A new game my coworker recommended: "Kaito a Luise".

It cost about five convenience store onigiri, suspiciously pricey for something this sketchy. "A rare buy-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".