Prelude

(A/n: Chapter might be confusing. )

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{ Four months before the incident }

I was sitting on a particular throne, apparently waiting for someone or somebody.

(This throne, and everything around me, even this dungeon is my creation, to hopefully wait for the person who might end that false god's rule over this world... maybe use the powers I shall give him or her rightfully.)

Huh? The familiarity of this place felt too real, what the hell is happening? Am I still in a random dream?

....No, this is possibly a memory of one of my past lives. And here I thought I've lived four lives, including this one.

(But if I died before my greatest project, "Ambrosia" was completed, then it shall rest there, waiting hopelessly.)

A few more thoughts and visions coming from this life passed by the current me, and through observation alone, there was the name "Oscar Orcus" on somewhere.

(My soul had been damaged fighting Ehit's forces, but I will still keep the motto of the Liberators....)

Then I woke up with a mildly throbbing headache, perhaps due to the memory I have received. Not as much as the completely unlikable vain and blind "Scientist" though, had to take some meds and rest from anything significant to eventually get the headaches gone.

".... Struggle till the very end, huh? Wasn't that the motto I had since I was just young?" I wondered, scratching my temple. "At least I didn't have to struggle as much as them, how pitying....."

Honestly, I guess me and all my other lives look like each other, despite us having. different hairs, experiences and personalities.

And, as if that isn't enough, my past lives' abilities, skills and techniques are transferred to me and I have been training to get used to those, especially the magical abilities, and the usage of Ki, or simply Life Force in English.

It was all thanks to practicing Ki that I was capable of staying up for an entire week before a mere 4 hour sleep relieves me of all the stupid fatigue I could have gained, preferring to spend some for random manga and good erotic doujins with actual plot or just spending them for videogames while leaving some for good savings in the bank.

For certain occasions, of course.

Plus, I didn't have to waste too much yen refilling the tanks of LPG and both electricity and water bills because of magic.

Then there's the monthly renting bill from this apartment I rented because it was close enough to the school I have been assigned to.

Anyways, forgive me for the late introduction, but I am Satoru Mikami, I'm 26 years old and living in an three storey apartment placed in a certain town in the Ibaraki prefecture.

I look nine years younger, so there will be times where new students and transferee teachers would mistake me as a student.

I was the teacher of the Kikoku-sha High School in 2-B, though my students were mostly a good bunch while some of them were either delinquents, stereotypical girls, and students who needed help.

I mean, there will be times where I work as the Guidance Counselor to keep the healthy aura of the students inside the school by doing my other job.

For extra pay, that is.

Alright, enough monologuing! I'm going to get up, do some exercise, eat breakfast, and either stay home or go for a walk outside since today is Saturday. Maybe I can spend some time using the "Scientist's" and "Magician's" knowledge to make something good?

Without much to do since I've already prepared whatever I needed to next week, I cleaned up my apartment and then locked it afterwards. For extra security, I used magic to seal the door when nobody was around me.

And so, began an unusual day which had me meet one of my students from another class while I was just doing random jogs around the town in my tracksuit.

And I did mean this was a very unusual day indeed.

Much to my confusion, while I was jogging, my instincts blared and made me subconsciously hop forwards at 60 km/h, evading a truck that had almost crashed down to me.

Heh, not today, Truck-kun! I already have the power of an Isekai protagonist in my-

*sideways hop*

*pot_breaking.ogg*

And no, you're not getting your chances either, pot of god! You cannot hit the one destined to be summoned or reincarnated to another world!

(.... At least that was what I thought before that incident.)

So what's next? I waited for a moment, and at this moment, only a certain brown haired boy passed by me.

"Oh! If it isn't teacher Satoru!" He spoke with a bright smile, bowing his head and towards me with respect. "What brings you around here?"

"Me? I was just doing my exercise routine around here, after all a healthy mind is the best thing to have as a teacher, plus Saturdays and Sundays were great break times after all." I replied in kind, putting my hands on my pockets casually.

"I see, it was nice meeting you here Sensei, but I cannot really let Kaori wait, I was in a hurry so I apologize."

With that, Kouki left after I reminded him about his (very few) projects, leaving me wondering why that kid is still chasing after someone who doesn't love him.

How pitiful. Anyways, that boy has literal protagonist energy, while I probably have either side character or mob character energy, I guess?

Minding my own business, I continued my random jogs until the sound of a teenage girl crying in pain reached my ears.

With curiosity at its peak, I immediately checked where it came from, and when I did manage to get there, my eyes sharpened.

"Useless brat! Couldn't even give us a good enough penny!" A late 30 year old man yelled in frustration, shoving a fist towards a girl.

In reflex, and a short burst of Ki, I leaped forward and blocked the fist from ever hitting the girl's face.

But alas, the moment I looked at the girl, I recognized her immediately. She was Eri Nakamura, and the person whom I stopped from hitting her was her father.

She was almost dead-eyed, and that made me feel a semblance of anger towards the man and pity towards Eri.

So I lifted him up and proceeded to suplex him right on the spot, even though my mind just screamed "K.O.!".

Without the need for hesitation, I called the police while proceeding to dodge and fight back in self-defense.

It took a while before they arrived, and with an ambulance in tow, too. Eri's.... father was tasered and cuffed without hesitation.

Eri was carried to the ambulance to be delivered to the nearest hospital. Due to my magic that I quickly casted to fix some of her broken bones on her chest and a damaged organ down below, I shortened her recovery to an entire week, effectively cutting off some of the costs.

And due to what happened, I had to sadly take care of her in my apartment.

Hey, I'm not complaining, her family's being a bitch by disowning her, so I pressed several charges and gained 60 thousand yen in exchange.

She wasn't annoying, and because she was my student, there was no reason for me to gain some sort of romantic interest with her.

And later, in the night a week after she was out of the hospital.... Eri had snuck herself to my bed, holding my arm close as we met eyes.

"Eri, what brought you here?" When I asked this, her hold on me tightened.

"I'm scared, sensei. Please don't leave me alone...." Eri sobbed out, before yawning out loud. ".... And thank you...."

Wait, is this a yandere flag? If it is, then I have one choice.....

"Yeah, just please don't show too much affection to me on public, we might get seen a little differently."

Eri smiled, nodding her head and understood what I meant, before her eyes closed and becoming stuck like glue on me while she slept.

Though, here's my doubt... I might have become a protagonist, if not, I might be recently aware that I am becoming one right now.

But, this kinda feels like a start of a very forbidden relationship, hopefully it wouldn't turn that way.....

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Extra Note:

Satoru Mikami's Past Lives:

• Oscar Orcus - That guy who built everything Satoru saw in his memory. Loves umbrellas.

• Fighting God - A master martial artist who was capable of manipulating life energy to an immense degree. Identity will be revealed later, but he loves using umbrellas or parasols as weapons.

• Astral Magician - A powerful magician who has the knowledge of science and magic and combined them. True identity will be revealed later. He does love using lances, umbrellas, and combined them to make a big bad umbrella.

• Scientist - A very arrogant and blind (not literal), yet incredibly brilliant minded scientist (different than the Astral Magician), one which Satoru just straight out gains an immense headache every time he gained a part of this person's memories. Doesn't use umbrellas, sadly.

• World Guardian - A man who sacrificed himself to permanently stop the invasion of aliens in his world. Uses lances.

Extra Note II: Satoru is 170 cm tall and has a weight of 85kgs. He has a lean build, but not too lean but kind of muscular.

Extra Note III: To explain his ability, he simply gains knowledge and memories from those "past lives" of his, most techniques are instinctual or are muscle memory, while the others are gained from constantly viewing the memories.