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[nishicchikouchi]

I was watching a video theory about the twins, (Aether and Lumine) and when it got to a reference of them being a morning star or lucifer and overall their existence just being referred to as a star, I was reminded of Euishin, and this made me think of a crossover between them especially since Euishin has younger siblings WHO ARE TWINS, AND A BOY AND A GIRL.

I will definitely post what I'm writing but not yet since I'm gonna wait for more traveler lore keke

#these two (genshin and ex-rank) had been my hyperfixations this past year and I decided to write something for it #i definitely want to wait a bit more of traveler lore and Euishin background before I post this so I can edit it tho

[nishicchikouchi]

It has occured to me that it is time that I made this, so here it is.

Do you like fantasy in modern setting? Do you like an OP protagonist that moves behind the scenes? A protagonist who's one of the biggest unreliable narrator I have seen? A protagonist who like to sacrifice themselves? Do you like found family? Do you like a great world building? Then this novel is for you!

Introducing, 명문고 EX급 조연의 리플레이 or EX-Rank Supporting Role's Replay in a Prestigious Highschool

Description:

After clearing the final chapter of the national game, I became a nameless supporting character in the game. An EX-level supporting role that can not be measured outside of the standard and is of an unknown level.

FIRSTLY, the MC, Jo Euishin!

Since I also read the mtl of this novel, his name is also translated as Cho Euishin, God of Condolences, God of Joy, etc. Lol its pretty funny cuz his name gets translated to various names, but if one were to follow the official korean romanization, the accurate translation would be Jo Uisin.

This guy, to descibe in a sentence, another self-sacrificing and a dash of in-denial kind of character. He won't hesitate to get hurt if it means that he can protect the people precious to him, but at the same time, he tries to distance himself to people who wants or is too close to them. Like come on, this guys' sole hoobae who treats him like an older brother, he can only treat as a hoobae not as a younger brother.

Even having that kind of attitude, Jo Euishin was able to form a lot of close connections in the novel, and those connections make me scream, I love them a lot!

Jo Euishin, despite having no self-awareness to relationships connected to himself, is pretty aware of connections and has a deep understanding of human behaviour of those around him, so he gives good advice.

Overall, Jo Euishin is a character who cares for others deeply but doesn't care about his well-being as much as he loves the people he cares about.

The Plot

So, as the summary indicated, our protagonist, Jo Euishin, played a game called Player Meister Highschool, PMH for short, and he got transmigrated in another world. After finishing the final chapter of the game while he's on the verge of dying, he hears that he's a suitable candidate and became the supporting role character controlled in the game. But PMH absolutely sucked because every playable character died, having a bad ending, and the final chapter contained a very hopeless ending.

After he gets transmigrated to another world, right of the bat, he was translated into the prologue setting where, four applicants (he's one of them), and the supervisor gets killed by a rampaging enemy.

After he gets through that hurdle, he comes to an understanding that he didn't transmigrate into the game world, but actually, in another world where everything is real, and swore to move to make his playable characters and the world to have a happy ending.

The plot revolves around the the MC's life, while being enrolled in Eungwang High, the main setting of the story. He meets the game's female lead and male lead there (which he sincerely hopes get together), the playable characters, and the npc's that appeared in the game.

PMH had a lot of plot holes when Euishin played it, but as he lives in the world he's currently at and solves the main problems that occured in the game, he discovers that there's more to everything and there's a ton of stuff hidden and the questions Euishin had to the mysterious stuff that happened in the game got answered one by one.

The story progress is a bit slow, but I assure you that everything is written the way they are for a reason. Even if the story is slow, the arc progression when it happens is a bit fast cause the battle itself was short. One of the arc's that happened spanned at least a hundred chapters before it closed, containing the preparations and various battles, but when everything happened, it lasted only for 5 hours in that world. So, it is slow and fast.

Currently, they're at the end of their 1st semester in their 2nd year by the time I'm writing this, and the novel has over a thousand chapters (1113 chapters).

