Aya Nakamura Rizzo has failed. At life. At writing. At everything that once gave her purpose. When her last failure finally comes, it’s quiet and empty—like the stories she never finished.
But the gods are laughing.
Rejected by the gods, Aya’s soul is cast aside… until the forgotten Goddess of Failure takes her in. Aya wakes up in a strange new world — not as a heroine, but as a background NPC: a forgotten librarian in a broken village.
Except the world isn't as new as it seems.
The books on the shelves are bleeding. The villagers are turning into something else. And the monsters crawling out of their shells left behind? They're made of paper, ink, and her abandoned dreams.
To save a world she once gave up on, Aya must confront the stories she left behind — and the girl she used to be. Armed with nothing but a magic pen and fragile memories, can she rewrite her fate before her final failure becomes permanent?
A story about giving up, breaking down… and choosing to begin again.