Prologue
THE tabletop RPG forces had threatened Mynoghra with seemingly insurmountable power. But Takuto had done the impossible and defeated them, at the price of losing consciousness. Desperate to get her beloved master back, Atou decided to summon a new Hero and get him to fix Takuto.
Her Hero of choice: Eternal Nations’ most notorious and most glorious troublemaker.
Gleeful Spin Doctor Vittorio was a Hero despised by every player to have the misfortune of encountering him, and he lived up to his infamy in spades. At the same time, he left a huge mark on the world that would change the very nature of Mynoghra…
Vittorio founded a Takuto-worshipping religion called the Cult of Ira and marched the cultists into the ruined capital of the Divine Nation of Lenea to proselytize his doctrine and carve out new territory. In the process, he ran up against the Scribe Saint and Inquisitor Krähe Imlerith, who’d been dispatched to Lenea from the Holy Kingdom of Qualia. Vittorio had employed a slew of eccentric strategies that Atou could never have carried out, as she worried over Takuto. But Vittorio had entirely different goals from Sludge Atou.
What Vittorio wanted was the deification of Takuto Ira.
Vittorio understood that Takuto’s loss of consciousness was a result of his nature as the “Nameless Evil God,” and he attempted to utilize the game system to bring his ideal Takuto into the world. As a nameless, colorless existence, giving Takuto a name—a reason for existence—Vittorio could color and shape him to his heart’s desire.
It should have been the perfect plan to bring about the perfect embodiment of Vittorio’s ideals in his master—and his master alone.
His plan failed.
If that wasn’t bad enough, he learned that Takuto had orchestrated everything from the beginning. Everything from Vittorio’s plan, his ideas, and the events he would trigger…
Eventually, Takuto was revived as planned, and Vittorio was finally put in his rightful place beneath him.
But that only signaled the beginning of a new disturbance…