If you were destined to be an extra no one remembers in a story, would you accept that? Lin Xiaoxing’s answer was to tear up the script and become the sole salvation for every tragic supporting character.
A top-tier adventurer who sacrificed herself in her previous life wakes up as a pink-haired girl, an anonymous passerby traveling through countless anime worlds. Bound to the “Museum of Regrets,” she can see the bloody endings of supporting characters abandoned by fate. So while everyone else chases the chosen one, she stays behind the scenes, determined to change the fated deaths of those characters:
In Highschool of the Dead, she snatches a gentle upperclassman’s shattered future back from beneath the wheels;
In Fairy Tail, she breaks into a prison and asks a lost soul what true redemption means;
On the battlefield of Fate/Zero, she delivers one final confession to a Heroic Spirit destined to vanish;
Within the walls of Attack on Titan, she lets a leader rest in peace, carrying the truth and hope with him;
In the shadows of Naruto, she acts early to change the course of Root and lights a beacon home for those who have lost their way;
On the chessboard of rebellion, she allies with a doomed girl and performs a deception meant to fool the world.
But every time she intervenes, she draws the attention of the cold-blooded hunters who maintain the “plot”: the Plot Management Bureau. They see her as a virus that must be eliminated. Faced with the predetermined fate of countless worlds and a hunt that spans time and space, Lin Xiaoxing takes up her pen of “observation” and declares to the myriad worlds:
“I am the variable. I am the one who breaks the deadlock. I’ll give every one of you the ending you’ve been aching for!”
