In a dying village on the edge of a cursed forest, famine devours everything.

Children disappear. Crops rot before harvest. Even prayers to the Church go unanswered.

Elliot lives each day starving, clinging to life alongside his twin sister, Elizabeth. Their parents grow thinner, quieter… colder. Love turns distant. Meals become lies. And something unspoken begins to creep into their home.

Then one night

Elliot remembers.

Not just fragments, but an entire past life.

A hospital bed. A weak body. A loving older brother telling stories about a fantasy MMORPG… a world of heroes, demons, and doomed side characters.

This world.

This life.

And worst of all...himself.

Elliot realizes the truth: he and Elizabeth are not just abandoned children… they are minor villains fated to fall, descendants of the Demon King, destined to die in the background of someone else’s story.

Desperate to escape that ending, Elliot tries to change everything. Protect his sister, avoid the forest, reject the darkness inside him.

But fate does not break so easily.

Because some tragedies… are already decided.

And no matter what he does...

The story is still moving forward.

VEIL OF CRUMBS