Bocchi Tenseiki

Born into a world that offered him nothing but scorn, a twenty-nine-year-old unemployed virgin lived as a prisoner of his own profound misanthropy. His existence was a hollow cycle of isolation, his heart hardened by a deep-seated distrust for the very people who surrounded him. That all changed in a single, chaotic moment when he stumbled upon a woman on the verge of a brutal assault. Driven by a flicker of fading conviction, he threw himself into the fray—only to be met with a blade through his chest, left to bleed out in a filthy alley, cursing the humanity he had just tried to defend. But death was not an end. When he next opened his eyes, he was no longer a forgotten man in a cold city, but a newborn babe named Ash Hawkwood, the second son of a minor noble house in a vibrant world teeming with magic and spirits. Yet, the reincarnation seemed almost cruelly ironic; in this fantastical realm, he was stripped of any divine favor, possessing no aptitude for the "True Magic" that warped reality, nor the prodigious talent for the sword that defined heroes. Reborn with nothing but the memories of his previous life and a cynical brilliance born from a lifetime of disappointment, Ash is determined to carve his own path. Rejecting the fate of a simple background character, he vows to forge an empire with his own hands, proving that in a world ruled by magic and steel, the sharpest weapon might just be a mind honed by bitterness and relentless ambition.