Everyone's life was an epic. Some lived ordinary lives, while others suffered a fate full of twists and turns.
Everyone had a story—some mundane, some thrilling.
In Natsuki Subaru's seventeen years of life, he had never thought himself particularly great. Until now, he had found an excuse for his downfall and willingly settled into mediocrity.
Natsuki Subaru had a happy family. He was the only child, his father was Natsuki Kenichi, and his mother was Natsuki Naoko.
His father had a younger sister, while his mother had a younger brother.
Natsuki Subaru's aunt was one or two years younger than Natsuki Kenichi and highly capable. It was said that when his father had dropped out of high school, it was his aunt who had brought back his graduation certificate.
As for his uncle, his mother's younger brother, Natsuki Subaru had always regarded him as a negative example.
His uncle was a timid man, always constrained in everything he did and unwilling to take the slightest responsibility, as if he feared messing everything up. His round, bloated body and nearly bald head did not resemble his beautiful, virtuous mother in the slightest.
Even at family meals, they used his uncle as a cautionary tale to lecture Natsuki Subaru time and again. As a result, Natsuki Subaru had developed a strong aversion to baldness and obesity from a young age.
Even when he dropped out of high school and became a shut-in at home, he kept exercising. At only seventeen, he had a stronger physique than most adults.
He also got along quite well with his other relatives. After all, Natsuki Kenichi was a highly capable man with exceptional social skills. He could even get a female high school student's phone number with nothing more than a bottle of water.
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