I Put Every Point into Charm So I Wouldn't Get Beaten Up

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Arisu Asuka is a casual player in the full-dive game Survival Sim: Red and Black. He loves making friends and is determined to earn the "People's Favorite" achievement.

In January, right in front of a criminal investigator, he asked his newly befriended bomber friend to teach him how to make bombs after getting out of prison, then told an active bomb-disposal officer, "Art is Patrick Star."

In February, he stayed utterly unmoved by the Black Organization's threats and temptations as they tried to recruit him. That is, until the organization's silver-haired executive, the Top Killer, made a move. Asuka rushed over and said, "Hey! Wifey!" Then he took the Top Killer's hand and declared that he accepted the marriage proposal.

In March, he went on a mission to the States with his sniper coworker, who went by the codename Whiskey at the distillery. To thank his coworker for looking after him so thoughtfully on the way, he hacked into the Pentagon over the internet, took control of the lights and microphones, imitated the rhythm game Supreme Piano, and played his coworker the song "Listen to Me Say Thank You."

In the ■th month, he got out of a rare invitation from his boss that morning with the excuse that he was visiting a white-haired, disabled but indomitable religious master. Yet that afternoon, he appeared in the Top Killer's sniper scope, and his silver-haired boss caught him on the spot, secretly meeting a white-haired, spicy teacher from the neighboring Jujutsu world.

We have to ask: Is this sword really something he has to sell?

Can someone like him really avoid getting beaten up, make friends, and become everyone's favorite?

Whatever. Asuka, who put every point into charm, says he has a special way of making friends: getting all cuddly!

At night, the popular NPCs who adventure and flee alongside Asuka in their dreams slowly type out a question mark: ... You call that getting cuddly?

That kind of cuddling will get people killed!

Where are his guardians?!

Someone do something about this little menace!!!

[Reading Guide]

1. Everyone is out of character, the timeline is a mess, and there are countless altered headcanons.

2. The protagonist has the typical mindset of a fourth-dimensional disaster player: a self-centered hedonist, a chaos-loving goofball, and a terminal chuunibyou.

For one reason or another, he spends a long time wearing women's clothes and living as a woman in the game world. Everyone initially takes him for a girl, but his identity is revealed later. Please avoid if that bothers you.

3. The story is entirely fictional. Good kids, don't imitate it.

4. After running out of stories to read, this pigeon had to cook for itself. Please don't offer writing advice.

5. Written as practice and to get my writing back in shape. Updates when inspiration strikes, and it may be abandoned at any time.

◆Content Warning◆

The author is a protagonist fan and a fan of the "everyone's favorite" trope. Since this is about a chaos-loving goofball with the mindset of a fourth-dimensional disaster player, the protagonist cannot possibly be a well-behaved, law-abiding good person in the game world as he sees it.

I've read plenty of protagonists who are beacons of justice and want a change of flavor, so I'm cooking up a "rebellious protagonist" story. Please avoid if you need your protagonists to be moral paragons!!!

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Theme: Life is cruel. It wears down the sharp edges of people who are horny for punishment.