The Time Breakers

"Time does not flow. It repeats. History marches on, people are born and die, and empires crumble exactly when they are supposed to... Everything runs as perfectly as a pre-written script. But that perfection is a curse. An unyielding timeline will stretch, thin out, and inevitably shatter like a wheel spinning endlessly. To prevent the collapse of reality, the world created anomalies. Twelve human beings. Twelve entities existing outside the flow of time. They are called by many names, but the truest of all... is The Time Breakers." Kairi Ren has lived thirty years of his life in a suffocating spiral of misery: his life's tech project stolen, branded an embezzler and shunned by society, his parents taken by a horrific accident, and his older sister— his final anchor—missing without a trace. He accepts rotting away as an outcast until he confronts Sato Mitsuhiro, his billionaire former best friend who now owns the mega-project Paradox. But Sato is actually a Time Breaker who regressed from the future. In the original timeline, Kairi was the true creator of that technology; Sato merely used his future knowledge to usurp Kairi's destiny, turned his parents' deaths into a cruel "test," and murdered his sister when she discovered the truth. Driven to the edge of the abyss at gunpoint, Kairi does the unthinkable: using a jagged shard of scrap metal, he tears open the regressor's throat. [Notice: Player "The Catalyst" is dead. Usurpation successful.] Waking up in a new timeline, Sato has been completely erased from reality. Kairi Ren realizes he has inherited his enemy's position, bound to a cold, mechanical Clockwork System and wielding the very supreme power of the man who ruined his life. However, the hunt has only just begun. Twelve Time Breakers with mutually counteracting classes are slaughtering one another in the shadows. The rules of the game are brutally simple: Kill to steal powers and upgrade yourself; the defeated are permanently erased from the loop. In a world where trust is non-existent, Kairi must forge an alliance with an Echo capable of tracing the past and a reckless gambler trading his own life for luck, aiming to stop this death match before reality shatters into pieces.After reading, I would greatly appreciate your feedback. Your comments will motivate me to continue writing and better understand the preferences of my readers.