My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending

## Fandom

***My Death Flags Show No Sign of Ending*** (俺の死亡フラグが留まるところを知らない, Ore no Shibō Furagu ga Tomaru Tokoro wo Shiranai) is a Japanese light novel series written by Izumi. Originally published via the novel posting website Shōsetsuka ni Narō in November 2014, the series was later acquired by Takarajimasha, which began publishing the series in print with illustrations by Atiki. A revised and illustrated version of the first four parts of the series was published by Takarajimasha from August 6, 2015, to March 4, 2017. A manga adaptation, illustrated by Mitsuya Otosu, began serialization on the *Manga Box*-based web manga platform *Takarajimasha* in June 2020.

## Synopsis

When he came to his senses, Hirasawa Kazuki, a normal university student, found himself in possession of the body of a game’s character. Moreover, it was Harold Stokes, the story's most hated character who was even given the title 『King of trash』by the players. Myriads of landmines are just waiting for him to step on them, like death flags! Will Harold be able to clear the survival route while avoiding the countless death flags in his way?!

*Other Plot Info:*

Game "In the world of Brave Hearts, the main character has to live as Harold Stokes, one of the most hated characters in the game. He tries to recreate the flow of the game, avoiding his death flag, to escape the future of death and prevent the world from being destroyed. However, he will fight with the later "*rival*" liner in a fighting tournament, and he will be scouted at the age of 13 by *Cody of the Order of the Holy King* who saw the battle, and all that happens is different from the game. Finally, he is forced to make a life-threatening choice for his companions. Is it correct to follow the development of the game, or is it the life of a friend? Or is it just like the game? Keep an eye on which one Harold will choose. Also, the relationship between Harold and Erica will change!?

## List of Published Books

### *Novel*

written by Izumi. Originally published via the novel posting website Shōsetsuka ni Narō in November 9, 2014, the series was later acquired by Takarajimasha, which began publishing the series in print with illustrations by Atiki. A revised and illustrated version of the first four parts of the series was published by Takarajimasha from August 6, 2015, to March 4, 2017.

1. Released date August 6, 2015 - ISBN 978-4-8002-4474-1
2. Released date January 23, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-8002-4958-6
3. Released date June 25, 2016 - ISBN 978-4-8002-5580-8
4. Released date March 4, 2017 - ISBN 978-4-8002-6767-2

LN Vol. 1LN Vol. 2LN Vol. 3LN Vol. 4
### *Manga*

A manga adaptation, illustrated by Mitsuya Otosu, began serialization on the *Manga Box*-based web manga platform *Takarajimasha* in June 10, 2020.

1. Released date January 15, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-299-01246-3
2. Released date February 13, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-299-01398-9
3. Released date May 12, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-299-02267-7
4. Released date September 24, 2021 - ISBN 978-4-299-03056-6
5. Released date February 25, 2022 - ISBN 978-4-299-03762-6
6. Released date November 25, 2022 [E-book *(Kindle Version)*]
7. Released date May 26, 2023 [E-book *(Kindle Version)*]

Manga Vol. 1Manga Vol. 2Manga Vol. 3Manga Vol. 4Manga Vol. 5Manga Vol. 6Manga Vol. 7

## Character

### Aliases:

* King of Trash
* Knight Killer

### Nickname:

* Kazuki Hirasawa
* Mr. Lord *[Temp.]*

### Affiliation:

* Stokes Family
* Sumeragi Family
* Knight Order *(Formerly)*
* Liner Griffith
* Colette Ameller

### Allied:

* Norman *(Butler)*
* Zen *(Knight)*
* Jake *(Secretary)*
* Itsuki Sumeragi *(Rival)*
* Cody Luzial

## 「Biographical Information」

### Traits:

Reincarnated, Villain, Knight, Strategist, Magus

### Relatives:

* Hayden Stokes *(Father)*
* Jessica Stokes *(Mother)*
* Huey Stokes *(Younger Half-Brother)*
* Dorothy Stokes *(Step-Mother)*
* Erica Sumeragi *(Fiancée)*

### Occupation:

* Knight Order *(Formerly)*
* Justus' Assistant
* Frieri Leader

### Residence:

* Stroke Residence
* Royal Capital of Amazeal *[Formerly]*

## 「Physical Description」

### Height:

About 140cm *(Age 10)*
180cm *(Age 18)*

### Status:

Active

**Kazuki Hirasawa**, an ordinary college student, noticed that he possessed **Harold Stokes**, the villain character of the TV game/JRPG game software "*Brave Hearts*" that he had worked on, One day, Kazuki Hirasawa, a college student, suddenly possesses a villainous, ill-mannered character who is disliked by Ogishi. He is the eldest son of the "*Stokes family*", a nobleman with a strong sense of selection, and is a boy about 10 years old with black hair and red eyes. He wears a white pin-tuck blouse with a cross tie, a brown jacket, and shorts.

