Thanks for the positive reception! Yes, of course, compared to other stories of this fandom, my reception is rather decent, but for me, an Argentine, who is used to receiving between 4 to 5 favorites and follow-ups per chapter, is too much!
Again, thank you very much!
Now, I think I should clarify something about the "madness" of this story. This started as an absurd comedy during the first 4 chapters, where I was not clear about the direction of it at 100% and I let "carry my imagination". The beginning will be a comedy with a touch of drama from time to time and then move to the "serious part".
Of course, that does not mean that the comedy is gone, but it will stop being so frequent. Those who dislike my crude attempt at comedy, patience, that eventually improves.
Unless I should clarify something else, this should be my last author's note.
Translation of: Autoconvencimiento.
Original Author: TheGenesis.
Editor: A Latinomerican Guy.
Self-convincing
Chapter 2: Hayama Hayato is annoying, as always
[Part 1]
Hikigaya Hachiman was indifferent to almost everything. He didn't have any reason to worry about the world outside of him in the slightest. The only thing that concerned him was everything about himself and how it affected him. Nothing else mattered...
... But of course that doesn't include you, my precious MAXX coffee! I'LL DO EVERYTHING FOR YOU, MY PRECIOUS GUARDIAN ANGEL, WHO HAS TAKEN CARE OF ME WITHOUT WAITING ANYTHING IN EXCHANGE, AS THE ACTIONS OF A SUPERIOR BEING SHOULD BE! HIDEO NAKAJIMA IS THE TRUE, NEW GOD OF THIS WORLD! THAT'S AN IRREVOCABLE AND ABSOLUTE TRUTH!
"Mommy, what is that man saying?"
"Don't look at him, son. He's just a crazy brat saying stupid things."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!"
"¡ARCHKK!"
This two-bit lady who doesn't understand the true value of MAXX coffee has dared to insult him? Blasphemy! I won't let you oppose my new and true god! ALLAH TO HIDEO NAKAJIMA, BITCH! SOAR IT AND EDUCATE YOUR SON TO FOLLOW THE TRUE WAY IF YOU WANT HUMANITY TO BE SAVED!
"M-mom, is h-he okay? He says a lot of weird things about that nasty drink."
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"I see ... So there's no way to guide you to the true path..."
Ahh~
And I'd high hopes to, at least, being able to save a person... I guess you can't save everyone.
My ideal is impossible, just like Emiya Shirou's...
Ugh.
I share something with an eroge protagonist.
"Sir? Are you okay? You're acting really strange. Did I hurt you?"
Ahh~
What a sweet innocent and good-hearted creature. Children, even with all the evils they do, can become the purest and sweetest human beings in the world. Look at him, feeling guilty for something that isn't his fault and ready to cry. Don't feel bad, boy. Everything, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING! It's your mother's fault because she didn't educate you correctly.
But I must not tell him that. This kid doesn't deserve to live with such a cruel truth!. Whatever happens, I'll protect his innocence!
"Listen to me, boy." I crouched down to his height and grabbed his left shoulder."There'll be moments when your ideals will be impossible to fulfill, and with moments I mean always. You must realize it before it's too late, like me..."
"... I don't understand." The child tilted his head. Shit, my Onii-chan senses are activating! This unknown child can't be this cute!
"Let's see...Do you like heroes?"
"Yeah!"
"Ok… and is there one that you like above all?"
"Izuku!"
Boku no Hero Academia, huh...
God, time really goes fast.
"Well... You know that Izuku wants to be able to save everyone like All Might, right?" The boy again nodded in that pure way. Stop, please, you're taking me to the dark side!"But All Might told him that even he, as a Symbol of Peace, is unable to save them all." This beautiful child nodded again, this time more slowly. It seems that it hurts him to recognize that hard truth... That or simply he hasn't reached that part, but it's better if we stay with the first option!"I know another hero who, even knowing that, chose foolishly to save them all, without distinction, even though that was bad."
"Is it wrong to want to save others?" I have a bad feeling of where this conversation/education class is going, for some unknown reason, but I'm going to ignore it, in favor of giving him a good moral lesson.
