There’s a legendary Bishoujo Game that has become popular among Japanese gentlemen.
Its name is “ Magical★Explorer” or Magiero for short.
The game’s protagonist has a cheat-like power with12 different beautiful heroines to flirt with, including additional 12 heroines from the DLC, a harem of 24 beauties. I have become that protagonist!………………Not. Instead, I have become the third-wheel character who always laughing like an idiot next to him.
Of course I was in despair at first.
Of course. If I am the protagonist I could have all 24 heroines for myself along with unparalleled cheat power. However, since I am the third-wheel there’s no heroine that would lay their eyes on me.
But now I couldn’t care less about the protagonist and his heroines. Why? Because I discovered magic. While I was using it, I have become interested in it. I want to master it. I want to become the strongest. Thus I have decided.
I would abandon half my role as a protagonist’s friend to train my magic and then I would beat the hell out of that cheat who can solo the Demon King.
………..I was training with that thought in mind, but somehow I keep getting closer to the heroines and furthermore, I don’t know why I keep encounter events like I am some Eroge’s protagonist.
The page contains the following tropes:
- Cloth Fu: Takioto's primary means of fighting is an absurdly long scarf made of magical material. He manipulates it with his mana to attack and defend. He refers to the ends of the scarf and Third Hand and Fourth Hand.
- Hidden Depths: Quite a good number of the cast are this.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: One Takioto's main goals, besides researching magic. He is always saving his favorite heroines from negative events, and helping them gets stronger. He states (mentally) that his plan is to get all of them their best ending.
- Takioto's game counterpart, as he himself notes based on what his aunt told him. Behind his perverted personality that earns the ire of many of the heroines is a boy who lost both of his parents in an accident while talking to them on a phone, which apparently caused him to develop a phobia from ever using phones.
- Yuika, the game MC's step-sister and one of the possible heroines of the game, is a highly observant and calculating girl behind her little sister act. She was noted to treat game!Takioto better than the other heroines and actively defends him from their outbursts. It's subtly implied that she likely noticed game!Takioto's facade.
- For Want Of A Nail: Takioto's actions diverging from his game self caused him to be more liked by the cast.
- Harem Seeker: Subverted initially. While initially disappointed at becoming Takioto instead, he starts to take interest in magic instead. He does get one unintentionally as the heroines are getting closer to him due to him being more likeable than game!Takioto.
- Superpower Disability: Takioto has so much mana it surprises the principal of the magical school he attends (who is herself a legendary witch). But he has no talent for any element and a specific inability to control his magic at long range. As a result he cannot use most attack spells and the ones he can cast are weak. His main power is personal enhancement and controlling his magic scarf.
- Supporting Protagonist: The MC is this rather than the main hero.
