In Japan, VRMMORPGs reach new levels of sophistication where players experience the game with all their five senses and NPCs react like real humans. Hiroshi Yūki realizes he does not have enough money to buy the newest game so he goes to a smaller store to try and find it cheaper. The manager, Reona Kisaragi, tricks him into buying a ten-year-old game titled Kiwame Quest, pointing out its higher than normal rating. Entering the game as his character, Hiro, he is impressed with how realistic the world seems. His first quest is to leave the beginner city of Ted and find Flora Castle, but his childhood friend NPCs, Alicia and her brother Martin, inform him leaving the city is illegal and try to stop him...