Episode 1: I Hate This World

## I Hate This World

**I Hate This World** (俺はこの世界が嫌いだ, *Ore wa Kono Sekai ga Kirai da*) is the first episode of the The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs anime series.

## Plot

Our unnamed protagonist dies after exhaustion by being blackmailed into playing and beating an Otome game 100%. He reawakens as a mob character in a different world and after ten years is forced by his cruel stepmother to partake in an arranged marriage. Wanting to avoid this fate, he becomes an adventurer and finds an ancient ship that recalls in the game. After retrieving it and loads of treasure, follows his dream of attending the academy of his choosing.

## Summary

Blackmailed to play the otome game by his younger sister, the older brother begrudgingly plays through the game while chastising the game's characters and gameplay. Eventually, the brother completes the game under the conditions that his younger sister imposed on him. Just as he leaves his apartment, he begins to become woozy and loses his footing on the staircase down from his apartment, causing him to fall to his death.

Awakening in a younger body, he returns to his home where he's punished by his father in front of his mother and their guests, Zola and her children Rutart and Merce. That night in their shed of a home, the boy talks with his older brother about why they live in a shed while Zola lives in the mansion. As the conversation continues the brother suggests they continue studying in order to qualify to marry someone in the "academy". This and everything else that the brother explains triggers memories of the otome game he played in his previous life and comes to realize that he's now stuck in the game he played to death. Now going by the name of Leon Fou Bartfort, he's forced to live his life in the otome game he loathes.

Ten years have passed since his realization and he reflects on how in the original game the family he belongs to did not appear in the original game making him a "Mob Character". To keep himself prepared for everything that occurs in the game, Leon kept a journal of everything that happens in the game. Furthermore, he kept himself physically fit in case he gets roped into joining a war or minor conflict. His ambitions, however, faded over the years, and seeks to enjoy himself as a simple mob character. On the other hand, Leon's plans are foiled when Zola sets him up with an arranged marriage to someone to whom Zola is indebted. The reason for this marriage is because their family is currently impoverished and needs money, and if Leon decides to reject the marriage he'd be recruited to be a soldier and likely die on the battlefield.

Once Zola leaves, Leon asks his father for a favor, and the following day, he takes a boat to a place where the Otome game's protagonist used it in her storyline. Soon, Leon is caught in a maelstrom that transports him to an island with an old abandoned ship. Investigating the ship, Leon takes out a sentry bot with his gun and upon reaching the medical bay, takes the ID card from the corpse of someone named Josee Moon. With it, Leon is granted access inside the docking bay where he finds an ancient ship that a giant sentry robot was protecting. A battle ensues between the two and when Leon is caught by the robot, it asks him what year it is and Leon's response confirms that the "battle was lost". The robot details that a new breed of humans capable of using magic won a war that destroyed an old civilization, hence it's the robot's prerogative to eliminate the new order of humans. Being squeezed to death, Leon draws his short sword and uses its mechanism to fire it directly at the robot's eye causing it to malfunction and faint. The robot uses the PA system to talk to Leon and notes that after he registers himself as the ship's new owner, he notes how he has traits of the old human despite being a new human. Giving a name to the ship, Leon calls it the same name Luxion. Falling backward, Leon starts to lose consciousness.

Back at Leon's home, Zola again chastises Leon for blowing his chance for marriage in order to go off on an adventure and die during it. Although Leon's father argues that it's too soon to come to that conclusion, Zola rebutted that he's been missing for three months and figured he ran away. At that moment, Leon returns home on a small ship carrying treasure and Luxion in the form of a floating orb. Now having acquired a large amount of treasure and his own ship, Leon refuses Zora's marriage offer and attends the academy that he so desired.

## Characters

* Leon Fou Bartfort
* Olivia
* Angelica Rapha Redgrave
* Luxion
* Marie Fou Lafan
* Julius Rapha Holfort
* Chris Fia Arclight
* Greg Fou Seberg
* Brad Fou Field
* Jilk Fia Marmoria
* Balcus Fou Bartfort
* Luce Fou Bartfort
* Zola
* Nicks Fou Bartfort
* Rutart
* Merce
* Jenna Fou Bartfort *(Mentioned)*