The Worldbuilding

There are some complicated stuff in the world building that needs to be explained, but if explained in detail, you'd be able to appreciate the story more. It doesn't actually pose a problem since most of the time, when something is introduced, it gets explained sooner or later in the story.

The way the novel is written is amazing. If you pay attention to the smallest of details, the ways the characters are introduced, the POV changes, in the latter parts of the story, you can almost predict what could happen, but somehow even if you do, its exciting, because the writer writes foreshadawing so well. They add the hints sometimes unnoticable, sometimes blatant, and when you make the connection when a reveal happens, it so hecking good.

The MC's abilities

Jo Euishin's abilities are a bit overpowered, even in terms of a world where Higher Beings (or gods) and Non-Humans exist. That world has a ranking in terms of abilities, and Euishin's powers rank very high. I'll probably spoil a lot if I explore his abilities in this, so I won't explain too much aside from that, but His Gwangrim, which is an ability every person in the world who has supernatural powers have and is unique to each person, Jo Euishin's Gwangrim, "Player's Trajectory" lets him be able to use his Playable Characters' abilities. One of his abilities caused prophecies in that world to be erased.

He's also highly intelligent, and when he makes plans, it's very elaborate that sometimes he perfectly predicts how the opponents would move.

Lastly, where can you read it?

This novel does not have an official english tranlation, but the official raws can be found on the following sites:

Ridibooks

Kakaopage

Munpia

I assure you the translation of this novel plays a big part in why people drop it, but the novel is very much a hidden gem and you won't regret it if you continue to read despite the bad translation.

I'd like to recommend it to every moots or followers I have that has read orv, lcf, and tsctir, and enjoyed them, as EX-Rank kind of contains elements of those novels, but still doesn't feel repetitive and still has a unique storyline.

If you decide to give it a try, thank you! If you're a reader who dropped it, this is your sign to pick it up and read it again~

Thanks for your time, and have fun reading~

#명문고 EX급 조연의 리플레이 #everyone is welcome to scream about the novel in the comments if you've read it #I've been screaming about this novel for 6 months straight and Im not tired of it #this is the longest that I've become attached to a novel

[nishicchikouchi]

Ok, new experience, cuz of Xiao's bday, and his bday letter, my feed has been full of Xiao fanart and Xiao x Traveler shippers. And everytime I see a post about how people say "xiaoaether canon" people will reply, "xiaolumi canon" "xiaolumi supremacy" LIKE WHY ARE YOU GUYS SO AGGRESIVE ABOUT IT ㅠㅠ let people enjoy xiaoaether in peace

#respect to the xiaoaether cc's for having the patience to deal with the aggressive af xiaolumi shippers #i dont usually mind xiaolumi since xiao is shipped to whoever you are as a traveler and I like both Aether and Lumine #but like... the ccs especially made it as a xiaoaether ship post dont make it about xiaolumi thats kinda disrespectful dont you think? #with the amount of people who ship xiaolumi and the amount of people who make content for it you'd think they'd be satisfied with that #but they have to go and comment about it on an unrelated content #its ok if the cc made the ship xiaoxtraveler cuz it can be ambigous like that #but when its explicit that its a xiaoaether content pls calm down ㅠㅠ #xiaoaether #xiaolumi

[nishicchikouchi]

Me re-reading debut or die:

*reaches the rookie of the year arc*

"Ah, fuck, I forgot how annoying Cheongryong could be"

*reaches the TeStar and Onyx performance*

"Ah, shit, I remember why I loved this novel all over again"

#Guys its too funny #Cheongryong basically just fucked up a bunch of rookie's lives cuz of this #when I came to that realisation #I feel like telling the poor rookies its your senior's fault go blame him

[nishicchikouchi]

Ok ok, I've read turning, and now, devil venerable also wants to know. Now I need more danmei or knovels with the trope of loyal subordinate/the person they follow.

#i loved these two novels a lot #i hope I can find more #turning novel #devil venerable also wants to know

[nishicchikouchi]

When cyan wings dropped this line,

"If Polis fell, Alkeid would go mad."

