“Makoto” is a science-fiction novel by Aleksei Shmakov, the first book of the eponymous cycle, a genre of “boyar-anime,” “popadantsy” (a character transported into another world), and urban fantasy. Luck smiled on a former orphanage kid. He managed to reach heights that the other people can only dream about. The aristocrats who studied with him were left far behind—even their parents’ mad money couldn’t help. And the most vicious bully of the course herself spread her appetizing legs right in front of him. Between them, his limit of luck in this world ran out. A slit throat and an oncoming darkness. But darkness erupted in the strongest pain, making it clear that this was far from the end. Realizing he was in a new world, he found himself in the body of a blind child, buried under mangled corpses. He got another chance. All that remained was to survive amid the slaughter around him and figure out what’s actually going on here.