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Otherworldly Acumen: The System's Rigged Against Me!
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Aug 17, 2025
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Synopsis

In Japan, Endo clawed his way out of poverty to become a successful salaryman—only to realize that playing it safe had cost him everything that mattered.

In East Gate, playing it safe might get everyone killed.

Reborn as a despised elf orphan, Cotter finds himself trapped in the same impoverished hell he'd escaped once before; with the bitter knowledge that "working hard" won't help when the game is rigged from the start!

His kind is despised. His fellow orphans are starved and discarded. And the guards who threw him into this hell just laugh.

Unfortunately for them, Cotter isn’t done fighting.

If that means fighting goblins, defying corrupt guards, exposing the conspiracy starving East Gate, and forging dangerous pacts with clans, dragons, and divine beings—then so be it!

With a sharp-tongued lamia warrior and a healer cursed by the Demon King’s blood at his side, Cotter must prove to the world—and himself—that this time, he won’t watch from the sidelines.

Note from author

This novel is my submission for the MyAnimeList x Honeyfeed Writing Contest 2025 - THE ISEKAI presented by KADOKAWA.

Will update every one to two days!!

This novel is my submission for the MyAnimeList x Honeyfeed Writing Contest 2025 - THE ISEKAI presented by KADOKAWA.

Will update every one to two days!!

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