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The World After Its End: Rewritten

Chapter 1: The Day the Author Regretted His Wish

Chapter 1: The Day the Author Regretted His Wish

Jan 12, 2026


Zokaro destroyed the world at the age of twenty-one.

Not with a weapon.
Not with magic.

But with a single sentence:

"I wish this world were real."

He typed it casually, almost mockingly, replying to the only reader who had survived all 1,579 chapters of his failed novel.

Six thousand eight hundred and seven views.

That was the total number of people who had ever entered his world.

For a story this long, it was a complete humiliation.

He had spent six years building that universe—
monsters, kingdoms, systems, divine beasts, the apocalypse…
and no one cared.

Until the message arrived.

"Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the world you created became real?"

Zokaro laughed, considering it nothing more than a joke from a childish mind.

Then he replied, unaware that this small action would change everything.

---

Sunlight poured through his window, burning his face, and he woke up late—1:34 PM.
He had slept far longer than usual, enough to make his mother worry.

She climbed the stairs and knocked on his door:
— "Zokaro, are you awake?"

No response.
She opened the door and found him still asleep, the room a mess.

Her anger flared. She struck his back hard.
Zokaro jolted upright in pain and looked at her, stammering:
— "Why did you hit me, Mom?"

She stared at him with burning eyes:
— "You really don’t know? Come closer…"

He stepped forward slowly, but she grabbed his ear suddenly and shouted:
— "How many times have I told you to clean your room before sleeping?"

— "I’m sorry, Mom… this is the last time. Please let go of my ear!"
She released him and walked toward the door, but turned back with her eyes blazing:
— "If you don’t clean your room soon, there will be another punishment. And after you shower, come eat—even if it’s no longer breakfast, but lunch."

Zokaro nodded quickly, too scared to say a word.

After she left, he sighed and hurried to clean his room.

When he finished, he noticed a new email notification on his phone.

It was from a reader of his novel.

He opened the message and found it strange, written in an unusual style… almost like a wish:

"Hello, this is my first comment on your story. I’ve read your novel from beginning to end. Have you ever wished this world were real? How beautiful it would be to witness the end of the world with our own eyes. Why don’t you wish with me for this world to become reality?"

Zokaro smiled mockingly, considering it nothing more than a joke.

So he replied:

"Thank you for following the story from beginning to end. Yes, it would be wonderful if this world were real, to see everything with your own eyes."

He wrote the reply simply to please the only reader who had made it to the end of his story.

He had no idea that this small action would lead him to a tragic end.

An end no one knew how it would begin, or whether it even had an end at all.

He placed the phone on his desk and left the room.

But at that moment, the screen lit up with a new message:

"Wonderful… then witness the world you wrote.
The whole world will see it,
and they will witness its final ending… hahaha."
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Tenebrae Panda
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A very interesting story prelude, without a doubt. I think every writer’s wish is for their work to be read, understood, and followed, just like all of us hope for on this platform and others like it. That constant anxiety about numbers and reach is honestly quite complex. But here, it feels like the reader will truly get to experience everything Zokaro has written. As readers, we will uncover all the things this boy put into his story, and we’ll see whether he was really so in love with his novel once he faces the real or possible consequences that may arise in reality (or in his own reality based on that script).

Personally, if someone asked me to fulfill a wish in that way, I would try to twist the idea and change the premise into something extremely beneficial, haha. I would probably say, ‘Just give me a couple of hours and I’ll send you a draft of the script of how I would truly like everything to be.’

This fulfilled wish definitely doesn’t feel like a pure act of charity. It seems more likely that whoever chose Zokaro’s story was drawn to some deeply fatalistic motive, and at the same time used him as a bridge to create something evil. And who knows in what way that mysterious entity fulfilled such a whim. We’ll have to see whether reality itself is completely altered, or if it is only altered within his own mind, in some way.

P.S.:
“I’ll be reading your work and leaving comments as well. It would be great if you could subscribe, like, and comment on my IPs (or the ones I upload in the future). That really motivates me to keep updating and supporting other creators’ work. Best regards, and we’ll keep reading!

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The world ended the moment his story became real.
Zokaro was a failed novelist who poured his life into a world no one cared to read.
After finishing his story, he believed everything was finally over.
Then the world collapsed.
When he opened his eyes again, he was no longer who he once was—
reborn into the very world he had created, surrounded by familiar faces that were no longer the same.
Monsters he once imagined now roam freely.
Characters he wrote now shape reality.
And the ending he knows is one where no one survives.
Armed with forbidden knowledge, a body that refuses to break,
and a darkness that slowly awakens within him,
Zokaro must decide whether to follow the fate he wrote—
or destroy the world again to rewrite it.
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Chapter 1: The Day the Author Regretted His Wish

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