A Study on the Stand-In Love Interest

Isekai into your favourite fictional world isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Orion is transported into his favourite otome villainess isekai, only to discover that he’s thrown straight into the original otome game itself.

Halie is transported into her favourite otome game as the heroine, only to discover that some random guy had been reincarnated as her favourite character.

When this fictional universe becomes reality, Orion slowly learns that he essentially knows nothing about the world. His favourite villainess character doesn’t exist. There’s flesh-eating [redacted], and a useless game system in his head calculating affection levels like they’re quantitative. His only companion is a huge fan of the character he happened to have been isekai’d into this world as.

And that’s the problem. Because getting the heroine to fall in love with him may be the only way for him to survive. But it’s not easy when she’s a fangirl that only cares about his face…

[Isekai - Role Playing Game (RPG)]

They say isekai is just a self-indulgent fantasy. I took that as a challenge.

(Cover art is by me, unfortunately.)