Lu Mingfei thought Fingel's ledger would contain nothing but debts, failed classes, and the News Department's seedy gossip.
Until he opened the first page and saw his own name.
Name: Lu Mingfei.
Status: Died three times; account settled at midnight today.
Signer: Fingel.
At the same moment, Zero appeared outside the dormitory with a mission file marked 000.
The first half of the mission was to escort Lu Mingfei and keep him alive until midnight.
The second half was hidden behind redacted clearance, leaving only two words visible: Eliminate.
Fingel rushed out clutching a smoking old server. For the first time, he wasn't joking. "Junior, don't sign it. Last time you signed, you really did end up sitting on the throne all alone."
Lu Mingfei didn't want to be king, and he didn't want anyone else paying his debts for him.
So three people who were supposed to keep secrets from one another began investigating a Nibelungen that kept accounts only for the dead.
It recorded every moment Lu Mingfei had been saved, the old debts Fingel had never spoken of, Zero's childhood written into her orders, and everyone fate had erased and reduced to a footnote.
The last page of the ledger asked him: Would you like to settle your death?
Holding his pen, Lu Mingfei looked at Fingel and Zero standing beside him.
This time, he wrote:
Tomorrow, I'll keep on living.
