Wasteland Welder: My Mecha Can Swallow Evolution

In the lower city of Rust Star, human life is cheaper than scrap metal. Makino, an eighteen-year-old scavenger and welder, was forced to raise a welding gun to a heavy mecha in order to get a drive shaft that could be exchanged for food rations. When he was about to die, the [Mechanical Origin Fire] that had been sleeping deep in his spine for thirteen years suddenly woke up. From then on, while others were piloting mechas, he was dismantling them. As long as the enemy's engines, armor, weapons and neural modules are still functioning, he can strip them from the wreckage and forcibly hot-swap them into his own body during the battle. There is no perfect compatibility, and there is no cost-free evolution. Every piece of assembly leaves behind structural debt, thermal debt, and neurological debt; for every piece of power he gains, he may lose a piece of memory. When the chaebol regarded the lower-class residents as consumables, and when living people were made into mechanical parts to maintain the planet's barriers, Makino drove the mecha [Owl], which was made up of countless enemy remains, from the scrapyard to the star sea. They say trash will always just be trash. Makino lit the welding gun and looked at the sky full of steel gods. "If you can dismantle it, you can kill it."