Back then, I couldn't even imagine a future like this.
Returning to school at this age was already absurd enough…
But fighting monsters?
That was on a completely different level.
GRRRR…
And somehow, along the way…
I even ended up becoming friends with these little creatures.
"You."
"Why are you going this far to stop us?"
"I've already told you."
"You're not getting past this."
That guy standing before me—
He's the protagonist of this story.
Taylor Mclore.
And me?
"ED ROTHSTAYLOR!!!"
"Ignition."
Just a third-rate villain.
A background character who was never even supposed to matter.
A nobody… who barely existed in the original story.
But—
Even third-rate characters have their own ways of surviving.
I don't need anyone's understanding.
I'll carve my own path—
In a way even the protagonist cannot.
In the way of a third-rate villain.
For the sake of reaching the end of this story…
I will survive.