"It isn't bad to want to save others, but being so engaged in it isn't good either. We must accept the impossibles, that ends up being ideals as a general rule. In Manga, people usually face these adversities by pure will, but in this world it's impossible to exist a true vigilante hero..." I hesitated a bit to say the last words, but if I want him to take my words seriously, I must be a little cruel."Unfortunately, there isn't such person, because we simply don't want to be one."
"...Don't want to be one..."
¡!
My raijuu senses are being activated for some reason! Shit, is Hayama in this store?! That isn't good! I won't be able to tolerate his light in this body, made of darkness! I must g-
¡KNACK!
"Stop harassing my son, you sick moron!" In an incredible, although late turn of events. This pure child's mother hit me with a... mop?... Even I can't find any sense in that, when there's a policeman outside this store.
"Let's go, Ryota! Forget everything that this guy told you!" And so, that unnecessarily cruel woman left the store with a son who didn't stop giving me a look of... determination?.
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That's strange.
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That's really strange.
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Whatever.
Somehow, I still believe that there's something wrong behind this conversation.
Meh, it's probably nothing.
"Hello there, Hikitani-kun"
Oh no...
[Part 2]
For some frankly absurd reasons that I don't even understand, and a special feeling to get out of that store, somehow I decided to follow Hayama Hayato, a guy totally opposite to me, to a coffee shop in this vast shopping center. He never spoke to me except to indicate the way, something I've to thank him. I don't like Hayama, but being able to know what I like gives him some points in my book.
...That sounded wrong.
Really wrong, in fact.
On our way to the cafeteria, worthy of a 5-star raijuu award, several people looked at me. Wait, let me rephrase that: They looked at the almighty Hayama motherfucker Hayato, who gave them a typical sweet smile which, without much trouble, could fool almost every average female in this outrageous world. They didn't give me a glance, except for one who asked her friend how it was possible that a ¨creep¨ like me was walking with someone as ¨cool¨ like him.
And no, I didn't change the words. They said that in Chiba. Damned globalization. You've spread that cringe-inducing language mix from the internet as if it were air. Don't you know how much this hurts to the poor people like me that have to listen to them, and endure the urge to pound them against a wall?
…Two in a row, huh. Today is my day. I'm sure about that.
Finally, we arrived and "luckily" sat outside, in some special chairs and tables glued to the wall. That's nice, because I don't want to go anywhere remotely intimate with Hayama bastard Hayato and make them believe that we're, even a little bit, close, and that would be bad, because it would give to these hormonal teenagers a front-row seat to the great show of me being uncomfortable.
... Wait, Isn't this also a part of the cafeteria? Then I really seem to be close to Hayama dogg-
Ah, damn it!
It's really difficult to invent a catchy-offensive nickname for him, and embarrassing myself in my English knowledge more than I have already done it isn't in my to-do list! The point here is that I lose anyway, but with this I lose even more, so I want to get inside.
But of course, I'm not going to say that to Hayama. I don't want him to make strange ideas.
Ahh~~
I guess you have to suffer, Hikkifroggy-kun. Why did you expect something different?
The waitress came too fast for my taste and stayed enthralled with Hayama in the whole ordeal. Tch! God, doesn't any woman here know how to control their desires?! Then they dare to say that men are perverts who only think about tits and cunts? What a shit! The true nymphos are them! They just don't want to admit it!
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... Hmm. What a curious experience. The waitress now has a murderous look, and she's fixed at me. Truly curious.
"It seems that you have offended her, Hikitani-kun."
"Eh? What do you mean by that, Hayaman?"
"You've whispered a little loudly and... How did you call me?"
"What? Oh yeah! Hayaman! Well, you see, you have called me Hikitani-kun for so long that I thought it would be good to give you a nickname too! My other options are Hayatan, Hayamin, Hayayaman and my favorite, Hayaochinchi!"
I could not help laughing with the last one, it's my masterpiece by difference.
"What do you think?"
"...Go to hell..."
