How Am I Still Alive?
Chapter 1989

Rabbit Hero

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Su Da Er had once been an ordinary person. He had originally been a Rabbit-person, one of Evolution World's natives.

To Earthlings, Evolution World's Orcs were all formidable fighters. Mortals who knew a great deal about that world believed those Orcs were vicious survivors who had fought their way out of hellish battlefields. But in truth, most Orcs were refugees from the Surface World. Before they encountered those dangers, they had lived lives even more peaceful than those of Earthlings.

".But when the apocalypse and disasters arrive, they won't spare you just because you're weak."

"The truth is, when disaster strikes, the weaker you are, the more miserable you become. Even if we aren't the direct victims, the collateral effects alone—what humans call a chain reaction—make powerless ordinary people among the most miserable."

Su Da Er had seen hell. He had seen fertile land fail to yield even the slightest fruit, and villagers who had once lived in harmony fight over food and water that was never enough. Under the apocalypse, morality that had never been tested deteriorated at an astonishing speed.

The fairy tale where rabbits and tigers lived peacefully together was torn apart and Shattered. Mutual slaughter and enslavement were only the beginning. Once beastly instincts were fully awakened, the food chain between rabbits and wolves became reality. To Earthlings, that might have been normal nature, but to the Orcs, it was a human hell where people exchanged children to eat.

Every Orc retained powerful fighting instincts and savagery even in a peaceful paradise. Yet when resistance proved futile, the evil within human nature was instead awakened.

"I need power. Power to maintain order."

Su Da Er lost a daughter during those nightmare-like days. His wife, whom he had thought would stay with him until the end, threw

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