Name: Raising an Ordinary Male Protagonist on the Forum
Author: Never Ask Ye Jiu

Synopsis

Ichinose Akira was an utterly unremarkable low-ranking member of the Port Mafia.

After finally saving up enough of his wages to buy a phone of his own, he discovered a forum app on it that he couldn't delete.

According to the posts on the forum, he seemed to be the protagonist of this world.

A human disaster walking among the Port Mafia, a double-sided detective straddling the line between black and red, a dark genius haunted by the death of a friend...

And the forum's readers were eagerly following the latest installment in Ichinose Akira's story.

Staring at his own background-character profile, Ichinose Akira fell into deep thought.

Which parallel world's amazing characters have you been watching?

Because no matter how you looked at it, they didn't seem to belong in this world!

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What Ichinose Akira didn't know was that these so-called [characters from the story] had also installed the so-called forum, just like him.

All they could see were the storylines involving themselves and him.

Even if he was just an ordinary background character, he couldn't escape the fate of becoming the [protagonist].

And the world he lived in wasn't normal, either. People known as [players] had arrived in this world long ago and begun searching for its unstable [factors].

Ichinose Akira, a background-character NPC under the solemn gaze of a bunch of bigwigs, fell silent.

So, does anyone still remember that I'm really just a wage slave scraping by on base pay?!

Don't mistake stories from parallel worlds for reality!! Using them as substitutes is a terrible idea!!

[Reader's Notes]

· The protagonist is a native of this world, with no supernatural abilities. He's Ichinose Honami's older brother from Classroom of the Elite, an office worker who genuinely longs for a peaceful life, although his thought process is a little unusual.

· A crossover with Detective Conan, Ace Attorney, and other works. Some details will be revealed gradually later on.

Theme: When you love this world, it will love you back

Stats

82Chapters

9.3kFavorites

17.7kClicks per chapter

9.0Score

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