bookcurios Chapter 718 - 718
Chapter 718 - 718
Amane Shinomiya's ability was not simply wish fulfillment.Its true name should be "The Goddess's Excessive Favor."
Whenever he made a wish in his heart, circumstances would subtly shift toward the outcome he desired.
In essence, this was fate realizing his inner wishes through countless coincidences.
It was as if he were the darling of the goddess of fate.
An innate EX rank in luck.
After discovering he possessed this wish-granting ability,
Amane Shinomiya—or rather, Amane Shinomiya—remained utterly loyal to his own desires, using his luck indiscriminately without any restraint.
This was only natural.
What child understands the meaning of moderation?
During every exam, even if he just scribbled randomly, he would accurately hit all the answers, effortlessly securing the top spot in various school rankings.
"Shinomiya must have used his ability!"
"Exactly! He never studies seriously, so how could he possibly score so well!"
These words infuriated the young Amane Shinomiya.
What kind of talk was that?
Couldn't he earn first place through his own hard work?
"I'll prove them wrong with my own efforts!"
He naively thought to himself at the time.
And so, he truly buckled down, studying diligently.
Finally, in another exam, he achieved excellent results.
"Shinomiya used his ability again!"
"This is too much! We work so hard, so how come he can get first place just by scribbling randomly!"
He tried his best to explain to everyone.
This was the result of his own hard work; he studied diligently every night.
But no one believed him.
Everyone was convinced he had used his ability.
Because of his previous unrestrained use of his power, his classmates and those around him all knew he possessed the power of wish fulfillment.
His classmates' refusal to acknowledge him no matter what left Shinomiya deeply disappointed.
On one occasion, due to a teacher's mistake, the school caught fire.
Students and teachers panicked and fled.
"Good! I'll take this chance to make everyone recognize me!"
Shinomiya resolved.
He repeatedly ran between the school building and the water pool, carrying water with his own hands, and successfully extinguished the fire.
"Shinomiya, what have you done!"
Just as he waited for his classmates to praise him,
what he received instead was baseless anger and accusations.
"You just wanted to show off again, right! That's why you used your ability to set the school on fire and then handled it all by yourself! You're going too far!"
"How can there be such an evil child!"
Each word felt like a sharp blade stabbing straight into his heart.
"That's right, it's all his fault!"
The teacher who had made the mistake also firmly insisted it was Shinomiya's fault.
Thanks to this, that person received lenient treatment from the school and wasn't fired.
"I didn't use my ability at all."
Amane Shinomiya was utterly disheartened.
He tried every way possible to prove himself, but everything was attributed to his ability.
From then on, he stopped going to school, hiding at home every day without stepping outside even once.
But this was only the beginning of his nightmare.
"Shinomiya, make Mom rich!"
"Shinomiya, make Mom beautiful!"
"Shinomiya, help Mom find a handsome, good man!"
He never expected it.
His own biological mother had extended her claws toward him.
He instinctively refused his mother's request, fearing that wishes would corrupt their familial bond.
He thought it was nothing serious—after all, they were mother and son.
But one morning.
When he woke up, he found himself inside an iron cage in the basement.
"I am your mother! The one who gave you life! You should fulfill my wishes!"
His mother wielded a long whip, lashing him again and again.
That greedy and ferocious expression still filled him with terror whenever he recalled it.
He was deeply disappointed in his mother and stubbornly refused to comply with her demands.
"It's fine. Mom will surely come to her senses."
A cage like this couldn't hold him, but he still clung to that illusion.
So his mother escalated, pouring boiling water into the iron cage. As he screamed under the scalding water, her insane demeanor plunged Amane into utter despair.
One day, when he woke up again, he found he had left the basement.
"Amane, it's alright now. Dad will protect you!"
His father appeared before him.
His father had killed his mother and rescued him from the basement.
In that instant, seeing his father's guilty and pained expression, Amane began to believe in family love once more.
He helped his father cover up the traces of the murder, and they began living together.
Their life was ordinary, but it was the happiest time for Amane because his father truly cherished him.
But one day.
"Amane, Dad's company is having some trouble. Can you help me?"
His father came home and begged him.
Amane hesitated for a while, but under his father's desperate pleas, he eventually agreed.
Then his father's company began to thrive, with revenue growing almost exponentially.
The company climbed step by step, but every time it hit a bottleneck, his father would come begging Amane again, which made Amane suspicious.
Was Dad only cherishing him for his ability?
After that, Amane made the most regrettable decision of his life.
He stopped granting his father's wishes.
As a result.
His father went insane.
The company was investigated for multiple illegal activities and tax evasion. Competitors took advantage of the situation, and his father soon went bankrupt.
Then he picked up a long whip, his expression twisted with ferocity, and advanced toward Amane.
In the end, it was no different at all.
His father had only been acting, all for the sake of his ability.
Amane finally lost all hope in this world.
In self-abandonment, he erased all traces of his past, changed his name to Amane Shinomiya, and joined 〈Rebellion〉.
He detested his ability.
What damn good luck? It was nothing but misfortune!
If it weren't, why had it brought him so much disaster?
He despised even more those who struggled against fate.
Why was it that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't gain recognition, while others could succeed through effort?
When he learned about Eiji, an overwhelming surge of malice instantly welled up in his heart.
Born suppressed by fate, yet he escaped his tragic past through his own efforts?
Disgusting!
Absolutely disgusting!
Why?
Why could he succeed through effort?
While no matter how hard he tried, he was only met with denial, blame, insults, and abuse?
Resentment, jealousy, rage... negative emotions scorched his nerves like flames.
Countless malicious feelings merged together, forming the fundamental reason he set his sights on Eiji.
He and this person were physiologically incompatible; he wanted to use the cruelest means to personally witness him tremble beneath the heel of fate!
Kurogane Ikki was no different. With his talk of "anyone can become a Blazer through hard work," he had also drawn his attention, and the punishment inflicted upon him was the most severe aside from Eiji.
"Die, die, die!"
A pitch-black wind suddenly erupted.
Amidst maniacal laughter, a wind that seemed like the embodiment of death enveloped Amane Shinomiya's limbs, suspending him in midair.
"Everyone, just dieeeeeee—!!"