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An unknown parcel arrives to Yoshio, a 30-year old NEET. The content is a game disk titled “The Village of Fate.”, a beautiful CG game with real-life images.
After dying in a traffic accident, I find myself standing near an unfamiliar lake. My body won't move, I can't hear my voice, and when I try to shout in confusion, words that I never expected come out!"Get one free with a winner."I-it seems I've turned into a vending machine...! I can only do what actual vending machines can. It's impossible to move by myself, and there's no way for me to have any meaningful conversation-how am I going to survive some fantasy world's dungeon like this?!(Source: Yen Press)
Yoshio is a thirty-year-old shut-in with no job and no prospects, still living at home after all these years. His mundane life is suddenly interrupted when he receives a copy of “The Village of Fate,” an experimental game with graphics and A.I. like nothing he’s ever seen before. In the game, he takes on the role of a guardian deity who watches over the people of a new village…but he finds that the game characters are so intelligent, so reactive, so human that he starts to wonder if they might somehow be real people. Through his connection to their strangely vivid lives, Yoshio begins to discover the brightness that had been missing from his own existence.
By the time he realized what was going on, Yamagishi Amizuna, a salaryman, was in a strange cave, and in front of his eyes was a giant black tiger...!? When he thought his life ended after being attacked by the tiger, he awoke once again in the same place. Amizuna desperately struggled in an irrational situation without understanding the goal.It's a game where you have to use your own body to level up and beat dungeonsHe died countless times and was resurrected in the same place, drawing lessons one by one, while gaining more clues and the abilities to pass the stages .... All to get out of this crazy game...Return to Death x Level up. The actions that a salaryman must take in order to get stronger and survive!