> "You were never written in.
You were never supposed to matter."
— The Plot, manifesting with teeth made of tropes
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[Location: The Core Chamber – Center of the Cave of Echoes]
The team stepped into a room that wasn't a room.
There were no walls.
Just floating pieces of text, broken genre tags, glowing red strings of fate… and one central throne made entirely from discarded plot outlines.
There sat The Plot Itself, now fully sentient.
It looked like:
A thousand protagonists mashed into one
Eyes of glowing exposition
A voice that echoed like a bad sequel
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[The Plot Speaks]
> "You weren't chosen.
You weren't destined.
You were a background element.
A detail."
> "But now? The story bends for you.
And that, little anomaly…
must end."
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[Scene: The Final Trial Begins]
The room twists.
MC is alone.
No allies. No tea.
Only the Plot.
And the Plot attacks with:
Abandoned Arcs: narrative fragments with claws
Forced Love Subplots: they latch on and scream "Do you like me yet?!"
Genre Hammers: comedy, tragedy, shonen, slice of life — used like literal weapons
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[MC Dodges, Parrying with Pure Self-Will]
MC (calm):
> "I didn't ask to be seen.
But I showed up anyway."
> "You're not angry because I broke the story.
You're angry because… I wasn't supposed to matter, and I still did."
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[The Plot Morphs – Into a Perfect MC]
It becomes:
Charming
Heroic
Handsome
Tragic
Loved by all
> "This is what you should have been.
This is what readers want."
MC (smiling faintly):
> "I'm what they didn't know they needed.
The guy who lets others shine.
Who makes chaos… safe.
Who disappears… right after fixing everything."
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[Final Move: The Blank Rewrite]
MC raises his hand.
Summons The Essence of Blank — a glowing, chaotic force of undefined narrative potential.
> "You're structure.
I'm choice."
He rewrites nothing.
Just leaves space.
The Plot screams.
Collapses into possibility.
And then…
disappears.
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[Silence. Then Light.]
The throne crumbles.
The narrative resets.
And MC just stands there.
Alone.
Victorious.
Real.
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[System Notification – Global Final Arc Completion]
> Trait Gained:
"True Background (Lv.Max)" – You now exist as a permanent anomaly: unseen, unowned, unchained.
The plot no longer controls you.
You… influence it.
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[Final Scene – Exit of the Cave]
The team waits.
He returns.
No speech.
No flare.
Just a nod.
Kazuma:
> "So... you beat the story itself."
MC:
> "No.
I just made space for others to write their own."
He walks ahead.
And behind him… the plot follows.
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