The best plan works only until the moment you try to carry it out. This wisdom was felt once again by Maksim Rudov (also known as Sakuraи Shinji), who planned his life all the way up to adulthood. But then—happy coincidence—our hero finds himself at the center of a rapidly gathering avalanche of events on the mountainside. Relationships with aristocrats, problems with competitors, the war beginning with the boss of one of the criminal guilds… And also school, friends, and people who depend on him.
The mask of a normal Japanese schoolboy has already been dropped. For an increasing number of people around, the mask of a Student of a still higher rank is no longer able to hide the hero’s real (or almost real) power. The mask of a virtuoso thief, the Tokyo Jackal, becomes increasingly inconvenient. And so he has to put in more and more effort so that the mask covering the Patriarch’s face doesn’t slip.
But Max became the youngest witcher of the Absolute rank for a reason. Yes, no plan survived the collision with reality—but the goal remains unchanged. As it is with witchers: “To the glory of my name, in the name of my name.”