[Megastructure + Post-apocalypse + Ranked ladder. I know it sounds weird, but it's so cool (]
The hit youth manga Under Eden has taken the world by storm with its knack for killing off beloved characters and its unique ranked ladder system.
Yi Fu is a devoted reader of Under Eden.
Before bed, he posts an impassioned rant that sends the mysterious villain Charon trending, blaming him for killing off so many fan-favorite characters before he'd even officially appeared.
Then he wakes up to find himself inexplicably transmigrated into Charon himself. The only thing before him is a set of cold, impersonal rules, with no help whatsoever.
[Welcome to Under Eden]
[Here, power determines rank, and popularity determines survival]
Wait a second. Survival depends on popularity, but he's supposed to play a villain everyone hates? They might as well just sentence him to death now.
Luckily, Yi Fu lets out a chuckle. He's a professional at manipulating public opinion!
The villains of Under Eden have always met gruesome ends.
People love peace, praise the sanctity of life, sing of a bright future, and despise injustice and nihilism.
Charon is hungry, young, and ambitious.
He killed eight of the original top ten on the ranked ladder and stole their powers, earning the scornful label "Fire Thief."
His name hangs at the very top of the rankings, where he fiercely guards first place. Anyone who tries to challenge him is killed.
Readers hate him and curse him, but all they can do is watch as one character after another finishes telling their story and smiles at the world as though bathed in sunlight.
Because it means that Charon is coming, and death is close behind.
Yet at the very end, the young man falls before the manga's protagonist, his expression serene.
[I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
From now on, the crown of righteousness will be kept for me.]
No one knows that the number one on the ranked ladder can make a wish.
The original number one said, I want to rule the world. I want everything in it to exist for me alone.
Charon said, Then I will be the one who brings you death.
The readers are dumbfounded. The readers fall silent. The readers delete their negative reviews of Charon.
He really did have it rough.
And behind all those tears, Yi Fu gives a sinister smile.
Sorry, his first job was in public relations!
[Reader's Note]
The quotation in the box is adapted from the Chinese translation of the Second Epistle to Timothy in the New Testament of the Bible. The wording draws on Jiang Nan's Dragon Raja III: Black Moon Tide.
Theme: Life is like an ocean
