Ore wa Subete o “Parry” Suru: Gyaku Kanchigai no Sekai Saikyou wa Boukensha ni Naritai

At twelve years old, a boy named Noru was turned away from the capital's official training institutions, dismissed as utterly talentless. Refusing to abandon his dream of one day standing among the heroes of his childhood stories, he retreated deep into the mountains, convinced that relentless effort could s쳮d where natural gifts had failed him. Armed with nothing but a makeshift wooden sword, Noru threw himself into punishing daily practice. With only a single technique at his disposal—parry—he repeated it thousands upon thousands of times. Hours became days, days became months, and months stretched into years, until his lone skill had been honed to such absurd heights that he could snap a thousand branches with a single motion. Yet no matter how devotedly he trained, the new abilities required of a true adventurer never materialized. Disheartened and hovering on the edge of surrendering his dream forever, he discovered he simply could not let go. And so, he returned to the capital one final time. What Noru fails to realize is that his boundless dedication has already carried him to the very pinnacle of strength—a truth that will astonish everyone in the world except the one man who earned it.