I wanted to be a bad actor in the anime, but I failed.

Snowflakes fluttered in the strong wind.

after Christmas.

The whole school entered the intense review period for the final exams.

As a school with a relatively high deviation value, the school atmosphere at Toyosaki has also become heavy.

The students all stopped playing around and studied seriously.

Many poor students also started to cram at the last minute.

The teacher was more serious than ever and distributed the test questions all at once.

Every class is either a mock exam or a review of test papers.

These torturous days are depressing.

Is this one of the reasons why today's young people are giving up and laying down because their edges have been worn down by high-intensity learning?

But now there is a student in the class who has seen through everything and has given up in advance, holding his chin and looking at the snow scene outside the window.

It's like someone who dropped out of school to work as a security guard and avoided decades of detours.

“Mu Lin!!”

Teacher Tanaka still has a deep love for this Chinese student.

The other teachers were too lazy to pay attention, but when he got a little evidence, he couldn't help but teach this stubborn student a lesson.

Even if he knew that the lesson was useless, he still had to be tortured!

"Ah."

In the heavy atmosphere of the history mock exam, the boy responded calmly, then stood up and walked out of the classroom under the worried gaze of a short-haired girl with a bob.

"Stop right there! Did I tell you to get out of the classroom?!"

Teacher Tanaka seemed to feel that ending it so quickly was a bit too easy for the kid.

But Mu Lin didn't bother to pay attention to him and walked out of the classroom on his own, which made him very angry.

The empty corridor is the only cradle of depression.

"I really don't understand why I work so hard, but in the end I'm still a social slave, a screw at the bottom of society."

“Which of the imaginary wealthy celebrities is not an exception among exceptions?”

"Education within the system is just like training livestock, it wears away people's dreams."

"No matter what, you have to have some resistance, right?"

"At least you have to have some personality, right?"

"Is it really worth being proud of being one of the common people?"

Mu Lin criticized like this while walking in the corridor. Suddenly, he passed by the library and walked in.

He walked and stopped in the gaps between the bookshelves and then stopped at a partition.

I came to the reading booth holding three books: "Greek Mythology", "Roman Mythology" and "World History".

He skimmed through the last one.

He was looking for some historical singularity that the system, which he had almost forgotten, had told him to find.

He was too lazy to take this matter to heart. After all, it didn't matter whether he looked for it or not. It was nothing more than a bluffing result like the destruction of the world and chaos in the universe.

"The world in my eyes was destroyed a long time ago. What does it have to do with me now?"

"No matter what, there is always someone taller to support me. I am a remnant of the old times, and I have never seen such a thing before. I am so old-fashioned that I am favored by your system."

[Sorry, host. 】

"You're alive?" Mu Lin was surprised.

[Yes, I will investigate your background]

"This investigation took 17 years. You are really efficient."

[Sorry, this is a bit difficult.]

"So what's the result?"

[I don't know, I just know that you also traveled through time in the last world... No, you fell from outer space.]

"is it?"

【Um. 】

The two fell into a long silence.

There was only the sound of Mu Lin turning pages of the book.

"You don't think I'm a historical singularity, do you?"

[…There is a possibility.]

"Then your definition of a historical singularity is problematic."

【What do you think? 】

"Anomalies are beings that are harmful to others and are called evil. I am harmless to others."

[But... you are entangled by the divine fire, aren't you? ]

God fire.

The flames of the gods are generally a sign that one has offended the gods and is about to be punished by them.

In other words, Mu Lin will soon be punished by the gods.

but……

The system was surprised that the divine fire really rolled away just because Mu Lin said "get out".

[This is a world without much faith. If a god suddenly comes to visit, the aftermath of the god's punishment will kill many people.]

"Do you think this god is a historical singularity?"

Mu Lin suddenly asked this.

【No. 】

"you sure?"

【At least they did not wander in the long river of human history. 】

"That's not necessarily true. The definition of a historical singularity shouldn't be so narrow."

[In any case, it is best for you to keep your distance from the people around you. This is perfect, you can also focus on investigating this matter, right? ]

“I’m too lazy to investigate.”

Mu Lin's bad behavior caused the system to shut down.

Time passed slowly.

Mu Lin turned the books "Greek Mythology" and "Roman Mythology" to a page with similar gods and read them in detail.

Greek God of Fire: Hephaestus

Roman God of Fire: Vulcan

The latter were gods that Rome copied from Greece and imagined as its own country's gods.

[Do you think the god you angered is the God of Fire? ] The system asked curiously.

"It's what irritated me."

[So this is why you angered Him? But you didn’t have much involvement with the gods in the last world... Could it be...?]

"Of course, you systems are incompetent to choose me as your host without even checking my background in advance, aren't you?"

[Sorry, we are not as great as in real novels. We are just a group of people who survive. And the reason we call it a system is just to conform to the current concept.]

"So you saved me in exchange for investigating the historical singularity, and now that I don't intend to fulfill my promise, you don't even have any measures to punish me."

[It doesn't matter. Investigations are difficult to begin with, so it's better to just go with the flow.]

"What's your purpose for suddenly appearing here?"

Mu Lin was too lazy to say anything more to the system and simply asked.

[I want to do my best to ease the relationship between you and the gods. ]

"If you could moderate, the world wouldn't be like this now."

【……What's the meaning? 】

"That is to say... it is impossible."

[I see. I can only wish you good luck.]

"I don't have much luck anymore. I am content to live an ordinary life for so long."

[…Finally, let me ask the host, are you confident that you can defeat the gods? ]

There was a long silence that ended when the book was closed.

Mu Lin put the three books back on the bookshelf and said calmly, "You should ask that question to those rubbish who claim to be gods."