I Woke Up as the Villain - Chapter 129

Kaidan (Kaidan refers to eerie tales of strange, mysterious, rare, or bewitching ghosts and monsters from Japanese folklore.) feed on cognition, wield information as weapons, and use information as currency, existing between the peculiarities of neither life nor death.They exist in human rumors and dwell in the shadows of the world.“Does this mean I will become a Kaidan?”In ancient times, they were worshipped as deities, empowered by faith.“Then I am a deity!”In more recent ancient times, they were regarded as demons and fed on fear.“I will become the master of Kaidan!”However, as the tides of time washed over, they gradually vanished, leaving behind only texts considered to be delusions.“To restore the glory of Kaidan is an undeniable duty of ours.”But you are not yet a Kaidan, hmm, nor a person.“Well, becoming a Kaidan counts as success.”

With a sword in hand and wine in tow, he roams the martial world; her slender waist is light as a feather in his palm.The young man strides forward with a long blade slung over his shoulder and a flask at his side, yet the world of martial arts he seeks remains elusive.As the chaotic world book turns a new page, decades of relentless nights in the martial world pass by.Suddenly, he looks back and finds he has already shattered the mortal realm.

On that day, the fog blocked everything.

On that day, he became the captain of a ghost ship.

On that day, he stepped through the thick fog and confronted a completely subverted and fragmented world—the old order had vanished, strange phenomonoms dominated the endless seas beyond civilized society, and isolated island city-states and fleets of ships challenged the sea that had become the last ember of lights for the civilized world. All of this while the shadows of the old days were still stirring in the deep sea, waiting to to devour this world that was about to die.

But for the new captain of the ghost ship Vanished, there was only one question he had to consider first— Who knows how to drive this ship?!

Kage was born a talentless bastard into the mighty Ironstorm Clan. Cast aside for his worthlessness, he was abandoned in a fortress reserved only for failures.Despite the sting of being branded a Talentless Bastard, Kage found contentment with his mother, his loyal servant Taro, and Shinro—his one-armed, fallen Purist guardian.But the fragile thread tethering him to happiness severed on his eighteenth birthday when assassins murdered them all. Though powerless, Kage devoted his entire life to pursuing vengeance.And vengeance wielded by a boy with nothing left to lose became the ultimate weapon that brought a mighty clan crashing to ruin.Yet at his death, Kage discovered his entire crusade for revenge had been misdirected—aimed at the wrong target.Fortune smiled upon him as he gained the power to return to the past. But not alone.Kage emerges in the past alongside twelve Sovereign Gods who had each, in their era, ruled the world as peerless Purists and Weavers.Now he is fifteen again. Taro breathes again. Shinro lives again. His mother lives again.But he remains that same talentless bastard.However, he now carries within him the souls of the twelve greatest gods humanity has ever witnessed.Follow Kage as he protects his loved ones and ascends from Talentless Bastard to Revered Heaven.