C**kolded Man Learn His Fate

A man casts aside his lovers, friends, even the warmth of companionship itself, running only to preserve the fragile happiness of his family! On the eve of graduating from junior high, Tachibana Shō stands frozen at a station platform—only to witness his entire world broke apart. His girlfriend since first year, Shinano Saki, is locked in a kiss with another boy from their class. Time stutters. Sound collapses. He cannot speak. He cannot move. So he simply leaves— like a ghost abandoning its own body. She has been seeing someone else. Of course she has. And of course, she will never turn back. That certainty flashes through his mind, bringing tears. Yet the despair that follows was far greater still. A sudden headache strikes. As his consciousness fades, what he learns was the impossible course of his own life. A hollow high school life stretched ahead of him like an unlit corridor. Then came loss—his parents, gone. And beyond that, a world quietly rewritten, where colossal dungeon structures erupted into modern reality like wounds in the fabric of civilisation. Inside them, monsters waited. And eventually, one of them took his arm. What remained of his life was something barely lived at all—failed attempts, missed chances, a slow crawl through society’s lowest strata. Until, in one unremarkable dungeon, his story ended exactly as if it had been waiting for its cue. He was devoured. At first, he rejected it. A future like that? Absurd. Meaningless. Impossible to accept. But reality is persistent. It repeats itself until denial becomes exhaustion. And so he understood. This was not a warning. It was a script. At this rate, he dies. Not heroically. Not meaningfully. Just erased—empty-handed, ruined, and alone. So he chooses. He strips away anything that he could afford to lose. He abandons what did not really matter for him. And what remains becomes his only direction: protect his family, and survive the death that waits for him. Completely transformed, he was no longer allowed to be just a middle school student. Knowing the future, he steps off the prescribed path—because the ending it offers is unacceptable. Yet, little did he know… That this deviation had already beginning to reshape the world itself.