Introduction

ISEKAI: I Reincarnated as the World’s Poorest King
Introduction

Is it worth being good in an evil world?

I don’t know. I never did.

When I was a child, I always told myself that living by the rules was the perfect path to virtue. I played the game properly. I walked the road of life without betraying my moral code even once.

And yet, when the moment of truth arrived, none of my choices turned out to be right.

I failed countless times. I fell again and again until I was smeared with the mud of failure.

Why did nothing ever go the way I wanted?

Why did my choices always lead to the worst possible outcome?

I never hurt anyone.

I always tried to improve myself through training and discipline. I held every safe card in my hand.

So then why…

Why did everything turn out so badly?

Was it my environment?

Or was it me?

Suddenly, an absurd thought entered my mind during those final seconds.

What if I could live again?

Would I truly walk that same righteous path?

For an instant, the idea of becoming a mad libertine crossed my mind. A life of excess, unrestrained sex, and dark passion to satisfy my basest instincts did not seem so terrible after all.

I would eat without caring about my health, fuck until I was drier than a raisin, and kill anyone who pissed me off. After all… “You only live once.”

And yet, despite that moment of weakness, my answer remained the same.

Of course I would live an honorable life.

Because that was my nature, and not even reincarnation could change it.

Or could it?