I was reincarnated as a villainous aristocrat with a certain death route.

“Come on, let's have a hand-to-hand combat. Lightly.”

　I said to Balkan.

"?......What do you think you're doing?”

　Balkan glared at me.

Just say the word. I want to know what the other students are capable of.?

?Damn .......”

　In contrast to my nonchalant attitude, Balkan was already looking pale.

When I was trying to beat the inferior opponent, the opponent who is clearly stronger than me - in other words, me - appeared, it seems to be shaken mentally quite a bit.

　
There were guys like this when I was a student and even when I was in the workforce.

　He is thoroughly stout toward those who are weaker than he is, but flattering toward those who are much stronger than he is.

"Well, wait a minute, I'm not feeling too well either. ......"

　Balkan said weakly.

"I've been a little--”

"I see. Well, we'll talk another day."

　I smiled at him.

"What?　Huh?”

　Balkan seemed puzzled.

'Why do you want to fight me?　What's the point of us fighting?"

“Because I want to fight someone who's ...... strong.”

　I kept smiling,

“You're the same way, right?　You originally asked me to fight with you because you wanted to see what Mars could do.　I'm just the new guy.”

“Ugh. ......”

“Or is there another reason why you asked to fight with Mars?”

"What the ......!

　The Balkan, who was supposed to have been hit where it hurts, was speechless.

'...... that's enough of that, Raven.'

　Rose stepped forward.

"You are strong. It's frustrating, but at this point you're probably a head or two above the rest of the new students. You're going to go out of your way to fight a lower-ranked Balkan?　Do you want to beat someone who is definitely weaker than you?　That is not the behavior of a strong man."

Then what about the fact that Balkan went to the trouble of trying to hand-wrestle with Mars?”

　I looked at Rose.

“'Balkan was the one who saw Mars as inferior and took him on, wasn't he?　I just didn't like it."

　I said, shifting my gaze from Roze to Balkan.

“Ugh. .......”

　Balkan looked away, as if he had been pressured.

"...... it's okay, Raven.”

　Mars suddenly interrupted the conversation.

'Mars,......?"

"Thanks for looking out for me, but this is still my fight. But it's still my fight."

　Mars said with a dignified look on his face.

"I accept Balkan's challenge."

　Oh, he is indeed a protagonist.

　...... is not the time to be talking about my thoughts.

　How should I act in this situation?

　In the end, the situation turned out to be just like the game scene.

　Perhaps the so-called “modifying power” of this world is stronger than I thought.

　No matter how much I try to resist my destiny, in other words, the game storyline, and create a history different from the game storyline, in the end, something like the “corrective power of the world” will work, and I will be returned to the flow of the storyline.

　If that is the case, there is a possibility that my destiny to be killed sooner or later will remain the same.

"...... I'm not kidding."

　I will definitely change the outcome.

　The storyline.

　My destiny.

　This event is the perfect test of that.

　If this battle, an event in which Mars is certain to lose, finishes in the form of a “victory for Mars” -

　That would be the best proof that fate can be changed.