Some stories begin with glory.
Others begin with blood.Mine began with page 200.
Rain tapped gently on the car window like fading applause, a steady rhythm against the silence inside.
Nox Voidfall slumped in the back seat of a beat-up rideshare van, one headphone in, the glow of his phone screen reflecting off the glass. The car reeked of cheap air freshener and cold fries, but he didn't notice. His eyes were fixed on the last line of the chapter:
"And with one step through the Gate of Divinity, the Reaper ascended."
His heart pounded.
Then—refresh.
Chapter 201: Coming Soon.
He exhaled sharply. "You've gotta be kidding me."
His phone buzzed again. Not from the story. A low battery warning, blinking red like a countdown.
He glanced sideways at his sister, Selene, curled beside him under two ragged jackets, asleep but wheezing softly. Her face was pale—unnaturally pale. She hadn't eaten properly in two days.
The pharmacy had turned him away again. No insurance. No diagnosis. Just another shrug, another polite rejection. She was dying, and no one even knew what from.
He looked back at his phone.
If only life had a system.
If only he could level up, find a hidden quest, awaken a cheat ability, climb realms to save her.
Fantasy made sense. Real life was… helpless.
The driver muttered something up front. "Traffic's bad. Might be late."
Nox barely heard him.
Then—headlights.
Too close.
Too fast.
The impact came like thunder through bone.
Metal screamed.
Glass shattered.
Time froze.
[System Error: FATE THREAD NOT FOUND]
[Searching… Searching…][Host Designation: Reincarnation Anomaly – Clearance: NULL][Initializing fallback protocol...]
Welcome, Unwritten One.You were not meant to be reborn.And yet… you are.
Do you accept System Binding?[Yes] — [No]
Nox stood alone in a void of absolute silence.
There was no pain. No body. No air. Just… choice.
The words hovered in his mind—system text, as if from the novels he obsessed over. But distorted. Glitched.
He stared at the floating [Yes].
Was he hallucinating? Dead? Dreaming?
He thought of Selene.
He tapped the option.
And the void shuddered.
[Binding Successful]Host: Nox VoidfallStatus: RolelessFate Thread: AbsentSystem Type: [Anomaly – Ω-Class]Access Level: UndefinedAuthority: Immune to Record-Based DesignationVisibility: Hidden from Heavenly Registry
Congratulations.You are now a problem.
He gasped as air slammed into his lungs.
Concrete. Smoke. Blood. Screams.
But it wasn't Earth.
It wasn't even close.
He was lying in a filthy alley. Rain fell in slow, heavy sheets. The buildings loomed unfamiliar—stone, rune-carved, flickering with mana lamps.
He sat up, choking.
His hands were too small.
He stumbled to a broken mirror shard lying in the gutter.
His reflection stared back—a boy around thirteen or fourteen, gaunt, bruised, silver-eyed, and unfamiliar.
His hair was midnight-black, soaked and tangled. A burn mark curled along his neck like a faded glyph.
This isn't my body.
But the pain was real.
And Selene—
"Nox?"
A weak voice.
He turned. She was there. A girl, maybe ten, shivering under a soaked cloak, clutching her chest as she coughed.
Selene.
Same face. Same eyes. Same dying light.
She was alive.
So was he.
And this world…
This world had systems.
He could feel it.
Like threads waiting to be pulled, nodes of power behind reality's curtain.
[STATUS: UNLOCKED]
Name: Nox VoidfallRace: Human (Possibly Altered)Class: NoneLevel: 1System: [Anomaly Ω-Class]Fate Thread: [ERROR – ABSENT]Affinity: UnknownUnique Trait: [Void Script]Titles:– The Unwritten– Fate-Rejected– ???
Warning: This entity is not visible to prophecy, divine census, or realm-based law.
He laughed.
It was low. Broken. But real.
He wasn't a background character anymore.
He wasn't reading someone else's story.
He had no role.
No script.
No fate.
And that meant one thing.
He could write his own.
And he'd start with the one thing no god, system, or realm had counted on:
Saving her.
Chapter 1 — End