The Shadow Collector. Living Steppe

Someone would like to “cancel Mondays—just like that,” but the foster kid Platón Gromov, raised in an orphanage, was fatally unlucky on Fridays. Problems grew along with him, and by the time he turned twenty-four they were threatening to become deadly dangerous.

When the thugs who attacked (of course, on a Friday) intended to take not his wallet but his life, Platon suddenly remembered even those moves he’d never actually known.

Only after a fight with a lethal outcome for the losers did Gromov notice that the world around him had changed completely. In it there are no Fridays—yet the steppe is alive, where you can easily meet a ghost and get hit in the head with magic; and there’s no shortage of people who want to “offend” someone who arrived in this new reality. But you can’t just take an orphanage kid down—especially when the new world reveals unknown possibilities of Platon himself.

“You don’t have Fridays? I can arrange that! In my understanding of the day of the week!”