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According to Alpha and the girl's story, the Cult of Diablos was an enormous

organization that operates on a global scale.

Man, that's impressive.

They said something about having to fight against it, but then they just

scattered to the four winds.

But I get it.

They're all grown up now and want their freedom.

This cult doesn't exist.

We can't play along with this travesty forever, so we're setting ourselves

free.

That's what they really meant.

I guess I can't blame them.

It was the same way for me in my old life.

As everyone gets older, they forget about their superheroes.

Even back then, I was fighting my battle alone.

Magic!

Magic!

Magic!

Magic. Magic.

It's always the same.

Even if I end up as the last man on Earth, I will continue striving to be

the eminence in shadow.

I love you.

foreign

Oh

The royal capital of the Midgar Kingdom is a giant metropolis with a population

of more than 1 million citizens.

At the age of 15, I enrolled in the same school as my sister, the Midgar Academy

for Dark Knights.

It's a super prestigious institution, where promising students from in and

outside the kingdom go to school.

And...

It's a medieval-style hierarchical society, but I still managed to get in,

even though I'm just background character A.

Of course, they still treat me like I'm a background character.

They're all, go stay in a cheap downtown apartment, Hick.

Ah, class society.

Thanks for waiting!

Hey, so what in the world happened to your hair?

Come on, we're gonna be late, Sid. Sorry.

For my friends, I selected two guys who are genuinely proud of being background

characters, Skell and Poe.

Come on, hurry!

Hey, wait for me!

Damn it. I wish they'd let us live in the dorms on campus

like all the upper class kids.

There's no place for bottom-of-the-pile peasants like us in the exalted abode of

Her Highness and her kind.

Listen, all we have to do is become honor students like my sister. Then

they'd let us live in the dorms on campus.

What, like be the champions in the Bushing Festival?

Not a chance.

Seven months into my student career, and I'm blending in quite nicely as a

background student.

In the midst of it, a day of reckoning has arrived.

Anyway, you remember the penalty for the guy who scored the worst on yesterday's

test, right? You lost the bet, Sid. You have to do it. I know what I have to do,

but... The penalty in question is to confess love to the most popular girl in

school and suffer her brutal rejection.

This is exactly the kind of background character event I've been waiting for.

And the girl in question

is...

Most beautiful princess Alexia goddess of our campus I humbly ask you to join

me in pure and upstanding courtship Not interested

That's the princess for you I know she's destined for political marriage after

she graduates, but he wouldn't have been a bad choice for someone to fool around

with Now listen here. Don't you go getting cold feet on us. You got it Oh,

don't worry.

I spent all last night planning out how I was going to do it.

Watch closely and see how it's done.

Behold, the entirety of the world's most background character-like love

confession.

I like you!

Will you please be my girlfriend?

Nailed it.

This is the kind of background character I've always wanted to be.

Now I need her to turn me down so I can run away and follow my face.

Alright, I will.

Huh?

I've been waiting for someone exactly like you.

Here's to our new relationship.

Uh, sure.

Why?

How did I get sucked in as the rom-com protagonist?

Look, that's him. No way. He's way too average.

This must be a mistake. I'm so gonna kill him. But who is he?

You don't think it's weird?

Oh, it's weird. This is definitely very bizarre.

If I'm being brutally honest, you are nowhere near worthy enough to date

Princess Alexia. In fact, I don't even think I would make the cut.

If she was willing to take you, Sid, maybe even I had a chance at dating her.

I should have just asked her out myself.

I'm scared.

I feel like there has to be a catch.

I mean, she and I don't even live on the same planet. Who cares about that?

You could get some sweet memories out of this. He's right. But if you want, I

could trade places with you.

Do you mind if I come sit with you guys?

Go ahead, yeah.

If this seat will do, by all means have a seat.

their sense of insignificance did I pick the perfect friends or what Wow

that's royalty for you look at all that food I

never managed to finish it honestly I wouldn't mind having some of the lower

class options

Hey, this isn't bad either I call it operation dump me already. Damn it.

How's that disenchanted yet?

So you are studying royal busheen fencing for your afternoon PE class.

Ah Yes, I thought we could take the class together.

