The World Rebooted After Everyone's Regretful Redemption

Next up, a Crossover derivative novel from the bottom's perspective: I Went for the Best Friend Route, But It Turned Into the Villain Route [Crossover]. The blurb is at the very bottom. Please add it to your favorites! ---This Novel's Blurb--- Tsukino Hiro, leader of the Port Mafia, discovers after being reborn that he's a disposable NPC in a manga. As a madman, everything he does serves to advance the main plot. In the end, he dies alone in a sea of flames. Tsukino Hiro: “...I don't think that's going to work.” To escape his destined death, Tsukino Hiro decides to leave the Port Mafia, stay away from the main cast, and quietly open a coffee shop as an ordinary person, far from all conflict. After finally getting out of the Port Mafia, Tsukino Hiro finds a storefront. But after hiring a handsome blonde man with dark skin as a waiter, he sees him looking at him with a complicated expression. “You don't have to carry all of this alone. We're friends, aren't we?” Tsukino Hiro: “?” One day, after finally getting the coffee shop up and running, Tsukino Hiro serves a customer wearing a sand-colored trench coat, with bandages wrapped around his hands. The man stares at him intently, then asks: “Is this really your choice, Boss? You're abandoning us?” Tsukino Hiro: “???” After the Poirot Cafe becomes a popular online sensation, a tall, silver-haired young man wearing a blindfold comes in and orders every dessert on the menu. When Tsukino Hiro sets the desserts on the table, the young man grabs his hand, pulls down his blindfold, and says: “Little brother, it's time to come home, isn't it? I took care of those rotten oranges who said bad things about you.” Tsukino Hiro: “??? What on earth is wrong with this world?” * Readers discover that the manga has added a hidden IF route. In the main storyline, players think Tsukino Hiro is nothing but a pretty face. He's gloomy and quiet, acts recklessly and extremely, and is a thoroughly unlikable villain. But when they click into the IF route and Tsukino Hiro's past slowly unfolds, they finally understand that his madness and extremism come from deep and painful reasons. His old friends think he's a traitor, break ties with him, and turn their guns on him; His subordinates think he's a brutal dictator and plot with the rebels to kill him; Even the older brother who silently protected him is ashamed of him and refuses to see him ever again... Only the readers know the immeasurable pain he bears, the blood he has shed, and the sacrifices he's made in silence. Readers: “...Damn, what is this beautiful, strong, tragic story? You game writers are finished! Finished! Hiro has to live!!!! Give us the groveling arc!!!” So, in the manga's new serialization, Tsukino Hiro comes back to life. P.S. The world resets from the start. The first playthrough will gradually be revealed. There are quite a few flashbacks, marked with [※] after the flashback chapters, which you can skip if you like. Pairing: Nanami Kento He appears much later. Before You Read: 1. The protagonist's memories are problematic. At first, he only remembers his life as an NPC. Later, his memories return, but he's emotionally detached from his past memories and experiences. 2. The groveling arc and flashbacks are interspersed, and many flashbacks are essential. If you only want to read the groveling arc, you can skip them. 3. The protagonist is independent and unmatched, with lots of one-sided crushes. The groveling arc includes both family and friendship storylines. 4. Some unavoidable out-of-character moments may occur. Please be gentle. 5. Some comments may be deleted due to the controversial nature of groveling arcs and their impact on the reading experience. Please don't mention other authors' works in my comments, and don't mention my work in other authors' comments. Comments like that will be deleted. This novel will go VIP on Sunday, September 11. A 10,000-word update will be released that day. Please add it to your favorites and subscribe. Thank you for your support, dears! ---Next up, a Crossover derivative novel from the bottom's perspective: I Went for the Best Friend Route, But It Turned Into the Villain Route [Crossover]. Please add it to your favorites!--- Blurb: Tachibana Kiyori is introduced to a single-player full-dive dating game still in closed beta. In the game, the player is a little ball of sunshine who loves life despite being beaten down by it. Their goal is to become the characters' friends, their most important and closest companions. A best friend is, after all, “a pillar of emotional support,” “an incomparable salvation,” and “the last place of refuge.” Tachibana Kiyori rubs his hands together eagerly and quickly arranges several unforgettable best-friend scenarios for himself. [Scenario One: Pillar of Emotional Support] Suguru Geto is the only person in the entire world who still remembers Tachibana Kiyori. His friend, who sacrificed himself to turn back time and give Suguru a chance to start over, is slowly losing his breath. Family, friendship, the greater good... Time returns to the night before they enter Tokyo Jujutsu High. Everyone except Tachibana Kiyori returns to the beginning. Nothing has happened yet, and everything can still be changed. Except Tachibana Kiyori has vanished completely. This time, Suguru Geto is the one who has to start over again and again. “What's the point of a world without you? Just call me crazy.” [Scenario Two: Incomparable Salvation] Bourbon realizes that the world seems to be stuck in a loop. To save his doomed friend, Tachibana Kiyori, who smiles as if he hasn't a care in the world, turns back time again and again, trying to rescue his friends. But every time, he fails. When they meet again, Tachibana Kiyori still smiles and throws his arms around them, with no sign that he has just experienced life and death. He's still the same dazzling little sun. Until, at last, Tachibana Kiyori succeeds, but the price is his life. His body lies cold in the rain, a smile of fulfillment on his face. At that moment, their memories return. “This time, we'll save you.” [Scenario Three: A Coward's Habit] The thing Dazai Osamu hates most is people like Tachibana Kiyori, who can't read the room and are always coming over to bother him. Annoying, irritating, shameless. Even though he's in the Mafia, he acts like he loves life. So Dazai becomes his “friend,” leaves him outside, and takes him along when he tries to kill himself, all to make him get the hint and stay away. But even when Tachibana Kiyori is left in a miserable state, he still looks up at Dazai with a smile and treats him well. Then Dazai gets used to having him by his side, to seeing that familiar figure whenever he turns around, and to being indulged no matter how selfish he is... Tachibana Kiyori leaves. He says, “Dazai Osamu, I'm tired. Please let me go.” [Scenario Four: Final Salvation] After becoming a demon, Michikatsu Tsugikuni sometimes thinks of the friend he had in childhood. Tachibana Kiyori always chose him, no matter who else was there. He was so weak, yet still trembled as he stood in front of Michikatsu to shield him from every danger. He was even willing to die for him. To surpass his brother, Michikatsu Tsugikuni killed his only weakness with his own hands. Yet as he lay dying, that person showed no resentment, only asking him: “Is this enough?” Is this enough? Was he a weakness...or the only salvation Michikatsu had? Tachibana Kiyori completes the game and happily logs off. A few months later, the game officially launches, and beta testers are given a code to transfer their save data. When Tachibana Kiyori returns to the game, he discovers that the best-friend routes he completed are somehow now romance routes??? And the friends whose beta-test records were supposed to have been deleted finally smile. “This time, we won't let you get away.” Theme: Only by treating others sincerely can you receive sincerity in return