Mob MC 43.1

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Chapter 43.1. Current Masatoshi

-DumDum Masatoshi's POV-

Aguni Masatoshi. He's a genius fire magician, the eldest son of a venerable duke.

And he's a god reincarnated in the world of The Night of Magic. At the very least, Masatoshi considers himself a god.

As a big fan of The Night of Magic, Masatoshi has read the novel story, pored over the setting books, and knows everything about this world.

He did not play the game that was said to destroy the original work, but it was just a trash game that took advantage of its popularity. He doesn't know anything about it because He doesn't want to touch it, let alone memorize it, but that's not a problem.

Recently, the god of Masatoshi has been restless.

"Next month will be my debut event at the Imperial Castle. I've been waiting for it for a long time. The time has finally come for me to be involved in the original work."

"I've been waiting for this moment for 10 years," Masatoshi said, smiling as he sat in his room reading a comic book.　

As the eldest son of a duke, Katsutoshi's room is very expensive and luxurious. Of course, the room is divided into a reception room for welcoming guests, a study room, and a bedroom, and it's spacious enough to hold a small home party. The bed in the bedroom is a canopy bed.

The bedroom is furnished with a canopy bed, furniture that would cost several years of a typical annual income, and furnishings that would be worth several decades. Everything was first class. Victory himself is dressed in brand-name, magically-impregnated clothing. These clothes cost tens of millions of dollars each.

Masatoshi, given such a luxurious room, was doing as he wanted. ……It might be difficult to say that it's selfish because it has become considerably more subdued than he did before.

……It's a room that has been put together with a high-class and elegant sense, but it has the personality of a Masatoshi's room.

The walls were covered with anime posters, the bookshelves were lined with comic books and novels, figurines were arranged under multi-million dollar paintings, and on the bed's canopy was a hug pillow with a half-naked anime character printed on it.

Masatoshi decorated it like that because he's an otaku like in his previous life. It completely ruined the elegant atmosphere of the room.

Well, this is a natural consequence. If an otaku is reincarnated in a modern fantasy, there is a very good chance that they'll still become an otaku. Even if the environment changes, hobbies do not change easily.

And human nature does not easily change either.

However, in an environment such as a ducal family, one's behavior will change even if one's humanity does not. Masatoshi, who was a self-proclaimed freelancer in a previous life, believes that the environment was bad. Poor parents who wanted him to go to college but told him to get a job because it was too much for them, and teachers who nagged him to come to school well. Classmates who looked at him as if he were a fool, etc. That was Masatoshi's bad environment in his previous life.

Now it's different. Masatoshi's rich, powerful, and above all, he has a talent for magic. Although Masatoshi was a violent, punching and kicking man,  he had been crooked and had even graduated from high school.

Therefore, third-grade studies are a light matter for him. His tutors and schoolteachers are sincere in their praise of his talent as a genius, despite his violent nature. Of course, flattery is involved, but it's praise Masatoshi has never tasted before.

That has made Masatoshi feel good, and recently he has been studying hard to skip a grade. When praised, even pigs climb trees.

And because of his magical talents, there was no abuse involving simple violence. In his previous life, he would look away and lose his presence when he saw a classmate or other idiot boasting of his power, but now he can cut the wind with my shoulder and maintain a dignified attitude.

Moreover, since he has power and money, he's also backed by his parents. He also has cronies of both sexes.

Yes, there are girls in their circle. When Masatoshi is flattered, he gets carried away and immediately buys drinks, perhaps as a reaction to memories of being scorned in a previous life. Therefore, not only men but also girls were in his circle.

He also had good taste in clothing: for 10 years he had lived in the duke's house surrounded by luxury goods, and his attendants had provided him with tasteful, high-class clothes. As one would expect, any human being has a certain amount of aesthetic sense.

It's like living in a foreign country and becoming able to speak a foreign language fluently in less than two years.

As usual, he did not stop being violent with his servants, but these circumstances made him a highly competent man.

The most significant is that he puts in some effort. When he gets praised, he learns. In his previous life, if he did not understand something, he would have lost motivation even when praised. But in this life, his tutor teaches him from the basics, and Masatoshi's high specifications reflect his efforts, making him an excellent person.

The biggest thing, however, is the presence of his father, Enraku. He recently became aware that his father, who had no inner description, is not the personality he had expected.

He's free-spirited and caresses the people he likes. That was Enraku's position in the novel, but Masatoshi understood that he had a hidden side.

His father's cunning and brutal. He's able to plot over a long time, and he thinks he may be eviler than the boss in the novel. No, as a high-ranking aristocrat, it's natural.

Masatoshi fears that the fire in his eyes is dark and murky, far from the open-hearted he is. In the original story, he apologizes to the protagonist, regretting his failure to educate the illegitimate Masatoshi, but he's convinced now that it was probably just a pose.

Even after Masatoshi's abolition, he still suffered a tragic fate, but there were many developments of opportunism. When he was reading the original story, he didn't think it strange and laughed at him as a stupid character, but when he thought about it realistically, it was unnatural in many cases. As he was driven into a corner, the pattern often made sense when he told the hero that someone had set him up.

If this is his father's strategy, then the villainess's pattern with condemnation scenes is lukewarm. He'll be destroyed without realizing it. Perhaps his father might chase his hot-blooded younger brother as the heir in the future. My younger brother is incapable of such a plot. There is no story after the original is completed. Even if the future is tragic, there is nothing strange about it.

So, rather than abolition, the fear of death reminded Masatoshi to make an effort every time he saw his father.