Hametsu Flag Kaihi no Tame Yamaoku e Hikikomotteita Saikyou no Akuyaku wa, Tasuketa Heroine ni Yotte Omotebutai e Tatasareru - Vol. 2 Ch. 9

[Caca275]

"To not end up like the villain, I must...Act like the villain! Run away!"

How do I even deacribe this one? It's such a low hanging fruit, it makes me wonder if it was engineered to create engagement by having fans point it out.

I thought I'd come to terms with the fact that stories about avoiding death flags tended to rely on twisted and downright stupid logic, but honestly, even then I wasn't prepared for this level of inanity.

What kind of person writes these stories? What the hell are they thinking? How on earth do the protagonists always conclude that to avoid the villain's bad end, it's more important to distance themselves from the story's protagonists than to avoid acting like the villain?

 

[PLaci1982]

This is immensely retarded:
"I should give no reason for them to hate me, no reason for them to (want to) kill me, so I should act just like the a-hole dude who in the end was killed by them without mercy."

 

[Sheza]

You're Unlock the New route....

Yaoi route...

 

[Korvalus]

I thought I'd come to terms with the fact that stories about avoiding death flags tended to rely on twisted and downright stupid logic, but honestly, even then I wasn't prepared for this level of inanity.

What kind of person writes these stories? What the hell are they thinking? How on earth do the protagonists always conclude that to avoid the villain's bad end, it's more important to distance themselves from the story's protagonists than to avoid acting like the villain?

Short version: because the trope "reincarnated in a game world" is really big in Japan, so they cater to all otaku clients who has only known fantasy through video games and visual novels. Think of how many mangas out there has ERPG elements on them, especially isekai ones. It's also common for characters and/or authors to think elements like the game's story to be some sort of irrefrenable fate which will happen unless you do something really drastic regardless of the actual plausibility of that story.

 

[wisemanro]

Yaoi route...

 

[UncleKaos]

Well team up is the best. i hope the hero will be a REAL nice guy. not an massive horny asshole who will only have women in his party and will kill to keep something perverty a secret. yes i did read another manga about that kind of... "heroes."

so i hope he is a GOOD guy!

 

[Solipsist]

What kind of person writes these stories? What the hell are they thinking? How on earth do the protagonists always conclude that to avoid the villain's bad end, it's more important to distance themselves from the story's protagonists than to avoid acting like the villain?

That last bit you wrote, is a really good point.
So many of these stories, have their characters act and think in such a way, where they absolutely 100% believe that the story's plot "converges events" into a single point, almost no matter what you do -- so the best course of action is to physically remove themselves from any and all situations where the main-cast resides.
If something is gonna happen anyway, it's probably better to just not be there, right?

The stupid thing is that in many of these stories, it becomes fairly quickly that these characters cannot read into the future anymore, because they changed things too much. So why even believe they'd end up hanged for being "the bad guy"? It's indeed very silly.

...I tried writing different reasons as to why authors end up playing this trope, but....Every single time it just made no sense, because, again, the main characters end up proving the whole premise of "it's predetermined!" to be absolutely wrong.
This very story did just that, by having the MC run away from home for a few years and end up living with the "Saint". That's so off record, it makes no fucking sense to think of event-convergence.

 

[kwendy]

If you think about it, BL route with protagonist is the safest possible flag breaking path. Or yuri for female villain-protag pair.
Unless jealousy is in the picture, then it's back to square one.

 

[CURIMA]

So, all death flags or dumb protagonist talk aside. Why do the cover girl titties look so MASSIVE?

 

[Parnifia]

Not enough people are talking about CIIIMERA WEEKROINT. It honestly looks like AI. Was it there in the raws?

 

[ElectroSlam]

Is that childhood friend girl of the original mc gunna be one of those annoying BL shipper girl characters that are going to constantly try to get the mc and the other guy together? Looking at you, girl from the villainous space noble manga.

 

[Civi]

Wonder if glasses girl is reincarnated.

 

[UdenEmpati]

That last bit you wrote, is a really good point.
So many of these stories, have their characters act and think in such a way, where they absolutely 100% believe that the story's plot "converges events" into a single point, almost no matter what you do -- so the best course of action is to physically remove themselves from any and all situations where the main-cast resides.
If something is gonna happen anyway, it's probably better to just not be there, right?

The stupid thing is that in many of these stories, it becomes fairly quickly that these characters cannot read into the future anymore, because they changed things too much. So why even believe they'd end up hanged for being "the bad guy"? It's indeed very silly.

...I tried writing different reasons as to why authors end up playing this trope, but....Every single time it just made no sense, because, again, the main characters end up proving the whole premise of "it's predetermined!" to be absolutely wrong.
This very story did just that, by having the MC run away from home for a few years and end up living with the "Saint". That's so off record, it makes no fucking sense to think of event-convergence.

It'd be believable if there was some overarching "system/entity" that was trying to force the 'story' back on the rails in spite of the MC's efforts - kinda like Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess! had at least part of the way through, wherein the MC had to engage with the story to some extent or risk horrific consequences.
But yeah - otherwise, this ongoing trope of meta-idiocy in Isekai stories will hopefully eventually play itself out as authors have to go further and further to make their specific titles "stand out", and perhaps we'll also see the readerbase in Japan get more savvy over time in turn and demand better writing on that front.

Who knows, though.

 

[Zones]

MC is an idiot right? "I don't want the death flags from the game so I should do exactly what the character does in the game!" What? How does that make sense!?!?!?!

 

[RanmaChaos]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[Velmoria]

Al choosing all routes.

 

[auriga]

CIIIMERA WEAKROINT

Not enough people are talking about CIIIMERA WEEKROINT. It honestly looks like AI. Was it there in the raws?

Hard to tell about CIIIMERA (it's possible the cleaner might have goofed here), but WEEKPOINT was definitely in the raws.

 

[Oberon-056]

You're Unlock the New route....

The Goku and Vegeta?

 

[R2D2TS]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Psychronia]

Let there be a bromance.

That might be the fastest record for "let's do this thing" turning into doing the opposite. No thought bubbles or nothing. We just get right to it.