They were Hiroto’s companions who had been reincarnated in Origin with him. They were his hope.

One day they would definitely find him; they would definitely come to rescue him. For the past twenty years, Hiroto had never stopped believing that.


They were a little late, but he wasn’t one to complain. Let’s celebrate our reunion, let’s redo our second lives, I’m sure it’s possible now that all of these companions are here, he thought.

Trembling in joy, Hiroto took one step towards them.

「Everyone, commence attack!」

However, at the command of a young man who appeared to be the leader of his companions, Hiroto was struck by simultaneously-released magical attacks.

『Wait! Why are you attacking me?! I’m your ally, I’m one of your companions!』

Hiroto’s screams were drowned out by blazing hellfire, blades of wind, piercing cold and devastating lightning. Hiroto, who had approached his companions with no thoughts of defending himself, was completely bewildered as he fell, his body fatally wounded.

「That was surprisingly quick. Considering that we heard that a powerful Undead had risen.」

「Well, there’s thirty out of us hundred heroes gathered here. There’s no way we’d have trouble with that.」

Above Hiroto’s head, familiar voices were having a conversation.

Hundred people? A hundred people, you said? NO! There were a hundred and one of us, including me, there’s a hundred and one!

He wanted to shout those words, but his throat had already been cut; he could not even let out a moan.

His right arm was completely burned and blackened; his left arm had gone flying off somewhere else. His legs had been torn off at some point; he could see his left leg in the corner of his vision.

His head and torso were in a terrible state as well.

「The reason we didn’t have any trouble is because this Undead let its guard down. Death-attribute magic… What a terrifying magic.」

Looking in the direction of this voice with the only eyeball that he could move, Hiroto saw Naruse Narumi standing there. She had matured more than she had in her previous life; she was now an adult woman.

「Ah, he’s another victim of this laboratory.」

Next to her stood a young man, the leader who had given the attack command. Judging from the distance between them, he knew that this man and Narumi were intimate with each other.

「I’m sure he wants us to kill him.」

「You’re right, Hiroto.」(Narumi)

Hiroto…? Hiroto? Amemiya Hiroto?! This guy is Amemiya Hiroto?!

「Let’s at least finish him off so that he doesn’t have to suffer anymore.」(Narumi)

「That’s the best thing we can do for him. Narumi, let’s do it together.」(Hiroto)

Don’t fuck with me! Why the hell are you the one standing there?! You, who took my share of power, destiny and fortune! Why are you trying to finish me off with such a heroic look on your face?!

Why is it you, why the fuck did it have to be you?!

It’s all your fault that my second life was such a disaster! Hundred heroes? You’re treating me as an outcast and killing me?!

Hiroto let out a cry, but he was unable to withstand the bright light coming from the hands ofHiroto and Narumi and turned into dust.