This story is about a provincial boy who dreams of becoming a wizard—yet, no matter what, he sets out to conquer the cultural capital. However, instead of the expected schooling and subsequent worries about his career, he finds cunning enemies, encounters wizards and demons, throws himself headfirst into magical research—and only gets more and more tangled in a web of other people’s, and quite dirty, intrigues. After all, it’s so easy to play with someone who simply lives, and whose life has no purpose.