Losing Masks

Even the best plan works only until the moment its implementation begins. Maxim Rudov (also known as Sakurai Shinji), who had planned his life up to adulthood, felt this wisdom once again firsthand. But then a lucky chance—and our hero finds himself at the center of an avalanche of events gaining momentum. Relations with aristocrats, problems with competitors, the beginning of a war with the boss of one of the criminal guilds… And also school, friends, and people who depend on him.

The mask of an ordinary Japanese schoolboy has already been cast off; the mask of a fighter of the Student rank can no longer hide the hero’s real (or almost real) strength from an increasing number of people; the mask of the virtuoso thief, the Tokyo Dwarf, is becoming more and more inconvenient. And greater efforts are required so that the mask covering the face of the Patriarch does not fall away.

But Max did not become the youngest witcher of the Absolute rank for nothing. Yes, not a single plan survived its collision with reality, but the goal remained unchanged. As did the witchers’ motto: “For My Glory, in My Name.”