Chapter 111: When an Otaku Discovers a Legend
Sato Kazuma.
An otaku through and through.
If he wasn't raiding dungeons in an online RPG, he was binging light novels or catching up on anime. That's just how he lived. And if you asked him what he did yesterday, he'd say something like:
"My party and I overcame a deadly dungeon, slayed a cursed beast guarding a forbidden treasure, and saved the world."
Of course, what he really meant was that he and his online guild beat a difficult boss in a multiplayer game.
The truth? He barely got into Toyogasaki High School—more of a fluke than a feat. Somehow, through sheer dumb luck, his guesses on the entrance exam landed just right.
In fact, Sato Kazuma had always been unusually lucky. Not once had he lost a game of rock-paper-scissors in his life.
Today, however, his usual rhythm was interrupted. The online game he played religiously was undergoing emergency maintenance and updates.
Bored and aimless, he lazily opened up the light novel site "Let's Become a Novelist!"—a place he hadn't visited in months.
He skimmed the rankings without much interest.
"Ugh... Can these authors just die already?"