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The Black Cat Hero and the Minister of Sloth — Reforming the World via Remote Work to Protect My Peaceful Slumber
The Black Cat Hero and the Minister of Sloth — Reforming the World via Remote Work to Protect My Peaceful Slumber
"This world is a legacy system running on an unpatched OS. I'm just here to install the stability updates."
When Kazuya, a former systems engineer and corporate slave, was summoned to another world along with his entire house, he didn't ask for a legendary sword. He asked for Fiber-Optic Internet.
Armed with the collective wisdom of the entire world via the Internet, there is now virtually nothing he doesn't know. He has zero interest in "grand adventures." He’d rather stay inside his magically-transported home, drink ice-cold cola, and solve the Kingdom’s greatest crises via remote work. By treating every disaster—from collapsing infrastructure to "ancient curses"—as a series of logical bugs, he optimizes a world that relies far too much on fickle magic using modern systems thinking.
While he "works" from the comfort of his sofa, his black cat Tama—who is secretly the Legendary Savior, Tarmane—is busy "deleting" any hardware threats (monsters) that dare disturb her owner’s Wi-Fi signal.
The people call him a "Transcendent Sage." The Knights call his instructions "Divine Logic." In reality, he’s just a lazy optimizer who knows that in any world, information is the ultimate weapon.
An intellectual Isekai comedy where the greatest miracles aren't performed with wands, but with a perfectly executed patch.
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**Note from the Author:**
This is the official English version of an original Japanese web novel, currently on going in Japan. While the English release is currently several dozen chapters behind the Japanese original, new episodes will be published here sequentially as the translation is finalized.
If you're tired of mindless action and want a "Rational Isekai" where problems are solved through logic, engineering, and data-driven strategy, this story is for you. Experience the intellectual catharsis of a modern engineer "debugging" a fantasy world—all from the comfort of his sofa.
Updates will be frequent as I work to catch up with the latest Japanese release!
Chapter List
- Episode 48 — Layered Futures
- Episode 49 — The Scale of the Future and the Street in the Sky
- Episode 50 — The Legacy Bug That Wouldn’t Delete
- Episode 51 — Residents of the Old Server and Earth’s “Debugging” Records
- Episode 52 — Sandboxes and Privileged Accounts
- Episode 53 — The Installation Hangs at 99%
- Episode 54 — The Black Cat’s Debugging: Infiltration Phase
- Episode 55 — The Dilemma of Prisoners and Knights
- Episode 56 — Outsourcing and the Knight Variable
- Episode 57 — The Shield of Logic and the Optimal Shortest Route
- Episode 58 — Campfire on the Eve of Infiltration
- Episode 59 — The Underground Corridor
- Episode 60 — Unauthorized Access to Core System
- Episode 61 — Reboot and the Knight’s Pride
- Episode 62 — Complete System Deletion and the Road Home
- Episode 63 — Shadow’s Homecoming and the Grand Feast
- Episode 64 — The Silent Garden and the Cloaked Guest
- Episode 65 — Balancing Incentives and the Horizon of Truth
- Episode 66 — Formation of the Shadows and the Integrated Resort (Part 1)
- Episode 67 — Formation of the Shadows and the Integrated Resort (Part 2)
- Episode 68 — The Ace Sealed in Wax
- Episode 69 — The Gear That Craves the Torrent
- Episode 70 — The Order of Sloth, or the End of the Divine Realm
- Bonus Episode — Memoirs of the Lord of Felsen: The Lights of the Waterways and My One-of-a-Kind Neighbor
- Bonus Episode — The Recorder of the Roundabout City
- Bonus Episode — Consuming the System
- Bonus Episode — The Futility of Survival
- Bonus Episode — The Black Cat’s Observation Journal: The Crunch of Potato Chips and the Immovable Sage
- [English Edition Only] Bonus Episode — The Taste You Crave Even in Another World
- Episode 71 — The Definition of an Elf and the Definition of a Relative
- Episode 72 — High-Resolution Despair
- Episode 73 — The Deep Sea of Omniscience and Depleted Mental Resources
- Episode 74 — The Identity of the Bug, and the Proposal for a Biological Patch
- Episode 75 — Practical Debugging: The Four-Layer Scan Protocol
- Episode 76 — The Sufferings of the Testers and the Mud-Stained Protocol
- Episode 77 — Constructing an Optimized Network Infrastructure
- Episode 78 — A Declaration of War to an Old Friend
- Episode 79 — Deification Beyond Specs and an Extravagant Reward
- Episode 80 — The Return of the Photobombing Mage
- Episode 81 — The Allure of New Products
- Episode 82 — Statistical Illusions and the Luck Audit
- Episode 83 — The Genius of a Different Hue
- Episode 84 — Overclocking Neighbors
- Episode 85 — The Hybrid Operator
- Episode 86 — System Definition: Humanity
- Episode 87 — The City Where Borders Vanish
- Episode 88 — The Honeypot Trap and Psychological Conditioning
- Episode 89 — The Shield and Sword of Felsen
- Episode 90 — Felsen Trial Version “Early Release”
- Episode 91 — He Who Controls the Algorithm Controls Diplomacy