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This world was just… too damn messy.
That was the only thought Akio had after waking up in Tokyo, Japan.
Yes—Akio was a transmigrator.
Just three days ago, he'd been nothing more than an average office drone, a corporate mule heading back to work after vacation.
But as he was walking toward his company, maybe a dozen meters away from the building, he suddenly noticed a flowerpot falling from the sky—straight toward a little kid up ahead.
The child was barely thirteen or fourteen, a middle-schooler in the prime of youth.
Akio didn't even think. His brain short-circuited, and before he knew it, he had dashed forward and shoved the kid out of harm's way.
He thought he'd be fast enough to push the boy aside and still dodge the falling pot himself.
He thought wrong.
The pot came crashing down faster than he expected—smacking him right in the forehead.
Darkness swallowed his vision.
And when he opened his eyes again, he wasn't in his world anymore.
He was in Tokyo. Not the Tokyo of reality, though, but a Tokyo that only existed in anime.
Because this version of Tokyo had all the big-name mega-conglomerates—Shinomiya, Shijo, Nogizaka, Suzuki, Mikado—and schools like Toyosaki, Sobu High, Kouban, Tootsuki, Teitan, and Seigaku.
No doubt about it: this was a crossover anime world.
The problem was… it wasn't just any crossover. It was a total mess.
It wasn't just school-life anime stitched together—there were horror, action, fantasy, and god-knows-what else mixed in.
A quick internet search told him enough.
Tokyo had a place called Ukiyoe Town.The police department's top brass included a man named Soichiro Yagami.There was an eerily accurate shrine called the Higurashi Shrine.A popular young actor on TV went by Shuichi Natori.Nearby was a city known as Bed Town.And even worse—a so-called Academy City, a place decades ahead of modern science that trained espers.
As if that wasn't bad enough, in recent times, strange beings called Ajin had started appearing.
This world wasn't just messy. It was insane.
And Tokyo wasn't the only problem spot.
Across the globe:In America, there was a place called Raccoon City. Oh, and right next to it? Silent Hill.Umbrella Corporation wasn't just real—it had a branch office right here in Tokyo.New York had the Foot Clan.San Francisco had the Black Hand Triad.Over in Britain, there was a powerhouse empire sweeping through Europe, called the Holy Britannian Empire. Its current ruler, Charles di Britannia, was the 98th Emperor.And internationally, a terrorist organization called Mithril was openly opposing Britannia.
Then there were countries that didn't even exist in reality—Familleon, Aldikia, and Ordial, just to name a few.
And that was only what Akio had managed to dig up. Who knew how much he hadn't uncovered yet?
The deeper he looked, the scarier it got.
This world was bottomless.
When Akio finally pieced everything together, he could only sit there, stunned.
"Oh, great. So this is how it's gonna be, huh?"
Fine then. If the world was going to cheat, he would too.
After all, no transmigrator worth their salt showed up without some kind of golden finger.
His was a system.
The only problem? It hadn't finished loading yet.
That was why, for three straight days since arriving, Akio hadn't dared step foot outside his apartment.
The original owner of this body had died in a really ugly way, after all.
That boy had been nothing special—an ordinary high schooler. Not top of the class, not a dunce. Not a detective, not a basketball prodigy. Just painfully average.
The only slightly unusual thing about him was his background: though he studied in Tokyo, he wasn't a local. He was an international student from a certain "great eastern nation."
Three days ago, though, he'd been eaten alive by a monster. Literally. Torn apart and devoured—soul and all—until nothing remained but a puddle of blood and a severed finger.
The monster left, satisfied with its meal.
But then, unbelievably, the boy revived—his entire body regrowing out of that lone finger.
That was when Akio realized something: the original body was an Ajin.
Ajin could resurrect after death. The catch, though, was that the soul didn't come back with the body.
So the moment his predecessor revived, he was nothing more than a husk, a vegetable.
And that's when Akio's soul slipped in, taking over the body.
But knowing the truth only made him more paranoid. If that monster came back and realized its "food" had revived?
It'd take one look and think, "Wait a sec, didn't I already eat you?"
Then it would find out he was an Ajin—and what monster could resist a buffet that regenerated no matter how many times you feasted on it?
Exactly. None.
That was why Akio had holed up inside for three days straight, nearly eating through all his emergency rations, waiting for one thing.
His system to finish loading.
And now, at last, the time had come.
Sitting on the couch, Akio nervously watched the progress bar inch forward inside his mind.
And yeah, he was anxious as hell. Who wouldn't be?
This world was pure chaos. If the system turned out to be something useless—like a plagiarism-writing system, or a dating sim system—he was screwed.
In a normal slice-of-life world, sure, that'd be fine. But here? No way.
What he needed was something powerful. Something that could make him say, "I don't eat beef"—because he was the one eating everything else.
Ding!
The sound that rang in his head was nothing short of heavenly.
The system had finally finished loading.
[Dimensional Demon-God System fully loaded. Expanding Dimensional Demon-God System…]
[Distributing Dimensional Domain…]
[Fusing Dimensional Domain…]
All at once, Akio felt a door open within him. Behind it stretched a vast, radiant world.
Power surged through that doorway, flooding into his body nonstop.
For the first time, Akio felt himself growing stronger.
Terrifyingly strong.
Right now, he was stronger than ever before.
And he knew it.
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