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The Side Character Who Refused to Vanish

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Ethan Vale died with nothing but regret. On Earth, he was powerless — a broke older brother watching his little sibling slowly die from a disease he couldn’t afford to cure. His only escape was Eternal Realms, the hyper-realistic game he had mastered completely. He knew every secret, every hidden quest, and every future catastrophe that would shake the world. Then he died. When he opened his eyes again, he wasn’t reborn as a hero, a chosen one, or even a villain. He woke up as Ethan Crowe — a nameless, level 1 commoner in the filthy slums of the starting city. A background extra. A side character whose only purpose in the grand story was to die forgotten in a random slum purge event in 47 days. No special class. No overpowered system. No protagonist halo. Just a faint, flickering status window and one hidden title that shouldn’t even exist: The Anomaly. But Ethan remembers everything. He remembers the upcoming academy entrance trials. He remembers the underground ruins that will open soon. He remembers the exact day the “Cure-All Elixir” appears in the black market auction. And most importantly… he remembers how the main characters will rise while extras like him are trampled. This time, things will be different. With nothing but his game knowledge and sheer stubborn will, Ethan will grind in the shadows, break every scripted fate, and claw his way out of the background. He refuses to vanish. He refuses to let his new little brother suffer the same slow death as his old one. In a world that treats people like him as disposable NPCs, one glitch in the system is about to rewrite the entire story. Some extras are meant to disappear. He wasn’t.
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