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The name's Haruki Kyouya, just a normal, ordinary guy who quit school and started working in a pc cafe. There is nothing special to me. My face is not even handsome and you can say my face is a pretty dull one and some people even call my face a punching bag.

One day, I was tasked to buy a computer part in Akihabara since the spare parts that we have stuck is already out. However, my life changed when something unimaginable happened after I arrived in Akiba. It was just a moment but I was suddenly swallowed by a very blinding light. The next thing I knew, the place I was in, no longer resembles the busy street of Akiba.

I am quite sure this is not Akihabara's attraction. There is no way a grand place like this is present in Akihabara even if it is the paradise for otakus and tech geeks. One more thing, not only I was in an unfamiliar place but I was also with my classmates, or to be exact, former classmates since I quit school 3 months ago. But why are they here?

Everyone is in turmoil and confusion as they try to keep their bearings around them and get accustomed to their surroundings. They didn't even notice me yet. Just being with them felt so suffocating and painful to my mind.

'I want to get out of here...'

"Welcome future heroes!" 

Every one of us went to face the source of the voice and we saw an old man wearing robes that are similar to a mage in fantasy novels and games. He also carries a staff and the long white signature beard is also present. One thing that made me want to rewind what he just said. Did he just say "future heroes" to us?"

"Who are you? Where are we? What is going on?"

The first one to start questioning our whereabouts is the class president, Shizukawa Sayaka, who is also known to be the one who do the initiative to assess situations like this. She is leader material.

"Forgive my manners. Though I am not the one who will be explaining things. Please listen to Princess Evangeline for she will explain your circumstances. Don't worry, you guys will be able to understand what she will be saying as we have the artifact we use so the heroes can understand us," the butler said before the guards handed out a necklace for us to wear. The mage is already wearing one that is why we can understand him. Then, a girl who is much prettier than the prettiest females from my former classmates appeared and faces us with a smile. The lecherous people in my class already started catcalling her and already started whispering to each other.

"Future heroes, I am the first princess of the Northern Kingdom, Evangeline Taravon. I apologize for this sudden request of ours and for forcefully dragging you guys from your world to this world. But we are in dire need of help."

The men in my former classmates immediately started showing off to the princess despite not knowing the bizarre situation we are in. If there is a princess and she is always addressing us as heroes, then there is one reason why we are here and it is now pretty obvious unless you are not someone who read fantasy novels.

We are summoned to another world.

I didn't bother listening to the princess and the conversation of everyone. Because unlike the others, I am not enthusiastic about this sh*t. Screw going isekai, we are all going to die here. No one from our class is proficient to fight. Is there a way for me to go back home? I don't want to be dragged into a conflict that is not even affecting my daily life! I just wanted to kick back and relax playing my games and be alone than going on an adventure, risking my life and go with these people I hated the most!

Although I am not listening to what the princess is saying, I can tell that she is showing off some fantasy things like magic and the likes. However, I am not interested in that. While everyone is enthusiastic and quite excited, I raise my hands and sternly looked at the princess.

"Is there a way for me to go back to my world?"

When I said that, everyone from my class looked at me simultaneously. Then they started laughing. My former bully, Hirokawa Daichi, grinned and approached me before putting his big arm to my neck and grapple me like his former buddy. However, he is putting more strength to his arm and he is already choking me lightly, which doesn't look like one on the outside.

"Ha! If it isn't Kyouya! So you are also summoned? But why are you summoned along? You quit school, RIGHT? Why are you among the people summoned?"

"Let... go..." I already can't breathe properly and he still didn't let go.

As expected, no one from my classmates is even intervening and stopping him from doing it to me. Even the princess and the others are just looking at me like I am just a sort of person who doesn't have any kind of worth.

The good thing is that he let go of my neck before I ran out of air.

"As always, you are still f*cking weak," Kyouya said before returning to the group.

I have to catch up on my breath and cough a few times to stabilize my breathing. Still, I can hear those f*ckers whispering to each other already. Then, the princess is the one who continues my plea earlier.

"Are you saying you wanted to go back to your world if you are asking if there is a way to go back?"

"Yes. Is there a way for me to get back-"

"So, are you saying you don't want to participate in the war against the demons?"

"If possible, yes."

The princess has that odd look on her face. Then, before I can even react, I was sent flying.

BANG!

Pain suddenly entered my whole body and it was all sudden. Blood went out to my nose and mouth as I got injured when I flew to the wall that caved in after landing on it. My whole body hurts.

However, I am still conscious. I didn't collapse from that since there is a much worse experience I have felt in the past. 

"Check his potential," the voice of the princess rang out.

I can't properly move when the mage from earlier pulled out a big glass ball similar to those fortune tellers. The soldiers picked me up from the rubble and forced my hand to touch the crystal ball. The moment my hands made contact with it, a sudden shockwave traveled in my injured finger.

"AAAAGGHH!"

I screamed and the moment I did that, the mage shook his head. "He doesn't have potential! He is just a normal human!"

When I heard that, I felt the joy of being normal since I have a chance of not being put on the battlefield but boy, I was wrong.

"Put him in jail and whip him 15 times. After that, he can become a courier for the heroes.

Struggling is not possible for me. I am not accepting what is happening to me. I tried to scream but before I can even shout, a gag apparatus was attached to my mouth before I was sent to jail and received 15 whips.

...

6 days passed by and now I am in here marching along with the heroes while carrying a bag full of equipment by the so-called heroes. Just when will I have to endure pain from the tortures? I barely can walk as my body is screaming of wanting to give up. However, I don't want to die. Who knows if I will be killed the moment I give up.

The others take turns kicking me to force me from kneeling which will also result in a whipping. The so-called heroes have the blessing and gained the "system" kind to enhance their growth. I don't have them so I don't know how it works. That is why now these guys are already stronger than usual.

"Ha! MOVE! Stop slouching and stand up straight, you sh*thead," Daichi said.

He kicked me in the knee which forced me to stop as I endure the pain on my knees. It didn't help that I am carrying a very heavy bag full of metal weapons and armors, I can barely stand up without risking myself from kneeling.

"Whip him again," the voice of the princess said.

SH*T... What did I deserve to experience this hellish torture?

Then, I suddenly heard a voice different from the rest of my classmates. It's not from the princess' fiancee or the guards. However, someone is speaking in Japanese.

The others immediately went on full alert. Then I witnessed the whip the guard is holding to use on me to burn to ashes in seconds.

"To think humans are capable of doing this to their fellow humans... this just proves the humans are rotten to the core."

The princess is calm and looked around the direction where the voice is coming from.

"What is your business here?"

"Me? I am here to take this guy with me," then someone pulled off the heavy bag from my shoulders and throws it to the ground.

"Who are you to make chaos to us? Don't you know me? I am the first princess of the Northern Kingdom!"

"Heh? Did I ask you?"

The princess gritted her teeth. The guards tried to pull their weapons and even the fiancee is ready to pull out his sword but the princess stopped them.

"Who are you?"

"Me? Hahaha, I am just a random passerby."