Reiko's Growth Spurt Overload! - Ch 1

Reiko is approached by the godess of growth Chloe who bestows upon her the power to grow… but under certain rules…

OnaniNapkin’s Ramblings:
So this chapter sets everything up in 3 scenes, first Reiko’s character and why she acts the way she does, second classroom drama and what Natsumi and Reiko’s relationship is right now. As well as setting up Megu, who will be an antagonist like character, then setting up what the rest of the series will be about which is Reiko trying to grow bigger through Chloe’s game.

Admittedly Reiko is kind of unlikeable but I think she will be a very… interesting character compared to Natsumi. Considering Reiko’s background, I think RGSO will be darker than NGSO…

I wanted Natsumi to play a minor role because Reiko is in the spotlight now. I also thought a vastly different perspective will jusify Reiko’s perspective being told which is why she doesn’t like Natsumi too much. That said, there will still be many scenes with Natsumi in RGSO, you can imagine what’s going through her head too in some scenes. I also find it funny this story is set 1 year after NGSO when I first posted NGSO about a year ago, that was not on purpose.

I’m kind of proud of how the scene with Chloe looks, I wanted a godlike but also dreamlike feel to it, so I just turned everything white and light effects to maximum lol. Sorry for the lack of growth as well here but I needed to setup so much stuff in the first chapter for the sake of the plot. Actually, while growth is still a major part of the story, I focused more on the characters so sorry if that will be disappointing. I thought about how satisfying RGSO will be in a growth perspective, there will a be a few growth scenes that just happen, but some where I focused more on it. Sadly it’s not like NGSO where Natsumi grows a lot all the time, Reiko grows bit by bit and gets to enjoy it… only sometimes. I had to write the story this way because I also balanced characters and plot as well so sorry about that.

That said, I am incredibly passionate about this story, especially since NGSO was based off of a work I found on writing.com (by Tsuyo), RGSO is a completely original script by me so it's kind of my debut. I am really proud of my work and I hope you enjoyed this chapter, as well as curious what happens in the next chapter! It will most likely come out months from now, (sorry 🙏) but I plan to release the rest of the chapters in a scheduled way once they are all done, so stay tuned!