The Scumbag's Guide To Heroism

Chapter 2 | A 50% Reduction is a Declaration of War

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Chapter 3 | A 1% Increase in Temptation is Not Worth a 94% Chance of Consequences

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Chapter 4 | Sometimes The Best Lie is a Truth You’ve Decided to Weaponize

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Chapter 5 | Pressure is The Intended Design

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Chapter 6 | Radiant is a God, and I Am an Insect With a Gacha System

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Chapter 7 | Stop Trying to Win Fair Fights

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Chapter 8 | Lesson One: You’re Slower Than You Think

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Chapter 9 | Moral Considerations Are Secondary to Survival

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Chapter 10 | A Good Boy Makes Breakfast, and The Temptation Gauge Approves

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Chapter 11 | Starting Tonight, You Get The Kind of Training That Makes People Quit

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Chapter 12 | He’s Too Stubborn to Stay Down, and I’m Too Flustered to Stand Up

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Chapter 13 | I Traded My Dignity for Gacha Tickets, and I’d Do It Again

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Chapter 14 | Morality is a Luxury, But Stat Points Are an Investment

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Chapter 15 | My Plan to Climb Mount Everest in Flip-Flops

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Chapter 16 | Now We’re Even, and The System Agrees

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Chapter 17 | A Week of Getting My Ass Kicked and All I Got Was This Lousy Stat Increase

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Chapter 18 | Fool Me Once, Shame on the Scumbag System

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Chapter 19 | Phantom Touch is The Name of My Fake Superpower

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Chapter 20 | I’m Not The Same Lukas, and She’s Starting to Notice

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Chapter 21 | An Aspect Born from a Gacha Pull

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Chapter 22 | Dominance, Submission, and a Bowl of Popcorn

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Chapter 23 | Put Your Head on My Shoulder

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Chapter 24 | A Lie That Floats

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Chapter 25 | The Fitzgerald Foundation

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Chapter 26 | Blitz and a Bitter Aftertaste

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Chapter 27 | Some Lines Can’t Be Uncrossed

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Chapter 28 | Nine Years and a Text Message

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Chapter 29 | A Revision to the Plan

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Chapter 30 | Bold Moves and Blurred Frames

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Chapter 31 | Antiseptic Mint and Other Foreplay

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Chapter 32 | Blindfolded Dexterity

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Chapter 33 | Damage Control

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Chapter 34 | Trust Is a New Metric

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Chapter 35 | Dr. Weber Will See You Now

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Chapter 36 | From Unmarked to Force Manipulation

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Chapter 37 | The Faceless Veil

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Chapter 38 | The Devoted Threshold

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Chapter 39 | Touch Under Cover

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Chapter 40 | Optional Quest, Impossible Choice

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Chapter 41 | Sustained Contact Under Mismatched Pretenses

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Chapter 42 | Optimal Proximity, Suboptimal Choices

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Chapter 43 | From One Fire to the Next

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Chapter 44 | The Interruption and the Interrogation

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Chapter 45 | The Indecent Hypothesis

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Chapter 46 | There Is No Going Back

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Chapter 47 | Precedent Established

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Chapter 48 | No Safe Word

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Chapter 49 | A Transaction with Benefits

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Chapter 50 | The CEO of the Morning After

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