gal game. Currently, it's noon on a Sunday. I've been playing this gal game non-stop since Saturday. I've been busy recently and didn't get a weekend break in a while due to my busy job schedule. 

I am playing this fucking game for only one reason, which is to get a cat girl as a pet. I heard it has a lot of 18+ scenes.

Honestly, I would like to play a game with a world setting similar to that of the ancient slavery system. 

Two fucking days later...

I finished this game, I managed to unlock over 90% of the events and CGs. All that remains is the harem ending. The remaining ending is where all of the female characters get married to the protagonist. 

When seeing the ending, feelings of rage, then sorrow, welled up.

"Why did you have to marry them?! why does every one of these games end up with marriage? All you need is to have a sexual relationship with them. It doesn't matter whom those bitches marry until you can fuck their pussies. Tsk, tsk... whatever"

I saved the data and having seen those erotic scenes of a pet girl, I collapsed onto my bed with a happy expression.

Looking at my clock, it was a little early to sleep. I don't feel like moving because of my exhaustion, but the outcome of being relieved that it's all over was an empty stomach.

Placing my hand on my stomach, I remembered that I ate little in the morning and nothing by the end.

"There was nothing in the refrigerator."

I was planning to do some shopping during my time off, but I prioritized clearing the game, so I did not go outside.

"Perhaps I'll go to a restaurant?"

I got up and took my wallet in my hand since I was hungry. I'll temporarily put the matter of this game on hold and go to eat.

I'm not going to rack my brain over this marriage concept anymore.

While thinking so, my steps got lighter.

It was a strangely fluffy feeling, kind of like the feeling of joy after being free from work.

"Now then, I'll go on splurge today and even take something more pricey from the menu…"

I left my door while looking forward to my gorgeous dinner. I walked through an empty passage with flickering fluorescent lights and then was attacked by a sudden dizziness as I approached the stairs.

"-Ah?.. this is pretty bad."

My body lost its power like a puppet with its strings cut and toppled down on the spot.

My body wasn't doing what I wanted it to, and it was the worst of luck to have it right before I was about to descend the stairs. The scenery in my field of vision was quickly changing as my body

approached the stairs.

I didn't feel anything like pain in my body, but I recognized that my current state of vigorously tumbling down was dangerous.

"I can't…die…like this."