Only Villains Do That

While waiting on an Akihabara train platform one day, ordinary high schooler Yoshi Shinonome was... Read more While waiting on an Akihabara train platform one day, ordinary high schooler Yoshi Shinonome was suddenly plucked from his normal life in Japan and whisked away by a beautiful goddess to Ephemera, a world of magic and adventure, to serve as her Hero and drive back the evil Dark Lord.This is not his story.Standing nearby at the moment Yoshi was isekai'd was a man named Seiji - a rude, cranky, misanthropic musician who was not at all pleased to find himself also snatched up and transported to Ephemera by the goddess's wicked sister, Virya. According to this self-proclaimed Goddess of Evil, the whole fantasy adventure thing was a game she and her sister played to stave off the boredom of immortality, and since the good goddess, Sanora, had picked her Hero...well, Virya needed a Dark Lord. A grown man with his own career and ambitions, Seiji has no interest in playing. Unfortunately for him, the call to adventure was not a request. Now, he must conquer Ephemera and defeat the Hero...or Virya promises to make him beg for the release of death before granting it. Playing along for his own survival, Seiji nonetheless is under no illusions who his true enemy is, and it's not the naive young would-be Hero from his own world.Placed in an impossible position, Seiji must make enough progress toward world domination to keep his sadistic patron goddess off his back, but not so much that he can't strike an accord with the forces of Good and convince the Hero Yoshi that it's the goddesses who are their mutual enemy. Forced to embrace Evil without being too evil, Seiji walks the razor's edge, building his forces and biding his time till he can get revenge on the goddesses and be free of them, his only certainty that he will not be getting out of this with his hands clean.A Dark Lord's gotta do what a Dark Lord's gotta do.***Updates Tuesday and Friday. Collapse Antihero Protagonist, High Fantasy, Sword And Magic, Male Protagonist, Multiple Transported Individuals, Character Growth, Goddesses, Transported to Another World, Medieval, European Ambience, Artifacts, Survival Game very difficult to understand this novel paragraph Great story, clean characters 👌 Man! You gotta be different kinda high to write this shit 😂 A nice story about a man getting forced by the goddess of darkness to play the villain role with his very useful companion lizard to kill the champion of the goddess of light Spoilerboth goddess are playing a game which one of their champions will be killed by opposite's champion first.3/5★ Read this on RR a while ago and while some of the specifics of it elude me now I remember greatly enjoying it and planning to go back once it built up some backlog. It has a lot of parallels to light novels like Shield Hero and that one where the guy got pushed off bridge to the bottom of a dungeon, but is not quite so grim or dark. All told if you're up for some isekai antihero tropes this book is a pretty decent time. Spoilerthat one where the guy got pushed off bridge to the bottom of a dungeonR U talking about Arifureta ? Yea that's probably the one, but admittedly they all sort of run together after a while