Achievement Unlocked: Bowl Maker Stole the Gate

Itsuki was fitting a new handle into a wooden bowl when a forged dungeon license turned a quiet apartment block into a killing ground. He had the hands of a dead surgeon, the body of a teenage boy, and no room for panic. When the shadow-class thing inside the building ignored every tank skill and went for his mother, he saw the fake seal, the wrong rank mark, and the cheap lie in one glance. The system window opened for him in front of her. The first message promised a path. Itsuki only cared that the thing bleeding on the floor still had one more blade hidden in its coat.