Shigeru Yoshioka is a 34-year-old former salesman whose life fell apart after being wrongly accused of a crime. He became a recluse, bitter and self-loathing, cut off from everyone around him. Everything changed when he got pulled into a fantasy world through some kind of computer ritual. Once there, he faced a choice: customize his stats however he wanted. He went all-in on strength, maxing it out completely—but the trade-off was brutal. He set his appearance to −255, the lowest possible, leaving him grotesquely disfigured. Physical contact with women causes him actual pain, and anything intimate could be lethal.
The setup sounds like typical isekai wish-fulfillment at first, but it's not. Yeah, he becomes absurdly overpowered—earned the nickname "Absolute God" for a reason—but he's also hideously ugly and emotionally shattered. He can destroy anything in his path, yet he's still dealing with the same trauma and isolation that broke him in the original world. His story is really about whether he can rebuild trust, find connection, and figure out what strength actually means when it comes with such a brutal cost.
What makes Shigeru stand out is how the story refuses to separate power from its consequences. Most isekai protagonists get to be conventionally attractive and overpowered. He has to pick, and he picks wrong—or at least, that's how it looks on the surface. His arc challenges that whole formula, digging into self-worth, loneliness, and whether you can actually change when the world—and your own body—constantly reminds you why it rejected you in the first place.
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