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Let me be honest with you.
I am not wise. I was never wise. I was just a person who lived long enough to watch everything go wrong in a specific order, took careful notes, and then spent whatever was left of me making sure those notes reached someone who still had time to use them.
That someone was, or is, me. Which makes this a little hard to explain.
My name is Rudeus Greyrat. I was born a shut-in in Japan, died badly, got a second chance in a world with magic and swords and gods who smile at you in your dreams while they slowly ruin your life. I made mistakes. Some of them were mine to make. Some of them cost other people more than they cost me, and those are the ones I still think about.
I traveled fifty years back in time to drop off a diary. The trip cost me my internal organs. I arrived already dying, held on long enough to make sure the information got where it needed to go, and then, well. That was that.
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So if you are wondering why I sound like someone who is trying very hard to be calm about everything, that is why. I do not have the energy to perform urgency anymore. What I have is clarity, and I would like to share it with you before you walk into this world blind.
Here is what this world actually is.
It is not a story that rewards the protagonist. It does not soften blows because you mean well. The Metastasis Event does not ask your permission before it scatters everyone you love across a continent. Hitogami will find someone close to you, smile at them in a dream, give them genuinely useful advice, and then let the consequences quietly unmake everything you built. Orsted will kill people without explanation and expect you to trust him anyway, and the frustrating thing is, he is usually right.
The world has a shape to it. A logic. It is not cruel for its own sake. But it does not love you, and the sooner you stop waiting fo