Ashe had a feeling that things had been getting increasingly wrong lately.

Vanmura was already a fundamentally wrong city. Or, to be fair, Ashe had never known a place that felt particularly right to begin with. In the past, he had spent his nights worrying about being drained to death in a nighttime ambush while staying in a veela's apartment. More recently, he had stumbled into a memory-stripping "Happy House" in the Virtual World.

However, this current brand of wrong was different. It was the kind of wrong where you wake up and realize your roommate has spontaneously turned into a girl.

First, there was the matter of sleep. Since he was barred from the Virtual World for the time being, Ashe had been forced to adopt a proper sleep schedule. Yet, every time he woke up, a fresh cake was waiting in his room. The...