[Urban Fantasy] [System Power Fantasy] [Tokusatsu Fanfiction] [Childhood Nostalgia] [Online Face-Slapping] [Turning the Tables with Public Opinion] [Transmigration Between Two Worlds] [Lighthearted Shenanigans]
Voting opened for Ultraman’s 60th anniversary popularity poll. Chen Shiqian, an overworked office drone, cast three votes for the Tiga of his childhood. Just because he left the comment “Tiga was part of my childhood,” Zero’s extremist fans chased him across three hundred posts, harassing him online and calling him a fake fan and a paid shill. The next second, the [Faith in Light System] bonded with him: every valid insult against Tiga from a Zero fan added ten thousand votes to Tiga’s live tally. Votes cast by ordinary fans also accumulated Faith Points, which could help Chen Shiqian physically descend upon the Land of Light.
The more Zero’s fans cursed, the faster Tiga’s votes climbed. They canvassed fans from other circles, only for outsiders to turn around and vote for Tiga. They started their own unofficial poll, and Tiga overtook Zero by a factor of two in half a day. They pushed the platform to secretly alter its backend numbers, only to be caught red-handed when netizens posted screen recordings, setting off a firestorm across the internet. Chen Shiqian even unlocked “Vote-Splitting Pincer Attack,” precisely casting his remaining two votes for the contestants immediately above and below Zero. In the end, Tiga took first place by a landslide with 2.25 million votes, while Zero got stuck in eleventh. Meanwhile, the real-world rankings also affected the Land of Light’s power and standing. Every time Chen Shiqian transmigrated, he got to land another righteous elbow on the stubborn Zero.
But when “paid shill” became a viral joke across the internet, a dark monster that fed on denying childhood memories and devouring faith quietly awakened. People began to forget that they had once believed in the light, and both reality and the Land of Light fell into crisis. Chen Shiqian had to make all the childhood memories that had been mocked and denied shine again, because those who believed in Tiga had only grown up. They had grown old, but they had never disappeared.
