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by Ryukiro
(Shoutout to FlynX (flin_x0 on Instagram) for the amazing cover art.) Kaito was a simple electrician from Tokyo, living a quiet life with his European girlfriend, Lucy. He worked for their future—until the day he discovered her betrayal with an American who literally bled apple pie from every pore. Betrayed, humiliated, and with his dreams shattered, Kaito—blinded by rage—grabbed them both and dragged them under a truck that 'coincidentally' happened to be there. The result? Lucy and Nick were reborn as the Saintess and the Chosen Hero, while Kaito was reborn as Mordecai von Ravenloft, the devastatingly handsome Legendary Necromancer, born solely to entertain the live stream of the Higher Realms. The problem? Well... Kaito has read too many web novels and watched too much trash anime. He is painfully aware of everything surrounding him. And for that very reason, he will use the worst weapon imaginable in a poorly written, copy-pasted fantasy world: Logic and Bureaucracy. Kaito is gonna humiliate everyone in his own way, alongside a skeletal janitor named Larry, who communicates exclusively through thumbs-ups. If you want a noble hero, go read Nick's story. But if you want to watch a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown weaponize paperwork to prove how basic your tastes are—Welcome aboard. What to expect: Interactive story: the MC reads your comments—and may insult you for them. Junk-Food Progression: power through pure degeneracy and corporate horror, Dysfunctional Harem: no catgirls, only problems, Pure Spite: love conquers all… unless you exploit the source code, Fourth Wall Obliteration: Mordecai knows you’re reading this, Trope Satire: Mordecai hates every single anime trope, so expect him to be specifically angry, Psychological Trait: Everything here has a reason... maybe.
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #25
2d
#10
7/3/2026
Peak #20
38d
#9
6/16/2026
Peak #12
17d
#8
6/8/2026
Peak #46
0d
#7
5/2/2026
Peak #49
1d
Rank updated 14 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Entry forecast updated 14 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#6456 of 6,880 · 6406 below #50
By genre
beats 80% of similar stories
beats 73% of similar stories
beats 77% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
At this conversion, the Comedy Rising Stars bar (≈2 new followers/day) costs about 577 views/day — the story currently gets ~366.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
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