Chapter 1: Death of a Loser, Birth of a God
I used to think there was no bottom. That you could just keep falling forever, scraping away your dignity until there was nothing left to take. I was wrong. There is a bottom. I found it. I carved my own way down with nothing but two shaking hands, a phone screen, and a body that refused to feel anything but pain.
My name is Rin Kazuki, and in my old world, I was nothing. Not a genius. Not a fighter. Not even a decent human being. Just a man who'd wasted himself, spent every drop of willpower on an addiction that ate me alive.
It's hard to admit it now, but I was a slave to my own lust. Day after day, night after night, I buried myself in pixels and illusions until the tissues piled around me like snowdrifts. My body didn't reward me anymore. Every release felt like punishment—raw, hollow, and aching. I'd burned myself out, and all I had to show for it was shame.
And then one day, without warning, the shame ended. So did everything else.
It was like a switch inside my chest snapped. A sharp pain, like a cable breaking. My vision flared white, and then—nothing.
When I opened my eyes again, I wasn't in my dim little room. No piles of tissues. No cracked phone screen. No smell of instant noodles gone stale. Instead, I lay on something impossibly soft. Velvet sheets, crimson and smooth beneath my fingers. A golden light poured down from above through a ceiling of stained glass, painting the room in shards of red, blue, and gold. The air was warm, heavy, and it carried a scent I didn't recognize—sweet, intoxicating, dangerous.
And then I saw her.
She sat on top of me as if she'd been waiting for me to wake. Silver hair cascaded over her shoulders, shimmering like liquid moonlight. Her eyes burned red, molten and hungry. Smooth black wings curled from her back, delicate and terrifying all at once. Her lips curved into a smirk as she leaned closer, and I felt her breath tickle my ear.
"So you're the one the System chose?" Her voice was low, velvet itself, every syllable dipped in sin. "How delicious."
I froze. My body screamed at me to move, to run, but I couldn't. My chest pounded, my mouth went dry, and before I could even form a word, something else claimed my vision.
Blue light. Lines of text burned into the air in front of me.
[Welcome, Rin Kazuki. You have been bound to the Lust System.]
[To grow stronger, you must indulge in desire.]
[First Quest: Claim the succubus before you. Reward: Awakening of the Lust Core.]
My breath caught. "What… the hell?"
The woman—succubus, I realized—smiled wider. "The Lust System has a sense of humor, doesn't it? You, a pitiful, broken creature dragged from another world, chosen to wield power through what destroyed you."
She leaned lower until her lips grazed my jaw, her crimson eyes locking onto mine. "Tell me, Rin Kazuki. Will you embrace it… or will you fail before you even begin?"
I should have felt joy. Power. Triumph. A new life, a second chance. But what I felt instead was panic. The words of the System burned into my mind. Claim the succubus.
Was this real? Was I dreaming? Hallucinating? Did my broken brain finally snap from years of abuse? No matter how hard I tried to explain it away, the truth pressed down on me as heavy as her weight on my chest. This was real. The pain in my old world was gone. My body felt stronger, fuller, alive in a way it hadn't in years. Every nerve tingled, burning with energy.
But the cost…
The cost was everything I feared about myself. Everything I hated. To live, to grow stronger, to survive in this new world, I had to embrace lust. The very thing that had ruined me before.
The succubus tilted her head, watching my silence with amusement. "You're trembling," she whispered. "Don't tell me the great Lust System chose a coward?"
I clenched my fists against the sheets. My pride screamed at me, what little of it I had left. Coward. Loser. Addict. Trash. Was that all I'd ever be?
Her lips brushed my ear again, her voice a blade wrapped in silk. "If you won't take me, boy… then I'll take you."
Her nails traced down my chest, light at first, then sharp enough to sting. The sound made me hiss between my teeth, my breath ragged. The sheets rustled beneath us. My pulse thundered in my ears. Her teasing hum filled the silence, each vibration pulling me deeper into the moment.
The System chimed again.
[Warning: Quest failure will result in immediate termination of host.]
Termination. Death. Again. I'd wasted one life already. Would I really let this one slip away before it even began?
No. Not again.
I forced myself to meet her gaze, even as my body trembled beneath her. "Fine," I whispered. "If this is what it takes to live… then I'll do it."
Her eyes widened, then softened into delight. "Good boy."
Her weight shifted against me, silver hair brushing across my face. My ears filled with the sound of her laughter—low, throaty, intoxicating. Her breath spilled over my lips, hot and deliberate. The rustle of the sheets, my own gasps, her teasing whispers—all of it swirled together, louder, sharper.
Then it hit me.
A surge. A pulse from deep inside, primal and electric. My body trembled, not from weakness—but from awakening. The Lust Core screamed awake, and with it, the System's voice rang like a chorus inside my skull.
[Quest Complete.]
[Lust Core: Awakened.]
[Effect: All sensations amplified by 300%.]
My world exploded. The brush of her lips felt like lightning, the scrape of her nails like fire. Every sound—the sheets, her hum, my breath—pounded in my skull like thunder. Pleasure and power blurred together until I couldn't tell where one ended and the other began.
I gasped, clutching at her waist, my voice breaking. "What… what is this?"
She leaned in, crimson eyes glowing like embers, her smile dripping with satisfaction. "This," she whispered, her words trembling through my body, "is just the beginning."
The velvet sheets twisted beneath us as the Core roared, flooding me with energy until I thought I'd burst. Heat, pressure, the pounding of blood in my ears—louder, faster, relentless.
And then—white light swallowed everything.
[Welcome, Rin Kazuki. You have taken your first step on the Path of the Harem God.]
Her laughter was the last thing I heard before the world vanished.