Die Again, My Love

In every timeline, they die. In this one, I'll kill fate. Nox Miller was seven when he fell into a Rift, a tear between worlds that swallowed him whole. He survived for five years inside it, hunting what hunted him, eating what tried to eat him, until the boy who entered was no longer the thing that crawled out. He remembers none of it. Now twenty with no past and no name worth keeping, Nox is recruited into the Ryon Academy, a fortress carved inside Mount Fuji where the supernaturally gifted are forged into weapons against the monsters bleeding through the Rifts. He's not the strongest. He's not the smartest. But something lives in his shadow. Something that whispers in his ear when death gets too close. Something that knows things no one should know. And it keeps saying the same thing: "Protect them. No matter what. Even if you have to kill God."