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by john1208·Translated by Novel AI Studio
I woke up kneeling on the execution platform of the Divan of Marv, the dust of my public humiliation tasting like ash. A hypocritical saintess paraded my stolen birthright while my trembling little brother, Taran, was branded a pariah. Worse, Instructor Ozanir - the only teacher who bled to protect us - was shackled and framed for forbidden shadow-arts by the very students he had just saved. They expected me to weep and beg. Instead, I stood, spat blood at the tribunal's feet, and screamed the saintess's crimes to the heavens. My defiance triggered a cruel exile. Bound to a dimension-hopping system, I was condemned to jump through fractured worlds, forced to save other broken side characters. But the twist? I wasn't possessing random villains. Every 'villainess' was a fragment of my original soul, usurped by the same dimensional parasite playing the hero in every timeline. While I fought to reclaim my identities, the disgraced teacher I defended didn't just survive. Bound by a bittersweet, unspoken devotion, Ozanir spent lifetimes in the shadows, forging a multi-realm empire solely to lay it at my feet. But as the parasite moves to sever my final soul-thread, will his sanctuary be our salvation, or the beautiful tragedy that guarantees my erasure?