I WENT ABSOLUTELY BATSHIT INSANE

#devil venerable also wants to know

[nishicchikouchi]

Damn, okay I finished Devil Venerable also Wants to Know in a day, and now I feel empty.

There were many times I wanted to cry, some chapters actyally made mebtear up bit now that I actually finished it, I sad that Inprobably wont find another danmei to read in a day like this. Its really great 10/10 would recommend. Give it a read.

#devil venerable also wants to know

[nishicchikouchi]

LOL CHAOTER 69 OF " devil venerable also wants to know" IS SOOOOOOO.

The whole time, before it, I was thinking man, the readers must be on fire if they read this AND THEY WERE HAHAHAHA

#the author is too good #devil venerable also wants to know

[nishicchikouchi]

Me reading devil venerable also wants to know: ohohoho. Fufu... fufufufu.

Im only at chapter 21 and at this point, Im wondering if the author of abusive romance would make a side story, which containes WRE and YHJ love story

#this book is so fast paced but its still really good #devil venerable also wants to know

[nishicchikouchi]

how to grow the fuck up

[nishicchikouchi]

Okay, okay. Something funny that I really think drives me crazy a lot is how I keep getting fooled by unreliable narrators.

The cycle goes a lot like this:

MC does something > They downplay it > I believe them when they say its not much > some chapters later a character expresses that what MC did or experienced was just so out of the normal > I realise that MC did and experienced somethinv absurd

I CANT KEEP GETTING FOOLED BY THIS BUT I STILL DO LMAO ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

Anyway, to cut myself some slack, they sound so convinving at first ㅠㅠ but then further to the story I just realise "oh my gosh, this guys' an unreliable narrator" and when I re-read the story with that perspective...

#lout of count's family #omniscient reader’s viewpoint #명문고 EX급 조연의 리플레이 #cale henituse #kim dokja #jo uisin

[nishicchikouchi]

Crazy... a crazy ml with a crazy mc! I didn't expect to like it so much.

#insane chemistry #i luv it #especially when he revealed that she was originally a hostage #and mc smiled ecstatically #chills I tell you literal chills #amazing I love this trope #time to find more like it

[nishicchikouchi]

Saw a tweet asking who's more irrationally possessive between Kaveh and Alhaitham, and me after some though vote Kaveh. When I saw the results, I WAS SHOOK. People voted for Alhaitham more than Kaveh!

#I am mostly basing through their actions and conversations in game #I know that in Alhaitham's voiceline he frequently mentions Kaveh so it seems like he's more aggressive #but come on when we met Kaveh for the first time the guy was so shocked that Alhaitham had a friend #It may just be me but I feel like Alhaitham just exudes being cool-headed #so yea it feels right to me that Kaveh is more irrationally possessive than alhaitham XD

[nishicchikouchi]

I've only been reading BL with red flag ML for like the past few weeks and I read a new one that looks like one but... ML was one of the greenest I came to know... My heart xant take so much sweetness between the ML and MC

[nishicchikouchi]

Whispers in your ear:

Bud... there's more to come

Just finished chapter 352 of 'Trash of the Count's Family'

This was the first time this novel made me cry. It was already super depressing but the three piggybanks were really the final knife to the heart that broke me. And just the knowledge that, even though this scenario is fake, Cale has gone through this before as Kim Rok Soo... Devastating

#so much more devastating shit #ahahahahahah! #lout of the count’s family

[nishicchikouchi]

If anyone ever finds a BL like Guiding Hazard... does that even exist?

#what do I do I love this manhwa #its so good help help help

[nishicchikouchi]

I was browsing for something to read but then I saw a familiar work... I think I haven't read it in like 3 years, so even though I knew I was probably rereading, I didnt mind. But before I read there were so many question cuz I only saw the display chapters. I was like, "huh? He'd regain his memories now?" Which is another reason that incited me to read it again. And what do you know, I enjoyed reading it from the start again and the recent chapters makes me really excited

#i think I stopped somewhen before season 1 ended... and now the manhwa has a season 2 and like atleast 40 chapters...? #the flashback of 900 years ago is exquisite lovely