Infinite Survival in a Raft

[Green-tea, airheaded fish with a black-sesame filling, top x brave, kind, and upright bottom]

Lu Jinghuai, a visual communication designer working 996, was brought into a raft-survival world by an unexpected surprise from the System. He thought he could fish up some garbage, complete a mission, and get out.

The System did indeed give him a mission.

[100 billion seashell coins to rescue the Sea God]

"...I'm not rescuing him."

Perhaps the System thought he had a hard enough life already, so it was... planning to make things even harder for him!

[Congratulations, player. You have completed a pact with the Sea God. If you do not die, he will not perish. He will protect his devout believers until the end of the world.]

He naturally thought of a few things.

My Expensive Husband, I'm Here to Bring You Home. The Story of Me Bringing My Expensive Husband Home. My Expensive Husband Has Amnesia.

"I don't want this!"

He refused. He would rather stay single than stake his life on rescuing some vague, nonexistent Sea God, only to spend the rest of his life a slave to money.

The System didn't care. It just kept throwing dungeons at him, forcing him to complete the mission.

[Dungeon: Paradise Island has opened.]

No, no, no! He didn't want this!

Whether he wanted to or not, he had to enter the dungeon. He'd die if he didn't, so all he could do was fight desperately to die inside, because that was the only way to live.

Because the Sea God would keep protecting him.

Protection can last for a time, but it cannot last forever.

For Lu Jinghuai and Su Muqing, this saying was unexpectedly inapplicable. It simply had nothing to do with them.

"Not a single one of you is getting away. Stay here... and be buried with him!" Lu Jinghuai picked up Su Muqing's body, which was about to dissipate. He was still himself, but an unfamiliar sense of distance surrounded him. Only toward Su Muqing was he different. "My Sea God, your most devout believer has returned."

Su Muqing wanted to know who Lu Jinghuai really was, too. Why was the gentle white light emerging from Lu Jinghuai's body so much like his own spiritual power?

"Lu Jinghuai, who are you, really?"

He couldn't recall any memories connected to himself. He felt familiar with Lu Jinghuai, but there was also a feeling he couldn't put into words.

2025.3.15, revised for the third time

Reader's Guide~

1. Both are devoted to each other and powerful!

2. I didn't do a great job with the first dungeon, so please bear with me!

[I've already done a major rewrite. It's so much better than the first draft, honestly. You never saw the first draft. If you had, you'd have been horrified. I've already chewed myself out over it once.]

3. The game was inspired by Raft, but the story is completely different. Only the basic elements are the same, so please don't scrutinize it too closely. The early survival section might be boring (?) but it's not very long. That's a minor part of the story. In the middle, the focus shifts to dungeons and the plot, and the raft gets left behind. The later part focuses on dungeons, the plot, and recovering memories.

4. Every player comes from a different world, such as ABO or the modern world.

5. There are cameo characters, all from my first three completed novels and my upcoming ones.

6. Ah, I think that's everything (?) This is the longest list of content warnings I've ever written, haha.

7. The blurb may change, but the story won't. The bonus chapters are all complete, so feel free to jump in.

9. Oh, I almost forgot the most, most, most important point: all the livestream viewers are real people, and they come from different worlds too. It's like they're watching a livestream on an illegal website. There will be lots of livestream comments early on. If you don't like that, just stick with it; there'll be fewer later, for reasons explained in the story.

Theme: Even if you have nothing, you must never give up!