
by Marukuro Rafaello
Yagami Ren learned early that promises are only kept when they're cheap. Poverty taught him that lesson first; a family that fell apart around him confirmed it. By the time he'd absorbed every humiliation the world could offer, he'd already buried the part of himself that expected better. Then the light took him anyway. He wakes up crowned a Hero alongside his entire class — and handed a status window that ranks him dead last. Gravedigger. Rank F. While his classmates draw blades that split mountains, Yagami gets a shovel and a job title built for corpses. The kingdom dresses it up as divine selection. Yagami reads it as a cage with better lighting — one more system built by people who profit when a Rank F hero smiles for the crowd and does exactly what he's told. Underneath the coronation speeches, someone is keeping score. Every ally has an angle he hasn't found yet. Every kindness comes with a bill nobody's shown him. He can spend what little rank he has climbing toward the hero they need him to be. Or he can stop performing gratitude, and find out exactly how far the most expendable man in the kingdom can rise — and who's left standing once he gets there. Yagami spent his old life invisible. In this one, he intends to be impossible to ignore — starting with the kingdom that thinks a Rank F hero is harmless.
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| 1 | PROLOGUE: The Monster They Summoned | 0 |
| 2 | Chapter 1: The Geometry of Broken Things | 0 |
| 3 | Chapter 2: The Day the Rules Stopped Mattering | 0 |
| 4 | Chapter 3: No Precedent | 0 |
| 5 | Chapter 4: This Isn't Your Classroom | 0 |
| 6 | Chapter 5: F-Rank Gravedigger | 0 |
| 7 | Chapter 6: The Same World | 0 |
| 8 | Chapter 7: Rank F | 0 |
| 9 | Chapter 8: The Feast | 0 |
| 10 | Chapter 9: The Third Stair | 0 |
| 11 | Chapter 10: Gravedigger | 0 |
| 12 | Chapter 11: Field Rations | 0 |
| 13 | CHAPTER 12: North | 0 |
| 14 | Chapter 13: What They're Not Saying | 0 |
| 15 | Chapter 14: Blood Mage | 0 |
| 16 | Chapter 15: The Lower City | 0 |
| 17 | Chapter 16: One Punch | 0 |
| 18 | Chapter 17: Gray Cat | 0 |
| 19 | Chapter 18: Go On | 0 |
| 20 | Chapter 19: Stone | 0 |
| 21 | Chapter 20: The Unnamed One | 0 |
| 22 | Chapter 21: The Alibi | 0 |
| 23 | Chapter 22: The Inheritance | 0 |
| 24 | Chapter 23: Descent | 0 |
| 25 | Chapter 23.1: The Shadow on the Page | 0 |
| 26 | Chapter 24: The Edge | 0 |
| 27 | Chapter 25: Surface | 0 |
| 28 | Chapter 26: 8% | 0 |
| 29 | Chapter 27: Demoted to Meat | 0 |
| 30 | Chapter 28: Arithmetic with No Room Left | 0 |
| 31 | Chapter 29: Cheap, Sturdy Glass | 0 |
| 32 | Chapter 30: The Last Childish Hope | 0 |
| 33 | Chapter 31: Bone Clasp and Sinew | 0 |
| 34 | Chapter 32: Through Cracked Lenses | 0 |
| 35 | Chapter 33: A Hole That Started Emptying Itself | 0 |
| 36 | Chapter 34: The Laborer’s Calculation | 0 |
| 37 | Chapter 35: Boots Don't Scream | — |
| 38 | Chapter 36: Unclipped Gold | — |
| 39 | Chapter 37: Sensory Assault | — |
| 40 | Chapter 38: The Unwritten Rank | — |
| 41 | Chapter 39: A Rank Beyond Paper | — |
| 42 | Chapter 40: The Red Eyes in the Alley | — |
| 43 | Chapter 41: Ruined Beer and Drawn Steel | — |
| 44 | Chapter 42: The Captain at the Well | — |
| 45 | Chapter 43: Sixty-One Percent | — |
| 46 | Chapter 44: The Family Trade | — |
| 47 | Chapter 45: Two Hundred Years of Practice | — |
| 48 | Chapter 46: A Phone on a Chain | — |
| 49 | Chapter 47: Arguments with the Law | — |
| 50 | Chapter 48: A Pattern in the Dust | — |
| 51 | Chapter 49: A Name from the Dust | — |
| 52 | Chapter 50: The Arithmetic of Leaving | — |
| 53 | Chapter 51: Two Hundred Years of Silence | — |