I'm Really Not the Destroyer of Worlds [Narcissus]

Huai Wang wants to destroy the world.

Since they all say he's the destroyer of worlds, then he'll end everything just as they expect.

But just as he was about to do it, a phone that had been dead for years began to ring.

The relentless call gave him a headache.

When Huai Wang picked up, he heard a young, frightened voice say, “I'm Tang Wang.”

Tang Wang.

That was a name he'd already abandoned.

At first, Huai Wang thought it was some kind of counterattack by those people, an attempt to stop him. But as he spoke more and more with the person on the phone, he realized that “Tang Wang” was going through the same things he himself had faced in the past.

Only, when he was young, no one answered his call. He gave up asking for help and let the abyss swallow him.

Was this call meant to make him see that he really would become the destroyer of worlds, just as they had said?

How absurd. How ridiculous!

Tang Wang had avoided the people who approached him with bad intentions. He borrowed the administrator's phone and called his dad, but no one ever answered.

Dad hated him.

He'd said not to contact him unless it was important.

The administrator said a child getting lost was important, and encouraged him to keep calling until someone picked up.

Tang Wang was too frightened by the thick malice in the administrator's eyes to refuse.

On the thirteenth call, he heard the beep of someone answering.

The voice on the other end was unfamiliar.

When he heard that Tang Wang was lost in an amusement park, the voice fell silent for a moment, then told him how to contact his father's secretary and how to avoid the people around him who wanted to “help.”

He said his name was Huai Wang.

Little Tang Wang didn't know what that name meant. He only knew that Huai Wang gave him a kindness he'd never experienced in all his life.

He taught him how to find things among the weeds to keep from going hungry.

He comforted him when his father locked him in a dark room.

When everyone said he was a curse, he called him his miracle.

So Tang Wang never cared what other people thought of him. All he needed was for Huai Wang to love him.

Even after he learned that Huai Wang was his future self, Tang Wang only realized that he wanted Huai Wang even more.

The world didn't love him, but he would come to love himself.

Huai Wang once asked Tang Wang when his feelings for him had changed.

Tang Wang merely kissed the corner of his lips and looked at Huai Wang, his mirror image. “It started with that phone call.”

The rush of his heart when he heard that voice made him want to hold on and never let go.

Just as his father said, he really was a monster.

Theme: The world is real.