[Teacher Roxy... Sylphy... Alice... they were all supposed to be mine?]
[My soulmates? What this guy said... could it all be true?!]
The Human God's beguiling words were like the deadliest curse.
They echoed over and over in Rudeus's mind.
Rudeus's heart began pounding wildly beyond his control.
Every beat was like the thunder of a war drum.
It awakened the memories and obsessions of his past life, buried deep in his soul, that he had long since deliberately forgotten.
The memories of a pathetic, thirty-four-year-old Japanese NEET who had nothing, who had been abandoned by the entire world, who could only seek a shred of comfort in fantasies and virtual data in a dark room!
That pathological craving for women, that bone-deep obsession with being loved and acknowledged.
At that moment, like poisonous vines growing wild.
They burst out of the darkest corners of Rudeus's soul.
And wound tightly around his already fragile heart!
"But... but...!"
Just as Rudeus was about to be utterly consumed by that grand, fabricated "hero's story."
The Human God's voice abruptly turned cold and cruel.
Like a blade drawn from ice in the deepest abyss.
It mercilessly pierced the unrealistic fantasies that had just begun to rise within Rudeus!
"That man named Cui Ciyou appeared!"
"He was like a shameless thief who crept silently out of some dark corner."
"A vile, shameless, revolting usurper!"
"Cui Ciyou stole the attention that should have been yours."
"Cui Ciyou took the women who should have devoted their hearts entirely to you."
"He stole the supreme glory that should have belonged to you alone!"
The Human God's voice brimmed with feigned, righteous indignation.
As though he were Rudeus's staunchest ally, standing up against the injustice he had suffered!
"Open your eyes wide and take a good look at