“Not a Hero” is a science-fiction novel by Sergey Plotnikov, the third book of the cycle “Rider,” genre: isekai/pop-in, urban fantasy, social science fiction.
Even in this world, America manages to look “okay” from the other side of the Pacific Ocean. At least compared to some manga that seems stuck in the half-century-old past about Japanese high schoolers with superpowers. The relevant technologies from 2050 exist here—far fewer gifted people, no otherworlders. And there’s also a name-specific tuition account left carefully by his biological parents for college. It seems like—well, what could possibly go wrong now?