The girls avoided my eyes.

Instead, I ground my teeth. I opened a forbidden grimoire we’d looted months ago—the one Leon called “too dangerous.” It was a tome of sacrificial magic: To take everything from the one who took everything from you.

Set in the , the story begins during a "Skill Awakening Ceremony". While Ark's companions—including his stepsister Laura and childhood friends Shao and Fanon —gain legendary skills, they are quickly manipulated by the otherworldly hero, Yuuya .

Elara pushed her glasses up, her nose in the air. "Don't take it personally, Leo-kun. It’s a matter of efficiency. Kaito’s party is aiming for the Demon Lord. With you, we were stuck clearing Goblin nests. You’re a bottleneck."

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“I’m not fighting for you anymore,” I said. “I’m fighting because in the end, I will be the one standing over the Demon Lord’s corpse. And you will all watch.”