Rudeus is a Reincarnated Person.
Before he came to this new world, he was not a student, nor an office worker. He didn't have his own business or a dream to achieve.
During his high school years, he suffered extreme humiliation and bullying. He was stripped naked and hung at the school gate, becoming the laughing stock of everyone in school.
After that, in his previous life, he never left his room, living a gray, hopeless life in just a few square meters.
His body became increasingly fat and greasy, and his soul gradually deteriorated, becoming extremely ugly.
"Ahead is a cliff. Taking a step forward means falling hard to the ground. But if you hesitate, you'll continue to endure insults. The choice is yours."
He had heard words like these at some point.
Rudeus from his previous life deeply understood these words.
Because he had indeed become that weak person who hesitated and refused to risk being shattered, and thus suffered endless insults and everyone's condemnation.
But even so, he still didn't have the courage to take that step, nor the determination to accept being shattered.
However, was it all his fault?
Were all these problems his own?
It seemed that way, but was it right just because it was the case?
Wouldn't anyone in his situation be just as weak, giving up on accepting reality and choosing to escape?
The Rudeus from his past life never wanted to see reality clearly. He kept choosing to escape reality, to escape his fate.
The final result was becoming a NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) in his thirties with no money, no house, and no job, living a reckless life at home thanks to his parents' indulgence.
However, this kind of life came to an end one day.
While the Rudeus from his previous life was at home browsing porn sites, watching videos, and indulging in a wretched existence, his older brother suddenly burst into his room with his siblings and placed a document disowning him right in front of him.
Never expecting this to happen, the Rudeus from his past life instinctively resisted. But his older brother smashed his computer with a baseball bat and gave him a beating.
The last thing he could barely hear was why he didn't attend their parents' funeral and why he had fallen so low without any remorse...
These words should have struck him deeply, severely damaging his spirit, but the Rudeus from his past life reacted calmly.
His parents' death seemed less important to him than his smashed computer.
As for falling...
Someone who has already fallen can't even see which level of hell they're in, let alone turn back and climb out.
So, his brother, furious beyond words, kicked him out of the house.
His older brother, who had once been so gentle, constantly pleading with him to go outside, even kneeling outside his door and crying, had now become as cruel as a demon because of his excessive depravity.
This made him feel scared of his brother.
No, the scary one was himself.
The real demon was himself, wasn't it...?
The Rudeus from his previous life finally had these thoughts at the end, realizing that he himself was the one at fault.
After that, he was kicked out of his house and became homeless, not knowing how to find a job or how to live on the streets.
——Absolutely useless.
Yes, the Rudeus from his past life finally realized then that he was so helpless. Even though he had lived for over thirty years, he hadn't learned any skills, and he didn't even have a single experience to be proud of.
All he had was a head full of arrogance, arguing and cursing with others online, and a meaningless sense of superiority in trivial matters...
While he was lost in the most confusing days of his life, not knowing how to get through the day, that accident happened.
The accident was caused by a few young men and women arguing in the street. Seemingly caught up in youthful passion, they didn't notice how dangerous their location was. Just then, a speeding truck rushed toward them.
"Dan... Dan... Dangerous..."
The Rudeus from his past life wanted to warn them, but his vocal cords hadn't been used properly for over ten years, and he couldn't even speak loudly.
At this point, he should have just given up and watched the young men and women die. It had nothing to do with him, an observer.
But that was all he had to do, he should have continued to run from reality.
But his body moved on its own for some reason.
A strong desire not to regret anything sprouted from the depths of his heart.
So he rushed out, using his body, which had wasted thirty years of life and was completely useless, and stood directly in front of the truck.
Then, he died just like that.
There were no complications, no emotional outbursts. There wasn't even an extra thought to write about in a novel.
Because the weight of his life wasn't reflected in him at all.
A person's death is remembered because of the value they accumulated in their life, which erupts at the moment of death, containing unimaginable power.
The death of a great person, that immense energy can shake the world and be remembered even after death, even turning into a Servant, becoming a treasure of human civilization and the planet's history.
But the death of the Rudeus from his past life was purely nothing.
No value, no meaning.
Just death.
All the content of his thin life added together was probably less important than the last moment, when he sacrificed himself to save the young men and women.
But at least, he made a choice at the end of his life.
Be shattered.
Be shattered.
Even if he fell off a cliff and was shattered to pieces, that was the guidance of fate.
At least in that way, the meaning of life would be realized, and the value of death would no longer be nothing.
In the end, the Rudeus from his past life was hit by a truck weighing fifty times his weight, and his body crashed into a concrete wall, killing him instantly.
Then, possibly by coincidence, or perhaps as a reward for being shattered at the end of his life, he was reborn in this world.
He was reborn as a baby, given the name Rudeus Greyrat, and started a new life.