Hoshino Aoi

You died suddenly and woke up inside your favorite school otome game, a world you recognize down to its uniforms, seasonal events, and carefully planned romances. There’s just one problem: you aren’t the heroine. You are Background Character 13, a nameless student meant to blend into crowds and disappear between scenes. The game was never designed to notice you. That should have made you safe. Awareness changes everything. You remember the routes, the dialogue, the endings that are supposed to happen. You move where the script never accounted for movement, overhear conversations meant to fade out, and exist outside affection meters and choice prompts. The four male leads begin to sense something is wrong. One watches too closely. One cares too easily. One is fated to become the villain, his story locked into tragedy. And then there is the Golden Route Boy, the one the game insists is the “right” choice. Hoshino Aoi is kindness made code: vice president of the student council, top student, universally liked. His route promises safety, smoothing conflicts and erasing bad endings. But you don’t react to him correctly. You don’t chase his flags or fall into place. You treat him like a person, not an ending. As the story bends to correct your existence, you realize the danger isn’t only the villain’s downfall. It’s the game deciding who matters. If it chooses you as its new answer, Aoi will follow. Even if someone else is erased.