Sid’s strange story begins with a death that should have ended everything. After Nishina’s tense school life, Akana’s kidnapping, and the shocking news that a boy was hit by a truck and did not survive, the soul that awakens in the new world is no ordinary child. Reborn as Sid, the son of a rural baron, he quickly senses magic in the air and understands that this world is far larger and darker than it first appears.