The Protagonist Squad and Dungeon Bosses Are All My Darling Sons [Infinite]

[Upcoming novel: She's Really Just an Ordinary NPC. The blurb is at the very bottom~]

"The 'Am I Dead Yet?' newbie package comes with a special perk: Please accept your Mom Buff~"

"W-Who's mom?"

"Why, the mom of the protagonist team and the Boss, of course~"

Lin Shu stared blankly at the protagonist team, each radiating an aura that could fill a room, then looked at the instance Boss, who could knock her flying with one punch. She quietly clutched her newbie secret identity tighter.

If the protagonist team and the Boss found out that their suffering had all been written by her, their author, do you think they'd tear her apart?

But things didn't seem to be going quite the way she'd expected...

When an author transmigrates into a horror game's opening victim, the identities of hunter and prey are reversed.

What should you do when the instance NPCs target you?

Lin Shu pointed at the Boss behind them and said innocently, "Sorry, that's my son."

The Boss, who'd come just to watch the fun, froze mid-smile. Wait, am I crazy? Why would I call her Mom?

What should you do when players covet your item cards and surround you to hunt you down?

Lin Shu looked at the protagonist team as they fought their way through the crowd and encouraged them. "Good job, kids!"

The protagonist team, who had just happened to pass by, was full of questions. Wait, am I crazy? Why am I taking a hit for her?

A werewolf with a strange presence in an ancient castle, a traveler hacked into mincemeat in a mountain village who came back from the dead, the unending midnight cries rising from the piles of bones in an abandoned infant tower...

Some had been cruelly abused in life. Even after death, they suffered injustice and could not rest in peace.

Lin Shu gradually realized how important a mother could be to these wronged spirits, struggling to survive in the instances.

"Be a good kid and call me Mom. I'll help you. Really, I'm not lying."

[Bonus Scene]

Question: "Who's Dad?"

Lin Shu: "...Ahem... Let's discuss that later!"

Someone: "...?"

Lin Shu looked up at the sky. Child, you should call me Mom.

[A friendship-focused ensemble story, with a sweet, lighthearted tone. Starting with the second instance, the author's notes will include bonus scenes that don't follow the main story's relationship progress~]

Reader's Guide:

1. The heroine is an author who transmigrates into a book. She knows the contents of only the first instance.

2. Early on, the heroine views the characters from an author's perspective and is rather detached.

3. The male lead is easygoing and carefree, loves a good time, and gets plenty of scenes.

5. The protagonist team starts out as strangers and gradually learns to work together. Their bonds will develop slowly, so friction at the start is normal.

6. None of the protagonist team are good people.

7. Updated daily, usually between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. If anything comes up, a notice will be posted.

*******Upcoming novel: She's Really Just an Ordinary NPC. Blurb

He Yin, who ranked first on the top-player leaderboard, died. After death, she lost all her memories and was assigned to the personnel allocation department of the Netherworld Company, becoming a low-level NPC who played bit parts in various instances.

At the company, her superior inexplicably docked her pay, and her coworkers secretly stabbed her in the back. In the instances, the Boss took a dislike to her and tripped her up behind the scenes, while players hunting ghosts tried to stab her in the lungs.

He Yin: "...?"

Fine, so that's how you want to play.

*

At first, no one at the Netherworld Company took her seriously. How much trouble could a newly dead ghost, who looked weak and frail, possibly cause?

But then, strange things began happening at the company...

An experienced employee in the Allocation Department's Rotation Group, responsible for training newcomers, suddenly died a gruesome death, his soul completely destroyed.

A member of the Management Department investigating the matter asked He Yin, the only witness, in disbelief, "You're sure he was already a pile of rotting chunks when he came through the door?"

She answered firmly, "Yes. I saw it with my own eyes. I'm sure."

In a high-level instance with the highest player fear threshold, a terrifying-looking Boss carefully prepared his entrance effects.

A group of top players: Unimpressed.jpg

He Yin, brought in as a temp worker because they were short-staffed, made a plain entrance in her tracksuit.

A group of top players: Not sure. Let's wait and see.

Once they got a good look at her, the chosen ones fled in panic, and a chorus of horrified cries broke out: "Holy crap, it's really her!" "What the hell are you standing around for? Run!" "Wasn't that woman dead?" "Oh my God, if she's here, we're screwed!"

The ignored Boss looked confused and aggrieved. "What did you do to them?"

She replied innocently, "I don't know."

The head of the Allocation Department, who was escorting useless ghosts to an unexplored instance, mysteriously disappeared. The instance fell into chaos, and wild ghosts escaped on a massive scale.

He Yin, who had been sent there for punishment and should have had her soul destroyed, took over the department head's position instead.

Management demanded in despair, "What on earth did you do this time?"

She said firmly, "The department head wanted to pass the position on to me."

She was connected to every one of these strange incidents, yet the company couldn't catch her doing anything wrong. Every time, she was innocent.

Everyone in the Netherworld: "...???"

So much for a newly dead ghost. So much for a pretty face with no substance. What kind of pretty face gets promoted twice in six months and dares to challenge the person in power? Is she seriously using cheats or what?!

A certain Boss who had dealt with He Yin when she was alive lit a cigarette with a world-weary expression. "Do you really think you can afford to mess with her...?"

Later, they saw He Yin again at the succession ceremony for the Netherworld's new leader. In just one year, that low-level nobody who'd been targeted and bullied had become a legend on a par with the company's founder.

[Bonus Scene]

"I heard the company's founder is a dragon."

"Hm?"

"Dragons have two, and so do you."

"..."

"You wouldn't happen to be hiding something from me, would you?"

"..."

Theme: Redress the wrongs of the dead