My name is Lu Ren. I'm twenty-six, a corporate wage slave at an advertising company, and my motto in life is: one less thing is better than one more thing.
Until that rainy night, when a blood-covered woman knocked on my door: "Handsome, do you have a spare room? I'll pay double the rent."
I let her in. Then my life started to get strange: she would disappear through the third-floor window after I fell asleep, pale-blue light would spill from her fingertips, she could stop a runaway truck with one hand, and late at night she would "reason things out" with three people who came looking for her downstairs.
She said her name was Xiao Ye and that she was hiding from someone.
Only later did I learn that she was the number-one S-rank esper on the Dark World's Heavenly Ranking, code-named Zero, an existence capable of resetting time to zero in the instant she made a move. And the person she was hiding from was even more terrifying.
What I never expected was that the tingling at the back of my neck when I opened the door that rainy night came from the Origin Core that had lain dormant in my body for years, recognizing her for the first time.
This cohabitation, which began with sharing a rental, is drawing the two of us into a storm sweeping across the Dark World. And all I want is to ask her before she goes out each time:
Are you coming back for dinner today?
