A Guide for Background Characters to Survive in a Manga - Chapter 360 : Chapter 360

Chapter 360

Just as Su Bei had expected, with the Gear as a medium, they could indeed touch the destiny lines related to themselves and see the contents inside.

Seeing that everyone had closed their eyes and were immersed in experiencing the stories on another destiny line, Su Bei no longer wasted time. He reached out and touched the destiny line that exuded a strong Su Bei aura, entering another story that belonged to him.

What Su Bei hadn’t expected was that the turning point of this destiny line was at the point of his parents’ death. In this destiny line, Su Bei’s parents were still alive.

Because of his previous changes to the past, both his parents were members of the “Destiny” organization, and his father was even the leader of the organization. However, on the surface, their identities were still a police officer and a soldier, and they were indeed serving the country.

There was a very interesting point in this timeline, which was the reason for the establishment of the “Destiny” organization. Su Bei had not designed this point, but in this timeline, the logical chain was completed.

The establishment of the “Destiny” organization was originally a plan generated by the state based on Su Bei’s father’s Ability, [Information Retrieval and Confidentiality]. This plan was naturally to gather intelligence and form a new intelligence network.

[Information Retrieval and Confidentiality], as the name implied, could classify and integrate the information obtained, and no ability could obtain classified information from it. In conjunction with the item notebook, it formed the core item of the “Destiny” organization.

In the original worldline, the death of his father led the higher-ups to believe that the plan had been directly bankrupt, so that the organization members who had been recruited at that time were ultimately not used. But in fact, the prototype of the “Destiny” organization’s program had already been set up at that time, and the plan was just one step away from being officially launched.

Therefore, in this timeline, the “Destiny” organization was a neutral organization on the surface, but in reality, it was secretly owned by the state.

Under this major premise, Su Bei’s experience was naturally completely different from the present. Looking at the “Su Bei” who had been cultivated by the state since he was a child and looked righteous, Su Bei couldn’t help but shiver.

Although that “Su Bei” also liked to be lazy and goof off, and many of his small habits were the same as Su Bei’s, their temperaments were worlds apart. Even if the other party’s temperament was flippant, one could tell at a glance that he was the kind of iron-blooded red side. And he was obviously very direct, the type to speak his mind.

The red-side “Su Bei” also came to “Endless Ability Academy.” His Ability was [Destiny Gear], and he was also assigned to Class F. And the reason he went to Class F was genuinely because he had foreseen that there were very interesting people in Class F, so he specially discussed with his parents to come here for a month first.

The plot of encountering an assassin in the toilet on the first day of school coincided with Su Bei’s experience, but their reactions afterward were completely different.

Because Su Bei had to be a riddle-maker, he didn’t mention it at all. But the “Su Bei” in the other timeline directly reported it to the academy.

But unfortunately, his report did not have much effect. Due to the plot, the main storyline had to proceed. In the subsequent plot, the parts that “Su Bei” participated in were much more than Su Bei himself. Although he liked to goof off, his inner sense of justice was far greater than Su Bei’s.

A destiny-type Ability allowed him to always be one step ahead when danger occurred. Most of the time, Su Bei used this “one step ahead” to escape. He, on the other hand, used this step to lay out a plan in advance, in the hope of resolving the danger as soon as possible.

After watching the general story on this timeline, Su Bei couldn’t help but be in a daze. A very righteous “Su Bei” was really a huge contrast. If he hadn’t been entrusted by the “Manga Consciousness,” perhaps he would have been such a person.

No, that’s not right. If he hadn’t been entrusted by the “Manga Consciousness,” his Ability should still be the original [Create Gear]. With such a weak Ability, it would be impossible for him to risk his life to participate in the adventures of the main character group, let alone experience these things.

Withdrawing his Mental Energy, Su Bei touched the next destiny thread.

Unexpectedly, he searched through all the timelines and only found one destiny where he awakened the [Create Gear] Ability. And on this line, it was exceptionally similar to the original manga; he died in the toilet at the beginning, and there was no story after that. This was also the earliest he had died on all the destiny lines.

On the other destiny lines, after awakening the [Destiny Gear] Ability, if nothing else, his safety was truly maxed out. Especially since he was not someone who liked to be reckless, he could almost always live until the grand finale.

The only time he did not live until the grand finale was when he was on the absolute red side once. It was a very old-fashioned story. In the final battle, in order to save more people, he sacrificed himself.

To be honest, Su Bei found it hard to imagine that he would really sacrifice himself to save others, but this was indeed a story that happened on another destiny line. Education really had a crucial impact on a person.

Besides this line, the most subversive plot should be the destiny line where he did not go to “Endless Ability Academy” at all, but went to the Skydome Ability Academy next door.

Magically, on this line, he had a very good relationship with Huangfu Mingzhe, and the two of them were even jointly hailed as the twin stars of “Skydome Ability Academy.” But on second thought, it was normal. This year’s “Skydome Ability Academy” was obviously led by Huangfu Mingzhe. His strength was not inferior to the other party, so he would definitely have a place there. It wasn’t normal for two very strong people in the same class to become good friends unless their compatibility was particularly bad, right?

