I Became a Supporting Character in an N*R Manga

2 – Third year Sakai Matsuda. A senior in the soccer club.

I learned about my role in this cartoon. It’s just one cut. The only scene in which I, who is only a minor character whose name and face do not appear properly, has a conversation with Haruna.

As a reader, I couldn’t even remember that there was such a minor role.

I came to know about it when I ran into a senior male student who came to the classroom before the morning assembly.

He was a character with a lot of weight unlike me.

It is not a supporting role.

A villain, so to speak. The first hitter who came to break the flow of pure love. He was a senior in the 3rd grade soccer team.

“Hello. Can I ask you something for a second?”

He called me and I stood up. I approach him standing in front of the classroom door.

I knew. What will he ask

“Yes. Why?”

“I’m looking for Ms. Kato. Haven’t you come yet?”

“Kato… Oh, is it a day?”

His expression changed briefly. In that moment, I realized the mistake I had made. He was called by name. I am just an unfamiliar male student in the same class who has never had a conversation with Yuuki or even Haruna.

As a reader, I kept calling them by name because I had built up a lot of inner intimacy in my head.

Right now, I don’t know them at all. They are just supporting actors in the same class. Not even friends

“Ah, well, Miss Cato hasn’t come yet.”

Now they call me by their last name and look around.

He tilted his head for a moment, but then took out a note from his bosom and held it out.

“I’m sorry, but could you pass this on to Ms. Kato?”

“Ah… yes.”

There was no option to refuse. Even if it wasn’t for the worldview in the comics, I would have accepted it without hesitation. Even in real life, I was a fat person. If a tall, handsome senior asks for a favor, he has no choice but to stutter.

“Then, please. Oh, can’t you see the contents?”

He left the place with a refreshing smile.

After coming back, I took a quick glance and opened the finely written note.

– I’ll be waiting for you at the back of the campus during lunchtime. 3Rd year Matsuda Sakai –

Is this all?

I looked back and forth, but that was all.

Anyway, it was my role in the manga to deliver this note to Haruna. That’s what a supporting role is.

Yesterday, after watching Haruna enter the house, I thought about what to do. I wondered if I couldn’t go anywhere like this and had to go round and round on the way home from school, but the housing problem was surprisingly easily solved.

I entered the house right next to Haruna.

Yuki and Haruna have been good next-door neighbors who have lived in that neighborhood for a long time.

They say hello to the lady they run into on their way to school.

It was the old lady’s house. Right next to Haruna.

Then how did you solve the problem with the lady you are seeing for the first time?

I became the son of that family.

It was put together with such a setting.

She wondered just in case, but she naturally called me mother, so the lady she hadn’t seen before treated me as her son. I thought I was crazy too, but it turned out to be a surprise.

Should I say that I dug into the sloppy setting of the cartoon, an empty place?

So, having roughly settled on food, clothing and shelter, I came to the academy along the way I had walked yesterday.

I still couldn’t take the risk of leaving early without notice or falling into another path on the way home from school. Because I don’t know what kind of world this is.

If I went out badly, I could never come back. Real life or school.

First of all, I decided that the first priority was to understand the rules of this world without falling too far from the main characters.

Therefore, the problem was this note.

It’s a classic technique indeed.

Don’t you have a cell phone? Or ask a friend to ask.

I wondered why he wrote the note, but it’s a cartoon story anyway.

There was a possibility that the comics I read were a bit old. Or maybe the author thought it through.

The latter was highly likely, but for now, I decided to refrain from taking irregular actions such as tearing up notes or not delivering them.

Not GTA. It can get really weird if you just act out of your own way with a game sense.

“Yuu-kun~! Are you listening to me?”

“I am. It’s noisy, Haruna-chan.”

At that time, I saw two people entering the classroom riotously. I am also a living, breathing human being and a character in this cartoon, but when the two entered the classroom, I felt something different. The feeling of adding color to an achromatic world. The atmosphere in the dark classroom brightens.

I don’t know if that’s just my mood, or if all the characters except for the main character in this cartoon are nothing more than colorless jokes.

“Why can’t I go~! Did you promise?”

“So I told you! Something more important has happened!”

“Is that friend more important than me?”

It’s noisy since morning.

As a person with low blood pressure, my bones ring at the sound of their chatter.

But now was the time for me to step out.

Yuki canceled an appointment to play with Haruna after school on the pretext that something important had happened. So, it’s a date. It was supposed to be a date for just the two of them, but Yuuki doesn’t think it’s too important and cancels it lightly.

Because he was a childhood friend I had known for a very long time, I believed that he would understand.

Yuki goes to buy a new game with her close male classmate.

It was really funny.

“A day…… No Miss Kato.”