Yeah. No, I don't think so I'm in section 9 the lowest of all the

sections. Oh, that's alright I put in a good word for you and they opened up a

spot in section 1. Okay, I Guess so

And thus my lunch and Operation Dump Me Already Damn It came to a close.

Skel and Poe remained useless lumps to the bitter end.

We have a new member joining our team today.

I'm Cid Kagano.

Thank you for having me.

I'd expect nothing less of Section One. Their advisor, Mr. Xenon, is the

official Royal Fencing Instructor.

Unlike the lower sections, there's an all-encompassing air of constant

vigilance. As you know, the Royal Boushin style that we study here is an

original style, derived from the traditional Boushin school.

You might say it's a new friend, like you.

We faced a lot of pushback at first.

But thanks to the genius of Dark Knight Princess Iris, the sister of our own

Alexia, we've gained enough momentum to rival traditional Boushin.

In other words, if you have the strength, you can successfully parry the

skeptical eyes of the masses.

So now how much strength do you have?

Alexia's attacks never land and her movements are slow.

She doesn't use much magic either At first I thought she was just matching

her level to mine But she wasn't.

The goal of this practice is to review our strokes and counter-strokes, and she

is strictly adhering to that.

Thinking back, before the lesson, she was copying my stretches.

In other words, she's hyper-aware.

A perfectly honed technique that stays true to the basics and forgoes any

excess. But it's boring.

Yep, very dull.

The world sees her as far inferior to her sister, who is currently praised as

the most powerful Dark Knight in the kingdom.

But her insipid fighting style is the result a lot of effort It's proof that

she's built up her skills in the basics one step at a time

All right, then that's all for today's lesson

Thank you for a good match. Thank you as well. You have a good fencing style.

Thank you, but I hate it It's like I'm fighting with myself

Can I make the assumption that that is your answer then?

Alexia?

Yes, that's correct.

I have decided to be his girlfriend.

Mr. Xenon, sir.

Oh, please. You're acting like a child.

You know you can't keep running away forever.

But I am a child. I can't understand grown-up problems.

It hasn't been made public yet, but we are still patrolling. Oh, I get it. I

see what's going on now.

So basically you don't want to get engaged to Mr. Xenon and you need a

patsy to help you get out of it, am I right?

That's why you chose a low-class aristocrat like me, whom you could

easily control.

Yes, that's right.

Sorry, but I don't want to attract any more attention than needed. And frankly,

I'm not too interested in getting mixed up in your problems.

That's pretty cold, coming from my boyfriend.

In name only, you mean.

As if you were any better, Mr.

Sid. I confessed fake love because I lost a bet, Kagano.

I had a little chat with your friends.

They turned beet red and sang like canaries.

That's not very nice.

Toying with the pure heart of an innocent young girl.

If the rest of the student body found out, you may never see another peaceful

day at this school.

Oh dear, are you alright?

Your face seems awfully twitchy for some reason.

I'm fine.

My mouth twists like that because I'm twisted deep down in my soul.

But I'm not as warped as you are.

Did you say something, Sid?

Nope, I said nothing.

Anyway, I think I will have you keep pretending to be my boyfriend.

You can stop after that man gives up on me.

Fine, but will he ever give up?

Anyone can see that I'm clearly out of your league.

I know that, of course. I just need you to buy me some time.

I will take care of the rest of it on my own. I don't see this ending well for

us. Blah blah blah, you are so whiny.

Do I strike you as the type of guy who can be bought with money? Yes, you do.

Well, you're absolutely right.

My allowance for my parents isn't nearly enough to fund my imminence in shadow

operations. Can I afford to let this chance slip by?

No!

My, what a good boy you are.

You're such a good puppy.

Now fetch.

And thus, I decided to continue my romantic relationship

with Alexia.

Man, I had my eye on her too.

He's just a gold digger. But seriously, who is that guy?

Fortunately, everyone focused only on the fact that Alexia had a boyfriend.

So I was able to play the role of the background boyfriend character.

Xenon opted for the wait and see approach.

That man is so infuriating. He thinks he's so great just because he can swing

a sword.

Okay, okay.

You saw that phony smile, didn't you, little puppy?

Okay, okay.

Only say okay once.

Okay.

