A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

Tyrant swung his hands, which were wielded with a scythe and a flail, and strode forward with his powerful legs, crushing everything in his path like a runaway heavy armored vehicle.

There is no way to retreat.

Hachiman gritted his teeth and forced himself to shout, "Eleking, use electric shock!"

Eleking's crescent-shaped horn began to flash violently, and a thick crescent-shaped beam of light carrying high-voltage current shot straight toward Tyrant's chest.

However, Tyrant's pentagonal valve on his chest, belonging to Bemstar, suddenly opened like a bottomless black hole, sucking away King Elek's full-power electric shock in one gulp.

As the lightning dissipated, Tyrant didn't even pause. He rushed in front of King Elek, his massive scythe arm slicing down with a tearing sound.

Eleking's resistance was futile. He was struck hard in the abdomen and flew backward with a scream, carving a deep furrow in the ground.

From the very beginning, the battle was characterized by an overwhelming and absolute dominance.

Chapter 270 The Death of Eleking

Tyrant swung the Barabah scythe on his right arm, approaching King Elek step by step.

Eleking staggered back three steps, swinging his long tail to try and create distance.

Seeing this, Tyrant didn't dodge at all. He flicked his scythe with his left hand, causing the tail to bounce off, and then followed up with a right kick, striking Eleking in the chest and sending the fifty-meter-tall body sliding backward.

"Whoosh-"

Without the slightest hesitation, Tyrant continued to approach with the sickle tool.

"Crack!"

The scythe struck Eleking heavily, tearing apart his body and sending up bursts of dazzling sparks.

King Elek let out a mournful cry as his massive body crashed into the sands of the wasteland once more, raising clouds of dust.

After only a few rounds of fighting, the outcome of the battle was already a foregone conclusion.

Eleking was completely suppressed by Tyrant, and had no power to resist this tyrannical monster.

Yuu Otosaka stood on the boulder, looking down at Hachiman Hikigaya.

"Hey, do you think this is a game of make-believe?"

Hachiman Hikigaya opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

"You're all flustered and can't even grasp the most basic timing for an attack." Yuu Otosaka scoffed. "Judging from your stupidity, you have practical experience of almost zero. Do you think you can become a world-saving hero just by holding a card in your hand and shouting a couple of slogans?"

Faced with this merciless and soul-searching interrogation, Hachiman Hikigaya wanted to refute it.

I want to say that I'm not the kind of person who would treat other people's lives like a joke.

But he stopped himself from speaking, because he wasn't sure if what Yuu Otosaka said was actually true.

The cards were handed to him by the aliens from Mefilas.

What were the alien's exact words?

"The cards will provide guidance." He accepted. What was he thinking as he accepted?

Thinking, "This is so annoying," "It's another troublesome matter," "If I don't answer, will something even worse come knocking on my door?"

He had to admit that he hadn't been able to adjust his mindset from beginning to end.

Even if Kazama Chiba made his "responsibility" sound noble yesterday, in his subconscious, it was still just a troublesome "extracurricular activity".

He would hide when faced with danger, and run away when he couldn't win a fight. He was never mentally prepared to stand here and face a life-or-death struggle.

He's a lone wolf who finds even being called on to answer questions in class troublesome, so how could he possibly take on the weight of monster fighting?

Hachiman Hikigaya was completely unprepared for this life-or-death struggle.

But no one will give him time to press the pause button at a time like this.

Yuu Otosaka will clearly not give him another chance to reflect or experience the so-called "straight male protagonist's sudden power-up" growth.

"Tyrant, finish this quickly."

Upon receiving the command, the tyrannical monster let out a wild roar.

It lifted its heavy feet and strode directly in front of Eleking, brandishing its sharp scythe and slashing wildly at the fallen Eleking.

Each strike tore a huge gash in Eleking's body, sending sparks flying.

Eleking's neighing grew weaker and weaker.

Seeing his monster on the verge of death, the stark reality of its impending demise shattered the last vestiges of self-deception Hachiman Hikigaya had been using as a shield.

He reached into the inside pocket of his shirt and pulled out the flower card he had just won.

"Wait! I give up!"

