/POP Sana/
Sana lay on the ground. The ground was very cool, and the cold touch slowly awakened him. His mouth had blood from wounds in his stomach.
His head felt like it had been hit by someone. It was aching and dizzy. He slowly, heavily opened his eyes, feeling very tired, like his body was refusing to let him open them. For some reason, he could feel his body trembling, as if he had been scared by something.
He found himself in the middle of a battle, fighting a swordsman. A young boy stood in front of him. He looked like some villain from the third arc of a novel Sana used to read in his past.
He had light red eyes and red hair. He looked strong and arrogant, staring at Sana like he was nothing but trash, wasting his time and energy. His sword was very special, shaped like a symbol Sana didn't recognize.
The place around Sana looked like a practice match for some kind of event in a medieval fantasy school. There were a lot of students sitting in the stands, watching the match. But their faces showed boredom toward the battle.
All of them wore the same uniform as students in this school. The uniform was like a black cloak with golden sculptures in beautiful shapes. Some students had special-colored cloaks too, maybe indicating their rank in the school.
Sana looked at his opponent with his green eyes. He could see his reflection in the boy's light red eyes. Sana looked like a malnourished boy. Like any normal human could easily kill him, even outside this fantasy world. His face looked like an extra character in a novel, someone easy to forget.
[He must be my opponent. But why am I here? Could Alice live a normal life without me after that tragic event? This place… it feels like my soul has been transported to another world again. It looks like a medieval fantasy world. I'm going to school again… it sounds interesting. I can live a dream that even readers can't fully experience :) But it's sad that I'm not the main character. No, I don't need that. I just want to be happy. But what about Alice? I still worry about her. Does she exist in this world too? What should I do if I meet her again?]
The opponent spoke, "You're so weak, Natacy Lazota." His voice was angry and uncomfortable. He started moving closer to Sana while gripping his hilt tightly, ready to finish this trash that had been a waste of his time.
He didn't even prepare for what would happen if Sana suddenly counterattacked, just to show how arrogant he was and how despised Sana looked in his eyes.
[My name is Natacy Lazota. It's a very weird name… and so long. I really don't like it. But this body seems scared of that trash :) It feels like I am the main character now. Like I will destroy his honor. It would be fun for a reader like me. But this body is so weak, I can feel how painful the wounds are on it.]
And something stops his deep thought when his eye unconsciously catches something he should look at in a mid-battle like this. Sana sees a lot of waifu sitting in different places on the stands. But surely their eyes only fix on one boy. The boy looks very handsome and strong. With his blue eyes like the deep ocean, his white hair has a special light glowing blue like his eyes. His appearance looks very attractive, and his face looks innocent.
When his eyes meet Sana's, he smiles at Sana. For some reason, Sana doesn't like his smile. It's not because he hates the main character. He doesn't know his feelings. His smile is like he is the good guy, will save any people, play hero, save his waifu at the right time and make them fall in love with him and create a harem with a lot of waifu. Sana really wants to have time to look for a more beautiful girl in his harem, but he is in mid fighting, so he doesn't have time to look clearly because his enemy is coming very near him now. Sana, surely he is in a romance novel now.
But Sana suddenly sees a dragon girl sitting near that boy, distracting himself from his boring battle. Sana's face is in shock when he sees that girl. Her appearance is very different from Alice he knows, but he is sure that the dragon girl is really Alice because his soul resonated with her. From her normal long, deep black hair, now it's turned to white as snow and red eyes as deep as a dark red dragon. On her head, some horns look like the very refined temperament of a strong dragon she was.
She wore a red cloak. Even though it had hidden a lot of her skin, it highlighted all of her great white skin. She exuded an air of nobility and grace that just by looking at her makes you… His thoughts stopped when he saw the way she looked at the main character in this place. Her eyes showed a warm feeling towards the boy; it's like the way she usually looks at Sana when she is in deep obsession. And then Sana's face wrinkled in deep hurt like a nightmare came to Sana, and as for the nightmare really came to Sana. It's his opportunity. His opponent was very angry by the way Sana looked at another girl while on an intense battle with him. This shows how arrogant and contemptuous Sana is toward him. So he used all his power to create a dangerous aura around his body while rushing towards Sana very fast and screaming at Sana in an angry voice, "This is the end, here's your trash arrogance."
When he comes very near to Sana very fast, a normal student can't see his move, showing how powerful Sana's opponent is. Sana clutched his chest strongly and forced his body to stand up.
He really didn't have the mind to fight now because his mind right now only has the image of Alice showing her love to another man, but not to Sana. He knew he was not the main character in this novel. He is just a powerless extra character. He calmed his mind very fast, just a few seconds in front of his opponent.
[Maybe this is just a romance fantasy novel. I can know it because I had read this type of novel in my past life, but in the end, I don't like it because in the end it always comes to harem. I need to meet Alice first to see if she still remembers me, then no… but I wish she didn't remember me. It'll be better if she doesn't remember me. I will leave her life… because my love always brings suffering to her to make sure she can have a happy one without me, but in this harem novel it's still very hard to make a perfect ending.]
Sana showed a determined face. He grabbed his sword very strongly and went to fight. Even his weak body doesn't have a chance to win this impossible battle.
[Luckily, in the fantasy Nazamala world, I had become a demon king who makes all people in the world scared and begs for their lives when they are on my way. So this pathetic trash is not really hard to defeat. But I don't need to put too much effort because paying too much attention is not my type. That is not a wishful way.]
And then he prepared to protect himself from that arrogant crap. Sana holds his sword, pretending to show his weak point to that brat.
The boy smiled, as if Sana had fallen into his trap, to reveal the weak point to him.
Sana knew he was planning to attack his deep wound on his stomach. But he didn't stop it and pretended to accept his heavy attack on Sana.
And then the referee announced, "The winner is…"
Sana collapsed to the ground while he trembled and recoiled in pain. But when I remember seeing how happy Alice looked… was that shit worth it for him? To live again. While relieving his pain, his eyes came to Alice, and then their eyes finally met. Her dark red gaze stayed on him longer than usual, and then she looked back at her love. Her eyes looked very cool to him, but for a small second, it showed a little confusion as if it had met something it should have met.
Sana feels his heart a little warm across all of his suffering body.
[Hopefully, in this new life, she can live a happy life without remembering me. The more hope… the more it hurts my heart, but I surely will help her from afar and protect her. That's enough for me to live this meaningless life I'm living now.]
Sana looked at the boy who seemed like the main character in this novel. His face showed a dangerous look at him and told himself in his deep soul:
[If he chooses the harem route… I'll kill that bastard. To make you suffer the route, if you can reverse time, I'll make sure he chooses Alice. If not, I'll help her to live a happy life without loving someone.]