Not because the fighting had stopped—but because the world itself seemed to hold its breath.
The battlefield fell silent.
And he'd just drawn a double-spread dragon .
The gate slammed shut.
The dragon he'd drawn lasted only ninety seconds before dissolving into gray smoke. The enemy soldiers, terrified but disciplined, regrouped under Graviss's telepathic command. shouted Lilia, the knight-captain who had saved him weeks ago. She grabbed his shoulder. "Your nose is bleeding." He touched his upper lip. Blood. Ink-black blood. "Yeah… I overdid it." But there was no time to rest. Graviss himself stepped onto the field. The ground cracked beneath his weight. "Drawer of lies," Graviss boomed. "Show me your final panel." Atsushi grinned. It was the same grin he'd worn when his manga got serialized for the first time—equal parts terror and reckless pride. "Final panel? Nah." He pulled out a blank sheet of vellum—his last one. "This is the cliffhanger ." He began to draw. Not a monster. Not a weapon.
And Graviss, for the first time in three hundred years, felt something cold crawl up his spine.
The Demon General Graviss , a towering figure with armor made of compressed bone, watched the battle through a scrying mirror. He crushed the mirror with one hand. "Then we don't fight his creations. We fight his hand ." Chapter 117: The Blank Page Atsushi collapsed to one knee. Not because the fighting had stopped—but because the
And now it was real.
But Atsushi wasn't smiling. His right hand trembled. His Oekaki Skill: Realized Panel allowed him to bring any drawn scene into reality—but each use drained his Vital Ink , a resource tied to his life force. The more detailed the illustration, the greater the cost.
It depicted a dragon. Not just any dragon. The same dragon that had annihilated the Third Legion three days ago. The gate slammed shut
A door .
Beyond it wasn't a place. It was a page . A blank page. And on that page, anything could still be written. They stepped through.
A door he'd drawn a hundred times in his old manga: 「The Gate of Unwritten Chapters」 —a meta-construct that led to places not yet written, not yet imagined. The gate swung open. shouted Lilia, the knight-captain who had saved him
Atsushi Kamiya, former mangaka, now the most wanted "Cheat Summon" in the imperial capital, stood with his stylus pen glowing faintly in the moonlight. Behind him, a massive two-page spread of ink hung in midair—a panel he'd drawn just seconds ago.