The Background NPC Is Still Adding Extra Drama Today

Check out my upcoming story, "You're Straight, Right? Can You Stay That Way?" After Igarashi Anori died, she was bound to a manga background NPC scene-stealing system. System: "If you raise a background character's presence to the maximum, you'll get a chance to come back to life. No time like the present!" Anori: "I have to steal the spotlight? That's right up my alley." The first background NPC is from the dark world of Jujutsu Kaisen: a maid in a sorcerer family. Anori: "A hot-blooded manga, huh? Easy. I'll pull out my wish-fulfillment template: a peerless young prodigy, riding high at Jujutsu High, with admirers filling every room. All the Jujutsu High students will be all over each other!" System: "Mm-hmm. Readers love stories that make them feel amazing." Anori: "Then she'll wither in her moment of greatest beauty, fall at her zenith, and die peacefully at dawn for the sake of a new day." System: "?" Anori: "Then she'll become a villain and return in triumph." System: "???" [Eternal Night] The strongest sorcerer looked at the curse before him. She was almost exactly as she had been in life. He smiled faintly and clasped her slender wrist. "Don't be scared. I'm the strongest." He put a finger to his lips. "But we should keep our voices down so that bastard Geto doesn't hear us. Be good." The second background NPC comes from the world of Detective Conan: a cleaner at a research institute. Anori: "Research institute, got it. Let's create a germaphobic mad scientist. Add a little coldness, cruelty, and power, then some tenderness..." System: "Wait, that last part doesn't fit the character at all!" Anori: "It's fine. She can be tender to just one person. Let's give her a twin brother, too. She becomes a mad scientist to cure her brother and doesn't even hesitate to make herself a test subject." System (scratching its head): "Where did the brother come from?" Anori: "I can play both roles. The organization kidnaps the younger sister and turns her into a scientist. The older brother becomes a righteous Public Security officer to find her, unaware that she's already sunk deep into the mire for his sake." [Like Smoke from the Past] During an escort mission, Bourbon finally met the organization's famous mad scientist. Even Gin praised her as seriously unhinged. They said that when she went crazy, even the boss would get a needle stuck in him if he crossed her. The girl lifted her head, and for a moment, her eyes and brows looked strangely familiar. Bourbon recalled finding a wallet dropped by one of his classmates back in police academy. Tucked carefully in a compartment inside was an old photograph. The pale, gaunt young man had once said what he wished for: "I want to take my little sister home." The third background NPC was born in Bungo Stray Dogs: a security guard at the Port Mafia's headquarters. Anori: "I've read enough stories about hot-blooded young people. Let's try some romance for a change... First, max out her beauty, fragility, and sex appeal, then naturally make her the bandage-wearing weirdo's secret lover." System: "Is this an old-fashioned CEO-and-delicate-flower romance? I'm in!" Anori: "No, it's Temptation to Go Home. The bandage-wearing weirdo doesn't know love. I'm madly in love with him, but he leaves me battered and bruised. Then the gentle second male lead, the gravity manipulator, takes advantage of the opening." System: "If she loves him that much, how can she fall for someone else?" Anori: "Heh. Amnesia." [A Bright Future] The woman leaned weakly against the hospital bed. The corners of her eyes were red, and her skin was like snow that never melted. The red-haired boy leaned down and said something to her, making her laugh softly. Her eyes and brows were gentle, and she looked very obedient. The boy at the door lowered his lashes, his thoughts unreadable in his violet eyes. When the girl rescued him from the freezing river in the depths of winter, she had looked at him just like that, soaked through and stubborn. "I will give you all my loyalty, for you, a thousand times over." The System peeked at the forum readers, who had been driven to madness by the angst, then looked at the fully maxed-out presence score. "My Anori is terrifying." Anori: "Ah, did I forget to mention? I'm Igarashi, with ten years of experience writing tearjerkers." [Highlights] 1. Everyone's feelings are one-sided. 2. There are fake deaths. 3. Secret identities appear, but no one discovers them. "You're Straight, Right? Can You Stay That Way?" My name is... Actually, names aren't important to me, because I'm the male lead in an Omegaverse novel. My daily work mainly involves being used in all sorts of ways by all kinds of men. In short, this is a pure Omegaverse story with no plot. Ever since I became self-aware, I've been trying to figure out how to kill my own consciousness. But after I died, I was reborn in an incredibly normal new world. I got a new System and a new identity: Lemon Gin, a senior executive in a transnational black-clad organization. You can call me Lemon. Let's put the organization's business aside for now. The people around me are all straight men! I sling an arm around a blond man with dark skin, and instead of his eyes darkening as he throws me down, he just gives me a shoulder throw. I open the door late at night for a silver-haired man with green eyes, and instead of him being drugged and throwing me down, he points a gun at me and tells me to get out of his house. I make a heartfelt breakfast for the cat-eyed young man, and instead of him devouring it and throwing me down, he just reminds me not to use sugar instead of salt next time. I bring home an injured, bespectacled man with curly hair from the roadside, and instead of him locking me up and throwing me down, he finds the eight bombs under my bed and tells me to run... The most touching of all is Rye. He actually has a girlfriend! Rye... (choking up), you have to be happy! What a normal world this is. I've decided to unilaterally declare them my dearest friends, and I'll give up everything to protect them. Until one day, I gained a superpower: mind reading. Equipped with this power, I happily decided to hear what my friends really thought of me. Blond man with dark skin: [...Yushu is so tempting.] Silver-haired man with green eyes: [I bet he'd sound great when we're doing it.] Cat-eyed young man: [Would Zhihua hate me if he knew how I felt?] Bespectacled man with curly hair: [Want to fuck.] Oh, right, that's right. My name is Zhihua Yushu... Wait, that's not the point! Stay away from me!! Theme: A little angst is good for your health.