Even if Kazuki tries to use polite words, he is automatically converted into an arrogant tone. He is generally high spec, has a high fighting ability, and can use magic.. In front of him is Hayden, the owner of the Stokes family, and Clara Amerer, a servant who kneels and begs for life. This was one of the in-game recollection events. This is an event in which Clara, the mother of Colette, the main heroine, is executed with a little carelessness.

Kazuki's body, which became Harold, moves freely and stops her father according to the game scenario. She offers to use Clara on a magical practice table that he has just learned. Hayden agreed, and Clara was thrown into the dungeon. Returning to her room, Kazuki calmly analyzed the situation. Harold is one of the Brave Hearts most hated, villainous, irreverent, and destined to die a few years later. He was depressed as to why he had become Harold, and the butler Norman came to her room in search of Clara's commutation. Of course, Kazuki has no intention of killing Clara. However, when she saves Clara's life, her daughter Colette loses the chance to meet her main character, Reiner.

If the main character's party is weakened, the world will be ruined by the last boss. However, if nothing is done as it is, Harold will die. Kazuki decided not to reduce Harold's liking, but to keep the rough scenario unchanged and lead to a decent ending. For that purpose, it is necessary to break down your own death flag while following the flow of the original. Kazuki plans to escape her and Colette to Broche village, pretending to have killed her Clara. It was the village where Reiner lived, and there was a high probability that Colette and Reiner would meet.

* However ever since Kazuki took over his body. His personality obviously changes due to him. Every foul thing, that the original Harold, would have done, instead turned into acts of kindness and compassion in accordance with Kazuki's good will. Though Harold's foul mouth was still present, much to his chagrin.
* Despite his claims that everything he does was in order to avoid the appalling "*Death Flag*", he willingly helped others knowing that the ultimate future he knows of the game would be altered, further increasing the number of uncertainties he had to face. First, he saved Clara Ameller, the maid the real Harold ended up killing on a whim. This event ends up altering the future of not only her but most importantly her daughter Collette, a future member of the Hero's Party. However, he still had to relay the fact that he killed her and her daughter even though he didn't so as to not arouse suspicion from his family. Due to this, he has been thought of with disdain and hatred by many. Even so, he didn't care about what others thought of him as long as he was able to save someone.
* His selfless nature was further emphasized when he saved the Sumeragi by providing them with an antidote to the disease caused by the miasma affecting their territory. In addition to that, he also gave them the LP (*Life Potion*) Farming Method which drastically turned their fortunes around due to its revolutionary innovation. This saved countless lives in their territory and made them greatly indebted to him. But for all of this to take effect he would need Tasuku, the head of the Sumeragi, to annul his engagement to Erica. The engagement was nothing but a political one since the Sumeragi family required support due to the problems they were facing, but now that their problems were almost nil, Harold requested the annulment of the engagement. Moreover, he makes Erica hate him as much as possible by admitting to being guilty of the killing of his servant, although she later finds out that it was all a pretense. He didn't want her to be another flag that would bring his demise but his ulterior motive can be inferred to prevent her from marrying someone she isn't in love with and also most importantly for her to join up with the Heroes Party without any deviations from the game.

### Abilities

> "*If they don't do what I proposed, they won't be able to survive. Since they're all weaklings.*"
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As one of the bosses who repeatedly faced the hero party, Harold is immense power, and in terms of pure stats is even better than the playable character - i.e. the heroes, etc. He is only matched by strong boss characters on the level of Vincent - which means except for the final boss, there is no one stronger than him.

