After transmigrating to Japan during the Great Depression, Hachiman Hikigaya found the futures of his younger sister and himself, along with his parents' precarious jobs, all weighing on his shoulders.
No cheat powers, no prospects.
Staying in school would only wear away his ambition as he waited to die. But leave school, and despair would swallow him whole all the same.
If I'm going to die anyway, why not die for my country?
He dropped out and took up writing, becoming a novelist in one fell swoop.
Literary genius, peerless brilliance: in the late twentieth century, Japan's last great novelist, Hachiman Hikigaya, was born.
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