My role is to intervene between the two at that time.

Not really something to be proud of.

Just a telegram. My role was to the extent that passing sparrows, mice, and puppies did not cause any problems.

“Huh?”

Two people sitting and bickering looked at me.

Haruna blinks her eyes. Yuuki was blankly looking at him with his mouth open.

He seemed confused by my sudden intrusion.

I don’t really need to. I’m just a passing bit I am a student in the same class. I thought you would take it for granted.

The two stood still, unable to process what they were supposed to do, like a failing computer.

“Ah… me… Minsu.”

At that time, the introduction I said while pointing to myself was spectacle.

What are you going to do with your real name?

I couldn’t think of a plausible Japanese name, so I was introducing my real name engraved on my ID card.

“Ah~ Minsu…… Army?”

I wish I could get rid of you.

Anyway, mistakes are overlooked. I quickly nodded and handed over the note.

“My senior in 3rd grade asked me to hand this over this morning.”

“To me?”

“Yes. Day…… To Miss Cato.”

I bit my lip, sweating profusely. A series of mistakes.

Haruna receives a note from me.

I hurried back to my seat and sat down.

You should say Yamada!

At least Hideyoshi Toyotomi. Haruki Murakami. Takuya Kimura was good too!

It was the moment when the otaku life of ten years became meaningless.

I can’t think of a proper Japanese name.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. I looked up and saw the two of them, looking at the open note.

“3Rd grade… Senior Sakai? The soccer club?”

Yuki asked without thinking.

Haruna nodded her head in bewilderment.

“Yes. What happened?”

“Because I told you to come to a quiet place with no one around… Aren’t you going to confess to Haruna-chan?!”

“Ehh~ That’s a bit….”

“Accept me~! Isn’t Sakai-senpai popular?”

Yuki laughed while saying something he didn’t mean to say.

You can clearly see that he is anxious inside.

No, can I know because I am a reader?

Yuuki was worried inside, but it was Haruna-chan, her old childhood friend. Because Haruna has me. I had such a dubious mind.

“It’s difficult…… Something like this.”

Haruna laughed bitterly at her and Yuuki made fun of her like that.

The existence of ‘Minsu’ must have been erased from their minds.

I hoped so.

Because I didn’t want to do anything out of the ordinary before I fully knew about this world.

Like that, it was lunch time.

Yuki thought that everyday life like yesterday would last forever, but today was different. Haruna handed over her bento and said.

“Then I’ll come back.”

“It would be nice to have a handsome boyfriend. One day.”

“Really~　Don’t do that!”

Haruna gets angry at Yuuki, who laughs and jokes until the end while feeling scared inside.

What should I do here?

I wanted to eat lunch. But I can’t go to the restaurant. Even if you stay in the classroom, you’ll just be hungry. Without being able to get any information about Yuuki or Haruna.

In that case, let’s increase one more place we can go.

This is the true sense of the game.

I followed Haruna.

Leave the main building and go to the back of the campus.

It was at the back of the dark main building where the sun did not shine.

There Sakai, a 3rd year student, was waiting for Haruna.

“Hello Miss Kato. I’m sorry for calling you all of a sudden.”

“No, it’s okay… By the way, what happened?”

It’s obvious. It’s a confession.

Just as Yuuki expected.

Sakai cleared her mouth that she had been looking at you for a long time and she asked Haruna to be her girlfriend.

Then it was rejected.

The reason for the rejection is because there is a guy I like.

However, Sakai does not give in and continues to ask Haruna.

In that case, ask me to meet with you at least once.

I will give up this feeling if you give me a date just once.

Haruna, who is weak in pushing, reluctantly accepted the request.

She already knew that it would happen.

Nevertheless, her hands trembled as she faced the scene once again.

As a reader, my heart was pounding when I read through the monitor, but when I faced it one more time, my anger flared up.

Who is that anger directed at? The author of such a complacent story? Or is Haruna nodding her head because she pushes forward unconditionally even though there is a guy she likes?

Or is it just the situation itself?

He secretly watched it from behind and clenched his fists.

Shall we go out and stop?

Am I just a supporting character, not a main character? For what reason?

I am angry, but I have no reason to act. If I intervene now, I’m just a troll spoiling the story.

I had no idea how the world would change if the story was ruined and the characters behaved differently from the set play.

“Then… after school. I’ll wait in front of the school gate.”

With that said, Sakai leaves first.

“After school….”

Actually, she was supposed to go out alone with Yuuki, but it was canceled abruptly. Haruna recalls it and feels confusion in her heart.

Yes, it’s an expansion.

Now, the play moves into a crisis.

As I secretly hid and watched it, I knew it.

Haruna is attacked by her senpai today.