The floor of the academy's dueling ground was engraved with ornate magic circles.
A man lay pathetically sprawled there, his ash-gray hair caked in dust and dirt, his expensive noble uniform torn to shreds.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙
[Will you execute 'Evan Dreadnote'?] [YES/NO]
There was no reason to hesitate.
He wasn't even that important of a character.
"Me, the eldest son of the Dreadnote Family—how dare a lowly commoner bitch like you...!"
The man screamed with a grotesquely twisted face, but not a shred of sympathy could be found in the gazes directed at him.
Only contempt and mockery filled the air.
The silver-haired girl looking down at him.
Iris, the protagonist of this game The Glory and the incarnation of justice, stared at the defeated foe with cold eyes.
"That arrogance is what led you to ruin, Evan. Your family can't be your shield anymore."
"Shut your shallow trap!"
"Enough, Iris. Talking more won't make him understand anyway."
"Right. Let's just end it here."
"...Hiiik! Sp-spare me!"
Evan Dreadnote.
The third-rate villain consumed by inferiority, constantly blocking the protagonist party's path.
His fate was sealed from the start—tormenting the heroine with his power, digging cowardly traps, and laughing all the while.
Yes, his end was destruction.
"Sigh, fucking moron."
It was a scene I'd seen hundreds of times already, but every time...
I couldn't hold back the sneer at the guy's pathetic state.
How hilarious was it, watching him flail desperately just to squeeze out a few more seconds of life with his immobile body?
I kind of wanted to watch more, but...
For the sake of progressing the story, it was time to move on to the next scene.
I moved the mouse cursor and hovered it over the [YES] button floating in the center of the screen.
"See ya, fucking moron."
Click.
"Don't fuck with me... I-I, I abso-fucking-lutely won't d-d-die, won't dieee!"
Zzzzt!
And that was my last memory.
When I opened my eyes again.
The man I'd so despised was standing in the mirror.
Ash-gray hair and dead-fish eyes—the third-rate villain.
Evan Dreadnote.