Welcome back to the Exoverse. It's been a while since we've watched the journey of the Astral Exponential and his cohorts, and if you know of the story, you know they eventually succeeded.
What you don't know is that their victory echoed beyond time and space, ending the Corruptions in every timeline across every reality...at the cost of their own.
And while RDS, Jesa and Techni were able to recover their closest friends and allies, eventually founding the World Jumpers, their home timeline was lost, a debugged glitch in the wind...
Until now.
The prime timeline has rolled back; but it's nowhere near identical to the one from before. It's converged, into a single universe.
While this universe is contained, unable to connect or be connected to, no matter how hard it tries, only tangible to the World Jumpers in the first place...
While even if it could connect, the Corruptions are unable to spread due to everything outside of the one universe being code incarnate and controlled by Jesa, who's now Supreme Deity...
The Astrals are *not* taking any risks.
And even if it's only one multiverse of infinite, even if it's locked in every which way, the Astrals would feel guilty letting their birthplace be subject to Corruption's whims.
And so, armed with knowledge of the future, more power than ever, and a supporting cast who's seen their other lives, the World Jumpers return to their home timeline to wipe corruption out once again...
And hopefully this time NOT blow up said timeline in the process!
After I suddenly died I possessed the body of what I thought was an extra within a novel.
From then on my life was mostly calm, though not fulfilling. Until one day I discovered I wasn't just a background figure; instead I was an insignificant character who'd end up being the villainous Grand Duke's secretary, only to die shortly after being near him!
But I had no choice, it was too late to change my fate, so I decided to live as obediently as possible under the orders of the sadist villain. But I still had a plan.
Even before the female lead makes her appearance, I will try in every way to make the villain a little more normal, or at least ensure that the two do not meet, so that no one will face a harsh death, including me!
And then, after the villain doesn't become obsessed with the female lead and becomes more normal, I will be able to resign and live peacefully.
So I just cleared all the suspicions he might have about me in order to not incur his wrath and die like in the novel.
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"I'll give you a choice."
The corner of his lips raised crookedly. Though that smile did not reach his eyes at all.
"One, don't resign and stay here forever..."
His gaze was enough to unnerve me.
"Two, let me kill those who dared to give you the idea of resigning...then don't go and stay here forever."
No, haven't I already made sure that the villain has become a little more normal!?
...What the heck is going on!? He shouldn't be like this!