> "You don't just save the multiverse and quietly slip into the back row.
Not when the crows still salute you when you walk in."
— Akeno, watching the school's most wanted tea-drinker reappear
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[Location: Kuoh Academy – Homeroom, 8:00 a.m.]
The school looked… fine.
No broken timelines.
No reverse personalities.
No floating anime logic bombs.
Just peace.
MC stepped through the front gate, backpack on, face calm, as if he hadn't fought corrupted gods, hugged trauma out of warlords, or deleted a cosmic narrative parasite with a sarcasm-laced slash.
He walked to his desk — last row, window seat, of course — and sat.
Classmates stared.
Rias stared.
Sona stared.
Issei screamed internally.
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[Scene: Staff Room – The Teacher's Existential Dilemma]
Mr. Nakahara (reading attendance):
> "He's on the list. But he wasn't here last week… or last month.
And yet… his desk has never been empty."
Vice Principal (sweating):
> "Should we… ask him where he went?"
Principal (weeping):
> "Son, we lost two substitute teachers trying to confront that student."
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[Scene: Student Council Emergency Meeting]
Sona (projecting a surveillance chart):
> "He returned.
Untouched. Unbothered. Unbroken.
I hate it."
Tsubaki:
> "Should we invite him for questioning?"
Sona:
> "No.
We observe.
We watch the shadow walk."
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[Scene: Occult Research Club – Rias's Personal Crisis]
Rias:
> "He just walked in like nothing happened."
Akeno (smiling):
> "Classic MC move.
Blow up fate, then ghost your own importance."
Koneko:
> "He smells like cosmic reset.
And mint."
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[Scene: Homeroom, 9:00 a.m.]
The teacher blinked.
Mr. Nakahara:
> "Uh… you in the back. New student, right?
Why don't you introduce yourself?"
MC (standing slowly):
> "There is no new. There is no old.
There is only observation."
Entire class:
> "…"
Issei (quietly):
> "He monologued his attendance."
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[Scene: Recess – Emotional Ambush #1]
Rias approaches.
> "You didn't even say goodbye."
MC (calm):
> "Goodbyes are for closed chapters.
We were still mid-arc."
She blushes. Hard.
Kiba takes psychic damage nearby.
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[Scene: Emotional Ambush #2]
Sona corners him in the hallway.
> "I reviewed 213 hours of footage.
There is no explanation for you."
MC:
> "I am the exception that proves nothing.
And I brought snacks."
He hands her a tea-infused biscuit and walks off.
She short-circuits.
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[Scene: Emotional Ambush #3]
Akeno appears on the roof.
> "You saved the world.
Then vanished."
MC (sipping):
> "That was Tuesday."
> "...Do it again and I'll kill you.
Or kiss you."
MC:
> "You'll have to pick.
Eventually."
She throws a lightning bolt into the sky and cackles.
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[System Notification]
> Trait Upgraded:
"Background Field (Lv.Max)" – You now draw maximum attention while pretending you don't exist.
People obsess. You disappear. Cycle repeats.
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End of Chapter 63: Kuoh Resumes (Sort Of)