Am I Really Just an NPC?

An unremarkable life is a free life. That’s why at Baiying Academy—a prestigious school for the elite, home to the campus heartthrob—Izumi Akira is content to fade into the background as an invisible NPC. Every day, he eats lunch on the rooftop with his best friend (who happens to be a girl), Tohru, plays games, and deliberately turns a blind eye to the dazzling romances unfolding around the school's most famous figures. But one day, everything changes. The aristocratic heiress, the mixed-race senior, the innocent school beauty—all the heroines of those glittering campus tales—begin closing in on him, calling him their light. What they don't know is that he was always standing in the abyss, and it was Tohru who pulled him out. He thought he was just a passerby. But from the very beginning, his life was never an NPC's script.