* ***TRAITS***
	+ **Switch [**Ego**]:** Though it is called a "*switch*", it probably more accurate to call some sort of mental manipulation. Using this, Kazuki "awakens" the true Harold within him. Using it, he becomes more foul mo-thed and also gains the true instincts and skills of the true Harold. This allows Kazuki to use his skills and abilities to the fullest, and he also gets stronger if he fights a stronger enemy.
	+ **Dual Wielding:** Unlike in the games, in the novel Harold dual wields. The reason for that is his position as Justus' Assistant. He uses his Jade Sword (It doesn't have a name, so sorry!) and his black sword. Due to his swordsmanship skill hi ld's instincts, and Kazuki's determination to train for 12 hours straight, he is very proficient at dual wielding.
* ***KNIGHTS***
	+ **Martial Arts:** Harold have knowledge of martial arts, and his self-training has gained proficiency in the self-defense. Harold can make use of striking techniques from the combination of this skill and boxing, in addition to his technique specialty of throwing techniques and counters.
	+ **Swordsmanship:** Harold is very proficient in swordsmanship, his only equal being Vincent. Even with self-training, he has shown that he could easily surpass his family's guard in swordsmanship. And when he was just 13, he was even better than the average knight in the order.
	+ **Instinct:** Harold is naturally gifted and very talented. He is as, maybe even more, talented that the knight leader, Vincent, who was stated to be the strongest knight in the history of the order. Though, Kazuki can't fully utilize Harold's true instincts as he is a normal person until he gets his "switch" aruly gets over his fear of death, and starts risking his life.
	+ **Flexibility:** Harold is the fastest character in the game. Kazuki had even complained about how hard it was to fight him as he would keep on stringing combos together, and due to his speed, it was very hard to dodge them. In the novel, he is even faster than his game counterpart, due to his training and his higher level. It has been stated by the author that no character - other than Vincent - can react to Harold's speed.
	+ **Inhuman Strength:** Harold also has displayed great feat of strength as well. Even when he was just 13, he has shown to be able to bend the steel bars of the prison he was in. And in a duel between Francis, with just a single kick, he had made Francis fly 10 meters in the air.
	+ **Dexterity:** Harold has shown to be able to manage his speed with ease, he can accurately move at supersonic speeds fairly easily. He has also shown to able to do complicated movements with ease, especially using his air dash to move through the air.
* **Magic:** Harold is very proficient with magic. In the novel, he is probably the strongest mage - until the final boss shows up - as he has surpassed Erica - who is the strongest mage and the strongest member of the hero's party. Kazuki, in his spare time, has trained with every single magic skill in the game and states that the knows every single ability of Harold Stokes and the rest of the heo'es party. He has also made his own original Technique.
	+ **Elemental Magic:** Harold can use all elements in the game, although he is still the most skilled with lightning magic.
		- **Healing [**Light Magic**]:** Harold is shown to be also proficient in the use of healing magic, he even stated that his healing was above Erica's technique which was known to be one of the best in the game. He used it for the first time to heal Vincent after their fight concluded.
		- **Bolt Lance:** A spell which produces, as its name suggests, a lance made of lightning.
		- **Thunder Bird:** A spell that creates as its name entails, lightning with the shape of a bird which pierces and burns to cinders its target.
		- **Swift Lightning:** A weaker lightning spell compared to Bolt Lance.
		- **Thousand Thunder Bolts**
		- **Nemesis Blade**
		- **Fireball**
		- **Lightning Clash:** This is Harold's strongest spell but due to its immense power, charging it was a long process and it was also difficult to handle. However when it is successfully casted, even the strongest of opponents would fall. This is the spell Harold used to ultimately take down Vincent, arguably the most powerful character besides himself in the story alongside Justus.
		- **Fire Column:** Spell which engulfs its target within a pillar of flame.
		- **Aqua Slash:** Spell which creates sharp blades of water.
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* ***TECHNIQUE***
	+ **Artillery Kick:** An ability from the game which Harold, or more accurately Kazuki, was able to replicate. t'ts an ability for chaining up multiple combos but instea,d it was made into his own skill. A kick with the strength to shatter even the strongest of objects, hence its name.
	+ **Air Dash:** One of Harold's signature moves. When Harold uses it, he makes an invisible scaffold in the air through mana and jumps from it. Using it Harold has comboed over 100 attacks in mere seconds while fighting Vincent.
	+ -??-

In the novels, he has shown to far surpass his game counterpart - though the special state he had gone through is still a little debatable (he has likely surpassed that as well). Currently, in the novel, he is the strongest character, though the final boss is still far stronger than him.

* ***Jade Sword*:** The experimental weapon made by Justus and also the reason that Harold hasn't been executed as a traitor to the kingdom as he was intended to be a guinea pig that tested the effects of the sword. Unlike his other sword, which is just a plain black sword, this sword has a green jade or crystal above the handguard. By consuming the user's soul, in other words, their lifespan, it substantially increases their strength but to even activate its effect, the user would need to have an ample amount of mana. As an example, Cody couldn't even activate the sword due to his lack of mana in comparison to Harold. (It is heavily implied in the novel) to tremendously boost the user's strength. However, due to the special effect of this sword, Harold has used it sparingly, only in cases where he needs the fight to end as soon as possible. The word double-edged sword fits this weapon to a tee. Another additional effect this sword provided, much to the surprise of Harold, was its strange ability to nullify the brainwashed status of the people afflicted by Justus.
	+ A prime example of this effect was during the end of Harold's fight with Vincent. He struck Vincent right in his abdomen with the sword, sheathed obviously, and afterward, he slightly regained his memories and how he came to be like this. He further proved this by freeing Lilium and Ventus, the two Star tribe members who had their emotions stripped by the cruel experimentation of Justus with the same technique.
* ***Black Katana*:** Harold's secondary weapon which he utilizes most of the time due to his reluctance to shed more of his life force by using the Jade Sword provided by Justus.
* -??-

## Reception

A comicalize of a light novel that won the *Grand Prix of the 3rd Net Novel Awards* (formerly Rokon).