Kirishima Kiyoshi is an utterly ordinary high school student and a game grinder. He really loves gaming and is a bona fide gaming addict. Then he closed his eyes, opened them again, and found himself approached by someone claiming to be a System.
System: You know your heart isn’t in great shape. You just croaked in your sleep.
Kirishima Kiyoshi: ?
“But if you take out the target characters’ death flags, you can come back to life for free and go home!”
“But I have no ties, no family, and no friends. What would I go back for?”
System: ??? How have you managed to live this long? By playing games and grinding them for other people??
Well, the world he was going to was a game too, so that settled that.
Kirishima Kiyoshi rubbed his hands together, eager to get started. “So you’re calling it ‘stealing death flags’!”
He looked at the list of people he had to save. It was longer than an old lady’s foot-binding cloth...
Kirishima Kiyoshi: Save them? No thanks, I’m out :)
System: (trying to stop him) Wait! If you stack up enough buffs, you can reduce pain and damage, even the effects of your heart condition!
Kirishima Kiyoshi: (whips around)
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But there was something Kirishima Kiyoshi really wanted to complain about
Kirishima Kiyoshi: Why do these people have more death flags than I do!! (furious)
Fortunately, he could have secret identities and a support system. One secret identity per world, buffs stacked sky-high, and fake deaths stacked sky-high too.
What? You’re ready for your final scene and your death flag? Sorry, that death flag is mine now.
Not a single one of you is allowed to die!!
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[Jujutsu Kaisen: utterly ordinary, eternally not growing up middle schooler, actually half-human and half-cursed spirit because the System strengthened his buff so he can disguise himself as either a cursed spirit or a human, close-combat sorcerer, “frail and sickly”]
He doesn’t have much else, but he’s got cheat-code intuition!! Pair that with his super OP long-range attacks, and he’ll definitely take the blindfolded cat’s place as the strongest!!
Wait, is kiting enemies a bit outdated? What should I do if I run into a cursed corpse or a special-grade cursed spirit? (thinking)
No, I have to transform into Niu Kulu Qing!
And so Kirishima Kiyoshi proudly became a close-combat mage with MAX melee and 0 ranged damage (?!)
Ahem, I mean, a sorcerer.
[Detective Conan: MAX health, but he has a death flag that says he can’t kill anyone, somehow always goes to bed on time at ten, murky water and wine, his specialty is mooching food and lodging because he’s broke]
Ahem, well, even if his efforts to make money leave him in the red, surely that doesn’t mean he won’t get a single cent? He doesn’t want to starve on the street!
What? You’re asking about the Black Organization’s salary? Of course the buff automatically donates it to a certain slum in Yokohama to flesh out the setting.
Hey, big shot, nice to meet you. Could you adopt me? (winks)
Shuichi Akai: (eyes shaking)
[Bungo Stray Dogs: ???]
Locked
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After going through countless hardships to remove all the characters who had left him heartbroken and all the walking knives, Kirishima Kiyoshi finally made it back to his own world, ready to treat himself to a good meal. But... who could have seen the worlds merging together?!
His smile suddenly froze... Help! Why do these people look so weird now?!
I regret it! You can’t just go around stealing death flags, friends!!
Reader’s guide:
#A story mainly about saving characters
#The romance is a mess. Just read it as friendship
#The original work belongs to its creator, while any out-of-character portrayals belong to me. The author isn’t a lore expert and is still a newbie, so proceed with caution
#The writing is awful, there are personal interpretations, and the timeline is a mess
#The male lead has a strong sense of justice, is firmly on the good guys’ side, and hates people who don’t respect life
Theme: Save the characters who deserved better, and have a happy ending
