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The Dark Smile

Kaito_Renzo
--- Since childhood, Kiora was different. One fateful day, a strange entity entered his body, turning his life into a living nightmare. Lonely and broken, he kept smiling for no reason— a smile that hid endless pain. At the age of seventeen, a mysterious gate appeared and pulled him into another world— a world filled with magic, monsters, and merciless people. In this cruel world, only one rule existed: the strong rule, and the weak are crushed. There, the entity within him began to speak... It gave him missions — complete them and be rewarded, fail them and face punishment. Thus began the story of a boy whose smile concealed darkness deeper than any abyss. ---
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The Extra: Subject 082

Rio only wanted to see how the story ended. Instead, he woke up inside it. Not as the protagonist, not even as a supporting character—but as someone who barely existed in the narrative. An extra with no importance, no future, and no place in the story’s direction. At least, that’s how it was supposed to be. Now in the body of Rio Valen, a disgraced noble exiled from his own house, he finds himself in a region the original story barely touched—one driven as much by advanced technology as it is by arcane power. And buried beneath it, something far worse. The facility he wakes up in shouldn’t exist. The experiments conducted there shouldn’t have succeeded. And whatever was placed inside him was never meant to survive. As fragments of memory return—both his own and the life he inherited—Rio begins to understand the situation he’s in. The world still follows its original course. The key figures are still moving toward the same future. But his existence doesn’t fit anywhere within it. Even so, people begin to notice him. Not because of who he is—but because of something they can’t quite explain. A presence. A flaw. Or something far more dangerous. Some approach out of curiosity. Others, for reasons he doesn’t understand. And a few, simply because staying away isn’t an option. With no role to follow and no clear path ahead, Rio is left with a simple choice: Stay invisible and survive. Or step into a story that was never meant to include him. Because in a world that already has its main character— an extra that shouldn’t exist might be the only thing that can change it. **The cover used is temperoray, I hold no credits towards the art**
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