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Just saw this a couple times and wondered if there were any other real good ones out there. Scenario is as written: the main character, for one reason or another, wants the people with him to hate him, most likely to abandon him or feel okay with leaving him. Most likely to only occur early on, since this would be hard to maintain terribly long, but I really don't care whether it's revealed in the first chapter or the last. The two examples I remember seeing are basically variants of the "Banished" subgenre:
Kiraware Yuusha starts out with the hero Ares at the gates to the Demon God Demiurge's domain where he and his three companions will try to destroy Demiurge, only for the three companions to tell him he'll have to fight Demiurge on his own as they simply can't stay with someone like him anymore. He's done all sorts of things, from sexual harassment to picking fights to attempting to leave people in trouble behind until the three force him to help. He argues and begs but they leave all the same, at which point he starts to laugh and recalls an old wise man who'd warned him of Demiurge's barrier, which could only be overcome by an attack that would indubitably kill him and his comrades as well. He'd been playing the villain ever since in hopes that they'd leave and no one but him would have to die. Once he "dies" an envelope unseals in their possession, revealing documents granting each of the girls the things they'd most longed for, and they end up finding out too late that the whole thing was just an act. I haven't gotten much past that, but basically from that point it focuses on the hero and Demiurge, who's apparently actually his wife in a separate world or something (like I said I've only started).
100 Isekai de 2-Shuume has this briefly in the very first chapter, though it's kind of undone shortly afterward. MC Ed is being kicked out of the Hero Party. He'd started out as a great comrade more than worthy to fight alongside them, but at some point he'd started to act up and slack off until they couldn't take it anymore. Thing is the whole thing was planned, as Ed was actually summoned from another world and given the task of going to a hundred different worlds, joining the Hero's party in each world, travelling with them as a true comrade for at least six months, and then getting exiled each time. This is the last world, and the skills he'd gained in each subsequent world had left him unbelievably OP so the only way to get kicked out was to play the fool (unlike the first world where he was almost helpless and by the end they were eager to find an excuse to banish him before he could get himself killed). Of course, this is all just a prelude as the main story has him find out that pretty much all the worlds he'd been to had failed to kill the Demon King and fell to ruin, and he uses a sort of "new game+" type power to do it all over with all his skills so he can ensure a proper happy ending for everyone.
While the above stories are both fantasies where the guy's trying to get banished, any kind of story will do with any kind of motivation for the act.
Kiraware Yuusha starts out with the hero Ares at the gates to the Demon God Demiurge's domain where he and his three companions will try to destroy Demiurge, only for the three companions to tell him he'll have to fight Demiurge on his own as they simply can't stay with someone like him anymore. He's done all sorts of things, from sexual harassment to picking fights to attempting to leave people in trouble behind until the three force him to help. He argues and begs but they leave all the same, at which point he starts to laugh and recalls an old wise man who'd warned him of Demiurge's barrier, which could only be overcome by an attack that would indubitably kill him and his comrades as well. He'd been playing the villain ever since in hopes that they'd leave and no one but him would have to die. Once he "dies" an envelope unseals in their possession, revealing documents granting each of the girls the things they'd most longed for, and they end up finding out too late that the whole thing was just an act. I haven't gotten much past that, but basically from that point it focuses on the hero and Demiurge, who's apparently actually his wife in a separate world or something (like I said I've only started).
100 Isekai de 2-Shuume has this briefly in the very first chapter, though it's kind of undone shortly afterward. MC Ed is being kicked out of the Hero Party. He'd started out as a great comrade more than worthy to fight alongside them, but at some point he'd started to act up and slack off until they couldn't take it anymore. Thing is the whole thing was planned, as Ed was actually summoned from another world and given the task of going to a hundred different worlds, joining the Hero's party in each world, travelling with them as a true comrade for at least six months, and then getting exiled each time. This is the last world, and the skills he'd gained in each subsequent world had left him unbelievably OP so the only way to get kicked out was to play the fool (unlike the first world where he was almost helpless and by the end they were eager to find an excuse to banish him before he could get himself killed). Of course, this is all just a prelude as the main story has him find out that pretty much all the worlds he'd been to had failed to kill the Demon King and fell to ruin, and he uses a sort of "new game+" type power to do it all over with all his skills so he can ensure a proper happy ending for everyone.
While the above stories are both fantasies where the guy's trying to get banished, any kind of story will do with any kind of motivation for the act.
