colamaboi
Eighteen-year-old Juri expected nothing after jumping off a rooftop... just the quiet he'd been chasing for months. Instead, he wakes up in a forest smelling of pine needles, dressed in fantasy robes, with a maroon scarf around his neck that won't stop talking.
Frasc, self-described one-of-a-kind magical artifact, deeply opinionated, and utterly impossible to ignore, informs Juri that the gods took pity on him and dropped him into a new world. No refunds, no returns. The human kingdom collapsed eighty years ago after the Demon King took the throne, and now a patchwork of Adventurer's Guilds keeps civilization alive by sheer willpower. Juri has fifty silver coins, a basic sword, a spellbook he can't use, and apparently a destiny, whether he wants one or not.
A story about someone who stopped wanting to live, slowly and awkwardly learning how to anyway, through bad decisions, a chaotic scarf, and the kind of found family that forms when misfits have nowhere else to go.