Chapter Zero: The Forbidden Archive

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Ren Kisaragi, 19, was never anyone special.Kicked out of university, abandoned by friends and family, and living off convenience store noodles in a manga café, he was just another dropout hiding from reality.

Until one day, when returning a manga to the shelf, reality… disappeared.

Now trapped in a forgotten space between worlds—a shadowy, infinite library untouched by time—Ren finds himself face-to-face with Seris Vel’Zereth, the legendary Witch of Greed, the same being who once plunged the world of Runteria into chaos a thousand years ago.

She tells him this place is a prison, and that he belongs here.

The problem? Ren has no cheat skills. No destiny. No grand purpose.And most of all—he has no idea what the hell he did wrong.

But instead of breaking under the pressure, Ren starts doing something no one—especially not the Witch—expects.

He talks back.

With sarcasm, deadpan jokes, and a strange resistance to despair, Ren begins unraveling the secrets of the prison, Seris’s tragic past, and why he—a nobody—might be at the center of something far bigger than he imagined.

When hope fades, humor survives.When the world forgets you, sometimes… that’s when your story finally begins.