“We are seekers. There is no need for certainty. We are nothing but instinct, the impulse of life yearning to understand the world.”

These words serve as an anchor for the soul, a quiet affirmation for those who exist simply to be.

Shirakami Akane once lived within the tender rhythm of an ordinary life: the warmth of parents, the echo of laughter, the gentle stillness of home.

Yet peace, as always, is fragile.

When the heavens fractured and the world was drowned in myth, when gods and monsters walked once more among the living — everything he cherished turned to silence and ruin.

To seize a single chance against fate, to sacrifice a part of himself, the part he deemed unworthy to move forward.

And from that sacrifice, he awakened — reborn as a Scholar of Sinners.

In a world where order has collapsed into myth, he seeks not salvation, but understanding, the meaning that endures and immortal, when reason reign amidst chaos of madness.