CRUCIFY THE SMILE: The boy who ate death.

There is a starving boy from the Deep Slums . The only person whose interface glitches, whose reflection smiles without him, and who carries something inside his skull that isn't his to control.A boy who ate death like as if it owed him rent. Hunters cross portals to fight monsters by 7. They become meat by 7:30. They go in thousands. They return in digits. Survival doesn't mean freedom — it means going home to the Chip that owns you. Kael learned to survive by staying invisible. Manipulate. Hide. Never be seen. But the thing he swallowed the day he should have died isn't interested in hiding. It's bored of small victories. It wants him to fight things that can actually kill him — and it's starting to get what it wants. Cosmic things walk amongst us with human skins like borrowed coats. And still it isn't all, have you ever seen your reflection smile back at you. It's better not to know. Solo Leveling meets Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Attack on Titan. WHAT TO EXPECT: Fast-paced progression fantasy. A ruthless, manipulative protagonist. A parasite with its own agenda. Cyberpunk dystopia. Cosmic-scale horror waiting under the floor.