Beneath Tokyo Tower

Tokyo, in the year 2213. Forty years ago, a room opened in Mecca for the first time – a room that locks people in and makes them play a game. Since then, such rooms have been opening all over the world, in car parks, stairwells and subways. They are called Oris. Above every Ori floats a die with rules. Break them, and you die. The rooms are set off by people with a rare blood: Omega. Most of them don’t know what they carry inside them.

Yuu Amagi is 23 and leads the youngest troop of LIMEN, the organisation that goes into the Oris. One Tuesday evening, a room opens beneath Tokyo Tower, bigger than any Yuu knows: a labyrinth of streets turned inside out, six rules and more than a thousand people who don’t know how to get out. In the corridors, Yuu meets an eleven-year-old boy who is on his own and has understood the rules better than most adults. The longer the two of them walk together, the clearer it becomes to Yuu what the regulations demand of him.

Afterwards, life goes on – with his girlfriend Lucia, with the children at the orphanage in the mountains, and with an agency that keeps count. But on the path through the woods stands a man who looks for too long, and in a meeting room Yuu has to answer a question he has no answer to.