Similar to Tsuyokute new saga. The average soldier Jon (honestly this name is not a good one. Hm.) fights along side with the Hero and his harem/team. His other soldier friends have been struck down long ago, and this final raid into the demon lord's castle has him being gutted like a fish.

Jon goes back in time to the period where he's a completely young baby. He retains the knowledge on sword techniques and usage of magic. I'm not sure if he's elevated to a hero status or better than average cannon fodder ABC.

Hard to say if writing style is better than Tsuyokute new saga, but the digested portion does looks like it offers some very decent backstory to it.

Japan gets invaded by parallel world army forces, unfortunately their technology is at least 2000 years behind and they get pwned hard by JDSF. The protagonist in question is Youji Itami who handled things during the invasion.

Even though he's a slacker and hardcore genius in being lazy (backstory of a drill mission where anyone capturing him will be promised a reward of free time off, said drill gets called off because the mission was too difficult after failing to catch him for an extended period of time.), he is promoted and has been to tasked to lead the counter offense against the enemies.

Satou Kazuma (16 years old) (novice adventurer) meets up with a goddess who tells him he's going off to fight the demon lord, and tells him to pick 1 "cheat", sword or magic or talent.

She also thinks Satou is a useless hack and a superb coward because he pushed a girl away from a truck, causing the girl to get injured when the truck was able to stop in time. Because of how he pushed her, he fell to the ground and subsequently died of shock because he thinks he's going to be become ground meat.

Satou the neet snarks back angrily with some speech after realizing his true cause of death from the goddess, and finally points at the goddess as the "cheat" for rubbing salt on his wounds.

Goddess Aqua (? age) (high priestess) goes ballistic at realizing he picked her as pikachu but is forced to become the cheat and a replacement goddess take her place.


Satou stats in that other world is basically average with above average intelligence and absurdly high luck.

He snarks himself later on as he laments the ridiculously teammates he picked up.

Megumin (age 14) (magician)

A girl who ONLY likes EXPLOSION magic. Satou snarks on her as she claims to be a great magician, realizing that if she's so great she should already be in a party. The fact that she's starving and willing to work for nothing but food proves that nobody wants her. After using said EXPLOSION magic, she has no mana left and is unable to continue (because it even drains her HP as replacement mana).

Dakuteneus (age 18) (tanker)

A closeted unbelievably hardcore M knight who dreams of being whipped and hurt in places by monsters. Satou picks up on her flaws easily because she usually inserts one line of being happy to be violated by monsters. She places all her stat points into defence and none on accuracy, ending up unable to hit the monsters even one time.

Satou nearly gets driven insane by the trio's uselessness. One male member from another team who envies his luck for being "carried" by the trio's high class professions and remarks on it, drives him beyond his breaking point where he drags that male member down and forced him to exchange teams for 1 day.

The other team derided him initially till they realized that Satou is actually a strong leader and realized why the trio nominated him as the leader. That member later begged Satou in tears to let him go back to his team.