[Currently revising this. I looked back at the mess I wrote before. I'll post it once I've fixed it.]
After dying in an accident, Kawakami Hiya was bound to a System and had to successfully win over three important characters to come back to life.
Kawakami Hiya, brimming with confidence: This is right up my alley!
But he never expected the System to be such a disaster.
System: [Sorry, Host. I haven't upgraded yet, so right now I'm just a cannon fodder System QAQ]
Kawakami Hiya: So... I'm cannon fodder?
[Cannon fodder character setup one: doomed from the start]
You are a pitiful student who is bullied, ostracized, and envied. On a sunny day, you choose to leap from the rooftop of a fifteenth-floor building in search of release.
P.S. Watch out for the drop from several dozen meters up. Don't fall.
Kawakami Hiya: Got it.
Then he leaped from the rooftop and fell into the opening scene of his own story.
[Cannon fodder character setup two: a killer on the black side]
You are a killer raised from childhood in a criminal organization. Your blade is stained with blood. Under secret orders, you go undercover as a police academy student and infiltrate the heart of the good guys.
P.S. You're the real deal, a villain through and through.
Kawakami Hiya sighed: Just a donkey on the production line.
Then, smiling, he personally plunged a knife into the Boss's heart:
"Old man, go in peace. I'll lead the distillery into a bright new future."
[Cannon fodder character setup three: frail, beautiful, and tragic]
You are an ordinary police academy student, chronically ill and bullied by your classmates. You have high hopes, but no one believes in you. Every day, you lick your wounds alone in a dark corner.
Kawakami Hiya: Ordinary? Not a chance.
Then he kicked robbers, chopped down criminals with his bare hands, climbed buildings without a rope, and scared a criminal into wetting himself with a single look, before turning around and coughing up blood like crazy.
Kawakami Hiya: I'm so frail. [Lights a cigarette.jpg]
Classmates: ...Say that again?
Gin (with a sneer): What a third-rate trick.
Yet after Kawakami Hiya faked his death, each of them was left with a pain in their heart they could never speak of.
He was an eternal, beloved first love, forever beyond anyone else's reach.
[Content warnings]
1. The protagonist is a true villain.
2. The pairing is with Gin. All other romantic feelings are one-sided.
Theme: May friendship last forever
