Consider a player running through a story-heavy RPG (e.g., Undertale, Disco Elysium, The Witcher 3) but doing a raw install run:
Now imagine that player’s character is a senshina mob — a generic soldier class with high combat stats but zero narrative importance.
When they encounter the main villain early (because they wandered off the intended path), they accidentally kill them with a raw unmodded critical hit.
The main story — the honpen — shatters. The game’s scripted emotional beats never trigger. The love interest never gets kidnapped. The destined hero never awakens.
This is “kyou senshina mob mujikaku ni honpen wo hakai suru raw install” in action. And it’s glorious. Consider a player running through a story-heavy RPG (e
The story is originally published on Shōsetsuka ni Narō (Let's Become a Novelist).
Note: This is the web novel version. There is also a published Light Novel version with illustrations by Fujimi Shobo, but the web version is free to read.
If a side character deliberately tried to destroy the main plot, that would be a villain arc — predictable, c可控. The keyword specifies mujikaku ni (unconsciously), which makes the destruction more tragic and more interesting.
The mob doesn’t know they are breaking anything. They simply: Now imagine that player’s character is a senshina
Because they lack self-awareness, they cannot be reasoned with, stopped, or integrated. They are an immune reaction of reality against fiction — and fiction loses.
This mirrors certain real-world internet phenomena, where a “raw” comment from an outsider can derail years of established community lore in a single post.
Most story-driven games assume the main character is special — the chosen one, the hero, the one who triggers cutscenes. Mobs exist to fill space, give exp, or deliver town gossip. They operate under strict AI: walk a route, say a line, maybe fight if provoked.
But what if a mob character, due to a bug or deliberate “raw install” of the game’s core rules (bypassing scripted events), gains access to developer tools, the console command line, or even the game’s source code? The story is originally published on Shōsetsuka ni
In several cult Japanese games (e.g., Undertale, Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, The World Ends with You), side characters sometimes realize their reality. However, unaware destruction is different — the mob doesn’t intend to break anything. They just… follow the raw rules.
In many narrative-driven games or anime, the "mob character" is expected to remain in the background — weak, irrelevant, and without self-awareness of the larger story (mujikaku). They are not supposed to influence the main plot (honpen).
However, the phrase describes a situation where today (kyou), one such mob — due to being "raw installed" (i.e., injected into the story world without proper balancing or narrative filters) — ends up destroying the main storyline entirely.
The "raw install" metaphor comes from modding or system administration: installing software without dependencies, compatibility checks, or safety layers. Applied to a story, it means inserting an element without adjusting it to fit the world’s rules.