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The Juni Taisen, held once every twelve years.

The winner of this battle may have any one wish granted.

And the winner of the twelfth competition...

Congratulations, me.

Only one wish,

but...

What should I do?

Juni Taisen

Hey, did you see TV last night?

Morning.

Oh, it's just Nezumi.

Die, all of you.

1. Die, all of you.

Just kidding.

I didn't participate in the Juni Taisen to get any wish in particular.

But having gone through so much to get it,

I'd never use it for something so stupid.

They'll all be dead in a hundred years without my help, anyway.

You look as gloomy as ever.

Do you just come to school to sleep?

Don't you have any hopes or dreams?

Flip her skirt up. 2. Flip her skirt up.

Hey...

What's wrong, Nezumi-kun?

You spaced out all of a sudden.

Well, I guess that's typical.

No reason in particular.

Idiot.

I'd like to ask a question.

If you had only one wish, what would you wish for?

Huh? Only one?

Yeah. If you could wish for one thing, and it would come true for sure.

Let's see... A wish, huh?

Um...

How about "let everyone be happy"?

3. Let everyone be happy.

That would grant a lot of people's wishes all at once, too!

I see... That's a good idea.

Yeah, right!

Then even people I hate would be happy!

For instance, my most terrifying enemy in the Juni Taisen...

If he had his wish granted, it would be a nightmare.

He might eliminate all life in the universe.

But, let's see...

Granting the wish of someone nice sounds pretty good.

Not trying to act cool, but if I can't come up with my own,

it would be pretty unforgivable to those who died.

I couldn't face them again.

You should do what you believe is the right thing for you, young man.

I didn't really act because I thought it was the right thing to do.

It was just the only choice that would let me survive.

The right thing... What is the right thing?

It's full of trash people, numbed by peace.

When I think about risking my life to protect the lifestyle of trash like that,

I feel utterly disgusted.

Don't you ever get sick of it?

No one in the world has saved as many people as you have.

But the law of ratios means you've saved a lot of garbage, too.

That's more her field than mine, isn't it?

I don't make peace with it. I carry it with me.

I choose to stop wars using the power of words.

I've been through many terrible things myself, as well,

but I still want to get along with everyone.

I want to find happiness with everyone.

Don't sell platitudes short, little boy.

To be frank, what you said still feels pretty lame to me.

But nonetheless, I liked your dedication to your platitudes,

Sharyu.

I know...

What if I brought the most righteous person in the world back to life?

4. Bring the most righteous person in the world back to life.

I couldn't have won without her, after all.

Yeah, that's good.

No room for complaint there.

I'll go with that. I've decided.

The wish I want granted more than anything...

Wait a minute.

Should a person come back to life because they're righteous?

Is it righteous for only the most righteous to survive?

Would she even accept that?

Then what about "bring back everyone who died"?

But that would include people who don't want to come back.

To bring back all of them would lead to a rehash of the Taisen.

Should I be making decisions about life and death?

Would they be the same people they were before they died?

Would they be like clones?

If so, would I just be satisfying myself?

But it's my wish... so maybe it's okay to satisfy myself?

Then what's the point of bringing them back?

Do I want them to thank me?

Honestly, I don't want to see them again.

Never again!

Then if I were to use the wish for myself...

Let's see...

What about wishing for good health?

Yeah, that old man said something like that.

Let me see...

Eternal life and youth, I think.

6. I want eternal life and youth!

When you get to my age, you learn that youth is the real treasure.

But wouldn't immortality kind of suck?

Staying young forever seems rough, too.

I ended up

asking the people on the other paths their wishes, too.

I don't know if they were lying, but their answers all came so easily.

What I want?

Yeah.

Well... confidence, I guess.

7. Confidence.

Confidence? Confidence in what?

Well, in myself, I guess.

Aren't you a warrior of the Niwa family?

You must have been through some rough battles, right?

I guess, but...

I don't really have a sense of who I am.

I just sort of fell into this line of work.

I do what I'm told, the way I'm told to.

But I'll have to keep doing this job, right?

So I'd like some... pride, I guess?

A personal sense of right and wrong? Something like that.

Why not wish to stop being a warrior, then?

8. I want to stop being a warrior.

I see...

I guess that's an option.

You seem so strong, yet you still want talent?

9. Talent.

I'm more afraid of losing than of dying.

Afraid? Well, nobody likes to lose.

I guess it's true that a genius like Ox doesn't have much to fear,

but it sounds like you just have an inferiority complex.

You're wrong. It's a disease.

If I had more power or talent, my chances of survival would greatly increase.

But if I did, wouldn't I just get sent to more dangerous battlefields,

to fight more dangerous foes?

A harem, of course!

10. A harem.

A harem, a harem, a harem!

As the heir to a historic household,

I desire a life with 3.5 billion gorgeous men!

To love and be loved by them!

Maybe it's because I'm still a teenager...

I don't want to wish for anything I'd be embarrassed to tell someone else.

Honestly, having infinite options only makes this harder.

Oh, it's just Nezumi.

