Anime Collector: Starting With the Malevolent Shrine - Chapter 24 - ⟴ Erasing Miku’s Traces

“If you were the supreme master of the Dao of Immortals, revered by countless beings, able to glimpse life and death, and understand the destiny, what kind of woman would you seek as a partner?”Jiang Feng: “I would marry an eighteen-year-old.”“...do you want to die?”“I'd rather die to marry an eighteen-year-old.”

“In a land far to the east, there exists a strange store that has rejected a three Michelin star rating multiple times.

Upon entering the world of Genshin Impact, Lucas unexpectedly activates the “Villain Simulator,” forcing him to take on the role of a major antagonist in a simulated reality. His missions include:Bullying Keqing at schoolBlackmailing Shenhe into carrying out various tasksRaising an army of undead to destroy MondstadtAnd much more...To balance the evil acts committed in the simulation, Lucas must earn good karma by acting virtuously in the real world. However, he never imagined that one day, Shenhe, wielding a spear, would confront him in reality:“Lucas, you have committed countless evil deeds. Today, I will kill you to uphold justice!”Lucas: “...Wait, weren’t those just fake simulations?”

I thought I had seen bad endings before—but nothing prepared me for the garbage conclusion of The Hero’s Path.Years of investment, countless struggles, and for what? The protagonist failed. The villain won. Everyone else? Dead. Furious, I sent a message to the author, only to get a chilling response:[Do you think you could do better?]Before I could even blink, my phone exploded in a blinding light, and the next thing I knew—I was waking up in a completely different body.Now, I’m Merlin Everhart, a fourteen-year-old with a 12-star talent, the kind of gift only the strongest should have.But here’s the problem: I have no idea who I am supposed to be.With nothing but a system and a first-day-of-school alarm ringing in my ears, I’m thrown into the world of The Hero’s Path.Am I just another side character in a world that already ended once?…Either way, I refuse to let this story beat me too.