An Anomaly's Perspective

Hanzou Zankoku, a 16-year-old determined to be the strongest in a realm of magic and monsters, had seen something strange.



Something that seemed out of place.



Me, starving and on the verge of death, glimpsed a strange figure in my dream world. He seemed familiar, but he was someone that I had never seen.



...



"Don't give up."



He encouraged me without context, and though I had never heard those words before, my morale improved slightly.



But, when I had lots of questions to ask, my dreamlike world started to collapse. I woke up, gasping in exhaustion as I gripped my chest tightly.



Instead of birds chirping outside my window, the first sound I heard was a bell chime.



!!!



Suddenly, a system-like window showed up in front of me.



[You are an anomaly.]



"What?"



[You weren't supposed to exist in this world today. You weren't supposed to interact with that person.]



"What does this thing mean? Am I hallucinating now that I'm about to starve?"



[This world has a set storyline. You are a threat to the balance in this world.]



Can Hanzou survive this world, supposedly a story, all while knowing its future events? Or will he die trying trying to live in this world as an anomaly, a version of himself that wasn't supposed to exist?