My name is Yukino Yukinoshita.
👩🏻💼
Second-year student at Sobu High School.
Today, on my way home after school, I discovered a side of one of my classmates that nobody knew about.
Adrian.
My classmate.
Top of the grade.
The best athlete in school.
Handsome, talented, admired by everyone.
And today, I saw a side of him that nobody else had.
A petite, fragile-looking girl was being shoved a thick stack of cash by him.
While the two struggled, he dragged her into a dark alley.
💶
A sugar daddy arrangement.
In other words, compensated dating.
“…”
After a brief silence, Yukino decided to follow them.
She couldn’t just stand by and watch a classmate fall into crime.
Nor could she ignore a young girl being dragged into ruin.
Her principles wouldn’t allow her to pretend she hadn’t seen anything and simply walk away.
“Don’t— Ah!”
A girl’s cry of pain echoed from the alley.
“Oh no!”
Yukino immediately broke into a run.
With a burst of speed, she rushed into the alley, panting heavily as she shouted with righteous conviction:
“Adrian! Please stop this illegal behavior immediately! I’ve already called the police!”
“Hm?”
Adrian turned around in confusion.
In the dim alleyway, he recognized the Sobu High uniform she was wearing.
Clearly, she was trying to stop him.
Yet the movement of his body didn’t slow in the slightest.
Instead, he pushed even deeper.
“Ah!”
The girl’s painful cry rang out again.
“You—”
Yukino started to speak.
Then she froze.
She had thought Adrian had gone all the way.
The reality was far worse.
He had literally gone all the way.
His right hand had pierced straight through the girl’s abdomen.
😱
The girl groaned in agony.
Blood poured down her body and splattered onto the ground.
“Murder…”
She’d thought she was witnessing compensated dating.
Instead, she had stumbled into a brutal murder scene.
Yukino’s legs went weak.
She wanted to run.
She desperately wanted to get away.
But her legs felt nailed to the ground.
Before she could force herself to move, the girl’s muttering suddenly changed.
“Ah! You can see me! I-I… I’m going to eat you!!!”
At first she’d been groaning in pain.
The next second, her neck suddenly stretched outward and lunged toward Adrian.
👹
She transformed into a monster.
Her mouth split open, revealing blood-soaked fangs.
She was aiming to bite his head clean off.
Adrian remained completely calm.
He simply raised a hand—
And slapped her.
SMACK!
The sound echoed crisply through the alley.
⚡
A perfect hit.
Her head flew off and slammed into the ground.
“???”
The monster’s face met the pavement in intimate fashion.
Its expression was utterly dumbfounded.
But only for a moment.
Soon, it recovered.
After giving Adrian a wary glance, it shifted its attention to the girl standing at the alley entrance.
Yukino shuddered violently.
The monster girl’s face twisted with madness as she rambled incoherently.
“You can see me, right? You can see me! You definitely can see me! I’m going to eat you!”
Without even waiting for an answer, she answered herself.
Then charged straight at Yukino.
The grotesque face.
The gaping maw.
The bloodstained fangs.
The sight struck terror directly into her soul.
“D-Don’t come any closer!!!”
Yukino’s mind went blank.
Fear consumed her entire body.
She couldn’t move.
Couldn’t run.
Could only watch helplessly as the monster approached.
Its presence grew closer and closer.
Her heart pounded wildly against her chest.
Her throat dried up.
She couldn’t breathe.
She felt like she was suffocating.
“Dark Thunder!”
A clear voice rang out.
A black, fluid-like substance surged from Adrian’s hand.
It spread across the monster girl’s body through the wound in her stomach.
In the blink of an eye, her entire form was wrapped in black matter.
The next moment—
Crackle!
Snap!
Black lightning exploded through the narrow alley.
The shrill hum of electricity filled the air.
…
A few seconds later, the electricity faded.
Silence returned.
As the black lightning disappeared, the monster girl’s body crumbled into ash.
Only Adrian and Yukino remained.
Plop.
Yukino could no longer support herself.
She collapsed onto the ground.
Her eyes were unfocused.
As though she had just awakened from a nightmare.
While she sat there in a daze, Adrian walked over.
Seeing her pale yet still beautiful face, he looked slightly surprised.
“Yukinoshita?”
Yukino slowly raised her head.
Tears glimmered faintly at the corners of her eyes.
“You…”
“Shh.”
Her dry throat struggled to form words.
But Adrian interrupted her.
He raised a finger to his lips.
Then he removed his black jacket and draped it over her pale thighs beneath her school skirt.😳
Without another word, he turned around and left.
Still dazed, Yukino watched his figure disappear into the distance.
She couldn’t understand why he’d done that.
Not until she tried to stand up.
“…”
Her face instantly turned red.
Bright red.
The blush spread from her cheeks all the way to her neck and ears.
Beneath her, everything felt damp.
And cold.
…
“An apocalypse group! An apocalypse group! Finally, I can invite people!”
Adrian hurried home, excitement written all over his face.
After remaining silent for an entire year, the Apocalypse Chat Group had finally reacted.
“The Yin Five Lightning technique he possessed—specifically the (Purity Lost) variant—had come from the Apocalypse Chat Group.”
Eighteen years ago, Adrian had been reborn from Earth into this world.
He inherited the identity of the original Adrian—
An orphan.
Back in elementary and middle school, he had a classmate named Eriri.
At first, he thought he’d transmigrated into Saekano.
Using knowledge from Earth, he copied a few ideas and managed to make a decent amount of money while still in middle school.
But once he entered high school, he realized something wasn’t right.
His classmate was Yukino Yukinoshita.
The beautiful upperclassman was Utaha Kasumigaoka.
The student council president was Kaguya Shinomiya.
Good grief.
The revelation nearly blew his mind.
This was actually a world where various slice-of-life anime had merged together.
🤯
Unfortunately, that conclusion didn’t last long.
A year ago, he met a junior named Miko Yotsuya.
The girl who could see them.
And from that moment on, he came into contact with the hidden side of the world.
The supernatural existed.
That was also when the Apocalypse Chat Group appeared and invited him to join.
[The Apocalypse Chat Group has detected a world-ending threat affecting your world. You are invited to join. Accept?]
Adrian accepted.
According to the introduction, the group was a communication platform created to help countless worlds resist apocalyptic disasters.
Adrian had been selected because he had come into contact with a world’s apocalypse.
The problem was—
For an entire year, he had been the only administrator.
The group owner had never appeared.
There wasn’t a single member to talk to.
Fortunately, the chat group still had useful functions.
[Apocalypse Sign-In]
[Apocalypse Roulette]
[Ability Enhancement]
[Ability Recovery]
[Ability Visualization]
Five functions in total.
And today, the Apocalypse Chat Group had finally changed.
📱
[Respected Administrator, you have obtained invitation privileges. Would you like to invite members now?]
“Yes.”
There was no reason to hesitate.
He selected it immediately.
[Member invitation successful!]
[This Lady Has Joined the Chat Group!]
[Apple Pie Has Joined the Chat!]
[Goddess of Water Has Joined the Chat!]
[Saeko Busujima Has Joined the Chat Group!]
“…..”