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Afterword Nice to meet you. I am Shigure Moyu. Thank you very much for picking up this book, "Escaping the Villain Route: My New Life as a Mob" . This story began with a single sheet of loose-leaf paper. A good-natured protagonist who simply cannot stop himself from helping people in trouble. That protagonist ends up reincarnating as an eroge villain with nothing but death flags, and although he wants to be a mob, he winds up saving the heroines. The loose-leaf notes recording the setting of this human named Nishikikoji Kaede, along with Ayame, Kanna, and Natsuki, steadily increased in number, and now they amount to about twenty sheets. Originally serialized on the web, this work was selected for a Special Award in the 8th Kakuyomu Web Novel Contest. Upon receiving the offer for book publication, several significant changes have been made. Starting with the trivial conversations between the protagonist and the heroines, Saita's thoughts, the meeting with Ayame, and so on—...

For instance, I wonder what people think about the characters after a story ends. The protagonist, the heroines, the hero, the villain, and the countless nameless mobs. Readers might not care at all about the fates of those who have stepped outside the framework of the story. But personally, I find that a bit dissatisfying. Take a single route in an eroge, for example. For the characters, the story shown is just a tiny fraction of their lives; a long, long continuation awaits them beyond the ending. A universal, mundane daily life that no one turns into a story must be waiting for them. Then, what about the heroines who don't even get a route? The so-called "losing heroines"—what becomes of their lives after losing the protagonist? Do they look for a partner they can fall in love with even more than the protagonist? Or do they continue to pine for him for the rest of their lives? In this world, everyone is the protagonist of their own life, and everyone is simultaneously ...