Everyone in the group chat went quiet as they stared at the blood-red notification on the screen.
After a long pause, the chat started moving again.
Skirt-Flipping Maniac: H-He's dead? The new guy just died like that? This has to be a joke, right?
This is an Actor: I don't think the group rules would joke about something .
Aizen sent the message, then glanced at the member list in the chat.
It was clear as day—next to the username "Cheng-ge Laughs at Your Lack of Awareness," there was now a big black skull icon.
This group chat really had a lot of details.
Doujin Artist: Poor guy, we didn't even know his name.
Scarlet Lotus Fairy: Yeah...
Shark-Faced Guy: Didn't Aizen say this newbie was pretty useless? If that's the case, there's no need to get sentimental over him.
Skirt-Flipping Maniac: Still, no matter how useless he was... he's dead now.
Doujin Artist: Exactly! At least show some basic empathy!
[Notification: This is an Actor has uploaded the memory "School Days."]
Scarlet Lotus Fairy: ?
Curly-haired Guy: Whoa, wait a second—don't tell me the guy who just died was this idiot protagonist?!
Two-timing, lying to girls, using them for their bodies... and then bouncing between them over and over?
Not only that, but he was messing around with a fourth and fifth girl too?
And after doing all that, he just says, "Actually, I like Kotonoha"?
Damn, what a world-class piece of trash!
Even someone as jaded as Gintoki couldn't help but feel disgusted.
Skirt-Flipping Maniac: Makoto Itou... Cheng-ge... yeah, it has to be him.
Doujin Artist: Holy crap, this scumbag who played with girls' feelings?! Good riddance! No wonder Anzen wanted to kick him out—someone like that didn't deserve to be one of us!
Shark-Faced Guy: Eriri, where's your empathy now?
Doujin Artist: That's for humans, not for garbage like him! Ugh, this guy is disgusting! He's beyond awful!
Eriri was so furious her whole body was shaking, and she could barely hold her pencil straight.
Compared to this sleazebag Makoto Itou, even those ridiculously lucky harem protagonists seemed almost respectable.
And this was just the TV version of Aizen's uploaded memory, which was the all-ages edition.
If he had uploaded the game version, Eriri might have exploded on the spot.
Amegakure Village's Angel: Eriri, calm down. He's already dead.
This is an Actor: That's right, there's no point getting mad at a corpse. The only shame is that he died too fast. If he'd lived longer, we could've gotten more information about his world.
Shark-Faced Guy: Oh, so that last question Aizen asked was just to get intel?
This is an Actor: Exactly. At that point, I was about 80% sure he was Makoto Itou, but I needed to be 100% sure. Luckily, his final answer confirmed it for me.
The moment he mentioned those four words, Aizen knew his guess was right.
The story of School Days takes place at Sakakino Academy.
Skirt-Flipping Maniac: Wait, so you weren't actually trying to save him?
Scarlet Lotus Fairy: There's no way we could've saved him—the group's teleport function isn't even on. And besides, Anzen never wanted to save him.
Amegakure Village's Angel: What I'm more curious about is... what information was Anzen trying to get? You already knew the plot of School Days, didn't you?
This is an Actor: Knowing the story doesn't mean everything is under control. Even small changes can throw an entire timeline off course. And in Makoto Itou's world... I don't think we're talking about small changes.
Doujin Artist: What do you mean by that?
This is an Actor: Do you remember what Makoto said when he was begging for help?
"They're going to kill me."
That "they"—what was he talking about?
Since our group chat transmits messages directly from our thoughts, there shouldn't be any typos unless they're intentional.
Amegakure Village's Angel: So whatever killed him... it wasn't human?
Skirt-Flipping Maniac: If it wasn't human, then what was it? He was still at school, so it couldn't have been some wild animal, right?
Doujin Artist: Could it have been a ghost?
Curly-haired Guy: D-Don't be stupid! Ghosts don't exist! They're just something people made up!
Doujin Artist: Wow, really? You do realize we're in a supernatural group chat, right? Why would ghosts be impossible?
You're scared, aren't you?
Curly-haired Guy: Nonsense! I'm not scared at all! I'm just analyzing things logically, okay? Logically! Maybe... maybe the one who killed that idiot protagonist was actually an Apostle from the MU Continent?
Doujin Artist: Logical my ass! And what the hell is MU Continent? That's even crazier than ghosts! Also, why would an Apostle from another world go out of their way to kill some random loser? Even gods don't get that kind of special treatment!
Skirt-Flipping Maniac: So sharp! I don't really get it, but Arin-chan's sarcasm feels so sharp!
Doujin Artist: Damn it, am I really turning into the designated sarcastic one? I never used to be !
Curly-haired Guy: Arin-chan, people change.
Doujin Artist: And whose fault do you think that is? How do you even have the nerve to act all smug about it?
Curly-haired Guy: Hmph, young girl! You probably don't know this, but real men like me don't need dignity! As long as we have a butt, we can survive!
This is an Actor: Oh? Then why don't you show us how you eat with your butt?
Skirt-Flipping Maniac: Pfft!
Doujin Artist: Hahaha! Yeah, show us!
Shark-Faced Guy: I'm also curious, Gin-san. How exactly do you survive just with your butt?
Curly-haired Guy: Ahem... uh... Warden's making rounds. Gotta go!
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