Xiao Zong was an utterly ordinary college student. Aside from being a bit too much of a straight guy, there was nothing particularly remarkable about him.
Then, one day, someone claiming to work for the United Nations Crisis Management Department came to him and begged him to save the world.
"In ten years, an esper with the power to destroy everything will appear. He'll destroy the world. The global AIs have simulated the outcome 666,666 times. In 666,665 of them, the chance of him successfully destroying the world is 100%. Only in the one scenario where the two of you meet does that probability drop to 99.95%."
Xiao Zong: "...Why? Did he fall in love with me?"
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Fifteen years ago, an asteroid passed close by Blue Star. The radiation it caused triggered a mutation in everyone. Some awakened esper abilities and rose above the rest, while others developed illnesses that made them a burden on society, living in the margins like garbage.
Jiang Xi grew up among garbage, and was garbage himself: a father who beat him, a selfish mother, a cruel grandmother, an uncle with designs on him, and a life that seemed utterly pointless.
Before he turned fifteen, all he wanted was to die as soon as possible and escape this ugly, filthy world.
But on his fifteenth birthday, a streak of...lightning appeared in his life.
That day, his uncle abused him, his father nearly beat him to death, his mother looked at him with disgust and ignored him, and his grandmother left him out in the pouring rain to fend for himself.
Just as he was glad he was finally going to die, a boy around ten appeared in front of him and said, "Do you believe in the light? Want to marry me?"
He gave a puzzled "Huh?" and the boy took him home. The boy insisted on getting him a doctor, insisted he wear a dress, insisted on applying medicine to his wounds himself, and gave up his bed so he could sleep in it.
The boy was unreasonable, stubborn, and domineering, but Jiang Xi had never slept in such a soft bed or met anyone who cared about him so much.
Just as he began to feel a little attached to the world, the boy caught him bathing, suddenly kicked him out, called him a liar, and said he never wanted to see him again.
If the whole world hated him so much, then he might as well take the whole world down with him!
But while he was on his way to destroy the world, that boy appeared again. He had not only forgotten Jiang Xi, but even said he wanted to be friends!
Well, Jiang Xi would be the one deciding what being friends meant~
#A heart just beginning to stir, he meets a pretty girl and pours his heart out to comfort her for half a month, only to find out she's a guy. A blow to the steel-straight guy#Bottom
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#Life is pointless anyway, so let's make the whole world feel the same. Who does that little brat think he is, playing with his feelings? What a lunatic#Top
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