As expected, Alexia was very well-mannered in public. But behind

closed doors, she was a whirlwind of insults and spite.

Debating her would be a waste of time.

I must play the role of a robot who is programmed only to agree.

You're a princess isn't your face enough to get you to the front of the line, of

course it is But the point of this is not to go out for ice cream It's to

inform the entire world of my relationship.

Oh, that makes sense So then what exactly is the problem you have with

marrying Xenon As a prospective husband, I think he's a pretty prime selection.

Everything is the problem.

I hate everything about his entire existence.

But he is good-looking. He's got status, fame, and money. And of course, he is

quite popular with all the other girls. That's just on the surface.

It's really quite easy to pretend to be perfect.

I mean, that's what I do.

That explains it.

That's a very convincing argument.

Did you say something?

No, nothing.

Anyway, I don't judge people only by what I see on the surface.

Well, how do you judge people, then?

By their flaws.

Mmm, a very negative way to judge people. Sounds like you.

And that's why.

I've nothing against a guy who's totally average, full of flaws, with no

redeeming qualities like you.

Why, thank you. I'll take that as a compliment.

And if I may ask, what are some of Xenon's flaws?

He has none. So he is a prime selection.

Uh, no. There's no such thing as a person with no flaws.

If a person like this did exist, they'd either be a massive liar or completely

psychotic. Oh, I see now. Thank you for that totally arbitrary and biased

response, Alexia. You're very welcome, my ever-so-flawed puppy.

Here's today's reward.

So two more weeks passed.

And I continued to play the boyfriend with no relationship progress worth

mentioning.

Your fencing is a mystery to me.

You've got the basics down, but nothing more than that.

There's absolutely nothing else to it, but I can't take my eyes away from it.

Gee, thank you.

But I still detest watching you fight.

What's wrong with you today?

Your fencing was unusually aggressive and sloppy.

Just the ramblings of a fake boyfriend.

You really don't have to look at me like that, you know?

All my life, I wanted to be as good as my sister Iris.

But what I have has never been the same as what she has.

So I figured it out on my own. I tried to get stronger in my own way.

And look where it got me.

What good has it done? You know what they call me, don't you?

Fencer Ordinaire.

Exactly.

But your fencing style is just as ordinary as mine.

Unfortunately for you, that is.

I don't think it's unfortunate at all.

I kind of like your fencing style.

Someone else told me the same thing once.

At the Boushin Festival after I'd suffered a humiliating defeat?

My sister said it to me.

I knew she'd never understand what was going on in my head at that moment, and

how extremely pathetic I felt.

I've hated my sword style ever since.

You should know that I'm not a very nice person.

If somewhere on the other side of the world there was an unfortunate incident

that killed a million people, it wouldn't bother me.

That is vile and evil.

However, there are some things that would bother me.

They might be things that other people would see as worthless or futile.

But to me, these things are the most precious things in life.

That's why I said I like your fencing style.

What exactly do you mean by telling me all of that?

Nothing at all.

If I did mean anything... It's just that I get pissed off when people disrespect

the things I care about.

That's just how I feel.

Is that so?

Then

goodbye,

Cid.

I guess this is the end of my unwanted relationship.

Come on, Sid. You have to cheer up. Things will get better. I know it was

wrong of us to rat you out and all, but please don't hold it against us forever.

Okay, okay.

So tell us.

How far did you get with her? With what?

Oh, come on! You know, with her. You dated her for two whole weeks. Something

must have happened. There had to be a little something, right?

I didn't get anywhere.

You know, you're just a good-for-nothing loser.

If it were me, I would have gone all the way.

I know, right? I definitely would have at least kissed her. No, a little

farther. Maybe a soft caress. Or maybe something a little more hardcore.

Can we have a minute?

Please, go ahead!

You should know that Princess Alexia did not return to her dorm last night.

The Night Order has been investigating it as a potential kidnapping.

And as the last person to have been in contact with her, you're now a suspect.

I would like to ask you a few questions.

I assume you're willing to cooperate?

And that's when I realized something.

I am in big trouble.

Katsushitai kizu wo tokatte, wasuretai kiyoku mo minna Taiyou wa zenbu

terashitasu kara Ryusei wo sagashi,

samayottetanda yo Anata to deau