The Protagonist’s Sister Is Actually The Strongest Chapter 5: Chapter 5: The Protagonist

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Chapter 5: The Protagonist ----- This was perhaps the first day in many years that Jack had genuinely cried out of happiness and felt such overwhelming joy. A heavy burden was finally lifted from his chest when he saw his sister’s eyes open and her sweet smile. It had been years since he had spoken with her, years since he could look into her eyes, years when she was… simply sleeping forever. Since the apocalypse began, Jack had fought with everything he had to survive. Not only did his parents die gruesomely against the monsters swarming the city, but his sister suffered a severe head injury, falling into a coma. For three long years, he struggled to pay hospital bills. Although hunters now protect society, monsters continue to pour from the Gates that appeared worldwide, connecting to dangerous otherworldly domains called Dungeons. Having barely awakened enough strength to surpass an average adult male and with slightly better stamina than most, Jack started working as a porter. Lacking any innate skill to fight, he assisted by butchering monster carcasses and collecting valuable magic crystals that grew in abundance within Dungeons. Every day… was filled with fear, anguish, desperation, and depression. Until one day, the unluckiest day of his life occurred. A phenomenon called a “Double Dungeon” trapped him and his party inside a second, higher-ranked dungeon. The original dungeon was merely E Rank, but the second dungeon that emerged was none other than S Rank, the highest dungeon rank ever recorded. This was the day he met true despair. The experts who had worked with him for months were slain one by one, as if they were mere ants. Perhaps because he was so weak and insignificant, the monsters paid him little attention, allowing him to hide. But he was eventually found by one of them, the ancient dark beast, the devourer of gods, the incarnation of gluttony, the S Rank Monster, Fenrir! A gigantic, fearsome wolf that had hunted his entire party. Yet Fenrir found a certain amusement in Jack’s pathetic life… a certain quality. “Amazing, even in despair, your heart emanates a darkness I have never seen before. What is this swirl of emotions? Despair? Anguish? Wrath? Frustration? Interesting, very interesting!” The wolf suddenly made an offer. “You’re the perfect vessel for me, hollow, with nothing else… yet a girl? Is this little girl within your heart the only thing you desire to protect?” Jack couldn’t speak, paralyzed by fear, yet Fenrir read his heart. “I see… If I spare your life and you become my vessel, are you willing to do as I command? Are you willing to kill, to slaughter? Are you willing to defy the gods, the Constellations themselves? Are you willing to go that far? Everything will be destroyed, but your life and your sister’s will remain! Isn’t that a fair offer for someone so detached from everything?” Fenrir’s red eyes pierced into his very soul. “I see you. Your hollowness, the void of your soul! It is the perfect {Emptiness} to harbor my powers! With you, I can invade the human world and, ultimately, devour those gods who sealed me here!” Jack had no choice. It was either accepting the deal or dying. “I accept…!” Fenrir smiled without a word. Jack vividly recalled this moment, the wolf’s jaws opening, biting his entire body, tearing him to pieces, then reconstructing him, fusing him with its guts, its heart, the god-eater’s soul! When he awoke, Jack was in a hospital, miraculously found by hunters investigating the second dungeon. He couldn’t believe he had survived… but that wasn’t all. Beside him, no, within his very soul and body, there was something else. “You’re finally awake, my vessel.” With the terrifying voice of the bringer of his worst nightmares, a game-like window appeared before his eyes. Ding! [You have become the Vessel of the [Fallen Constellation]: {The God Devourer Wolf}!] [Your Body has been completely restructured!] [All Your Stats have increased!] [You learned the Innate Skill: [Endless