With its immersive world teeming with monsters, mages, and mercenaries, "Life Cry" has become the most popular game worldwide. It provides the ideal escape from reality for most gamers, but for Lime, the game resembles reality a little too closely. He's a dark gamer, exploiting the game's mechanics to make ends meet, and the NPCs he encounters exhibit uncanny, lifelike emotions and responses. As Lime delves further into "Life Cry," he begins to suspect that there is more to the game than he initially thought.