After Becoming a Cyber Monster

This is an undeserved calamity, and a curse ordained by fate.

One day, shortly before the final exams, Mills was staying up late, diligently doing her homework.

The next second, a huge red droplet suddenly fell from the sky, smashing the final restoration assignment she'd spent nine hours completing into a total mess.

Mills's eyes widened in shock. Her hands trembled as she looked up.

A gigantic, bloodshot eye appeared there, turning in its socket and taking up half the ceiling.

Their three eyes met.

The eye was thrilled. “Huh, you can see me?”

Then your time is almost up.

Welcome to our ranks, dear Mills.

I can share some of the human reason I love to eat with you~

Mills was so furious her head spun. She grabbed her muddy assignment and hurled it at the eye. “Go to hell!!!”

But she had no idea that only those cursed and nearing death could see these monsters, known as the Sources of Curses.

From then on, Mills's once-smooth path to further education would be thrown into chaos by three mysterious organizations and the Federation's financial giants. Even staying alive would become extraordinarily difficult.

But Mills wasn't content just to survive. She thought that taking the fight to her enemies and wiping them all out suited her personal philosophy better.

The first organization, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose mission was to eradicate all Sources of Curses:

“Become an investigator, then die with honor. It will be the most meaningful thing you can do with the little time you have left.”

The second, a civilian arrest association that combined humanity with reason:

“Come with us. We won't sit around waiting to die like the Bureau. Helping ourselves and one another, facing death head-on: those are the principles we've lived by all our lives.”

The third, a monster corporation promising humanity a glorious new beginning:

“...Join us. We will spare you as one of our own. We can restore the Clent family to its former glory.”

Mills smiled and pointed her gun at them all.

“Oh, so I either join you or die, right? Seems less exciting than going solo, taking on all of you at once, wiping you out, and wasting my entire senior year of high school before taking the college entrance exam without studying.”

Hey, did you people forget that I was just a high school senior who'd barely turned eighteen?

Also known as:

#High Schooler Saves the World!#

#With a Gun in Hand, the World Is Mine#

#Friend or Foe, You're All Dogs to Me#

#Thanks for Asking. I Just Blew Someone's Head Off and I'm Rushing to the Next One#

[Before You Read]

1. I'm terrible at writing blurbs. The story itself leans toward a [serious tone].

2. The world has a cyberpunk aesthetic, with plenty of original worldbuilding. Please don't overanalyze it.

3. This is an adventure, leveling-up, and coming-of-age story. The heroine is a [deranged study addict] (the emphasis is on deranged: she wants to learn everything, can learn anything, and can master it all). Her abilities are extremely weak at first, though not her intelligence, and things get rough for her. In the middle and later stages, she'll turn the tables and begin a killing spree, going from an “ordinary student” to a “true monster.”

4. There is a male lead. He's nonhuman, and this is a romance.

5. Politely declining readers who insist on moral purity. The heroine doesn't have a strong sense of right and wrong. She used to behave herself because the law forced her to, but what about now... (hehe)

6. Finally, I hope everyone can read in harmony and enjoy life!

Theme: On the path to adulthood, courage and reason are both essential.