My Childhood Friend Is the World-Destroying Boss

Shu Xingwei accidentally learns that he is a cannon-fodder character in a book who won't survive past three chapters, while his childhood friend is a major character in the story: the strongest contaminant.

Even though the protagonist has an incredible save-and-reload System and has already restarted five times, familiar with everything that will happen, he still dies at the other's hands in a different way every time.

Now it's the protagonist's sixth restart.

He's made up his mind: this time, he'll do whatever it takes to eliminate the apocalyptic boss and restore peace to this contaminated world!

After reading all that, Shu Xingwei slowly types a string of question marks: …?

N-no, more importantly, there's something he's much more concerned about:

Five times now, he's died horribly in the early part of the story. And his childhood friend, who awakened long before the contamination began, never once thought to tell him?

What kind of lousy friendship is this?

He takes a deep breath.

Looking down at his childhood friend, who's resting with his eyes closed and his head on Shu Xingwei's lap, he shoves him away. "Don't come looking for me again."

"…"

*

Yan Jiu likes his childhood friend.

They've been together for as long as he can remember.

He has always remembered the promise the other made back then.

[We'll be together forever. No matter what happens, we'll always stay together.]

Even with that promise, humans are timid.

His twisted, inhuman body and his nature, which craves flesh and blood, must never be exposed.

But the other died.

He didn't even get to see him one last time...

After the contamination descended,

people began manifesting all kinds of latent genes.

Some people's limbs turned into tentacles.

Some could read other people's memories.

Some could manipulate space.

If that's the case,

he'll use any means necessary to find a way to bring him back.

*With a touch of Lovecraftian horror

Theme: Better to save yourself than wait for rescue