The Everyday Life of a Stepping Stone Hero

Keigo Haoi (羽追圭吾) loved novels about otherworld summoning. By coincidence, his class contained all the essential characters needed for an otherworld summoning story. Thinking "maybe we'll actually get summoned to another world someday," Keigo and his classmates are suddenly summoned to another world for real. While Keigo eagerly searches for the protagonist character boy in the class and the "stepping stone hero"—a cannon fodder existence meant to be trampled by the protagonist—the truth he arrives at is cruel. "...The stepping stone hero... that's me."