Return of the Eternal Night

[No CP + no romantic tension + fast-paced + ensemble cast in the later story + interstellar setting in the later story]

Seven years ago, the Eternal Night descended. Seven days of darkness turned the entire world upside down.

The boy who spent those seven days fleeing through a dream knew all too well how terrifying the world had become. He kept himself hidden, hoping to avoid attracting monsters.

But seven years later, the Heresy Management Bureau came looking for him, and the City of Dreams he had failed to escape seven years ago appeared once more.

“This world has no shortage of people, and even less of the dead.”

If he wanted to protect those he cared about, he had no choice but to grow stronger, stronger than everyone else!

At first, all he wanted was to live out his life as an ordinary person...