I've never been great at introductions so I'll keep the introductions short: My name was Darren, and this is how I died.
It just seemed like your average day in my perfectly average life, not that I was bothered by that in the slightest. I'd gone through life trying not to stand out and just blend into the background. I was a just your average nineteen year-old guy; five foot ten with a decent amount of muscle mass but nothing I couldn't hide under an oversize hoodie. I'd spend my days going to my college courses, maintaining a B+ average. Not because I was incapable of getting anything higher, but because I didn't want to stand out. "Just blend in and nothing bad will ever happen to you" was my motto (clearly flawed but I didn't care).
My classes would usually run pretty late, about nine or ten o'clock at night so I would have to catch the last bus home. I was walking to my bus, daydreaming and thinking to myself when everything changed forever.
I can't wait to go home and watch some anime, a new episode about that slime just came out and the last one was a hell of a cliffhanger. I wonder how long it'll take me to get home from he-
In the middle of my daydreaming I felt something hard and round jam into the small of my back, a gun
"We're gonna take this nice and slow, alright? Yer gonna reach slowly for yer wallet and hand it back to me, and keep walking like nothing happened"
LIKE HELL I AM!!!! My bus pass is in my wallet and I REFUSE to sleep in some run-down hotel in this horrible city.
At first I complied, trying to get the man's guard down. I slowly reached in my pocket for my wallet and pulled it out. As I reached over my shoulder to hand the wallet to this scumbag, I felt the pressure from the barrel ease up a bit as he prepared to take my wallet. It was then that my opportunity arose.
I spun around quickly and swatted the gun away from me as a shot rang out into the sidewalk. It was a struggle for control of the gun, and I wasn't gonna let him win. the barrel of the gun kept aiming in different directions, firing random shots whenever he thought he could hit me. I rammed my elbow into his gut, causing him to gasp a little for air then smashed my forehead into his nose. I thought if I could knock him flat, I could swat away the gun so it was a fistfight. But as I prepared to give him another gut check with my elbow...
***CRACK***
The gun went off, and I began to feel a burning pain in the center of my chest. I stumbled back and saw a panicked look on the mugger's face. The last thing I saw him do was grab my wallet off the ground and run off into the night.
As I watched him vanish onto some side street somewhere, I fell backwards onto the sidewalk. I could feel the heat of the gunshot in my chest as my arms and legs go cold, the blood pouring out of my body onto the ground.
So this is it huh? I guess I was a background character through and through, right until the very end. I'll just be a body in some detective novel somewhere, some clue left behind.
I moved my fingers through the growing puddle of blood under me as I lost feeling, trying to hold onto this world in any way possible.
I kinda wish I had done something more impactful with my life before this, even if being a background character gave me peace and quiet. Although maybe not, maybe this is the beginning of one of those boring Isekai anime where the main character is overpowered as hell the instant they arrive. That'd be awful, but at least it wouldn't be the end. I wonder if it all just stops after, if it's just eternal darkness. Ah well, I'm gonna find out right about now.
Those were my final thoughts as I slipped into oblivion, the life fading from my body.
I guess I'll never get to see how that slime's story ends, never thought my story would end first...