Did I stutter?

二 ni. Birth

How did this happen? I couldn't have died right? This is all just a joke!

I didn't even get to see the final ending!!

NOOOO!

With that out of the way, I can start over.

My name is Leon, but it used to be Akira.

I'm the son of a king and live in the empire Earndel, but I used to be a NEET and live in Japan.

I'm currently 6 years old but I used to be a 24-year-old NEET and a true Hikikomori. (Loner or reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from society and seek extreme degrees of isolation and confinement)

I shook my head and slapped my cheeks.

I need to steer clear of those thoughts. No more Akira. I spent 6 years being Leon, and that is who I am now. I'll drive myself crazy thinking of myself as two different people. Instead of thinking of the 'Then', I need to think of the 'Now'.

Anyways as I was thinking before, I'm pretty sure that I was reborn as an Otome character. It's a pretty wild accusation, but seeing as that was the last game that I played and the fact that my dad, mom, and little brother look exactly like the family of the capture target.

Leon Smirnov, which is my name in this world.

I don't remember much of Leon's route. I was always focused on getting to THAT route (THAT route refers to the Heroine x Villainess route)

I just skimmed through most of the dialogue which is how I managed to beat the game in such a short amount of time. From what I remember, this exact event is mentioned in his backstory. Leon's little brother, Jasper, suddenly received a burst of accidental magic when they were playing.

Jasper was a magical prodigy as most don't have accidental magic until they are 6 (My age, although I haven't received my magic yet)

Leon got extremely injured, not physically but magically. Somehow his brother managed to steal some of his magic for himself (unknowingly) and Leon's magical power decreased by 1 letter grade.

So If I'm in an Otome game, and I'm Leon Smirnov, that means that I'm a Capture Target. In 10 years I'll be whisked away to the Academy. A place of schooling for all high-standing magical children. Those without a rank (I am hesitant to call them peasants) have a separate Academy.

At the Academy, I'll train for 3 years and in my senior year, the real story begins.

To be honest, I'm not sure I'll be able to wait that long. I can't believe that my wish came true. Ignoring my death, this is amazing, I'm living the True NEET life.

But wait. . . if I was able to be reborn in this world, there's a high chance that there are others like me from modern-day Japan. I'll have to keep an eye out, and I'll be careful around the Heroine and Villainess. There is a high chance that they aren't who they are supposed to be.

But then again, maybe I'm the only one.

I'll have to avoid all of the other characters. Not only can I not follow canon (The butterfly effect applies) but even if I do follow cannon, I don't know how I would feel being a 'Capture Target'. A prize if you will. Not to mention that in the end, just before THAT ending, it turns into a reverse-harem.

Talk about the males being straight on SIMPS.

I would also have to watch out for the lackeys. One of the lackeys, a girl named Chole Anderson, killed Leon in the 'Good ending', because he rejected the Yandere's confession and accepted the Heroines. In the bad ending.

I shudder.

In the bad ending, Leon is forced to live out his life as a sex slave.

The fans loved the ending because it was 'Tragic', the happy-go-lucky Leon, form a long-term connection with the MC (Main character), bubbly Mia. On the night that they were planning on eloping, Chole sneaks into their room with the plan of killing Mia.

She sees two forms in the bed and stabs the one that she thinks is Mia, only to find out that she stabbed Leon in the heart. When Leon kills Chole, Mia is left with his bleeding form. As she grabs his hands placing them over her heart she cries out, "If only my heart was truly yours, and I, the one who bled out into the dark night."

His dying words were, "I do." A promise that they never got to share.

After this ending, Mia can choose another capture target and complete a different story-line. The creepy thing is that everything plays out the exact same, only Leon is never mentioned once.

His story sucked and as far as I can remember, Leon is the only one to actually die in a 'Good Ending'.

I need to find some way to prevent that.

Better yet I don't even need to work very hard. The moment I see Chole, or Mia, or The villainess, Ava. I run in the opposite direction.

I don't know what would actually happen if I were to die again. Would I be reborn in another world, would I even remember who I used to be?

I don't care to find out.

Also, having magic is too cool of an opportunity to lose just because someone fell in love with me. I could be a great wizard. All I need now is a Hagrid to come up to me and say "Yoe'r a wi'zard 'Kira."

Or, no.

It would be Leon. I'm Leon now, I have to remember that.