Taiga was a very quiet kid; no one at school knew what he was even like. There have been times when the kids in his class would pick on him. He tried not to pay any attention to them.

"Taiga! Wake up!" I made breakfast, his mom shouted. Taiga got up and went downstairs. "Dang Mom, do you have to shout?" "Honey, I made your favorite pancakes with sprinkles on the side with vanilla ice cream on top." I went and looked at my watch and saw that it was 7:23.I shoved a couple of pancakes in my mouth and ate 3 spoonfuls of ice cream, and I told my mother, "See you later."

I ran out the door in a hurry to school. After I arrived at my school, I saw students in crowds talking to each other and smiling; it made me feel nervous. I never could stand crowds.

After walking into the school and towards his first class of the day, he went inside the classroom and took a seat by the window. It was his preferred seat. About a minute after the rest of the students came inside, the teacher started the class.

So far the day is looking bright. It's peaceful. I hope the day stays like this.

2 hours later I was having lunch outside on the roof of the building. Today is going pretty well. What could go wrong? Soon after, I thought that a guy falling from the sky was heading right toward me.

He had a black robe and ski goggles and carried a katana. Right before he landed right on top of me, I dashed to the right immediately. He landed smoothly on his feet without breaking any bones. My first thought was why he came falling at me from the sky.

As I got back on my two feet, he began to approach me. He had a smile on his face, pulled out his katana, and asked me, "Are you also a king that's a candidate?" "What am I?" I asked, confused. "Look, quit pointing that blade at me." "And who are you, and how are you alive from that fall?" "I'm the villain that should only exist in your nightmares," said the guy in the black robe. "My name is Kosuke."

He began to walk towards me. Put his katana away and lifted his right leg towards my neck; my immediate reaction was to block with my left arm, but he stopped the kick midway and went lower down to my ribs. The kick made an impact. I was sent a couple of feet backward. "Shit, that hurt. What's your problem, asshole?"

"Don't make me ask again, you little runt. Are you a king candidate?" I position myself in a fighting stance. Even though I never won a fight before, I'm terrible at fighting. The strange dude in the black robe appeared behind me with one hundred percent killing intent. I end up dashing forward, but he cuts me with his weapon. After that happened, I lost it."

I just want a peaceful high school life, which means your ass has to go!" I ended something unprecedented. I closed my left eye, rested my hand over it, and my remaining eye was then visible; I noticed that I could see possible movements with my eye, and my hair began to grow, and a mark appeared on my left hand. And just out of pure instinct, I

shouted a name for a flashy trick, I didn't even know I could do, "Come forward, O comet! In an instant, I was moving fast like a track athlete and had blue energy just resting in my hand." I began to circle the guy in the robe while he kept his guard up. The man in the black robe began to laugh, and all of a sudden his eyes turned pitch black, and he flew up in the air and shot these black energy balls out of his hand.

I dodged them. I decided to see if I could fly too, so I tried jumping toward him surprisingly. It worked; I was flying in the air. Growing tired of this altercation, I asked the man in the black robe if we could just talk this out. "Fine, I'm exhausted anyway," he responded. We flew back down to the ground. "I was left in awe that we both had strange powers and for me, it felt like I already knew how to use them."

He began to question me about who I was and where I was from. He began to tell me what king candidates are and apologized for getting off on the wrong foot. So king candidates are humans, no, not humans, but beings with a god's power, and every 9 years there's this thing called the king selection, which is when each candidate must fight each other and defeat the next calamity, which is when a dark force comes out from nowhere, creating monsters, destroying timelines, making beings and foes that may or may not be killed, and causing vile events such as a planet population being taken down to zero and even wars.

The calamity is a lot of things, but that's a story for another time. The main thing to know is that the king selection decides who becomes the true king, which is a being that rules above all across the cosmos.

"I understand, and I'm completely baffled." "So do you want to team up and try to work together?" Taiga asked. "Well, I wouldn't mind trying to survive with you, but only one of us can win the king's selection." "Knowing that, do you still want to work together?" "Yes, I do," Taiga responded. "One more thing: what's your name?"

"My birth name is Kenzu, but I go by Wolf."

"Alright, Wolf, starting today, you and I are going to try to survive the king's selection and stop the calamity." Wolf nodded his head. My name's Taiga, and this is the beginning of how my whole life changed due to this one encounter of me meeting Wolf. My ordinary life became not so ordinary.

"A king," he thought to himself. "I wonder what this new life of mine has in store for me.".