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Rei Ward is the weakest cadet ever admitted to his military academy — a sickly kid whose combat assistance device, Shido, has one anomaly: it grows without limit. Every brutal training block, every tournament bracket, the gap between Rei and his tormentors narrows.
Progression: stat-driven martial growth through an evolving symbiotic device; academy rankings as the ladder.
Reader fit: you want underdog-to-monster pacing, tournament arcs, and sci-fi combat drawn in exacting detail.
Texture: intense, driven, occasionally savage.
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