Scary! Hayaochinchi has left his outstanding act behind and is watching me with undisguised disgust! Ahh~, what a delight! You should stop wearing a mask with me, you know, because when you take it off, you become tolerable! Come on, entertain your main character, you secondary character scum!
"It seems that you have really gotten completely into your 'character'." Shit, it seems like I said that out loud again, huh? Wow. I thought that only happened with MAXX coffee, but it seems that, just like my character, my thoughts evolved to such an extent that I can't keep them anymore. They want to share their wisdom with other mortals.
"They want to give us a mortal suffering."
"Tch ... You really love to underestimate my words."
"And you overestimate them. A lot."
"Between our opinions, I really value the right one."
"You're too annoying, Hikki~. Much more than before..."
"... Don't call me like that. Never. Again."
"¡!"
This bastard... How dare you to call me like that? YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT! NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT! NOT HIM, NOR THAT FRIGID BITCH MIURA AND, MUCH LESS, THAT ANNOYING PINKY! How did it occur to her to call me like that to begin with?! I never liked it from the beginning and it made me think that Yuigahama Yui had a serious mental problem! EVEN IF IT MADE ME FEEL GOOD, SHE DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT! GODDAMMIT!
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But in the end it doesn't matter, because I don't feel anything towards her. I'm not affected. Not a single bit. My world revolves around me, then me, followed by me and my person. Everything else is irrelevant and meaningless. Without exception. I am a rock and the rocks are so hard, that normal people can never break them. They may scratch them, but that's insignificant.
Do you understand that, Hayama? Surely I let my thoughts escape again, if the reaction around me is a sign of it, so you should stop looking at me like that, which is downright unsettling. Nothing affects me and nothing will never do, a truth that people should understand.
Do you imply that I'm saying this so many times, just to convince myself? It's stupid! Why should I convince myself of reality?!
... Yeah, that face! You finally listened to me and acted as usual, Hayama Hayato! You realized the truth that sadly my little sister has denied, despite my words!. I'm sorry Komachi-chan, but this fake little prince has outdone you in at least one of a thousand things! I hope you could forgive me!
... Although I don't care what you think, by the way. I don't know why I've said that.
"Hikigaya..."
"What?"
"You... What do you think about Yukinoshita-san?"
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"…Then?"
"... Which one?"
"The younger one"
"... *guh*"
"..."
"...*¡Gug!* *¡mhpf!* fucking frig- *¡Gug!* *¡mhpf!*"
"..."
"... Nothing special."
"Hikigaya, I just heard you mutter unholy things about what you plan to do to her."
"What the fuck do you think I am? A rapist?"
"A sexual one? No. Of human rights?... Maybe."
"I appreciate honesty, thank you very much."
Hayama Hayato is someone I could never get along with, no matter how hard I try. We are literally opposed in every sense of the word, be it in our problems, world visions and goals. He is condemned to suffer for the expectations of others, while that eludes me. While I have given up on finding happiness in relationships with other human beings, Hayama embraces that disease with fervor, ignoring my disgusted look. While the ultimate goal of Hikigaya Hachiman is to separate himself from the rest of the stagnant, secondary role mortals and belittle them from a corner, Hayama Hayato will sink deep into their lives and try to give them a meaning, whenever is possible, trying to make them into main characters. And if it doesn't, at least it will create the illusion that they are part of something bigger.
... I hate this guy and this guy hates me: It's simple. There aren't complex reasons behind this, beyond a clash of ideologies that make us angry. None of us can accept the other one, no matter how hard we try. It's a sacred simplicity.
Even if I hate him... at least I can respect him enough to accept his point of view, which translates into not trying to change it.
If only Mr. Perfect aka McPrince would give me the same courtesy, I could be happy with my current life to a lesser degree.
That's how unfair life is, Hachiman. But wasn't that to be expected?
"Hikigaya, please answer me with sincerity. What do you feel about Yukinoshita-san?"
...Again?
"..."
"Nothing..."
"Please don't lie to me."
"I'm not lying."
What the hell is up with you?
"Hikigaya."
"I TOLD YOU I'M NOT LYING, DAMMIT!"