Disappear, all of you.

11. Disappear, all of you.

Just kidding.

The power to experience the results of one hundred different actions,

Hundred Paths of Nezumi-san.

What about upgrading it to a thousand paths?

Expand my power to one thousand paths.

It's true that this ability allowed me to win the Juni Taisen...

But without it, I wouldn't have had to participate in the Juni Taisen at all.

And I still remember

the fear and pain I experienced, being killed those ninety-nine times.

Hey! Wait up!

I'm really sorry, Nezumi-san.

The others don't remember the other paths, of course.

I regret to inform you that you cannot escape me.

I'm about to rip you into itty-bitty bits.

Occasionally, they did remember me,

but only as a vague sense of déjà vu.

Hey, you...

Be my friend.

Do not worry.

It will take only an instant.

But it's burned into me alone, as though it all really happened.

It's seriously rough.

I was lucky that there was even a single route where I survived.

There are tons of situations where, even with a hundred options,

I still can't avoid something.

For example, there was no choice I could have made to avoid the Juni Taisen.

I doubt anyone could understand the despair of trying

a hundred paths and having none work out.

It happened in middle school.

I fell in love with the school's most popular idol...

Or rather, the plain girl who always walked behind her.

I tried a hundred ways to ask her out.

U-Um...

Please... read this.

Huh?! Oh, so—

Sorry!!

You're going on a date with me.

Ugh...

Uh... U-Um... Waaah...

I'm sorry.

Uh, I got carried away.

I mean it.

I'm really sorry!!

Being shot down a hundred times

at once hurt a hundred times more.

I later learned that she liked another boy,

and she wouldn't look at anyone else.

There are some things that won't work out, no matter what you try.

Ever since, I've written it off as a skill that's only good for winning rock-paper-scissors.

I'll pass on the hellish existence of trying a thousand options and having them all fail.

I work at a preschool.

I said I work at a preschool.

Despite how I look, the guardians all like me.

I send my daughter there, too.

Got a problem with that?

No... It's just surprising in several respects.

Long ago, because of a mistake I made at work,

a kid ended up getting sold to a pervert.

I got her back from the client,

but she had nowhere to go, so I took her in.

Now I've gotta keep working to earn the money for her care.

It must be hard on you.

Nah.

But thanks to her, I have... I wouldn't call it a purpose,

but it's a less crappy life than I used to have.

A purpose in life? Speaking of which, those two...

Huh? Our wish, you ask?

Please. You don't even gotta ask.

13. Money! Money!

Money! Money!

You know it's money!

There's nothing you can't do if you've got money!

That's what my big bro said,

but he doesn't really believe in the value of money.

I don't think he believes in anything but himself.

That's what my little bro said,

but to him, money's just another thing to be stolen.

It's just a game to him.

Even those brothers, who acted like money was their purpose in life...

When I really talked to them, they weren't as simplistic or optimistic as I'd thought.

And even an irredeemable villain like him...

So if what you're saying is true,

I should wait until the very, very end to make you my friend?

Y-Yeah!

I can't tell you my ability, but I don't think it'll be useful to you if I die.

Okay, will you help me find other warriors, then?

Is this a contract?

I'd like to start with the Warrior of the Ox.

I'd really, really like him to be my friend...

With each of them, when I just tried to talk to them,

they turned out so different from their first impressions.

Oh? My wish?

Yeah.

My wish is...

To be friends with everyone in the world!

14. I want to be friends with everyone in the world.

At the time, it was a chilling thing to hear,

but he genuinely seemed to want it.

What the hell?

That almost makes it seem like it was a mistake for me,

the one person with no wish from the start, to win!

So I ended up thinkin' after that...

How the hell does he always know what's the right thing to do?

I was sittin' here, thinkin' stuff like "bu" and "michi"

didn't mean nothin' on a battlefield...

But he was different.

So my wish is... for me an' him...

Hey, are you listenin'?

Y-Yeah...

Go on, drink!

No, I'm underage.

What'd you say?

Miss Tiger...

You won't even drink a little booze with me?

She was the one warrior in the Juni Taisen who got her wish.

I told you, I can't drink alcohol.

What'd you say?!

I started to think that things like hopes and dreams were dreadfully lame.

If you make them your purpose in life, you'll just feel empty if you don't get them.

But then, if you do get them,

what's the point in living after that?

Doing the right thing is the same way.

The reason I fought in the Juni Taisen, too...

I just got swept along in the moment.

No one can think the way Monkey and Ox do!

To finish off the necromantist's allies, I believe I'll need this.

Damn you!

Stop hiding and come out.

Or must I come to you, Warrior of the Rat?

Hey.

Could I ask you one thing before you kill me?

What is it?

Don't you have any hopes or dreams?

Do I need to have hopes or dreams?

I haven't crawled my way up out of anything!

I don't face any particular adversity!

Might I ask you one thing first, young man?

What is your wish?

What are you fighting for? Living for?

Come on, come on...

I've never thought about a reason for fighting, a reason for living!

My wish? I have ninety-nine wishes!

