Third person POV
The next morning, Roxas woke up from that dream, able to remember its details somehow.
"Woah…it was him…" he said in a low voice.
He then grabbed his notepad and pen from his nightstand and quickly wrote down the details of it in bullet points form.
After that, the alarm of his phone rang, prompting him to grab it and turn it off. Later while having breakfast with his friends, Roxas shared the details of his dreams to them. His friends were shocked in awe.
"Woah…" Minato commented.
"Oh no, poor him…" Koyuki gasped.
"Man, that was him? Like the true him?" Shuto asked.
Roxas then nodded. "Yes, he was."
Because of that, his friends became sympathetic for Kirito now.
Anko saw and felt how good it was living in Roxas' body.
At school, after his Filipino class (one of the optional classes), Roxas and his housemates submitted their homework essays to their Literature teacher (students in this school can submit their homework before class times of those classes). Shuto preferred the English poetry of Shakespear and Dante's trilogy books. Minato and Koyuki preferred Japanese and Spanish ones. Roxas, meanwhile, preferred literature that aren't dystopian. Their scores for their essays were above 85 points (80 is the maximum score).
Meanwhile, Adam remained quiet and watched out for Roxas's righteous fury against dystopian fiction tropes, while Roxas walked out with his favorite novel, Jonathan Friesen's book Both of Me. Roxas liked the book, and it was one of his companion books.
Later, during lunch time, Roxas was eating his Filipino-style lunch of tomato and scrambled egg mix and some rice and fried tonkatsu alone. For his beverage, he had a bottle of mineral water.
And then, an Elite Player teleported into the scene, which was the school rooftop. "Nice weather, isn't it?" that person said to him while looking at the sky. That was Evil Klein, and Roxas was shocked to see him.
But Roxas remained calm and didn't panic.
"Calm down…" his mind said.
"Watch out, that guy is Klein," Anko within him said, "he is loud but malicious when his evil AI version of himself took over!"
"Yeah, evet," Roxas replied internally.
"Haha, evet means yes in Turkish." Anko chuckled in his subconscious. "Got it."
And then, Evil Klein turned around towards him and introduced himself to him, before saying to him with his player name.
That Elite Player had his weapon with him.
Roxas now noticed him and used his intro tactic on him.
So, the foreign student stood up and looked at him. "My name is Roxas Torre Agbayani-Nietes of Iloilo City, the Philippines! My player name is Spark78Reformed!"
Evil Klein was in awe by Roxas' Western style of his full name. "What?"
Roxas then confirmed it, before finishing his meal.
Evil Klein was amazed to see his meal.
After that, Roxas reads to spend most of his lunch break. The book he was reading now is a vampire novel in Tagalog and English. Evil Klein took a peek of it, but he couldn't understand Tagalog at all. Roxas used that book as another tactic of his own, snickering away quietly while reading the book.
After Evil Klein teleported away, Roxas, having submitted his literature assignment this morning, scribbled in his agenda journal on selfish characters in stories (selfish exes, bosses, best friends, etc.). He laid out his own personal literary rules for their fates after karma slapped them for their selfishness and entitlement:
1. Don't make them poor, in debt (whatever kind of debt), or be socially isolated.
2. Don't give them low-paying jobs that are too insufficient to cover the most basic expenses (rent, food, etc.).
3. If they cannot find a new job in their area/or home country, make them go abroad and leave society (and also cut ties with them if they wanted) to find one.
4. Don't make them neglect their faces and bodies; give them decency over them to keep decencies when outside of their homes.
5. Make them live modestly (either cutting ties with their former arrogant and elitist lives or living as nobodies) with good things like cheap and decent clothes and cheap food.
6. When making new diets for them, don't make them rely on food deliveries too much (bad for their health). Instead, integrate balanced diets for them and make sure they can cook their own meals, even the simplest.
7. Make sure their social interaction with new people wherever they settle and work is essential for communication (like at work or in a café).
8. If they were going to drink in bars on their sorrows on the karma they caused themselves for their selfishness, make them eat a meal before drinking alcohol.
9. At least, their homes should be decent, not too fancy or too shabby, and the rent should be cheap or reasonable.
10. Hobbies that they used to do in the past would be encouraged to recontinue in their new lives.
11. Most importantly, even though they would be dreadful in their post-elitist lives, at least they have jobs to rely on, food to eat, and homes to call home.
12. Don't make them work long hours. No overtime.
13. Don't make them threw away their old credentials (work experience or diplomas from prestigious universities), and they should reuse them to get new jobs, especially abroad. This reduced time to learn new skills just to get a bewildered job.
Seeing his handwritten manifesto and treatise on characters, Roxas was proud of his literary viewpoint, before readjusting his black necktie and going downstairs for his World History and English classes for this afternoon. Anko looked at the colored YouTube manga videos Roxas used to binge on back in 2022, seeing how the fooled MCs got their better lives while their exes and ex-bosses and ex-best friends got their karma and either live in poverty or as shut-ins. He knows why Roxas wrote his 13-point manifesto. He also saw how many times Roxas watched the antagonists also get into fishing boats to work to pay whatever they owe, or ex-girlfriends who had to work as hostesses to pay debts, the tropes even Anko was tired of, and he once claimed that they "rot" his brain when he was still alive. He also knew how Roxas knew that eating a full meal before alcohol is good.
"Man, Roxas-kun," Anko chuckled while hovering near Roxas at the stairs. "You really made the antagonists touch grass, work a 9-to-5 job, and eat their vegetables."
Stepping into the corridor in the school, Rolxas replied, "Yes, I do. Szép, ugye? (Nice, isn't it in Hungarian) I basically applied Matt. 5:44 to even fictional characters. By the way, about what I talked about Uncle Roger and Jamie Oliver last night, Jamie Oliver shouldn't be allowed in a restaurant kitchen. I would personally brandish my slipper if he dared to barge into my kitchen."
Anko doubled over as Roxas walked over to History Class.
Roxas was a Baptist who was a deep appreciation for Dutch Reformed and Lutheran church aesthetics, but his faith and Filipino cultural nuances on life provided a moral framework for his manifesto.