What Should I Do If I Get Stuck in a Human Jar?

Crying people, horses in the fog, swarms of snakes in swimming pools...

Strange omens are running rampant in the human world, and the coordinates of the other-dimensional spaces they come from have finally been captured by the Creation Corporation.

The company therefore announced that it had discovered a brand-new Eden. Go colonize the New World, they said. Everything you could ever want can be found there.

Aina Motal is hydrophobic and deaf, an ordinary, disabled but determined corporate drone in a cyberpunk world. He sells his labor to three different factions, but because he refuses to undergo cybernetic augmentation, they all consider him "useless."

All of Aina's bosses think he's nothing but a useful, obedient good dog, wagging his tail and fawning over them, until one day he drowns in his own bathtub.

When Aina wakes up again, he's trapped inside a strange glass tank deep beneath the sea, the most mysterious and terrifying level of New Eden.

A vast, horrifying, misshapen creature silently glides through the endless waters behind him. Its ghastly, webbed fingers leave five marks on the glass, enclosing the retreating figure of a human before vanishing like mist licked away by water.

"Welcome to the Mid-Spine Museum, human."

"I will devour anything that threatens you, anything that gets in your way, anything that covets you... I will keep you in a human tank and raise you there until you become my next meal."

Aina's world has changed.

His obnoxious new coworker comes back from the dead and bares his fangs at him. A crow with a camera for a head is determined to pluck out his hair. And then there's the fish that keeps chasing him, wanting to raise him as its pet...

Aina: "..."

A bunch of rotten weirdos. Time to beat them all up.

[Desperately wants to eat humans / but can only obsessively suck on them / fake human / male ghost / nonhuman seme x gets sucked on until he punches and kicks / disabled but determined / stone-faced corporate drone uke]

Please note:

1. This is not a lighthearted, sweet romance. The setting is entirely fictional and does not allude to real events or people. The characters' values do not represent the author's own.

2. A chaotic mash-up inspired by cyberpunk, Cthulhu Mythos, the Backrooms, and Trevor Henderson. The elements are wildly mixed together.

3. The uke is not normal, and the seme isn't even human. He's a pure monster, pretty sanity-destroying, and has no human morals or values early on.

4. This is a niche-fetish work, complete with author-invented lore, references, parody, chuunibyou antics, madness, and political commentary. Rational, friendly comments are welcome. If this isn't for you, don't read it.

Theme: Let's embrace the new world together