Shift! The Side-Character Heroine Chapter 2

This must be a dream! Zhao Youyue believed. Such events would not happen unless she had fallen asleep. However, upon closing her eyes, a huge mysterious gate appeared right before her. Just like an inspiration, which usually comes out of the blue, her brain was suddenly filled with every piece of information about this gate.

This gate was named "Two Dimensional Gate". Seeming through it, one could shift into the story of a manga, a novel, a game or any other literary works. She would then be allowed to pick one female character and play out her role, whether it be main character, supporting character, or even a side character, as long as the character was given a name in the story. But bear in mind, if one was to play the role of a main character or a supporting character, their personalities and abilities should have been meticulously designed by the author. Therefore, she must carefully put up with the character personalities, where she had no control of modifying the character settings in any way. However, if she opted for shifting into a female side character, she could then amplify the character settings outrageously. Well, it is very unlikely that an author will pay scrupulous attentions to the details of a side character.

Meanwhile, if the character she had played was well known in reality, allowing her to transform into a memorable iconic character, then she could inherit the character abilities in the real world!

The higher the character popularity, the more powerful her inheritance would be, and the longer the inheritance effects could last. If this character was not well recognized, for sure she would not possess the character abilities later on.

Zhao Youyue had been vexed by her absence of the golden finger during daytime. But now, she just could not resist visioning a bright future of her own. Yes, it has to be like this. How could she possibly be just a side character!

She pushed the Two Dimensional Gate open. Soon after she walked in, a brief idea of this world came into her mind that this was the world of "King of Superpower", an webnovel depicting the journey of an Otaku student after acquiring his superpowers. He had then traveled freely to all cities, and caught himself in the midst of a female harem. Besides, he had even stepped into the inner world, battling all kinds of superhumans. Of course, this novel was still under serialization. With an average popularity and almost 2,000 subscribers, it had generated a monthly income of 5,000-6,000 Renminbi (RMB) for the author.

Zhao Youyue had never come across this novel. She immediately selected a female side character named "Zhang Jiajia". It was such a pity, that this girl was once humiliated by the main protagonist during her days as the promoter of a high-class apparel store, solely for staring at an Otaku guy in a disdain manner. Previously, the male protagonist, had won a big sum of money from gambling with his superpowers. He had then abashed Zhang Jiajia by throwing money onto her face. Ever since being humiliated for her arrogance, Zhang Jiajia had never again appeared in the novel...

Zhao Youyue modified the character setting of "Zhang Jiajia" in such a way: Max intelligence, Max perseverance, along with Eidetic Memory. In reality, she was one of the very few who was unremarkable in all aspects. Imagine, if she had inherited the intelligence, perseverance, and eidetic memory of the new Zhang Jiajia, would she still remain as a side character!

At the same time, Zhao Youyue had even equipped Zhang Jiajia with the signature move of "Mikoto Misaka". Imagine that she could fire her "Railgun" attack in real life, how cool is that!

In fact, in the story of "King of Superpower", the male protagonist had not grown too much in terms of his superpower. The novel was still at its metaphase, where the male protagonist had intended to use his superpowers only to show off before the ordinary people, or to humiliate the children of tycoons, politicians...

Without any doubt, these unruly character settings devised by Zhao Youyue, had severely upset the balance of this novel's storyline. Meanwhile, she happened to bump into a man who looked like a little gangster in the story. This man seemed to be harassing a fair lady driving in a sports car. Bang! Unbelievably, she had literally killed the little gangster with her Railgun. In the world of novels, she could kill someone in such a decisive way!

Later on, she discovered that the person she killed was actually... the male protagonist!

Terrible! This is terrible! To think that a dress promoter who once suffered the humiliation of the male protagonist, had literally fought back and even murdered him!

The next day Zhao Youyue woke up, she quickly took out a coin and tossed it. She shouted, "Railgun!" At last… the coin fell on her forehead, nothing had happened.

At the same time, she realized she was yet to obtain any eidetic memory.

"No wonder, that was just a ridiculous dream." She sighed, "How could there be such a golden finger which could access the Two Dimensional Gate..."

During the morning reading class, she suddenly heard Wang Yang who sat in front of her, speaking to his neighbour Jiang Chao, "Holysh*t, I can't believe there's such a goddamn author! Is he trying to fool his readers? To think that I had tipped his novel… Even he himself doesn't feel like continuing the novel, he shouldn't end it in such a bad way."

Wang Yang was a fan of webnovels since his junior high. He retained this interest until high school. He always read novels on his phone whenever he was back to the hostel, secretly.

Jiang Chao was a fan of webcomic instead. Anyway, both Chinese webnovels and mangas were indeed flourishing. After all, Japan was the vassal of China, so their mangas were pretty much alike.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Chao was intrigued.

"I'm following this book, "King of Superpower", not because it is popular or the author's writings is excellent, but he isn't too shabby in writing sex scenes. So, I was reading up to the part, where the male protagonist was flirting a fair lady. Just as I was anticipating how he's gonna subdue her to his harem, suddenly, this girl with electric superpower popped up in the story. She was known to have an unparalleled power. The author had even emphasized that, she was spectacular in all aspects and had possessed an eidetic memory. Right after that, she fired her Railgun at the main protagonist, and killed him! Such a f*cking plot! Isn't it? I had assumed this superpower girl was just another member from his harem…"

Jiang Chao bursted into laughter upon hearing the story, "Who is this author? He is way too talented! Perhaps this is how he avenged the society as his novel was not selling well?"

"Anyway, I will never read anything written by this trashy online author anymore. Who does he think he is? Coming up with such a ludicrous ending... Was he trying to make the readers remember him and his novel in such a brazen way? Nah, they'll be forgotten in a day or two." Wang Yang sneered.

"In these years, the online authors would come up with all sort of "tactics". Well, isn't there one in which the entire world was destroyed by a single meteor. So, this tactic is nothing much, it's but a side character being turned back to kill the male protagonist. Hahaha..." Jiang Chao continued laughing.

Upon hearing the conversation of the two, Zhao Youyue was dumbfounded. She was the true culprit of all of this!

Believing it was merely a dream, and wanting to have a little fun, she had stirred up troubles in the novel without scruple. It had never came in mind that the male protagonist would be killed by that!

She took out her phone and opened Qidian website. She found out that the comments section of this novel was about to explode, as it was overwhelmed with streams of invective from the readers. Oh no, many of them were railing against this author whose pen name was, "I'm the Best".

Chapter end