"Here's your flower card, stop now!"

He suddenly swung his arm and threw the karuta card towards Yuu Otosaka.

Yuu Otosaka stretched out a hand and steadily caught the flying card.

Hachiman Hikigaya stood there panting, waiting for Tyrant to stop.

However, Yuu Otosaka simply put the karuta into her pocket, showing no sign of stopping.

What are you doing?

Hachiman Hikigaya's voice rang out: "I've already surrendered! And you have what I wanted!"

Yuu Otosaka finally glanced at him again and let out a cold laugh.

"Admit defeat?"

"You actually naively thought that you could stop everything just by shouting 'I give up'? You really think this is a game you can quit and start over at any time?"

Hachiman Hikigaya stood frozen in place, a strong sense of foreboding washing over him.

Before he could finish speaking, Yuu Otosaka showed no intention of telling Tyrant to stop.

Tyrant raised the meteor hammer in his left arm high.

A single slash cleaved into Eleking's head from the front, cutting through his horned crown and piercing his chest, splitting his entire body in two along the slash mark.

Blinding golden particles of light surged from the crack, like a whole jar of gold dust being smashed.

Before Hachiman Hikigaya's eyes, Eleking's enormous body collapsed in a blinding flash of light, turning into countless yellow light particles that scattered in all directions.

It didn't even have a chance to turn back into a card; it vanished completely.

Hachiman Hikigaya's legs buckled, and he collapsed heavily to his knees on the wasteland.

He felt no pain as his knee slammed against the hard rock.

Yuu Otosaka leaped down from the boulder and walked up to Hachiman Hikigaya.

He looked down at the distraught high school student from the same school and coldly reprimanded him.

"I do not understand."

"Why was someone as clueless as you chosen to become a monster fighter?"

"You have no respect for your own life, nor for your monster. In your subconscious, it's nothing more than a tool to help you take the beating."

Yuu Otosaka put the flower card into her pocket.

"That King Eleking, it's utterly pathetic to have such a cowardly and timid master like you."

After saying this, Yuu Otosaka didn't linger for a moment longer.

He flipped his wrist and retrieved Tyrant.

The distorted, colorful halo around them began to fade rapidly, and the scorched earth and dead wood disappeared as if erased by an eraser.

The rainbow space then dissipated.

When the scenery before Hachiman Hikigaya's eyes returned to normal, he found himself still kneeling on the cold asphalt of the Garden Street in Omori Ward.

The surrounding cherry blossom trees swayed gently in the breeze.

A few pedestrians were chatting and laughing on their phones in front of a convenience store not far away. No one seemed to notice what had just happened there.

Yuu Otosaka had already left the scene with her spoils without looking back, leaving not even a trace of her back.

Hachiman Hikigaya, left alone in the same spot, slowly lowered his head, looking at his empty hands.

Yu's words kept replaying in his mind. "You can't even protect your own monster." "That Eleking took so many blows for you, did you ever think about how it felt?" "It's pathetic to have a master like you."

"Did I really do something wrong?"

Hachiman Hikigaya questioned himself repeatedly in his mind.

Despite having no awareness whatsoever and being preoccupied with how to protect oneself, one still accepted the card offered by the alien.

He actually hesitated at first.

Something of unknown origin, a setting that sounds like a cult, and a card with a monster's name on it.

A normal person would turn around and leave immediately.

But he didn't.

Hachiman Hikigaya just thought that if something came rushing at him one day, having a card in his hand would at least be able to block it.

It's for saving your life, for protecting yourself; it's all for yourself from beginning to end.

He never even considered giving King Elek a name.

From the moment he received the card until today, he hasn't even seriously spoken a single word to King Elek.

When Qianyu used the phrase "With great power comes great responsibility" to fool him, he laughed and complained that the other party was being childish, but he didn't seriously think about what the word "responsibility" really meant.

In the end, he went to the battlefield in a daze and watched helplessly as King Elek, who was fighting for him, was beaten to a pulp.

"...What am I doing?"

Hachiman Hikigaya squatted down and held his head in his hands.

Chapter 271 Ray's Script

While Hachiman Hikigaya was wallowing in self-reproach...