I'm a Manga Extra, Oblivious to My Own Badass Aura

The magician Mo Xi died, then opened his eyes to find himself inside a comic, filling an empty spot as a troublesome, repeat-year senior who's doomed to be cannon fodder.

As the gloomy foil to the sunny protagonist, he's already infamous on the forums before he even appears.

System: "It's your fate as a gloomy loser to be eliminated by a comic protagonist warmed by sunshine. Want to survive? Show what you can do and make it to the end of the comic."

So...

When Mo Xi, whose nasty personality runs right down to his bones, appears in the comic, he lowers the brim of his hat and mercilessly stomps the little sunshine into the ground after the protagonist suffers a setback.

Playing cards whirl through the air, sunlight spills down behind him, and his eyes glitter like rubies in his handsome, arrogant face.

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The comic Superpower Outbreak begins a new volume, featuring a character everyone hates. He hasn't even appeared yet, but his past misdeeds have already earned him a flood of curses.

His younger siblings look disgusted whenever he's mentioned. He has the worst temper in the series and is a textbook loser: powerless and ridiculously conceited.

The readers can't wait to see him get thoroughly face-slapped and for his younger siblings to get justice.

Until Mo Xi appears...

He has the most handsome face in the series, a magician's power that dazzles the eye, and the comic's signature show-off effects everywhere he goes. Even when he stomps their little sunshine into the ground, the scene comes with a gorgeous full-color spread from multiple perspectives.

How... infuriating!

"He's so awful. How could he step on you like that? Damn it, why did they draw such a low-level villain so handsome?!"

"Are we sure he's just a low-level face-slapping punching bag? He appeared for a total of three pages, and he got more special effects than Yangyang did in the entire first volume..."

"Poor Yangyang. You need to take a good look at yourself!"

But as the comic progresses, the readers discover something.

Mo Xi is arrogant and conceited, loves talking nonsense, and constantly goes on about the dawn. He's nicknamed the Dawn Cult Leader, yet countless people really do follow him with devoted faith.

He constantly opposes the protagonists, and curses about him have filled the forum page after page. Yet at the most critical moments, he repeatedly steps in to help them.

In the final battle after the rebellion, he chuckles and says, "I've never been anyone's hope. I hate the sun most of all." Later, as the flame of his life is about to sink into eternal darkness, the forums fill with wails.

Mo Xi: I keep saying embarrassing, cringey stuff. The readers must think I'm lame, low-class, and unforgettable. Once I wrap up and retire, I'll definitely get a quiet position...

Comic: Great, the show-off effects can finally come in handy! Add them all!

Readers: Buy all the merch! Long live the Cult Leader!

Everyone else in the comic: With Mo Xi around, everything will be all right!

Mo Xi: ...? What? What are you drawing?!

#About how I kept interfering with the plot and demanding more presence in the comic, only for the comic to expose all my plans and turn me into the protagonists' support, the big shot behind the scenes, and a walking show-off.#

#The System offered me two endings, protagonist or antagonist, and I got an ending that was both.#

Theme: Do good without worrying about what comes next, and a better ending will follow