Prelude 1: The Girl Who Could Change The World

It's said that the human mind is the most powerful weapon a man possesses and that there are no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

If knowledge is the door that allows one to change the world, then the desire to learn itself must be the key. And that desire resided in no one more strongly than it did in Shiori Novella. 

A person who not only possessed a human mind powerful enough to be labeled a 'genius', but also one who obsessively sought out knowledge as if there were no tomorrow.

A gifted child chosen by that which had not revealed itself for hundreds of thousands of years. 

An existence that, for all intents and purposes, should not have been allowed to remain under any circumstances.

But more than anything…

An ordinary girl who wished for nothing more than to live in peace with the person most precious to her.

Unfortunately for her, that was the one wish she would not be allowed to have come true.

As the sun began to rise and her consciousness drew near, the sleeping beauty snuggled closer to her favorite plushie, Yorick, a warm, cherubic smile forming on her face as she continued to indulge in what seemed to be a pleasant dream for just a little while longer.

Little did she know that, when she next closed her eyes to go to sleep, the course of her life would have been changed forever. 

And never again would she have another pleasant dream…