Episode 1
I was the Empire's greatest villain.
"If not for you... the Empire wouldn't have crumbled so pathetically..."
These were the last words she said to me before the decisive battle against the Demon King's army. She was an unparalleled genius who, as the Empire's Prime Minister, had sustained the crumbling Empire until the very end—and she was my fiancée.
She died defending the imperial capital until the bitter end.
"...Go die, you bastard."
These were the last words left to me by the great archmage who swept across the battlefield and hunted down the Demon King's army's executives.
She left a fatal wound on the Demon King, but the backlash tore her limbs apart, killing her.
"I am truly grateful that you've made us realize even now the fact that God has abandoned us."
These were the last words left to me by the Saintess, said to be born once every thousand years.
She died a miserable death at the hands of the Demon King's army while running desperately to evacuate even one more citizen of the Empire.
"...Disgusting."
These were the last words left to me by the cursed dark mage who had attended to me since childhood.
She denounced my ugliness and took her own life right before my eyes.
"...You are the ugliest person among all the people I knew."
These were the last words left to me by the Imperial Princess, called the Empire's hope, on the day of the decisive battle.
She was captured while resisting the Demon King until the final moment, and became a sacrifice for the grand magic that manifested hell upon the continent.
"Even the demons in hell would be less ugly than you, foolish human."
These were the words she left me while bursting into laughter when I brought the hero's sacred armor passed down through generations and surrendered to the Demon King.
"...I know that."
But that laughter soon changed to murmuring filled with shock when I caused the hero's sacred armor I carried in my arms to go berserk.
"...You bastard, why exactly?"
I smiled at the Demon King who asked with a dumbfounded expression and gave a simple answer.
"...Just to get the System."
With those words, I looked at the system window that had appeared before my eyes with a cheerful sound, and disappeared into light along with the Demon King.
[System Liberation: Path of the Great Evil]
And when I opened my eyes again, I was lying on the bed in the lodging where I had stayed the day before entering the Academy.
"Haah, I really came back..."
After checking the calendar on the desk and realizing anew that I had regressed, I murmured quietly.
"...System."
[Path of the Great Evil: The inescapable fate given once again to you who once destroyed the world. Fill your name with great evil and save the world.]
[Cumulative Great Evil Points: 0]
Looking with satisfied eyes for a moment at the system window I had barely obtained by doing things that didn't suit my nature, I tried to get up from the bed feeling hungry, but...
[Warning: Penalty incurred!]
"Huh?"
Upon confirming another window that had appeared before my eyes, I had no choice but to freeze in the very posture of getting up from the bed.
[Penalty: 5 main heroines have awakened memories from the previous round!]
"...What kind of bullshit is this?"
And so, I was screwed.