Infinite Returns: My Adopted Kids are all Ex-Rank Calamities?

Jacob was one of the trash of society. Those useless ones that had no impact whatsoever and no one cared about. The type of people whose life status, whether dead or alive, mattered to no one.

He was abandoned at birth by his biological parents, and right from his childhood, he'd known suffering as he struggled every day just to survive.

The man was a living miracle, shouldering seven part-time jobs just to afford rent money for his small studio apartment and to foot his daily bills.

In this quite shitty life of his, Jacob's only solace was a webnovel he often read on his way to work called [Dawn of the Five Calamities].

It was his favorite webnovel, and he'd read it every single day ever since he discovered it five years ago.

It was a fairly popular novel, but it didn't have much of a very high rating. And that was for a good reason. The world-building was mediocre at best, the power system was manageable, and the setting of the novel was okay. An average novel, it was.

But the reason Jacob loved this novel was because of the characters. Most especially, the Five Calamities.

The antagonists that the protagonist got stronger just to defeat. They were the reasons for the world's ruin.

Those five had grown to become Jacob's favorite characters throughout the novel. Mostly because their back stories had resonated with him.

They were all orphans, just like him, and they'd struggled since childhood, like him. Only that their own suffering was way too much.

And to top it all off, they didn't even become the Five Calamities on their own volition. They were slaves to a much darker force.

Now, on that Monday morning on his way to work, the novel was coming to an end with its 5280th chapter.

Jacob hoped that those five would finally get their good ending after years and five thousand chapters of suffering.

But…

[Sky Ravensborg beheaded the Last Calamity. The End.]

They didn't.

All five of them died.

Jacob, after reading the ending, froze in the middle of the road. Stunned.

And in his stunned state, he failed to notice a truck with a failed brake speeding toward him, until the truck rammed him over.

Just like that, Jacob died a stupid death after living an inconsequential life.

But his story didn't end there.

[Ding–!]

[Great Nurturing Returns System Activated!]

“You've gotta be shitting me. I transmigrated??!”

He awakened inside the novel as Lucien Rancroft, a side character destined to die before the main storyline even began.

And the best part?

He transmigrated 16 years before the beginning of the main story.

The protagonist wasn't even born yet!

And the Five Calamities?

They were all little kids!

Lucien smiled a warm smile, gazing at his five adopted kids.

Armed with future knowledge of the world and a system that makes him stronger the more he raises these Five Mini Calamities, Lucien will make sure these five kids never suffer again, and he will do his best to give them the happy ending they deserve!

…But was parenting always this difficult?

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