> "We created the rules.
He drank tea on them."
— Editorial AI #3, final words before self-deactivation
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[Location: Narrative Headquarters – Continuity Division]
Deep beyond the fourth wall sat the Multiversal Editorial Board, an ancient panel of cosmic bureaucrats tasked with maintaining order, plot progression, and keeping background characters in the background.
They'd survived:
Three reality reboots
Six canon mergers
And the Great Retcon of '92
But today… they faced him.
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[Scene: Emergency Boardroom Briefing]
Editor #1 (panicking):
> "He doesn't follow arcs!"
Editor #2:
> "He has no origin, no power scaling, no romance flag!
Yet somehow everyone is obsessed with him!"
Editor #3 (shaking):
> "He once derailed a love triangle by rearranging a seating chart…"
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[Scene: Attempted Deletion Protocol]
They targeted MC with:
A continuity nuke
A meta-rubber eraser
And an anti-protagonist ink bomb labeled "Plot Correction Tool: Extreme"
They fired.
MC, sitting in Kuoh Academy with his usual calm, gently set down his tea.
The missile of narrative hit him.
And turned into a gentle breeze.
MC (calmly):
> "You can't delete what hasn't been written."
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[Scene: Emergency Editorial Meeting #2]
Editor #1:
> "How is he resisting genre correction?!"
Editor #3:
> "He's not even a trope anymore!
He transcended tropehood!"
Editor #2 (pointing to monitor):
> "Look! He's talking to a vending machine… and it's responding in foreshadowing!"
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[Meanwhile: Kuoh – Student Body Reaction]
Rias (reading cosmic bulletin):
> "He's been marked as a narrative anomaly of Class-∞."
Sona:
> "He's now immune to retcons, time loops, and canon relationships."
Akeno:
> "...I'm not sure if I want to kiss him or rewrite the genre for him."
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[Scene: The Editorial Board's Final Attempt]
They sent down the ultimate eraser:
> "The Rewrite Pen"
An artifact that deletes anything from the multiverse if you cross out its name.
They dropped it directly into MC's locker.
He opened it.
Pulled out the pen.
Paused.
MC:
> "Cute."
Then he used it to edit the ink off a detention slip.
The pen crumbled in shame.
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[System Notification]
> Trait Gained:
"Editorial Immunity (Lv.1)" – You now passively resist plot restructuring, backstory insertions, and divine retcons.
Also, editors now refer to you only as 'The Blank.'"
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[Final Scene – Editorial Aftermath]
Editor #1 (resigned):
> "He's no longer part of the plot.
He is the plot."
Editor #2:
> "What do we do now?"
Editor #3:
> "We wait.
And we pray he doesn't discover the Rewrite Pen's real function."
MC (off-screen, sipping):
> "I already did."
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End of Chapter 55: You Can't Edit the Blank