15. Rule the world?

But the ruling itself is the hard part.

16. I want a girlfriend.

But would that really be love?

17. I want wisdom.

18. I want to know the future.

But foolishness makes you what you are.

19. I want to be a pro baseball player!

But what fun would living be then?

But you'd have to work out every day...

20. Telekinesis.

Then why have hands? Then why have feet?

21. I want to fly.

22. I want to speak all languages.

23. I wish for an end to war.

You don't like talking, anyway.

24. I want X-ray vision. But it would lead to misunderstandings.

But it wouldn't end exploitation.

25. I want to climb Mt. Everest.

31. To never stub my toe again. Why not just watch where you walk? 26. I want a smartphone that can't run out of battery. But it would only last a few years.

But you'd only have yourself to rely on.

29. I want a cool supercar. It won't feel the same if you don't buy it yourself.

27. I want to pilot a giant robot! What would you be fighting?

28. I wish every day could be Sunday. Go to work.

30. I want to be a bird. But being human is way better.

32. I want to read people's minds. But you'd start to distrust people.

33. The ability to wake up early. But you'd just go back to sleep...

34. I want to enter a manga. But what if you couldn't get out?

35. I want to be invisible. But you're basically invisible in class already.

39. I want a best friend. What if they knew you were only friends because of a wish?

36. I want to not feel pain. But that seems dangerous. 38. I want that limited-edition product. But then it wouldn't be limited anymore, would it? 37. I want that rare book. But it's only rare because no one has it.

40. I want to be a great man. But the greatness wouldn't last. 41. I want to be able to talk to animals. But they probably don't have much to say. 42. I want to travel the world. But it would be harder than it sounds.

48. I want my dormant power awakened. But what if you don't have any?

44. I want a fighter plane. But where would you park it?

47. I want to meet great people from history. But they'd have a lot of lectures for a modern person.

43. I want to live in a mansion. All by yourself?

46. I want to see ghosts. Like hell you do!

45. I want to play all instruments. But buying them would get expensive.

61. I want a time machine. Do you have a plan to get the energy you'd need to power it?

51. I want better penmanship. But you live in the digital age. 52. I want to meet an elf. In this day and age? 50. I want the power to stop time! That's like saying you want the power to commit crimes. 53. I want youth. What do you think you have now?

55. I want an eye that can see long distances. What, you mean like a third eye?

57. I want to hire a maid. Just go to a café.

58. I want to be a manga artist. Answer one of Young Jump's newcomer recruiting postings.

60. I want to live on a deserted island. But you'd probably want to leave right away.

61. I want a time machine. Do you have a plan to get the energy to power it?

62. I want to be free of stress. But you need stress in order to grow.

63. World peace. But would you still exist in a peaceful world?

66. I want to go to an amusement park. What are you, a girl raised to be a living weapon?

65. I want to eat the world's most delicious food. But you want to eat cup ramen, too.

67. I want to be on the front page of the newspaper. Are you planning to commit a crime?

64. I want a loving family life. An artificial one?

77. I want to be a cyborg. But who would repair you if you broke?

78. I want an art collection. You don't like that stuff. Don't pretend to be an intellectual.

79. I want to buy a penguin. But can you even take care of an animal?

80. I want to talk to famous people. About what? Do you have a subject in mind?

82. A world free of evil people. Would anyone be left?

83. I want to be taller. But you'd just want to be shorter again.

84. I want courage. What are you, a lion?

86. I want prestige. But do you want unearned prestige?

87. I want to never miss a bus again. But then the buses would be late.

88. I want to be the strongest man in the world. Why, so you can bully the weak?

89. I want to invent something amazing. But all inventions ultimately become weapons.

90. I want to film a movie.

But you'd bring down any set you were on.

92. I want to become a master swordsman. Dishonestly?

91. I want to be someone who will never lose again. The moment you wish for that, you become an eternal loser.

97. I want to wish misfortune on people I hate. But wishing misfortune on others is a shitty thing to do.

96. I want to learn the truth of the world. No, you really don't.

98. To grant your wish instead.

Cancel that immediately.

If I do that... or that... But if I do that instead, it'll result in this, so I'll...

And if that doesn't work, what about this?

No, that will ruin that, so I won't do that.

If this happens, it'll result in...

Have you chosen your wish, Warrior Nezumi?

"I want to turn my one wish into a hundred." It can be that, if you like.

99. I want to turn my one wish into a hundred.

Although I don't believe

even a hundred wishes are enough to satisfy a person's ambition.

I've decided.

My one wish,

the one wish granted to the winner of the Juni Taisen...

Let me forget!

I don't have any wish I want to have granted!

Please...

Okay.

A wonderful wish, made from the bottom of your heart.

Morning.

Oh, it's just Nezumi again.

Hey, stop saying that.

He's coming to school just to sleep again.

Doesn't that guy have anything he wants in the whole world?

But look. He looks really satisfied today.

Like he doesn't want for anything in the world.

The One Wish That Must Be Granted, and the Ninety-nine That Can Be Done Without