Betrayed in the Apocalypse のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

My voice came out hoarse and full of pain, echoing through the empty, crumbling laundry plant.I glared at the well-dressed people standing in front of me.Ever since I was thrown into this damned post-apocalyptic power fantasy novel eight years ago, some invisible story inertia had twisted everyone's minds.To prepare for my younger brother, Samuel Grant, the useless so-called hero who failed to awaken his powers, they had turned me—the only S-Rank ability user in the entire colony—into a cripple left to die in filthy wastewater.My mother, Claire Grant, stood ankle-deep in the chemical runoff. Even after I tore open my shirt to show the scar across my chest, she didn't look guilty at all.She froze for only a second before throwing herself onto the ground. She slapped the foul-smelling muddy water with both hands and cried even louder than before."Ethan! How can you be so selfish? The colony leaders all agreed to remove your crystal core back then! Samuel is the Chosen One! He's the

My refusal finally made the Grants stop pretending."You've gone too far! Since you want to die, we'll make your wish come true!"Jasper shouted and waved at the guards behind him. "Get him tied up and take him straight to the central zone!"Several guards rushed forward immediately. They didn't care that my legs were crippled. They grabbed my collar roughly and dragged me out of my wheelchair.Bang!Without the support of my legs, my body crashed into the muddy ground filled with strong chemical waste.A sharp piece of broken metal cut into my arm. Blood mixed with dirty water and flowed across the ground.But I still stared at Jasper and Claire coldly. I didn't even make a sound."Put the hazmat suit on him, now!" Claire urged anxiously from the side. She was afraid they would waste too much time and fail to save Samuel.The guards quickly brought over an old hazmat suit that had been abandoned for more than a decade. The surface was covered with cracks, and several parts were alread

Claire's desperate scream was so loud that it even pierced through the thick radiation barrier. I could faintly hear it.Everyone thought I had disappeared inside that blinding purple light.But at that moment, even after being swallowed by billions of units of radiation, I didn't melt away. Instead, I was protected inside a strange dark blue energy shield.Beep!"Destiny System 1.0 emergency intervention activated! Original host Samuel Grant's public reputation has dropped to zero. His character has completely collapsed. The protagonist's Destiny Points have fallen below the required threshold! Warning! The wager experiment conditions have been triggered! The world's timeline is undergoing an irreversible deviation!"Suddenly, I heard a cold, mechanical voice. There was even a hint of panic hidden under the electronic distortion.Sitting in my broken wheelchair, I looked at the violent radiation waves around me being blocked by the blue shield. I smiled coldly.I had waited eight year

Samuel was finally found guilty. Three days later, the colony's highest court handed down its final sentence.Samuel was sentenced to death. He was stripped of all civil rights and would be publicly executed in the central plaza at the end of the year.As his accomplices and the people who benefited from his crimes, Jasper, Claire, and Chloe also paid a heavy price.The court stripped the Grants of every privilege they had in the colony. All their property was confiscated.Jasper and Claire, who had once lived in a luxurious apartment in the colony's central district, were thrown out by heavily armed guards.They were exiled to the Class C slums on the outer edge of the colony. Even stray dogs avoided that place.It was the same place where they had abandoned me years ago.Now fate had finally come full circle.After his ribs were broken during the public riot, Jasper never received proper treatment. He became crippled. Every day, he dragged his half-paralyzed body through piles of ga

The zombie horde retreated. The crisis was finally over.The colony welcomed the commander of Rising Sun—me—with the highest level of ceremony.Millions of surviving citizens packed both sides of the wide central avenue.Flowers and ribbons filled the sky. Everyone shouted my name without stopping.My motorcade slowly passed through the slums on the edge of the colony.Near a filthy drainage ditch at the edge of the crowd, two skinny old people in torn clothes stared at the giant screen broadcasting the celebration.The moment Claire saw the familiar face on the screen, her whole body shook violently. After four years of madness, the shock briefly brought her back to her senses."Ethan... That's Ethan!"Claire let out a heartbreaking scream. She somehow found the strength to pull Jasper up from the ground. He was still crippled. The two of them stumbled through the crowd and desperately rushed toward the middle of the avenue."Commander! Watch out!" The guards immediately raised their