A new game my coworker recommended: “Kaito a Luise”. It cost about five convenience store rice balls, suspiciously pricey for something this sketchy. “A rare pay-to-play social game these days”… or so they claimed. Figuring the company would go bankrupt anyway, my coworker and I decided to give it a try. As a “spirit”, I save and guide Tria, a village girl who was about to be sacrificed to the Great Turtle. Tria grows stronger and stronger. I wonder when this tutorial will ever end, even as we conquer the game — and the world. –Back then, we still thought this hellish game was just that: a “game”.