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Chapter 1 - Prologue – The One Who Returned

They thought he was dead.

No Gate had opened. No dungeon had been reported. Kazuki Ryou simply vanished—no blood, no sign, not even a ripple in the system. Three years passed, and the world moved on.

Until today.

He stepped out from an alley behind his old school, barefoot, bloodstained, eyes hollow from a thousand lifetimes lived in a place no one should survive.

The Abyss.

It had no name, no logic. Time there stretched like a nightmare. Kazuki lost count of the monsters he killed, the lives he copied, the faces he wore to survive. One rule kept him going: Kill or be erased.

And with every kill, Doppel evolved.

Now, back in a world that forgot him, Kazuki isn't looking for answers. He's looking for a purpose.

Because the Abyss gave him only one truth:

If you can become anything—who will you choose to be?

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