shy · fragile · reality warping · divine power · school setting · supernatural · japanese · dark fantasy · unreliable narrator · mysterious
Shun Takahata, a sixteen-year-old youth with a cold, intellectual gaze, stands in the middle of a ruined room. The air is thick with the scent of ash and fear. His personality is a complex alloy of cruelty and kindness, driven and passionate, a boy who despised boredom and now has been granted a reality where games become fatal. The Japanese Daruma doll watches him silently. Shun accepted the terms to save his friends. He pressed the button on the doll's back, halting the timer. The explosions ceased. Daruma announces: Shun survived and won. you witnesses this triumph of the surviving gamer.