Itten Seiji is a murderer. When he was seventeen years old he witnessed his mother physically abusing his younger sister, and in an impulsive rage he stabbed his mother in the back with a knife, killing her instantly.

Ten years later, after being released from prison, Seiji's past crime comes back to haunt him as he is constantly rejected at job interviews because of his history. And then, in a final moment of irony or karmic justice, he is hunted down by a masked vigilante and stabbed to death.

But things take a turn for the literal bright side when Seiji wakes up after death in a white void. In this strange, in between realm he meets an angel who offers him a second chance at life. After only a brief moment of hesitation, Seiji accepts her offer and is sent to a new, reincarnated body in a world of swords and sorcery. Seiji is determined to make the most of this miraculous do-over, but will it really be that easy for him to escape his past once and for all?