by NameleSSStories
In the corporate underworld of Seoul, human flesh is the cheapest currency.Nam-Il is the doormat of the Gangseo Technical High School. Beaten by day and enslaved by night to mop the grimy floor of a convenience store, he swallows his own dignity daily to keep a single, fragile secret safe. On the streets, he is merely "Namme"-a nobody, invisible to society.But when a cog in the mafia machine breaks, a death sentence suddenly crashes down upon his shoulders. Cornered and left to choke on his own blood on the floor of the ruined store, Nam-Il's biology gives way. And the universe does not send him a miracle.What awakens within his spine is a ravenous [Parasitic System]. An anomaly that offers no benevolent magic or guarantees of survival, but rather a brutal bargain: cellular evolution in exchange for shattered bones, self-mutilation, and extreme trauma.With an invisible clock ticking relentlessly against his life, the boy will have to lock his sanity away and feed the monster. The hunt has begun, and the "Nobody" is about to drag the gods of the underworld down into the abyss.
