Imagine graduating from college in a few months, and then the apocalypse happened. Moreover, dungeons and monsters appeared, superhuman powers awakened, and the world changed, yet Jade remained as he was—the ever so heedless, unbothered, emotionless, and weird guy manning the cash register. 

But some people deemed him lucky because he seemed to be unaffected by all those happenings. But would they still believe that when Jade came home one day from his night shift, tired and hungry, to find a dungeon gate right inside his house?

The worst thing that could ever happen to him was get sucked in that gate, however, instead of the gate, strange Seekers are sucking up to him instead.

Jade: Why is this happening?!

Seeker 1: Help me go back to my world, and I will give you everything you wish for.

Seeker 2: I don’t care about going back to that damned world, so can you just let me stay here with you?

Seeker 3: Jade, honey, you’re the best Minder! I need you, so come with me to my world.

And so on… these Seekers are all lunatics forcing him to help them go back to their respective worlds! But how can Jade do that, when all of them were just mere characters from books?!

Now, what will Jade do?

I didn't look back at him as we ran down the hallway of the NSA, but I could feel him just behind me.


Whatever this was between us, whatever came next, I wasn't letting the universe decide it for me.


I was choosing Claude. And if that meant dragging his noble, self-sacrificing ass into my messy, emotional orbit?


The corridors of the NSA pulsed red with warning lights, the air thrumming with urgency. Agents rushed past us, their boots echoing on the flooring, voices sharp over the intercom. 


One loud voice boomed against the chaos. 


"Level Zero alert! All Seekers head to the Dome! Repeat—Level Zero!"


Level Zero. The kind of emergency that didn't happen unless the world itself was about to throw a tantrum.


Chapter 139 - The Clown's Arrival