Prologue
Prologue
"Hero, where are you going?"
"To eat."
"Hero, where are you going?"
"Bathroom."
"Hero, where are you going?"
"I'm heading home now..."
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He was an ordinary twenty-year-old happily living out his youth—attending college and spending his days off on Nutube, web novels, internet broadcasts, and delivery food.
The reason all of that was in the past tense now was...
Because he'd suddenly fallen into an Otherworld, endured thirty years of every hardship imaginable, and had only just returned to Earth.
Why did he come back?
Because he craved the dopamine hit from media more desperately than all the beautiful women, gold, jewels, and glory the Otherworld had to offer.
Of course, he also wanted to eat something intensely stimulating.
After enduring every tribulation imaginable, he'd drained the Goddess's holy power and the Empire's mana stones down to the dregs just to barely make it back.
But, what the hell?
Before him stood countless people with sharp, glaring stares, weapons thrust forward, while military helicopters swept across the sky above.
"What's this? A surprise party to celebrate my return after all this time?"
- D-Drop your weapon immediately and surrender...!!!
"Seriously, what's going on?"
"Wow, is this place really your homeland, Hero?"
And then, from right behind him came a voice that was never meant to be heard in this place.