César's Past Life
An Error Born in a Normal World
César came from Earth.
A completely normal world.
He wasn't special.
He wasn't a genius, a prodigy, or a chosen one.
He was an average otaku.
He worked just enough to survive, spent what little he had left on manga, light novels, and games, and had a particular fondness for a very specific genre:
reincarnation novels.
One day, he read a peculiar story.
A novel about a man who read a novel…
who then reincarnated inside it as an Extra…
who later died…
and finally reincarnated again as the villain.
César finished the last chapter with a tired grimace.
—What an absurd mess… —he thought.
He closed the book, left his apartment, and headed to the convenience store on the corner.
He never arrived.
An out-of-control car ran him over before he could react.
There were no last words.
No heroic regrets.
Only darkness.
The Encounter
When he opened his eyes again, he wasn't in a hospital.
Nor in hell or heaven.
He was standing before someone who introduced himself with a smile far too relaxed for the situation.
Rob.
He didn't call himself a god.
Nor a judge.
Nor a creator.
He simply said he was someone with power… and boredom.
Rob offered him a simple deal:
Reincarnate into the novel he had just read.
Keep his memories.
Receive a "small push" to survive.
The trick was called Hypnosis.
Nothing excessive.
Nothing visible.
Just a slight mental advantage.
César accepted.
Who wouldn't?
The Error
The problem was that Rob didn't lie—but he didn't explain everything either.
César didn't reincarnate as a hero.
Nor as a human.
Nor even as an important character.
He reincarnated as a goblin.
One of the weakest, most despised, and most expendable races in the world.
And not only that:
👉 He reincarnated many years before the original plot even began.
Too early.
Too far from the "protagonist."
Too irrelevant for destiny to protect him.
Or so it seemed.
César's Final Thought
(the moment he became aware of his new body)
"Out of all the possible clichés…
it had to be the only one where I'm not even part of the story."
Without knowing it, that was the exact moment when the true error was born.
Not a hero.
Not a villain.
But someone who knew the story…
and had more than enough time to break it from the very root.