Why does Hayama insist so much on this shit? My feelings towards Yukinoshita Yukino are nonexistent. Of course I'm not thinking of hundreds of insults about her flat chest every night. I also don't wish in silence that her family would be discovered in their illicit acts and rot in jail. I can't imagine how life would be like if suddenly some guy that we're going to call, em, Eyefishyman, suddenly appeared from nowhere to kill her and give her body to deplorable vagabonds who will not have scruples and have fun with her.
It would be a terrible scandal that would make Haruno afraid of Ha-Eyefishyman and force her to stop harassing me because of the danger she runs. Danger of going out, of course, or what else could it be? One day, suddenly, Hachiman will appear in the Sobu school with the outraged and decomposed body of Yukinoshita Yukino raised in a wheelbarrow full of cow dung.
People would be horrified. Her only friend would vomit of disgust, drowning in the process and having a stupid dead, worthy of the queen of stupid bitches.
And in the end, a certain honor and role model student that should be praised along with some miraculous drink, worthy of worldwide recognition for being the ideal drink (MAXX COFFEE?! WHERE?!) would laugh beautifully , seeing that the prophecies of the Lord and the ALMIGHTY GOD HIDEO BIG-PENIS NAKAJIMA, THE ONE WHO HAS COME TO SAVE THIS CORRUPT AND DEPLORABLE WORLD, have been fulfilled.
"... It's much worse than I imagine it..."
"What are you trying to say? Obviously I'm fine. I do not care about anything that happens to Yukinoshita BITCH Yukino"
"You just called her bitch."
"No, I didn't."
"Yes, you did. And you didn't bother to mumble under your breath. You shouted it. That mom over there is looking at you, and she isn't happy."
"Seriously? Well, tell her, cordially, that I don't give a shit and that she should rot in the ground with her slutty lineage!"
-How can I say that to someone cordially? Don't ask impossible tasks.
"My apologies. It was a mistake to overestimate your abilities. You aren't the king of the fakes, but an average fake. Now I can't look at you in the same way."
"Was that your best insult? They're getting older along with you"
"I suppose you're right, after all, you've gained access to the power of the McPrince™, a terrifying power that gives you the right to rule over women."
"... I admit that was pretty ingenious."
"Right? Then will you finally accept my greatness and stop opposing me?"
"No way. In fact, now I have more reasons to face you, Villan-Four."
"...Did you just insinuate that I'm a fourth-category villain?"
"No... I wasn't implying it."
"I hate you very much, Hayamon. Your statistics and description are identical to my Pokedex."
"Likewise, ITgaya. Your ugliness is frankly mortifying, but I know that you are pure love inside and you would be willing to save a child by making his bicycle fly to the moon if the occasion arose."
"...Did you really just compare me with ET?"
"That was wrong?"
"A little, but coming from you, we should celebrate it in a big way, I suppose."
"Ha... So it's like that, huh?. I will keep it in mind to improve myself."
"Yes, you should..."
"Yes ... But precisely your screams and blasphemies against Yukinoshita-san have shown me one thing."
"Seriously? And what could that be?"
"Hikigaya... You're just convincing yourself when you say you have no feelings."
"..."
"I know you're denying it in your mind while insulting all my ancestry in the process, but it's an absolute truth. You're hurt because Yukinoshita-san used you in the worst way and then dismissed you at the moment when you weren't useful anymore. In fact, the phrase 'You are angry' is a gross and a stupid underestimation. You are angry and I don't know how you've been able to not commit an insanity. You probably have a very good self-control."
"..."
"You're angry with Yui too, right? Even if it isn't to the same degree, you feel angry with her for choosing Yukinoshita-san over you. You hate it, but you're also sad about how things ended. You even seem to feel bad for Isshiki-san's rejection, probably because you also got attached to her. You are suffering inside. So much so that I'm afraid that one day you'll lose control and kill someone... like now."
"..."
