On the Night the Stars Fall, the Ash Mage Laughs

One night, struggling novelist Reito Kuga was walking with his lover. Then the world changed. Before his eyes, his lover crumbled into charcoal just because a monster pointed a finger at her. The creature sneered. As everyone else froze in terror, only one thought filled Reito's mind: 'Why can it burn someone with just a fingertip?' That abnormal thought process perfectly aligned with the world's distortion. At Reito's fingertip, humanity's first magic—a tiny flame—flickered to life. Three yea