Pang Chunhuang was born noble, the sole heir to an ancient empire and its undisputed chosen one, blessed by Heaven. Naturally, he also bore a lofty mission.
From childhood, he was forbidden to see, hear, or touch the ground, for he was the purest and noblest of sacrifices, destined to take up his mother's burden and suppress evil spirits with his own body for a thousand years.
He calmly accepted his fate and did his best in every way.
The Holy Son, in his chuunibyou phase: Since I am destined to become the people's future ruler, I ought to bear all their sins.
...But it all came to an end when a group of outsiders invaded.
They called themselves players. They rummaged and made a mess of other people's homes without restraint, all because of their so-called quests.
Pang Chunhuang outsmarted them at every turn and showed no mercy, wiping them out completely. Just as the players were about to leave empty-handed in defeat, one of them suddenly used a god-tier item to forcibly take Pang Chunhuang back to the Infinite Space.
Pang Chunhuang: ???
The other person: "Can't be helped, sir. My quest was to steal the empire's most precious treasure, and by a ridiculous coincidence, that treasure turned out to be a person. So, here we are!"
Pang Chunhuang: ...
Most players in the Infinite Game are criminals guilty of an unforgivable crime: surviving alone as their worlds were destroyed.
They're used to scheming against one another and killing each other off. It's the only way to survive in this breeding ground of cutthroats.
One day, a real hardcase arrived in the game. From the start, he made the notorious scoundrel "Swindler," who ranked near the top of the leaderboard, his dog. After that, he kept climbing, killing gods when gods stood in his way and killing Buddhas when Buddhas stood in his way.
The players declared with absolute certainty: He must have been a terrible villain in his original world! He's so ruthless because he's hiding some unspeakable motive!
But when someone asked the hardcase what he wanted, he simply answered, "I want to go home."
The players didn't believe him. But much later, they realized that in the Infinite Game, a place crawling with villains and vicious criminals, it seemed... perhaps... that a saint had truly arrived.
A saint, but in the form of a ruthless, unscrupulous idealistic madman.
2026.1.2
Theme: Don't go picking flowers from someone else's garden.
