I was reincarnated as Zagan, the villain of my favorite Eroge from my past life. In the game, Zagan lived a pitiful life from childhood and was slaughtered in the end.
But when I lived a different life from the game Zagan, I often encountered the protagonist, Luca, in the city. It feels like I am being seen as a capture target… but I’m not a woman!?



The story was decent for a smut novel, and the two main characters carried the plot most of the time. However, the side characters were rather underwhelming, and it felt like the author neglected their development until the last dozen chapters, where it was all dumped at once. Not only that, but these final chapters were heavily laden with dialogue and lore dumps, seemingly just for world-building purposes. To the point that you could probably skip half of them without affecting the story.
The smut scenes were fine, though.
To be honest, if you didn’t connect with the characters, it’s pretty tough to keep reading through the later chapters, as the basic story progression grinds to a halt. The conclusion isn’t particularly memorable either.
In summary, I can only say that the setting is quite unique and the plot was intriguing at first, while the main character and love interest seemed to do all the heavy lifting.
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Okay, so first off, the smut was good. If I were to rate it, I'd give it an 8.5/10 (I just have pretty high standards).
The plot building was great. It's a typical "transmigrated into a game" plot, but it was well-executed.
The characters were okay, but I got a bit bored halfway through. Did Zagan ever tell Luca his real name? I can’t even remember it anymore, lol.
The story is good, and I’ll definitely continue reading it if I ever have the time.
I never liked dubious consent in the first place, and he already had a mark against him during his first romantic encounter with the main character (MC). There were the typical eroge excuses for him to get away with it, but it was totally non-consensual, no ifs, ands, or buts. The MC agreed to be with him for reasons I'll never understand, but Chapters 16-17 really made me want the MC to dump him. Not only did he do something the MC, whom he claims to love, clearly felt uncomfortable with, but he did so to bully the MC into revealing something that wasn't even his business. He even gaslighted the MC into believing he was the one at fault, apologizing with genuine tears running down his face. This was most certainly not an act of love, so I can't help but disdain the male lead (ML).
Since I can't really ship the main couple anymore, I found that I've just been skimming since that scene, potentially missing crucial information for the plot. However, this incident is what most people refer to when they dislike the story, so maybe it'll be better from this point. I won't rate it right now, since I'm still mad, and I'll try to forget the story exists for a bit. I'll come back later, once I forget what Luka did, and pick up where I left off.
My advice? Skip Chapters 16 and 17. They're smutty chapters that redirect you to a different website, so it's easy to do. All you need to know is that the MC told Luka what he'd been trying to solve on his own. Without knowing anything else, you can enjoy them figuring out solutions together and maintain the innocent misunderstanding that Luka may deserve the MC.
Now, what I'm about to say is just a speculation as to why Luca said these sentences:
"Don't do such dangerous things again. When you left for the forest then, you hadn't met me yet, so it couldn't be helped. But from now on, I'll be by your side. That's why you don't have to do everything by yourself. If you try doing such things by yourself again... I'll have to punish you."
And what he meant by this one, "This time I'll definitely----"
Luca is the reincarnation of the Soleil god, and the love story is real but a bit different and more complicated. Zagan is the Moon goddess, and the Dark Organization, probably the leader, is the Evil God? Or maybe the Evil God is the Moon goddess who became corrupted or a part of the Moon goddess that gained consciousness. So when he 'kidnapped' her, he might have just merged with her. When Soleil sealed him, he didn't find her.
So maybe Zagan's past life was his second life, and in his first life, he was the Moon goddess. When he reincarnated, Soleil sensed his presence and reincarnated as Luca. He is two years younger than Zagan, who would have been three when Luca was born. At that age, they couldn't just shave Zagan's head and hide his attributes. And the reason why Luca said not to go there again might be because he is afraid of losing Zagan like he did before.
I don't know. I just had to write this.