"Is that why you created this character? To deceive the world, making him believe that you don't care about his rejection? Or do you want to convince yourself, not wanting to think that you were so weak to let girls enter your life? Are you afraid to show that you care? Or maybe ... Are you afraid to admit that what you once wanted wasn't what you were looking for? That wasn't as genuine as you thought."
"..."
"Even if you do not believe it, there're people who are worried about you. Much more than you may be thinking. Your sister is sometimes a sea of tears and I have to comfort her. And yes, I am close to your Komachi-san, something you would know if you had not throw her away from your life. We also got together with Isshiki-san and the rest of the group. We are all concerned about her, and by extension for many, about you."
"..."
"So tell me at once: What drives you to act in this stupid and deceptive way? The Hikigaya that I met for the first time hated deceitfulness more than anything else."
"..."
"..."
"...I was wrong from the beginning"
"Eh?"
" I always believed that in order to obtain the genuine, I needed human contact. That it wasn't valid unless there was someone else to affirm that what we had was truly my ideal. It didn't have to be beautiful, given that many human relationships aren't beautiful, but ... I wanted to believe that something beautiful was waiting, behind everything."
"..."
"I…just wanted to be able to 'fly' again. To have a 'good' ending"
"…"
"But in the end, that was a silly dream of a guy that didn't change despite always affirming it. For a few seconds I became bitter and fell into despair, believing that my only way out was to jump from a skyscraper."
"..."
"But ... in the end I got my answer. And in this response it isn't necessary to despise deceit. If it serves my purpose, cheating is a perfectly valid option. That shitty old man always had the answer i was looking for, and even tried to impart it to me, but I was a stupid brat and I never listened to him."
"... And what was the answer?" Hayama Hayato asked with a touch of concern that I surely imagined. I no longer had any interest in him, so I got up and started walking listlessly towards my house. He didn't stop me and didn't demand an answer, but I respect him enough to don't be so cruel and leave him with the intrigue. I looked at him out of the corner of my eye before giving him a wisdom lesson.
"If the world rejects you, then your only alternative is to reject the world. To reach the genuine enough just don't betray yourself and not let outside opinions influence you." I said hoping that, in some miraculous way, he could be able to capture the true beauty in those words.
Sadly, judging from his expression, he didn't. What a pity for him. With nothing else to do, I moved indifferently towards my house when I remembered something important.
Didn't that bitch waitress just arrive when I was leaving?
"GODDAMN BITCH!" The expression she gave me was worth every second of the nearby ladies' angry looks.
Ahh~ It feels good to give a just retribution to who deserves it
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[Part 3]
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While I was passing through a park, a few minutes after my disastrous meeting with Hayaochinchi, something happened...
"Hey, are you all right?"
Something really bad happened...
"I-I think so."
"Excellent! Then I managed to do a good deed!"
"E-eh?"
"Yes, you see, I have decided that from today I'll do a good deed every day until I'm big enough to start doing more things."
"I don't understand. Why would you do something like that? It doesn't benefit you in any way."
"Well ... I have a dream and to do so I must become stronger and more recognized."
"Ehhhh ~~~? And what is that dream?"
"To be a hero, of course!"
"A hero? But that's impossible! My daddy says there're no heroes!"
"Yes, you're right. Heroes don't exist, but someone very wise told me that heroes don't exist because people don't try hard enough and see it as useless! But I'll be the exception! I'll become a great hero!"
"... I do not understand very well what you said, but it sounds great! Umu! Very cool!"
A boy and a girl talking about heroes...
A boy that I spoke to an hour ago about something very valuable in life and now, he wants to be a hero in real life.
A pretty girl for her age and who already has a almost-B-cup chest, even though she seems to be only nine years old at the most.
The girl is excited with the boy.
The boy acts selflessly and has a goal in life too big for his own good.
The girl'll be a beauty of big breasts in the near future.
The boy seems from a dense class in those things.
These are the MC and the waifu of a ecchi, harem and action story.
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FUCK! I JUST CREATED A STANDARD MC WHO LOOKS LIKE TOUMA AND SHIROU!
Now the words of my Editor that if they say what I believe, I will blush.
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T-That's not true, baka!
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Next Update: July 31.