I Only Restarted the Route, So Why Did the Background Character Become a Yandere?

[Two Female Leads] [Girls' Love] [Cyberpunk Female Ghost] [Breaks the Fourth Wall] [90% Utter Devotion + 10% Sugar with a Sting] A streamer on her second playthrough was just about to speedrun her escape when she was cornered in the old hallway by the sickly, overlooked girl with the least presence in the class. "Hinatakou, aren't you going to wait for her under the cherry tree this time?"

In a holographic dating game where everyone had a "minor life skill" and fitting in mattered, Shizuku Sawatari, tucked away by the window, was a nameless background character without even an ability stat. To avoid being flagged as a failed character and deleted by the System, she had no access to the game's admin controls and could only rely on her familiarity with romance story beats to get close to the energetic streamer Hinata Aoi, who had just restarted her second playthrough.

Without an ability to warm something in her palm, she held an iced drink in her hands for half an hour before Hinata came out. Without a miracle that could bring sunshine within half a meter, she walked the long way around with her under a little umbrella in a sudden shower, even though half her own shoulder got soaked.

While everyone else thought romance was just a completion message that popped up when summer ended, the girl in the corner quietly tweaked the daily-life stats, secretly extending the affection cap to 99999. "In this world where anyone can be replaced, my eyes have been fixed on you alone from beginning to end, Hinatakou."