You will not be rewarded for living a straight life.
I believe that to be the truth.
I was working as an ordinary businessman in a country called Japan.
I was working for a company of a reasonable scale, and I was paid a reasonable salary.
It was not a black company, but it was a hassle to have an annoying boss who was really a pain in the ass.
At the time, I was fucking serious and had a sense of justice that was futile and pointless.
One day, I accidentally discovered the corruption of my shitty, annoying boss.
He had embezzled tens of millions of yen.
Driven by a sense of justice, I told the accounting department what had happened.
Of course, my intention was to get my boss out of office.
But at the root of it all was a sense of "doing the right thing.
But I didn't know that righteousness was worthless.
I didn't even realize that justice was just something I had to do for my own convenience.
A sense of justice is just a way to justify oneself.
And yet, he pretended to be a good person and to have a sense of justice.
The company was corrupt.
The accounting department and my boss were connected.
And all the embezzlement was treated as if I had done it.
I was forced to quit the company.
I was disciplined and fired.
Because of this, I could not get a new job.
In desperation, I drank a lot of alcohol, and while walking on the road with a limp, I was hit by a truck and killed.
It was a horrible end.
Then I was reborn in another world.
I was reincarnated in a nice place called Bocchan.
I was born as the eldest son of a count family.
In other words, I was guaranteed the highest status as a nobleman.
If I am reborn as an aristocrat, I will no longer be self-centered.
I will stop living a straight life.
I will stop being a good guy.
To hell with fairness.
There is no such thing in this world.
I will live as I please, no matter what anyone says.
I don't care what anyone says about me, as long as everything is good for me.
Not for anyone else.
I will live for myself.
I will live as I please as a villainous aristocrat!
That is what I decided.
"You will not be rewarded for living a straight life."
Maybe it's a dialect thing, but I've never heard or used the word straight like that, feels really weird and clunky. Totally threw me off lol
Never heard "stay on the straight and narrow"?
@MarSprite yes, but like as I said, never as an adjective in that manner. The only time I've really remembered the word used like so is for the sexual alignment meaning.
Could be a dialect thing, just super strange as a American English speaker/reader.
@Rezenith I'm also an American English speaker, born and raised in the USA.
Here's some other examples. "Play it straight with me" "get your facts straight" "set them straight" "go straight"
Might be an age thing. I think people don't use straight as a synonym for moral good and correct as much as they used to, probably because that's not compatible with it's use to denote heterosexuality.
@MarSprite true, terminology has changed a ton with the internet, not to mention the rise of social media platforms furthering that language(s) "drift."
Online, that's the context I see it used in for the most part, though I'm too much involved socially irl lol