A Guide to Getting Close with Literary Giants' Secret Identities

[The new content starts from Chapter 9, so remember to check it out, loves!]

Roleplay is a casual full-dive game released by YHD. It became hugely popular as soon as it launched.

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Since the game's main purpose is to help people pass the time, its winning condition is especially simple:

Players just need to control a character who looks like an NPC and earn that NPC's 100% approval.

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And yet, despite being so simple, the game has defeated countless expert players.

Here's what happened ↓

An online forum:

Post 2008: Looks like nobody made it out alive today either.

Post 2009: You just can't guess what the Bandage Freak is thinking~ No, you can't~

This guy was saying he trusted me one second, then killed me the next.

Post 2010: To the poster above, my green-eyed kitty called me a liar the moment we met.

Post 2011: Thanks for asking. I just got kicked away by the Hat Rack.

Post 2012: Keep smiling and carry on.JPG

Perhaps because one person's joy and sorrow can never truly be shared by another, Harumi Onju didn't understand the other players' wails.

The game was obviously easy, and you could play multiple secret identities on different routes at the same time.

For some reason, though, his secret identities always had something wrong with them.

For example:

The gentle and dependable [Edogawa Ranpo], who had lost his voice

The lively and cheerful [Nakahara Chuuya], whose world was all gray

The languid and listless [Dazai Osamu], who had suffered from insomnia for years

The refined and scholarly [Akutagawa Ryuunosuke], who walked with a cane

But today, too, he successfully earned their approval and got to spend time with everyone.

Harumi Onju: Overjoyed.JPG

[Voiceless Spring Breeze]

The greatest joy in the world is quietly sketching a flower as it blooms in the spring breeze.

[Moon Without Sleep]

The moon stays awake to keep company with lonely children in the dark.

[Orange Rose]

In a hazy gray world, only one orange rose blooms with passion.

[Incomplete Signpost]

As long as I exist, even if I am incomplete, I will guide lost children along the way.

[The physical problems with the secret identities aren't there to make things tragic. They're foreshadowing.]

1. The secret identities may not appear in the order listed.

2. This is an everyday-life story, very much everyday life.

3. The timeline is chaotic, there are lots of personal interpretations, and it makes no sense.

4. OOC is unavoidable. All glory belongs to the original work.

5. Updates are irregular, with chapters dropping at random.

Theme: You were born to shine.