Kamiya Shimo, who collects titles for a living, doesn't care about winning or losing when he plays games. He only cares about titles. In RPGs, he always follows the righteous route first and the villain route second. This lets him collect 90% of the titles in a single playthrough.
As for the remaining titles for minor characters, he can just start another playthrough and breeze through it to collect them all.
Using this method, Kamiya Shimo, who isn't interested in game plots, quickly beat this newly released game.
And then karma caught up with him.
Kamiya Shimo, who died while gaming: "..."
But it's fine. He's always been lucky, hasn't he? Now he's bound to a game redemption System!
A mere villain? Kamiya Shimo, undefeated across countless games, accepts the challenge.
Then he learns the mission is to redeem his first playthrough.
Using his character from the second playthrough.
Wait...
Kamiya Shimo breaks down. "I don't have a single stat in my second playthrough!!"
How is someone with nothing but NPC stats supposed to redeem himself when he has the exact same face as the first-playthrough character?!
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There's no problem in this world that can't be solved with a cheat.
With help from the System and the cheats left behind by his predecessors, after countless trials and tribulations, including hanging himself outside the Bandage Freak's door, having his first-playthrough corpse stolen, and the Gravity Manipulator smashing into his apartment in the middle of the night, Kamiya Shimo finally, finally redeemed his first playthrough!!!
But...
Why does everyone think the first playthrough's descent into darkness has something to do with the second playthrough?
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In the first month after the appearance of the Conch Shell Slums, a traveling noble arrived, took in every homeless child, and became a famous Yokohama philanthropist with a smile.
In the end, the philanthropist tore off his mask of kindness and viciously overturned everything he'd once stood for.
[Congratulations, player, on unlocking the ending:
The Exiled Sheepdog
What a fine and precious soul, at last sunk in the mire.]
Four years after the philanthropist left, someone saw a face at his grave that was identical to the one on the headstone.
The rain roared, illuminating those clear blue-green eyes.
The person could clearly see, in those familiar eyes that made him want to cry, a hatred so venomous it was unbearable.
Much later, the person who had uncovered the "truth" let out a cold laugh and pointed his gun at this face, identical to that of the one he'd lost, yet so hateful to him.
"You hate him?"
"You're the last person in the world who has any right to resent him."
# Basically, a series of memories of a dead husband + fake-widow fiction
# The romance is in the first playthrough, and the first-playthrough character will come back to life later
# Apologies for any out-of-character moments
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