lord of darkness & death

For seventeen years, I was not a person. I was Subject 09. A number in a tank. A failed experiment.   Then I escaped. With her. Subject 11.   We ran for two years. In the third year, the sky tore open. Gates appeared. Monsters poured out. The world called it a new era. I knew the truth: The world scarred because we existed.   Four years later, Lia became World Class. I stayed E-Rank trash.   Then they came for us. An S-Rank scientist. He put Lia on her knees. And told me we were never human.   So I broke.   And in that broken place, Death was born.   This is not the story of a hero. This is the story of a number that learned to count to one. One name. One girl. One King.   _Re:Zero meets Solo Leveling. Trauma, awakening, and a power that makes S-Ranks look like children