During the Tri-School Competition, “Su Bei” naturally represented “Skydome Ability Academy” and participated. The final result was two to three in the individual battles, and a loss in the team battles. There was nothing to be done about this. After all, the opponent was the main character group of a mainstream shonen manga, so it was indeed impossible for them to win.

Looking at the story on this destiny line that was indeed completely different for Su Bei, even Su Bei, who had already seen many destiny lines, couldn’t help but sigh. He had actually never thought that he would have new friends, and the original main character group had instead become relatively unfamiliar people to him.

If the “Su Bei” on this destiny line saw his situation here, he would probably be very emotional too.

Of course, this was not the most surprising thing for Su Bei. Going to a different academy and having different bonds were very normal things. After a brief period of surprise, he completely understood.

What really surprised Su Bei was that he had seen so many destiny lines, yet there was not a single one where he became a villain. His stance had always only wavered between neutral and righteous, and he had never crossed the line once.

If he hadn’t seen the destiny line, Su Bei really wouldn’t have known that he was such a righteous person. He had thought that as long as he had the chance, he could easily be lured to the villain’s side.

Previously, when the manga was still being updated, he had thought more than once about whether to switch sides directly. By going to the villain’s side, he wouldn’t have to participate in too much of the plot in the early stages, and as long as he could find a way to whitewash himself in the later stages, he would have a way to survive.

Moreover, compared to the righteous side, which could only be on the bright side most of the time, being on the dark side of the villains would definitely allow him to get more intelligence. In the early stages, he had often used information gaps to gain an advantage for himself. Su Bei had often wondered at the time if the villain’s side was more beneficial to him.

But in the end, he still gave up. At that time, he still needed the plot to strengthen himself. After going to the “Black Flash” organization, he wouldn’t have so many opportunities to appear, which was definitely not good news for him.

But no matter what, he did have the idea of going to the villain’s side, but he just gave up after weighing the pros and cons.

But in countless destiny lines, Su Bei had never really gone to the villain’s side. It couldn’t be that every time he weighed the pros and cons, it was better to stay on the righteous side, right?

Although he didn’t want to admit it, it seemed he was really a genuine “good kid.”

“Of course!” Because he had not deliberately hidden his inner voice, the “Manga Consciousness,” which happened to hear it, immediately agreed, “Otherwise, I wouldn’t have dared to hand over the task of saving the world to you back then!”

Although a very important reason why it had approached Su Bei was that he was the most suitable and most likely person to complete the task of saving the world at that time, a more important reason was that Su Bei had always had a righteous heart.

Perhaps he often appeared very cold, but when it came to major events, he had never failed.

If Su Bei was a person who could easily be led astray and become a villain, then even if he was the most suitable candidate, the “Manga Consciousness” would absolutely not have chosen him. Rather than handing over the only chance to resurrect and save the world to a villain, it would rather let that chance rot in its stomach.

“Then I really have to thank you.” Su Bei said coolly. He actually didn’t think that living to save the world was much better than dying at that time, at least he didn’t think so at the time. As for now, Su Bei had to admit that it was indeed better to live and enjoy life.

Opening his eyes again, Su Bei looked at the others. Unlike himself, whose destiny lines were relatively monotonous, perhaps because they were the proper main character group, their destiny lines were much more numerous, and they were still immersed in watching.

Su Bei was a little curious about the destinies they were seeing. He leaned over and first touched one of Jiang Tianming’s destiny lines.

In the destiny picture, Jiang Tianming was wearing a black suit, sitting on a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. There was no light in his eyes, and his whole person seemed to be a walking corpse, yet he exuded an extremely powerful aura.

It’s the villain line! he exclaimed in his heart. Jiang Tianming, who had become a great villain who killed people like flies, was obviously not as energetic as he was now. He didn’t seem to like killing people, and I didn’t know for what reason he had become like this.

However, Su Bei felt that it should be inseparable from the third season of the manga. In the third season, Jiang Tianming’s father deliberately exposed Jiang Tianming’s true Ability, [Death Summon], and killed a few people to frame him, and the truth could not be found out even with Abilities.

Without a doubt, Jiang Tianming’s father’s frame-up succeeded. At that time, let alone “Endless Ability Academy,” even the outside world had heard about this matter. Many people demanded that Jiang Tianming be locked up.

If they had not successfully proved Jiang Tianming’s innocence at that time, perhaps he would have really been taken away by his father and become a puppet of darkness.

A protagonist, they just look simple, but in fact, they can’t become a protagonist if they take even one wrong step.

However, on second thought, the path he had taken also had no room for error. If he had failed to gain the trust of the main character group in the beginning, failed to show his face to the readers, and failed to make himself strong enough, the task would probably have failed long ago.

So Su Bei could say with great certainty that he was definitely a genuine protagonist!