POV Aventurine as the self-aware villain of a dating sim who dies in every route and has resigned himself to his fate when one day Ratio who has never played a dating sim in his life transmigrates into one of the love interests
You are the villain in a dating sim. How or why you came to know this became irrelevant after a few deaths. It's different every route: sometimes it's by blade, sometimes a gun--in one route, it's yourself, and maybe you're a bit too eager to get it over with those times.
You wake up at the start again. Somehow, your own disappointment still surprises you.
You are the villain. There is never any escape for the villain. You say your lines and then you die. This is your eternity, this same year in slightly different dressings all leading to the same outcome. No one has ever deviated, no one ever can deviate, no one even knows this is a game but you, powerless plaything of the developers. Be the villain. Play your role. Say your lines. Run the sce--
"Director, a Dr. Ratio is here to see you."
Pause. Respond, "Tell him I'm on a call, then send him up in five minutes."
Well now. This love interest, whose route leads you to your death at your own hands, has never come back after you scare him off with your gun at your own chest.
What are you to make of this?
