Seventeen years after an alien fugitive's heart merged with Earth's core during an orbital invasion—birthing a colossal tree and unlocking humanity's Awakening—superpowers became the standard. Those left powerless faced a brutal hierarchy: Rejecters, society's untouchables. Zane Carter inherited only his father's disgrace. Once a celebrated hero, his parent's fall into villainy condemned Zane to lifelong persecution. His Awakening never came despite relentless effort, sealing his rejection from the Hero Academy and cementing his status as an outcast. Then the impossible occurred. [SYSTEM ACTIVATED] Welcome, User. You have been selected as the recipient of the Borderline Supervillain-Slash-Hero System. Generate your first skill? Y/N Armed with a system that blurs the line between heroism and villainy, Zane faces an unprecedented choice: embrace the hero society refused to acknowledge, or become the villain they prophesied.