Global Awakening: I Have a Price Tag

Others awaken and get abilities for free—fireballs, ice spikes, light wings, a thousand cherry blossoms—all given without cost. Lin Che awakens to a choice: every day, he sees options. Want an ability? Fine. But you pick the price. Someone casually says, 'I'd trade ten minutes of silence for teleportation,' and he can actually exchange silence for life. Another says, 'I'd trade one centimeter of height for a burst of power,' and he uses height for fists. Among a thousand chosen ones, he is the only one who must calculate every step. But this ledger has a secret: the Book of Costs is rigid, taking words literally, not understanding twists. Lin Che, having watched fourteen years of anime, movies, and web novels, excels at extracting 'high cost-performance' abilities from others' casual complaints. Others think 'loss of voice' is a useless trick; he uses it for infiltration. They laugh at 'hiccup for an hour' as a joke; he uses it to read intelligence from every nation. On the Fate Stage hunting ground, everyone thinks he is an ice mage. Until he combines a dozen 'insignificant' small costs into a killing move they cannot understand, they realize—he never lacked power. He only lacked the price he was willing to pay.