"Live slow. Die old. Leave a corpse of indeterminable quality." James Brook wasn’t expecting much from his life—just a low-effort existence and enough cash to get by. But after being hit by a truck and waking up in a brand new world, his slacker dreams suddenly seem eminently attainable. Assigned the class of "Freeloader," James discovers he can leech off others’ efforts for power, wealth, and success without breaking so much as a sweat. But when his carefree leeching pulls him into the escalating conflict between warring factions, James is forced to choose: keep coasting through his second life or step up before things spiral utterly out of control. Because, with an apocalyptic war looming James might just find that even the laziest slacker can’t avoid his destiny forever.