Chapter 0 – …How Did You Win;
Baron Ragna Armageddon.
Aka Baron Radon.
He is one of the five people who have the ‘shards of chaos’ that threaten the world, and is a villain who handles the power of darkness. A greedy villain who comes from a fallen aristocrat, reveals his ambition by acquiring the ‘Fragment of Chaos’ and invades innocent villages and cities.
He is the meanest and most evil out of the five bosses, and unlike the so-called ‘sleek villains’ who inevitably walk the path of evil for a certain purpose, he is a villain who is truly evil to the point of innocence.
The mid-boss of this story, who pushes the protagonist to the limit by using the power of darkness obtained through ‘Fragments of Chaos’, gives the protagonist an opportunity to awaken new powers, and is brutally educated by the protagonist.
“Kuu, Baron Radon…! I never thought it would be this much…!”
“Uh…”
It should have been … But for some reason, Baron Radon won the main character, unlike the script that was supposed to be defeated.
And I am the radon baron.
…How did you win?
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-Aaaaa! Oh my God! What the hell have you done!!!!
“Oh no, that’s… Honestly, I didn’t expect it to turn out like this…”
The owner of this sharp scream in my ears is the owner of the troupe who prepared this stage, a being worshiped as a god in this world, and the man who fell to me just a moment ago. She is Luminus, the goddess of light who guides the hero Luke.
…Why is that Luminous-sama arguing about what he did to me, and why am I so obsessed with what seems like an enemy? It’s that simple.
For this world of hers is the gigantic stage she has created for her high god’s amusements, and I was her hired actor.
– Why did this happen in the first place?! Given the nature of Luke and your abilities, it’s impossible for a result like this to come out!
“Even if you say so… I only have one sin…”
He told me to do my best because I couldn’t satisfy the audience with a clumsy play.
No, honestly, does it make sense for a guy called a hero to be treated like this by a middle boss like me? Even I, the culprit, is absurd.
Light, the power of the hero Luke, who received the protection of the goddess Luminus, and darkness, my power as the villain. Since our powers are opposite to each other, he is as deadly to me as I am to him. So, in theory, there is no possibility that I will win… But in reality, the probability is very low.
“But honestly, this isn’t my fault, is it?”
But if there’s one problem… It’s that Luke didn’t use the purification skill. To be precise… He’d be right that he couldn’t write it.
“That’s right, Luke attacked me without even having a purification skill. From Ruminus-sama’s revelations and information from colleagues, you probably know that the ‘purification’ skill is essential in this battle.”
Luke, the warrior of light, challenged me without mastering the essential skill ‘Purification’ to defeat me.
My main specialty is using the power of darkness to dazzle the enemy. In order for Luke to defeat me, it is indispensable to complete a specific quest in the village he is staying in before reaching me and obtain the ‘Purification’ skill that removes all harmful effects from himself as a reward.
However, Luke challenged me without acquiring the ‘Purification’ skill, but was defeated and fled. Originally, he was severely defeated by an enemy he should have defeated lightly.
“So it’s not my fault…”
-…If you think about it, it’s not without your fault.
“Yes?”
What is this again? I couldn’t help but tilt my head. Is it really my fault that I did as I was told to do my best to play the villain?
– It’s good to be thoroughly prepared for a battle with Luke, but you’ve gone too far! It’s already at the level of breaking the balance! Because of that, Luke is in a hurry to defeat you, who has become much stronger than planned…
The Baron Radon I am playing is a villain who deals with the power of darkness, and is a boss who uses the power of pieces to corrupt normal creatures and uses them as subordinates. So, the more you delay, the more the number of subordinates increases and their level increases, so if you don’t defeat them quickly, they will become annoying to deal with… There is a setting.
So what Goddess Luminous said is that I made a lot of strong subordinates faster than expected, so Luke felt the impatience to stop me quickly, so he challenged me before completing the quest to learn the purification skill…
As a result, the script was distorted as he was defeated by me.
…What the fuck. If so, is it really my fault? I only had the crime of doing my best, but I didn’t know it would be a real sin.
“No, did I know it would end like this? It wasn’t intentional. You know?”
– Haha, how the hell am I going to fix this…
Goddess Luminous let out a deep sigh and muttered anxiously. And I was overcome with anxiety.
What? Have I really been followed? Could it be that the one in the audience who wanted me to be truly educated is arguing with anger after seeing Luke lose to me?
I get goosebumps all over my body thinking that if I keep going like this, I might be torn apart by the angry audience. It seems like I’m really being followed…?
– Haa… First of all, I will manage it somehow, so please refrain from activities in the future. Stop aggression and reinforcement of your surroundings, and stay on standby. Got it?
“What will the audience say? A villain who defeated the main character waits for the main character to come back and defeat him, isn’t that the kind of development they hate the most?”
– I pretended to be okay, but in fact I was mortally wounded in the battle with Luke and was recovering from that wound…
“…No, but that’s impossible. I’ve never been hit by Luke’s attack, so what kind of fatal wound is that?”
Luke was properly hit by my seduction skill, so he couldn’t make a proper attack on me and was beaten unilaterally before eventually running away. But you said I was mortally wounded? Where did the audience throw away the probabilities, they will swear and argue.
What they want to see is the process of a good but weak protagonist gradually growing into a hero through all sorts of hardships and hardships, not a cheetor who has received a lot of support from the goddess and messes around in this world.
– Of course, that’s the case, but first of all, it’s about taking care of Luke’s mentality. Because if Luke gives up like this, everything is over. The reason why Baron Radon didn’t act is that he has to come up with an excuse later, so don’t do anything more for now and wait there. And the subordinates are also good at cracking down.
“All right.”
Is this the setting after the famous pre-production? After the goddess Luminous once again asked me to restrain myself, she left to take care of Luke.
Damn it. I didn’t know that things would turn out like this. I thought my role would be over by fighting and defeating Luke. Oops, it’s the head
“First of all… I’ll have to deal with Mars first.”
I activated the crystal ball and summoned Mars. And I was worried. What reason could he give to stop the aggression of this corrupt warmonger?
